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Strange, Deadly Solar Radiation
Seen As Greatest Threat
saying that there is another
king, erne Jesus." Poor Paull
The devil was stirred every-
where that Paul went. Why isn't
there inure opposition to the
Preachinq of the Gospel around
us tcdz0 Is it because God isn't
worker , very much in the salva-
tion of souls or that people are
gencrvIly too indifferent to care?
Are we too inoffensive? We do
know that missionaries do en-
counter opposition in many parts,
And, as-in Paul's day, much of
the opposition comes from religi-
ous groups.
By night, Paul and. Silas slip-
ped away to. Berea. Here the
Jews were more noble-minded
than those of Thessalonica, in
that they received the word
with all readiness of mind, and
searched the scriptures daily,
whether those things were so.
Many of both Jews and Greeks
believed. But Jews in Thessalo-
nice, learning of the spiritual
victories, came over and made
trouble. Again Paul had to slip
away. Silas and Timothy re-
mained, It all worked out - for
the best. It kept Paul on the
move and he seemed to be the
right man for introducing the
Gospel into many different cities.
In Athens Paul was deeply
moved as he saw the city so
completely given over to idola-
try. In the synagogue and mar-
ket he talked with the people
Then he was invited by a group
of curious intellectuals, philos-
ophers of the Epicureans and of
the Stoicks, to speak on Mars'
Hill. He spoke to them of the
one God, He who created all
things. He called on them to
repent of their sins and believe
on Him who God bath appointed
to judge the human family.
When he spoke of the resurrec-
tion of this Man, Jesus Christ,
some mocked. Some, both of
men and women, believed. Paul
had a s greater truth to present
than the greatest of the philos-
ophers; truth that was backed
by the miracle working power
of the God of creation.
feet blast off engines larger than
heretofore thought necessary.
This "new" radiation aPPar,
entiy extends all through our
solar system, It is scattered and
made relatively harmless by the
earth's atmosphere, therefore ft
doesn't affect Us seriously here
on earth,
No one knows for certain how
it occurs, But it is definitely dif-
ferent from the so-called Van
Allen belts of radiation around.
the earth, The Van Allen belts,
though not always of the same
size or intensity, apparently cov-
er a large but somewhat limited
area in phase; This "new" radia-
tion goes on forever through.
space,
It occurs in erratic bursts
which seem to be set off by the
giant "solar flares" on the sun.
The radiation, particles there-
selves seem to be protons — the
small particles which are the
hearts of hydrogen atoms.
But there is no evidence that
by Ray vpropy
NEA Staff Correspondent
Washington — (NEA)---There's
growing evidence ef .a new tyPe
4g: here-today-gone-tomorrow ra-
diation. in the heavens that may
delay manned space travel for
years,
This radiation is so deadly at
times just 100 or so miles out
in space — that It would doom
to death half the space travelers
exposed for just .30 Minutes, •
emdr, M41.0.1111 Re85. of the
Qffice- of Naval. Research says:
"This new radiation tends to
make the hazards of the Van,
Allen radiation belts seem pale
by comparison."
Though it has not been accur-
ately mapped, there is some evi-
dence this new radiation occurs
about once every two months. It
doesn't seem to be predictable
though.
The time this dangerous radia-
tion lasts is also .erratic. It may
Snowed In —
With The Cow!
It's a good day when you can sit
in the kitchen rocker, a Pussy'
eat on your knee, and watch a
snowstorm, It makes you inspec,
tor...general of the elements, and
lets both you and the cat medi-
tate quietly on any number of
things, I got to thinking of the
time I was a youngster and got
buried in the cowshed. Just such
a storm as this.
Difference was , it wasn't a
first storm We'd had some good.
Ones that year already, and this
one .I mention added another
couple of feet. It also demon;
strated a grave error in our ar-
chitecture, for we'd hung the
cowshed, door so it swung out,
In the snow. belt of Maine, this
is silly, We'd widened some win-
dows, and thought we had a
pretty good place,
When I came down into the
kitchen that a,m,, snow covered
the house windows, so Mother
had a lamp burning as she stir-
red the porridge at the stove.
Upstairs, there had been the
noise of the wind and driving
flakes, but here in the kitchen
there was no sound of the wel-
ter outside. Insulated against
noise, cold, and light, we were
as snug as any Eskimo, and I
pulled on my storm slothes and
made ready for my morning
trek out to chore the cow.
I wasn't a six-footer then, and
the drifts were, I slung the milk
over one elbow, clutched a turn-
ed-down barn lantern in that
hand, and held the big wooden
snow shovel in the other. Thus
I wallowed to the shed, and it
wasn't easy. I dug down, clear-
ing room for the door to swing,
and soon had it open far enough
to squeeze in, It took more room
for the 12-quart milk pail than
it did for me. But I made it, pull-
ed the door to, and shot the
hasp.
My cow, usually up and eager
at the sound of approaching
breakfast, was not ready for me
'that stormy morning. The snow
had covered her windows, too,
and there had been no warning
that morning, was come. As far
as she knew, it was still last
night. Abruptly, some intruder
had violated her boudoir and
surprised her. She started to get
up about the time I squeezed
through the door.
A cow, you know, gets up
hind-end foremost. It is an ana-
tomical maneuver least designed
to accommodate the style of
PHYSICIST ROSS: Veteran of four successful balloon flights
Into space enclosed in a gondola such as he exhibits, studied
new deadly radiation waiting for spacemen.
Canada is leading the way in
research into the use of infra-
red heat' in the blanching of
fruits and vegetables prepara-
tory to freezing and canning.
A scientific team led by Dr.
E. A. Asselbergs of the Plant
Research Institute, Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, has
proved that infra-red lamps are
superior to steam-water in the
blanching of apples, celery, peas
and potatoes.
A few benefits:
For apples, celery and peas,
infra-red (1) reduces the amount
of water, thereby cutting handl-
ing and storage costs; (2) does
not leach out flavour and nutri-
ents, as in the case of water or
steam; and (3) improves tex-
ture, flavour and appearance.
For potatoes, it (1) reduces
the fat absorption in french
fries; and (2) allows better re-
covery of the raw material,
* *
Canada pioneered in this field
in 1955 and today has the only
known laboratory experimenting
with infra-red fruit and vege-
table blanching. Dr. Assetbergs
first became interested in this
process while attending univer-
sity in the late 1940's.
Enquiries have been received
from the United States, Yugo-
slavia, Spain; Belgium, Italy and
South American countries,
• * *
last in heavy concentration for
eight days, or only one. But the
"usual" period of high danger
seems to be from three to seven
days.
To protect men in a space
ship from this radiation would
take a prohibitive amount of
lead shielding. It might, in fact,
increase the weight of the act-
ual space ship itself by several
times.
Present guessing is that there
would have to be three to four
inches of lead shielding around
a space ship to protect space
men adequately during one of
these bursts of radiation.
That added weight would be
well beyond the capability of
present man-carrying space tra-
vel programs — or even think-
ing. That means added years in
finding to lighter-than-lead pro-
tection from the newly-found
radiation. Or extra years to per-
all sun eruptions or sun flares set
off a shower of these particular
bombarding particles. So at pres-
ent there's no way of knowing
when a space man is going 'to
run into a shower of this killing
radiation — until it's too late.
For at the peak, he may —
he's well out in space — receive
radiation at the rate of about
1,000 Roentgens an hour. And
that may give him a killing dose
in half an hour.
This radiation has been stud-
ied in cooperation with the Office
of Naval Research by a team of
scientists at the University of
Minnesota.
These men — Dr. E. P. Ney,
Dr. J. R. Winckler and Dr, P. S.
Freier — already have data
enough for Commander Ross to
report that this "major new dis-
covery" may impose "the most
serious threat yet to manned
space flight"
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking years ago, in Poland) and early
life (with foster parents in Mil-
waukee). She had many stories
of the shimmy's origin. One was
that she first danced the shimmy
In the Arsonia. Cabaret on .West
Madison Street in Chicago. "I
happened to put my hands up
over my head," She said, "and
half-closed my eyes and began to
shake my shoulders. The place
went wild."
There were. no noisy' admirers
present in'the modest Hollywood
ctwelling -where :she died of a
heart attack. The MOtion ,Pleture
Aelief Fund Association paid for
hbr burial in Holy Cross Ceme-
tery.
Shook A Nation
— Died Forgotten
To the nostalgic survivors of a
generation long since thickened
around the waistline and thinned
above the hairline, Gilda Gray
shimmying atop a speak-easy -
table will forever symbolize the
Tumultuous Twenties. Her death
last month, in obscurity and
near-poverty, recalled bathtubs
rippling with gin, flasks jiggling
against the hip, all of the wild-
and-woolly phenomena of the
Jazz Age.
Petite (5-feet-4) and blond,
Gilda burst upon the New York
scene shortly after World War
I as Mary Gray, already schooled
in the grubbier saloons of Chica-
go and Milwaukee to the rhyth-
mic twitches of the dance she
called the shimmy. She aband-
oned the name Marianna Michal-
ska, was persuaded by Red-Hot
Mama Sophie Tucker to change
it again, to Gilda Gray. Sophie
then introduced Glide at a Sun-
day afternoon concert in the
famous Winter Garden.
Glide and the shimmy took the
city by storm. Flo Ziegfeld sign-
ed her for his Follies, called her
"my golden girl." She shimmied
and sang as well in George
White's Scandals and made sev-
eral movies. Divorcing, her first
husband, a Milwaukeean named
John Gorecki (by whom she had
her only child, a son Martin),
Gilda married Gaillard Boag and
they opened, the Rendez-Vous,
which swiftly became the after-
darkspot.
In ten years she shook down
an estimated $4 million. The
stockmarket crash took most of
it and sent her to a small ranch
near Larkspur, Colo., an ob-
livion broken only by'untidy div-
orces from Boag and a third hus-
band, Venezuelan diplomat Hec-
tor Briceno de Saa, She attempt-
ed comebacks,, of course, per-
forming for Billy Rose in 1941.
Ten years ago, suing. Columbia
Pictures over a Rita Hayworth
movie, "Glide," she :told some-
thing of her birth (porhAps 66- ISSUE 3 — 1960
only be evaluated by examining
the soil in the burnt area.
* *
Little or no permanent damage
is done to mineral soils by the
direct action of fire, but indirect-
ly considerable damage may re-
sult from erosion during the
period the soils are exposed
without a vegetable cover. On
the other hand, organic soils may
be badly damaged or even des-
troyed by the direct action of fire
but subsequent losses from ero-
sion are likely to be negligible.
* *
The only part of mineral soils
that can be destroyed by fire
is the thin, surface layer of
organic matter which is usually
present in forest soils. Destruction
of this layer results in the loss
of nitrogen. However, the re-
sulting ash benefits the under-
lying mineral soli. "
*
Organic soils will lz‘Urn if they
are dry enough, and consequently
forest fires may severely damage
or destroy them. Fire in organic
soils is particularly 4ngerous as
it may smoulder for' years and
then break out again in full fury.
•
The number of cases of rabies
in Canada from April 1 to the
middle of December took a 75
per cent drop from the same
period a year ago.
A spokesman for the Health of
Animals Division said there were
479 laboratory confirmed cases,
compared with 1,871 for the cor-
responding period in 1958.
He termed the situation "not
nearly as grave."
*
Ontario remained the center .of
infection, with 433 cases. Middle-
-sex, Elgin and Huron counties
and adjoining territory in the
southwestern part of the prov-
ince appear to be the principally
infected areas. Ontario last year
reported 1,823 cases.
*
Most significant decline was
in the number of foxes .infected.
The disease has never become
established' in the dog popula-
tion which, fi it happened, would
pose an even greater threat to
humans.
The rabies epidemic broke out
among the Wildlife in northern
Canada about three' years ago
and- gradually Spread seuthward.
manger in which man usually
attaches her. When she gets
down, her head stretched for-
ward on her grain box and her
body relaxed in the sweet com-
fort of repose, she would do a
lot better to stand up front-end
first. This 1,4/Quid save her from
ramming her snout into the
manger, and effect a manipula-
tion more suited to the circum-
stances:
Instead, she hoists her stern
aloft, and for the elevation thus
gained she pays dearly on the
bow, Given ample time to
awake, shake off the sleepiness,
and do the thing with, dignity
and poise, a cow can make out
after a fashion, but when an ele-
ment of urgency or surprise is
added she goes all to pieces,
So my cow, suddenly intruded
thus upon, came to with a jerk
and began to stand up. By the
time she had brought her hind
quarters to an alert, the door
had closed behind me, and it
must have made her think she
had been mistaken, Neither up
nor down, she stood there wait-
ing to see what might happen
next, and decided at last the
alarm had been false. She start-
ed to lie down again just as I
turned up the wick of the lant-
ern and bathed the tie-up in the
yellow kerosene glow.
This brilliance convinced her
it was morning, so she shifted to
rise again. But 'then, she must
have concluded lanterns were
for night, and just as she con-
vinced herself it was morning
she reversed that decision and
decided to lie down again, After
that, her thought processes went
to pot, and I stood there in the
shed and watched the stern end
of my poor cow rising and lower-
ing, so confused she didn't know
dawn from dusk.
When I spoke to her, she re-
sponded, engaging her coordina-
tion so she got her front end up
the next time the hind end went
by, and she turned and looked
at me with sad eyes, questioning
me silently as to how this all
started. I brushed her down,
speaking cajolingly as is the
proper approach,• but she was
taut and distraught as I milked
her, her ears laid back and her
eyes bugged.
A cow, thus wound up, usual-
ly becomes a "hard" milker, and
it took me longer than usual to
drain her. She was filling the
pail, foam and all, at that time
to about an inch from the :top,
and I worried about toting that
heft of splashing milk through
the new snow to the house. In-
deed, this thought made me de-
cide not to water her that morn-
ing, for I'd have to lug her drink
in a pail. I figured I'd let it go
until afternoon, and do it leis-
urely, after school.,
Then, of course, I found the
snow had- fallen and blown
against my cowshed door, and
I couldn't get out. I was trapped,
by an out-swinging door in snow
country. Mother, with bacon and
eggs on schedule, would be
dressing and feeding the younger
ones, and it would be some time
before she thought of me, ,end
could pull on heavy clothes to
come and get me. The froth on
my pail of milk had settled com-
pletely by the time she came,
called to me through the door,
and began digging away snow.
We didn't get bussed in those
times, and we all went to school
that morning. After I had break-
fast. We were all late, and my
teacher asked why. I told her,
and she said on bad mornings
I should start sooner. —By John
Gould in the Christian Science
Monitor,
WHICH ARE YOU?
Anyone who stops learning is
old, ,whether this happens at
twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps on learning not only re-
mains young, but becomes con-
stantly more valuable regard-
less of physical capacity.
—Harvey Ullman.
EYE CATCHING — Of f beat .
jewelry. designer Sam• Kramer
stares through' a frayful of
glass eyes in his shop in New
York's Greenwich Village. He
uses the unblinking wares in
making weird jewelry designs.
CROSSWORD .
PUZZLE •
Infra-red blanching of celery
is being carried out on a coin-
inertial basis by a Southern On-
tario food processing company.
Domestic celery is .prepared sin
' September f o r manufacturing
use during the winter — avoid-
ing the high cost of importing.
A 20-foot long infra-red tunnel
can process more than 1,000'
pounds of the finished product
-per hour. * * *
Apple peeling by infra-red
heat is another technique under
experimentation at the federal
laboratory: Researchers found
that the loss al weight through
peeling by this process was
about two and a half Per cent,
Compared to 15 to 18 per cent
through the use of mechanical
peeling hiachthes.
* *
The three major types of
infra-red radiators being used in
experiments are calrOds, titiartz
t u b e s and quartz lamps. The
main differente lies in the oper-
ating temperature of the file.
inent..,In the first two types, the
operating temperature is be-
tween 1,400 and 1,800 degrees
While in the third type the
merit temperattire is 4,000 de
,grees F.
*
Infra-red heat is net a Sure.
, fire method of blanching all ye,
getables. For example, it has to
far been unsuccessful with as-
peragtis,- turnips carrots..
"But" commentsAssei-
bergs, "de -We get more basic
iiitTriletkih We May be able tO
overcome the diffietiltieS we have itief'With ti edd Vegetables"
„ Damage'by forest fires tO soils
depends on the kind and inten-
sity of the fire', the soil Syne,
to'pograph'y of the land and the
states, A., itheahey.
search Branch, Canada Depart-
meet of Agriculture.
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of God, who hails balled you
into his ttingdout and glory.
Thessalonians 2:12.
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donla from PhiliPpi to TheaSt,
hanida t row known as 'Saloniki,
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