The Seaforth News, 1958-07-10, Page 7Too -Bad We Can't
Eat Isotopes!
Nowadays when "pie in the
sky" is an apt description of
food costs, it's a comfort to hear
about any sort of price reduc-
tion—any sort at all.
And that's what the Atomic
Energy Commission has just an-
nounced on five radio -isotopes.
• Prices are away down on the
radium -like by-products of azo-
mic fission.
In general, Oak Ridge, Tenn,,
prices now are only one-tenth
of the old costs of Cesium 137,
Promethium 147, Gerium 144,
Strontium. 90 and Technetium 90.
The new, cut rates are expected
to encourage - wider distribution
and use of radio -isotopes in in
dustry, .medicine and research.
The prices are based on esti-
mated production from the new
multi -curie fission product pilot
plant at Oak Ridge, scheduled
for operation this summer.
All sorts of magical things are
done with these oft -beat ele-
ments, many of which were un-
known before the advent of the
atomic reactor.
Some give Off rays that pass
through • a fast-moving strip of
steel, accurately gauging.: its
thickness on the fly. Others:sserve
as tracers; moving through the
human blood stream to reveal
the location and distribution of
new wonder drugs.
Some isotopes travel through
oil pipelines, tipping off a Gei-
ger counter when a. tagged con-
signment of kerosene arrives on
the heels of a flow of high-test
gasoline. Isotopes help chemists'
unravel the mysterious makeup
of molecules.
Curie means the radioactivity
given off by a gram of radium.
(It takes 281/2 grams to make
an ounce.) The eld price per
curie on Cesium 137 was $14.
Now it's $1 to $2, depending on
the size of the order.
Promethium 147 used to cost
$500 a curie; now it's only $L75.
And listen to this price reduc-
tion: Cerium 144 has tumbled
'from $1,000 to a mere $1 to $2
per curie. Strontium 90, which
used to cost $500, is now $5 to
$10.
Those are all short-lived iso-
�"'"'r topes with half-lives ranging
from 282 days .to 30 years. The
half-life of radium, by contrast,.
is some 1500 years.
The really high-priced Oak
Ridge isotope is Technetium 99.
It has a half-life of 212,000 years
and sells like radium—by the
millicurie, which is one -thous-
andth of a curie. The old milli-
curie price of Technetium 99
was $1,000, but the new cost is
Only $80,
Now if the AEC could only do
something about the price of
plain old hamburger. — Denver
Post.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"And now the doe says I've
got athlete's HANDY"
CIVIL WAR—As an officer scans the horizon with binoculars
across the border into Syria, Lebanese soldiers fire a mortar
from a hilltop post overlookingthe road from Tripoli to the
border. Lebanese rebels were reported smuggling arms from
across the Syrian border to support the revolt against pro-
Western President Camille Chamoun.
Whit " ::c se Yankees
Keep On Winning
A former big -league pitcher,
Joe Black, accosted Casey Sten-
gel with a bizarre problem one
day last week in Yankee Sta-
dium, "I'm teaching in an ele-
mentary school now," Black
said, "and I'm coaching the
baseball team. We've played
fourteen gamesand lost fourteen
14 games — and lost 14, I fig-
ured I'd come to the master to
find out what I could teach
them."
Stnegel's ancient face'creased
in a grin. "Played fourteen and
lost fourteen?" he said. "You
better teach 'em to lose in the
right spirit."
At the moment, master Sten-
gel was giving the world a mag-
nificent lesson in how to make
a team win with fierce zeal des-
pite the straw -man appearance
of its opposition. What the Ame-
rican League could not seem to
exert from without in the way of
exhilarating pressure, Stengel,
genius of player manipulation,
was creating from within.
Until Mickey Mantle hit six
home runs recently, the Yan-
kees, once baseball's Bombers,
did not have an individual slug-
ging leader. But collectively the
roster -deep excellence which
Stengel exploited was producing
genuine competition for the Yan-
kees among ' themselves and
turning them, Once again, into
pitiless crushers who seemed to
discourage even noncombatants.
(Yankee home attendance is off
83,000 from last year.)
Already eight -and -a -half
games ahead, the Yankees last
week went at their I'to. 1 op-
ponent, the Chicago White Sox,
as if their lives depended on
each game. After winning the
first, the Yankees were five runs
up in the second when Hank
Bauer lined what looked to be
a single to deep left. Al Smith
LIKE A BIRD—Jumping with rocket assist is Ed Kurczowski, lest
stand assistant for Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemcal
Corporation, as he demonstrates o power -assisted leap using
a rocket -power "jump belt", capable of giving a man the
speed ofa race horse.
e
fielded the ball languidly, and
Bauer enterprisingly stretched
the hti to two bases. ,
One out later, Bill Skowron
bounced a grounder through the
left side and again, as Smith
lagged, Yankee hustle trans-
formed another "single" into a
double. Eleven runs ahead, the
Yankees greedily played hit and
run. Final score: Yankees 13,
White Sox 0.
Mixing hungry younger play-
ers (Tony Kubek, Jerry Lumpe)
with established stars (MeDou-
gaid, Mantle, Skowron), plus
pitching and a laden bench,
Stengel scrubs unrelentingly
against complacency. "You
think we're going good," he .said
last week, "but what happens if
we lose nine straight, which we
once • done, I seen it happen,
where does that put us? They'll
say the players are dissatisfied
because all they read is about
the Dodgers and the Giants in
California and naturally they'd
rather read about themselves,
and there's something wrong
with a •club that has all that
money and should be winning
but it ain't and they'll say the
manager ain't competent." Sten-
gel glared and took a deep
breath.
Effects: The Yankees had
more homers (52) than anyone
else in the league although, un-
til Mantle's burst, three men
were tied for the club leader-
ship allowed an average of only
2.67 earned runs a game with
five starters (Whity Ford, Bob
Turley, Don Larsen, Johnny
Kucks, and Bobby Shantz)
working regularly.
"You can't,let up on this club,"
reported third baseman Andy
Carey, "because there's always
somebody on the bench wait-
ing to take your job." Pitcher
Kucks, asked how he had man-
aged to keep bearing down so
hard in a 13-0 victory, explained:
"I keep telling myself the socre
was 0-0. In the ninth when it
looked easy, I told myself it was
the seventh, It was pschologi-
cal." It was also a. two -hit pitch-
ing gem.
The helpless feeling that Yan-
kee teams have so often induced
was well expressed last week
by sports writer Red Smith, Af-
ter Chicago shortstop Luis Apa-
riOio, in• dodging what looked
like a Yankee beanball, had let
the ball carom off his bat, Smith
said: "My Heavens, what a club.
Even their dusters are strikes."
—I'rom NEWSWEEIS.
White House Movies
While President Eisenhower
and Prime Minister Harold Mac-
millan examined East-West prob-
lems and the French coup d'etat
in the. White House one night
last week, .a movie coincidentally
titled "Paris Holiday" was being
shown: nearby in the nation's
most exclusive- theatre. The
moviegoers included: Mrs. Eisen-
hower, Lady Dorothy Macmillan,
Mrs. John Foster Dulles, and Mrs.
Neil 'McElroy.
The theatre itself was a nar-
now 100- by 20 -foot .chamber on
the ground floor of the White
House. Its principal patrons were
President and Mrs. Eisenhower,
their family, and their friends.
To the ten Washington movie
distributors who supply the
White House with. films free of
charge, Mr. Eisenhower seems
the most avid movie fan ever to
occupy the Presidency. They re-
call that Franklin D. Roosevelt
liked an occasional actions pic-
ture, particularly • Sh e r 1 o e k'
Holmes whodunits and -murder
thrillers; President T r um a n
seemed to prefer poker to movies.
President Eisenhower's favorites
are Westerns, but he also enjoys
comedies and musicals. Mamie,
on the other hand, likes romantic
dramas.
Sometimes the Eisenhowers re-
quest special showings of car-
toons and Disney movies for
their grandchildren. Often, the
President proposes a movie to his
dinner guests. "We've got a good
show," he has been known to tell
them. "Do you want to see it?"
No one can recall when a guest
has declined,
At a` reception early last month
for Britain's Field Marshal Vis-
count Montgomery, the President
ordered" 'a screening of "Gigi, a
glittering film the Eisenhowers
had previeweda few weeks be-
fore with so much pleasure that
it was shown for the third time
last week for the wives of Cab-
inet members. A few months ago,
the President surprised a Wash-
ington film supplier by request-
ing.a rerun of "Springfield Rifle,"
a Gary Cooper adventure he had
seen before the 1952 campaign.
Another of his favorites is Grace
Kelly ("To Catch a Thief," "Real
Window"), who visited the White
House after her marriage.
The President's all-time film
choice is "Angels in the • Out-
field," a 1951 baseball comedy
with Paul Douglas. He has seen
it at least fifteen tines.
While the President and the
First Lady sometimes ask for
specific films, the preliminary
selection is usually left' to a 29 -
year -old Navy, electrician's mate
first class named Paul Fisher of
Williamsport, Pa., who has been
the White House projectionist for
five years. In his booth, awaiting
immediate showing last week,
was a varied array of movies:
"The Old Man and the Sea," "No
Time for Sergeants," "Cowboy,"
"Bullwhip," and "The Bravados".
The White House cinema was
a whim of F.D.R., who originally
planned to use the space as a hat-
check room for diplomatic recep-
tions. After its conversion into
a movie house, the President
jocularly called it the "Hatbox."
It was refurnished with an acous-
tic ceiling, a thick bleu rug, and
gold draperies.
Today, the Eisenhowers attend
movies in the Hatbox once or
twice a week. They sit in the first
row, which consists of four com-
fortable armchairs upholstered in
blue damask, Behind them are
ten. rows of straightback wood
chairs that can seat 55 more.
"The President watches movies
-for relaxation — to get away
from his problems for a few min-
utes," White House press secre-
tary James Hagerty said last
week. An old _friend, who has
watched many screenings with
the President, sums up Mr. Eisen-
hower's tastes this way: "He
doesn't like war movies or tear-
jerkers. He figures he's had
enough troubles during the day.
He doesn't like to be lectured or
shaken up, either. Most of all, he
doesn'tlike smutty pictures."
The Eisenhowers often use the
Hatbox to watch films of TV pro-
grams they missed or want to see
again. On a thoroughly nonescap-
ist level, the President also uses
the' theatre for closed -door show-
ings of top-secret Pentagon films
demonstrating new missiles and
weapons.
Audience reaction is a ticklish
Subject in the tiny White house
theatre, particularly for comedy
"No matter how funny the pic-
ture is you never can be sure it
will get off the ground," said a
family friend. "Everyone always
waits for the President to laugh
first. No one dares let go spon-
taneously for fear of laughing
alone."
Give Me A Think
Sometime!
Is the time corning when
everybody will have the gift of
telepathy—thought transference?
Yes, say some of the world's
scientists who are now conduct-
ing research into this fascinating
subject.
• They foresee the time — cen-
turies hence — when telepathic
gifts will be normal. One scien-
tist says that mankind might
then dispense largely with lang-
Lege, radio, television, telegraph,
communicating instead by direct
transference thought.
But nearly all investigators
,agree that nobody has yet
brought 'forward absolutely con-
vincing proof that it is possible
for a man to read a thought that
;ies only in themindof an-
other.
The late Sir Harry Lauder
claimed to be inconstant tele-
pathic touch with his brother in
New South Wales. And a Buck-
inghamshire man nas claimed
that telephathy on his part actu-
ally captureda murderer.
"A man was wanted for mur-
der," he said. "While I was
standing in the bar of a public
house in the North of England,
something told me that the man ..
next to me was the criminal. I
at once went to the police and
described him to thedetective
who had charge of the case.
"The detective was • sceptical
be ause the police had only a
,Vue description of the wanted
elan. But later that night the
man I had described was arrest-
ed. He was eventually hanged."
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As. When dyeing red over yel-
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Always remember that the ori-
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A. Heat the oven very hot be-
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This will cause the outside of
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A. Putty can be made by mix-
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U.S. Small Cars
Two of Detroit's Big Three—
GM and Ford—are well along
on their hush-hush projects to
put brand-new, home-made small
(100 -inch w.heel base) cars ml
the market by the 1960 model
year.
General Motors' Tonawanda,
N.Y., plant is being tooled to
produce • the air-cooled, six -
cylinder "pancake" engines that
will be mounted in the rear of
its new line (the trunk space
will be under the hood). The
GM car will be built by the
Chevrolet division, possibly in
the Chevy truck plant at Willow
Run (now being modernized but
producing no trucks), but it will
not be simply a small -size Chev-
rolet. It will have its own name
plate and styling, and franchises
may be offered to other GM
dealers.
Ford, acting several weeks
. after GM, still hopes to get to
the showroom first. it is . opti-
mistically shooting for an intro-
duction date in August 1959, and
a price of around $1,800. Ford
has settled on a conventional six -
cylinder engine mounted in the
front of its Thunderbird -inspired
model, will probably begin ask-
ing tooling quotations for the job
at its Lima, Ohio, plant by the
end of June.
Chrysler Corp., despite rumors
to` the 'contrary, will definitely
not build a small car in the U.S.
Reason: It has decided the cost
is too great. But repots do have
Chrysler ready to close a deal
to buy or merge with app' English
automaker (still unidentified)
that would give Chrysler' a small
car to sell both at home .,and.
abroad.
Meanwhile, the N'. r e u b,-, u cf
Trailer Co,, which builds the
trailersused to carry new cars
to market, is making no secret
of its conviction that a florid
of U.S.-built small c:srs is on the
way.. It has invested a hefty sum
to start production on two new
"convertible" car carriers that
can haul either four or five
standard autos or seven or eight
small cars.
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HAVE started pullets — wide choice —
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ISSUE 27 — 1958
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