| Show i' t l ¥ Biological Warfare Is Near Certainty Iri War III but US Is Well Prepared ’ But he draws no picture of SAN FRANCTSCO (AP)— Biological warfare i almost certain people falling dead by the thou-- ' in a Third World War says a doc-to- r sands It might show up in failure of public health who special-izes'i- of fields to develop crops dwindisaster preparedness dling yields from trees vines and He indicates that the United other vegetation or in the sickState is pretty well heeled in ness or sterility of livestock This view of the possibilities is this respect and also has concentrated on “satisfactory defense presented by Dr John Beeston measures to be used against these seting director of disaster presame agents paredness at the University of California at Los Angeles It is published in the Journal of California Medicine Building Dr Beeston brings up syntheRoof Trusses tic hormones as one of three Purlin major agents which might be Columns used lintels Hormones are widely used Steel Joists beneficially In medicine and agriculture They are perhaps the Door Frames most important of ’the chemicals Stacks which help regulate the life processes of humans animals and plants i Anglos Roams Some hormones combat cancer Channels Ears arthritis heart disease and other Shafting ailments They are responsible Pipe and Tubing for the maleness or the femininity of an individual They control the activities of th? glands Facilities Shop Can Injure Plants Machine Shop Used certain destructively Foundry or hormones' kill can Injure Plato and Stool Shop plants They can cause freakish development in animals as well as in vegetation OGDEN IRON Plant killer' hormones work slowly Sometimes it takes two to four weeks for their effects to CO show People in an area under a BWt-- sj 185 23rd Phono biological ‘warfare is called short— attack carried for Utah Ogdon out by “sneak” planes releasing -- 4A clouds of hormone-ladeaerosols realize had not what hapmight pened until their vegetation started to die Dr Beeston wrote only in general terms about BW defense Many of the US defenses against BW are top secret he said Aerosols like the extremely fine mist coming from spray fins would be good spreaders of biological war materials Dr Beeston reported Aerosols in some instances could spread injurious substances effectively because the droplets are very small and will float in the air for a long time Infection-ladedroplets from natural sources such as the particles expelled by a sneeze or a cough of a sick person are much larger than aerosol drops and settle to the ground more quickly For an infective agent which can enter the system through the lungs smaller particles would be more likely to take effect because they remain longer in the air where they can be inhaled This means that some things more deadly than hormones could be spread to good advantage by aerosols' Bubonic plague and influenza for example However the United States has ways of sampling air quickly the health expert reported and can do the same with water supplies Probably the best immediate defense against an aerosol attack is to stay inside the home and keep the doors and windows shut Dr Beeston said 4 THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINESUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 2 1953 R Vice Disiricis Hard io Find In Most Cities n n push-butto- Steel ’ By CYNTHIA LOWRY NEW YORK (AP) — The n Re-Ba- rs WORKS 23 with wide open vice rip-roarin- g — where vice conditions were “unsatisfactory by present stand- ards” Here Comes No The association Jneither starry-eye- d nor burning with reformer’s zeal is primarily interested in breaking up organized prostitution and its derivative scores of civic corruption and human exploitation and in keeping clandestine prostitution at a minimum as a health hazard “We want to make it tough in any city to find a prostitute” spokesman said “We want- - to make finding one a project which will cost time money and effort” Vice Put Oa Skids Through the years thq association has found that war has helped greatly in- - putting organized vice on the skids In' World War I and II the federal government' cooperated to keep organized vice away from military installations It has also found that modern miracle drugs holding out the promise of a quick painless and relatively sure cure haven’t helped in the fight against prostitution People' no longer are as scared as they used to be of syphilis and gonorrhea — hence are more likely to take hances The association tackles venereal disease at various levels It promotes sex education for all age grdups and fights the widely held theory that segregation and control of prostitution by police authorities Is the most effective way of handling the problem It insists elimination is the only answer Heading the association’s' division on legal and social protection is a veteran vice fighter wh$ for more than 25 years has specialized in tilting With prostitution Because his work is often and he usually works with aliases fairly dose to his real name he insists on anonymity Cities Cleaned Up “Since the war ended” he says “any number of- cities have cleaned up Seattle ‘Tacoma Topeka Sault Ste Marie Charleston Norfolk Pensacola — inside the city limits Key West Houston San Antonio I could go on with quite a list” Currently all states have some legislation prohibiting or regulating prostitution “With priisttiution forbidden by law” he says “you will find it flourishing only where it is permitted If a police department allows it to exist it may mean that the police department is corrupt But it may also mean that the permission has trickled down from higher places “We know that where prostitution is permitted you’ll find other things — gambling a higher crime rate and delinquency” he said “But we are interested in the public health aspects o I the problem and have discovered by bitter experience that we must direct our efforts at one single thing We are shooting with bullets not buckshot” Help sometimes comes from quarters: in one unexpected southern city it was a bereaved politician Minister Blames Him “This fellow for years wasn’t a bit interested in closing the houses” he commented “He thought as so many others do town was good that a wide-opefor business Then one day his wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident His minister told him the tragedy was his payment for what he had permitted to happen in his city “He got religion — and In a couple of days there wasn’t a house operating in the area” Frequently a messy vice situation explodes into a civic reform movement San Antonio the association director said cleaned house in two weeks after public indignation elected a reform administration 'in the spring of 1951 Since the red light district has been eliminated the ASHA reports San Antonio’s crime rate has dropped sharply — murder six crimes assaults and drunkenness Even traffic dropped in one year from 53 to 29! This complex structure on display at a New York toy exhibit offers new fascination for model railroad enthusiasts Brian Allen 6 properly dressed for the job watches trains make a spiral climb up the-mode- the-tow- l er 'Now ihe Engineers Run US Reclamation Bureau' - WASHINGTON (AP) — Reclamation Commissioner Wilbur A Dexheimer smiled ' and commented “For quite' a while jhe ( Reclamation) Engineers haven't had much to do with policy and decisions but now we’re going to run ' ' the Reclamation Bureau”' And that largely sqms up the for the bureau in wrhich local and new philosophy in the big Reclamation Bureau under the leader- private interests will bear a much of responsibility for ship of Secretary of the Interior greater share reclamation and power develop: Douglas McKay The new commissioner former- ment That is in line with rely assistant chief engineer of con- peated assertions by Secretary struction at Denver had been 'McKay asked whether he agreed with the “As I understand the secrestatement of his tary’s thinking” Dexheimer said predecessor Michael W Straus “it differs from that of recent that the Reclamation Bureau has Democratic secretaries in that the best reclamation engineers in previously we had as a bureau the world gone out with the idea of pro“Yes” Dexheimer replied then moting irrigation and power projadded that the engineers are now ects—even gone to the point at going to run the bureau times almost of forcing them on Straus a former newspaper- the local people — but now we will man headed the bureau more look to local initiation and than seven years and became a er grass root3 interests andgreat parcontroversial figure He had no ticipation but background engineering will be inves“While we while he was commissioner appro- tigating and always for suitable looking priations for reclamation totaled developments we will not force $1738000000 out of a grand to- projects on local interests and the tal of $2728582051 appropriated local people likely will have to from 1902 to 1952 more money in the interput up Associates say Dexheimer was est of more realistic planning reregarded as “a sparkplug” in the ports Denver chief engineer’s office “On the pdwef ride thegovern-men- t and his record in the bureath-sincwill not construct some of he became chief of a survey party these projects' which local or priat Ellensbeurg Wash in Febru- vate interests can handle We ary 1928 is described ’as out- will assist them in every way we standing can and where the local interests Asked today what he thought do not have the money we will go were major differences between ahead himself and Straus from the “We are not going to get out of- - the power standpoint of being commissionbusiness or the ‘ er Dexheimer replied: transmission line business but we “He was a newspaperman and are to try to get local interI believe he made it a point to ests going to do what they can first get publicity and ‘build up’ the before the federal government Bureau of- Reclamation' some- underfakes a project others can times not entirely at the least handle” cost Dexheimer commented that a “The extreme haste sometimes “pet idea” of his for years has to get a project under construc- been that’ natural resources tion also entered into the cost should not be tampered with “unfactor and that wasn’t always his til ’we’ve had the benefit of the doing Sometimes Congress told best thinking to try to be sure the bureau to go ahead with a a planned development will not project when the planhing was hamper or prevent greater benefar from complete fits from the ultimate develop“We hope now to do a more ment” businesslike job We will tfy to Dexheimer was named commisget Congress to appreciate that sioner after Marvin C Nichols a we need planning money in ad- Fort Worth consulting engineer vance so that we can prepare asked withdrawal of his name more realistic reports on the feas- McKay had recommended Nichols ibility of projects to back up ap- to President Eisenhower but oppropriation requests position by members of the Dexheimer outlined a future White House staff blocked his appointment and Undersecretary McKay Ralph A Tudor had both expressed the opinion that it would be wise to bring in an outsider to serve as commissioner at least for a year though they added they they felt there were engineers within the bureau capable of directing its activities Tudor said the shift to a man within the bureau came after it appeared it would be impossible to get an outsider with the necessary qualifications who would satisfy all interested factions in the western states When Tudor headed a group of Even if it isn’t never leave engineering consultants in China Can after World War II Dexheimer your gun where small-frwas his assistant get hold of it Always use extreme caution when handling Tudor describes the commissioner as “a young man your gun And always be pronot too thoroughly steeped ig butected against unforeseen accident suits with our Comprereaucracy” ‘ Dexheimer’s service for the last hensive Personal Liability Insix years as consultant to the city ' surance of Seattle on its Skagit river projDIackburn-Jone- s ect and to the government of Australia on the mammoth Snowy Mountains ' hydroelectric project 44 Company was cited by Tudor along with The association repeatedly re"Mtii Who Know Insurance other things as making him “not checks towns which have cleaned Dial 319 24th Street entirety a bureau career man" up A survey was made a few months ago of Norfolk Va Investigators reported that although it was not impossible to find prosti-tue- s it was difficult cloak-and-dagg- - e r - - ’ v iT4isrrr LOADED! tour of our main d ’ ’ ' The tons of equipment behind your telephone will be on display and export--’ fenced telephone men and women will explain how It works You’ll see the thousands of intricate dial switches that handle your local calls Youll see and hear operator!’ y i I putting through long distance calls Plan to be our guest one of the three nights ' v - Tuesday through Thursday August-- 4 through 6- -7 Main Telephone Building ' s to 10 p m - 431 -- 26th Street - : THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE O TELEGRAPH CO n y fatalities ’ - The whole family is Invited - V nt oft-repeat- Wed like yon to be our guests on a personally-conducteOgden building heart of your telephone system sc- sub-standar- d ’ Starting Tuesday for Three Nights 7 to 10 p m e districts in which anything goes Many others are But the American Social Hygiene Association warring on prostitution as a public health menace for four decades finds that practitioners of the eldest profession are under tight conof trol in at leait 75 per-ceour cities In recent sampling of 343 communities of all sizes in all parts of the country t the association found only 86—about 25 per cent n Warehouse Steel old-tim- tenderloins in American cities are getting tef be as rare as the red lights which once were their sinful symbols A few communities remain 01 oo xooopoooooooooooootO0 o ooo o o o o £ oo ooooooooooooooooooooO I I '"V CHRIS WELKIN HAS SOME PALS— Getting ready for a space suit fashion parade in Kansas City Kan David Huddleston adjusts the helmet worn by little Mike McGinnis while Nancy McGinnis waits for the repair of a dropping antenna on her space bonnet Showing enthusiasm for the cur-refecreation program theme — “Space Suits” the children design and make their own suits for exhibits parades and contests pieplate-and-crepe-paper-ruff- le nt city-wid- e Sky's No Limit Any More! If You're More Than 7 Moon Rocket Probably Not for You WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnny Tine adjusted his space helmet and warned me to buckle my safety belt In quick succession he ticked off: “Condition green! Condition yellow! Condition red! Rocket away!” went on a trip around the moon lying prone to escape the deadly danger of a takeoff at around 20000 MPH " Pilot Johnny gave me a sight-"- " on lecture the seeing guide’s seem then that any wonders of space Two minutes boyIt would in health may be average later he brought the “best” — space crew material — to to a back neat you spaceship Lt Col Charles Wr Head aslanding in his backyard Then sistant chief of the Aviation Psydoffed his space the and Sociology Office of helmet — cost: $1 and two cereal chology the Human Factors Section sees box tops —and broke into a wide psychological considerations as grin much more of a problem The space crewman probably “Why do you want to go to the moon Johnny?” I asked will have to be a stable chap who “To find out what it’s made of can live in cramped quarters for of course I really don’t know days weeks and months without I’d like to find out If I did getting too grouchy toward hi fellow crewmen The type of eveiybody would know Kid stuff? Perhaps But some men that make up today's subsenous scientists think the back- marine crews yard is the kindergarten for two Scholastically Head believes brand new professions as allur- the boy should be in at least the ing as any ever to fire the imag- upper quarter of his class to ination of man — space scientist make either good space scientists and space pilot or crew material There will be Johnny knows his stuff He so many things to study and it talks glibly of the lack of oxygen will take such well trained and the need for suits of the people that scientists probably lack of gravity and the need for will double as crewmen from One thing is for sure Head Weights to keep travelers ' bouncing around says —a child must have an unScientists using much longer quenchable thirst for informawgrds will tell you that the same tion about space and the problems are puzzling them — pioneering desire to along with several hundred more explore the unknown But many of them believe “A guy has to set his sights Johnny Tine and thousands of higher than any man before ever youngsters like him can grow up set them" he said to be space scientists Yet 'al“The sky’s no longer the ready they think Johnny’s age limit!” ' How soon does the first space may have ruled him out as one of the first to make a manned ship leave? Arthur C Blake chairman of flight into space— if man ever does the British Interplanetary SoHow close is the space age ciety and Frederick C Durant and do you want your boy to be a III -- president of the American Rocket Society discussed this in spaceman? Some families already face an hour’s round table these questions Colleges are be “I believe the boy already has born who will be first to to been too consider them ginning Park College of St Louis Uni- travel around the moon” Clarke versity will open courses this said Durant nodded agreement fall in the design of space rock“The first flight may take ets The Armed Forces of course place within the next 25 years have elaborate guided missile Clarke went on “but any boy and rocket programs and this now over seven years old probstirs small fry interest Already ably is too old to ever be a space rockets have soared 250 miles crewman I think only young and piloted experimental craft people will make iis space crews” Dr Wemher Von Braun feels have reached 15 miles One wrotg the that the space age may be not Pentagon he wanted to grow up too farV-- distant Head of the Ger- -' in a hurry to be a crewman on man program in Germany the first moonship He was told he’s now at the 'Army’s Guided he’d better try to slow down in- Missile Center Redstone Arsenal stead Even an Air Force pilot Huntsville Ala of popular enA whipper-uin Korea wrote to volunteer for the first space flight He had a thusiasm for space studies he hunch the day wasn’t far away says scientists have the knowlMore ‘ than 25000 “reserva- edge to start building an untions” — many by children — have manned space craft tomorrow This craft as most scientists been made for the first space it would carry animals visualize Planetarwith the Hayden flight ofand monkeys and as mice such has which York ium of New be packed with television camfered to keep them on file If you’re at a loss whether to eras and other apparatus It encourage your own son’s —or would be fired to a few hundr5 daughter’s — space enthusiasms miles above earth to circle there scientists have some advice fpr indefinitely as an earth satellite you Some it turns out are ad- like the moon All that it “saw” the vising their own children to aim and “experienced” includingcrew reactions of its animal for careers in Astronautics Take the boy who wants to be would be reported back to earth a crewman Will he have to be a by TV and radio After many of these flights superman physically and a genius and W A Dr Let’s ask painstaking air and ground mentally? man may know enough with study Hetherington phylogist the human factors section of the about the mysteries of space to Air Force research and develop- go there himself But many experts doubt that ment command It’ quite certain Hetherington man ever will ride into space says that man never will adapt They rate obstacles like the Jack himself to space unaided by gadg- of oxygen and absence of gravity ets He will have to carry his as too formidable All the experts agree no dareenvironment with him in the form of pressurized space ships devil young millionaire will be and suits One reason is obvious able to buy his way aboard the first ship just for adventure There is no air in space “But it won’t be much harder Space aboard will be too expensivemillions of dollars a to design space equipment for -worth cubic foot than man for superthe average ' If a wealthy young man wants men” he says to get to the moon he will - have to win passage by making- himself outstanding in some scientific field Durint suggests Off w-- e ed ld 2 p ’ - NEED 10 MEDIUM SIZE USED PIANOS Will BUY FOR CASH OR TRADE TELEVISION Call Immediately 92 1 1 MUSIC IUNKLGY 3035 Washington BIvcf I I 5 TILE - a Kink a Kathraam Fir pi oca Also Plastic fi a Etc Asphalt mm4 Iwbbsr Tila Pioneor'Tilo Co 3019 Wash Pbena 6914 a a f |
