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Show Hews from the County Agent RANGE PROJECTS plants help in the process of HELP MEMBERS receiving the precious rainfall UNDERSTAND RESOURCES and how moisture is stored in the soil until it is needed by Range projects in the or until it moves on program provide you a won- plants throughintothe underground derful opportunity to spend channels springs, creeks, time learning more about nature and particu- and rivers, which in turn supply pipelines and canals for larly range plants, notes Rell use in homes, factories or irArgyle, County Agent. These projects help you im- rigation. These studies can help you prove your knowledge and insight into your responunderstanding of our most im- gain sibilities as a citizen in mainbasic resources and at portant taining our basic resources: the same time you can gain soils, vegetation and the water Teal insight into some of the is the controlling factor natural sciences of plant ecolo- which in our whole western civilizacliand gy, plant physiology tion. matology. Range projects are set up so As part of the project you that take occasional trips out onto one you may enjoy more than year studying range plants the range land and observe the their place in modern condifferent kinds of plants in the and servation. different seasons at of range If you are interested in carthe year. You see how the a project, talk it rying plants grow, producing feed over withrange your parents and for livestock and game ani- interested freinds, then conmals. You learn how range tact Rell Argyle, your local 4-- 4-- NEW DAUGHTER JOINS DENNIS VITALE FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Vitale, Seattle, Wash., welcomed a new 7 pound 15V4 ounce daughter into their family April 1. The new arrival, named Marcie, has two sisters, Camie, 3, and Julie, 2. Grandparents are Don Christensen, Monticello, and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vitale, Salt Lake City. county agent, who will help you get organized into a club. If you are already enrolled in work, and would like to expand into a range project, talk it over with your club members you might add this project to the others you are carrying to widen your interests. 4-- 4-- The San Juan Record MonticeHa, Utah Thursday, April Page Five Civil Defense . . .That the national OFFICE OF am DEFENSE AS NOW HART OF THE OFFACE OF THE SECRETARY OFTHE ARMY COCONUT THAT APPROXIMATELY 2000 STAN9BY RESERV- ISTS FROM ALL OFTHE ARMEP FORCES ARE TWTLOCAl GOVERNMENT IS DCVElOPlNG AERIAL MONITORING ASSISTING CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICES OF LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT MORE capability with the CIVIL Aia PATROL... THE GOAL IS 5000 MONIT0RIN6 STATIONS AT AIRPORTS AND LANDING STRIPS AROUND THE COONKY (ACTS ? contact youR local CP 15, 1965 49c ...39c EcQl F:esh 6$P FRUIT COCKTAIL 3Soh3un.e.-- APRICOT NECTAR 4 . each ..39c 29c LEMON CAKE LT.n..n.e! u. . $199 CRACKER JACK . ..... .... 323c REYNOLDS WRAPaSI m .. 39c GOLD MEDAL FLOUR 25 $100 TOILET TISSUE 19c MARSIirAALL0V;S B0NDWARE PLATES ,oo s . ... 69c 82c BONELESS HAMS LIAM llAJll JAM Cr SHANK PORTION Morrells, Pound AAr CENTER SLICES flnlVK Morrells, HAM O Pound rXlFeound CANNED HAM .............. 49c 7ZZ, : ::$249 SWEET RASHER BACON 49c .... 49c FRANKS Luncheon Meat and Spread SANDWICH CHUBS 4$10O PITTED OLIVES &de.y. shelter between the source of radiation and living beings. The denser and heavier the material, the more shielding it offers. For instance, eight inches of concrete, 12 Inches of earth, 16 Inches of books or 30 inches of wood offer about tne same amount of radiation shielding. Most persons who receive a radiation dose of 600 roentgens over a period of a few days would die.On the other hand, few persons would suffer a disabling illness if they absorbed less than 100 roentgens, in between, persons would be afflicted with radiation sickness to varying degrees, with symptoms such as nausea, weakness and a reduction in resistance to ordinary diseases. Radiation sickness, however, is neither contagious nor infectious. Besides the danger of body damage from direct fallout radiation exposure, there is a longer-terproblem from radioactivity taken into the body, usually in food or water. While radioactivity of most elements declines rapidly, there are a few, such as stontium 90, cesium 137, and carbon 14, which are long-liveThey could fall to the soil, be absorbed by food plants, and be taken into the body whee they would continue to irradiate internal organs and possibly produce bone and blood changes. radiation would eventually damage vital Internal organs and might produce cancer. In addition to the long-liveradioactive elements, there could be a short-terhazard from iodine 131 in milk Scientists consider this hazard to be relatively unimportant for two reasons: (1) In most areas the fallout level would not be high enough to produce serious contamination from iodine 131, and (2) In areas highly contaminated with fallout the radiation would usually sicken or kill dairy cows before they could produce milk with enough iodine 131 to endanger adults. However, because small children normally drink more milk and their bodies can tolerate less iodine, it might be desirable to serve them substitutes for fresh milk during the first few weeks after an attack If the cows producing milk are d grazing on pasture. To avoid exposure to internal radiation, you could eat d canned foods and other edibles afer disposing of wrappers or washing fallout from outer converings. Fruits such as bananas and apples could simply be washed off or peeled and eaten. Its important to remember that foods are not contaminated by radiation as such. In fact, experiments have shown radiation to be useful in the preservation of food. The of fallout that would have to be eaten to produce the likelihood of serious injury is so large that even contaminated foods could be eaten if no other foad were avail' able. as is not Water, too, subject to fallout as yotf might Water from buiding pipes, water heaters, underground wells and other sources A more - dangerous form of not open to the outside air radiation present in fallout could be drunk even while fallare the gamma rays. These out was coming down. Since most fallout woud settle to the g rays, re- bottom of lakes and reservoirs, willcloth-go and flowing sembling streams ( would through any protective have a tendency to purify ing and pass through the body, themselves of fallout contamleaving a trail of damaged water ; from these cells wherever they have pass- ination, ed. If enough of these rays sources could be drunk withdays, and' even earlpass through the body, and in aiffew filtered. Naturally, the enough cells are killed, radia- ier tion sickness can result, and water might have to be boileven death, if the dosage is ed or chemically purified disufficiently high. Exposure to seases. ordinary bacterial - - . a gamma radiation dose of 600 Contrary to reports you may roentgens over a period of a rafew days would kill most per- have read, the passage-o- f dioactive fallout through the sons. There are only three ways air would not. contaminate to protect against gamma radi- the air. Inhalation of fallout ation time, distance and a particles themselves could be but these particles shielding mass. Lets look at hazardous, are in general too large to be these more closely. All radioactivity decays at inhaled and therefore present a predictable rate. A rough no problem. Simple hoods for fallout is over shelter air intake pipes, that for each sevenfold pass- and dust filters in ventilation age of time, the radiation level 'systems, would help keep fallof what it out particles out of shelters, is about one-tent-h accumulation was at the start. For example, where if fallout in a city were found would present a radiation hazto produce a level of 1,000 ard. You have heard that fallout roentgens per hour of radiation at one hour after detona- radiation cannot be detected tion, at the end of seven hours by human senses. While this that fallout would be giving is true with respect to the off 100 roentgens per hour, radiation, the particles of early provided no additional fallout fallout from a nuclear attack had arrived during the inter- could be seen rather-- ' easliy val. In seven times seven in daylight hours. A nuclear attack would prohours, or 49 hours, it would be down to 10 roentgens per duce blast, thermal, and radia ation or fallout effects. hour, and in 343 hours down to Short of an expensive, multilittle over 2 weeks 1 roentgen per hour. Similarly, billion dollar program of blast a measurement of radiation shelters, there is little this level at 5 hours after detona- Nation can do to protect the tion would be expected to be relatively small, but very imreduced to 110 by 35 hours portant, areas that would be affected by immediate blast after detonation. of effects. A second characteristic disgamma radiation is that It Fortunately the most widesipates the farther it travels spread effect of a nuclear exfrom its source.- For example, plosion radioactive fallout if a person is standing in a is also one easiest and least contaminated area, such as a costly to defend against. Fallparking lot, about half of the out could be carried by the radiation he would receive winds hundreds of miles downwould come from fallout with- wind from a target area. Yet, in a distance of 50 feet. Less much existing protection fallout has already been than 15 percent of the radiation would come to him from pinpointed as a result of the a distance of 50 to 100 feet Defense Departments national away. Distance from a fallout fallout shelter survey, and contaminated area, tends to de- many other existing structures could be modified for crease the danger. But the most important propeacetime and fallout tective measure against fall- shelter use at a small cost. out radiation is to place a Taking first things first, this mass of material a fallout Is what civil defense authori-X-ra- I POTATO CHIPS RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT Until the advent of the nuclear age, fallout was unknown, and even until the opening of the thermonuclear age with its megaton-size- d weapons, fallout was not of great consequence. Radiation had been with mankind from the beginning through background radiation from the suns rays, cosmic rays and emissions from certain earthly In more recent elements. and radium had times, been harnessed for the good ot mankind. The thermonuclear tests in the spring of 1954 posed the potential threat of radiation to mass populations. It became clear that, without effective measures to cope with it, fallout could become a principal instrument in the destruction of large portions of the human race, of much animal and plant life, and could seriously complicate the restoration of modern life in a postwar world. Today, much knowledge of fallout and how to cope with it exists. It remains largely to get this vital Information out to the public and enlist the cooperation of people in preparing protective measures for the possibility of radioactive fallout. To understand the threat of fallout, we should first distinguish between the kind of lingering fallout which is present in the upper atmosphere today as a result of weapon tests, and the infinitely more dangerous fallout which would result from a nuclear attack The fallout from tests is in the form of very fine dust which often takes years to sette to earth, by which time most of the radioactivity carried by the dust has dissipated. It is concentrated, heavier fallout from a nuclear attack that we in civil defense worry about. Such fallout results when one or many nuclear detonations take place in such a way that the fireballs touch the ground and suck up thousands of tons of earth and debris into the radioactive fireball and mushroom of the blast. Some of this material would be so finely pulverized that it could be carried into the upper atmosphere like test fallout and pose little hazard. But much coarser fallout material would also be created, including tons of fallout ot the consistency of granules of sugar or salt which could descend hundreds of miles downwind from the explosion. These granules would act as carriers for a relatively high level of radioactivity. One form of radiation would be capbeta radiatoin able of causing injury if fall-owere allowed to remain In direct contact with the skin or if fallout radioactivity were on or in food or liquid that a person eats or drinks. Fallout can be washed from the skin, from any foods or containers from which you could wash ordinary dirt, and from clothing. Ordinary clothing would prevent most beta radiation from reaching the skin. A person could decontaminate himself simply by. removing clothing and washing any exposed skin Teacher attends meet in Salt Lake news... 3$100 fallout-contaminate- well-wrappe- , imagine. taminated . CUvb TUNA s, Ballard "A" Grade Medium, 3 Dozen tlfWI ST:. - 6$149 39c BEEF STEW FISH STICKS PIES POTATO FLAKES YAMS id.ah, "can SPECIALS Frost N Flame, Peach, Apple, d 2 Pounds 59c ... 389c ORANGE DEUGHT6Mcir;Ma:d7$100 29c 2 Pounds POTATOES $119 -r. 25c FRIDAY, SATURDAY & MONDAY APRIL 16, 17 & 19 rule-of-thu- their dual-purpo- We give Gold Strike Stamps in all departments BLANDING Mrs. Thelma G. Walton wa3 in Salt Lake City Saturday to attend a supervisory conference for cooperating teachers (those teachers under whose supervision student teachers " work). Meeting with the cooperat-Ing teachers were supervisors from the participating Utah 4 universities. ; ties are now proposing to Congress. Defense Department studies show that, for a wide range of nuclear attacks possible again- - '' st the United States in the years ahead, a nationwide fall- - ' out shelter system could save 25 to 65 million lives that j would otherwise be lost. It is , this lifesaving perhaps na- - , potential of the i fallout shelter program that 1 makes this program an essen- - j tial part of our national . tion-savin- g e. j In the final analysis, how- ever, no program and no a- mount of planning will save 1 i 1 American lives unless that program is understood and supported by Americans in-terested in their own survival, and the survival of this Na- tion. Think about this, and If there Is something you dont understand, or questions you want to ask, call your Civil Defense Office j i i j j , 587-223- d highly-penetratin- WHOLE DILLS ; Soon! Back to the green- fields. Following a winter of TV golf many golfers are anx- ious to put to the test of reality a winters gathering of theory. It Is Year 552 for World Golf. Local golf enters its sixth season, and those who were in on the groundbreaking ceremony are pleased to note how near we here are to the Spirit of St. Andrews. Spirit of St. Andrews? The joy of golfing, wherein the five senses are put to full use. One sees sunsets; tee shots drift over the fence; one hears the whipcrack of a tee shot caught clean; one walks through the bloom-perfum- e of springtime; one tastes victory or defeat; finally, one must have touch with the putter and chip shots to do well. back at the Meanwhile, the air is Theory Room smoky with talk of break- through Ideas. For golf Is really a small war ptiting self against self and self against the course and fellow competitor. Thus a real need exists for strategy of the cunning variety. No true golfer can be a pessimist, they must live in a mental world of hope. Though the game has its crop of Walter Mittys and Don Qui- xotes the majority of players are dedicated realists . with a determination to get a firmer grip on the game. Here are a few samples of this cunning strategy: Scientific Sam has had his golf swing IBM analyz- ed and was advised to go easy on late TV. Trickey Tom will use an invisible ball marker this season. Cautious Garl will photograph shots made by the foe this year. Able Albert has consulted an astrologist for ad-vice on the use of astral in- fluence in arranging his sche- dule of key matches this sea- son. Meterologist Merle has rigged up a cart to tote weath- er ballons he will send aloft at the proper psychological instant. Dan and Dog Lover has trained his pal Shifty to nose-te- e the ball in deep rough, Tea Leaf Tessie has had Frisco Filly read the magic leaves. Mind Reader Mack will winter in Italy, probably. Herman Hackenschmitt, still foggy after a winter probing the Hindu Way, says he will golf solely in spirit form this year. Claims the message got through during lesson on3,552 his while he was standing head atop Washingtons Monument during a blizzard. Color Therapist Claude will dress with stress on the irritation quality of his keenest selection of colors. Fact Conscious Frank plan to recite the odds of all shots hit during his round. Tax Payer Pauline will deduct all painful shots at golf. She reasons under the oil field depletion allowance doctrine . . . claims she is a lesser person after a day of bad golfing. World Changer Wingate says he will golf at will this year. Meaning he will barge his way over the course mindless of the rights of others. Theory chatter ceased in the room when the Sage walked in. Me lads and lassies, heed me. Ive heard ye theory talk and tell ye to regard all of it as harmless. Harmless when put alongside the Needier. Beware of him. The aimed, timed word is the force that shakes. If golf be a wee thing then the Needier is strong, a strong thing wee. The main theory of golf Is in fact not theory, but the exciting reality of a good walk made intriguing. Sell it with a Classified Ad , ' j i j j ( , j ' ; ; , ; ; ! ; i |