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Show 'Our Bad Luck Began With Those DESERET NEWS. H-Bom- - PALDMARES, SPAIN Three years village of Palomares nfo, the Mas in headlines around the world. Today it is a forgotten place. Its crops have failed, most of its young people have emigrated and Palomares is slowly turning into a ghost town, its population down from more than 2,000 to about i4 months before the accident, to Join her husband and son who have been working in Germany since December. -- r'i0 - I; 1,400. 4 s. d -- r - Or . fjk.r i iP i ".sA' IV , ' ' ,,, - CAREER CORNER Are Chemists Superbrains? Not Very Many By JOYCE LAIN Steve Barnett, Mansfield, Ohio, asks: What sort of training would it take to be a chemist? Do you have to be extremely brainy? Answer: Not all the chemists in the world are going to win the Nobel Prize. You have to be smart but not a superintellect Chemistry is a very systematic science, with one fundamental principle building upon another. Many students are too chicken to try chemistry because it seems so difficult at first. Once you get the hang of it, chemistry opens up like a book with many pages of stimulating careers. OUTLOOK: Very good. However, the classical organic chemist is in lessening demand. Choosing a combination major such as physical organic, or biochemistry allows you broader career options. EDUCATION: Take heavy math, biology, physics, chemistry, and German, if available, or Russian or French in high school. Minimum college background is a bachelors degree in chemistry but best jobs generally require a Ph.D. Only two years in a chemical technology program at a community college or institute of technology can prepare you as a chemical technician. It you want more details, Chemistry & Your Career," and Is Chemistry Technician the Career For two excellent, informative You? booklets are free from the American Chemical Society. To get your copy, send me a postcard in care of the Deseret News, P. O. Box 1237, Sait Lake City, 84110. yt' k--- . Farmer Baltazar Castro and his wife stand in front of the bone-dr- y fields where crops have failed since the accident In which three U.S.' nuclear bombs fell on Palomares, Spain, in 1966. ripening tomato harvest was burned, tons of contaminated soil were removed for burial In the United States and the fields around Palomares were plowed over. two-third- HOW MUCH MONEY? A 1968 survey by the American Chemical Society shows the median salary for experienced chemists with B.S. degrees at $12,000, and Ph.D. at $15,300. Executives make more. Sind vau- - uMaeitlens for tutor column topico to Joyco Loin, Coroor Cornor, co m Oam --at Now. P.o. oo 1257, Solt Lao City- - Utah KUO. Sorry, no moll oniworo con b olvjn. Any nadir otmo lotfor l tn Moll of futvn eatumn will rocotvt tm Rdrol LWrcury portable typewriter. man for the Spanish nuclear energy board said 70 Palomarenos had been taken to Madrid for radioactivity checks and no abnormalities had been found. Our bombs, Its not happened bombs. The farmers complained the plowing turned under tfceir topsoil and that it may be 15 or 20 years before the land can produce again. The U.S. embassy spokesman said all tiie plowed land had been thoroughly leached and that Its fertility had not been affected. Plenty of people in Palomares are frankly worried that radioactivity is responsible for their woes, but a spokes bad luck began with those said fanner Baltazar Castro. hard to blame everything thats in the past three years on the A nuclear device fell only a couple of hundred feet behind Castros home. Hie spot where American crews scraped eff the topsoil can still be seen. The explosion of the bombs conventional detonator smashed all the windows In Castro's house, he said, and he pointed to a still unrepaired hole in the roof of his cowshed for which he blamed a flying metal fragment. Castro, his wife and their three dren received chil- pesetas ($864) In for the farm's tomato compensation crop, which he called insufficient, and 100 pesetas ($12.40) a day for the 19 days his family was forbidden to sleep in their 60,000 house. The same story was heard time and again. The Castres neighbor, Mrs. Carmen Jerez Serrano, said she is planning to leave her house, completed only two ' By DREW PEARSON What President Nixon talked about to the array of distinguished heads of state who filed through his office following the YOUR HEALTH Eisenhower funeral has been kept s t r ictly secret. However, it can be disclosed that the most important subject was a U.S. peace proposal for the Near East. This was discussed particularly with President de Gaulle and the Shah of tan, both of whom have great influence In the Near East. The American proposals, technically called an action paper, and therefore informal, call for: L Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territory except old Jerusalem, the Golan Heights in Syria overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and the Gaza Strip. 2. A wide buffer zoae, in some cases 20 miles wide, between Arab and Israeli forces, with U.N. police in this zone to prevent Arab commando raids. 3. Opening the Suez Canal and other Near East waterways to all ships, including those of Israel. The American paper has been shown to Arab leaders, and received a negative answer from President Nasser of Egypt. However, this was expected. King Hussein, who discussed the proposals with Nasser, also took a trip to Saudi Arabia to show the plan to King Faisal. Faisal was even more negative than Nasser. Hussein will bring the Arab answer back to Washington when he sees Presi- - deni Nixon Tuesday. Though it will be negative, the State Department expected this. Some tough bartering lies ahead, but the important fact is that a start has been made and that Soviet Russia, which has great influence with the Arab states, seems to be cooperative. The Nixon Administration plans to apply friendly pressure on Israel to accept the compromise, and is urging the Russians to do the same with the Arabs. From now on, negotiations will take place through the Big Four at the U.N. the USA, USSR, France and England. If a middle ground can be found, these four will submit their recommendation to Gunnar Jarring, the U.N. mediator, who will then present the proposals formally to the Arabs and Israelis. So far the proposals have been informal Ike's Brother Just before Milton Eisenhower Mas taken ill during his brother's funeral, a proposal to make Milton ambassador to the Organization of American States had been discussed inside the State Department. With U.S. relations in Latin America now reaching a low ebb, it was hoped that Milton could be persuaded to take this important post. Milton, now 70, has had a long distinguished carer as President of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins. In between, he served as special adviser to his brother on Pan American affairs, responsible for the farsighted Ameri-s MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM - How WHEE! THE VIOLINIST! would you like to be the guest soloist at the official opening of the home of the composer, great Jean Sibelius, as a National Memorial Museum in Helsinki, aid have in your limited-siz- e the President of Finland and three of Sibelius daugh- ters? This was the honor and privilege of Elizabeth Mateskey, who will appear in recital at the Chase Fine Arti Center, Utah State University in Logan, Thursday at 8 p.m. This concert will be more than just another recital on a long international tour for this young and pretty concert violinist. Both her father and her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Matesky, ere members of the Music Department faculty at USU. Professor Matesky teaches violin and is in charge of string music education; Mrs. Matesky teaches piano in the section headed by Prof. Irving Wasserman. Miss Matesky began her musical etudles wth her parents in southern She eventually became a concert-mistre- Ca'i-fornl- a. ss of tlie Idyllwild Youth Orches tra, affiliated with the University of Southern California's summer festivals and workshops. While Miss Matesky was concertmistress, the Idyllwild Youth Orchestra made a successful concert tour of Scandinavia. By the time she enrolled at USC, Miss Matesky had determined to be a violinist. She was accepted by Jascha Heifetz as one of seven students in his 1962 master class. She studied with the great Heifetz eight months and appeared with him on one of his master classes on television. Following her graduation from USC, Miss Matesky received two Fulbright Scholarships and studied at the Royal College of Music In London. After graduation in London, she toured the principal cities of Europe. Two of the highlights of this tour were her appearance as soloist at the Sibelius Competition at the opening of tie Finnish composer's home as a National Museum, and her acquiring a Guamerl violin in Copenhagen. Miss Matesky now makes her home in London where she will return in May to play three concerts with the Royal Philharmonic OrTwenty-five-year-o- ld chestra. Nixon needs a man of stature and experience to replace retiring Sol Linowitz, founder of Xerox, who has done a superb job as envoy to the OAS. Milton, if his health permits and if given an able deputy, might be persuaded to do it for the sake of the Good Neighbor Policy which he has worked to improve over the years. The Lost Kennedy Sen. Ted Kennedys aides grimly determined to prevent the assassination of the last of the Kennedy brothers, have been quietly trying to promote a bulletproof limousine for their boss. They have made delicate approaches to Republicans to find out whether the Nixon Administration might assign one of the governments armored limousines to Kennedy. The car would have to be offered by the administration, the aides said, because Kennedy would never ask for it. Hie Massachusetts Senator is in no imminent danger, so far as his aides know. But they want to make sure that another crackpot doesn't try to get his name in the papers by taking a shot at the last surviving Kennedy brother. Note: Sen. Kennedy, perhaps sensitive over his late brother Roberts reputation for cracking the whip, cordially dislikes the title of Senate Democratic Whip that he won from Louisiana Sen. RusspIJ Long. Kennedy is hying to persuade Senate leaders to drop the traditional whip titles and to call the two whips Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders. Walt Disney: An Exciting Stopover Deseret News Music Editor Reader Says It Better of recognizing the new peoples-peasant- s government of Bolivia after the 1952 revolution. can doctrine MERRY-GO-ROUN- D - Governor APPOGGIATURAS Rampton has declared this week, April as Collegiate Jazz Week in Utah as part of the Jazz Festival that Mill be held Friday (11) and Saturday (12) in the Salt Palace. A U.S. Dream THE DISNEY VERSION, by Richard Schickel (Simon and Schuster, $6.50) : The record of Walt Disney stands before us like a Technicolored animation of the American Dream the story of a young man with a pen who founded an empire on a mouse." Schickel, principal movie critic for, Life magazine, argues that that isnt exactly the way it was. With The Disney Version, which he describes as analytic biography, he undertakes to set the record straight. Schickel does not dispute Disney's stature as a remarkable man, but he argues that he wasnt the remarkable man that most people picture that he was an idea man and an organizer rather than the bashful boy artist grown into an avuncular genius of the masses that his publicists liked to describe. He was the stuff of Ford and Edison, a pan who could do everything a great dream entrepreneur is expected to do the author and create and hold. . . says. Disneys ability to analyze what and his ability to find the he wanted men who could give them to him must be ... admired." Schickel finds the things Disney wanted less admirable than his talent for gethe contends that they were ting them but he sometimes shockingly vulgar concedes that they were usually well adapted to the producer's purpose. Doug Anderson (UPI) By HARRY JONES The miracles of spring. All thove men who couldnt shovel snow all winter because of tiie aches and the pains have sudd rniv been cured. They are all out on tiie golf course swinging away. And the odd tilings that happen on tiie golf llnka have started. Peggy Wilde was at playing Meadow Brook with her husband George and Mr. and' Mrs. Walter Laaks. She's new at the game, but does well. She chipped onto the green of the third hole. The ball'1; rolled up a hill and right into the hole t a gopher hole. ... That doesnt Than The Doc sound like Meadow . Brook. John Goddard, the Sait Laker who has travelled the world over filming adveri- tures, was home Monday. He was show, ing his new film of Africa. d Nixon Pushes Near East Proposal audience, s of ADVANCEMENT: Some chemists are in private industry, the rest work for the government, foundations and other nonprofit organizations, or teach. Most are in research and development. In industry, you need not remain in the lab; you can sell, supervise plants, write technical materials or do a dozen other things including management. One authority estimates the number of chemical company executives who started as chemists or chemical engineers to be no less than 23 per cent. Antonio Flores, 34, one of the owners of the village's warehouse, offered to show his tax returns to anyone who doubted the drastic reduction in the crops of Palomares. He was one of three men elected by villagers to take complaints to the U.S. embassy. What Palomarenos said was the refusal of embassy officials to deel with these representatives led to a demonstration by about 500 villagers two years ago in which civil guards arrested the Duchess of Medina Sidouia, a Spanish aristocrat who takes an interest in social causes. The supreme court sentence recently confirmed a against the Duchess. As for the water plant, Palomarenos are convinced they will never aee it built on their land. The United States promised the plant to show appreciation . . . (and) gratitude for the efforts made by the people of .the Palomares region in rescuing the when the survivors of the accident nuclear-loadebomber crashed there. Then the Spanish government proposed the building of a bigger plant that would serve surrounding towns also, to which the United States agreed. A document signed by both governments last summer stipulates that the plant must be built in the Palomares region and that It must alsupply the villages domestic needs though no amount was stated. Palomarenos are not happy about the prospect of the plant going elsewhere even to a neighboring town. It was said farmer Jose promised to us, Flores. And that's that one-ye- itions. The wells still flow, but the tomatoes flourish no longer. The only green patches in the Palomares area now are provided by a few fields of thin alfalfa. Yet only a couple of miles inland, oranges and tomatoes grow healthily on higher ground. The reason for this, according to the ministry report, is that Palomares has drawn so heavily on its wells that the water table has been lowered, thus allowing sea water to seep in. Hov'ever, many farmers in the region blamed the Americans for their crop failures. After the bombs were removed, the t The more adventurous go to Germany or Switzerland or France. The others he said. go to Barcelona or Madrid, There used to be 30 or 40 young people in this town, enough for a decent dance every Saturday. Now were lucky to get six or seven people of my age together. Me, I'm off to Germany as soon a Ive done my military service. three-mont- Utah There We Were On The Green... work elsewhere. The crash of a U.S. bomber with a refueling tanker on Jan. 17, 1966, pitched three nuclear bombs around Palomares along with a hall of fiery metal Another bomb fell in the Mediterranean in front of the village, and there was a h cllffhanger as a U.S. task force searched for and eventually recovered it. As a result of the accident, the United States paid 8712,607 in compensation to 528 people, according to a spokesman at the American embassy in Madrid. The United States also promised the village a desalting plant to supply the fresh water that now has to be trucked in. But the compensation money has bought little goodwill in Palomares and tiie neighboring fishing village of Villarl-coFarmer after farmer interviewed in Taiomares recently complained of inadequate payment and disastrous crops since the accident. Their complaints about poor crops were partly bached by a public works ministry report issued last year in preparation for construction of the desalting plant. The report acknowledged that Palomares and surrounding areas previously were able to extract three, even four tomato crops a year from the drought-parchesoil owing to the existence of veils and ideal climatic cond- ' 3 OUR MAN JONES It breaks our hearts to leave, but there is nothing to live on any longer in Palomares, she said. Pedro Alarcon, the son of the villages only barkeeper, said most of the youths of his age had left to seek Y V' - 1A 1 Tuesday, April 8, 1969; bs' By BARRY JAMES United Press International A One sequence showed African natives In a rituaL They were Jumping up and down and yelling . . . beating their stick on the ground. , ! . ' . A Now that sounds like Meadow Brook! , Another mlracla of spring. If we only reap what we sow . . . how , come we have to many dandelions in the lawn? y. , When Roger Sybrowskls auto had trouble last week, his young sis, Kathy; to the rescue. Roger was heading , for Idaho, ao Kathy loaned him er car., She in turn borrowed Rogers second car, '; I - Thats why the gang up at Datactp , where Kathy works almost fell out of the; , window watching her drive into the park-,- ; I ing lot With about three minutes of instrue- tlon, Kathy drove to work In an old Model T! v ' Tom Fisher, who runs a service sta- - '. : tlon south of town, set out to wait on a',- customer last Saturday. It was a hippie' 7 type fellow with his car covered with flowered decals. ' By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. I keep dwelling on certain topics with the gloomy realization that I'm not getting anywhere and then some reader comes along and aays it far more convincingly than I can. I offer you this: Dear Doctor: I am writing to the girl who has weak will a and weight problem. When I power was 10 years old I weighed 113 pounds. (I am 11 now.) . took will power and wanting to lose weight. I also left off the sweets and fattening foods. I did not eat between meals (unless it was a piece of fruit). It 35 pounds in three months, and I now weigh 83 pounds and I am 4 feet 9 I lost inches. ... , gu5 h' Thats mileage! (V It happened clear back on April Fools , t Day, but its worth repeating. One of the wags who grinds out film Building tor a televi' sion station told Commissioner Philip Commls-' Blomquist that the State Road sion had released a report to the press: . It said Salt Lake County not only had the deepest and most dangerous chuck holes in the state, but had 90 per cent of them. at the City-Count- y v A I Phil did a slow burn until told It was an April Fools joke. It worked so well, the cameraman tried it on Street Commissioner George Catmull of Salt Lake City, saying the city streets were bad. . : ' j' , After you lose weight you still have to M. D. watch what you eat. P.S. Boys dont like fat gills, I know that for a facl Dear Dr. Thosteson: I am scheduled to have a sebaceous cyst removed from the top of my head but am tempted to cancel It. My mother died a year after having a growth removed. They tell me mine is not malignant, however. I guess what I am asking is should I leave it alone as long as it doesnt bother me, or is it unwise to neglect it? Hie cyst is about two inches by two inches. Mrs. H. L Answer: cyst of that size is a nuisance, especially so far as appearance goes. There is no problem in removing such cysts, and they are not malignant. However, they can become infected and then you have a real problem. I would suggest removal Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have been told by my doctor to walk a lot to help my circulation and keep my weight down. But I have arthritis in my legs and find it tiring to walk very far. 1 like to rock on the porch. Would hard rocking do the same job? Mrs. K. T. Answer: No, the rocking chair won't take the place of exercise. Rocking is restful; you need muscle action to perk up circulation. A As Fill er up, or do you just want the Cowers watered? asked Tom. The wanted 45 cents worth of gas and had California plates on the car. to weight, Did George burn? Nope. I know it! he said. I ;7 Gale Nussbaum says they dont build cars in the U.S. like they do in his native Germany. He Just came up from Page near Lake Powell He said just about every car on the road was being pushed by a boat! Wit's End . r If things ever get back to normal, our kids will Just have to make the best of it! . f siiuiuiiniiiiiiiiimiiinmimmimiiimniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiii BIG TALK walking will use up you use up while three times the calories sifting. With your arthritis, youd best figure on reducing by curtailing your diet; it takes a good deal of exetcise to shed many pounds. Losing weight, however, will take some of the stress off your painful joints and make them feel better. So walk as much as you can as your doctor suggested for more reasons than one. A little aspirin or kindred pain killer fnken shortly before you take a walk may make things more tolerable. Arthritis lutfereri can b holpoO. Dr. Thoita-oon'booklet dltcuiiaa many typo el orthntu and Mc-tl- v routed lolnt dlsoasai ao wjl at eulllnlna traatmriti and madlcatlom. For a copy of "Hew You Can Control Arthritis" writ to Dr. Thostason In cart of tha Datartf Nani, P.O, yex 757, Salt Lake City. Utah ditto tnclotmg 3S cantt In coin and a land, atamped envelope, "Everyone's moonlighting. Retired army officers are supplementing their $7,000 a year with $30,000- defense plant obs!" . ' ar m pnotoa taken or Lienm V. WcNiihr tar tt DwrrK Nrwa' uoouiar uiiy li'tnuay ttatvra, l!lllli;ill!lllUHII!ll!llillllll!llllllllll!UUillUllllllli!llllllllHS!!!i ? 1 " |