The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1954, Page 2

Air Pollution Cause And Cure Are Receiving Intensive Study By Scientists In ‘America By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter BERKELEY, Calif. will learn how to banish smogsis and air pollution, one of the four | horsemen which could doom mod- ern cities, a smog researcher pre- | | dicted today. But a lot of facts have to be | learned first and it won't be cheap, | he said. Getting clean air for cities:may cost as much as getting good water or good sewage dis posal. The prediction came from Lau ren B. Hitehcock, president and managing director, Southern Cali. fornia Air Pollution Foundation, Los Angeles. He addressed the first symposium on air pollution held by the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. Hitchcock said, “Schoiars list air pollution among the four principal threats to the future of our cities. sufficient in combination to spell —Science their doom. Congestion, noise and the high cost of livng are the} others.”” In the Los Angeles Basin alone, autos, factories, rubbish burning and other operations pour 3,000! tons of ‘‘potentially significant pol- | lutants” into the air daily, he said. That’s exclusive of vast tonnages of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Some 2,000 tons come from the public, the rest from industry Auto exhausts account for more than 1,000 tons of this; rubbish burning for 500 tons. Air pollution is not simply al matter of coal smoke or other | visible things; instead the vast quantities of invisible gaseous poi- lutants “constitute the major part of the problem today.” Polluted air causes smarting eyes, mental depressions, damage | to clothes, paints and other trou- | bles whose indirect. costs must | total hundreds of million of dol-, lars for the nation annually, Hiteh- cock said. Damage to crops alone in the Los Angeles area is esti- mated at several millions annually Incomplete burning of gasoline probably costs each American mo- torist $20 a year in wasted fuel ~—a billion dollars plus for all the nation’s drivers—and sends huge clouds of gaseous pollutants in city air. All the effects upon health can. | not be measured yet, he continued. | There is conjecture that spoiled | air may play a role in causing lung cancer. Among steps to be taken, he said, | are studies of the health effects of air pollutants; the chemical re. actions that may be caused by sunshine on polluted air; sensi- tive new methods to detect tiny but bad concentrations of pollut- ants; the possibility of creating artificial clouds to break 6r dis-| sipate the stagnating air of inver sion layers; improved combustion of gasoline and other fuels: plant testing techniques—something like canaries in a mine—to warn of possibly dangerous concentrations | of pollutants; coordination and centralizing all air pollution find- ings for benefit of all cities, | She Entertained. | In Wrong Season DALLAS ® — A Dallas woman Picked a poor time to have cigar- smoking company police reported yesterday. The woman appeared in Justice Court complaining that her hus band—who doesn’t smoke cigars— became enraged when he came home and found a cigar butt. He kicked out every window in the house. Then, she said. he left Snow, and the coldest weather of the year hit Dallas. Police still Sought the husband today. | | as wind, f. I |ton tonight. Friday clear to part- \dy with widely scattered showers. ;|Normal . | Bocs. Page2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN : The Weatherman Tony Shines As Says: Key West and Vicinity: Bair and |rild today. Cooler tonight, Fair and cool Friday Light to tnoder- ate variable winds becoming east- rly Thursday, December 30, 1954 'Barefoot Boy [Before Cameras | Tony Curtis’ behavior in front of | eae bats neat’ 61 -/the camera earned him the label| B row about 73. |of “the barefoot boy from Brook- Florida: Clear and colder north |lyn” during the filming of Univer- Portion today and tonight, Preced- | <41-International’s production “The ed by a few scattered showers this | al) American” in which he is co- morning. Clear to partly cloudy | starred with Lori Nelson. In this south and central portions with | |picture which opens Sunday at the very few widely scattered showers, | Monroe Theatre. the bobby-sox idol becoming cooler central portion insisted he had bis best .moments this afternoon and in south por-] when he could take off his shoes and do his acting barefoot. He is not alone in sporting such pexsonal eccentrities on the set. His wife, Janet Leigh, refuses ly cloudy and cool. Jacksonville thru. the Florida Straits: Moderate southerly winds | over north portion, shifting to north | west; moderate variable, mostly | southeast winds uver south portion today. Friday gentle to moderate winds, northwest over north por- tion and variable, mostly north and northeast over south portion. A few showers north portion today and| over south portion Friday, other- jwhen she was discovered in wise partly cloudy weather. | East Gulf: Gentle to moderate | winds, northwest over north por-; tion, variable over central and| northeasterly over south portion. A few showers central portion to- otherwise clear to partly clou- cy weather. Western Caribbean: Moderate east and northeast winds, except odcasonally fresh over north por- t:on today thru Friday. Partly clou- own hair before each “take.” Don- ald O’Connor will not do a dance without his good luck charm hang- ing around his neck. Shelly Winters insists on wear- ing an almost invisible anklet “A Temperatures AT 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta Augusta Billings ...... Birmingham . Bismark . Boston . Buffalo . Charleston . | Chicago Corpus Christi . Denver . Detroit ........ El Paso ... Ft. Worth Galveston 0 ins. | Jacksonville 81 ins, | Kansas City . KEY WEST . | Key West Airport “| Louisville .. Meridian .... Miami ..... Minneapolis Memphis New Orleans . New York .. Norfolk . Omaha ... Pittsburgh .. Roanoke . St. Louis .. San Antonio . San Francisco Seattle Tallahassee Tampa Washington . Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., Dec. 30, 1954 28 Temperatures 25 Highest yesterday . Lowest last night .... Mean at) Precipitation Total last 24 hours | Total this month .. Deficiency this month Total this year Excess this year .. .. 17.49 ins. Relative Humidity. 7 A.M. 30.14 ins.—1020.7 mbs. Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.08 ins.—1019.3 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise eee . 7:12 a.m, Sunset . 5:49 p.m, Moonrise .... 11:16 a.m. TOMORROW'S TIDES 15 41 47 67 15 33 43 22 29 (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 7:40 a.m. 8:15 p.m. 45 42 63 Station— High Tides 1:13 a.m. 2:02 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West | Bahia Honda (bridge) (east end Chica Sandy Pt. \Citizen Ads Pay! Fleet Reserve Home 920 CAROLINE STREET Announces . . . | No Name Key Caldes Channel (north end) Weekly Entertainment +2h 10m +14 ft. )—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted, (+)—Plus sign: Corrections te. be added. Free! Free! Free! 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Dead Listed The identified dead: Capt. Leslie D. Forguson, Anti- och, Tenn., pilot. 2nd Lt. William T. Troy Jr., Stamford, Conn. 2nd Lt. Charles Hawkins, Nash- ville, Tenn. Airman 1.C. Lawrence J. Foley, Bronx, N.Y. Airman 2.C; Richard W. Miller, Murfreesboro, Tenn. 2nd Lt. Gerry M. Hall, March AFB, Calif. 1st Lt. J. B. Border, Randolph AFB, Texas. Airman 2C. Leon M, Donelson AFT, S.C Airman 3.C. Robert A. Shoemak- er, Donelson AFB, S.C. Twe Survivors Only survivors were Airman | Robert Johnson, Cumberland City, Tenn., and Airman 3.C. Michael | | P. Kinnane, Seekonk, Mass. They said that they are alive because they fell from the plane when two large clamshell doors blew open at the rear of the craft. Johnson said the plane was about 5,000 feet up over a heavy over- cast. “We apparently hit an air dis- turbance which tossed the plane about violently,” he said. Johnson received a broken leg and walked 4g) Several miles after he landed his parachutes He said he did not know his leg was broken until hej |was taken to Redstone Arsenal | | Hospital some time later. | Kinnane fell in a field not far |from the crash. He was scratched | and bruised. McKay, aE | Ice expands beyond the volume of the water which makes it when | it freezes, but at temperatures be low freezing, the ice contracts. SERVICE STATION Francis at Trumas DIAL 2-8198 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . 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