Rhododendron Produces
Blood Pressure Drug
Atlantic City, N. J. ? A new drug
taken from the leave* of the rho
dodendron, a common flowering
shrub (wind in many hone gar
dens, may help control high blood
pressure in man.
Two doctors from the Emory
University (Ga.) School o( Medi
cine told a meeting of researchers
here that the drug, andrornedo
tuxin. already has been effective
In lowering blood pressure in ani
mals.
Connecticut's violent death rate
is an annoal 44 per 100.000 com
pared to 58 per 100,000 for the
nation.
Weather Expert Comments
On Quirks of Hurricanes
What can be done about hurri
canes? Are they predictable? Can
they be deflected or destroyed?
What caused the two big recent
storms to move in such an unusual
way? Are the tropics moving
northward? Could an atom bomb
be used to break up a hurricane?
According to Dr. Jerome Spar,
research associate professor of me
teorology who will teach a course
this fall in "Forecasting the Weath
?r" at New York University's Di
vision of General Education, it is
doubtful that weathermen will ev
er be able to predict storms with
tbe accuracy the public expects.
"No meteorologist," be says, "can
forecast with any confidence where
or when a hurricane will form. In
general, weathermen don't even
try. It U like predicting which of
10 people will first develop cancer.
But, as in diagnosing the disease,
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they try to detect the hurricane as
soon after it is born as possible.
"Analysts are helped immeasur^
ably in this task today by Air Force
and Navy reconnaissance that fly
directly into the storms. On the
other hand, the job was compli
cated recently when the govern
ment removed a weather ship sta
tioned about 230 miles east of Cap*
llatteras. Meteorologists hope, how
ever, that the ship will be replaced
soon with an automatic buoy weath
er station."
The methods available for pre
dicting where and how fast a hur
ricane will move are still inade
quate, the NYU scientist says. Hut
the answers may be discovered in
the extensive research on the fore
casting of storms now being con
ducted by the Weather Bureau,
Air Force. Navy, and many of tho
nation's universities.
"It's doubtful," Dr. Spar believes
"that exploding an atom bomb
would have any effect on a hur
ricane, unless the explosion itself
were of the dimensions of the
storm. In that case, the storm
might be far less dangerous than
the bomb.
"It has been suggested that an
atomie explosion in a baby hurri
cane when it is just forming and
the energy of the storm is still
small, might prevent its develop
ment. Perhaps this is possible, but
it can also be argued that the ex
plosion might cause a worse storm.
The best guess is that there would
be no effect. It is significant to
remember that the Pacific atom
tests did not produce any large or
developing storms."
No two hurricanes are alike. I)r.
Spar points out. The winds in the
storms are always changing and
the only certain factor is that they
do blow counterclockwise in the
Northern hemisphere and clock
wise in the southern hemisphere.
Hurricanes whose winds whirl at
a speed of 75 miles or more an
hour may be moving less than 10
miles an hour. A slight change in
storm direction may mean the dif
ference between disaster and pleas
ant weather.
"The path of a hurricane is usu
ally parallel to the winds in the
upper atmosphere," Dr. Spar ex
plains. "The storms move like
a small whirl or vortex in a stream.
Streams that carry or steer the
hurricane are currents of air more ;
than a thousand miles wide and
several miles deep. When this
current of air flows far to the
north, the storm moves northward.
This is what happened to hurri
canes Carol and Edna. They were
steered by a current of air extend
ing far to the north and they
moved northward. The same thing
happened with a similar hurricane
in 1938.
"Most storms do not come under
the influence of such northward
moving currents and therefore re
main in tropical climates. From this
point of view Carol and Edna were
unusual. But they are unlikely to
establish a trend; nor are they to
be construed as evidence that tho
tropics are moving northward.
"The behavior of both recent
storms, however, was normal as far
as the steering current was con
cerned. By using the steering rule,
Weather Bureau meteorologists
Teamwork Builds Better State
Fixing the food was almost as muck fun as eating U when Rnx
boro recently opened its Wcstood Park with a feast for over 500 The
park is one of Roxboro's projects in the "Finer Carolina" contest i
sponsored by Carolina Power & Light Co.
Social Security
Officer Explains
Amended Law
"The 1954 Amendments to the
Social Security Act which Presi
dent Eisenhower recently signed
into law have a direct effect upon
the survivors of individuals who
died between July 1, 1940 and
August 31, 1950," N. A. Avera, dis
trict manager of the Social Securi
ty Administration, said today.
He added, ''We are referring spe
cifically to those cases where the
individual died without having an
insured status under the Social Se
were able to predict the approxi
mate paths the storms would take.
Unfortunately the speed of the
storm is not predicted so easily.
It was the -.brupt acceleration of
Carol which caused some difficul
ty."
Dr Spar's course on the weather,
designed for the layman, will cov
er such topics as the Mterpreta
tion of weather maps, why it rains,
highs ami lows and whatx they
mean, weather and aviation, prob
ing the stratosphere with balloons
and rockets, the question of wheth
er our climate is changing, what
the clouds mean, the weather and
atom bomb, and cold fronts and
warm fronts.
"Weather forecasting need be
neither a complicated nor a hap
hazard process for the average per
son," Dr. Spar points out. "The
fundamental concepts and meth
ods of forecasting are well within
the reach of the layman. Although
most people are interested in the
weather, few are able to interpret
competently the bulletins of the
Weather Bureau."
curity Act at the time of his death.
For instance, if an individual died
in October 1943, it would have been
necessary for him to have nine
quarters of coverage after 1930 to
be fully insured.
"If he did not have nine quar
ters of coverage, we could have
used an alternate method of deter
mining his insured status. The
alternate method was that he have
at least six quarters of coverage
out of the three years before his
death. If neither of these condi
tions applied to the deceased, no ,
benefit payment could have been )
made at the time of his death.
"Under the amended law, howev
er, if this same individual has only
six quarters of coverage at any
time after 193C, the survivors
would now be eligible to receive
benefit payments effective with the
month of September 1954.
"We believe it advisable for the
survivors of all individuals who
have worked under social security
and died in the period from July 1,
1940 through Aug. 31, 1950 to re- i
contact our office. We are assum
ing, of course, that those individu
als who do contact us will be the |
survivors of persons who have |
worked under the social security
taw and who have not previously
received a benefit payment of any
kind with the exception of a possi
ble lump sum payment.
"It is estimated that approxi
mately 100, (KM) cases of this type
throughout the country will be re
opened and benefit payments made
\*herc it was not possible to do so
previously," Mr. A vera concluded.
A representative of the social
security office can be seen at the
courthouse in Beaufort the first
and third Thursday of each month
at 1:30 p.m.
The highest automobile road in
the United States reaches the sum
mit of Mt. Evans 14,260 feet?,
says the National Geographic So
ciety.
Counterfeit Money Gag
lesults in Probation
San Francisco ? (AP) ? Two
irinters counterfeited U S. curren
y, (hen lit cigarettes with $3 and
10 billi and tossed the "money"
round in a bar. Some bills later
howed up in Honolulu.
In placing the men on three
ears' probation. Federal Judge
lichael J. Roche declared the
eird gag was the "most nonsen
ical" thing he ever encountered
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