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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1951
Page
8
New devices include fish bow with tubular glass handle for aquarium display, a fabric fire escape chute, a six inch flashing tube for TV synchronization, a hand size electric sander and polisher, a flavor injector for meats, a grid marked cutting board for fabric work, a throwaway fire extinguisher from Army design, and a faucet attachable water filter using ion exchange resins. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 530 by mail for details.
Science Service reports that several plants release soil chemicals that inhibit nearby vegetation. Prairie sunflowers, black walnuts, desert shrubs including absinthe, arid bush used for guayule rubber, woodland asters, and Indian tobacco suppress growth as they decompose in spring. Researchers John T. Curtis and Grant Cottam note these allelopathic effects.
The Science Service summarizes a U S Defense Department report detailing blast heat and radiation from a nominal 20000 ton TNT bomb. It explains firestorms, gamma rays, neutrons, and lethal doses, plus fallout, contamination, and civilian defense implications including decontamination and panic.
Archaeology explains how North American Indians shaped arrowheads and axes from hard stones using primitive tools. A bone or ivory tool could shaping points, and crumbling with a hammer stone produced axes and celts. Banner stones with drilled holes hint ceremonial use.
The pronghorn Antilocapra americana is the fastest land animal in America, capable of 45 miles per hour, with sprints near a mile per minute. Once widespread, its population rose to over 150000 under game laws. In western Texas private ranch hunts pay ranchers $40 per antelope. Pronghorn horns are hollow with bony guards, shed annually, up to 20 inches. Their fighting thrust aids mating, a notable feature of this resilient species.
The pronghorn uses long sight to monitor distant threats like coyotes. Its white rump flags mates and signals danger, while its speed and signaling behavior once startled allow it to outrun predators. In early Western days, they raced trains, flashing white flags as they crossed engines.
A 400 page release by the U S Atomic Energy Commission and Defense Department describes what a city like Hiroshima or Nagasaki would endure under an atomic attack. The volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons, presents objective analysis, damage patterns, and calculation methods while noting possible weapons beyond those used in World War II.
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