July 15, 2016

Oroville Mercury Register
September 27, 1952
Naval Blockade For Korea Coast
Tokyo (UP) The United Nations command today imposed a naval blockade on the entire Korean peninsula. Gen. Mark W. Clark announced the creation of a new “sea defense zone” to extend from a few miles south of the Russian border to the prisoner of war island off the southern tip of the peninsula. The U. N. directive said that any ship entering the blockade area would be subject to search regardless of nationality. Clark said the blockade was set up because enemy agents had been landed on the Korean shore from small boats. Some had been put ashore at the prison islands of Cheju and Koje with orders from Communist leaders in North Korea.

Oroville Mercury Register
September 27, 1952
2 Mice, Monkeys ‘Prove” Man Can Operate Space Ship 38 Miles Up
Washington (UP) A rocket ship pilot, weightless as he hurtles through space, probably can operate normally as long as he is strapped to his seat, the Air Force concluded today. To prove its point, the Air Force released movies of two white mice and two monkeys in a rocket which zoomed 38 miles above Holloman Air Force Base, N. M. One mouse had nothing to cling to. The other could get a grip on a small shelf. As the rocked arched downward its acceleration equaled the pull of gravity, the mice became weightless. The mouse with a firm grip on the shelf was not perturbed. He could control his body and did not float free. But in the adjoining compartment, the mouse with no toehold thrashed about frantically as he floated crazily from side to side of smooth sided plastic drum.From this and similar experiments, including some involving pilots, the Air Force said this was new evidence that man can withstand the unusual forces of rocket flight and ‘“unction within the range of normalcy.”The mice not only came through the weightless period without ill effect, but withstood acceleration which increased their weight by 15 times for less than one second and by three or four time for 45 seconds. They were crushed to the floor but were unharmed. Two monkeys also made the stratosphere trip without harm. They were strapped tightly in tiny seats and anesthetized so their struggles would not tear loose instruments which recorded their blood pressure, pulse and breathing and radioed the information to earth.

Oroville Mercury Register
September 27, 1952
Butte County Men Enter Army At S.F.
Sixteen Butte County men have been accepted for services in the Army. The men reported to the San Francisco examining station early this month for induction. Release of the men’s names was delayed because the Army receiving station in San Francisco did not return the list of those inducted until yesterday. The list follows: Jack Self, Lonnie Dodd, and Thomas Conway, all of Oroville; Joseph Howard and Martin West, of Biggs; Tony Eaves and Durward Blasing, of Gridley; Pierre Alvox, of Durham: Lee Graham, of Paradise; Frank Horn Jr., of Palermo; and William Mendoca, Robert McCain, John Gamlowski, Phillip Carper, Gerald Fairchild and Gene Haney, all of Chico. Pre-induction physicals will be given to 35 Butte county men on Oct. 28 in San Francisco. The county induction quota for October is 11 men.