The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-21
Senate Cloakroon
NJ J. GLENN BEALL
United States Senator from
Maryland

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Much has been said and written
(about the dangers of radioactive
ffall-out" from nuclear tests. A
Senate committee has taken up a
bill designed ito vest responsible
! ty in the Public Health Service
for protecting the public from
radiation"
Civilian scientists, advisers to
the Atomic Energy Commission,
have made study and report
this conclusion: THE amount of
total body external radiation re-
sulting from fall-out to date, to-
gether with future fall-out from
previous weapon tests, is less than
per cent of the estimated aver
age radiation exposure of the
American public to X-ray for
medical purposes Human beings
have lived for generations in
parts of the world having 100 times
the average amount of radiation
the United States gets from fall
out. The amount of radioactive
fall-out found in food and water is
less of a hazard than the amount
of radium normally present" in
drinking water used for decades
in some parts of the United States,
the scientists reported.
The Big-4 Conference On Berlin
Here we go again. Another of
these East-West affairs could be
good. Yet we face the SOLDERING
fact that in the past these func-
tionS have proved disappointing
So, what are we in for this time?
Is this to be just another whirl
on the familiar merry-go-round?
Why should we indulge in another
potentially futile exercise?
Well Someday, at some session
such as the one now taking place,
a leaf of history is going to be
turned. And, for all we know, it
could happen here. Be it a balmy
spring afternoon or some turbulent
winters night, Frenchman or a
Briton, an American, or Soviet
Communist, is going to put for
ward or accept the one rightful
idea that will commence to unsnarl
this massive, worrisome log jam.
So it is good that we are having
another run-through. 1t may prove
futile. Then again, it may not be
so hopeless as it seems. Anyhow,
here we go
Maryland Parks and Pathways
This past week l appeared be-
fore the Senate Appropriations
Committee twice-first, to support
an appropriation for the Federal
governments share in stream-val-
| ley park land acquisition in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Coun.
ties, and, second, to support an
appropriation for the Federal
i share of the cost of building the
Prince Georges segment of the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway / called attention to the
fact that the Federal government
committed itself long ago to both
projects and that Maryland had
proceeded with its planning in
good faith. l expressed the opinion
that someday Congress would
make good on the Federal govern
ment's commitment, and l asked
will the taxpayers damn this
Congress for passing up the OPP
portunity to complete these neces.
sary projects now when the cost
| is low"
Holidays For Federal Employees
lon its way to the Senate from
the House of Representatives is a
bill giving Federal workers Friday
off whenever legal holiday falls
on Saturday. This seems fair. 1t is
provision already made by many
private companies.
Staggering Cost Of Farm Price
Support-The President, in spe-
cial message to Congress on We'd
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