Oppenheimer to
Be Here in April
PORTLAND (AP)—The Ore
gon board of higher education
said Tuesday it has no inten
tion of concelling three lecture
series scheduled for Dr. J. Rob
ert Oppenheimer m Oregon this
year.
Oppenheimer, famed atomic
scientist whose security clear
ance was withdrawn after a con
troversial hearing by the Atomic
Energy Commission, was invited
last spring to make the lecture
series at three Oregon colleges.
Oppenheimer is scheduled to
be at the University of Oregon
April 19-20, at Oregon State col
lege April 26-28, and at Port
land State college, May 3-4.
The board’s statement was
made in answer to inquiries after
the University of Washington an
nounced it was cancelling lec
tures scheduled for Oppenheimer.
Chancellor Charles D. Byrne
said he considered Oppenheimer
“one of the world's most dis
tinguished physicists.’’
“He will appear in late April
and early May, giving two lec
tures on each campus on the
subject of ‘Composition of Mat
ter.’ The outcome of previous in
vestigations will have no bear
ing on his appearance, because
he was chosen prior to the in
vestigations and because there
was no evidence of disloyalty or
impairment of his scientific
standing that came out of the in
vestigations,” Byrne said.
Wilson Believes
US Is Still Ahead
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secre
tary of Defense Charles E. Wil
son said Tuesday he still thinks
“We are out ahead of the Rus
sians” in atomic weapons, and
the Russians know the United
States is leading.
Asked at a news conference if I
he thought a stalemate had been
reached between Russia and the j
United States in nuclear wea- [
pons, he answered:
“I don't think so,” then he
added his views to this country :
being ahead.
A reporter asked if Wilson
thought the Russians believed
the United. States is ahead.
“Yes,” Wilson answered.
Of Russian Foreign Minister I
Molotov’s recent elaim that Rus
sian atomic progress is such it
makes the United States seem
backward, Wilson said he had;
read “somewhere he was talking
about an improvement in the
trigger device.”
Campus Calendar
Noon Stu Bus Conf 110 SU
Jr. Panhel 111 SU
Phi Eps Kap 112 SU
French Tbl 113 SU
1:15 Stu Bus Conf
Registr Lobby 2nd FI SU
4:00 Sociology Cl Dadsrm SU
SU Bd 337 SU
6:30 Alpine Cl 110 SU
7:15 YM Cab 318 SU
8:00 Millrace Coun 114 SU
Ike Signed
Gl Benefits
WASHINGTON (API-Presi
dent Eisenhower signed Tuesday
legislation continuing GI educa
tion benefits for those who en
tered the armed services before
Feb. 1.
With administration encour
agement, Congress enacted the
measure after the President de
clared the Korean War emerg
ency over as of Jan. 31. The ef
fect of the proelomation was to
end all special benefits for serv
ice after that date.
Claude Lightfoot
Sentenced, Fined
CHICAGO (AP) — Claude
Lightfoot was sentenced to five
years imprisonment and fined
$5000 Tuesday for being an "in
formed” member of the Commu
nist Party.
Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
immediately hailed Lightfoot's
conviction and sentence as "an
important victory" that „ would
help the Justice Department “de
stroy the Communist conspiracy
in this country.”
Lightfoot, 44-year-old Negro
executive secretary of the party
in Illinois, was the first person to
be sentenced under a Smith Act
provision making it a crime to
be a member of or affiliate with
an organization, knowing it ad
vocates violent overthrow of the
United States government. A ;
jury convicted him Jan. 25.
Defense Atty. John J. Abt said
he will appeal. The Illinois Divi
sion of the American Civil Liber
ties Union, expressing “grave!
concern” at the guilty verdict, ;
announced it would seek the j
court’s permission to enter the1
appeal as friends of the court.
Lightfoot, who accepted the
sentence calmly, will remain at
liberty under $30,000 bond.
Campus Briefs
0 AU campus living organ
ization presidents must turn in
the name of their World Univer
sity Service representative by 6
p.m. Thursday, according to Jean
Sandine. The names of the rep
resentatives should be given to
Miss Sandine or Kathy Holloway,
whose phone number is 5-1803.
0 The University Alpine elub
will meet today at 6:30 p.m. in
the Student Union. Slides of
climbs on Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Hel
ens and Mt. Adams will be
shown.
0 The Anthropology club will
meet Friday at 8 p.m. in 117 of
the anthropology building to
hear an illustrated talk by Ar
nold Shotwell, curator of the
museum of natural history. Shot
well will talk on “Evolution and
Environment in Mammals.”
0 A Spanish movie, “El Pueb
lo Gualemalteco,” will be shown
tonight and Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in Studio A of the audio
visual department of the library.
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AEC Reveals
Secret Report
By J. W. DAVIS
Of the Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC), in a new warning of the
horrors of atomic war, said
Tuesday its H-bomb blast in the
Pacific last March seriously con
taminated 7000 square miles.
The area affected was almost
as great as the 7836 square
miles covered by the state of
New Jersey.
AEC Chairman Lewis L.
Strauss discussed "radioactive
fallout” in a report which includ
ed some information that has
been secret up until now.
Protection
“Since nuclear weapons are
in possession of the USSR,"
Strauss said, "the commission
believes the American people
wi$h to be informed regarding
the danger of nuclear explo
sions and the measures which in
dividuals can take to protect
themselves if an atomic attack
should ever occur.
"In the event of war involv
ing the use of atomic weapons,
the fallout from large nuclear
bombs exploded on or near the
surface of the earth would cre
ate serious hazard to civilian
populations in large areas out
side the target zones.
“The Atomic Energy' Commis
sion hopes that these dangers
will never be experienced by
mankind."
Perils Beyond Explosion
Tuesday's report dealt largely
w’ith radioactive perils far be
yond the point of explosion. The
commission has, in earlier re
ports, given details on the de
vastation to be expected close to
target points.
On the basis of test data from
the very large thermonuclear de
vice set off at Bikini Atoll last
March and other information, the
commission made the following
estimates:
Lives Threatened
“Following the March, 1954,
explosion, there was sufficient
radioactivity in a downwind belt
about 140 miles in length and
of varying width up to 20 miles
to have seriously threatened the
lives of nearly all persons in the
area who took no protective
measures.
“Some distance farther from
the point of detonation, at about
160 miles downwind and along
the axis of the ellipse, the
amount of radioactivity would
have seriously threatened the
lives of about one-half of Un
persons in the area who took no
protection measures.
5-10% Threatened
“Near the outer edge of the
ellipse, or approximately 190
miles downwind, it is estimated
that the level of radioactivity
would have been sufficient to
have seriously threatened the
lives of 5 to 10 per cent of any
persons who might have re
mained exposed out-of-doors for
all of the first 36 hours.
“Thus, about 7000 square
miles of territory downwind from
the point of burst was so con
taminated that survival might
have depended upon prompt
evacuation of the area or upon
taking shelter and other pro
tective measures."
Worst Conditions
These estimates assumed the
worst possible conditions the
people would ignore the most
elementary precautions, stay out
of-doors completely exposed for
about 36 hours and thus receive
the maximum exposures.
“Exposure can be reduced by
taking thelter and by simple de
contamination measures," the
AEC said.
It calculated that the rate of
exposure indoors on the first
floor of a frame house would be
about half the level out of doors
and even gTeater protection
would be found in a brick house.
Cellars Safe
It said taking shelter in an
ordinary basement would reduce
the radiation level to about one
tenth that experienced out-of
doors and that shelter in a cy
clone cellar with a three-foot
covering of earth would reduce
the radiation level to n compara
tively safe point “in even the
most heavily contaminated area."
The AEC said care should be
taken from eating or drmking
food that might contain fallout
particles. It added that if these
particles come into contact with
the skin, hair or clothing, their
danger may be greatly reduced
“by such simple measures as
thorough bathing of exposed
parts of the body and a change
of clothing.”
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1 »5:4f> p.m. in SU 302. All those
' who are unable to attend must
obtain excuses. JoAnne Rogers,
I chairman of the committee, has
I announced.
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