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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1955)
Many Dead, Missing in Collision • _ mu* w • PASSENGERS, MOST OF THEM CHILDREN, jump and slide off the dis ks of the Japanese ferry Shuin Marti as it sinks shortly after collision with another ferry in Japan’s Inland Sea (May 11). Divers have recovered 138 bodies. Still missing are 60 persons. A total of 773 were rescued. Includ ing 31 injured. This pk'ture was made by an amateur photographer aboard ferry I'daka Marti which collided with the Shuin Maru. (AP Wire photo) Crack, Bang, Rumble End 1955 Nevada Bomb Series <•: LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A mighty “crack, bang and rumble” * just before dawn Sunday wound up the 1955 atomic test series. Supersonic planes participated for the first'~time. The 14th and final nuclear shot at 4 a.m. i PST i lighted the west ern sky. It appeared as strong or stronger than the preceding. Adenauer's Men Win in Germany , MAINZ. Germany (APi — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats <CDUI trounced the anti-rearmament Socialists Sunday night in an election testing the popularity of his pro-American foreign pol icy. * Voters in the state of Rhine land-Palatinate gave Adenauer's party an absolute majority in the new 100-seat Parliament. This insured firm control of the federal Bundesrat (upper house) during the crucial period when Adenauer will submit for its approval legislation for the arming of 500.000 West Germans in the Atlantic alliance. Adenauer Gets Votes The states name the Bundesrat members. Adenauer needed this state's four Bundesrat votes to keep his two-thirds majority there. Official results announced by the State Election Bureau gave the Christian Democrats 51 seats to 36 for the Socialists and 13 for the right-wing Free Demo crats (FDP). Ruled Since 1951 Adenauer's CDU has ruled Rhineland-Palatinate in a coali tion with the Free Democrats since 1951. This state, with its two million eligible voters, was the first to hold an election since West Ger many became sovereign and joined the Atlantic alliance. Communism Rejected Communism .and'Extreme right ism were rejected decisively. Neither the Nazi-like Free Vot ers' association, which had waged a costly campaign, nor the Communists won a single seat. 1 civil defense test 10 days ago. That one was rated at about 35 kilotons—the equivalent of 35,000 tons of TNT—or more than one and a half times as pow erful as the blasts that raked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Jets Make Debut The faster-than-sound planes making their nuclear-test debut, were two North American F100 Super Sabre jets. They simulat ed bomb deliveries just ahead of the explosion. Altogether about 90 aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base ; at Muroc. Calif., took part. As in the May 5 Survival City test, the firing was from atop a 500-foot tower on Yucca Flat. Blast Felt At the town of Indian Springs and its adjoining Air Force base 35 miles from the test site, the blast was described as a “crack, bang and rumble.’’ The control point 14 miles from ground zero reported a “very sharp crack.” The Atomic Energy commission installation at Mercury, 25 miles away, heard a “loud boom.” The blast vibrated buildings in Pioche. Nev., 100 miles, was barely heard in Las Vegas. 75 miles away and was a "rumble and light crack" in Bishop. Calif.. 135 miles off. Mushroom Hises The mushroom cloud rose rapidly to more than 37,000 feet and moved eastward. Twenty-five "major" associat ed experiments were conducted with the blast. Fifteen were for the Los Ala mos, N.M.. scientific laboratory which designed the device deto nated Sunday morning. One was for the Livermore Radiation lab oratories near Livermore, Calif. One was for military effects and eight for civil effects. The explosion ended the long est and most diversified test se ries yet held in Nevada. The 14th atomic shot of the series was the 45th in Nevada and 46th in the continental United States. The total number of nuclear and thermonuclear explosions by the United States is now in the 60s. IT'S TIME FOR A PICNIC . . , AND A QUICK STOP AT . . . BOB’S SUPERETTE Handy to the Campus — Corner of 13th and Patterson Picnic Supplies BEVERAGES OF ALL KINDS OPEN FROM 9:00 A.M. DAILY & SUNDAYS TILL 11:00 P.M. A Want Ads TELEPHONE 3-1511 - EXT 218 • EMERALD OlftCE-2nd FLOOR ALLEN HALL RATES: 4 Cent* pee Word First Iruertion, 2 Cent* per Word Thereafter, ARE YOU PAYING A PEN ALTY FOR BEING UNDER 25? If you are married or fe male and now paying more than $30.40 a year for pub lic liability and property damage auto insurance re newals, you are throwing money down the drain. May flower will give you PL. * PD insurance for $13.20 per 6 months renewable. Check your old policy today. If you are paying a penalty, STOP.See JERRY BROWN, your MAYFLOWER AGENT before you renew. 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