Doctor witnessed Bikini blasts
Exposure to radiation is like “being dead but
still walking around, feeling rather well — for
awhile/' according to David Bradley, an army
physician who monitored nuclear bomb tests in
the South Pacific.
His task there was “to keep 42,000 members
of the task force from being fried in radioactivity,"
Bradley said Thursday in a speech sponsored by
the Faculty Arms Control Croup.
Bradley was assigned to the 1940 Bikini atoll
atom bomb tests — a government experiment
which tested ships that surrounded the exploding
bomb, to see what structural changes were need
ed to make them withstand radiation.
"It didn't take any clairvoyance to see those
ships as Seattle, San Francisco, New York..he
said.
Bradley's job was to prevent sailors and
soldiers from getting excessive amounts of radia
tion when task force members went back onto the
almost-destroyed ships to take inventory.
“So much of our work was guesswork, and we
struggled to keep people unhurt," Bradley said.
Task force members were required to be 20
miles away and to look away after the first
momentary flash, which is stronger than the sun
at its surface, he said.
"I couldn't get over how beautiful the whole
thing was — and, of course, how deadly," he said.
The 165 inhabitants of the island were moved
and have never been able to go back because of
the lack of vegetation.
"It's the official policy of our government to
say that Bikini Island inhabitants can have radia
tion poisoning, and Hiroshima citizens can have
leukemia and cancer and deformed children. But
good American soldiers do not get affected by
radiation," Bradley said.
Speaking of the arms race between the U.S.
and Russia, Bradley asked rhetorically, "At what
point does some screwball set off something, and
it replicates itself into something much larger?
"Once it gets going, it may be an awful long
way back."
Candidates outline county priorities
Two candidates for North Eugene s county
commissioners' seat outlined their priorities
Thursday in Eugene.
Speaking at the Rubicon Society's weekly lun
cheon, Ted Kelly and city council member John
Ball expressed their concern for the condition of
Lane County government and proposed several
changes.
Ball said Lane County government has lost its
credibility since 1977 when commissioners fired
the county administrator.
“County commissioners are not supposed to
be administrative officials. They should be policy
makers," Ball said.
He said his first obligation would be more em
phasis on citizen's access to public services and
less attention to the convenience of people who
work for these agencies.
Ball said budget planning and management
could be improved and he recommended a
restrictive charter to limit spending in good years
and establish "rainy day" funds with the extra
revenue.
By identifying inefficiencies in the area of
financial management, services could be restored
to senior citizens, veterans and those in need of
public health services without increasing taxes,
Ball said.
"County commissioners must become more
involved in financial planning. This position could
be very powerful in creating jobs and diversifying
the economy," Ball said.
Kelly agrees that for Lane County to prosper,
the county commissioners must take initiatives.
By restructuring government and reducing
overlapping positions, Lane County could in
crease its revenue and create a better standard of
living for its citizens, Kelly said.
Four candidates
withdraw from
ASUO elections
The field in this month's stu
dent elections has narrowed
due to the withdrawal of four
candidates, including one
presidential contender.
Page McCallum, who filed for
student body president, has
been declared ineligible by the
Elections Board because he has
not paid his student fees.
Meanwhile, a candidate for
the Oregon Daily Emerald Board
of Directors, Frank Shaw, news
editor for the Emerald, is also in
eligible. The newspaper has a
clause in its bylaws forbidding
employees to participate in
elections.
And the race for two openings
on the EMU Board has been
reduced from seven to five
because two candidates have
withdrawn, the Elections Board
announced.
Pulling out of that campaign
are Margie Boyd, a junior in
economics, and James Myers, a
freshman in computer science.
The board also announced a
method for determining which
two Incidental Fee Committee
members will serve two-year
terms, should that proposal be
passed into the elections.
The board will ask the top two
vote getters if they would 'ike to
serve a two-year term. If not,
they will ask the next highest
vote getter and continue until
finding two who will serve two
years, according to a memo cir
culated by the Elections Board.
In another elections matter,
the ASUO Executive announced
that Suite 4 will close at noon on
April 19, the final day of the
primary elections, and noon on
April 26, the conclusion of the
general elections, in order to
count ballots.
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