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THE LA GRANDE EVENrXG OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON
Mondiiy, October 8, 1943
WHEN X-999 EXPLODES
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"it NOWLEDGE of her power at
this moment, and of the ven
geance she was about to wreak on
the Tyler girl, gave Le.inn Sormi's
lace a wild look of exhilaration.
She threw her transmitter switch
as if the act were a definite little
finale.
And finale it was! Not even
Leann Sormi, brilliant scientist,
had known the extreme potency
of X-B99III
Simultaneously with her touch
' of that switch, all of hellDrc it
self belched over the universe,
The earth shook in a staccato
- of doom, Tonto Mountain, it op
peared, was lifted skyward. A
. great spreading bulk blacked out
the light of day, extended east
ward over a full five miles, then
came pelting roaring crashing
down In an all-consuming bom
bardment. The top half of Mummy Ridge
itself was blown square off and
. a minute later it and all its area
there to the cast were buried
' under countless tons of debris.
The very physiography of a moun
tain rongc was being altered. And
nobody no living soul heard
Leana Sormi give her long, hys
terical scream.
"CTROM other points of view (as
told countless times in the
months and even years to follow)
the explosion of Tonto Mountain
was that of a volcano, no less. Kx
ccpt that this particular volcano
spewed fire from only one side of
Its mouth, after first bursting out
an opening.
The actual eruption was not
straight up, but angled. The great
force of tho explosion naturally
, took tho path of least resistance.
The west half of Tonto Mountain
was a bulwark of granite, virtu
ally solid rock a mile thick at Its
base. A flat white face of Hint 1
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nldo, Cnpt. 53 Roster
James K. 51 An
, Jr. 55 Substances
7 Three parts VKKTIl'AL
(comb, form) 1 Six (Komnn)
9 He is Prcsl- 2 Inclusion
dent Truman's .1 Excavate
naval -1 Hustle
10 Sturdy tree 5 Simple
13 Old hcl.md S Negative
(ab.) 7Gus
M Furies RN.inrw inlet
pi Compass point 11 L'nmift
17 Looked 12 Retains
fixedly 14 Explain
10 Church holiday
22 Symbol for
calcium
23 Hypothetical
structural unit
24 Type of moth
25 Father
id Solitary
28 Wave top
30 Specific
gravity (ab.)
31 Symbol for
tellurium
32 Epithet
35 Enticcr
37 Half-cm
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40 Nrywcfjjai
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41 Larlntl 0
44 Muddles
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granite had showed at the peak
to form a landmark for centuries.
But in nature's own eruptions
cons ago she had loosened and
stirred the eastern half of Tonto,
upending Its strata and piling
there loose boulders, smaller rocks
and soils. It was this loose de
posit which gave way under the
force of X-999's explosion.
The granite - half stood firm,
merely shaken by the recoil.
The circumstance proved to be
extremely fortunate for puny hu
man beings who had dared en
sconce themselves in nature's
bosom here. It was as if nature
had kept a benign hand over them
and their little huts. Not that the
huts escaped damage every win
dow in the scientists' village was
broken, and every china dish, ev
ery bit of glass equipment in the
laboratory.
Hock chimneys were toppled
over. One cabin was moved quite
off its foundation. The stables,
flimsy structures at best, were
flattened and three of the horses
killed. A dozen major or minor
avalanches were started on neigh
boring mountains.
WHEN Carolyn and Leana left
" him at the stables shortly
after 5 o'clock, Bob Hale lingered
to rub down his black gelding
rather than give tho task to a
stable boy.
About IS minutes later ho was
culled to tho stable telephone. It
was Lcanu.
"Robert, dear," she began, "is It
too much to ask that you drive in
to Mair for mo, at once? There is
some equipment a microscope
part which I simply must have
in the laboratory early tomorrow
morning, and I really wanted it
tonight. It wos duo on tho mail
singe todny and the Dluir post
office closes at 0."
"Surely, Leana! I can drive
Iglit over now. Our group doesn't
Traffic Fatalities
Rates Increasing
Oregon's traffic death rate for
the first eight months of IMS was
10 fatalities per one hundred mil
lion miles of travel, according to
Robert S. Karrell, secictaiy of
state.
This compares to a rate of nine
for Hie same period a year ago.
The death rati1 fur the month of
August this year was nine, com
puted to n rat.1 of eii.ht for Anti
ng of Mi l l.
Parrell said tin- dentil rale,
showing the nunilyjr of persons
killed in relation to the mileage
leeorrled on Oregon highways
and streets, is a better indie I'.ion
of the relative safety of traffic
than (tie actual number of deaths.
Thus, the death rate this year
indicates a need for increased
care in driving anil walking, tho
secretary of stale said.
14 Pound Iiabfi Horn
TILLAMOOK, Oct. II (UP) Mrs.
A. Mim.-vll and lier H-pmind
daughter were doing well today
after the infant's birth last Sat
urday at. the Tillamook General
hospital. The girl, named Georg
iana Dale, is the third born to
Mrs. Munsell.
Official Records
Water turned oil, October 6
Mrs. K. Ilielier, DO!) I);.
si reel: Mrs. George Heldin
Third street.
Wiiior turned on:
Mis. Lverclt G i 1 in o r e,
Pennsylvania avenue.
1st. in
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The true Mohammedan eats mi
food afti'r dark for one month of
each year.
DIIKSS and the .PATTKHN NUM
BI'.U In Anne t'abol, I a Grande
Kvvimi): Observer, 7l!'.l Mission
. nvl, San Fl anelsni, Calif,
Annitrr to I'mlmm t'uulc
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ketch
17 Spread
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2i Sallies forth
21 Classitiivition.l
2V Hop.' kiln
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31! t'us.ivc
3-1 Adcs
35 Cast off
3D Foe
42 Ventilate
43 Withered
41 Ignoble
45 Male child
4H Name (Fr.)
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ent until 7. Be a pleasure."
He didn't rush because there
was abundant time, but he did
take his car Immediately and head
off down the old road from the
mine. It swung south and west
from Tonto Mountain, winding in
picturesque way.
When he reached Blair ho
paused to chat a bit with the post
master. Lcana's parcel hadn't ar
rived, after all. She would be
disappointed.
Vaguely he wondered why a
mere microscope lens, or what
ever it was, could be so urgent.
There were other microscopes at
hand in the laboratory. But then,
a person gets used to a favorite
one, he knew. He switched the
lk to deer hunting.
"Shore thing, Dr. Hale," the
postmaster was friendly, "it's deer
ns'U run right over you around
here in autumn tlmel Shores
you're born! Big bucks with 10,
20 poinis all up in that Tonto
Mountain country. You stick here
till October, you'll see. You got a
good rifle?"
They went into the matter of
guns, man talk. They were ex
amining the postmaster's own 30
30 when
BROO-O-O-O-O-OMl
THE earth trembled, shook them
to their very teeth! . Class
cracked and fell from the burst
ing shock of the explosion.
Bob's muscles froze.
The postmaster looked quickly
at him in consternation. Neither
spoke at first. Then both looked
out.
The late sun-yellowed sky back
toward Tonto was blooming in a
magnificent mass of black earth
and rocks and shooting flame.
They saw it boil. Saw it Brow
billowing, spreading, roaring and
echoing furiously now. It was
greater than anything In their
comprehension. It was reaching
out over half the horizon, as if
It meant to engulf all the universe.
I know! ' Bob rasped, from tho
deep frenzy now within him. "It
it Carolyn's there! Carolyn's still
there! . . . Come onl . . . Oh, my
God! . . . Carolyn!"
Tho two men were running to
Bob's car.
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Continued From Pago 2
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tiling .
Arab point of view,
as 15 percent Moslem
'day it has taken in
750.001) Jewish uumigianl refu
gees and is now only two-thirds
Zionist political movement which
amis to make Palestine a Jewish
home land a n d coninionw eallh.
L'ntil Zionism surrenders ihese
political ambitions, the Arab
league will oppose more F.uro
pe;in -Jewish refugee migration.
Beyond that, the leauv is com
mitted to a policy of achieving
complete indeertulencc through
tlir irriodl of tll fro:nn domi-natie-n
m pit .ii'imniintly Arab
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