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TRINITY. N.M. UFi There is
little left but a memory of this
lonely spot la Southcentral New
Mexico where the first atom bomb
pbunded a huge pit in tbe earth.
On Uuly 15, one day short of
eight years after the first atomic
exolosion rent the desert stillness,
only the outlines of the vast saucer
shaped crater and a lonesome shed
will mark the place.
Little rrore than a week from
- now, an Albuquerque construction
firm, Campbell and Kay, will fin
ish buying most of the glass-lke
trimtite formed of the sand by
the heat of the blast. It Js being
dumped in a number of pits near
ty and covered with sandy soil.
All that will remain 1 of the
Strange, glassy floor formpd when
molten sand cooled will be a few
, square feet protected from the
j weather by a shed.
The AEC said more thaa a year
ago that it believed dust from the
disintegrating trinitite might be a
health hazard because of its radio
activity. A contract to fill the 1.100-foot-wide
crater, which jueasures
just short of 10 feet deep at the
center, was awarded.
; The government planned to have
D. D. . Skousen of Albuquerque
scrape off the top half-inch the
glassy crust scoop it into the cen
ter and cover it and the remainder
of the bowl to correspond with the
surrounding plain.
; The Soil Conservation Serivce
agreed to plant range giass over
the site.
'But public announcement of the
btd award aroused dormant inter
est. Gov. Mechem of New Mexico
urged Gordon" Dean, recently re
- signed AEC chairman, to recon
sider because of the historical val
ue of the site. Rep. Fernandez D
NM introduced a bill in Congress
asking that Trinity be made a na
tional monument.
But in the furore of last fall's
election and its political changes,
follow-up by the governor and
New Mexico's Washington delega
tior was set aside.
In May this year, representatives
of the Defense Department, the Na
tional Park Service and the AEC
inspected the site. Three points
were decided. They were:
The area could not be declared
Trinity Atomic National Monument
and opened to the public because it
sQL is under Defense Department
jurisdiction and being used by
White Sands Proving Ground for
weapons testing purposes.
The trinitite was to be buried.
At the request of the Park Serv
ice, the original contour of the
crater will be spared, grass was
to be planted over it and a piece
of the trinitite floor about 20 by
to protect it from further weath
ering. "This substantially ends Atomic
Energy Commission's connection
with the Trinity site the ' AEC
said. The Nevada test site on Yucca
Flat near Las Vegas has proved
more satisfactory.
Ike Enjoys
Leisurely 4th
In Mountains
THURMONT, Md. Uh Presi
dent Eisenhower spent the Fourth
pf July holiday fishing, golfing and
playing bridge with old friends.
Eisenhower, vacationing over the
weekend at Camp David in the Ca
toctin Mountains, fished for trout
pear his cabin headquarters Satur
day morning and caught four.
He was accompanied by Clifford
Roberts, retired New York invest
ment banker; William E. Robinson,
executive vice president, New York
Herald Tribune; and E. D. Slater,
New York businessman. Their luck
with fly casting rods reportedly
was not quite as ; good as the
president's. ,
After lunch? Eisenhower, Slater
nd George 12. Allen, played IS
boles of golf at the Monterey Coun
try Club at nearby Blue Ridge
Summit, Pa.
Allen, a one time intimate of
former President Truman, owns
the farm adjoining Eisenhower's
farm at Gettysburg, Pa.
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Paint: Made in Salem
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Pouring yellow highway striping
tank into drums ready for the
is Earl Edwin, Salem, Route 4,
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er Paint Co. Looking en is Robert W. Norris, Jr., partner in
the Salem firm which started here six years ago. (Statesman
Photo.)
N orris-W alher Example of
Expanding Salem Industry
The Salem firm whose check for $500 put the Salem Industrial
Development Council fund drive over the $100,000 mark started as
a struggling business here six years ago "without any help from
any local source except the banks."
Robert W. Norris Jr., partner with Douglas G. Walker and
Stephen P. Rosenbaum in the Norris-Walker Paint Company, said
Friday he and his associates were
glad to help the Development
Council achieve its preliminary
goal for getting a five-year in
dustrial promotion program start
ed. And the Council, through E.
Burr Miller, its publicity chief,
in turn said that Nqjrxis-W,alker
is a "firm we can be right' well
proud of." From now on the
Council will try to assist local
industries like Norris-Walker to
get started and to expand, as well
as attract to Salem new indus
tries which show good prospect
of developing an equally good
payroll, Miller said.
This program for promoting in
dustry in the Salem area was
highly approved by Norris
. knowing, as he does, how it feels
to start a new venture with little
aid or encouragement
Gloomy Predictions
"You'll never fill a pail of
paint," was the gloomy predic
tion made when Norris-Walker
began their operations.
Six years later, Norris-Walker
is producing 1,500 gallons of paint
each day.
And employing 18 persons in
the recently expanded retail store
and manufacturing plant on
North Front Street, with an an
nual payroll of about $80,000.
. And selling paint as far east
as Wyoming and as far south as
Los Angeles. In fact, the white
stripe down the middle of Los
Angeles streets is Norris-Walker
paint; last year 10 railway car
loads (40,000 gallons) of Salem
made traffic paint went to Los
Angeles.
High Standards
Norris-Walker has also receiv
ed several Oregon State High
way Commission contracts for
yellow traffic . paint, highway
equipment paint and bridge fin
ishes. The owners are especially
proud of these contracts for the
highway commission has high
standards for its paints, and Norris-Walker
paint stood up excep-
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paint from a 1.200-gallon blending
Oregon State Hishway Commission
plant foreman at the Norris Walk
tionally well in road tests.
; Fifteen different ingredients go
into traffic paint Some of the
various materials are mixed in
big "pebble mills," revolving
drums half filled with pebbles of
flint rock imported from France
and Belgium.
i Norris-Walker brings in talc
and safflower oil from Califor
nia, resin from Seattle, Titanium
from Deleware, soybean and lin
seed oil from the Midwest
New House Paint
Right now Norris - Walker re
search workers are experiment
ing on a blister-resistant, house
paint They have already devel
oped and introduced on the mar
ket an interior texture paint
which gets its texture from
ground walnut shells (and there
by utilizes an Oregon byproduct).
The company plans to expand
its market on house paints and
interior home finishes, now most
ly sold in Salem and vicinity.
The whole idea started when
Bob Norris was stationed at
Camp Adair during World War
II.: He liked the Salem area so
well he decided to come back.
After serving in Europe as ord
nance captain he brought his
family to Salem and got a job
at the alumina plant There he
met Douglas G. Walker who was
a chemical engineer.
Norris also is a chemical en
gineer. He spent five years as
chief chemist with a Tennesse
(his home state) paint company.
The two men pooled their life
savings and got a GI loan to or-
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SEOtp (m Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor made it clear Sunday he
does not believe the Republic pf
Korea (R0K) Army could continue
the war alone against the Commu
nists, .j
In an interview at his U.S.Eighth
Army headquarters here, Tay-
Jor likened his multi-nation army
to an automobile and observed that
its parts do not run by themselves.
He did not amplify his statement
but it was obvious that he believes
the ROK Army would need United
Nations troops, artillery, mortars
and planes.
The Eighth Army commander
highly praised the fighting ability
of the ROKs and said they had
made an "exceptionally good"
showing against hordes of Chinese
and North Korean Reds thrown
against ROK divisions in June's
bitter fighting.
He would not comment on . the
statement Saturday by General Sun
Yup Paik. ROK Army chief of staff,
that the ROK Army would follow
President Syngman Rhee if he
ordered South Korea tp fight on
alone after an armistice between
s United Nations and the Commu
! nists.
Taylor was asked if he thought
: the Paik statement meant the ROK
j general would pull his forces out
of the Eighth Army and away from
the command of the United Na
tions. Taylor answered: "I'm sorry, '
but you will have to ask General
Paik what he meant."
He praised Paik as a general
and as a military man of honor
"who will follow orders."
But Taylor would not be drawn
into a discussion of what might
happen if Paik got two sets of
orders one from Rhee to continue
fighting and one from the Allied
; command to observe a truce.
Posthumous
Medal Given
WASHINGTON to) A Navy hos
pitalman who died to save the life
of a wounded marine he was aiding
while artillery shells crashed
around him will receive the medal
of honor.
Posthumous award of the highest
military decoration to Hospital
man John Edward Kilmer of San
Antonio, Tex., who was 22 years
old when killed in a Korean battle
last August 13, will be made in a
Pentagon ceremony on Wednesday.
Kilmer is the third Navy man to
receive the medal of honor in the
Korean War.
ganize the Norris-Walker Paint
Co. From this modest beginning
the firm has grown to the point
where it can now help-4-through
the Salem Industrial Develop
ment Council the city to bring
more industry to Salem.,
Esther Williams
Fernando Lamas
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Prefer Jail
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HONOLULU IB Five men and
one woman convicted in Hawaii's
Communist conspiracy case went
to jail this Fourth of July rather
than post $13,000 -bail pending an
appeal from prison sentences and
fines ranging: up to five years and
$5,000. j ;. '
A seventh defendant, labor lead
er Jack W. Hall, posted $15,000
cash bail shortly after Federal
Judge Jon Wiig sentenced the group
Friday.
Hall is regional director in Ha
waii ot Harry Bridges' Internation
al Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's Union.
Top Aviation
Award Given
Woman Flyer
. NEW YORK to) Jacqueline
Auriol, daughter-in-law of the pres
ident' of France; Col. Bernt Bal
chen, and dirigible test-pilot Walter
Massic Saturday were named win
ners of the i Harmon international
aviation awards.
Mme. Auriol won the same award
last year.
The "perpetual American awards
for outstanding international
achievements in aeronautics" are
announced annually on Inde
pendence Day. The trophies tradi
tionally are presented later in the.
year at the White House, by the
President. They are considered the
top awards in aviation. '
Mme. Auriol was named "the
world's outstanding aviatrix" for
bettering her own world .jet speed
record for women last Dec. 21.
She flew a French Mistral jet
fighter 531.843 miles an hour around
a closed 100-kilometer course near
Marseilles.
Balchen, a U. S. air force pilot,
was honored for Arctic exploration,
rescue work and other operations,
including many polar flights in 1952.
Massic, of Akron, Ohio, was cited
for outstanding ' piloting and test
flying of airships; including conduct
of all flight test on the non-rigid
airship N-l, largest of its type in
the world, until its delivery to the
Navy at Lakehurst, N. J., in mid
June of 1952.
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BUENOS AIRES. Argentina MV
Three small opposition parties
made an uneasy peace with Presi
dent Juan D. Peron's government
this week.' As a result, it was re
vealed Saturday, they won liberty
for more than 80 followers who
have been held as political prison
ers. - Release of prisoners was the
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