Statesman, Scdem, Or., Man-, April 5, 1954 (Sec. 1) 3
Writer Explains Chances of
Being Killed in Atomic Attack
By ELTON C. FAY
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON OB What's your
chance of being killed in an atomic
attack?
Obviously, it's a lot bigger than
a year ago, before Russia learned
how to set off a hydrogen explo
sion, and bigger than five years
ago, before she produced her first
atomic detonation.
But it's lessened by the increas
ing U.S. power to strike back, and
by the improving rings of defense
being set up around the country
and its major cities. And even in a
area where a bomb hits, some per
sons and you could well be one of
them will escape death or even
serious injury.
Can't Fore-tell Attack
Not even the best geopoliticians
and strategists can calculate the
prospect that Russia would make
an atomic attack. But if she does,
here are some factors you can con
sider in figuring your chances:
k The prospects that the Soviet
Union could maintain an atomic
war. once launched, are substantial
ly less than they were two o r three
years ago. Expanding air pow
er has given this country the abil
ity to strike back swiftly at Rus
sian airdromes and factories. The
more enemy installations taken out
by retaliatory air strikes, the fewer
will be the bombers that can take
off for American targets.
2. A network of early warning
radar stations is growing, and
while it is not now and never will
be airtight, the chances of detect
and and tracking approaching
enemy aircraft are improving.
Interceptor forces are expanding
with a constant flow of jet fight
ers from the production lines.
3. Some enemy, planes will get
through, and each one carrying an
A-bomb or H-bomb can do great
damage. But then they run into the
close-in defenses, including conven
tional and "Sky sweeper" anti-aircraft
guns and guided missiles such
as the "Nike."
4. Against the threat of planes
that actually get through with their
bombs, here is "passive defense"
shelter from explosion and heat
and radiation, and evacuation of
cities after warning.
Even within the area of com
plete annihilation it might be pos
sible to survive in a well-built bomb
shelter or deep subterranean
place.
Centenarian
Dies in Fire
CINCINNATI UP Mrs. Ella
Smith, who lived to be 100 years
old, died Saturday in a fire started
by a cigarette she had been smok
ing. Mrs. Smith, a semi-invalid, was
trapped in her small room by
dense smoke. Firemen said she
suffocated.
She had no known relatives. Mrs.
Smith's neighbors said they knew
little about her background except
she was born 100 years ago.
PERMANENTLY MISSING
BURLINGTON. N. C. ltf It's
doubtful part of the cargo that
fell from D. E. Riggins truck will
be returned in a hurry- Among
the missing items are 84 one
pound bags of coffee.
AFL Union to
'Boycott' Gty
Of Redding
REDDING. Calif, im The AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Un
ion voted Saturflay to "boycott"
the city of Redding. Its 1,500 mem
bers were told to buy nothing here;
to purchase, outside of th city,
whatever they need.
This action was taken while the
AFL Central Labor Council, of
which the union is a member, was
voting to seek public support of a
resolution blaming the Shasta
County Hotel and Restaurant Assn.
for prolonging the 8-month strike
against Redding cafes and hotels.
The dispute started over wages,
but has gathered a number of
corollary issues as time went on.
Some of the places are picketed
but all are operating.
Luther A. Sizemore Jr.,: labor
council strike chairman, said the
"stay out of Redding" campaign
voted by Local 2608 of the Dumber
and Sawmill Workers Union was
intended to arouse community
pressure toward strike settlement.
Sizemore said the local has 1,500
members working in the area be
tween Cottonwood, 17 miles south
of Redding, and Dunsmuir, 52
miles north.
McKay Tells
Ways to Test
Evaporation
WASHINGTON LP) Secretary
of the Interior McKay Saturday
announced the development of two
new methods of determining reser
voir evaporation losses.
He said the alternate techniques,
developed in years of research by
Interior and Navy Department, sci
entists and engineers, have been
tested at Lake Mead, in Arizona
and Nevada.
They showed close agreement, he
said, and both confirmed previous
estimates of water losses.
One method involved keeping an
account of all incoming and out
going heat energy, with the differ
ence being that utilized for evapor
ation. The other required measure
ments of the water vapor leaving
the reservoir surface.'
"The new techniques permit the
firming up of present estimates
of loss of water stored in reser
voirs by actual measurements,"
McKay said.
Undersecretary Ralph A. Tudor
told newsmen the new techniques
represent refinement of more or
less crude procedures previously
used .
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Dewey Signs
Protection Code
For Witnesses
ALBANY. N. Y. l New York
became a pioneer Saturday in leg
islation to prevent smearing of
witnesse's. at state investigations.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey signed
an administration measure estab
lishing a code of fair procedure
that he said would protect witness
es and still preserve the govern
ment's right to "rout out rascality
or subversion.
The new law prohibits one-man
investigations, except by single-
member agencies, and allows per
sons whose reputations are at
tacked in testimony at public hear
ings to answer by taking the stand
or filing a sworn statement for the
record.
TEAClfER PAY OLD PROBLEM
.' EAST HARTFORD, Conn. 1
A Committee looking into the his
tory of the East Hartford Center
School found that in 1839, the
authorities approved this motion:
"That Miss Stanley be obtained
to teach school if she can be ob
tained at S3 (three) a week. If
not at that price, to empower the
district committee to offer he 50
cents more per week."
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Juin Wants Frenchman to Replace Him
LE HAVRE. France if) Mar
shal Alphonse Juin, ousted from
his French military duties, said
Saturday he would leave his NATO
assignment only if he is certain
a Frenchman is named to replace
him.
Juin is Central 'European com-
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It's always straight talk when the top 5 onto editors describe
new cars. It's all praise when they write about the 161 Lp. Mercury
with ball-joint front suspension!
HOT AS STRAIGHT TOBASCO GK -ThT-ROCKS" -TOW McCAHTLL, HECHANIX
tiUSTRATED "The guy who buys a '54 Merc wnl be getting a really new
car, aoto warmed-over oM one. Some of Merc's competitors are still peddling
Aff taRdoo coupes and ate overdae for change. VSbeo tbese cbarrges come,
the buyers of Ihes&ccinpefitors wit be as out-of-date 3S an Indian-head penny
-and whence goes to trade ktoefU taft to him in peoajes."
1S1-KP PCSfl, m DRIJCW KO BORE GAS TOST EBST- WHBUR SHAW.
POPULAR SGIENCE-Wheo I drove the car on be evergreen-screened test
track in Dearborn, Mich., and again on the radian apofe Motor Speedway, I was
struck by the smoothness of the power pick-ep as the accelerator went down.
"THIS CAR IS A KRC0(rT!...AR0 REAltT EAST TO 03flTE--WALT W0R0N,
DON McDONALD, MOTOR TREND-"Yoo'll m the 1954 Mercury, particularly if
you like power thaf I make yc sit back in your seat wneo you stomp the throttle"
"Lincoln -type ball and socket joints on Mercury's front wheels efwmwta
the familiar king pin, reduce much front end vibration, aad at the number of
forward grease fittings' from 16 to four."
"EXCEPT F08 LnfCmJ -THERE IS PR08ABLT HOT A S1KSLE PiKSEKSER CAI
ENGINE THAT CAN COME UP TO ITS STANDARD FOR ROttEDN ESS" -GRIFF
BERGES0N, CARS "The intake manifold on the new Mercury ts definfteh one
of 1954's engroeermg highlights. No otter manufacturer of V-8 engines has
of educed such a logically correct version of this key component"
"One of the best engineered power plants m the industry, regard ess of price."
Highest re-sale voiue in its price field according
to nationwide surveys
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mander under Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther, NATO commander in
Europe.
The marshal was ousted from
high level defense advisory jobs
two days ago in a midnight ses
sion of the French Cabinet He had
refused to meet Premier Joseph
Laniel and Defense Minister Rene
Pleven at a designated hour to ex
plain an earlier speech: denouncing
the European Defense Community
Treaty support by the government.
If your coffee does not taste as
good as you would like, it . may
be because you are not using your
coffeemaker to its full capacity.
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