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Once-Sleepy Village Is Now
Focal Point in A-Bomb Race
By JOSEPH L. M1LER
Washington, Oct. 10 U.R Authoritative sources today reported
big atomic doings in the New Mexican plateau country outside
Albuquerque.
There, in the once sleepy village of Sandia on the edge of the
Manzano mountain range. Industrial engineers are translating
the abstruse data of science into
the fantastically violent wea
pons with which this country in
tends to hold its atomic lead
over Soviet Russia.
Even before President Tru
man announced on Sept. 23 that
the Russians had achieved an
atomic explosion, operations at
Sandia were booming.
Play Near Bomb Shelter Youngsters play in the shadow
of one of the largest Berlin bomb shelters. The walls, 12 feet
thick, were wrecked by three charges of explosive.
Decker Variety Store Will
Open in Salem Tuesday
Official opening of a new variety store, "Decker's," located at
237 North Liberty street, will be at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The store, owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. Leonard Decker, is
finished In brilliant contrasting colors, with the ceiling in a
lieht fuchsia, a wide border of
California lime below that and
the lower part of the wall and
fixtures in a darker green.
The Deckers came to Salem
from Sandpoint, Idaho, where
for four and a half years they
operated a variety store. That
store burned May 21 of this year
and in looking for a new loca
tion they found the one In Sa
lem In August. With their 14-year-old
daughter, Shirley, they
came to Salem permanently in
early September. Prior to the
store at Standpoint the Deckers
had one at Davenport, Wash
Backed by Experience
The store is to be managed by
Mr. Decker, who has 10 years
of merchandising experience,
and assistant manager will be
Robert Stowell, who came to
Salem from Essex, Iowa, after
merchandising experience there
Coming to Salem with him were
his wife and year-old son.
In charge of the office and
keeping the firm's books will be
Mrs. Decker, who worked with
her husband in the other stores.
The store, which will carry
kitchen ware, household appli
ances, infant s wear, stationery
supplies, toys and candy, has
been designed to give fast serv
ice to those wanting it. Also
persons wanting to take a longer
time to shop will have an op
portunity to look at merchandise
In a leisurely manner.
Opening Day Features
An island arrangement for
displaying the merchandise is
to be used that is new to the
variety type of store. Persons
at checkstands will check the
purchases. Exceptions to this
service will be the candy and
greeting cards.
Two features have been plan
ned for Decker's for their
opening day. There will be gifts
for the kiddies and a radio
broadcast over KOCO of an In
terview with the manager of
Decker's by Dick Nason.
October Skies Reviewed by
Oregon College Astronomer
By J. HUGH PRTJETT
Attranoncr. EvUnilon DlvUlsn. Orwa Hlihtr Education Srilrm
All the signs In the sky the orderly and legitimate astro
nomical signs and not those connected with superstitions pro
claim definitely that summer is past and autumn is well on the
WThe sun la now above the horizon less than 12 hours. In late
June It was shining 13 hours
Book Offered
On Communism
Congressman Walter Norblad
is able to furnish free of charge,
to persons desiring the docu
ment, a publication put out by
the committee on un-American
activities on the subject of com
munism.
The committee recently pre
pared and released a series of
six pamphlets on communism
and its influence in this country
as a whole, on religion, on edu
cation, on labor, and on government.
The demand for these publi
cations was so heavy that they
have been combined and reprint
ed into one document, entitled
"100 Things You Should Know
About Communism in the U.
S. A., Religion, Education, La
bor, Government, and Spotlight
on Spies," and each member of
congress allotted a limited num
ber. Anyone interested in obtain
ing free of charge a copy of the
compilation of questions and an
swers on communism should
write to Congressman Norblad
He will comply with these re
quests so long as his supply
lasts.
The congressman's address is
1121 House Office building,
Washington 25, D.C.
They are moving even more
urgently now. and In any re-
jiggering of atomic energy com
mission plans and projects, san
dia will not be overlooked.
It is the focal point of the
far-flung U.S. atomic project
where the A-bomb finally
emerges from the blueprint into
the production stage ready for
manufacture.
It is to the AEC what Wright
field is to the air force, or Aber
deen to army ordnance. It also
is the place where atomic sci
ence and technology come to
gether with the military men
who will employ them if war
comes.
Hard by the AEC's bomb en
gineering laboratory which re
port says has gone underground
is the armed forces' "special
weapons" field base.
Together they will spawn the
atomic weapons of the future
guided missile warheads, atomic
torpedoes, and whatever else
may now exist only as "a gleam
in a scientist s eye
Moscow Pokes
Fun at U.S.
Atom 'Control'
Moscow, Oct. 10 CP) The
Moscow press lampooned Amer
ican "atomic monoply" in verse
and picture today.
The government newspaper
Izvestia carried a cartoon depic
ting a balloon labeled "atomic
monoply" blowing up in the face
of the U.S. after being punctured
by Tass. the Soviet news agen
cy's communique, announcing
that the Russians also have
atomic weapons.
The cartoon was accompanied
by a verse which read:
"They blew it up every day
and every hour.
"They threatened everyone.
scared everyone,
"But as a result miscalculated
"Tass informed the world
simply, modestly, without
boasting
"That the atom bomb
have and we have!
"Yes! Yes!"
at latitude 45 degrees; longer,
farther north; and somewhat
less to the south. The sunset
point is now south of due west.
When an extended period of
good weather prevails, October
brings us the dreamy season of
Indian summer with days of
pleasant warmth and hazy hor
izons. This autumn we have the
early twilight sky adorned with
the most brilliant of the planets:
Venus in the southwest and Ju
piter in the south. Early in
December they will appear very
close together, a gorgeous pair.
The planets Mercury, Saturn
and Mars upward In the order
named now lie in a long
straight line In the eastern sky
at dawn. An hour before sun
rise, Mercury Is just clearing the
horizon about due east. By Oct
ober 19, it will be high enough
to be seen well and will be
quite bright. Saturn and Mars
are about equally spaced along
the planetary path and are much
higher in the sky. The bright
star Regulus is in this line a
little below Mars.
Let us locate the bright stars
of the evening sky at around
8 p.m. Orange Arcturus is twink
ling a little above the skyline
in the west northwest. It is at
the base of a large figure of
fainter stars forming a kite, the
top of which inclines toward the
right. Not far west of overhead
brilliant Vega holds sway near
a quadrilateral of four faint
stars. Almost in the zenith Deneb
heads the Northern Cross, which
extends toward the southwest.
Note the familiar Big Dipper
low and right side up and some
what west of north. Three hours
from now the bowl will be due
north as It swings eastward
around the North Star. An Im
aginary line drawn through the
two eastern stars of the Dipper
and extended upward In the
sky will finally meet the North
Star, which is of about the
same brightness as the Dipper
stars.
In the northeastern part of
the sky look for yellow Capella
as Is glitters well above the
horizon. At this time every year,
many become alarmed over the
scintillations of this bright star,
and fear It is some sort of enemy
aircraft. Toward the south, Al
tair shines. The only other first
magnitude star In view is Forn
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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, October 10, 194911
AFL President! Actress
Peggy Dow has been elected
president of Hoi 1 y w o o d ' s
AFL, but not the AFL you're
thinking of. The Hollywood
AFL stands for "Anti-Falsie
League" and was dreamed up
by some of the screen's lovely
ladies to prevent any false
fronts in pictures. Acme Tele-photo
Four Killed in
Train Wreck
Meade, Kan., Oct. 10 U.
Four persons were killed and
75 Injured early today when
the east bound Rock Island
streamliner was derailed, three
miles east of here.
Ambulances from Meade, Gar
den City, and Dodge City, Kan.,
were rushed to the scene.
A washout was blamed for
the wreck. The streamliner was
held up at Liberal, Kan., for
several hours last night and left
shortly before midnight.
The accident was said to have
occurred about 1:30 this morn
ing. Mayor Ted Gardner, of Fow
ler, Kan., said a fireman walk
ed most of the way to notify
authorities.
The mayor said a volunteer
crew of about sixty persons
rushed to the scene from Fow
ler to aid the injured.
Gardner said four cars were
derailed.
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Sole Milk Herd to
Be Killed; No Feed
Cordova, Alaska, Oct. 10 UR)
Slaughter of Cordova's only
herd of milk cows was being
completed today because of the
lack of the necessary feed to
keep them alive.
The butchering was ordered
because of the failure of long
overdue feed shipments to ar
rive. It was feared that children
may suffer unless some method
is found of keeping a supply
line open.
It was reported that old sour
doughs are complaining about
the shortage of meat "fit to eat'
and that one restaurant has al
ready closed because of the
"poor quality of ancient beef"
on sale in the local markets.
Officials of the Alaska Steam
ship company have made no
comment on the situation.
Right now, however, the
AEC's Sandia lab is concerned
with atomic weapons of the
present, the vastly Improved i
bomb designs tested at Eniwe
tok and now being manufac-1
tured on an industrial basis.
It was Sandia's job to take
these designs, produced by the
Los Alamos bomb science lab
some 70 miles away In the
Sangre de Cristo foothills, and
convert them into a serviceable
field weapon.
Having engineered the mani
fold and complex components
which go Into the new weapons
Sandia then had to farm out
their manufacture in Industrial
plants around the country.
This it has done and is do
ing. It is not a static business,
the design and manufacture of
atomic bombs. Refinements are
being made constantly. More
efficient production methods
continually suggest themselves
Rotarians Help Scouts
Sheridan Membership of the
Rotary club has been called up
on by Charles Gould, chairman
to raise money for the Boy
Scouts with solicitation getting
under way this week. The lo
cal troop is sponsored by the Ro-
uinans. ine troop nas a mem
bership of 27 boys with Ed
strombeck scoutmaster.
alhaut, quite low somewhat east
of south.
Do not fail to note the tiny
cluster of faint stars, the Pleia
des, which sometimes appear like
a faint cloud not high above
the skyline somewhat north of
east. October 9, the moon
only a little south of them.
And the people at Los Alamos
are always coming up with new
ideas for the people at Sandia
to convert from scientific possi
bility into engineering fact.
When the atomic energy pro
ject moved Into Sandia in 1945.
it was to establish liaison with
the military. Gradually it grew
into a branch of the Los Ala
mos laboratory.
Atlantic Storms
Batter Dutch Liner
Southampton, Eng., Oct. 8 W
Delayed 24 hours by storms,
the battered liner Nieuw Am
sterdam arrived here today with
several persons aboard injured
in a rough Atlantic crossing.
Rep. Abraham A. Ribicoff CD
Conn.) had his head cut when he
was thrown across the ships
lounge at the height of a storm
last Sunday night. The ships
doctor took three stitches to
close the wound.
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