10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Dec. 2, 1949
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Head Atomic Test Plan Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesda (lop
left), 45-year-old Air Force officer, will command Joint Task
Force Three, charged with conducting new atomic weapons
test at Eniwetok Atoll. His deputies will be Brig. Gen. John
K. Gerhart (top right) of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Herbert
Loper (lower left) of the Army and Rear Adm. Tom B. Hill
(lower right) of the Navy. Quesda led the Ninth Fighter
Command in operations from England during World War II.
It is expected that the new atomic weapons test will take
place sometime next Spring. (AP Wirephoto)
Expect A-Bombs
10 Times Better
Washington, Dec 2 (U.R) Scien
tists believe the new A-bomb to
fbe tested at Eniwetok may turn
out to be 10 times more power
ful than the wartime models.
They figure that much im
provement is feasible even with
out any material increase in the
amount of atomic explosive used.
The bombs that knocked Japan
out of the war unleased violence
comparable to 20,000 tons of
TNT. The new bombs therefore
should be the equivalent of 200,
000 tons of TNT.
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The official announcement of
the forthcoming tests, expected
some time next spring, said
nothing about the bomb designs
which will undergo trial by explosion.
But physicists familiar with
the nuclear principles involved
in atomic bombs say the war
time weapons were extremely
inefficient. Only a small frac
tion of their explosive contents
actually went off. The rest was
wasted.
The wartime designs were
greatly improved in the years
since Japan surrendered, and
bombs "substantially" more
powerful than the old models
were tested at Eniwetok in 1948.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo.,
mebcr of the house-senate
atomic energy committee, has
said they were six times more
potent than the "model T's" of
1945.
Since the 1948 tests the bomb
design has been further perfected.
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New Atom Bomb Test Scheduled The defense department
and atomic energy commission disclosed that a task force is
now being organized which will test at Eniwetok in the Mar
shall islands, probably next spring, at least three new atomic
bombs expected to be a "major improvement" over the sensa
tional weapons tried out there last year. Close-up of Eni
wetok (bottom, right) shows the tiny atoll which is 5000
miles from San Francisco. Navy and air patrols are ex
pected to clear the area a region of ocean about 200 miles
square of all craft having no business there. Big map also
show! Bikini where two atomic bombs were exploded in
1946. (Acme Telephoto)
Salem Heights
School Notes
By JOHN HARVEY
Geraldine Wallard, a fifth
grader, won first prize for fifth
graders on Station KOAC's
"Land of Make Believe" pro
gram. The fifth grade had charge of
the school bulletin board this
week. They had displays of the
United Nations.
Arthur Graham and Sandra
Stiles entered Mrs. Edwards'
second and third grade class this
week,
Mrs. Green's first grade has
started the book, "Home Is Fun."
The children are bringing phono
graph records for physical edu
cation class. Barry Beviers re
turned to school after having the:
cnickenpox.
ihe fourth grade is getting
ready to give an assembly pro
gram.
The school mothers club made
75 bean bags for the school
Each room will be given about
nine.
The fifth and sixth grades sold
tickets for a concert at Leslie
Junior high school November 3
About 15 boys, all fifth and
sixth graders, turned out for the
first basketball practice last
Monday. The practice sessions
are held at Liberty school gym
nasium every Monday at 3:30
p.m., because Salem Heights
school does not have a gymnasium.
Legion Plans Frolic
Hubbard An evening of en
tertainment at the Leeion hall
is being sponsored Friday night
at 8 o clock by the American
Legion of Post 168 of Hubbard.
Refreshments will be served by
the auxiliary.
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Through Race With Sound
By FRANK TREMAINE
Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., Dec. 2 0I.B The Douglas skyrocket
zipped through a race with sound Thursday in a deck-level
flight unofficially estimated in excess of 750 miles an hour.
Test Pilot Gene May, a 45-year-old grandfather, whipped the
supersonic speedster through two record passes over this desert
dry lake.
WU Stage Manager
Really Has Busy Time
The Willamette University
Workshop is being kept very
busy by Rex Lintiemood, who is
the stage manager of the play
"Our Town." The stage is very
simple and there is no scenery.
but there are many little things
such at step units, lattices, etc.
which have to be built.
His main duty is seeing that
everything is on the stage at the
right time, including the actors.
Of course, the lack of time is
one of Rex's main problems
along with the transporting of
equipment to the Sa-lem high
school auditorium.
Being stage manager for last
year's May week-end play and
on the crew for the play RUR
hag proved that Rex does have
the experience this Job requires
Rex expects "Our Town" to
be the most dynamic production
ever produced by the Willamette
University players.
A navy spokesman estimated
the first pass, made on jet pow
er alone, as proDaDiy aooui
equal to the present official
world s record of 87U miles an
hour."
Then May turned on his four
rocket engines to assist the jet
for the next pass 30 feet off the
ground.
Navy censorship prohibited
an official speed estimate, but
one research official said it was
'safe to assume this was anoth
er supersonic flight."
The speed of sound at Mur
oc s 2200-foot altitude at to
days temperature was estimated
at 757 miles an hour. The navy
announced last week that the
Skyrocket "has repeatedly ex
ceeded the speed of sound in
level flight."
When the stocky little test
pilot rolled his gleaming white,
needle-nosed craft to a stop, he
said he had held the plane wide
open for about 10 seconds and
the flight was "comparable" to
his other supersonic flights.
After making the first pass,
May circled widely and ap
proached the test course from
about 20 miles out. About 14
miles away he fired the first
rocket and the others followed
one after another.
He swept into the course,
banking slightly, then straight
ened out about 30 feet off the
ground, and there was a quiet
rumble as the plane approached
the observation point.
Then it flashed past with a
thunderous roar.
A 10-foot stream of flame
spewed from Its four rockets in
the tail.
Within seconds May crossed
the end of the lake and climbed
steeply. In no time, he hit 13,-
000 feet, climbing to burn up
the remainder of the ton and a
half of rocket fuel which the
plane consumes in 80 seconds.
"It was one of those every
day, routine things," May said
as he climbed from the cockpit.
"There was slight turbulence at
the highest speed but that s all.'
It was problematical when the
navy will release the planes ex
act top speed.
There is an official reluctance
to become -involved in any pos
sible dispute with the air force
over relative merits of high
speed navy and air force planes.
Also, no official speed mark
could be claimed for the Sky
rocket, whose rocket motor gob
bles up a ton-and-a-half of liquid
oxygen and alcohol-water in less
than two minutes insufficient
time for the four measured runs
required for an official record.
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The Douglas Skystreak, jet
powered forerunner of the
D-558-2 Skyrocket, set "world
records of 640 and 650 miles an
hour, which were surpassed by
the North American F-86 at 670
m.p.h Douglas Aircraft com
pany officials said supersonic
flights by the Skyrocket have
become "routine."
The Skyrocket is not a proto
type for a mass production
fighter, but is "a research air
plane capable of the highest
possible level flight speeds with
landing characteristics import
out sacrificing take-off and
ant to military airplanes."
Uranium Ready
For Experiments
NewYork, Dec. 2 W) Want
to buy some uranium not the
atom bomb kind, of, course?
For $50 a pound you'll be able
to purchase some of the stuff,
good for such uses as studying
tiny objects with electronic
microscopes and observing the
way metals act at very low temperatures.
Two hundred pounds of uran
ium metal not highly enough
refined to be used for bomb
making will go on sale soon
through regular commercial
channels, the atomic energy
commission announced last night.
Wilbur E. Kelley, manager of
the commission's New York oper
ations, said "we are making this
material available to assist and
foster private research and de
velopment in the traditional
manner by private institutions."
The metal, to be produced by
the Mallinckroot Chemical
Works, St. Louis, will be sold
only to persons with licenses
from the commission.
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The Oregon association for
health, physical education and
recreation will hold its annual
meeting in Bend December 9-10,
the first to be held east of the
Cascades.
Katherine M. Rahl, supervisor
of health and physical education
for the state department of edu
cation, said Claude Cook, sup-
visor of physical education in
Bend public schools, is general
chairman for the meeting, which
will attract health and physical
educators, administrators and
recreation specialists from all
parts of the state.
Bill Bowerman, track coach
and member of the athletic de
partment of University of Ore
gon, is president of the associa
tion. He has announced tnat the
theme of the conference will be
"human development and ad
justment." V
Bend super l n t e n a e n t of
Schools James W. Bushong, rep
resenting the City School Super
intendents Association of Ore
gon, will give "the superinten
dent's viewpoint on health and
physical education.
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