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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1956)
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Page 5" Britisli Test Atomic Device '"s, .fi ts, iv Tliis picture, made with a long lens camera 55 miles distant, hows fireball forming over the remote Monte Bello Island. 12 miles off Australia's northwest coast as the British touch off the second and final nuclear device of their current scries of experiments. The device exploded is believed to be the trigger for Britain's hydrogen bomb, scheduled ot be tested next year In the vicinity of Christmas Island, about 1,400 miles south of Hawaii. (AP Wlrepholo) Electronic Brain Aids Army In Getting Right Replacement By HFRB At.TSCHULL HKIDELBERG, Germany UP) With a minimum of 'anfarc, the United States has put into opera tion the closest thing yet to a ro bot army. It's all done with electronic brains and little cards with a lot of punch marks. Not that the machines do any thing quite so frivolous, but if it was urgent they could find a 25-year-old cook with blue eyes, brown hair and an appendix scar in the United States as a replace ment and have him in southern Germany in 48 hours. The gadget is called a "trans ceiver." It knocks holes in a card at the European U.S. Army headquar ters here and at the same time, by trnnsocean radio, stamps the same holes in a card at Ft. Dix, N.J., where European replace ments are selected. In the old days, the Army, shipped over replacements by the boatload. The replacements land ed at Bremerhaven and went 450 miles bv train to Zweibrucken. There they spent three days get ting placed and, in some cases, wound up back at Bremerhaven. None of that any more. Army headquarters here keeps up a continuing file on what re placements are needed for the quarter million U.S. soldiers in Europe. As soon as someone is trans ferred, dies, goes over the hill or Faith Healer Not Cause of Cabinet Delay THE HAGUE, Netherlands Wv Premier Willem Drees has denied that the furor over a woman faith healer's reported influence on Queen Juliana is delaying forma tion of a new Dutch government. The Socialist premier told a news conference some foreign publications had carried a report that a Cabinet could not be formed "unless the Queen modified her personal relations" with Miss Greet Hofmans, the 61-year-oid faith healer who has prayed over the monarch's nearly blind young est daughter. "In reality," Drees declared, "the formation of the Cabinet will not be influenced by that in any way." He added he was aiming at a new coalition government in which the nation's five largest political parties would participate. The Communists would be ex cluded. The Premier, whose Labor par ty won the largest number of seats in last Wednesday s general election, conferred yesterday with leaders of the four other parties. He said he expects them to reply next Monday, whether they will join in the new government. Drees' statement to newsmen was his second denial in a week that Juliana's friendship with the faith healer had any effect on Dutch government policy. Last Fridav he emphatically rejected rumors that the Queen might ab dicate or that she and her hus band. Prince Bernhard, might get a divorce or separate. what have you, the Army machine rattles off a card saying what is needed. At the same time, Ft. Dix col lects cards on personnel available for overseas duty. These cards are slammed to gether in another machine and presto! Out comes the replace ment right there on a card. The card even contains his orders. Ft. Dix interviewers take a few mo ments to confirm the machine, but it's almost never wrong. Brig. Gen. Bruce Easley, adju tant general at Heidelberg head quarters, said the machine not only saves some 10 million dollars a year but that it insures against misuse of manpower, saves head aches for the GIs and could be Four Yolks Found in E at 11 rr EUREKA. Calif. OP Someone's hen laid a real bargain egg one with four yolks. It turned up yesterday at the Poultry Producers of Northern California plant here the first in more than 270 million eggs can dled there in 30 years. Manager F,ra..nlt J'SRCrnr Sa' hC'S Secn htS, ' bc opposition from some NBC r l ew Lomeciv Writers Help TV Programs IVBC Youth Movement Paying Off for Network By WILLIAM EWALD Vnileil Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP)-The favor ite food of the chomping jaws of television is comedy. Its future is no laughing matter to network officials. It was only last spring that NBC set '.n motion a project lab eled "New Comedy Writers" to develop gag makers. Now, one year later. 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I of double yolks and an occasional comedians who wanted no part of The transceiver has handled some 40.000 replacements since it went into operation last fall. Now the Army is trying to set up a massive transceiver card cata logue file that would enable the Pentagon to put its finger on any of its men, anywhere in the world. triple. The quadruple yolker wasn't much larger than a normal egg. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya -and Sudan compose the Arab League. young writers. "I'd say we met resistance from about 25 per cent of our top comic talents," said Donaldson, "but there are very few holdouts now." Start At $161 Weekly One of the new writers In the project was only 19 years old, one OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY 11:15 TO 9 P. OTHER DAYS 9:30 A, M. TO 5:30 P. 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