Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Section 2 Page 5"
Britisli Test Atomic Device
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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
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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
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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. Ross Donaldson, man
ager of the network's writing ser
vice, points out that the project
is rolling.
"As a network we felt we were
falling on bad times as far
comedy is concerned," explains
Donaldson. Vaudeville and bur
lesque are no longer with us and
as a result, there s no workshop
around for beginning writers at
all.
Atmosphere Provided
"The only way for a comedy
writer to develop is to work with
comic talent and so we thought
we d provide an atmosphere ir
which young writers could devel
op."
What NBC did was to ask for
material from hopeful scribblers
who wanted to imbibe a lit le at
mosphere. "We got 9000 pieces of material
and then we just quit counting,"
recalled Donaldson. "We read it
all and got down to 50 or 60 peo
ple. "We saw all of them and then
hired four people, then we hired
nine more a little later on."
Donaldson admitted there had
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mighty helpful in an atomic war. 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
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acts. All went to work for $161
per week, the minimum writing
fee at NBC.
Despite the scattered resistance.
they tackled a variety of jobs
I with consequent boosts in salary).
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"Hal Kanter, Gobel's producer
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U.S. to Sell
Atomic Fuel
WASHINGTON, tfl - The United
States has agreed to sell Australia
1.100 pounds and France 88 pounds
of U235 to fuel atomic power
plants.
The agreements, announced yes
terday, are the first of their kind
to be signed since those last yeai
with Britain, Belgium and Can
ada.
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NEW DELHI, India OPi-Primc
Minister Nehiu flew to Damascus
today on the first lap of a month
long slated to take him to London.
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