Britain's Coming Atomic Test
May Put Nation in World Lead
London CU.R) Scientists here
say Britain's first atomic explo
sion .expected in August, may
put her years ahead of anybody
else in nuclear research.
When Prime Minister Winston
Churchill announced last Febru
ary that Britain intended to lest
an "atomic weapon,' his critics
immediately said it was a waste
of time and money to duplicate
what the United States already
had done.
But scientists have different
Ideas. They believe the experi
ment at the Monte Bello Islands
off northwest Australia will ex
plode all theories that Britain
has fallen behind in the atomic
race. Actually, it will project
Britain theoretically into the
year 1960 of the atomic age,
they say.
One scientist said Britain ac
tually has been in a position to
produce its own atom bombs fori "But
about four years. The design of I fer to
the "device" to be used at Montef said.
why do you always re
a bomb? One scientist
Bello is the result of eight years
of secret research, he said.
America Thought Orerhauled
"To put it bluntly we believe
we have overhauled America in
atomic research despite the crit
ics and despite the vast resources
America has at her disposal,"
the scientist said.
He said the development pe
riod of atomic research in Brit
ain has now ended and the gov
ernment has completed the com
plex organization which from
now on will supply "the prac
tical expressions of past thought
and experiment."
On details of Britain's secret
weapon, scientists act character
istically absent minded beyond
remarking, "It embodies a huge
volume of nuclear knowledge.'"
In And Around Gold Hill
Gold Hill Amethyst Rebekah
lodge will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 2, instead of
at the usual time of 8 o'clock.
After a brief business session,
the lodge members will pay a
visit in a body to the Central
Point Rebekah lodge. The Gold
Hill group will take refresh
ments provided by the July com
mittee, including Mesdames Paul
Holderness, Joe Lewis, Walter
Chaffee, Frank Carter and Cecil
Johnson.
There will be no Garden club
meeting this week, because of
the regular meeting date being
the 'Fourth of July. The meet
ing will be held Friday, July
11.. instead.
Mrs. Paul Thompson and
grandchildren, Jenny Lou and
"Spike." left Saturday for San
Jose. Calif., in comnanv with
Mrs. Thompson's sister and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Art Gorham
and dauehter. Donna, who had
been visiting here at the Thomp
son home.
After a visit," Mrs. Thompson
and her grandchildren will go
on to Phoenix, Ariz., where they
will meet Mrs. Thorrmson's son.
Creighton, father of the chil
dren. The two children will go
with him to their home in Ciu
dad Obregon, Sonora, Mex., to
spend their school vacation and
to visit their mother. Mrs. Paul
Thompson may go on to Mexico
with them for a visit before she
returns home.
Mrs. Minnie Byerly returned
home to Gold Hill Sunday after
a visit with two of her daugh
ters and their families. She vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Neal Bush
and son. Danny, in Hillsboro;
and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Parker
in Salem.
Past Noble Grands club of
Amethvsf Rebekah lodge met
Thursday noon at the home of
Mrs. George Dorman on Fifth
avenue. A DOtluck cicnic lunch
was served on the lawn of the
Dorman home, after which a
short business session was con
ducted bv the Dresident. Mrs
Lester Thompson. Fourteen
members and five children were
present, and one visitor. Mrs
Katheryn Shearer, past noble
grand from Forks, Wash. Mrs.
Shearer is visitine in Gold Hill
at the home of her two brothers,
Earl and Joe Pankey.
The next meeting of the Past
Noble Grands club was sched
uled for Thursday, July 24, at
2 p.m.. at the home of Mrs. Wil
liam , Ferguson on Second av
enue. Gold Hill Lady Lions club
met Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. William Rockford
on north Highway 99. Mrs. J.
Les Graffis, club president, con
ducted a business session. Plans
were made for the club to par
ticipate in a carnival to be held
the latter part of July to raise
money to fix up the community
clubroom in the Odd Fellows
building. The hostess served re
freshments. The next meeting
was scheduled for Thursday,
July 10, at 9 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Don Morrow on Third
street and Fifth avenue. It is
to be a social meeting.
Mrs. John F. Frost returned
home Sunday from a three-
weeks visit in Eugene, at the
home of her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Frost.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Water
house and their two small chil
dren, Dianne and Duane, moved
to Medford this past week-end.
They had been living in the
Burke house on Second avenue.
Because of the illness of little
Ricky Lester, the Gold Hill Hob
by club did not meet at the home
of Mrs. Fred Lester Friday night
as had been planned. The meet
ing was held at the home of
Mrs. William Hall on Fourth
avenue, with Mrs. George Turn
er as hostess.
. Because of the meeting date
falling on the Fourth of July,
it was planned to postpone the
meeting until Friday, July 11.
It will be held at 8 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Daniel Stewart,,
619 Fifth avenue. . .
Gold Hill Girl Scout troop,
under the leadership of Mrs.
Paul Holderness, with the as
sistance of Miss Dena Jones,
held a camp-out last Thursday
night at the Lyman place on
the Rogue river in Sams valley.
Tuesday. July 1, 1952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
1 The girls cooked supper over
a campfire and spent the eve
ning in singing and games. Those
present included Helen Hood,
Suzanne Hood, Donna Burnett,
Gail Collins and Marilyn Har
rison. Fire Chief Melford Hood and
members of his Volunteer Fire
department are inspecting all
Gold Hill homes for fire hazards.
Stove installations, chimneys,
flues, attics, electric wiring and
other common causes of fires
will be checked.
In spite of the rainy weather,
this is the closed fire season and
residents are not supposed to do
any burning of trash piles or
vacant lots without permits, ac
cording to the fire department, i
If residents wish to burn off
vacant lots, the fire department
will stand by as a safety pre
caution, if the lot owner will
contact the fire chief or fcne of
his volunteers.
William Hall, Gold Hill school
teacher, is temporary supervisor
of a Ground Observer civil de
fense group now being organ
ized in Gold Hill. He states that
at least 25 volunteers are need
ed, one for each hour of the
day, with at least one substitue.
The school roof is to be used as
an observation post. Anyone
willing to serve with this group
is asked to contact Hall at his
home, 1103 Fourth avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Balcomb
and two children, Frances and
Joe, are moving to Petaluma,
Calif., to make their home. Bal
comb took his wife and children
down there last week, but he
returned here to complete ar
rangements for selling his home
on Sixth avenue.
This comment and informed
opinion in the daily press and
scientific journals prompted the
conclusion that Britain's secret
would be revealed as a new and
simpler method of detonation
which would be much safer to
handle than its American coun
terpart. Bomb Explosion Ruled Out
One thing appears certain
that there will be no bomb ex
ploded on the Monte Bellos.
The best informed hint is that
the new "device," which could
be easily incorporated into an
aerial bomb, guided missile or
tactical shell, would be mounted
on a platform high above the
tiny group of coral reefs and
wind-blown sand 50 miles off the
Australian coast. .
There has been no official an
nouncement yet of the date fixed
for the experiment. But accord
ing to progress reports on the
preparatory work it appears that
the first experiment will be car
ried out in August, followed by
another in November. .
Churchill personally has tak
en over direction of the entire
long-distance project. Officials
said he had ensured that "never
in our history have, so many
security measures been employ
ed to protect the secrets of so
small a device."
Stevenson-Kerr
Ticket Considered
Washington (U.R) Demo
cratic sources have reported in
creasing sentiment among party
"regulars" for a Stevenson-Kerr
ticket.
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois would be the Democratic
presidential nominee on such a
ticket with Sen. Robert S. Kerr,
(D-Okla.), as his vice-presidential
running mate.
Stevenson said several weeks
ago that he "could not" accept
the presidential nomination. But
he has been getting less and less
emphatic about it lately, and a
large number of professional pol
iticos here now take it for grant
ed that he is "available."
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