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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN ombardier leseribes Experience In Making ' Atomic Friday. February 2S, 19SS mmh Drop Over Nevada Layer of Clouds Twice Interfered With Target Sight Las Vegas (U.R) Crewmen of 3 the "Chuck Wagon," the giant B36 which dropped the first atom bomb of the 1955 test se ries, described today how they made three nerve-wracking runs before hitting their target through a hole in heavy cloud cover. Bombardier Capt. Paul Ei chenburg, 32, of Zanesville, O., said they were "trying awfully hard" to get rid of their deadly cargo, which was detonated at noon over Yucca Flats a week ago today. Eichenberg was the only mem ber of the 13-man crew to parti cipate in an atomic drop before and he somewhat riroudlv re vealed that he was dead on the 200-foot black bull's eye of the target site. Delayed By Weather The other crewmembers per mitted to discuss the flight were Lt. Col. Eugene W. Cox, 32, of St. Louis, the plane commander; Maj. Fain H. Pool, 36, of Law- ton, Okla., pilot; and 1st Lt. Bluff, Ark., the navigator. The test was originally set for g dawn but weather conditions forced repeated delays, and i there was cloud cover over the etest site all morning. a Juchenberg said that "as a safety precaution, we used both visual and radar devices to aim the weapon at the bull's eye tar get painted on what from the air looked like an asphalt parking lot." Col. Cox added that the "Chuck Wagon" arrived at the target area and "went into an orbit like a race track calculat ed for 15 minute laps. Two More Laps "Regulations ordered the bombardier to have the target 6 in view for at least 90 seconds prior to the drop. A cloud layer twice interfered and the pilot made two more laps around the aerial race track. "When the, final run was made, the plane was in the drop position in slightly less than a second of the prescribed time," he said. Cox said that Cant. Steven L. Bartalsky, Albuquerque, VN.M., armed the atomic device about 30 second before it was dropped. The plane gave a heavy lurch when the bomb fell through the bombbay doors, Cox said, and then was shaken by two distinct jolts when the device exploded. Use Tribune Want Ads Nixon Raps Former McCa rthy Aides for USIS 'Red Book Hunt' Panama City (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who yesterday rapped two for mer aides of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy for their criticisms of the United States Overseas In formation Services, today dedi cates a new U. S. Information Service library in Panama. Nixon said that the attacks on the program by Roy Cohn and G. Davis Schine following their widely-publicized "Red book hunt" through USIS libraries in Europe two years ago were undeserved." Praises Libraries The vice-president said that it was his impression, based on ob servations during his Far East- Auto Leaves Road; Portlander Killed Portland U.R) Police said today a car which plunged over a 300-foot cliff on the old Co lumbia river highway and car ried a Portland man to his death missed by only five feet a guard rail that might have prevented the tragedy. The victim was Walmedar D. Updike, 37, whose body was found at the foot of the cliff near Crown Point in the wreckage of his 1936 model sedan. Sheriff's officers place the time of the accident at about 4 a.m. yesterday but it wasn't dis covered until about 11 a.m. when a State Highway depart ment employee, James Bendy, saw the car below. Peck, Hepburn Named Most Popular Stars Hollywood (U.R) Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn were named the most popular film stars in 50 different foreign foreign countries last night. Miss Hepburn and Peck re ceived ''Henriettas" at an awards banquet sponsored jointly by the Foreign Press Association of Hol lywood Correspondents Associa tion. Honored as the world favorite, film was "On The Wa terfront." NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF Roy Green, Butte Falls, has been named a resident deputy sheriff for the Butte Falls area, according to Sheriff Howard Gault. Green, who is Butte Falls city marshal, will not be paid by the county. ern tour as well as his present swing through Central America, that the U. S. sponsored libraries were doing a good job. He came out strongly in sup port of the program as an "es sential" in the effective dissemi nation of information on the U. S. fight for peace. Nixon said he would urge ex pansion of the program, especial ly in the establishment of libraries, "not propaganda mills." Nixon gave his views to re porters while en route to Colon, Panama's second city, and a swing around the Panama Canal Zone yesterday. Panama is the vice-president's eighth stop on his 7500-mile good will tour. Visits Leper Colony Mrs. Nixon spent yesterday morning visiting , the isolated Palo Seco leper colony on a windswept island off the Pan ama Coast. She was greeted by some 120 patients with native songs and dances. Many wore gay Mardi Gras costumes. Mrs. Nixon ignored a fear of the disease that has existed since biblical times to shake hands and chat with a number of the lepers. She was visibly moved when one wizened old woman shuf fled up to her and said in Span ish: "You good king. Have in you all good qualities." Nixon spent the last four hours of his official rounds at dinner and in conference with President Ricardo Arias of Pan ama at the presidential palace. He said they discussed "practi cal steps for the completion of the Pan-American Highway and how the U. S. 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