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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.
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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. Canal Zone can
help solve Panama's unemploy
ment problem." -
Lebanon Singing Group
Wins Gay Ninties Test
Forest Grove (U.R) The Pina
four women's singing group of
Lebanon took first place honors
here last night in the first wom
en's, competition, at the annual
Gay Nineties song contest here.
Members of the group are
Marge Thomas, Vangia Greig,
Betty Lou Leonard and Jerry
Mary.
Second place was won by the
Key Notes of Pacific University
at Forest Grove.
Male quartets will be judged
tonight.
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