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I TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 7, 1955 On-Air Test of Atomic Missile May Save Countless Lives .Washington (U.P.) The atomic weapon exploded six miles above the Nevada desert may save millions of American lives. That could be so, officials here believe, because it: 1. Portends a time when this country "will be able to throw up "a barrier of atomic firepower" against enemy H-bombers. 2. Adds a powerful new det errent to enemy air-atomic at tack by cutting down drastically its chances of success. Once data from Wednesday's successful high shot is analyzed, official sources predicted, atomic warheads will go into quantity production for a va riety of anti-aircraft weapons. These will include air-to-air and ground-to-air guided mis siles capable of destroying enemy bombers hundreds or thousands of miles from target,, depending on when and where they are detected. Recently an official made it plain that this country possesses a big enough stockpile of nu clear explosives to divert large amounts to missiles of the kind demonstrated Wednesday. "We are up to our ears in the stuff," he said. Wednesday's test was the cli max of much thinking and ex- perimention. Long since, the Atomic Energy Commission h'ad learned how to compress the fury of the wartime Hiroshima bomb, a huge and awkward con traption, into a small caliber weapon capable of being deliver ed by cannon or in rockets. The new air-to-air atomic weapon the Defense Depart- Eddyville Auloist Killed in Accident Monmouth, Ore. (U.R) Armand J. Foster, 26, Eddyville, Ore., was killed yesterday when he was thrown from a car in a collision with , a log truck and crushed by logs falling from the truck. State police said, the accident occurred about eight miles south west of here on Airlie road. Three "others in the car were injured. They included Verlin Foster, 23, Armand's brother; Robert Rariden, 23, and Charles Rariden, 22, both of Pedee near here. Glen W. Davis, Monmouth, the truck driver, was unhurt. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads ment has said, can be propelled from interceptor aircraft. Although Wednesday's ex plosion in the sky was described unofficially as comparable to 5,000 to 10,000 tons of TNT, there is reason to believe U. S. weaponeers can make compara tively small warheads of 20,000 to 50,000 tons TNT equivalent. Such weapons, even in pros pect, appear to rule out of fu ture warfare the massive bomber fleets of World War II. It also rules out xhe penalty of a "near miss " A near miss with an atomic air weapon could be as good as a hit. And just one H-bomber knocked down could -mean the survival of a metropolis which otherwise would count its cas ualties in the millions. The theory is that the new weapon will be hurled at attack ing planes while they are still roaring over the continent's northern waste lands or while they are far at sea if they come over water. Wednesday's test proved, how ever, that atomic anti-aircraft rockets could be used effectively high over populated areas. with out serious, radiation or blast danger to persons on the ground. We Give S&H Green Stamps EASTER 15 HERE Place your order for Easter Lillies NOW! Choose from thousands ... they are grown right here in Medford at Rogue Valley Green house . . . DONT buy "shipped in" lillies, cut out the Middle man . . . SAVE DOLLARS and get BETTER QUALITY merchandise. Rogue Valley Greenhouse 625 Franquette Phone 2-9384 To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ads zrMr J? f wws&mrtmtmrimm zm&zwigywmrt - tz -n mwmmm Rnnnr?f?wlJ vr-x mmfrTPwU '-i . The Big Y Market Presents I Tf i I 1 any ma n?yyyyp: 1 n Mrasra p p n ns e inn gg 7 For the BEST BUYS Always SHOP the Big VV I. T I TOUi BUDGET A . BIRDS IEyTJ circus muss f CUT GREEN BEANS 4-98 - --j CORN WITH THAT FIELD FRESH FLAVOR AND REALLY TENDER pkgs. FREE LOLLI POPS TO THE FIRST 3000 CHILDREN VISITING THE FROZEN FOOD DEPT. With Their Parents CHICKEN BREASTS THIGHS iff DRUM STICKS 1 lb. Pig. c IT 98 COMPLETE CHICKEN 2-lb. 2-oz. pkg. $1.59 voun DOLun HERE ARE PEAS AT THEIR BEST. GARDEN FRESH THE YEAR AROUND emeus -VALUES PEAS & CARROTS m batBBBSSSsd MMMMM CBOS of US oZg TBERRY S SyASst SHORT CAKE FOR yTVX AyJ jZ J VS. EASTER DINNER qS pkgs. HEAT and SERVE READY TO COOK TRIMMED and CLEANED pkgs. So 4 pkgs. The Big Y Will Be Closed All Day EASTER SUNDAY So HEAVY SYRUP FRENCH STYLE LARGE VARIETY V-s!S V" ' PLACE TO PARK rS (Js 6c
