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i G .EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, October 26. 1955 Nagasaki A-Bpmb Damage Rebuilt Quietly; Quickly Nagasaki (U.R) This A- bomb city that the world forgot 4s quickly rebuilding its big fac tories and shipyards without the fanfare and publicity of Hiroshi ma. Any mention of the terrifying birth of the atomic age 10 years ago immediately suggests Hiro shima. It was Hiroshima that de clared $self the peace city, that each year holds huge interna tional rallies against nuclear weapons and that sent 25 well publicized women to the United States for plastic surgery. But Nagasaki, famed as the home of Cho-Cho San, heroine of Puccini's opera, "Madam But terfly," has taken a back seat in displaying the horrors of atom bomb warfare. "We don't like publicity," Mayor Tsutomu Tagawa said. "We are a gentle people with a mild outlook on life." For centuries when Japan was all but closed to the West, the military dictators permitted limited trading with the outside world through Nagasaki. With one of the finest natural harbors in Japan, trade was opened in 1571 with the arrival of a Portu guese ship. Missionaries, particularly Ca tholics, followed, and to this day Nagasaki is the center of Christianity in Japan. These long contacts with the West, Mayor Tagawa said, gave Nagasaki people a tolerant spirit, and they met the atom bomb without rancor. No More Wreckage On Aug. 9, 1945 three days after a uranium bomb killed at least 78,000 persons in Hiroshi ma a more powerful pluton ium bomb was dropped in a heavily populated Nagasaki val ley. The white-hot searing blast hurtled down the valley toward the harbor, burning and splint ering some 18,000 houses and buildings and killing an estimat ed 74,000 persons. The proud industrial city much of it built by the fabulous Mitsubishi wealth was reduc ed to twisted steel girders, sick ening pieces of flesh and tons of brick and stone rubble. Today, 10 years later, there is no wreckage. Mitsubishi rebuilt its ship yards, and Nagasaki vessels are sailing on every sea. New fac tories are making induction and direct current motors, turbo-generators, hoisting machines,' forg ed products; winches, steel plate, high-grade steels and a popular tourist item, tortoise shell ware. "The city has now almost re covered from its disaster," said Mayor Tagawa. "We are firmly convinced that with their old traditions and rich experience in foreign trade, the traders of Nagasaki will in time make our city one of the most important trading ports in west ern Japan." Nagasaki faces the same ma jor problem plaguing all Jap pan, loss of the China market. Because of its location in west ern Japan, Nagasaki before the war was a major port of trade with the China mainland and southeastern Asia. But the once vital China trade is now a trickle. ( Nagasaki does most of its bus iness with Singapore, Hongkong, India, West Africa, and Burma. Despite its long historic asso ciation with the West, only about 70 Americans and Europeans live in Nagasaki, a city of 300, 000. Twenty-nine are Americans most of them medical scientists connected with the atomic bomb casualty commission which is studying nuclear radiation ef fects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb victims. "The anti-war feeling," one Japanese newsman said, "is very strong, but there are no indica tions pointing to its connection with anti-Americanism. "The Communist party's or ganization and strength in Naga saki are weak. Registered party members number only about 200 and there are 1,000 fellow-trav; elers." In a recent election for city assemblymen, only one Commu nist ran and he received only 1,000 votes.. Are Nagasaki people jealous of the attention given to Hiro shima? "There have been some com plaints this year," said a Japa nese newspaperman, "that the money given for treatment of A-bomb patients in Nagasaki was small compared with what Hiroshima received. I As We Live Long Engagements May Be Bad Or Good For Couple In the past, a reasonably long engagement of six months to a year was considered proper. However, as the trend has been toward shorter and shorter en gagements, a long one can be a problem for those involved. (Q) "I am 21 years eld and have just announced by engage ment to a young man of 24 who hat completed his army ser vice and . has gone into bus iness for him self. . He said that he did not feel he could be married for a year be- cause he is Dr. Herlock putting every thing he has into this new busi ness until it gets started. He has told me that we may have to delay our marriage even beyond the year if his business doesn't work out well. "I agree that this is wise, but my family and friends are mak ing things difficult for me. They keep asking when I will be mar ried and seem surprised, if not actually shocked, when I tell them I do not know, but By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. not for at least a year. My mother thinks we should be mar ried by next June and, if nec essary, I should keep on with my job until the business is on a good basis. She maintains that a long engagement is not good. Ie she rights' P. T. (A) A long engagement can be "good"-or "bad," depending on how the engaged couple feels about it. As both you and your fiance agree that it is best to wait until he can devote more time to you and your new home, I cannot see why a long engage ment would be harmful in any way and it should be beneficial. During this period, you can get to know each other and your families better. 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