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. San Francisco Bay Area 'Devastated In Dummy Atomic Raid by Grew of B36 Travis Air Force Base, Calif. U.R) A bright afternoon sun beat down on the brilliant white ness of San Francisco five miles below as the giant B-36 bomber approached the city from Iho north. Maj. William Nugen, com mander of the lumbering "aerial battleship," looked out the flight deck blister and saw the Mark Hopkins hotel dead ahead. "Aircraft commander to bom bardier," Nugen said. "Target is in sight. Be prepared to take con trol of the aircraft. Altitude is 25,000 feet. Starboard engines are straight and level. Port en gines, straight and level. Bight on the bunny. "The aircraft is yours, bom bardier. Bomb bay doors open. Thirty seconds to go . . .20 . . . 10 . . . five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one . . . zero . . . "Bombs away!" The bombardier returned the controls to Nugen and the "A. C," at 31 a veteran of 13 years in the Air Force, pulled the $6,000,000 ten-engine bomber into a soft left turn aid headed east toward California's Central Valley. It was only a dummy atomic run, but if it had been the real thing there would have been ONLY AIRLINE SERVICE TO ALBANY-CORVALLIS $060 . PLUS TAX Scheduled Local Service nothing left of the Mark Hop kins, and most of San Francisco would have been obliterated. Series of Attack The mock attack on San Fran cisco, one of a continuing series designed to keep American air power constantly battle ready, was carried out by a crew from the Strategic Air Command's 72nd Heavy Bombing Squadron here. Almost daily, B-36s of Col. Ed win G. Simenson's Fifth Bom bardment Wing take off from this base 50 miles northeast of San Francisco on prattice bomb ing missions. - One recent night at 10:30, Nu gen's B-36,. a 2,000-ton, 46-foot high plane with a 230 foot wing span and 160 foot fuselage, roared off the Travis runways with orders to "bomb" San Fran cisco, Phoenix, Ariz., and Sacra mento, Calif. At dawn, the plane slipped into the Phoenix area and pre pared for the first simulated bombing runs of its 20-hour, 4,036-mile flight. While most Arizonians were on their way to work the plane dropped three "bombs" on Phoe nix from a height of 25,000 feel. The crew's intricate and flawless system of checking the accuracy of their computations showed that if real bombs had been used all three would have hit within a few hundred feet of the plan ned target. The first drop was aimed at the Food Distribution : building on the city's outskirts,' the sec ond at the Whalley Lumber Co., and the third at the television tower atop the Westward Ho hotel. 'But one would have been enough if this had been the real thing," Nugen said. Main Target: Bay Area Then Nugen and McCollester, who also has 13 years in the air force, pointed the big stub nose of the plane north and powered along toward the choice target of the day: the San Francisco Bay area. Nugen and his 19-man crew, in every sense a "team," made their first run on the area at 1:37 p.m. with the attack on the Mark Hopkins. Within' the next 58 minutes the '36 had made two more attacks, one on San Fran cisco's City Hall, and another on the Southern Pacific roundhouse across the bay in Oakland. But as Nugen said, "One would have been enough." The crew capped its grueling round-the-clock mission with a raid on the Del Paso Theater in Sacramento at mid-afternoon Huge Storms on Sun Expected To Produce Television 'Ghosts' Climax, Colo. U.R) Huge hot storms now churning up the sun's surface probably will pro duce "ghosts" on television sets and foul up radio and wire com munications late this week." And in two week's time, the weather on earth may turn stormy because of the giant magnetic storms on the sun." These predictions were made yesterday by Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the Univer sity of Colorado's high- altitude observatory in the Rocky moun tains near Denver. Detected Thursday Dr. Orr said : observatory in struments first detected new "spots" on the sun last Thurs day. On Friday the U.S. Buseau of Standards picked up a stpong surge of radio noise from the sun with radio telescopes at Boulder, near the main campus. 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The Tennessee Democrat, cam paigning for support in Flor ida's ' May 8 preferential pri mary, had put himself on record earlier as advocating obedience to the Supreme Court's orders desegregating public schools. Shows Reluctance Newsmen were waiting for his arrival here last night withh questions elaborating on the sen ator's ravial views. He was asked specifically if he would favor calling out the federal militia to enforce integraion. The lanky Tennessean met the question with evident reluct ance, saying that since the Su preme Court desegregation rul ings are "law of the land" he would favor using troops to quell disturbances resulting from forced integration in the South.. The latest disturbance over the issue was at the University of Alabama where its first Negro student,- Autherine Lucy, was suspended following a . riotous demonstration. Legal action in that case is still pending. CUPID ON SHORT END Detroit (U.R) Curjid came out on the short end here on Val entine's Day. 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