Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 03, 1956, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextSIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 3. 1958 Chances of Atomic Plant Explosion Said One Reason Delaying Development of Power Washington U.P: Chance : it is safe to build reactors in i about it, that is, the scientists, , doesn't see any economic ur of an atomic power plant catas- populated areas. He said it was are perfectly willing to sit on ; gency to establishment of high trophe are remote, but .. . la mistake to establish the com-! one all day long. cost atomic power here. Also That "but" is one of the big mission's testing station in the ! Economies Stand in Way evident in some areas is a wait- reasons why private business i remote badlands near Arco, Ida. What else stands in the way of and-see attitude. Concerning the chance of a mod-j a burgeoning nuclear power in-1 The government is pushing a ern reactor blowing up, Hughes ; dustry in America? ; S200.000.000 experimental pro- said: I Simple economics, for one gram which includes- an S85,- ' isn't moving with noticeable speed to set up an independent nuclear power industry in America.. so lar not one U.S. company or collection of companies has started to build a full-scale atom power plant wholly financed by private industry A number of proposals have been made, but none of them has reached even the construction permit stage. Like mountains on a far horizon, the day of private industrial atomic power seems not to draw appreciably nearer with the passage of time. There are many reasons, but the one talked about most these days is the problem of liability insurance. Plant Can'l Blow Up An atomic plant cannot blow up like a nuclear bomb. But gov ernment experts can't promise industry a ''runaway" is impos sible. It is conceivable that safety mechanisms might fail, with a resulting melt-down and heat blast that would shower a large area with radioactive fall out from the p'ant's atomic "firebox." in that event, damage in a populated area might run to bil lions of dollars many times, perhaps, the assets of the oper ating company, So far, private insurance firms have come up with atomic lia bility insurance totaling only $65,000,000. Most atomic indus trialists believe the government will have to make up the differ ence or put a ceiling on indivi dual power firms' liability. C o n g r-e s s completely re vamped the atomic energy law two years ago in .an effort to en courage private investment in nuclear power. Now it is ex pected to do something fairly soon about the insurance prob lem. Two bills have been intro duced. Would Indemnify Operator One, by Rep. Melvin Price (D 111.), would indemnify the oper ator for damages beyond avail able insurance coverage. The other, by Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-N.Y.), would limit the opera tor's liability to twice the capital investment. Would enactment of such leg islation automatically shove pri vate atomic power development into high gear? Some official ob servers around here doubt it. Up to now five nuclear power plants to cost a total of $200, 000,000 have been proposed for construction without govern ment financial help. Estimated "completion dates" run from 1957 to 1963. Will any of them be started in that period? Or will other prob lems, like the liabiitly dilemma, threaten further delay? Just how serious, actually, is the lia bility issue? Said More Picyhological One expert here said "It is more psychological than any thing else." The AEC has run 25 nuclear reactors for 606,686 hours without an accident caus ing radioactive contamination away from the site. There have been only two ma jor reactor accidents and one of them was no accident. The AEC deliberately made a re actor heat up and explode at its Idaho test station a while back just to see what, would happen. It was reasonably spectacular but not comparable to an atomic blast. There was little lasting contamination at any great distance. The other accident, a true one, occurred when a fuel element melted in a Canadian reactor at Chalk River, Oni. It was neces sary to reconstruct the reactor. Dr. Donald J. Hughes of the AEC's Brookhaven National Laboratory said recently that "The people who know most thing. Fuel-rich America just ' " m ISrsr lie ILL-FATED PLANE General view of tail section of a TWA plane that crashed at Pittsburgh shortly after take off. It is the first major crash at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport in which 22 were killed and 14 survived. Detroit's Milk Flow Said Nearly Normal; Pickets Eye Violence Detroit (U.R) State police, non-strikers, and court orders tamed striking dairy farmers to day and restored Detroit's flow of milk to about 75 per cent of normal. But angry pickets in scattered rural areas promised more vio lence in an attempt to cut off the precious fluid to the nation's fifth largest city and win higher prices for their milk. The striking Fair Share Bar gaining association (FSBA) was dealt two critical blows when its milk blockade, was smashed in two areas. Convoys escorted by police and backed up by hundreds of militant, non-striking farmers rolled into Detroit, easing the situation. Loaded milk tankers also sped toward the city from Ohio, Indi ana and Wisconsin, permitting iocal health authorities to aban don plans for emergency ration ing. Rebellion May Spread The rebellion touched off threats of similar action in at least four other states., The Rev. John W. Dorney, executive sec retary of the Tri-State Master Dairy Guild, told strikers their battle was a forerunner of one that would develop soon in New York, New Jersey and Penn sylvania. He said farmers there would demand S6 per hundredweight as does the FSBA, a splinter group of the Michigan Milk Pro ducers association (MMPA) which' has settled for S5 per hundredweight. The old price was S4.41. John Brown, Ashtabula, O., chairman of a group of dairy farmers in northwestern Ohio, yaid a strike also was likely Westinghouse Shoots To Regain Lost Trade New York (U.R) Westing house Electric Corp. today mapped plans for a gigantic sales campaign to regain markets lost during the recent 156-day strike and to boost sales of consumer products to $1,000,000,000 by 1960. Westinghouse's efforts to get its toasters, refrigerators and other consumer items back into American homes will be spear headed by the biggest advertis ing campaign in the company's 70-year history. The nation's second biggest ap pliance manufacturer has ear marked S32.000.000 for adver tising in 1956, the bulk of it for consumer products ranging from Christmas tree light bulbs to color TV sets. To Use Full Resources Chris J. Witting, who heads Westinghouse"s consumer prod ucts division, told a news con ference Monday the full re sources of the giant corporation will be thrown into this dramatic fight for a bigger share of the consumer's dollar. In 1955, when Westinghouse's sales dwindled because of the strike, it spent $24,000,000 for advertising. The long strike is estimated to have cost Westinghouse some S300,000,000 in lost business, about $100,000,000 in consumer products. Witting said that Westinghouse expects its consumer product sales in the remaining nine months of this year to equal or surpass the volume for any 12 month period. Starts in Mid-April The huge advertising cam paign gets into high gear April 16 with a sweeping "product pre-sell campaign" in 158 news papers in 137 key markets across the nation. Top spokesmen for Westing house noted that production is rapidly approaching pre-strike levels. John W. Craig, who heads Westinghouse's electric appli ance divisions, said the corpora tion now was faced with "such an enormous" demand that it will have to add 1,000 more pro duction workers at its appliance plant in Mansfield, O., and 600 more at Columbus, O. Craig said every effort was being made to get consumer goods moving to dealers once again. there unless similar price in creases were granted. He said farmers would meet tonight in Bloomfield, O., to consider ac tion. While the situation eased in Detroit, tension mounted in out lying areas where FSBA pickets tied up thousands of gallons of milk and hundreds of pieces of equipment during the early days of the eight-day strike. Farmer Against Farmer Farmer paired off against farmer at tiny Ovid in central Michigan. Strikers, outnumbered five to two by non-striking farm ers, prepared to do battle when a state police corporal stepped into the breach. Donald Bobo, one of 25 troop ers sent to maintain peace in the community of 1,200 grabbed three of an estimated 200 strik ers guarding six milk tankers. He raced a mile to where half a hundred non-striking farmers were gathered to show the strik ers that the non-strikers were well-organized. The non-strikers, surrounded by 35 trucks piled high with cans of milk, warned they were ; coming after the tankers. Bobo returned to the plant and leaped onto a truck, shouting "I don't want to mix milk and blood." Pickets also took a beating from the courts. A circuit judge in Lapeer coun'y issued a tempo rary injunction restraining the FSBA from interfering with MMPA business, at nine receiv ing depots in iix counties. 000,000 big-scale power plant to be completed next year at Shippingport, Pa. The Duquesne Light Co. is contributing about S15,000,000 to the cost of this plant. Said one official source: "If Shippingport is a screaming suc cess, I think you'll be surprised by the speed with which private plants will move. If not, well..." Team Finishes Probe Of Klamath Crash Klamath Falls (U.R) An eight-man accident investigating team from the Sacramento air material area yesterday com pleted investigation into the crash of an Air-Force C-45 here Friday night. Col. H. H: Tellman, president of the board, said a confidential report will be filed. Wreckage was removed from the hillside where the plane crashed, kill ing three service personnel and injuring two others shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday. Portions of the wreckage were shipped to McClellan Air Force base at Sacramento for dis assembly and further investigation. Nun Provides Spiritual Strength in Plane Ditching Seattle (U.R) A soft-spo ken nun who couldn't swim a stroke was a tower of spiritual strength when a Northwest Or ient Airlines plane ditched in Puget Sound, survivors said to day. The double-deck, four-engine Stratocruiser with 38 persons aboard crash landed off Vash on Island early Monday. Thirty three persons were snatched to safety by boats and pfanes but four others were killed and one crew member was reported missing. ' . "Our Father, who art in Hea ven, hallowed be Thy name," gently intoned Mother Mary Philothea, Seattle, as passeng ers waited to walk out onto the wings of the , downed' plane. She stood with bowed head at the doorway. "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven ..." 'Thank you, sister, for that r prayer, said one woman. . Capt. Robert Heard, 38, Seat tle, agreed the passengers did not panic when he set the big plane down. "Fortunately the water was very smooth," he said. "The plane stayed afloat for about a quarter of an hour. Not more than that. Everything went real smooth. Passengers and crew be haved in excellent order. There was no panic." Passengers climbed out onto the wings of the plane taking the injured with them. Seconds later, a DC3 swooped over and dropped three life rafts. Some boarded the rafts. Oth ers used foam rubber cushions from the plane's seats as life preservers and stayed afloat un til help arrived. The water was so cold some survivors suffered from cramps and chills. All agreed the speedy rescue saved many of them from going down. Long Term-Easy Payments when you buy vi CYCLONE F direct from the factory FOR A FREE ESTIMATE PHONE 2-5480 314 East 6th Street Medford, Oregon lllli! Eli TO BUY OR SELL - USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS Kaiser Directors Declare Dividend Oakland, Calif. '(U.R) Di rectors of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation have declared a quarterly dividend of 22 V4 cents a share - on the firm's common stock, an in crease of Z3A cents over the pre vious quarter. ,. The board also declared the regular quarterly dividend of 59 cents a share on the com pany's 4' per cent cumulative preferred stock. Court Records MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Reginald Francis Carr. rt. 1 box 165. Talent, and Lora Cay Bailey, rt. 1, box 497. Talent. DISTRICT COURT Hugh John Wright, leaking and sifting load, $10. Lloyd Keith Walker, violation of basic rule. S15. Daniel Balantes Bluebar, failure to stop at stop sign.- $10. Delbert Avery Bouslaugh, illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, $15. James "Allen Vanderpool, violation of basic rule, S12.50. Larry Kenneth Tolle, defective brakes. $5. Lucein Heber LeBaron, no opera tors license, S15. Stephen E. Geary, failure to itop at stop sign. $10. Charles John Dahm, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Walter Lee Shults, lifting and leak ing load, $10. MUNICIPAL COURT Katherine Moore McDonald, failure ; to yield right of way to vehicle. $10. 1 Ivan W. Gable, four in the front seat. 85. Howard W. Erickson, inadequate muffler, S5. - j Evrin Merrel Christian, violation of j basic rule, $10. I Cilfford Dale Federsen, violation of ; basic rule, $10. Herman M. LeFlor. failure to stop j at signal and excessive noise, $15. Marion Morris Hitt, violation of i basic rule, $10. I Richard Ancel Cleaver, reckless ! driving. S25. j Donald Lee Duncan, violation of basic rule, $10. James Boyce, failure to stop at light, $5. . ' Eugene Allan Crandall, failure to stop at stop sign, $5, no operator s i license, S5. ' I Jesse Potter Todd, failure to yield right of way, S10. j Edward Jacob Schack, failure to yield right of way, $10. ! Alan Michael McQuade, violating of oasic rule, 5iu. Elmer Boyd Gravelle, reckless driv ing. $25. Walter Lloyd Fischer, violating of Dasic rule, siu. 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