SIX 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
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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
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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.
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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
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Walter Lee Shults, lifting and leak
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Ivan W. Gable, four in the front
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Howard W. Erickson, inadequate
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Alan Michael McQuade, violating of
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Walter Lloyd Fischer, violating of
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