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Friday. May 11. 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL THISUKI M1KI Observers Believe H-Bomb Surface Blasts Cause Earthquakes, Spread More Destruction By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent . , Aboard USS Mt. MeKinley, en route to Bikini (U.PJ Observers awaiting the hydrogen bomb test speculated today that sur face explosions cause earth quakes and spread more destruc tion than airdrops. These test officials on this ob server ship lean to this opinion on the basis of findings from surface explosions set off at the nearby Pacific proving grounds in 1112 and 1954. The bomb scheduled to be det onated will be airdropped and is not expected to cause as much damage n the ground as its powerful predecessors. . In the past military men fig ured an airburst was the most efficient way of using nuclear weapons because it ' subjects a greater area to shock waves. Effect Greater Now it appears the earthquake effects of surface explosions are vastly greater than airblasts which dissipate radioactivity in the higher parts of the atmos phere. Earthwaves produced by sur face blasts are exactly like those of major temblors, such as the Meteor Dust Causes Rainfall, Australian Scientist Declares By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Edit ' New York (U.R) Meteor dust can and does cause rain to fall on the earth according to the well-documented theory of an Australian scientist which is based on the weather records of the two hemispheres and five continents covering up to 100 years. If the theory is proven out, it will give weather forecasters new tool not only for predict ing rainfall, but also for predict ing weather conditions general ly. Clouds do not empty their wet ness unless they contain some thing which can serve as nuclei for the formation of droplets. These nuclei are dust particles sucked up into the atmosphere from the earth's surface. . But Dr. E. G. Bowen says they also can be dust from the showers of meteors which follow orbits around the sun. The earth in its orbit periodically . passes through the orbits of meteor showers. Each time it does,- me teor dust rains into its atmos phere from above. Wherever in the atmosphere there are very large cloud for mations which are relatively free of droplet-forming nuclei which originated from the earth,' the meteor dust serves the same pur poseand it rains. Since the or bits and periodicity of meteor showers are known, the dates when the earth's atmosphere is being bombarded with meteor dust are also known. The theory is exciting weather scientists. Bowen made reports to their professional bodies through the world, including the American Meteorological society. Its implications are vast. For ex ample, Bowen pointed out: that the earth's climate changes and "if meteor showers have a direct effect on world rainfall, an in crease or decrease in the amount of dust in the solar systems could easily explain the changes which have occurred." Heat Release " " - ? - - .. As for what it would mean, in forecasting rain releases a Utah Firing Squad Executes Two for Slaying in 1949 ;: Point of the Mountain, Utah (U.R) a double-strength firing squad executed two Midwestern layers at dawn today after the youth asked that "our tragic lives and ending serve as a warn ing to all, young and eld. ", The barking rifles of 10 volun teer marksmen ended a six and one half year battle by Verne Alfred Braasch, 27, Reinbeck, la., and Melvin Leroy Sullivan, J5, Kansas City, Kan., to escape death for the October, 1P4, slay ing of a youthful Utah serviee station attendant. In Spotlighted. Chain : Braasch and Sullivan died seated in spotlighted chairs in a shed in the outer yard of Utah's Point of the Mountain Prison. Deputy Sheriff Charles Wells gave the firing order for the state's first double firing squad execution at 9:14 a.m. (MST). As Wells' hat dropped in sig nal, the riflemen fired ' from standing and kneeling positions behind the window of a prison building 25 feet from the slayers. Eight of the rifles, containing 30 caliber bullets, carried the death message. Two, none knew which, were loaded with blanks Sullivan was pronounced, dead at 5:15 ajn.; Braasch at 5:1s" ajn. Both Men Hooded When the two men eame into the yard, they already had been hooded with black cloths that draped . over their heads and chest. Round white targets had been fixed over the black hoods' to mark their hearts. The eight bul lets punched closely grouped patterns on the targets, although the shots that killed Braasch seemed to be centered on the west portion of the cloth, v About 100 witnesses ware present They included lew offi cers, newsmen and Joseph A. . Manzione, Beacher, Utah, ths father of Howard Mansions, the slayers' victim. poison great amount of heat from the at mosphere. One inch of rain is aid to equal, in heat, three days of sunshine. "If this were to oc cur simultaneously at a number of points over . the globe, it is possible that the whole circula tion pattern would be affected," he said. If meteor dust sets off rain simultaneously in many places over the world, meteor dust then would be a very pow erful maker of the earth's weather. leveled San Fran- length and width. Its estimated I of as little as two inches would deputy commander on the task ones which CISCO. For example, earthwaves cre ated by the world"s first hydro gen explosion at Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952, made a seismo graph needle jump 15 minutes later at Berkeley, Calif., about 4500 miles away. It is not news that nuclear explosions can create earthquake effects. But it is being realized only now that hydrogen bomb blasts equivalent to the explo sions of many millions of tons of TNT magnify the area of de struction. Newsmen observing the H bomb surface shot of March X, 1954, saw what the earthwaves did to a massive reinforced con crete bunker on Bikini's Yurochi Island, which was located sev eral miles from ground zero. Heavy Bunker Moved This bunker was at least 40 feet high and even larger in weight was about 100.000 tons. But it moved a foot or two shortly after the blast. An equally massive bunker on Enyu Island moved two or three inches in the 1954 blast, even though the structure was 20 miles away. Civil Defense officials trained in damage effects said movement be far enough to collapse stur dily constructed two-story brick houses, killing all of their occu pants. They said the same bomb fired high in the air to get maximum area coverage would cause that much damage at no more than 12 to 14 miles. Dr. William E. Ogle, scientific K-137 KIMBERCHIKS ONE OF THE BEST LEGHORN CROSSES WE HATCH ALL YEAR FREE DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE WILLAMETTE VALLEY ' HATCHERY & POULTRY FARM A Kimber Associate Hatchery Rout 2, Box 752, Oregon City, Oregon. Southern Oregon Field Service Director H. R. Miller, 2762 Corbns Avenue, Medford force engaged in today's opera tion, said the earth shock creat ed by the ground explosion of 1954 created not a minor but a big earthquake. 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