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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1956)
EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Mar 23. I9SS aili i ..ijwa.A....i,,., , M mm .l,,l-t;la4l LIGHT OF 500 SUNS A fireball giving off the light of 500 suns illuminates top of cloud bank as stem of hydrogen bomb blast elongates over the tiny target island of Namu in Bikini Atoll where the U. S. made its first air drop of a thenno-nuclear weapon. The bomb was released from a B-52 intercontinental bomber at approximately 50,000 feet and exploded two miles above the target The mushroom cloud reached a height of 100,000 feet and stretched laterally 100 miles. New Atomic Test Shots Being Prepared Honolulu (LkR) Atomic scientists at the Pacific proving ground were busy today setting up the next shot in this year s test series but they made it plain they won't talk much about them. Before leaving the proving ground Tuesday for Honolulu and home, newsmen who wit nessed the first two explosions in the 1956 series were told few details will be given out about the rest of the tests. There will be in all about 10 shots, ranging in size from the multi-megaton hydrogen explo sion like the air drop of last Monday at Bikini to explosions of compact warheads of com paratively weak power. The big shots are taking place this year at Bikini and the oth ers at Eniwetok. Newsmen saw the shot towers at Eniwetok for at least seven more low yield explosions. Had the May 21 blast taken place right over Washington, D.C., for example, it probably would have killed 85 per cent of the capital's residents. Further proof of the H-bomb's awesome power came from Tokyo. The Central Metero- logical Observatory disclosed that earth vibrations from Mon day's test traveled the 2300 miles from Bikini to Japan in just 12 minutes. The Japanese ship Mizuhu Maru radioed it found the sea radioactive 1300 miles south of the test site. It said a Geiger counter check showed radioac tivity of 1540 counts per min ute. The main emphasis in this year's tests is on nuclear weap ons for defense. They are un- Grenae Pomona Grange All articles to be entered in the HEC sewing contest must be brought to the May 26 Pomona meeting for judging. This includ es articles' for both the adult and juvenile contests. All fifth degree ladies attend ing the meeting are requested to bring cookies. Meeting will be held at Central Point Grange hall, at 8 p.m. derstood to include "pigmy H bombs" for anti-aircraft missiles and a variety of warheads for battlefield use. "The military has a nuclear requirement for every weapon which now uses high explosives," a high Atomic Energy Commis sion spokesman said. Oregonan Receives Telephone Bomb Threat Portland (U.R) A telephoned bomb threat was received by The Oregonian last night but police searched the building and the Greyhound bus depot with out finding a sign of explosives. Mildred Jellum, switchboard operator at the newspaper, said she answered a call at 8:10 p.m. from a man with a gruff voice who said ". . . The Oregonian and the Greyhound are going to be blown up within the hour." AIR SERVICE APPROVED Buenos Aires U.R) The Ar gentine government Tuesday au thorized the German Lufthansa Airline to establish commercial air services between West Ger many and Buenos Aires. Haiti Government Sets State of Siege Port Au Prince, Haiti (U.R) The government announced to day it has clamped a "state of siege" on three cities and arrest ed at least 35 persons to put a stop to the recent wave of un rest and minor violence. Fifteen unruly school boys were injured in, a riot here on Thursday, and at least two po licemen have been injured in lesser outbreaks of violence else where on the island sparked by opposition leaders who argue that President Paul Magloire's term of office expired May 15. Magloire said in a radio ad dress the state of siege was im posed on Port Au Prince, Jacmel and Aux Cayes to enable the government to apprehend the rebel leaders who have been "lurking in the shadows while criminally exposing unfortunate or innocent people to public force." Elliott, McAllister Hamilton, Keating, Boenke Among Convention Delegate Leaders Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger, Democrat, and Gov. Elmo Smith, Republican, led their respective parties in vote-getting for delegates at large to national conventions, in complete' figures from last Fri day's primary election showed today. Republicans elect 10 delegates at large and Democrats eight. Neuberger had more than 147-, 000 votes with many precincts unreported in these races, Rep. Edith Green, another Democrat, had about 140,000 while Gov. Smith had more than 130,000. Other leaders among the Democrats included M o nroe Sweetland, Joseph K. Carson Jr., Alfred H. Corbett, Walter Pear son, M. James ,Gleason and Jas on Lee. GOP leaders included Smith, Earl Newbry, Rudie Wilhelm, Jr., Robert Elliott, Jess Gard, Army Men Pleased With Performance of Controversial Nike White Sands Proving Grounds, N.M. U.R) Obviously pleased Army officials planned eight or 10 more "shoots" of the contro versial Nike anti-aircraft weap on today from . semi-portable launching sites in rough moun tain terrain. Some 115 newsmen and pho tographers watched spellbound Tuesday as two Nike missiles were launched to intercept a tiny drone target, traveling fast er than 500 miles an hour at an altitude of 15,000 feet. The slender, 20 -foot -long Nikes, fired two seconds apart, climbed to 10,000. feet within three and one-half seconds, and then leveled into a wide arc. One missile hit the drone, which was only 11 feet long with an eight-foot wing span, and ex ploded. The other Nike, close by,- quickly was blown up by a self-destruction device. The Army said it had planned the unrestricted demonstration long before the Pentagon erupt ed in an ' argument about the relative merits of Nike and the Air Force's Talos, developed by the Navy. The Army said fur thermore that it had made little change in its routine launching procedure for the press demon stration. Today the company of news men and photographers were to be taken to remote Red Canyon in the Organ mountains, which rim this desert proving center, to watch training groups fire between eight and 10 Nikes from semi-portable launching sites. After the successful demon stration Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Robert J. Wood, commander of the anti-aircraft artillery and guided missile center at nearby Ft. Bliss, Tex., said the news men had seen Nike and that a successor now in development, Nike B, would be able to go far beyond the altitude range of "aircraft with which we are now familiar." The Army demonstrated two other types of missiles Tuesday . the surface-to-surface Cor poral rocket and the Honest John artillery ballistics missile. Both rockets scored solid hits on ground targets. Announcing the Appointment of LEE DAVIS ASHLAND OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 55 North Main, Ashland Phone 2-5771 SUB-AGENT Friden Adding & Calculating Machines Jackson County' MECHANIC ON CALL Clifford C. Voight, Distributor Southern Oregon Northern California Howard Belton, Wendell Wyatt, William McAllister, James F. Lonergan and Lowell Paget. Each congressional district also names two delegates. Jack Bain and Austin Flegel Jr., were ahead in the third district for Democrats while Tommy Luke and Francis I. Smith led the GOP. In the first district. Democra tic leaders were Roy Hewitt and Jan Bauer of Salem and Repub licans Mark Hatfield and W. S. Chadwick, all of Salem. Conklin Among Leaders In the second district. 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