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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.
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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. Demo
cratic leaders were Gene Conk
lin of Pendleton and Gerald Rut
ledge of Klamath Falls and Re
publicans Lowell Steen and Irv
in Mann of Pendleton.
In the fourth district, Demo
crats Hugh Kirkpatrick, Robert
W. Straub, Walter Dodd, Alex
M. Hamilton Jr. and Joseph Bar
nett were in a close race while
Republicans Rodney Keating and
Ed Boenke were ahead.
The count in many counties
for the district delegates was not
completed.
I wont to thank the Jackson
County voters for the fine
support they gave me. I could
not have lost to a better man
than Mr. Allen Curry and I
sincerely wish them to give
that support to him in the
November election.
. . JOHN H. TIZEKKER
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