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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1963)
J J w 1 11 -Mwsiainai dw fakr..,.ixx.-cp turn- .nenyav .nnmajtui -cry i-.-1.-,- --. ri-.i-r-J.-jmf .-.-. :- , ipBpartTTtn fFM g THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1963 . . j wcurunu wail iniounL.. MLUtOHJJ, OHfcGON lilienthal Protests Use of Funds and Brains for Atomic Power By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Prosi International Washington lUPD Back in 1945 a glamorous newcomer known as "the peaceful atom" was promising to transform the world. Today's youngsters may find this hard to believe, but 18 years ago atomic energy was every bit as enthralling as space exploration is now, All that power in such small packages! It was Arabian nights magic made, real by 20th Century science. In many a 1945 imagination, atomic energy already was performing prodigies-making the deserts bloom, for one thing, driving supersonic air planes around the world, for another, and generally revo lutionizing everybody's way of life. But this is 1963. What hap pened to this 1945 dream of a new world of atomic plenty? It has "proved long since ' unattainable." It has turned Into a "will-o'-the-wisp." The amazing changes forecast 18 years ago "just aren't in the cards." In short: "The glamor, the excite ment, of the boundless possi bilities of power from the peaceful atom is gone." Who says all this? A man who once believed as strongly as anybody in the promise of the peaceful atom, a man named David E. Lilienthal. Lilienthal was the first chairman of the Atomic Ener gy commission, the civilian agency created by congress after World War II to be cus todian and developer of both the military and the peaceful atom. ' Recently, in a series of lec tures at Princeton university, Lilienthal recalled the mood of congressmen, scientists and Industrialists which resulted in creation of , the,i AECV "armed with billions of dol lars and the broadest of , pow ers." ; This, he said, was "a radical step." It led to a "prodigious scale of effort, unheard of ex penditures of public money, fantastic absorption of a large portion of the scientific and technical and industrial re sources." . , Creation of the AEC, In the light bf what men believed in 1945, was a good thing, Lil ienthal said. The commission under five chairmen has done a fine job. Atomic power has proved feasible. The atom has given the nation the arms it had to have. Some day surely it will play an important role in space exploration. Peaceful Atom? But what about that 1945 vision of: the peaceful atom and a new world? ; "Today," Lilienthal . said, "No one expects or even pre dicts that some magic of tech nology will be found whereby electricity; from the atom can be produced so cheaply and abundantly as to cause pro found changes in our present way of life." From .the beginning, con gress has appropriated nearly $30 billion for the atomic proj ect. Most of this has gone to develop the military atom. The peaceful atom, probably, has claimed no more than $4.5 billion of the total. But what concerns Llllcn thai is that, despite the dnshed early hopes, atomic power is still being "force fed" by the the government. lis cost is far greater than anticipated. Costs of coal produced elec tricity, on the other hand, have gone down. And coal reserves are tremendous. Nevertheless, the effort of the AEC to push atomic power "continues unabated," Lilies thai said. He estimated that a proposed new AEC power Kennedy Bows To Unlucky No. 17 Washington -(OFU- President Kennedy apparently has had to bow to the superstition of the Italian people. Partly because many Itul ians look upon the number 17 as being just as unlucky us some Americans regard the number 13, the President is rescheduling his state visit to Rome. Ihe visit originally was planned to start June 17. Of fi cials said that it would be postponed for two or three days. While officials admitted the postponement, none was will ing to be quoted by name as to the reason. But several said privately one reason was the Italian belief that It Is bad luck to begin anything on the 17th day of a month. Small Boy Unafraid, Father Is Engineer Woburn. Mara. -iUPI' Boa -ing a railroad train, the Rev. II. John Mu hie, Bnptist minister, noted a small boy sitting alone. Taking a nearby scat, the minster asked: "Aren't, you afraid, travel ing alone like this?" "Oh, no," replied the boy, "my father is driving." program will "cost $2 billion over a decade." The AEC concedes that atomic power has not turnec. out to be cheap and easy to come by. Postwar optimism degenerated into what a few years back looked like de spondency on the part of atomic industry. But recently a note of optimism has re turned. Atomic power, the AEC says, "Is on the threshold" of becoming competitive with other kinds. And in the long run this new source of energy will be needed to supplement coal, oil and water power. By 2,000 A.D., the AEC predicts, half of this country's electri cal power will be generated by the atom. The current AEC chairman, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, told congress recently that atomic power "has gone critical." Nuclear "furnaces" are said to have "gone critical" when the splitting atoms in their fuel achieve a self-sustaining reaction. ' What Seaborg meant was that the moment is at hand when industry itself Is about ready, on strictly economic grounds, to sustain nuclear power projects from which, in competition with coal, it hopes to reap a profit. Expense Cited This is fine. But to Lilien thal it means merely that the atom, which he sees as just another source of energy, is on the verge of being "just as good" as what "we had be fore." It does not, in his mind, justify continuing huge ex penditures by the Federal gov ernment. Te said:" "Energy from, the atom is not now needed for civilian purposes. "At the time and place where it is needed it will be forthcoming without govern ment prodding. If there is a real. need it will be met by the uitlity and manufacturing in dustries, as it was with the automobile, the diesel engine, the telephone ... in response to proved economic need. "There is now no urgent fuels or power crisis and no prospect of one in the foresee able future; when such a shortage looms, it will be taken care of by the atom if that is then the best alterna The Kennedy . administra tion itself has indicated con cern with the emphasis, in the Federal budget, on atomic power. Dr. Jerome B. Wies ner, the President's adviser on science and technology, re ported recently that a study is now being made of energy resources "to arrive at a judg ment as to the most effective allocation of our research and development efforts." Absorbs Minds Lilienthal said atomic ener gy, space and defense activi ties have absorbed two-thirds of the "trained minds" avail able to explore "our scientific and technical frontiers." "As a consequence," he said "all the rest of America's needs are, relatively, impov erished, neglected, and starved ... "I suggest Congress consid er the atomic energy program as one good place to begin to cut back sharply, to make more brains available to some of the presently starved civil ian areas of science and tech nology." Lilienthal appeared to feel that space exploration is get ting some of the "puffing" that accompanied the early buildup of atomic energy. The space program, he said, FREE LADLE with i ioiti of - I MWCfUlEHEMtl SEE THIS UNUSUAL PREMIUM AT YOUR FAVORITE POOD MARKET LIMITED TIME OFFER is the "current successor to the atomic new world." GRIT! Try this! Rinse leafy vege tables in tap water conditioned with CALGON. Then rinse lightly with clear water. 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