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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954 Better Precautions To Be HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON page mm Used In New H Bomb Tests . ,v-V,vt4 Sc -V',!- v-:'" ' ,5.-'-?-" r'j- VA-W j.v v.. ;;;-, fe v.."-;;- - By ELTON C. FAY AP Military Affairs Reporter WASHINGTON (ff) American nu clear weaponeers, uhsso predic tions about the runaway H-bomb fired at Bikini missed the mark by millions of tons of force, propose to go ahead with their schedule for more and mightier blasts this spring. ' , . ' For those tests of the spring series which are thermonuclear, or involving i hydrogen bombs, they will rely fin two. things: 1. An enlarged danger area and Improved warning system, 2. A better estimate of the force to be unleashed in subsequent H-bomb tests. On the,, basis pf comparisons made by atomic authorities in Congress, the March 1 thermo nuclear explosion appears to have been upwards of 14 megatons energy equivalent to that produced in the explosion of 14 millions tons of TNT. (The old atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an energy release of 20,000 tons, or 20 kllotons.) : Using information gained from the first, exploratory test of a hy drogen device in the fall of 195J and adding to it new and intricate computations from laboratory stud ies, the weaponeers made an ini tial forecast for the March 1 weap on which was substantially less than half the force eventually attained. This first estimate was revised upward before the test shot, it is understood. But even the revised estimate fell several million tons below the power scien tists now believe was loosed in the explosion. , . . IKE STATEMENT .President Eisenhower, in an understatement, said Wednesday something must have havpensti that we never experienced before, and must have surprised and astonished the scientists, ,e What happened? Probably not even the nuclear scientists who devised the weapon and supervised its tests know many of the answers yet nor will they until careful analysis of such recordings as could be made of the explosion are worked out on robot computing machines. . A multitude of data, Including such things as study of the intensity and coloration of .light In the explosion as. measured against millionth- second timing, must be scrutinized. Then, too, It seems probable that the scientists will take another look at the fusionable material used in the weapon and its triggering de. vice before they predict the power of the next thermonuclear bomb. The disconcerting and embar rassing thing about the March 1 thermonuclear tests was not the terrific blast (there has been no evidence that anyone was injured or killed by the explosion which got out of hand) but the erratic and far-flung atomic cloud that raced outward from the scene. It touched with radioactive ash U crew of the Japanese fishing craft Lucky Dragon, sailing 70 miles east of Bikini, supposedly ni. 1 uw explosion. urcre were reports that Japa nese fishing boats hundreds of miles to the west had been dusted ..... . Bwmw nmuer. m japan, there were claims that a fall-out from the westward drifting frag ment of the cloud had left traces on the homeland of Nippon .There nave been published protests. And uipiomaw nave watched to see how Soviet Russia's propagandists would use the incident. ' American radiologists, on the basis of reports received so far, believe no fatal or critical Injury has occurred either to the Japa nese caught under th drifting cloud nor to Americans and na- tives ot the Marshall Islands who also were within its reach. , me Atomic Energy Commission announced March 11 that 28 Amer icans and 236 residents of the Marshall Islands were exposed to radiation on an atoll to which they had been taken as a precaution before the March 1 test. The com mission said none were burned ano "ail are reported well." kNAVT ANNOUNCEMENT Last Tuesday night the Naw announced at Pearl Harbor, Ha waii, that the 4,200-ton naval tank er Patpsco received "slight and not dangerous contamination" from fall-out of the atomic cloud but "no apparent injury to crew men exists.", , On Wednesday, the American Embassy in Tokyo handed to Japa nese officials a statement which said that after a reatudy,'- the danger area from which slmmine is excluded during tests has been expanded. That expansion sets a downwind radius of 450 miles, sup erimposing it on the former small er zone, which was about 150 by 200 miles. The embassy said the test task force also has "greatly Increased the scope and Intensity of Its elaborate and continuous sur vey of the danger area" by planes to make cartain no vessels stray into the zone and that ample warning- will be provided. All of this made It quite appar ent the United States, unless new and presently unforeseen factors emerge. Intends to push forward with atomic weapon experiments at the Eniwetok-Bikinl ' proving ground. Cleaning Men Plan Convention 'For the first time In five years the annual convention of the Ore gon State Dry Cleaners Associa tion will be held in Portland, ac cording to an announcement Just released by Jack 6tacey of stacev's Cleaners & Dyers, Port. land, secretary of the state-wide organization. According to Stacey, the Colum bia Athletic Club will be tne scene of the conclave on May 7 and 8, 1954. This decision was reached at the mid-Winter meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asso elation, held recently in Portland. Industry leaders have Indicated that the Oregon Association is the largest in percentage terms, , of any other state in the nation. As such it will command me atten tion of allied businesses and lead ers from throughout the country who will attend and present lm- ' portant sales findings, said Stacey. Association director for this immediate area is Marlon Grant, Superior Troy Cleaners, Klamath Falls, Oregon. He is one of ten directors at large for the state as soclaton which Is headed this year by Lee Fullington, MoCel clean ers, Portland, Oregon, Group Yorl.sTo Free Applegate A ' trass roots" effort has been started In Medford to gain the re let of Richard Applegate, Med ford preaa correspondent, who was taken prisoner with two other men oy crimes oommunuu in juarcn, )tM, Just year ago. According to a letter received this week from Mrs. Frank Apple gate, Medford, mother of the war correspondent, Dick's high school friends have started a letter writing campaign, to be addressed to E. J. Madlll, assistant director of the office of protective services, In the state. department. The. let ters have been put in stores, brinks hotels, lumber mills, packing hous es, and churches of all denomina tions. , E. C. Ferguson, managing edi tor ot the Medford Mail Tribune, has expressed the hope that the plan will spread to other parts of Oregon and the nation. Palmer : Hoyt, of the Denver Post, Jack ; Beck, of OBS. Los Angeles, and Dick's uncle, Oliver O. Applegate Jr., San Francisco, have been en listed to ale! in the distribution of the letters. persons Interested in get tin f copies of the, letter or helping In the effort havo been Instructed to contact Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lynch, 13 Kenwood, Meolotd. THE ESCONDIDO INN at Olen wis wearing a ring of icicles when this plctur was tak en many, many years ago. In its heyday it was on of tho main ttog a atop and freight lino points, along' the east road. It has sine been remodeled into modern horn. 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