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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1054 AEC Ban On Oppenheinier Ends Governmental Career WASHINGTON Ml Th Atomic added . Energy Commission lias nauca down the ban against atomic nloneer J. Robert Oppenhelmer with a 4-1 declaration that he Is unlit to handlo America a nuclea secrets because of "delects of character , . . and dangerous as oclatlons." The commission thus closed out late yesterday ita role In a long and wordy legal battle with the 60-year-old physicist who was once one of Its most irusiea aavisers. What the next act would bring was unclear. Neither Oppenhctmer nor his attorneys were saying what steps. If any, they contemplated One unanswered question: Would he appeal to President Eisen- bower? . The President has declined com ment In the case since, on his or ders, Oppenhetmer's security clearance was suspended last uecemner. oppenhelmer appealed then, and panel to consider his case. It heard 38 witnesses. Including Oppen helmer, and on May 37 voted J-l aeainst him. DECISION Oppenhelmer, in New York lost night after the commission re- jeasea lu ucwaiuu uimiuiuimk wo board's ruling, had no direct com ment on the majority report. But he voiced confidence in the will of America's scientists to work' faithfully to preserve and strengthen this country." And he praised Or. Henry D. Smyth, the only commissioner to recommend reinstatement of his security clear ance, as having rendered a fair and considered statement." The majority report was signed by AEC Chairman Lewis Ij. Strauss and Commissioners Eu- . gene M. Zuckert and Joseph Camp bell, both of whom appended state ments of their own. Commissioner Thomas E. Mur ray, agreeing with them that Op penhelmer should be denied access to secrets, wrote a separate opinion which said: "Dr. Oppenheimer was disloyal" in the sense that he dis regarded security regulations. , DISAGREES But Mr. Smyth, a Princeton scientist who worked with Oppen- Detmer in wartime aeveiopmem 01 the atomic bomb, strenuously dis agreed with his four colleagues. "He Is completely loyal," wrote Smyth, "and I do not believe he is a security risk." ' In Congress, Rep., W. sterling Cole (R-NY), chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Com mittee, said he sees no reason to challenge the commission's deci sion. He said there had been no request for any move by the com mittee, which keeps tabs on com mission activities. - Oppenhelmer. now director of a private research group called the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, M.J., winds up his ca reer as an AEC consultant today. with expiration ol his contract The security board which weighed his case last spring heard a half-million words of testimony and ruled Oppenhelmer was loyal but a security risk. MAJORITY As the commission majority saw it, the issue was whether it was in the interest of national security to let Oppenhelmer see "some of the most vital secrets in the pos session of the United States." "Substantial defects of char acter and imprudent and dan gerous associations, particularly with known subversives who place the interests of foreign powers above those of the United States, are also reasons for disqualifica tion," said the report, and it We find Dr. Oppenhelmer Is not entitled to the continued confidence of the government and of this commission because of the proof of fundamental delects in his 'character' . . . "We find that his associations with persons known to him to be Communists have extended far be yond the tolerable limits of pru dence and self-restraint which are to be expected of one holding the high positions that the government has continuously entrusted to him since 19." To this, Dr. Smyth dissented: "I cannot accept tills conclusion or the fear behind It." CLOSELY WATCHED He said Oppenhelmer had been closely watched, by professionals as well as by "amateurs" with a grudge against him, for much of 11 years as head of the Los Alamos, N. M., laboratory which developed the A-bomb in World War n and, later, as head of the AEC advisory committee until 1953. Through it all. Smyth areued there has been no evidence that Oppenbeimer ever leaked atomic secrets. "I am confident." he added. that Dr. oppenhelmer will con tinue to keep to himself all the secrets with which he is entrusted." The majority said no Importance was attached to allegations that Oppenhelmer hurt the nuclear pro gram by opposing all-out H-bomb development efforts and, after for mer President Truman ordered it In 1950, failing to give it his en thusiastic support. Dr. Oppenheimer was, of course, entitled to his opinion." said the majority. The majority said ODOenheimef's past contributions to the A-bomb program were taken into accounts, but so, too. it said, were the de mands of the jobs he was called upon to fill. r-i- 11 A'TWI COURT CAIRO, Egypt Ul Egypt's revolutionary court Wednesday sentenced coi. Ahmed cnawky to 10 years imprisonment and an nounced it was going out of busi ness. Chawky. a former com mandant of the infantry corps, was accused of conspiring against the government. . ' A NEW RIDE it offered Wait Coat Shows patrons this year in this new whirligig, the main feature of which it the fact that you stand instead of sitting and don't ntad to bt strapped in. It's the ninth on manufactured to data and th only on on the Coast. Operating it ar Fred Mortenien (left) an ex wreitler who want under tha title of "Th Trrible Dan" and Art Anderson. Mortenstn usd to hit Klamath Falls on th wrastling circuit many years ago. HST Condition Said Improved KANSAS CITY Ml Harry 8. Truman's condition was reported as "better" last night although he was described as aomewhal tired after a restless day. The former president's recovery from an emergency operation June 30 haa been hampered by an in testinal inflammation. His recovery appeared highly aatlsfaclory for a : r Square Dance To Be Held All local and out of town square dancers planning a 1 11 Fourth of July w.i nil are Inv:.. to attend the Dol-Dj Cltb'a square dunce this tf:uurdny evouig. Quest caller will bo Douglas Fos bury, well k.iown caller who wna formerly president and caller tor the circle ..xniera sauare Dance: Club In Albany. Pcr-"" ' Tnsb--'- - rnrurr"d In hs business to Medford. At thj ' piw . r i . ai square dance group but is hi con-1 stain demand lor guest appear ances. F'-i'rv win rail bmh s'tri' and ! round dances from 8 to 13 at the j Uu. wj vluohuusu at th. . i.ori. I few days alter his gall bluclilor and appendix were removed In the op eration. Then he was harassed by secondary Inleotlons and a hyper sensitivity to drugs. ' Yesterday, hqwever, Dr. Wallace Graham, his personal physloluii, aald he wna no longer In a critical atage and that his condition la now "fair,' but guarded." In last night's report, a Research Hospital spokesman aald ' the 70- year-old Truman had been Mimr what nauseated and rostlosa but "aa a total picture lur the day ho was nnrooptlbly bettor." The hospital report also aulil "tlio entorltia tlnlestlnal Inllaniiniitlunl lias been aomewhat aggravating" POOLE'S 222 So. 7th Th Year 'Round TOY STORE and "lie liaa been bulhored for hurt periods intermittently with hlocups." $1800 Cat Hay Chepptr uit Iws years aa IS elrai, $100 lor quick nit. Terras r will Iraee tar cattle. . Old Midland tj rhan 124 DREW'S HEREFORD RANCH Added Service to Lakeview! Save This Schedule RED BALL STAGE LINE Read Down Read Up .".'"nVifll'.'l L","V.'J,71"I I I nill .wrpil lullrlr.m P.ll ! .n,.IUIU.. '"'" mit.-ltll J mmm mn.-H.llii) l,.lmlt .,-HiIIiii 4:00 .m. 10:00 a.m. M0 a m. LV. Klamath Falls A iJ0 .m. Jill a.m. i00 p.m. S:IS p.m. 11:15 a.m. 4:10 a.m. IV. (ly, Ortqon IV 1:00 a.m. MJ p.m. 7iJ0 p.m. :). 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