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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.
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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
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Square Dance
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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
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F'-i'rv win rail bmh s'tri' and !
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Uu. wj vluohuusu at th. . i.ori. I
few days alter his gall bluclilor and
appendix were removed In the op
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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
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Dental School
Building Begun
PORTLAND tfl Ground was
broken here Tuesday for the $3,300,
000 state Dental School Building.
The school, to be built on the
University of Oregon Medical
School campus, is scheduled for
completion in June, 195&
MINISTER
VARESE, Italy t Lulgl Oas-
parotto, former Italian defense
minister, died Tuesday night at
the age of 81.
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