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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE NINE Anniversary WASHINGTON LP-On Aug. 6. 1945, at 0:15 a.m.. an atomic iire balt flashed over Hiroshima, Japan and 128,150 people were killed, in jured, maimed or burned. One bomb . . . 78,150 dead or dying . . . 50,000 injured ... a city virtually wiped out ... and soon a nation forced to quick sur render by the appalling power of the atom. Buf Hiroshima was only the pop gun phase of the young atomic age. Nine years and 12 billion dol lars later, the popgun of Hiroshima had become a weapon so dreadful Citizens 0 iresfea HIROSHIMA, Japan Wt The bell ol Hiroshima tolled today for the awtul hour of nine years ago. It was 8:15 a.m. when the first atomic bomb ever loosed in war fare burst with frightful fury over Hiroshima. t It was 8:15 a.m. today when massed sirens screamed their pro test to the memory. Then the church bells of Hiroshima rang out, calling the Japanese of this city to prayer, Mayor Shinzo Hamai, who lived through that day, presided as thou sands of citizens gathered in the center of the city for a memori al service. He prayed that "there will be no more war, and no more human beings atomized." He had been lucky on that day. He was three miles away from the center of the blast. ' " . Now the scars of the bomb are gone, except for the gnarled skele ton of steel which was all that was left of Memorial Hall. The rebuilt homes are fliinsey and the streets are rutted. But the city seems to be on its feet again, mentally and materially. Only 90,000 out of the population of 350,000 were here on that day. The rest are newcomers to this commercial town. They don't know. Kiyoichl Tsuchoka, member of the city council, remembers. He was only 1,000 yards from the blast center and his body is scarred by burns. "I saw the great flash.' he re called. "The next moment I was blown several yards. I staggered back and thought I saw a second wave a heat wave which set fire to my shirt. I ripped off the burn ing shirt and ran to my home. "The house was flattened and my wile was crying 'help, help' from under the debris. I was injured and could not lift the heavy beams and pillars- that pinned her down.' I looked around for help. "I saw only dead bodies strewn around. I had to leave my dying wife because fire was spreading. Her voice still rings in my ears." Prof. Kanae Watanabe of Hiro shima University was also only 1. 000 yards away but escaped with out a scratch. "I was in the library when the bomb exploded," he said. "Per haps the books shielded me. I ran Into the hall after the explosion and saw three of my colleagues dead, their skulls split open." Watanabe found his wife and son unharmed, in the suburbs, although their home was knocked down. "I guess," he said, "we are the luckiest of .all the citizens of Hiro shima." . ' Indian Fish Camp Protested THE DALLES Wl A fishing camp for Indians on the Columbia Paver near The Dalles Dam is be ing erected by Army Engineers despite protests of the Oregon Fish Commission and Wasco County. The work is being done with t50,000 Congress provided to com pensate Indians for fishing grounds lost when Bonneville Dam was built, said Lt. Col. John A. Oraf, of the Portland district engineer's Office. The project has nothing to Ho with pending destruction of the Celilo Falls Indian fishery by -construction of The Dalles Dam. M. T. Hoy, state fisheries di rector, said that from the camp site about two miles east of here. Indians will be able to carry on large-scale fishing In the immedi ate area of The Dalles Dam fish ladders. He said this will injure talmon runs trying to clear the dam. Ward Weber. Wasco County judge, said the county objects on the ground that the camp might become another Indian village, resulting- in social problems that arise, when large groups . live to gether under substandard condi tions. The camp will be transferred to the Interior Department for ad ministration, Graf said. SNAKES -NEW DELHI, India CP Tigers, crocodiles and so many cobras they are being counted in maunds 80 pounds to a maund have been driven by floods from the Jungles below the Himalayas, the Statesman reported Thursday. 33rd ANNUAL GRANTS PASS Recili bIisI Glad Show 11 & 12. Horse Racinq Thursday. Square Dances 13 & 14, Joe Lewis, Texas, Caller. Midqer Races Timber Carnival, Saturday. ' 4-H and FFA Auction Friday, Special Exhibits. Carnival. Grants Pass Stores Close Thursday afternoon. COME! MEET YOUR FRIENDS! 4 BIG DAYS! Of Hiroshima in Atomic Race thai lt could and did blow a mile wide hole. 175 teai. deep, in the coral floor of the Pacific, Ocean. The crater was big enough to hold 140 buildings the size of the na tion's c?pitol. This was done with a 19.r2-moael i hydrogen device , which without I doubt has undergone a good many : refinements since then as a weapon i of total destruction. The Hiroshima ; bomb had an explosive power equal to 20.000 tons of TNT. The hydro j gen bomb TNT equivalent runs in- to the millions of tons, i H'-IOSHI.XIA I On this nimh anniversary of ; Hiroshima, where does the United States .stand In the world or the I atom? Here Is a brief run-down: Tne most fearful development perhaps is that the United Slates ! has lost the monopoly on the j atomic bomb which existed in August 1945. At that time this coun try alone had the wenpon which could have brought military mas tery of the world had this nation been a land bent on conquest. Now Russia has mastered the sciontilic and industrial techniques of man ufacturing atomic weapons. Today it's a race between Russia and the' United States for atomic supremacy. American experts say the United States has the lead but a lead that is being narrowed by the Russians. Great Britain, too, has an advanced program and has exploded an atomic bomb. TWO BOMBS The bombs which dropped on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki perhaps were the only two completed atomic bombs in the American stockpile at that time. Now" there are "baby" bombs, atomic artillery shells, guided mis sile warheads and the hydrogen giants such as the one exploded in the Pacific during the 1952 tests. The stockpile may now run into the thousands. Some military men believe these weapons have become so horrible in their destructive power that no nation will ever dare the gamble of atomic war. But the feat that it may happen still drives this country forward in the race for atomic supremacy. Something like 90 per cent of the billions poured into atomic de velopment is for purposes of war and defense. But even though the emphasis is on weapons of war, huge strides have been made in the direction of using the atom's fantastic energy for peace. BY-PRODUCTS A by-product of the weapons pro gram is that hundreds .f scientists and engineers in the industrial world (working with the govern ment in the atomic energy pro gram) have gained important knowledge and experience in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. And there is as much of a race for supremacy In the peaceful use of the atom although far less dramatic as there is in the weap ons field. No Industrial nation competing in the world mnrkets can afford to be far outstripped in the use of this potentially cheap source of power. One pound of uranium in a cube just one Inch square has potential ly usable energy equal to 2,600.000 pounds of coal. How to harness this energy to engines is a problem that is under steady attack by the best scientific and engineering minds around the world. NUCLEAR ENERGY The use of nuclear energy to produce electric power no longer is a dream. It has been done and the problem now is to figure a way to make this atomic fuel produce power as cheaply or cheaper than coal. . Already the United States has an atomic submarine which H is believed will be able to travel thousands of miles with no need of refueling. . A land-based prototype of the atomic engine, according to a re cent Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee report, has "already produced more than enough power to send an atomic submarine around the world, submerged, at full speed." There are visions, too, that in the not-distant future ships and airplanes will be powered by nu clear energy and that atomic pow erhouses will bring cheap electric ity to industrial areas and to re mote regions where fuel costs now are almost prohibitive. Japan Royalty Starts On Tour TOKYO i-fi The Emperor and Empress left by special train today on an 18-day trip to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. An elaborate sea and air convoy is escorting them. The Emperor and Empress will take their first airplane ride on the return trip to Tokyo. An American pilot will fly the Japan Air 'Lines plane. Machine Works To Be Inspected PORTLAND m The Screw Machine Products Corp., the larg est Army ordnance contract pro ducer in the area, will be inspected Monday by Brig. Gen. John B. Medaris. Medarls Is Industrial head of Army ordnance. JOSEPHINE COUNTY FAIR AUG. 11-12-13-14 Gladiolus Parade Wednesday i - 1 1 . i vr j. . w I f . ? - r" : rv - zrx' . . .... fAk J TYPICAL OF THE SCEtiLS special will have during the three-day Western Stales Square Dance Jamboree is the one shown here. Clockwise in the group of dancers in the fore ground, beqinning at the lower left of the picture, are Bob Luscombe, Mary Antle, Bill McKune, Ruby Luscombe, Dale Bebber, Mrs. Bill McKune, Larry Garrison, Dixie Bebber; Up per right corner, Ray Garrison and Alma Hodon; background, NEOPIT, Wis. in Authorities have resurrected n fedrrai law to prevent a fi'e million doUar wind fall from turning tn-3 Menorr t" Indian Resei-vation m'o n snlt-s-: men's mecca. ' . i Two arrests already have been i mode and more are anticipated. The windfall came in tlie form of a Si. 500 chock from thu lcdernl Rovernment for eacn of :he i.2A adult Menominees on tribal rolis. The money, totaling S4.8B1.000. part of a l2 million dollar inisi fund set up four years at?o after the -tribe won a lawsuit charBins; the government with mismanage ment of tribal affairs.' First payment was provided for in legislation liberating thy Jndians from government control and su pervision bv 1G59. ' The majority of the Iuduuis re ceived their checks Tuna:ty and pnymenis will be completed by Saturday. What happens' when sudden wealth hits an Indian nv.ervmiDn? A buyirfcr spree is the IotIcM .an swer. Stores in 'he juoji have noted a boom i.i cloihinpr and household furnishini; .puichaxes. But Henrv Fonicnellc, asslsiaitt supervisor of the reservation, says; "it's too early to tell." "Although this is 'he largest lump sum the Indians have ever received," he points o'.t "thev ve been working steadily til their lumber business a lomj time and they're accustomed 'o money. ; However, state, coun'.y and local j police want the Monommces to j LJiL,am . V Mf wealth without nny pressure from 1 m t t 9 salesmen. So an old federal law j l'-'5iSllf C 1 8lrA barrins peddlers and soliciiovs J'J V Li IV from Indian reservations without a 1 license is bemir enforced asain. t ONGVIEW Wash W A babv A S" UZZ ! ' wacarrted o" r a 70-foot em" without a license, another auto ' lace umvn m f,t?rI tor m'nu f3' firm was charecd ith nttemptins . aspiration to sell cars from an unlicensed iot , a"d llve1 Tliursday. on the fringe of the l enervation. , The baby's three-year-old brotli Somc of the Menominees are I or who. as the only witness to opening bank accounts for the first the accident, cried a warning, was time. One of Shawano's '.wo banks j credited with saving his sister's reported it cashed over $300,000 ! life. in checks Tuesday and Wednesday, I The 14-months-old girl. Carina with about half orthe Indians tak- Ing cash and the rest depositing their funds. Power Company Stock Offered WASHINGTON ijfi The Federal Power Commission Thursday was asicea oy racmc rower ana i-agm uo,, roruaiia, iui iius.muu iu issue up to 32,047 shares of com mon stock. The stock, with a par value of t6.50 a share, would be sold to employes under an employes' stock purchase program. ENVOYS BLED. Yugoslavia i.fl Hih diplomatic envoys of Greece and Turkey arrived here Friday strengthen the "111110 three" Balk an alliance with a firm military pact. Yugoslavia welcomed them with a brass band and flags. Open Daily 11 till 11 1130 Main Phone 2-9149 will & T.SE REV. AND MRS. FRANK E. MANNING, former residents of tl.e Henley communiiy and missionaries to Africa since 1930, will be guests of Mt. Laki Community Church Sunday, August 8. Shown with them above are their daughters, Grace (right) and Merci. The Rev. Manning will speak at the I I a.m. morning service; both will have part in the 9:45 a.m. Sunday School program and the 8 p.m. evening service. All members and friends of Mt. Laki Church are invited. Waters. Imn SOUTH BEND. Ind. W Some 5,000 workers ar-'Studetaker Corp. last, ni'-iht turned' down a 15 per cent pay cut which International CIO Untied Auto Workers officials urped them to take to protect their With only half of the firm's workers voting, a 3 to 2 margin was given against taking the de crease in a show-of-hands vote which followed a heated 2' 2 hour meeting. : Lee Hill, daughter of Mr. and i Mr. Veinon Hill, .was left in the j family car when it was parked near their home on the Ocean Beach highway six -miles west of here. Brakes on the car failed and it rolled off the highway and over the 70-foot embankment to a slough where it came to rest in waist deep water. Vernon Hill, 3, cried a warning 1 jQ njs father who rushed to the car and found the bnby floating unconscious inside. Smashing a window with a rock, he carried the girl to land and immediately start ed artificial respiration. He esti mated he worked over her, des perately, for about three minutes before she regained consciousness. A neighbor, Oscar Varness. rushed the girl to Cowlitz General 1 Hospital in Longview. She was . conscious on arrival and appeared to be out of danger, the family said. She also received cuts and bruises as the car tumbled down the rocky bank but none appeared serious. -Ligkhl! Hop into a malt with your favorite date ... or cool off with a creamy soda. We're tops on ice cream tempta tions from sundaes to milk shakes. Stop in, take home a qallon of vour favorite ice erpom. Moke it a summer habit . . . it's qood for you, SUPER 'CREAMED ICE CREAM I serious. ft j f A left, Wally Henry and Sharon Rutter. Events start tonight at 8 p.m. with an all callers' dance at the airport; Saturday, all callers' workshop, 10 a.m., airport; barbecue, 4 p.m. Modoc Field; Sunday, I p.m., airport, Les Gotcher's dance; 8 p.m., Saturday, Modoc Field, jamboree dance. Proceeds will be used to buy playground equipment for the 20-30 Club playground at Conger Field- Mm Pa Cist Paul G. Hoffman, Studebaker's board chairman, previously an nounced salaries to top executives had been cut 20 to 30 per cent in what ne called a multi-million-dollar economy drive which start ed last April. ' He added that 12 per cent of Studebaker's executive personnel had been cut suice U10 drive start ed and that the program has saved about 10 million dollars on an an nual basis. Addressing ' the workers nt the meeting were Louis J. Horvath, president of Studebaker Local 5, and other international officials All recommended the pay cut and other contract revisions. The union officials said the cutiplote destruction. would olfer hope of stabilizing em ployment and increase overall take-home pay. Most of . Studebaker's depart ments have only been - operating four days every fortnight since early this year. Employment has been cut in half; "Most of the workers just could n't seem to accept a pay reduction after averaging only $35 a week for the last six months," said Horvath. The company made no comment after the union action. Average wages at Studebaker are estimated at $2.37 an hour, compared with $2.07 for Ford, j General Motors, and Chrys'.er, Hoffman said that had the union accepted the- 15 per cent cut, it would have dropped labor costs oi a $2,000 automobile by $60 to $75. Norblad Backs New Postmaster WASHINGTON W Appoint ment of Robert J. Weistcr as act ing postmaster at Mist in Columbia Countv, has been recommended by Rep. Norblad (R-Orei. Weister would sneered F. Wes ley Monroe, who has resigned the $2.177-a-year Job. HEY FELLAS h m Kit V -1 Cet your schqpl clothes now while our slocks are comolete. FAfl PEGGERS i The oriqinol Anqcles and Touchdown brands that fit so well. u Twill Peggers fc'f Silver grey, black ond faded green D Ccrd Peggers '2 Bon white, faded blue, choree larcoal N 733 MAIN n-.. . . j....- . ... rtrtf B1 'ininiMiniiiifl I'liiriffi flif" 'rr --0 isfiery ills m ' PEKIN. 111. OP B ulldoaers lunged at heups of smoldering debris today m u rush lob to get the fire-scarred American Distill inc Co. ulanl cleaned ud for near full-senle resumption of whiskv making Monday. 1 I A spectacular two-day fire that killed six persons, injured 33 and caused more than $7,500,000 dam age was brought under control last night. The searing blue flame ate up from 90,000 to 110.000 barrels of aging whisky enough liquor to fill more than 22 million ordinary fifth gallon whisky bottles or a half bil lion standaid one-ounce bar shot glasses. This cost Uncle Sam at least S47.250.0OO in potential alcohol tax collections whisky being taxed at the rate of $10.50 a gallon as it is withdrawn from bonded ware houses. , 1 - ' However, Russell R. Brown of Greenwich. Conn., company' uresl dent who hurried to the scene, said the fire" loss to his firm was fully covered by insurance. t He announced plans to have pro duction operations up to almost full scale by Monday. The fires and explosions yesterday destroyed 4 and damaged 3 of the distillery's 15 buildings, but the distillery units, power plant and bottling fa cilities wore spared, This will mean employment again for some tiOO distillery workers who had been laid oft July 1. A providential wind shift played a big part in saving the 25 million dollar distillery from possible com- The dead, all distillery employes of Pekin, were tdcntilied as Law rence Neavear, Marion Garber.. 53: Edward Winker, 47; Richard Eartmoed, 32; William Kohler, 35, and James Dancey, 40,' The flip started early Wednes day morning, apparently from a bolt of lightning during a thunder storm. It was not pronounced fully under control until 42 hours later, 'at 8 p.m. Thursday. I I I PnHirfJ 7 Pkf Ar-O Sent Animals PORTLAND 1.11 Rosy, the etc pliant obtained by the cily zoo from Thailand, Boon will have some company from her homeland. , The zoo learned Wednesday that two Siamese bear cubs and a babyiond qet them before leopard are being shipped here. They am a gilt of friends of they're gone ... You bet. Austin FIcrcI, lonner Portland In-, dustrialist who has been chief oil Trim Tred Polly Debs ore the U. S. teehnieal and economic mission to Thailand. Flegcl ar ranged for the zoo to get Rosy. He r.id in a letter to Mayor Fred L. Peterson there I:; a possibility his friends in Thailand will send over another elephant as a companion 1 for Rosy. j denim. 4.50 Navy 4.95 6.95 ond navy. 'Kf-.. T- C...I oily Years Ago . In LONDON fP1 A page lit the history books flipped over this I week in Europe. 1 Just 40 years ago in the words of a British foreign minister "The lamps are going out all over Europe." The anniversary of what be came known then as "The Great War" was officially Ignored. Most people seemed to have forgotten or they did not want to remember. But in the English countrycide an old man remembered. Winston Churchill has said over and over again a lasting world peace is tho last prize -he seeks to win. He's still trying. Churchill at 79 is the! onlv topliner governmental or j military of those fateful August days of 1914 still in power. Few others are even still alive. Forty years ago. as the 39-year- old First Lord ol the Admiralty. Churchill won praise tor haviug the Royal Navy already mobilized and at battle stations when Britain went to war with the Kaiser s Germany. Resting at his country home in Kent this week, the same Churchill kept hts thoughts to himself and the world speculating on whether he intends to retire as Prime Min ister. The anniversary of the outbreak of World War I caught attention only in a few reminiscences and warnings in the newspapers. Europeans' attention was devoted more to the uneasy peace In the world today, and focused on Asia. , The London Evening News, in a commemorative editorial, "Lest we Forget," said: 'The forces then mobilized in Europe have never properly stood down, me threat has been there through 40 years of lost Ideals and bitter disillusionment." And the London Daily Telegraph warned: . ! "In August 1914, our country had , the opportunity of allowing a Pax Germanica to be imposed on Europe and rejected It. Twenty five years later tho same prospect faced us in an even more ambi tious form and was refused. "It would be an ill day when a Pax Sovietica became the only al ternative to another world war and we nad to lake a similar grim but Inevitable decision, even though in company with strong allies." Germany, beaten in World War I and again in an even greater war World War II found itself a di vided nation in a divided world, Among the West Germans, allied wnn me west, the anniversary passed unnoticed. The East Ger mans, under Soviet domain, made no mention of it either. France, torn today by suspicion or of rearmed Germany and fear Communist aggression, was more concerned about straighten ing out colonial affairs in Indochina, Tunisia and Morocco tnnn anniversaries, Belgian newspapers carried front pane anniversary Btorles. There was casual mention on the Inside pages of Dutch newspapers of the ingni 01 the German Kaiser Wil- helm to the Netherlands and his Portland Seeks Lighting Levy PORTLAND lifl A million- dollar street lighting levy and a proposal to establish a city transit commission will appear on the No vember Portland election ballot. the City Council decided Thursday. The transit commission would have the same authority in solving mat-s transportation problems as now is held by the council. Six other proposals also will be on the ballot including such thing permitting increased pensions tor firemen and policemen, in creasing the city tax base and levying two million dollars annual ly for a municipal construction program. "Hello, Sue?... Hove you qot your Saddles for fchool yet? . . You haven't? ... Well, let's qo right d o w n to Van Ormon's, now, for me, too, 'cause they're the best looking, best wearing Saddles in town . , . OK then, ' jec you at Van Orman't Chooi from . . . Whin Elk . , Whitt Buck . . or Off Whil. Elk ond Rusiar Glow Ton 7.95 3A to C widtkt The Home of TRIM TRED Sliocs VAN ORMAN'S 527 MAIN Started Europe death there in 1941., Moscow radio remembered. For the men now in the Kremlin, where the Russian czars once wera crowned, August 1914 was the fore runner of another anniversary to them the revolutionist conversion of all the Russias and more to communism. Moscow radio used the anniversary to assail the Am ericans, who did not get into World War I until 1917. and' accused them of forgetting "the lessons" of the first world war. WASHINGTON W Communist China's double 'dismissal of Am erican protests was shrugged off by lop U.S. oincinls loony as a gesture which could not erase tho record made against the Reds. Protest notes were sent to Pci ping through the British govern ment over n week ago to register anger at the killing of three Ameri cans in a British airliner shot down by Communist fighters July 23 off Red-held Hainan Island. The United States demanded punish ment of those guilty of the attack, and compensation for the three Americans killed and three others injured. The Reds rejected this protest as well as one against attacks on American fighters fay two Red fight er aircraft. The protest against the fighter attacks was strictly for the record since American planes shot down the two Red aircraft. In a second note on Wednesday, the United States renewed the pro test and demands for compen sation. Washington told the Chinese that British ownership of the piano did not relieve Red China of res ponsibility for the deaths of the Americans. Peiplng announced yesterday that the Reds, who have apologized to Britain and offered to pay damages, again refused the American note. . 1 Officials here said olhcr ' steps were under consideration, but that rejection of the protests was rela tively unimportant for these rea sons: 1. The United States- made Us real reaction known when it dis patched two aircraft -carriers to the trouble area Immediately after the July 23 attack on tho airliner' and whatever the provocation shot down two Chinese fighter planes. It was suggested that was strong action which tne Reds would read ily understand. 2. The protest notes themselves, along with other official actions, have sought to make clear to gov ernments and peoples in many lands the ruthless conduct of the Chinese Reds in attacking the un armed commercial airliner in th first place. Pelplng's explanatlou to Britain was that the plane hnj been mistaken for a Chinese Na tlonalist bomber. 3. The united Slates can and will make full use of this affair in ar guing In the autumn session of the United Nations against any move to give Red China U.N. member ship or legalize Its existence In any way so far as the U.N. Is con cerned. And even If the Reds had given assurances that such incidents would not be repeated, authorities said they would not be taken seri ously.. They also suggested that no Chinese pilot Is likely to be pun ished for killing Westerners, what ever the Red regime may eventual ly claim about that. This leaves the question of com pensation for persons killed or In jured. State Department officials are trying to figure that out now. Co Red Refusal Of. US-Notes SfeffpiOff , .-,' ; fig i
