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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1961)
Monday, October M, 1MI PACE S HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Orr. If NU. fc T.M. t US. Fit W. -3 WASHINGTON (UPl-Explod- ed in space, a 50-megaton bomb such as Russia plans to test this month could serve as an "elec tronic smokescreen" for a sneak missile attack. According to scientists, it also would: Deliver a fatal dose of neu tron radiation- to any astronauts within 330 miles. Damage the eyes, by inflict ing retinal burns, of anyone look ing directly at it from distances of 700 miles or. less. Completely black out short wave radio communications, and "Maybe YOU can afford to take a chance on your . grades. Personally I never get engaged during exam week!" Justice Asked To Study Identical Asphalt Bids SALEM AP - Information on identical bids submitted by manufacturers or distributors on state contracts has been turned over to the U.S. Department of r r Gen Justice by Oregon Atty. Robert Y. Thornton. "We are looking into identical bids preliminarily," Thornton said. That docs not presume violation of the law. But identical bids in any form raise a flag ask ing for the attention of investiga tors. Thornton said identical bids had been received in several Ore son counties. Asphalt was men tioned as one product for which the state had received identical bids. Several other supplies, includ ing kitchen equipment, airfield equipment, agricultural chemi cals and medical equipment were listed as subjects of identical bidding in a memorandum to Thornton March 3, 1961, from Freeman Holmer, director of the Department of Finance and Ad ministration. Thornton conferred last week with federal and state officials in California. Super-Bomb Could Ce 'Smoke Sorbin' For Sneak Missile Attack jam early missile warning radar. Radio communications would be knocked out for at least a day at distances up to 2,500 miles, and would be disrupted for several days after the period of total blackout. Generate spectacular auroral displays which, if the explosion was on a clear night, would be visible in a region of millions of square miles not only around the explosion site but in the corre sponding region' of the Southern Hemisphere. Act as an artificial solar flare to pump up and make more dan- Adenauer Faces Choice To Remain Chancellor BONN, Germany (API Konrad Adenauer today faced a difficult choice between replacing Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano or keeping him and narrowing his own chances of becoming West Germany's chancellor for the, fourth time. Brentano has been the most faithful executor of the 83-year- old chancellor's policies, hut the Free Democratic party decided Saturday to join in a coalition government with the Christian Democrats under Adenauer only if the foreign minister is replaced. Officially the Free Democrats' said they want a new foreign min ister to produce a more flexible foreign policy. Party members said privately they want to re move an "incurable yes-man" from such an important Cabinet post. "I am the only one who will make foreign policy in this gov ernment," Adenauer recently told his party's members in Parlia ment. The Free Democrats' steering committee wrangled more than 11 hours before the faction willing to accept Adenauer as chancellor. won out by a slim majority. Participants in the meeting said the dispute . nearly tore the Free Democratic party asunder. The two powerful deputy chairmen, Oswald Kohut and Heinrich Schneider, who are against Aden auer becoming chancellor again, resigned in protest. Erich Mende, the Free Demo cratic party chief, said the chan cellor offered ' him the foreign, ministry but that he stuck to his pledge not to serve under. Aden auer and turned it down. Christian. Democratic party of ficials said they felt Adenauer might use this as an excuse to retain Brentano, arguing that by offering the job to Mende he had fulfilled the Free Democrats' condition. Informants said handsome, am bitious Gerhardt Schrocder, 51, the present interior minister and a faithful Adenauer man, is con sidered a top candidate tor the! foreign ministry. Also mentioned was Kurt-Georg: heisinger. 57, a brilliant foreign policy ;xpert and former head of Parliament's foreign affairs committee. He now is minister president 'governor! of the state of Baden-Wuertlemberg. Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss, who reportedly wants the! foreign ministry as the next step to the chancellor's office, has also been mentioned for the job. lerous to spacecraft the Van Allfli tones of radiation around the earth. Create a burst of light like an exploding star momentarily as bright as 10.000 suns. Vaporised materials of the bomb would ex pand into an incandescent fireball perhaps 40 miles across which would glow for several seconds after the fantastic initial flash. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev has "said Russia will con clude its September-October test series with the explosion late this month of a bomb equal in power to 50 million tons (megatons) of TNT. This would be the biggest ex plosion ever produced by man. It would not. equal in energy many of nature's performances such as giant hurricanes, giant volcanic eruptions, or giant earthquakes. But it would unleash more than three times as much violence as the most powerful nuclear weapon known to have been tested to date. And il.would set loose more than 2.500 times the energy re leased by the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in World War II. The scientists' conclusions as to me 50-megaton bomb's space ef fects were based on an assump tion the explosion would be set off at an altitude of 100 miles. At Uiat height, in the absence of an impeding atmosphere, it would lose most of its fantastic energy quickly not as air blast but in the form of heat, light, ultraviolet, "soft" X-ray, gamma, and neutron radiation. This one bomb may well pro duce a third as much radioactive debris as all the nuclear devices exploded by all the nuclear pow ers so far. Exploded on the ground such a weapon would blast out a crater a mile and a half wide and 400 feet deep. Depending on winds, it could contaminate a region of 20.000 square miles with killing amounts of radioactivity. As an air burst skin burns and far away as 50 it could inflict start fires as miles. In space the effects would be of a different kind. The calcula tions concerning the 50-megaton space shot's effect on radio and radar were made by Dr. Alvin G. McNish of the National Bu- rcau of Standards. McNish is an authority on the effects of high altitude nuclear explosions. Electrons and other charged particles emitted by the explosion would become trapped in the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. Like particles spewed into space by solar flares, tliey would create disturbances in the field, and "enhance the Van Allen belt." In addition to missing up radio and radar, they would trigger northern light displays. These dis plays would occur in the zone of the explosion in the Northern Hamisphere and at the "conjugate points" on the magnetic lines of force in the Slhern Hemisphere Such bombs fired in space at the right places could, by jam- piling rada warning systems, pro- vine a smoKescreen for nuclear attacks, McNish said. ' The lethal neutron and retinal burn range of a 50-megaton ex plosion in space was calculated by Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, a veteran of the World War II atomic proj ect and an autliority on nuclear weapons ellccts. Assuming astronauts had no more shielding than that provided say, by a Mercury space cabin, penetrating rays from a nuclear burst would be a murderous proposition," Lapp said. These rays would go through a Mercury spacecraft "like butter," he said. In the atmosphere neutrons are quickly absorbed and other radia tions are "attenuated." In space they would flash at or near the speed of light for hundreds of miles without losing their de-adli- ness. Lapp figured that the "lethal range" of neutrons alone from a 50-megaton explosion would be 330 miles. A 50-megaton bomb would weigh about 12'i tons. Are the Russians capable of rocketing such a weight to altitudes of 100 miles above places of their choosing? Lasily, Lapp believes. Scientists who participated in a recent American Rocket Society -meeting in New York predicted the Russians soon will be able to carry as much as 50 tons into space. With such rocket power, they could put a 50-megaton bomb into a satellite orbit around the earth. ', They already have proved; in the Gagarin and Titov flights, that they know how to make a satel lite come down where and when they wish. Editor's Note: The shooting ended in 1953 but Korea still is officially in a state of war. Tedi Gress, city editor of the Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News, currently Is on1 tour of the area. Here he givesl his impressions including an ac count of a U.N. and North Koreanl Armistice Commission meeting. INVITATION The Public is Cordially Invited to Attend DEW ALT RADIAL SAW DEMONSTRATION Wednesday, Oct. 25 7:30 P.M. Pine Grove Room Willard Hotel Bi HARDUARE Livestock Exhibit Ends With Higher Attendance PORTLAND (AP) The Pa cific International Livestock Ex position ended its nine-day run Sunday with an attendance 36,000 higher than last year s eight-day show. The all-around cowboy title was wort by Guy Weeks, Abilene, Tex., as the show ended with a total attendance of 135,173. Weeks, third in the national ro deo standings, at the start of the Portland show gained both on the leader, Benny Reynolds, Melrose, Mont., and second-place Dean Oliver, Boise. Idaho. Oliver took a third in calf roping at Portland, but Reynolds did not place. Weeks was the winner in the bareback bronc riding. Other di vision winners were John Rose. Sonoma, Calif., calf roping; Walt Linderman. Billings, Mont., bull- dogging; Winston Bruce, Calgary, Alta., and George Williams, Tul sa, Okla., saddle bronc riding; and Freckles Brown. Lawton, Okla., brahma bull riding. Brown made a name for him self by successfully riding the huge white Brahma Bull known as Snow Man. Previously only Korean Armed Camp Called Freedom's Frontier Reynolds had ridden him success fully in the bull's 200-arcna appearances. The all-around working horse championship at the show went to Poco Duke, owned by Melvin and Jane Trotter, Caldwell, Idaho. Other quarter horse show win ners and their owners were: King Fritz, Fritz and Helen Watkins, Wasco, Ore., western pleasure; Adny D'Or, Bob Russell, Bakersfield, Calif., senior bit; reining; Buzz Cut, Ray West, Philomath, Ore., Texas barrel race; Wasp Gill, Leecol Stables, Edmonton, Alta., calf roping; Poco N'adine, B. and J. Ranch es, Sacramento, Calif., cutting. By TED GRESS Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - Long forgotten by a world pre occupied with other troubles, Ko rea today continues as an armed snip. The United States forces on this peninsula number approximately 50.000. The Republic of Korea has nearly 100.000 men under arms, These United Nations troops, which include 'small elements of Turkish and Thailand soldiers,1 are in daily "eye-ball to eye-ball' contact with the North Korean Communists. They face each other across the demilitarized zone, which stretch cs 132 miles from coast to coast near the 38th parallel. Intelligence reports, American Army sources here say, indicate! the North Koreans have in excess of 300,000 men on their side of I the zone. Posing as a major threat, how ever, are the Chinese Communists who have six field groups ready to move forward, with 10 In reserve. As the world spotlight turns on Berlin, Laos, South Viet Nam and the Congo, it is generally forgot ten that although the shooting ended here in 1!)53, Korea still is officially in a state of war. The armistice agreement has not been superseded by a peace treaty. Even the tiny village of Pan- munjom, where the armistice was signed in 1953 ending 37 months of bitter fighting, is fading from memory. Yet six days a week, formal meetings still are held here with1 the North Korean Reds. The 3.000th such session was held Oct. 16. Most of the meetings are rou tine but a rigid procedure is fol lowed. The setting is simple, the air charged with electricity. Trouble can flare at any minute as it did last spring. It started when a Communist spit In an more i American soldiers face. He was1 promptly flattened with a hook to the chin. It ended when an Amer ican officer grabbed a North Ko rean oflicer who was trying to draw a gun and tossed him through a windshield of a car. Tlie atmosphere has been a lit tle belter since then. The meeting I watched was routine. Maj. William J. Hcaser Jr., an American Army officer, repre sented the United Nations' com mand. Promptly at noon he entered1 the one-story building by the southern entrance. He was ac companied by a Korean interp reter and a Navy enlisted man who acted as stenographer. Only active participants ard permitted in the conference room, so I took up a position on a small platform outside a window. Three North Korean officers en tered by the north door. All sat down at a long table covered with heavy green cltoh. The dividing line that runs through the center of the demilitarized' zone also runs throi'gh the center of the table. Major Heaser presented two! pages of reports. So did the North Koreans. j There was an air of icy formal-i ity on both sides. When the session ended and the Communists left the building, they slammed the door so hard it sounded like a cannon shot. Out here they call this Free dom's Frontier. Some of the for ward units, such as the 1st Cav alry Division and the 7th Infantry Division, work around the clock patrolling and training. Parade Planned PORTLAND (AP) - Some 35 marching and mounted units and floats will wind through Port land's southeast district Nov. 11 in Portland's first daytime Vet erans Day parade since 1956. The parade will be reviewed by Major Gen. Alfred E. Hintz, com manding general of the 41st In fantry Division and Oregon Ad jutant General. Cars Derailed By Broken Rail CORVALLIS (AP) - A broken rail was blamed for the derail ment Sunday of 10 cars of an 82 car Southern Pacific freight train North of Corvallis. No one was hurt. 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