Some Little Known Facts About Radar
You hear a lot of talk these
days about radar. We know it as
a means of detecting enemy
forces approaching our shores but
beyond that most of us know no
thing else about it.
If radar is not handling with
care it literally becomes a death
ray. The following is an CAA
safety bulletin by Don Gretzer,
chief of the Safety Division. The
material is compiled from articles
by Convair, Electronic Magazine
and CAA Operations Manuals:
Fire Hazard
' In an experiment, the radar
beams from an aircraft radar
system was directed at a variety
of objects with the following re
sults:
1. Dry steel wool was ignited
at a distance of 45 feet.
2. An explosion was caused in
a mixture of aluminum chips, gas
vapor and air at a distance of
250 feet.
3. Audible and visible sparks
were caused among metallic chips
in a paper bag at a distance of
275 feet.
4. Photo flash bulbs were set
off at a distance of 850 feet.
The foregoing indicates that
radar equipment is capable of
igniting flammable vapor air
mixtures either from inductive
heating of metal objects or by
causing a spark due to resonant
induction.
Radiation Danger
Exposure to the direct radiated
beam of a radar system can be
extremely dangerous, particular
ly if it is a high powered system,
and in close proximity to the an
tenna. As a case in point, a man
stood for less than a minute
within ten feet of a high powered
radar system. Heat was felt in the
abdomen within a few seconds,
and became intolerable within a
minute. He subsequently died due
to a cooked viscera (intestines).
Studies were made which dis
closed the dangerous power level
to be near 3 watts per square cen
timeter. To insure safety, never
work or stand, directly in front
of the antennas of radiating air
craft radar, or on the antenna
platform of other radiating radar
systems.
“Mike” in Portland
PORTLAND, U?>—The man who j
played first base for the Univer
sity of Portland baseball team in
1940 told a dinner meeting last
night, “I owe the way I’m living
today to the education I received
at the University of Portland.”
The speaker was Mike Stepo
vieh, governor of Alaska.
Master of ceremonies at the
dinner, attended by 153 former
coaches and athletes at the Uni
versity, was Jack Shaw, catcher
on the 1941 baseball team and
brother of George Shaw, Balti
mode Colt quarterback.
Each year more than 14,000 Boy
Scouts attain the coveted Eagle
Scout rank.
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Delegates Agree On
Precedence Of Alaska
| Bill Over Hawaii’s
WASHINGTON, —The House
Territories subcommittee con
ducted a hearing on the Hawaii
statehood bill last year but made
no move to act on it.
Chairman O’Brien adopted the
strategy, still concurred in bv the
delegates to Congress from bo^h
Hawaii and Alaska, of pushing
for passage of the Alaska state
hood bill in the House before
bringing the Hawaii bill out of
committee.
The strategy was decided upon
because of mounting congression
al apprehensions about the influ
ence in Hawaii of the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen’s Union headed by
Harry Bridges.
The union has organized labor
on the waterfont and in the
sugar and pineapple fields in the
islands.
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Ike Breaks Precedent
With Long Talk With
New Soviet Ambassador
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower told Russia’s new am
bassador today the United States
will try “through patient negotia
tion” to settle urgent world prob
lems “on a basis which will pro
mise a just and enduring peace.”
The ambassador, Mikhail Men
shkov, reported after a 30-minute
talk with Eisenhower that they
exchanged expressions of hope a
summit conference will be ar
ranged.
Menshikov, smiling broadly,
told newsmen both he and Eisen
hower “expressed the same view
— that relations between our
countries should be improved,
and they will be improved.”
The EisenhoWer - Menshikov
conference was unusual in that it
lasted for about a half hour. Or
dinarily ambassadors presenting
credentials are with the President
for only five to ten minutes.
In a departure from long-es
tablished precedent, photograph
ers were called into Eisenhower’s
office to take pictures of him
with Menshikov.
Sen. Byrd of Virginia
Will Not Seek Re-Election
WINCHESTER, Va., UP) — Sen.
Harry F. Byrd (D-VA), chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee
and Senator from Virginia for 25
years, announced today that he
will not be a candidate for re
election this year.
Byrd, 71, said he had promised
his wife six years ago he would
not seek re-election again. “Since |
then,” his statement from his
Washington office said, “She has
suffered a crippling illness and is
an invalid. It is our desire to
spend our lives together at home I
in Virginia.”
Byrd, a pillar of fiscal conser
vatism, ranks third in the Senate
in seniority behind two other
Democrats, Carl Hayden of Ari
zona and Richard Russell of
Arizona.
Churches of all denominations
sponsor nearly half of America’s
111,000 Scout units.
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Special House Investigating Committee
Fires Its Chief Council, Dr. Schwartz,
Then Subpoenas Him As A Witness
WASHINGTON, UP) — Dr. Ber
nard Schwartz, fired as counsel to
a special House investigating
committee, went before his erst
while employers Tuesday with a
staggering armload of documents.
Schwartz was subpoenaed as a
witness in the committee’s in
vestigation of federal regulatory
agencies and instructed to bring
all his personal files.
In angry tones, Schwartz told
reporters outside the committee
room:
“Compared to this kangaroo
committee, the star chamber it
self was the very paragon of
justice.
“I have been denied basic pro
cedural rights which would be ac
corded to the most blatant crim
inal.”
The committee’s 7-4 vote Mon
day night to fire Schwartz, a New
York University law professor,
from his $14,000 a year job had
left an explosive atmosphere.
In the wake of that action:
Chairman Moulder (D-Mo) an
nounced he was quitting as head
of the dissension-tom investiga
tion. ,
Two lawyers resigned from the
staff.
Schwartz contends he was fired
because he was digging up evi
dence that numerous pressures—i
some even from the White House
— have been exerted on quasi
judicial agencies such as the Fed
eral Communications Commis4
sion.
Schwartz contended most of the
members wanted a “whitewash”
of the probe. He said his investi
gation involved intervention in
agency affairs by Sherman
Adams, chief White House aide,
and other top administration of
ficials.
A committee member said Dr.
Schwartz “has had a very im
proper attitude. He has shown
lack of cooperation with the com
mittee . . . and has made some
very serious charges against the;
committee.”
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