Atomic Energy Commission Takes
First Step Toward Teaching Public
To Use, Not Fear, Atomic Energy
By RENNIE TAYLOR
Associated Press Science Reporter
RICHLAND, Wash., UP) — The
first step by the Atomic Energy
Commission toward teaching the
public to use, instead of fear,
atomic energy, was taken here
Monday.
Wilfred E. Johnson, general
manager for General Electric Co.,
which operates the AEC pluto
nium production plant in the
Hanford area, so decribed the
partial lifting of secrecy which
has shrouded the activities here.
Opened for the first time to
newsmen were laboratories where
scientists are constantly check
ing for radio - active materials
from plutonium production. But
Flooding Yukon River,
Caused By Ice Jams,
Threatens Fort Yukon
•FAIRBANKS, OP)—A great pool
of backwater from a Yukon river
ice jam spread over most of the
small town of Fort Yukon Tues
day as the Air Force prepared
to bomb the jumble of river ice.
The great pool of blocked water
spread over most of the town of
800 residents late Monday, driv
ing some 200 persons from their
homes and inundating a portion j
of the ape strip.
Pos'ng an even greater danger
than the ice jam downstream t
from the town were three jams
on the Y’lkon upstream from Fort
Yukon.
reporters were not admitted t©
the big reactors which make plu
tonium for the bomb.
So good is the monitoring,
one of the scientists said, that
he can tell whenever an
A-bomb is exploded, either in
the United States or in any
other part of the world.
Dr. A. R. Kenne, head of re
l gional monitoring, said the 36
monitoring stations in the Han
ford area and other similar sta- J
tions to the mouth of the Colum-1
bia river, have enabled the staff
to keep a constant check on the
amount of radio - active materials
in the air.
Dr. Kenne explained there is
always a certain amount of nat
ural radiation — termed by the
scientists as “background.” When
ever there is an atomic explosion
anywhere in the world, tire
“background” in the area in
creases from 10 to 100-fold, he i
said. Thus he knows whenever
there’s an atomic exposion.
But the amount of radiation so
far has been far below the level
at which it would be harmful to
humans or animals, Dr. Kenne
added.
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j Rep. Pelly Backs Up His
[Request For Investigation
j Of The BLM In Alaska
WASHINGTON, 0?)—Rep. Pelly
<R-Wash) has presented Depart
ment of the Interior officials with
details to back up his request for
an investigation of Bureau of
Land Management operations in
Alaska and suspension of Virgil
Seiser, BLM manager at Anchor
age.
He said he had been assured by
D. Otis Beasley, assistant secre
tary, that an inquiry is under
way based cm general allegations
made earlier in the Seattle con
gressman’s letters to Secretary
Seaton.
He said his statement was based
on Alaska newspaper comment
(Anchorage Daily Times) that his
protests were based on charges
of Edgar Paul Boyco, a former
BLM employe now a practicing
attorney in Anchorage.
Pelly said his protest was in
behalf of interested Seattle con
stituents connected with the Ter
ritorial Development C o r p. J
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Cape Yakataga, Icy Bay, a n d
Malaspina district of Alaska was
suspended by Seiser. The latter
was overruled by Edward Wooz
ley, BLM director.
Pelly originally asked Seaton j
co May 3 to investigate BLM’s '■
Alaska operations asserting that j
“We may well have a national
scandal in the making, rivaling
any in our past history.”
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