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Thousands See
Ninth Test Shot
In Atomie Series
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., I/P) !
—The ninth shot of the current ;
Nevada test series flashed over ;
the desert today, sending a rum- !
bling shock wave rolling across j
trenches, an underground dugout j
and the hillside perch of 31 civil
ian defense observers.
A stinging cloud of dust accom- i
panied the shock wave, described j
by observers as one of the strong- j
est in 1957 tests.
Seven thousands military ob- '
ervers crouched in trenches 3.000
yards from the 500-foot tower
where the device was detonated
at 4:50 a.m. PDT.
Eighteen scientists were rocked
by the blast in an underground j
shelter some 434 miles from j
ground zero. The men took radi- j
ation readings from inside after
the blast.
Oh News Nob, 13 miles away,
the shock wave cracked like thun
der over civil defense observers
from nine foreign nations.
It was heard as a low rumble
at St. George, Utah, 120 miles
away.
The device exploded in a blue
purple flash before dawn and sent
the mushroom cloud climbing in
to the desert sky.
AEC scientists said that when
the main portion of the cloud had
reached 27,000 feet it split. The i
upper layers drifted off east-1
northeast; the lower layers were
blown west-northwest.
Today’s test was roughly equiv
alent to 10,000 tons of TNT.
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Rubber Workers
Get Pay Raise
CLEVELAND, UP—A 15-cent
an-hour pay raise was agreed on
by the United Rubber Workers
and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Monday, two hours before a mid
night strike deadline.
The settlement provides for im
mediate across-the-board raises of
14Vfe cents an hour for 24,000
Goodyear employes in 11 cities.
With the new raise, straight
time hourly earnings will aver
age $2.54V£, a union spokesman
said.
The agreement concluded three
weeks of bargaining. It is expect
ed to set a pattern in the rubber
industry.
KNEES IN THE BREEZE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Every
body’s putting his best knee for
ward at Lawrence Knitting Mills
here.
Owner Lawrence Levy told all |
his employes to wear Bermuda j
shorts and he’s wearing them,
too. “It was too hot, that’s all—
just too hot!” said Levy. “Now
we get more work done and don’t
feel hot and irritable.”
ARMY WILL CUT
SEPTEMBER DRAFT
TO 8,000 MEN
WASHINGTON, UP)-—The Army
announced today it is cutting its
September draft call to 8,000 men
—compared with a quota of 11,
000 in August.
A Defense Department an
nouncement said the “lower level
of calls reflects the decision to re
duce the number of personnel in
the armed forces, announced July
16 by the Secretary of Defense.”
Secretary Wilson said then that
strength of the armed services
would be cut by 100,000 over a
six-month period.
Soviet Weapons
Preponderant in
Egyptian Parade
CAIRO, (J’l—Egyptian President
Nasser took the salute for three
hours yesterday while Soviet
built tanks and guns rolled past
in a massive military parade on
the fifth anniversary of the revo
lution which overthrew King Fa
rouk.
There were no great surprises
in the arms display, altho the pro
portion of Soviet-built ^uipment
was far greater than a the parade
of last June.
Russian-supplied Mig fighters
and Ilyushin jet bombers streaked
across densely packed Republic
Square at rooftop level. The air
show was all Soviet.
Unveiled for the first time in
Egypt were the Russian rocket
launchers end rapid firing anti
aircraft guns. Egyptian officers
said the AA guns were used in
the defense of Cairo against the
British-French attack last fall.
Missing from this year’s parade
were the big displays of French
light tanks and British heavy
tanks seen in previous years.
Large numbers of these were
casualties in the Israeli-British
French invasion last fall and ere
being replaced by Soviet weap
ons.
Roy Snyder Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Snyder, is on furlough
from Kodiak, where he is serving
with the U.S. Navy and will be
home for about two weeks.
Britain Deplores Action
Of Russia in Closing
Vladivostok Bay
LONDON UP)—Britain announced
today it was checking directly
with the Kremlin to confirm that
it has actually closed most of
Vladivostok Bay to foreign ships
and planes.
If the reply is “yes,” the For
eign Office said, Britain will con
sider the move a substantial en
croachment on what appears to
be the high seas.”
A Foreign Office spokesman
said if the Soviet action is con
firmed “such unilateral action
coming so soon before the inter
national conference on the law of
the sea next spring is to be de
plored.”
i Dulles Appeals to Russia for
Disarmament Before Problem of
Nuclear Bombs Gets Out of Hand
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, l.4t—The Voice
of America beamed thruout the
world today Secretary of State
Dulles’ plea for steps toward dis
armament before the problem of
curbing hydrogen and atomic
weapons becomes “totally un
manageable.”
“As matters are going,” Dulles
said last night, “the time will
come when the pettiest and most
irresponsible dictator could get
hold of weapons with which to
bring immense harm.”
His radio-TV address was both
a report to the American people
on this country’s reports at the
London disarmament conference
and an appeal to Russia for new
concessions there to make some
agreement possible.
He stressed the dangers to man
kind of continued delay in devel
oping a first-step plan for curbing
the grim threat of atomic-hydro
gen warfare.
In words aimed at Russia’s rul
ers, Dulles also cautioned that the
cost of building and maintaining
modern nuelear-equipped forces
was soaring so high “no nation
can sustain that cost without grie
vously burdening its economy.”
Dulles employed grim words to
warn Russian leaders of what the
future would hold if diplomats
continued talking without “actu
ally doing something.”
The alternative, he said, is that
mankind “must learn to live as
burrowers within the earth’s
crust” for protection from radia
tion and as “a slave” to the tre- ]
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mendous cost of nuclear weapons.
“Mankind cannot long live un
der the shadow of such destruc
tion as is now possible without
great changes in existing physical,
social, political and moral values,”
Dulles said, adding:
“Time is not unlimited: each
year that passes without agree
ment adds to the practical diffi
culty of achieving adequate limi
tation and control.”
Dulles coupled this with a firm
re-statement of American disarm
ament proposals, including will
ingness to agree to a 10-month
ban on tests, provided Russia
agrees first to a date when ail
nuclear bomb production would
end.
Federal Agents
Seize §700,000
Worth of Heroin
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., UP)
—Federal agents Monday night
seized over $700,000 worth of her
oin from the French freighter
Marseille and arrested four men
who will be charged with smug
gling.
Merrill D. White, collector of
customs for Florida, said it was
the largest narcotics cache found
:n the United States in many
years. The heroin weighed SVz
pounds.
“We received a tip that the
dope was on the ship and when
she came into Port Everglades,
the agents boarded her,” While
said.
The four arrested were identi
fied as Rene Fuquay, 55, of Tam
pa; Antonio Tivolio, 30, of Chi
cago: Pompa K. Battiste, 54, the
ship’s fireman, of Marseilles; and
Jean A. Bruzzoni, 28, ship’s cook,
also of Marseilles.
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House Passes Bill
[Raising Pay of
Postal Workers
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
yesterday p*?.ssed a bill granting
an across the board pay raise of
$546 a year for 518,000 postal
workers. There were predictions
of a presidential veto if the Sen
ate also passes the measure, esti
mated to raise government costs
$318 million annually.
The vote was 379-38. This is far
above the two-thirds majority
that would be necessary to enact
the legislation over a veto.
A Senate committee has ap
proved a 7V£ percent pay increase
—about 5 percent below the
House figure—plus some upward
cost of living adjustments for the
postal workers.
The average salary of postal
workers is now about $4,340 a
year.
The talk of a possible veto
stems from President Eisenhow
er’s expressed opposition to any
general pay increase for federal
workers at this time on grounds
the government as well as private
citizens should avoid anything
that could add to inflationary
pressures.
Deluxe Texas Stadium
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From Harsh Weather
WACO, Texas, UP)—Baylor Uni
versity has the solution for those
who dislike the hot sun at early
season football games, are an
noyed by the chill late in the fall,
or who don’t like rain or snow
down the neck while cheering the
alma mater.
It’s an 85-seat, glassed-in sec
tion with tile floors, foam cush
ions, heaters and air conditioners.
There’ll even be potted plants in
the comers.
The special section, known as
‘Tink Cadillac Row,” will be just
below the press box. Holders of
options on the seats will reach
the section by elevator.
About the only comfort the sec
tion won’t be able to provide is a
guarantee of a winning team.
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