U.S. Wraps Up
First Week Of
Nuclear Test Shots
WASHINGTON — The United
States wrapped up the first week
of its nuclear tests in the Pacific
with its third and biggest burst
so far in the series — a million
ton blast that flashed through
cloudy skies near Christmas Island.
As in the first two tests, the
device Wednesday was dropped
from a plane. But it was at least
twice as strong as either of the
earHer shots.
A joint announcement by the
Defense Department and the
Atomic Energy Commission said it
was in the low megaton yield
range — the explosive equivalent
of from one to several million
tons of TNT.
The previous shots in operation
Dominic, which got underway one
week ago Wednesday, ware in the
100,000 to 500,000-ton range.
By contrast, the atom bomb that
struck Hiroshima in World War II
was rated at 20,000 tons of TNT.
As nuclear weaponeers checked
the results of the initial clutch of
tests and prepared for blast No. 4,
a controversy was reported blow
ing up within the Kennedy Ad
ministration. The question: What
steps should the United States take
to halt future nuclear tests after
Dominic runs its course?
About 30 more shots are expected
to be fired in the Pacific tests.
Among them will be three high al
itude explosions in June or July.
The discoverer of the Van Allen'
Radiation Belt, Dr. James Van
Alien of State University of Iowa,
said that a big nudear detonation
at high altitude probably would
kick a hole in the belt but that he
expected that it would be healed
or repaired in a
weeks.
Van Allen said he had no infor
matinn 4Kat ;«mo nf tha clry-high
tests at Johnston Island would be
high enough or strong enough to
rypture the belt.
In another development Wednes
day the Industrial' Union Depart
ment of the AFL-CIO charged that
the government has suppressed
lor more than a year a report that
radiation hazards are more serious
than has been publicly stated. j j
Judson Hardy, an official erf the
VS. Public Health Service, said
of the charge: “I don’t know what
rhe could, be talking about.”
WOULDN'T FIRE . . .
SAN JOSE, Calif. M — Sam
Bozzi Jr. grabbed a pistol from
under his grocery counter Wed
nesday and chased a holdup map
fleeing with $20 from the cash
register.
Bozzi pulled the trigger three
times. The gun didn’t fire. After
ward Bozzi recalled the gun had
never been fired since his father
bought it and put it under the
counter In 1922.
Police caught and booked Glen
Alan Reeves, 33, of San Jose on
suspicion of the: robbery.
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18 THOROUGHBREDS SET
FOR KENTUCKY DERBY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. W —Eighteen
finely-tuned 3-year-old thorough
breds, headed by the favored Sir
Gaylord and the well-liked Ridan,
were named Thursday for the 88th
running of the_$125,000-added Ken
tucky Derby at Churchill Downs
Saturday.
No more than 17 of the horses,
however, are expected to face the
starter. Cicada, who like Sir Gay
lord comes from C. T. Chenery’s
Meadow stable, was entered as in
surance against something happen
ing to the stable’s star.
There were two surprises as the
names of the derby horses were
dropped into the entry box. One
came when L. C. Sternberger de
cided not to enter Doc Jocoy, win
ner of Santa Anita’s San Felipe
Stakes and the California Derby at
Tanforan. The other was the en
try of Lee Town from the J. V. P.
stable of J. V. Pischieri of Hinck
ley, Ohio.
With 17 starters the value of the
race will be $164,650. The winner
will earn $122,150 for his slightly
more than two-minute effort. The
derby record of 2:01 2/5, was set
by Whirlaway in 1941. Only
Needles, the 1956 winner, picked
up a bigger check. His victory was
worth $123,450.
Here are the entries in order
of post positions: Sharp Count,
Sunrise County, Admiral’s Voyage,
Decidedly, Sir Ribot, Green Hor
net, Lee Town, Donut King, Royal
Attack, Mister Pitt, Touch Bar,
Crimson Satan, Good Fight, Ridan,
Roman Line, Cicada, Sir Gaylord,
and Prego.
THURSDAY'S RESULTS
American League
Boston 7, Washington 4
Kansas City 6, Detroit .4
Minnesota 8, Baltimore 4
Chicago 1, New York 0
San Francisco 8, Pittsburgh 4
Philadelphia 9, Milwaukee 8
St. Louis TpHounun v
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4, Seattle 1
Hawaii 4, Portland 3
Salt Lake City 2, Vancouver 1
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Cosmonaut Titov
Views Highlights
Of Washington
WASHINGTON UP) — Soviet cos
monaut Gherman S. Ttitov visited
President Kennedy yesterday after
a busy morning in which he met
U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
and traded shop talk, philosophy
and jokes with Glenn as the Amer
ican led him on a tourist round of
Washington.
The two spacemen reached the
White House about a minute ahead
of their 12:45 p.m. EDT schedule.
A sizable crowd watched from
the sidewalk. The party, including
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dob
rynin, posed for photographs and
then was ushered to Kennedy’s
office.
The two space pilots’ wives,
Annie Glenn and Tamara Titov,
made the sightseeing tour but
dropped out before the White
House call.
Kennedy led the party to the
White House rose garden for a
little ceremony.
“Maj. Titov,” the President said,
“I am very glad to welcome you
to this country, as are the Amer
ican people. I admire what you
did.”
Titov said: “Thank you very
much. It has been a very great
pleasure.”
The Soviet visitor told Kennedy
that Glenn had tried to show him
the city from the top of the Wash
ington Monument, because all
spacemen like to get a high-level
view.
"But it was too misty,” Titov
added through an interpreter.
The President expressed regrets
at that.
After the capital visit, the space
rami’a motorcade of about 50 cars
went to the Smithsonian Institution
where several hundred clapped and
cheered. J
From there they went to the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and
then to the White House.
The meeting between the two
space conquerors was a no-cere
mony affair, and the tour was
carried out as simply.
An early stop on their tour was
the 555-foot Washington Monu
ment where Titov quipped:
“This is the first joint Soviet
American journey into space.”
Glenn laughed when the trans
lation came to him and replied
there is a joke among American
spacemen that the needle-like
monument “would never get off
the pad.”
At the Lincoln Memorial, Glenn
told Titov that it was very beauti
ful at night. He pointed out the
inscriptions on the walls, saying
when he came to Lincoln’s Gettys
burg Address, “It’s very short.”
“All good speeches are short,”
Titov replied.
At the National Archives, as the
spacemen stood before the Decla
ration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States,
the crowd grew quiet.
“You only make progress as you
use what is gone before; that is
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TRAIN - BARGE SERVICE
TO ALASKA STARTS MAY 10
SEATTLE UP) — The Canadian
National Railway will open its
train-barge service from Prince
Rupert to Whittier May 10 aboard
a U.S.-registered barge, the line’s
general agent in Seattle said Wed
nesday.
General agent Walter Scott said
the loaded railcars will make the
water lap of their run aboard a
barge of the Alaska and British
Columbia Transportation Co.
The service now is scheduled to
operate every 12 days, Scott said.
It is considered an attempt on the
part of Canadian National to gain
a greater share of Alaska cargo
from the Midwest.
The Alaska Steamship Co. now
is trying to gain U.S. registry for
the sea train ship City of New
Orleans to permit a similar service
out of Seattle to Alaska, tying in
with the Alaska railroad in the
north and with U.S. transconti
nental rail lines.
true with all countries,” Glenn told
Titov.
The Russian responded in like
philosophy that “during the ages
humanity accumulates experi
ences.”
Wherever they went, they ran
into that American phenomenon—
sequaling teen-agers, who shouted
“It’s Col. Glenn.”
At the capital Titov walked with
Glenn down the long corridor from
the House to the Senate wing, hem
med in so closely by an accom
panying crowd of more than 100
persons that he actually saw little
else.
The first meeting of the space
pilots set the informal tone for
the whole affair.
They were introduced by Dr.
Richard Porter of the National
Academy of Sciences.
After most spectators had been
shooed out, Porter reported, the
two got into “a pretty lively,
friendly discussion.”
One subject, he reported, was
the phenomenon Glenn described
as “Fireflies” and Titov called]
“phosphorescent spots” visible
through portholes during their or-i
bital flights. I
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Air Force
Bounces TV
Signal Off Satellite
WASHINGTON W — The House
Thursday overwhelmingly passed a
bill to establish a private corpora
tion to run a world-wide communi
cations network using space satel
lites as relay stations.
Just before the 354-9 roll call,
word came through that the Air
Force successfully transmitted a
television signal from coast to
coast by bouncing it off the Echo I
balloon satellite.
Using much improved techni
ques, the proposed communications
network some day will carry mes
sages and pictures instantly to any
spot around the globe.
There was strong bipartisan sup
port for the bill, which now goes
to the Senate.
The experiment was conducted
April 24 with a transmission from
the Camp Parks, Calif., field sta
tion of the Massachusettes Institute
of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory
to the Millstone Hill Laboratory at
Westford, Mass. The Echo I satel
lite served as the reflector for the
bounced signal.
The distance between the two
land points is about 2,700 miles,
but the signal, traveling up to the
orbiting satellite and back to earth,
traveled about 3,000 to 4,000 miles.
The satellite was at an altitude
of about 1,000 miles when the
transmission was made.
Quality of the first picture was
not good. It looked somewhat like
a badly-adjusted home TV re
ceiver, with “snow.” But the pic
ture shown to newsmen yester
day — a lettered card with the
initials M. I. T. — was entirely
recognizeable.
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