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Thursday, June 6. 1957 PRUCES PAGE THIRTEEN Set" AflaihaBy Britain's Second Explosion Of H-Bbmb RONALD THOMSON CHRISTMAS ISLAND, June 6 Britain's second H-bomb blast generated 2,000 times that of the sun surface nnd sot an island ablaze. William chief scientist -for the British nuclear tests in tho Pacific, said the explosion was "complete success in every way" Dropped By Jet Bomber The heat generated, Cook told icporters, was rated at" 10 million degrees centigrade 16,666,666 de- giees Fahrenheit. 'The average sill eat of the sun's surface-is fig; med at 10,000 degrees Fahren- Thc bomb, reportedly equal to five million tons of TNT, was di'opped by a Valient jet bomber and exploded about two miles 1 higli, near the small Pacific atoll 5of Maiden, 400 miles south of'Is- Uand. f' The British bomb was believed 'to be about half the size of the bomb the Americans tested at Bikini last Hot Timber Aflajne Cook said the blast set timber afire over Maiden's five-mile length.

Four hours later fires still raged, he added. "Even pieces of wood washed xip shore "appeared to be blazing" Cook said. The explosion, recorded by scientific instruments placed on Maiden, caused no radiation conlami- nation on the he said. This finding led'-to speculation the British may have perfected a 'clean" bomb that could be used Coi land or sea warfare. British nuclear scientists taking tt pait in the operation said such a bomb could be used as a field weapon.

It would high 1 degree of safety for nonenemy si troops moving into the blast area once direct' fall-out had jrobably within a few days. Xo Slgii of Perry They stressed, however, that for such use the bomb would have to be touched off at least two miles high. At lower levels, fallout would imperil troops on both sides. Pilots flying over Maiden after Friday's blast saw no sign of Percy, the wild pig, only living thing left on. Maiden among a complex of barometers and radiation measuring instruments.

Percy camfe through apparently unscathed after Britain's first'nu- clear blast May 35. In The Service SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FHTNC) -Jose Romero, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Romero of 734 S.

Campo, Las Cruces, N. aboard the destroyer USS Halsey Powell, left San Diego, May '21 for six-month tour of the Western Pacific. The ship, a unit of Destroyer Division 171, is scheduled to visit Pearl Harbor, T. Yokosuka, and Sascbo, Japan. FORT Wash.

(AHT- NC)--Army Pvt. Tommy H. Cannon, son of Hugh A. Cannon, 10-10 W. Van Patten Las Cruces, N.

is receiving basic combat training with Company of the 2d Infantry Division's 38th Regi- icnt at Fort-Lewis, Wash. Cannon attended Boy's High School in Channing, and was formerly employed by Santa Monica fCallf.) Plumbing Supply and the West Coast Police Patrol in Santa Monica. Wallace, a Civil general, wrote the best selling novel, Ben Hur. NAVY MAKES EXCEPTION FOR THEM OFFICIALS ol the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, stretched its June Week regulations to make room, not only fpr romance, but' tor the whole family Midshipman Roger, Hotondi (left), Winchester, a member of the graduation class.

Ordinarily each Midshipman is limited to seven tickets for June Week exercises. But Kotondi revealed that he was to become engaged to Miss Jean Volpe (right) during June Week, and he wanted a ticket for her, plus two for her parents, plus more for his own parents and his 12 brothers and sisters. He asked for a waiver of the "7" rule and the Navy came through'with the 17 tickets. At bottom is a picture of Midshipman Rotondi and Ms family. (International Soundpliolo) CONTRACT BRIDGE a (lop In Mailan' Individual Chumplnnihlp QUII You are the dealer, both sldca vulnerable, end have opened One Spade.

Your partner has responded Three Spades. Wliat do you now bid with each of the following four hands? 1. 4AQ83 fK95 3, 4KJ754 i. 4AG I l. Three notrump.

Partner's double raise Is forcing lo game. His bitl.ln effect, states he also has an opening bid, Including spade support. More specifically, tho three spade bid represents a hand of 13 to 15- points and includes at loaal four trumps. The 13 to 15 polnta may consist of high cards without distributional values, or less In high cards plus distributional values. The purpose of the three no- trump bid is to cover those hands rcaponder may have which are aUo adaptable to notrump play.

The play for nine tritks, in such cms, Is apt to prove easier to make than tho ten-trick spade contract, 2, Four notrump. This is BUckwood bid requesting partntf to identify the number of aces he has. I( partner shows either or two aces, by bidding five diamonds or five hearts, the slam thould bid forthwith. Although art only 18 high card points, tlam chances very promlilnx because of tht distributional situation. Onlyrare- will Ihe play tot slam prove ess than adequate.

For tactical reasons, a four diamond bid is not desirable. Noth- ijg should be done to dissuade the opening leader from malting a diamond lead. Announcing the diamond suit is more likely to aid the defense than partner, 3. Four spades. This is'just a 6 1 chance for a slam is too remote to be seriously considered.

Although we have good distributional features, the fact remains there are only 13 high card points. Considering that partner, in most about the same in high cards, a. slam try should be dismissed. To show the heart'suit at thU point infers interest in a slam, which partner might eake No such idea should be conveyed te partner. There is no need to tell' partner (and the opponents) about the secondary ill.

4. Five If partner a minimum three spade bid there Is not much hope of a slam, but if partner has the maximum a ilam Is quite likely. Observe that the four notrump' convention Is not uaed. The tlon is not whether partner has an ace, but rather the quality of Ills jump response. Intcrmedjtte cards arc needed to settle Ue car Issue, not 'controls.

Partner looking his cants-- he knows whether he hu them. WORLD WEEK AlABTfMOHISTS 1 MASSACBI IHTtll MAU POPULATION, MORE THAN WO, IN ALGERIAN TOWN AND ADf CONfEK ON UNKING DISAKMAMINTWITH GERMAN UNIFICATION PRESIDENT rOSIOFFICf IIU, SAYS THEIE Will HAVE 10 BE MORI MONEY BY JULY I IN MID.I95S, RISING 1.4 PER MORE THAN 7,000 FLOODED OUT OF HOMES IN TEXAS AS NATION ENDS WORST TORNADO JORDAN ACCUSES 1YRIA OF PARTICIPATION IN RECENT ATTEMPT TO OUST KING HUSSEIN AS LAST TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN CHINESE NATIONALIST POIIC TRY TO LEAIN WHAT'S BEHIND ANTI'AMERICAN RIOT TOUCHED OFF BY SERGEANT'S ACOUlTTAt Hollywood Writer Says Is Chief Hazard In Creative TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK, Juno 6 UP)--More ind more planes are flying cxecu- ves and technicians on eorpor- business. More corporations are buying eir.own planes and hiring, their yn pilots and maintenance' men. In 1946 business owned about 500. planes.

Ten years later it ad about 23,000. afety Problems Posed The National Business Aircraft ssn. estimates investment in usiness flying, including main- nance, at 470 million dollars. The ones range small personal yp-es to huge million-dollar craft. The Flight Safely Foundation, hich started ils business aircraft afety program in 1955, estimates lat business-owned planes will be eking off million flying hours 1960.

The more planes, the nore flying, and therefore the renter the safety problem in Civil Aeronautics Adminislra- on figures for 1954, lalest avail- ble for all types of flying, puts he fatal accident rate for all busi- ess i at 7.10 per million dies. This Is sharply higher than rate of the U. S. domestic air- nes, which was 0.50 per 100 mil- on miles, but notably lower than he fatality rate for pleasure fly- ng, which was 95 per 100 million crvcs 122 Companies The foundation's safety program ow serves 122 companies owning nd operating aircraft for busi- ess. IL issues business pilots siife- bulletins and sponsors scmi- ars to" give business pilots a hance to-share information in avigation, traffic control, corn- lunications and general opera- Ions.

Company planes arc mainly at he disposal of lop corporate cutives. But in these complicated imes they are used increasingly other employes. Sales officials, op technicians, purchasing agents and labor relations men are ftown spots needing attention. School Principal Wins Long Fight For His Demotion Fess Parker Tells Of High Sea Adventure BERLIN, N. Y.

June 6 UPl-- After lour tries, supervising principal Earlc W. Hewitt of Berlin Central School got what ie wanted--a demotion. Hewitt, supervising principal since 1951, asked the school board in 1954, 1955 and 1956 to allow him to return to his old position as a science teacher. Each time the board persuaded him lo continue us an administrator. Yesterday, Hewitt repeated to the board thai he "prefers teaching to being a principal." This time Ihe board agreed.

Hewitt's salary as supervising principal was not disclosed. The board said his wages would be cut $2.000 when he resumes teaching in the fall. Virgin-id Pigeon Ends Up In- Home hi North Carolina RICHMOND, June 6 UP)-Miss Joyce McGalliard of i N. says she has a pigeon Hint belongs to a Richmonder nnd she wants to know what to do. In a letter Lo Mayor F.

Henrj Garbcr, Miss McGalliard said tho pigeon wearing a leg band a ed "Richmond" flew into he house during a storm May 19. She asked Mayor Garner to find the owner or "let me know how to take care of it because have not had any experience with pigeons." It is estimated that there arc icarly one million men in the United States who "wear some form jf wig or toupee. HOLLYWOOD, June 6 is a l.ile of high adventure nvolving Indian attacks und stormy seas iind starring none other than Fess Parker. And did Davy Crockett stand off the redskin marauders with thl Betsy? Not on your life. He ilaye'd possum.

The Hiory begins in Seattle, vhere Fess went lo pick up his iew racing sloop, a 46-footer named Choleta. He took' along six pals to bring her home to southern waters. None was a professional sailor, bul three were veterans of the nialnland-to-HonoluHi a e. That wus fortunate. Played Possum All wont well through Pugct sound, Fess related.

"But when we wore anchoret! off the Straits of Juun De Fucn eight Indian boys rowed out to our boat one night," ho said. "They were whoopin' nnd hollcrln' am 1 shout in' for Davy Crockett's scalp I was smart, I juat played possum and they went' away." The rough weather started as they plied through the straits nnt there wcfe. heavy seas off the coast 6C 'Washington. When thej put into Astoria, the cool jumped slitp. Fess himself tool over the.

galley chores. niUl Go "But it was mostly peanut but tor 011 we got of the coast of Oregon," he said. "I started off a beautiful day, clcai as crystal. In just a few. hour we were facing wl'nds of r0 knots -Idlllng you, it was touch and go for a while.

The boal was not in real danger, but there wa no telling whether the winds Employment lifts 4ll-Tiine High In State 1 During April ALBUQUERQUE, June (I --A total.of 202,200 persons were mployed In non-farm' work in Mexico last munth for an till lino high, the Employment Sec- irity Com mission, reports. April's total surpassed the irevious monthly record of 200,00 set lust October. Commission Chairman M. F. Miera said stiilewttle employ nent in April was 3,200 above he March figure and 12.500 above the total a yeur ago.

Miera said overall job pros- iccts "appear good for the next several months," especially In fields of construction. VALLEY LOAN FINANCE. COMPANY 112 W. Griggs Ave JAckson 6-5731 "Ifs Easy To Pay Our Finance Way" LOANS DISCOUNTS AUTOMOBILE REAL ESTATE. COLLATERAL -We Buy All Types of Contracts- It, IK, cute and comfortable gay colors guaranteed washable light as a cloud ach with Black Navy with Navy, and vyhltt Whltt with Black and Black with Black and Red trim Navy with Navy and White trim White with White and Red trim ate jiwt Brj Ik HUUU), HWW) It duete fwml 70 or in knots." Fortunately, the winds subsided nit danger wasn't past.

A playful group of whales-JO or 40 of them--cavorted aboi 300 yards fCom the Choleta. Tin. port-lime sailors were happy to jet away, Fess had lo put into San Fnu cisco to return to the Disney sti By IIAI. UOVl.E NEW YORK. 6 hazard in creative work is success," said Robert Rossen, one of Hollywood's few top Iriple threat men.

"Once a man wins success he vniits to hold on to it too much. becomes afraid to take chances nd do risky things. He becomes, autious and repetitious. "I believe there's a lot, of sense 11 that old dice table anying: "Got i hunch--bel unt'd Buck 'I don't feel so afraid of suc- 6V afraid of losing it. I've tad a couple of faljures and learned to bounce back from them." Rossen, who recently directed Dnrryl F.

Zanuk's production of 'Island In the Sun," is a chunky on.ier F.usl Side kid who first punched his way to Ihe top i ils typewriter. Now ho ranks with a few other rilm colony ull-around sturs such ia John Huston, Ullly Wilder am! Nunnal.y Johnson who can write Urect, or produce a picture, Two films in which RoKnen per- rormod all three ehorca wore his Academy Awiird winning "all King's en" ami "Alexander the Great." Lose Objectivity Acting siimiltfineou.sly as wrlU'r- iliroctor-producer, he feels, lias both defects and advantages. "The biggest advantage Is Unit you jyel a unified look, an individual interpretr.tlim," he said. "When you're right, you're very very right. "But the disadvantage is that imcUmea, in doing three Jobs on a film, you lose objectivity, because you don't have time to reflect.

You lack the corrective benefit of varying points of view--and when you're wrong tlien, you can be awfully far wrong." Perhaps because of his own rug- ged Lower East Side Rosscn's favorite film theme is' the individual's own struggle with-'' in himself and against hlfl environment, a theme dramatically presented in one of his finest pic- lures, "The Brave Bulls." Derides GcnlUM Theory "I think environment plays more important place in our lives than most of u.i realize," he re-, marked. At this point in his career Rossen stiys ho no longer would let one of his own screen plays be directed by another man. "It would ue a schizophrenic thing to do," he said. "I foci now I could dovclop tho script's i values better myself, rather than have them filtered through another mind." Then he added, smiling, "but don't get the Idea 1 think of. myself ns a genius, or want anybody else to.

Being a gimlufl is much trouble. FIHES 1H AUD.TOKS SANTA FB, 5 UI1--State Auditor J. D. Hannah has served', notice of dismissal, effective June JO, on 18 pcrso'ns on tbe. public null ting staff, of.

State Cbgiptrpll-v er Diulwurd Ilarlman. Hannuh-ja, LO take over 1057 law. Haiumh Democrat. Hn.rt.nan Is a Republican. dios and finish up "Old Yoller" with Dorothy McGuire.

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