The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-08-23

SZllard often had particular prob
LENS which DR.. .Creutz handled and
many of which worked on. Despite
what newspapers and radio reporters
say about the men who deserve
credit for the development of the
atomic bomb, these three men and
DR.. Oppenheimer deserve most of
the credit. l knew Fermi, Vignor
and Szilard well enough to talk to
and sat in many discussions with
them and other members of the pro-
iect. DR.. Fermi had his office at
Chicago right adjoining Creutz's
lab. Every now and then when Foss
and l were making a little too much
noise for his thought processes, he
would send his secretary over to
have us turn off our equipment. DR..
Szilard was flooded out of his office
one morning by one of our expert
ments which went hay-wire
Speaking of Foss, he joined me
in Creutz's lab shortly after / was
sent there. He is now at the Santa
Fe location as is DR.. Creutz.
when I left Chicago, / was as
signed to a new and different type
of work on the project-protection
of personnel. l trained for a while
at Oak Ridge and then came to Rich
land. 1 have been working as
Physicist in the Medical Department
here ever since. My job, like the
others in our group, is a consultant
one, but not nearly as interesting
as the one had in Chicago
'Richland is a rather pretty town,
but don't be misled by the glamor-
Gus newspaper account. The sage
brush around here is anything but
picturesque, and the heat is terrific.
Oak Ridge, Tenn, is more spread
out and nicer in some ways. 1t is
larger then nearby Knoxville, now.
I'm very proud to have been and
to be member of the scientific staff
of such history making project
I'm glad / knew two years ago, too,
that the project was going to be
history making one
''Peacetime uses of the project will
still have to be developed AS yet.
except for few products, atomic
power is useless and unmanageable.
Remember, to produce atomic
power, it is necessary to work be-
hind 6 or Z #. concrete walls. Neu-
irons, and other particles such as
alpha and beta rays, are deadly -
even more so than X-rays. Most of
my work for the last year has been
just in these lines. Fortunately, the
bomb itself produces little of this
thazard. ."
Bill McAdams graduated from
Hagerstown High School in 1886 and
from Washington College, Chester
ton, Md, in 1910. Immediately fol-
lowing his college graduation he
joined the Du Pont Company as a
Physicist, later becoming Ballistic
Engineer at the Smokeless Powder
Plant at Charlestown, Ind. In Febr-
uary, 1914, he married Miss Anna
Mckay, of Indiana, and the young
couple are now temporarily making
their home in Richland, Washington.
Another of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Adams sons, the late Captain Mar
vim Leon McAdams, was killed in
an air crash, near Sutton, w Va, on
October IA, 1913, while flying from
Langley Field, Virginia, to Evans
viale, Ind. He was co-pilot of Fly
ing Fortress in the Pacific Theater
of Operations before returning to
the United States as an instructor at
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
| Their third son, Cpl. George Nc
Adams, has been on active service
in the Pacific War Zone for nearly
three years and their son-in-law,
Cpl. Elmer Miner, husband of the
former Miss Elizabeth McAdams,
has been on active service in the Eu-
! ropean zone for 18 months.