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tinent. Serious fallout" was
measured downwind from
about Is strikes. particularly
in New England, the Great
Lakes Region. the Southeast
ern states and the West Coast.
Communications Hurt
There were some painful
delays in communication" in
the exercise. it was acknowl-
edged. One of the worst in
stances of confusion was at
the secret news center within
200 miles Of Washington. Re-
ports Of make-believe bomb
ines of prime targets Jagged
four and five hours behind the
event.
Some "a hours after the
simulated attack, officials an
nounced "the United States
has survived" In the prelimi-
nary estimates for each of the
seven Federal Civil Defense
regions, Region 2. which in
cludes the District, was re-
ported with 80 targets struck.
District Civil Defense Direc-
tor John Fondahl, working
with the city organization
based at Olney. Md. reported
late yesterday that District
workers were gradually NOV
ing back toward the District, I"
as radiation danger subsidized,
and the western sector of the
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Last Of . Series

few feet. or even a few miles.
Moreover. nobody knows
whether he is in quite the same
place this year as he was last
year,
This situation is true in part
to alterations Of gravity. The
planet is. Of course, roughly a
globe. but it bulges at the
equator and f1attens at the
poles. AS a result the pull of
gravity toward the earth's CEN
ter varies from place to place.
1t also varies according to local
conditions, such as would be
due to great masses Of heavy
rock buried below the earth's
crust.
Clues in Variations
Local variations in gravita-
tional pull, as well as larger
regional variations, give pros
pectors clues as to the loca-
ton of minerals and petroleum.
They also influence quite con-
siderably the precision of meas
urements made by astronomers
and map makers.
Only in thickly populated
areas have reasonably precise
and complete gravity measure
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Red Area Trip
UrgedonDu
By the As.ociated Press

A proposal that Secretary of
State Dulles make a personal
tour Of Communist dominated
Eastern Europe in search of q
more durable peace was adj
vanced yesterday by Senator
Mansfield, Democrat of Mon
tana. Mansfield. who is assist
ant Democratic leader of the
Senate. included his suggestion
in a globe-ranging 12,0O0-word
speech that touched OF a lively
foreign policy discussion on the
Senate floor. Debate on civil
rights legislation. for which the
Saturday session was convened.
was temporarily sidetracked.
Senator Mansfield criticized
Eisenhower administration pol
icy as based on a "fear-laden
imitation Of the Soviet threat"
which he said can "only lead
to a fruitless search for abso-
lutte security" He said this
country ought to be "big
enough and confident enough"
TO initiate a positive policy for
peace.
For one thing, he suggested
mutual advantages might re-
suit If the United States ex-
pands its trade with other con-
facts with Eastern European
nations "as the occasion pre-
sents ITSELF"
Asserting the situation in
Eastern Europe, particularly in
Poland and Czechoslovakia, is
highly relevant" to the over
riding problem of European
stability, Senator Mansfield
said:
1T seems to me that as a
first step, the Secretary of
State in his travels abroad
might see At to visit those
countries of Eastern Europe
where he feels it may be useful
to go and to bring back a re-
port to the people Of the United
States on what is actually going
on in them"
AS for the world situation in
general. Senator Mansfield de-
clared that this so-called
peace is not peace at ALL" but
"a desperate clinging by finger
tips to survival"
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city could be entered for short
periods.
Camp Established
Some $500 civil defense peo-
pie were establishing a camp
at Western and Wisconsin ave-
nues to tackle the work of road
clearance and rescue forays for
persons who might still be
alive.
Some 400 Metropolitan po-
licemen were presumed casu-
alties in the exercise. The evac-
uees were supposedly scattered
through Virginia and Mary
land.
Some 5000 Government off,
Gals and key workers will Join
the exercise tomorrow. From
about 80 Government agencies
here they will report to 80
emergency relocation centers
In half a dozen States to
fashion an economy Of simu-
lated controls and rationing.
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viii constitute a considerable
part Of the worldwide pro-
gram. Because Of the instability
Of the ocean surface. all deep
water measurements must be
made with submarines SUBJ
merged to such a depth as to be
below wave action.
This work will be carried out
primarily by the Lamont Lab
oratory of Columbia and the
Navy photographic ONCE, u.s.
ing different types Of instru-
mentS. The measurements can
now be made with such pre-
cision. says DR.. George P. VOL
lard Of the University of Michi-
gan. chairman Of the gravity
program. that they should 60
far to determine the actual
shape of the world.
Another important phase of
the gravity program Is that Of
observations to be made at two
floating stations in the Arctic.
These will shed light on the
amount of fiattenine at the
top Of the world and also the
daily tidal variation. Gravity
measurements also will be used
in studying thickness Of the
great ice cap which covers the
Antarctic continent. Each of
the parties operating out of the
South Pole, Marie Byrd Land
and Little America stations will
be engaged in this work. Over
a long term, 1t is pointed out,
these measurements can be
used to determine possible
wasting or build-up of the ice
cap.
another phase OF lnVeStlga-
ton is the response Of the
earth's crust to tidal attrac-
tons of the sun and moon.
Measurements using super
sensitive gravimeters capable of
recording variations Of one part
in 100. 100000 will be made for
a period Of 81 days at each of
a series of selected sites chosen
because of their geological set
ting. The United States earth
tide program is integrated with
that of other countries through
out the world so that stimuli
taneous observations will be
made on a global basis.
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ments been made. The seas
and much Of the southern
hemisphere are almost blanks.
Relatively little is known
about the Arctic.
AS part of the ICY program
United States scientists will
make gravity measurements in
the western hemisphere. and
the floors Of Atlantic and Pacif-
ic. Measurements will be made
in rapid succession to complete
establishments of a common
gravity standard throughout
the world. Gravimeters, stand.
ard instruments for measuring
gravity, placed on ships and
on relatively shallow ocean bot
toms, will supply data up to so
miles from the American
shores. Submarines will carry
instruments across the oceans.
The primary objective will be to
determine the precise shape of
the planet.
Rightly of Earth
The gravity measurements
also will be used to help deter
mine the rigidity Of the earth
and may shed considerable
light on its internal structure.
Deep in the semi-liquid core
Of the planet move tides SINH
lar to sea tides. but on a smaller
scale. Gravity measurements
indicate the nature of these
tides.
Gravity observations at sea
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Will Tile COtIltIldtlO phase 10
continue for IS hours.
Locally, bombs" fell on
Union Station, over the Poto-'
mac railroad yards in Alexan-
dria and over Andrews Air
Force Base, Prince Georges
County.
In the District exercise, the
make-believe death toll had
reached $4,000 and the in
jured, $4,000 as of last night.
A supposed $4,000 persons had
been evacuated from the city.
President on Farm
Two hours after the alert,
President Eisenhower climbed
into q helicopter and was flown
to a mountaintop point of
safety. Yesterday. he went to
Gettysburg. Pa. for the week
end.
At another hideaway within
200 miles of Washington, civil
defense leaders carried out the
Presidents test orders to cope
with the mock destruction.
Territory holding more than
half the population was esti-
mated to have been struck,
tentatively 95.5 million in the
target areas Of the continent
tai United States, Alaska,
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and
the Panama Canal Zone.
The fallout pattern was
tracked in a clockwise direction
from the heart of the con-
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FoIIs OFF the WAGON

BALTIMORE. July 10 (R.-
Hospitalized last night with a
fractured ankle. James White,
%, told police he received the
injury when he toppled from a
horse-drawn wagon after he
fell asleep at the reins.
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Civil Defense Brooms
Sweep Mythical Debris

Civil defense conngents continued their paper efforts to-.
DAY to bring sembance Of order out Of the imagined devasa-
ton OF ITS Hbombs hitting 1872 American with the waop
OF nearly 452 million tons of TINT
Operation Alert 1857 the fourth annual civil defense drill
the United States and its territories began at noon FRIDAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-14
PROBING THE UNIVERSE
Scientists to Study
( Shape of Earth
BY THOMAS z. HENRY
Science Editor Of The Star

The world. most folks granted since 1892
Is round.
That however is only approximately true Nobody knows
Its exact shape big job the world during the next
II months OF the International Geophyscal Year will
md out Also 1t pointed in prospecuses for latitude
and longitude determinations
nhndN urtar he
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nobody knows exactly where he
Is on the planets surface by a
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
GRADS TO HEAR
JOHN G. LEACH
Will Speak at Annual Com
mencement at High School
Wednesday, June II
SIXTY-SIX GRADUATES

John G. Leach, vice president
and director of education of Gold
ey Beacon School of Business
will be the speaker for the 73rc
annual commencement at Smyrna
High School on Wednesday even
ing, June IL. Mr.. Leach, a well.
known citizen of Delaware, is ac.
tive in many civic organizations
throughout the state. He is trus.
tee of the University of Della
ware, chairman of the University
Finance Committee, president Of
the Delaware Society for Crippled
Children and Adults, Inc, state
chairman of the 1947 drive of the
Delaware Heart Association
chairman of the New Castle Coun-
ty Chapter of the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis. One
of the founders of Camp Barnes
Mr.. Leach was responsible for the
acquisition of land and the first
financial drive of Delaware Chiefs
of Police. He is trustee of the
Delaware Association of Policies
Pushmobile Derby. Mr.. Leach
holds the Award of Merit from
the American Legion, Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, and Disabled Amer
lean Veterans. He is the recipient
of the Gold Key from the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
and the Gold Badge from the
Delaware Association of Police
Mr.. Leach is author of various
pamphlets and papers including
Lincoln at Gettysburg" Origin
of the Monroe Doctrine" and
New Techniques in Business
Management" In 1858, as a re-
suit of action taken by the Della
ware State Board of Education
the name of the Delaware Day
School for Handicapped Children
was changed to the John G
Leach School. Members of the
board publicly stated that they
were comforting this honor upon
Mr.. Leach as a result of his great
service to the adults and children
of Delaware. The annual COM
mencement will be. held in the
auditorium of the John Bassett
Moore High School at 8 pm. Six
ty-six graduates will receive di-
plomas from board president, Mrs
Margaret M. O'Neill Platform
CONTINUED on Page Fourl
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
WELFARE HOME
GETS $547,165
Federal Grant Approved for
Construction of New Build
ing at Welfare Home
ADDS 200 BEDS

The U. S. Public Health Service
has approved a federal grant Of
S547, ,165 toward construction of =
new building for treatment of pa
tients with chronic diseases at
the State Welfare Home for the
Chronically i'll at Smyrna. The
federal agency informed U. S.
Rep. Harry G. Haskell (R-Del.l
of its approval, which clears the
way for construction of the ST.
647, 900 building to house 200 pa
tients. The General Assembly ap-
propriated S1,100,000 for the prof.
ect in 1855. Since then, plans
have been drawn and an applica-
ton filed for the federal money
under the Hill-Burton Act. DR..
G. j. Prickett, superintendent, de-
clared that the announcement is
"the best news I've had for a
long time, and climaxing six
years of effort toward getting the
new building to relieve overcrowd-
ing. The home currently has 465
patients, housed in accomoda-
tions designed for 345. The new
building with 200 beds will pro-
vide for the excess and leave
room for expansion. According to
DR.. Prickett the new building win
be a one-story structure, in line
with current thinking on the de-
sign of hospitals for geriatric
patients. Ramps will be used in
stead of steps, The building, de-
signed by the architectural firm
of Whiteside, Moeckel and Carbon
ell, will have central core with
five wings. Between two of the
wings there will be a court de-
veloped for outdoor resting by
wheel chair patients. The build
ing will contain a chapel-auditor->
ium with 100 fixed seats and room
for scores of wheel chairs. The
hospital will have rooms for occu-
pational threapy, physio-therapy
meditation, and for sewing. There
will be a large day room in each
of five divisions. A dining room
for patients, an employees dining
room, and storage areas are a1ss
provided.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
ELECT
NEW OFFICERS
Wells Campbell Named Head
of Lions Club for
Coming Year
PLAN CHARTER NIGHT

officers of the Smyrna Lions
Club were elected Monday night
to serve for the coming year, as
follows: Wells Campbell, presi-
dent; Sydney Bancroft, first vice
president; Norman G. Wilder, Sec
ond vice president; Robert Mills,
third vice president; Charles V.
Williams, secretary treasurer;
Joseph Passwaters, lion tanner;
Guy Edmondson, tail twister;
Leonard Hitch and James R.
Ford, directors for two years.
Fifteen boys and girls were
guests of their fathers at the
Daughter-Son night celebration.
They were entertained by two
comedy cartoon films after din
ner. Richard c. Price was the
projectionist. 1t was decided that
instead of a program on Monday,
June 10, the club members would
attend the Little League baseball
game in a group. The Lions are
one of the sponsors of the LittleI
League. The regular dinner meet
ing at The Wayside Inn will pre-
cede attendance at the game.
Norman c.. Wilder announced that
the final Saturday night dance
for young teenagers had been
held for the sumner months. The
members of the club voted to
make contributions toward ground
maintenance at the Youth Gen.
ter during the summer. Wells
Campbell, reporting on the Lit
tie League, said that team selec-
tions had been made and the re-
naming boys will be divided into
minor league teams. Charles M.
Gee reported that all details had
been planned for the charter
night dinner-dance at Schaeffer's,
Chesapeake City, on Monday,
June "a. Robert Everett conduct
ed the business session.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
TWO AWARDED
LIFE SCOUTS
William Slacum and Ernest
Brown Made Life Scouts at
Recent Court of Honor
OTHER AWARDS MADE

At a Boy Scout Court of Honor
held at the Youth Center recent
ly the following awards were
made to members of Boy Scout
Troop 1876, of which Earl c. Ford
is scoutmaster: Ernest Brown and
William Slacum, life scout award;
Richard Cole and Oscar David,
star award; James Davis and
James Rogers, first class; James
David, Norman Davis, William
Cornelius, George Jackson, Ed
ward Rogers, and James VESSEL,
second class. Members of Troop
1876 are going to Camp Rodney
for one week, June 30-July Z, and
will attend the Camporee at Pet
ersburg the weekend of June g.
8. According to announcement by
the scoutmaster, thirty-nine boys
have registered for the coming
year.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
CASES BEING
INVESTIGATED
Smyrna Police Investigating
Cases Including Motor
Vehicle Accidents
TOWNSEND BOY HIT

The Smyrna police have been
busy investigating a large num-
ber of cases including four motor
vehicle accidents, as well as ar
rests for larceny, reckless driv-
ing, speeding and other motor We
hicle violations, disorderly con-
duct, assault and battery, shop
lifting, and breaking and entering.
Early Saturday night jeffrey Mel
vim, six-year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Melvin, of near
Blackbird, suffered a broken left
leg and cuts and bruises when he
ran into the path of a car driven
by Franklin d. Heverin, RID. 2,
Townsend, on Main Street in
front of the Post Office. He was
picked up by his father who was
across the street and carried to
the family car driven by his
mother, and was taken by her to
Kent General Hospital, Dover, af-
ter attention by DR.. Harold ].
Laggner. Heverin was held and
charged with assault and battery
by automobile for a hearing at a
later date. William j. Swain,
Bridgeville, was taken to Kent
General Hospital in the American
Legion ambulance where he was
admitted for cuts of lip and face
and possible head and chest in
juries after an accident on U. S.
Route 13. He was travelling north
and about rs feet north of South
Street his car pulled to the right
side parking area, rammed two
cars owned by Farmers Supply
Company, with resulting damage
to the three vehicles estimated at
approximately $1,400. Damages
amounting to $270 We're caused
when a car driven by Lindsey
Hill, Bridgeton, N. j., was MAX
ing turn on Church Street into
the side of a car owned by How
ard and Jean Nowland, Smyrna,
which was parked. Hill was ar
rested for failing to have his car
under control so as to avoid an
accident, and was fined $40 by
Alderman William M. Doughten.
A minor accident was investigated
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Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
RECEIVE RED CROSS AWARD
Local Volunteers Awarded Pins in
Recognition of Long Service

Area No. 4, Delaware Chapter,
American Red Cross was repre-
sented at the annual branch con-
ference held at the Hotel Hen
lopen, Rehoboth Beach, on Tues
day by the following volunteers:
Miss Catherine Warner, motor
corps; Miss Henrietta Denney,
secretary; Mrs. Clay Bailey, home
nursing chairman; Mrs. Walter
w. Speakman, newly-appointed
chairman of Junior Red Cross;
and Mrs. Henry c. Webb, public
information chairman. In recog-
milton of long service, pins have
been awarded to the following:
Miss Jane A. Reed, first aid SER
vice, five years; Mrs. Lester
Smith, motor service, ten years;
Mrs. Louise Denney Clifton, MEM
ber of board, and Miss Henrietta
Denney, secretary, fifteen years;
and Mrs. Henry c. Webb, public
information, twenty years.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
500 ATTEND PROM
Annual Junior Prom of Smyrna
School Held Friday Night

The annual Junior Prom of
Smyrna High School was held
last Friday night in the gymnasi-
UNI Of rhe school with approxi-
mately three hundred juniors, SEN
iors, and their guests attending.
Music was by Lee Paige's FIVE
piece orchestra. Each year the
members Of the junior class at
the school entertain the seniors at
formal dance. Alice Teat serv-
ed as chairman of the committee
on arrangements, assisted by all
the members of the junior class.
The theme of the dance and the
decorations was based on two
songs, almost Paradise" and
stairway to the Stars" the lat
ter being the motif of a huge
31-x12-foot backdrop picture de-
picting the stairway" with cot
ton clouds and stars of aluminium
foil used, all framed in crepe
paper. The dance was cabaret
style and the tables were decorat-
ed with pink and white peonies.
The color scheme throughout was
pink and blue. The east wall of
the gymn bore in pink and blue
letters the junior class motto:
knowledge Conquers the World"
and the west wall that of the
seniors: 1--WE Came; We Learned;
We Conquered"
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
Kenton Grange Presents Program

The Kenton Grange presented
the Kent County Pomona Grange
visiting program at Trophy
Grange, FELTON,, Monday night
with Winfred Gruwell, master of
Trophy Grange receiving the sym
boil of the Three Graces from
Chapman Shockley, master of the
Kenton Grange. There were about
fifty persons present representing
five oranges in the county. The
program included vocal solo
and harmonica solo by Mr.. Shock
ley; reading, Mrs. Belle Palmer;
piano solo, Mrs. Loretta Clark,
a skit, Mr.. and Mrs. Shockley;
clarinet solo, Richard Shockley;
reading, Harold Stauffer. Miss
Peggy Palmer and Mrs. Susie
Knotts were in charge of games
and prize winners were Mrs.
James Hates and Wallace Caulk.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
TOWN COUNCIL MEETS
Walter Nichols Resigns from Pol
ice Force; Receive 5 Applications

The attention of Smyrna Town
Council was centered on a varied
agenda Friday night when men,
bers of the street committee,
Town Manager Rex D. Gilmore,
and Mayor George M. Blendt
were authorized to meet with re-
presentatives of the State High
way Department for inspection
of construction on Commerce
Street on Monday morning. Will
liam Schoolfield conducted the
meeting in the absence of the
mayor. The resolution expressing
councils opposition to the pass
age of a bill now in the Sfatle
Legislature which sets the tax
rate in Smyrna at fifty cents per
$100 property valuation was
adopted and made a part of the
minutes. Chief of Police John w.
Jacobs reported the resignation
of Walter Nichols from the
Smyrna police department and
told of five applications received
for the position. A motion auth
orizing Chief Jacobs, the town
manager, and the two police COM
missioners to interview and select
a patrolman, subject to the years
usual probation, to fill the vacan-
cy, was carried. Chief Jacobs al
so submitted letter from the
Delaware State Police to Sergt.
John Stats, of the Smyrna pol
ice, thanking him for his assist
ance and cooperation with Chief
Investigator Burrill F. Mccoy, of
the State police, concerning a re-
cent murder case. The letter
states. "It is only through this
type of assistance given an officer
of one police department to an
other police department that cas-
es such as these are able to be
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Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
Death of Mrs. saIIie Rusby

Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie
Rusby, 80, who died in Kent Gen.
eral Hospital on May %, were
held from the FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel on Sunday, May 26. In
terment was in Odd Fellows Gem
etery. Mrs. Rusby, the daughter
of. Edward McGinnis and Louise
Cloud McGinnis of Maryland, is
survived by her husband, John A
Rusby, near Smyrna; and the fol-
lowing children: Arthur Rusby,
Smyrna; Mrs. Lillian Handsberry
and Mrs. Hezel Moffitt, both OF
Leipsic; also 5 grandchildren and
2 great grandchildren; and the
following brothers and sisters:
Mrs. Ethel Jones and Mrs. Molly
Pratt, both of Wilmington Man.
or; Mrs. Edith Hembold, Lake
wood, N. j.; and Mr.. Clarence
McGinnis, Philadelphia, Pa.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
DESIGNS PRIZE COVER
Mrs. Martin Golden Wins S25
Bond for Cookbook Design

NAAos NhHA bht OOiuCu fltiS BSO
Bond for Cookbook Design
Mrs. Martin Golden, fine arts
chairman of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club, was awarded first
prize and presented a. $25 bond
for submitting the best cover de-
sign for the cookbook to be pub
lished by the State Federation of
Women's Clubs. She was honored
at a luncheon held on the final
day of the recent convention of
the State Federation at Milford.
At the present time an exhibit
of Mrs. Golden's art work may be
seen in a window at Wootten's
Clothing Store during the current
Festival of Arts also sponsored
by the State Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs. Mrs. Golden is the
former Miss Rita Stonefield
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Julian
r. Stonefeld of Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1957-05-30
Death of Laura White Osborn

Mrs. Laura T. Osborn, (nee
White) passed away Tuesday
morning, May %. She was the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Waitman White, formerly of
Smyrna. Funeral services will be
held Thursday evening at s pm.
from the Parsel Funeral Home,
18 w. Washington Avenue, Pleas
antville, N. j. Interment at Ches-
ter Rural cemetery, Chester, Pa.
Friends may call Thursday even
ing. A viewing will also be held
at the cemetery Friday morning
at IL o'clock.