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Evening star., 1959-12-08
THE DETAILS

The FomiIy Council consists Of a
judge, a psyehiotrist. three clergy
men. q newspaper editor, q wom-
ems editor and two writers. Eoeh
article is summary Of an octuol
eose history. The council reports
on problems thot have been dealt
with by responsible agencies and
eounselors.
Evening star., 1959-12-08
NEWS OF MUSIC
BY IRVING LOWENS
Contributing Critic

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Evening star., 1959-12-08

-
was the month before Christmas and full of despair
= The Joneses were franticaly tearing their hair :
They'd just moved to and expenses had scared
And they all wanted things that they couldn't afford
On their lists there were Grandma and Cousin Irene =
Aunt Laura, Aunt Helen and dear Uncle Gene
And the kids There four of hem) chatered with see
OF gifts they expected to find on the tree.
Well-Mom had been wanting to carpet the stairs
And they needed upholstery sofa and chairs
And Dad said regardless of all the expense
The house needed painting. 1t only made sense e
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And all that they got from kids on the floor n
Were whispers and sgge and Ists-by the score 81
Wel-somehow, Dad managed to quiet the din ~
And he told them quite frankly plight they were in 81
You mean cried young Bill well get nothing at alp" Fl
And Janies lip quvered, Not on doll?" Is
"Nov didn't say that" answered Dad with frown 81
Il merely suggested you your lists down." ~
Well they tried be nice, sghs and the sroans Il
Made it veTy unpleasant for poor Mr.. Jones! --=@I
Now, Sue Oldest and she wanted clothes 81
She was just Seventeen-and-you know how Goes ~
But she worked on her list crossing this off and that
Ill she q gotten down to and hat. ly
And poor MIR. Jones-weI, he felt like heel e
And ne said very lovcause he knew how she d feel
Il think we manage cheap little dress"
And Susie Just walled. It'll look like a mess!" ~
Well, that about it. Daddy felt like aop
And ne beloved Il want this complaining to stop!
Well do what we can but enough is enoush" e
And ne reached for his paper and pipe in a huff!
"Now, Honey" said Nom always good under stress =.
you've got a good job you're quite a SUCCESS ---Naz
ITS the high of living" she said with SIGH 81
And even the baby, then, started to cry ~
And there the Joneses-the baby and all
In the midst of the Siliest family brawI
Alas and alack What terrible way
To plan for glorious Christmas Day
Well-h shows you how foolish we frequently are
Caue the very next day they subscribed Star!
1t was loaded with ads that they all liked on sight 2
And marvel of marvels-the prices were rehti =
Well-Mama sat down with a pencil and pad e
And she tglred-and figured and figured like mad
lhen she looked up and smiled "Wewth prices these
We JoneSeS purchase whatever we pleased" =
Now there's really o for me to proceed
With the end of the tale-vhich happy ndeed ~
For the four little Joneses got every last thing
On the lists that they'd written, for Santa to bring
The gifts for the relatives made quite hit E
And, financially speaking it hurt not one whit!
land the thing that the Joneses like moest bv far
Is the fact they what they read in The SarN
Now-even the neishbors in planning their YuIe ZZ
Make shopping The Star their inviolate rue -z.S@l
They mail in their orderS-they in on 'phones
By shopping The Star they keep up with the Jones!
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FAMILY COUNCIL
Mas Care
IsLeft
ToLucy
THE PROBLEM

Lucy J.-Bernlce mas turned
away from us.
Bernice D.-They didn't let
me marry.
THE DETAILS
Lucy J.-My sister and I
are in our early 30s and were
both unmarried until recently
when my sister married a
man she had known for near
ly 10 years.
Bernice's personality has
changed completely. She is
entirely under the domination
Evening star., 1959-12-08

Tomorrow: Plastic Surgery
Evening star., 1959-12-08

Tomorrow: Dangerous Job3
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
H-Bomb Test Ban Should Be Extended
A NucIear Physicist Speaks

earong Bomb tests will unless
while negoao continue to
pursue fooproof
urgency the nations of the world to
alterna
this brought home eoquenty
in the following William c. Davidon
theoretical physicist the Argonne
and their destructive
power anything having with building such
Federation
of the board of the Committee
Nucr Policy and member of the Committee for Security Through
Arms Control
Davdons article which follows first printed in the November
LIBERATION and has been reprinted
publications including NATIONAL GUARDIAN
mmendit 20 you--EDITOR
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

(five per cent initially and ten per
cent residual), the fallout carrying
the residual radiation is among the
most potent poisons known. The ex-
plosion of March 1, 1854, covered
seven thousand square miles with
lethal amounts of radioactive fall
out The total land surface of the
earth could be covered by eight thou
sand such explosions. Existing stock
piles have been estimated to be of
this order or magnitude (probably
larger in number, though containing
many smaller weapons).
Though the destructiveness of the
weapons has already reached pro-
portions beyond the comprehension of
many, new developments are under
way. The production of missiles ready
to be fired on a moments notice will
make possible their development in
mountain caves, under the Arctic ice
cap, aboard submarines, and in many
concealed places all over the earth.
AS small devices with tremendous de-
power are made, the mining
of the ports and cities of the world
will become increasingly feasible.
it possible to blow them apart
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

ute after the fireball had set fire to
distant objects, the blast wave would
still be spreading, totally destroying
wooden frame houses over an area
of three hundred square miles. A
minute later, people in outlying areas
who would not yet have heard a sound
Though they might have been burnt
by the flash) would finally experience
the blast and sound, which would by
then have spread out over one thou
sand square miles, and would still
retain the energy to damage the roofs
of houses. and blow down interior
partitions.
These would be the remains of
city after an H-bomb explosion; its
center turned into a volcanic lake,
total destruction of all buildings and
structures over many thousands of
blocks, the entire city on fire. In the
City of New York, an estimated seven
and a half million casualties would re-
suit from a single large H-bomb, or
several times the combined total of
the American casualties in the Revo-
lutionary War, Civil War, World
Wars and II, and the Korean War.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
LITTLE BOMB" CRUSHED
100000 TONS OF ROCK

Consider first the effects of a
"small' atomic bomb, exploded under
ground on September 10, 1857, and
described by former Acc Commits
sioner Willard F. Libby as "about as
small as has been fired" up to that
time. This "little" atomic bomb was
smaller than most of the weapons
that are now called "small, tactical"
weapons. 1t was more than ten times
smaller than the Hiroshima bomb.
The amount of nuclear explosive in
volved would not quite fill teaspoon.
But this "little' explosion released
about three times the total explosive
energy of all the bombs dropped on
London during the biggest raid on
that city in World War II. 1t crushed
four hundred thousand tons of rock
and produced earthquake effects that
were registered over two thousand
miles away. 1t produced shock waves
in the earth clearly distinguishable
from earthquakes hundreds of miles
away. A year and half later, the
temperature Of the rock in the neigh
borhood of the explosion was still
close to 18O degrees Fahrenheit. Ex-
plosions thousands of times larger
than this one can be produced by a
bomb small enough to be carried in a
fighter plane.
The effects of H-bomb explosions
have been carefully measured. They
have been described in "The Effects
of Nuclear Weapons, published by
the United States Printing Office in
1857, in "Nuclear Explosions and
Their Effects, published by the
Ministry of Information and Broad
casting, Delhi, India, in 1910 With
out Arms Control, National Plan
ming Association pamphlet, and else
where.
Though atomic bombs ten times the !
size of the one dropped at Hiroshima
have been reported, they are small
to H-bombs. When big
H-bomb is detonated, it is turned into
a ball of gas, at temperature of
Millions of degrees, within a few mil
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
Russian Language Gains
Popularity q"

Russian is now being taught in ap-
proximately 420 U. S. high schools,
according to Fan Parker, director of
the National Information Center on
the Status of Russian in Secondary
Schools, at Brooklyn College. This
figure has increased during the past
two years from practically nothing"
in 1857, according to DR.. Parker,
whose tabulation for the period Sep
tember 1858 to May 1859 showed a
total of 313.-NEA JOURNAL.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
By WILLIAM C. DAVIDON

1t is only fourteen years since the
first A-bomb explosion; few of us
realize the magnitude of the revolul
tion in weaponry which has taken
place since then. Throughout all the
previous millenia of mans develop
ment. the concentration of energy in
his fuels and explosives had not ap-
preciably changed. The explosion of
a pound of TINT releases less energy
than the burning of poundeof wood.
But the fission of one cubic foot of
uranium. which has taken place in
single nuclear explosions. releases
about the same amount of energy as
all the bombs and shells that have
been used by all countries throughout
all the wars of history.
The nuclear explosive actually fis-
stoned in the first atomic explosions
at Alamagordo, Hiroshima and Naga-
saki would in each case fill about
three tablespoons. Even if other de-
velopments were not compounding the
immensity of the problem, even if
serious efforts were being made to
inform men of their significance,
fourteen years would be short time
for entire populations fully to COM
prehend so complete break with the
past. The essential consequence is
this: that nations after several thou
sands of years no longer provide
tangible defense for their citizens. In
world in which destruction is so
concentrated, instantaneous, and total
form is available, tangible defense
has essentially been abandoned; it |
has already been replaced by reliance
on the nationality and control of other
men and their political and military
systems.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

without even the need for a bomber
or missile, but only for hand on a
distant switch, or the operation of
timing mechanism. New biological and
chemical weapons may permit not
only the smallest nations, but even
on-governmental criminal gangs to
cripple large areas. France and China
have nuclear reactors in operation
producing plutonium, nuclear ex-
plosive, and are expected to test their
first A-bombs of independent manu-
facture within year or so. Plans
are under way to make undetermined
missiles available to the armed forces
of half dozen countries.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
RADIATION MAY BE MOST
DEADLY FACTOR

Though light and heat, blast and
shock account for most of the energy
of the H-bomb, they do not necessar-
lily account for most of the death and
damage. For though only the remain
ing fifteen per cent of the bombs
energy appears as nuclear radiation
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
A GREATER PURPOSE FOR
NEW ENERGY SOURCE

Yet if we do not let it be snatched
from us. we have the opportunity to
build a vigorous, purposeful, inter
dependent world society, with un-
equalled opportunities for seeking new
knowledge of the world and our
selves, for establishing love and re-
spect for other men. We now have the
sources of energy to free men from
inhuman drudgery. With our growing
ability to cure disease, to produce
food abundantly, and nationally to
control birth rates, we need no longer
be pressed constantly towards squalor
or privation. We are achieving uni
flying understanding of the world in
which we live, far transcending the
limitations of any one mans exper-
ience. Faced with a world in which
genocide. torture, and the degrada-
tion of individuals have become wide
ly tolerated, we cannot afford simply
to concern ourselves with the applica-
tions of science to weapons and tech
nology while neglecting its poteniali-
ties for giving greater scope, vigor,
and unity to life.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
An Appeal To The
People Of Montana

Older workers would continue to be weeded
out through discriminatory physical examina-
tions and through lack of any seniority rights.
The right to negotiate for needed and recog-
nized improvements in pensions would be de-
ferred for another three years.
Grievance machinery would still be made
ineffective by the Company's continued refusal
to agree to arbitration
None of this is good for you any more than it is
good for the Butte Miners The people of Montana
would again have to bear heavy burden-in lower
income for the community and in more relief and
welfare-because of one Company's responsibility
toward its employees
Our members and their families have already
rifced much in this struggle Our local unions
virtually exhausted. Our Internation-
al Union has and will continue to provide assistance
to the extent possible Butte citizens and other bus
establishments have generously contributed
ate this very much
All of this has enabled us to carry on our fight
until ALI Of this will not be sufficient to
tnue the fight against the superior financial
sources and political influence of the Company
without further aid and support from you.
We believe the Butte Miners is your cause.
They will not be starved into submission by the Com
pany and by those who attempt to aid and assist
it in gaining that objective
Won't you help? Won't you give and give
generously to enable the Butte Miners to fight for
better life and for a better Montana.
Make your individual organzational contribu-
tion payable to Butte Miners Union Local No. 1,
and send it today to: John Glase, Financial Secre-
tary, 125 West Granite Street, Butte, Montana
The people's voice., 1959-12-25
A THOUSAND CITY
BLOCKS DESTROYED

The blast wave initially travels out
ward faster than sound, yet for near
ly ten seconds it retains the power
totally to destroy blast-resistant re-
inforced concrete windowless build
ings; during this time, it would de-
stroy over a thousand city blocks.
After ten more seconds, travelling at
the speed of sound it would sweep
over an area of fifty square miles,
still with enough power to destroy
blast-resistant buildings. Half a min
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

lionths of a second. More energy is
concentrated into, region of few
cubic feet for brief instant of time
than is consumed by the less in
dustrialized half of the entire worlds
population in a year; more energy
than is generated at Grand Coulee
Dam during year The material and
energy in those few cubic feet begins
to spread outward at speeds. of hun
dreds of miles per second, and in less
time than it takes sound to travel
one foot in the air, the ball of in
tense blue-white gas grows to more
than two hundred feet across.
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

Our strike against the Anaconda Company now
entering its fifth month, is longer matter of
just wages and working conditions The issue has
now become this-will this giant corporation i'm
pose it's own unfair terms upon its Montana work
ers?
The industry wide copper strike is coming to
an end, except in Montana All of Anaconda's major
competitors have agreed to settlement terms calling
for wage increases and other benefits totalling %
cents per hour over two-year period Only Ana
conda refuses to meet this industry pattern"
The Company has never said that it cannot afford
to meet this pattern. It's Montana operations as
their financial reports show very profitable. In
the first six months of this year. Anacondas profits
larger than those of all but of it's
petitors.
The Company can obviously afford to meet this
industry 'pattern"-but that is not the real issue.
The Butte Miners are determined to gain for them
selves fair and decent settlement equal to that
by other workers, in the industry. You too have
stake in this struggle and it is that basis that
ask your immediate support
What would acceptance of the Company's terms
mean-to and to you?
1T would mean, we believe inferior wages and
conditions less job security and ineffective griev-
ance machinery.
Butte miners would be that much further
behind the rest of the industry-in addition,
practically entire years gain in wages would
be wiped out by the reduction and loss in next
years vacation pay.
Workers would continue to be laid off
through mechanization and speed up without
any recognition of their many years of service
to the Company and to their community
The people's voice., 1959-12-25

II
than is generated at Grand Coulee
Dam during a year. The material and
energy in those few cubic feet begins
to spread outward at speeds. of hun
dreds of miles per second, and in less
time than it takes sound to travel
one foot in the air, the ball of in
tense blue-white gas grows to more
than two hundred feet across.
H-BOMB ACTS LIKE A
GIGANTIC BLOW TORCH"
Thirty-five per cent of the energy
of the H-bomb is given off as light
and heat from the expanding fireball.
Like the light from a lightning flash,
it reaches out for many miles around
long before any sound is heard. Peo-
pie would be roasted alive by soaring
blue-white light in complete silence.
Temperatures of thousands of de-
grees are reached on the ground be-
low AS the fireball continues to grow,
it acts like a gigantic blow-torch ap-
piled to the buildings and inhabitants
of city. When, at the end of about
ten seconds, it reaches it's maximum
it would appear to an OBJ
server a hundred miles away about
a hundred times as bright as the sun.
The skin of a man twenty miles away
would be charred. Tons of incendiary
bombs would have to be dropped on
every city block over an area of
thousand square miles to equal the
death and destruction by heating and
burning, from one big H-bomb. Twen-
ty miles from the explosion, thirty
fires per block would be started in
"good'' residential areas, and about
two hundred per block in slum areas.
The fireball forms gigantic 'hot air
balloon, with enough lifting power
to carry the entire population of
either the United States or the Soviet
Union into the stratosphere. The 1854
explosion at Bikini carried millions
of tons of vaporized and pulverized
material many miles high.
But only 35 percent of the energy
from the H-bomb goes into heat and
light; fifty per cent goes into the
blast and shock waves that follows
in the wake of the heat and light. |
For an explosion near the surface of |
,he earth, the blast, combined with
5he intense heat would carve out a
gigantic crater, excavating millions
If cubic yards of buildings, earth, and
luman beings. The crater from one
H-bomb would encom-
BASS more than hundred city blocks;
t would have depth at the center of |
more than two hundred feet; around
is edge would be mound taller than
! five-story building. Into such a
rater, you could throw the Pentagon,
he Empire State Building, Chicago's
Merchandise Mart, and the pyramids
# Egypt, and still have room left
ver. In most of the large cities of
he world, the crater would slowly
i'll with water. At the rate of thou
and cubic feet of water per second,
would take roughly month for it
0 fill up.
. THOUSAND CITY H
,LOCKS DESTROYED
The blast wave initially travels out
ard faster than sound, yet for near
: ten seconds it retains the power
otally to destroy blast-resistant re-
lforced concrete windowless build
lgs; during this time, it would de-
roy over a thousand city blocks.
fter ten more seconds, travelling at
le sneed of sound it would sweep |
Evening star., 1959-12-25
HOSPITAL HAD A FOREST
Schoendienst Happy
With Tree at Home

ST. LOUIS, Dec. Is (AP).-
There was a virtual forest OF
Christmas trees in the hospital
last year" Red Schoendienst
reflected yesterday. But, you
know. they don't compare with
the one in my living room now. ,
This is the only place to
be-" said Red, glancing around
the gaily decorated room.
A year ago the Braves second
baSeman was in room No. 327
at the Mount st. Rose Sanitar-
ium, a victim of tuberculosis.
Red worried more about his
family last year than he did
about himself.
! His wife, Mary, just had
borne their fourth child, Kevin.
Mary came out of the hos
pHal December II and I went
in on the 12th," he said. Il
was worried about them, with
Mary just out of the hospital.
Really. I wasn't worried about
getting well.
Il decided to get we'll before
I went to the hospital"
The Schoendienst family has
made happy plans for the holi-
days. AS a matter of fact, their
plans include a gala Christmas
Day reunion at the German
town. H., home of his mother
Besides Reds four children, %
other grandchildren will be
there.
Last night there was a get
Evening star., 1959-12-25
India Interested
In U. S. Coaches
For Five Sports

India is exploring the pos
sibilities Of securing the serv-
ices Of expert coaches in track
and field, tennis, basketball
swimming and weightlifting
from the United States, an In
dian Embassy spokesman said
yesterday.
The coaches will be employed
initially for a period of one
year, excepting those who are
known to be outstanding and
who could be employed on a
three-year contract, he said.
Based on the first years ex-
perience, further arrangements
could be made to renew the
contracts for a longer period, >
the spokesman added.
Interested coaches may con-
tact the Education Depart
ment, in care of the Indian
Embassy, 2107 Massachusetts
avenue NV.
Evening star., 1959-12-25
HuIf-MiIers
AWuitOkuv
On'6ODutes
BALTIMORE, Dec. Is (AP)

BALTIMORE, Dec. Is (APJ
Having agreed among them
selves on 1860 racing dates
Maryland's half-mile race
tracks today were expecting
quick approval from the State
Racing Commission.
Only Cumberland remains
non-committal on its choice
but owners of Bel Air, Timon-
ium, Cumberland, Hagerstown
and Marlboro have agreed on
the following dates:
Bel Air-August 1927.
Timonium August 29-Sep-
tember 10. e..
Cumberland - September 12-
La.
HagerStown - September &C.
October 8. .-.
Marlboro - October 1922.
Cumberland was forced to
run its meeting last summer at
Hagerstown because of a short
age Of horses and may want To
do the same next year.
The minor tracks agreed on
lthe schedule after West Vir-
ginia announced that Charles
Town racing dates will be fin
ished September "a.
Evening star., 1959-12-25
Sons, Daughters of Nashua,
Swaps to Race at HiuIeuh

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. Is (AP).-
Sons and daughters of two OF
the Nations finest thorough
bred race horses-and bitter
est of rivals-in the mid 1950s
will race here this winter.
Swaps and Nashua were most
prominent in 1855 and 1856,
Swaps won the Kentucky Derby
and Nashua took the Freak
ness and Belmont Stakes to
set the stage for their men,
orable match race in Chicago
which Nashua won by 61a
lengths.
First yearlings produced by
these two are now at Hialeah
Park, where they will become
2-year-olds January /.
Darby Dan Farm, owned by
Evening star., 1959-12-25

together with Mary's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James P. O'Reilly
in st. Louis.
Its Mary's mothers birthi
day." Red said. 1--WE generally
visit them, exchange presents
and eat a little ham Christmas
eve"
Red stalked around the tree
apprehensively as he talked.
Some of the ornaments are
clinging for their lives" he
laughed, "but they all seem to
be staying up"
Just then Kevin began max
ing a racket with pots and pans.
Il think he's trying to cook
UP something in the kitchen"
Red said. boy, he has a lot
of energy"
Red is still busy as honorary
chairman of the national
Christmas seal campaign.
MARY and I are going to take
the kids to California with us
after Christmas. I'm supposed
to do a show for the TB aSso-
citation and we thought it
would be a good chance to see
the sights"
Red says he feels fine, Even
better than I did before con-
tracing TB."
Il think everything will be
all right" he added. I'm look
ing forward to spring training.
Il have the great gift a man
can receive, the gift of good
health"