European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june Bikini ship is still hot Joesire renewed hobble skirt b bag rays still unsafe 22 months after atom Spray by Elton Fay Washington defense experts find in the latest sinking of a radioactively hot ship a sobering hint of the problems an atomic War would when the Cruiser Salt Lake City was sent Down off the Cali Lornia coast by bombs mid 22 months had elapsed since it got its coating of the radioactive Spray and solid Green water thrown up by the submarine burst of an bomb in the Bikini tests of yet the ship remained so contaminated it was deemed unsafe Lor workmen to scrap for Salvage attempts to cleanse the target ship of the invisible but deadly Poison brought Little Suc experts of the National Mili tary establishments civil defense planning unit Are close at Tention to residual the result of fission products or unexpended particles of the explosive material Flung outward by the bomb when detonated in target cities uninhabitable translating the target ships into of defense workers can foresee the possibility of communities made uninhabitable prolonged periods if a bomb should be exploded in nearby an airburst such As those used in the attacks on Hiro Fathima and presents no problem of residual activity be cause the fission products ascend into the air and Drift it has been that in the absence of a Large body of water near a a bomb could be exploded in the Middle of rain the dispersion of fission products Over the ground might then be even More Complete than in an underwater improvements in the explosive efficiency of atomic bombs conceivably can reduce their Power to produce lingering radioactive in a fission products from a bomb re something like the unburned portion of a Coal the better the the fewer 4he ashes that official statements strongly indicate that the three atomic explosions set off this Spring at the eniwetok proving grounds in the mid Pacific were More efficient than any of the first five bombs greater efficiency is goal Navy capt James eniwetok test Lias commented that during the War the Effort was just to produce an atomic bomb that would needed not be too the goal since then has been to turn out bombs with a More Focient nuclear explosion not ones of bigger there Are adequate reasons to believe that while the new bombs May explode with even greater ferocity the old the improvement in nuclear efficiency might still remain efficiency approaching the order for Stan Dard explosives probably would create a suicidal while there May be a lessening in the residual radio activity produced by improved difference probably would be academic to folks residing in an atom bomb target Camel Breeding in news Moscow Camel Breeding is progressing satisfactorily in socialist agriculture reported the awarding of a first prize of rubles to Camel and horse breeders of the Jacii Ebinsky fifteen breeders were awarded p the now famous Streetcar called desire is going to a Well earned rest and will be replaced by bus Driver Robert Cassagne tips his hat to the Veteran before starting his run in the bus that bears the same distinctive 83year record reveals government usually in red by Charles Molony Washington people realize that the government runs in the red More often than the balanced sur the government now has in the bag for the fiscal ending this month 30 will be the 75th recorded in Treasury government has operated in the red during 83 years of its As a Federal debt now totals about if you credit the budget out come to the president in officer when the budget period seven of the nations 32 presi dents failed Ever to achieve a balanced Lincoln first in red Abraham Lincoln was the first to fail All the his five Suc j o h n s o Garfield and the the six of in held office through the longest 28 years string of deficits in the country Franklin Roosevelt was the Only other president who never had a balanced he went through 12 straight years in the president Truman will have a standing after this he was in office at the ends of two deficit but this year and last will match that on the surplus Side of the in government experts Truman will have a Reco Rij size surplus this year of Over the previous years june 1943 army bombers attack to in the june 1944 artillery fire drives the germans Back june 1945 on Okinawa the 8th marines fight through to the South june Russia submits to the in her own plan for controlling june 1947 Dwight Eisenhower announces he has been offered tie presidency of Columbia univer was set under Coolidge 21 years the two first deficits bunder Truman finished off a 16year string that marked the second longest period in there were two deficits under 12 under Roosevelt and two under 28year siring is record the 28year record string of deficits that carried through Lincoln and his next five successors began in 1858 in the last year of the term of president lincolns and lasted through in Cleveland the longest siring of surplus years was an even they covered the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson and ran from 1825 through the second longest was 11 from 1920 through Wilsons last year in office through hardings and terms and hoovers second Thomas the third was the first who had a perfect set of balanced others were Pierce and Benjamin president William Henry har Rison int Here since exactly one month taking office in March Washington had surplus George Washington record As the first president is harder to state than those of his successors because the opening fiscal period in Treasury secretaries reports put 90 and 91 in one pack lumped the three years produced a count ing Washington first three years As a single budget period and his 1 Las five one period Washington broke even with three periods in the three in the heres How other presidents fared in with the number of surplus years shown first and deficits following John three and one three and five five and three Van one end one and Bernard route open Geneva Swiss ing and automobile club announced that the grand Ard favorite tourist has been reopened to traffic following the completion of Bridge to reappear by Dorothy Roe new York might As Well face hobble skirt will be Back on the Amer ican scene this Advance previews of fall Fash ions show that the beleaguered new look has under gone a drastic instead of flowing skirts and padded designers Are going for the tight slightly longer than Spring and Slit to the among the first to open her fall line was the diminutive viennese designer who made a considerable Dent in new York fashion consciousness in her of fast she offers what she Calls the featuring a skintight of Cit reach ing almost to with a buttoned Slit in the Center the Slit is necessary for Jennifer advocates the 10inch skirt length for Street Al though some models shown at her opening were considerably she also features natural sometimes puts a whisk of fullness at the Back of a undetected from the College Blair to be tested i col Leger radio plan which will enable thousands of adults to study College courses was announced by the National Broad casting the adult education project will be conducted jointly by Abc and its stations in cooperation with leading colleges and the Experiment be launched this summer at of results of the Louis Ville study will be made Avail Able in through All Abc affiliated stations to colleges and universities throughout the radio school provide Home study courses built around net work produced suppler Centary broadcasts by local affiliates and University stations and assigned v Chile to propose change in in veto system Chile government newspaper la a Cion said Chile would propose to change the veto system when the United nations general Assembly meets next president Gonzalez Videla said the veto privilege should sup pressed he was commenting on the russian veto of the Chile sponsored investigation of the communist coup in address All letters to b bag Edi 7714th stars and stripes Apo include name and address names Are deleted on due to space letters May be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the x Gas available at motor pools when pm stations Here is the situation that i Bej Lieve should be brought to the attention of appropriate i made the stars andr stripes picnic Trail trip Regensburg out to not being sure of having enough gasoline to return to i attempted to find some in regans net result not one pint be the guard at the station suggested that i come backs monday morning at at the yes f garage in he Kaseane the manager it was very but they closed on sundays and he tested that i go to the Post Motoi i Pool to see if i could get from there i was info meth that they had none to As a result i had Cut part of my f trip in order to have enough Ozine to return to v i have been to a lot of but that was the first one Ive 3 been to that had no facilities for tourists on Nurnberg editors note the of the chief rope an has advise d that where Wayside stations Are closed on arrangements s Are made whereby transit May be serviced with gasoline through unit or Post motor pools information to this effect be posted on the door of it station that closes on sundays any other was posted at the Regensburg at the Bart corrective action has since been delinquency rates1 called bogeyman by Chicago Chicago Chicago biologist believes that widely a held views on the rising rates of juvenile delinquency Are muck about Henry of the Institute juvenile research in declared alleged increasing rates of juvenile delinquency being used As a kind of 20th ceri1 Tury Mckay added that the Man is not being used for but for it is my opinion that not Onel c Whit of evidence can be found show that there were More lations of conduct norms wartime than there were or he the stars and stripes 2t 136 editor chief managing editor sports editor june lm8 William Summers Ken Zumwalt Jack 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