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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 27,1955
Atomic Tests Cancelled Because of Weather
Atomic Test Site, Nev.—(U.P.)—The Atomic Energy commission called off today's scheduled atomic blast 45 minutes before shot time because of adverse winds. $ \textcircled{4} $
time because of adverse winds.
This created a king-size transportation and hotel reservation headache, since some 4,000 observers, civil defense workers and newsmen already were on the site awaiting the blast.
They would have to be returned to Las Vegas in the long caravans of buses and automobiles, a two hour trip. And once there they would for the second time begin the work of setting forward their hotel and transportation reservations prior to their return to their homes all over the country.
The Las Vegas area and the test site here, 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas, have been the target of a severe windstorm for the past 24 hours. But winds had tapered off from 80-mile gust velocities to 25 miles per hour and meteorologists forecast a possible drop to 12 miles per hour by shot time, scheduled for 5:15 a.m.
With that forecast, the AEC went ahead with its preparations.
Thus the fate of "Survival Town, U.S.A." was held in abeyance another 24 hours at least. Survival Town is the scattered, make-believe community of real houses and industrial structures spread on the desert at the base of the atomic tower.
A weather evaluation was held at 9:30 a.m. this morning to determine the feasibility of firing the shot tomorrow. If the shot goes to tomorrow, Friday morning will be the day for viewing the remains of Survival Town. Then the visitors can go home Saturday.
Preliminary calculations indicated the nuclear detonation, with the fury of 40,000 tons of exploding TNT, would demolish at least five of the 10 typical American homes erected on Yucca Flat for "operation cue."
The estimates were based on data gained in 43 previous atomic tests on the Nevada proving grounds, observations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and experiments during the last nine years on remote Pacific islands.
The atomic bombs that burned, blasted and irradiated Hiroshima and Nagasaki had only half the potency of the device built in hush-hush laboratories and placed atop a 500-foot tower just north of Survival Town.
Professor to Aid Indian Vocations
Gordon, Collierist, professor of education, left today for the Flandreau Indian school at Flandreau, S.D. He will spend two days at the Indian vocational school as a consultant;
Dr. Collister said he will help set up plans for selecting students for vocational programs.
PhD. reading examination in German, 9-11 am... 306 Fraser, Saturday. Books used for prepared part of exam must be turned in to 304 Fraser by noon on Friday or accepted later. Only candidates approved by Graduate School may take exam.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Museum of Art record concert, 4 p.m.
Concert of Art music
Mathematics club, 4 p.m. Room 203.
Strom School, Mr. Delmar Bear: "Per-
formers."
CCUN executive meeting, 4 p.m., Office. Student Union.
Jay Janes pledging, 5 p.m. Pine tree
Student Union. Actively meeting
meeting, 6:30
Graduate club sponsored lecture, 8 p.m., Room 306, Student Union. Dr. Ernest F. Bayles: "The Meaning of Democracy." Everyone invited.
p. Law Cain church, Church
p. Court wives bridge club,
p. Quintin Johnstone house, 130 Emery
Cain
caman club, shkil.
Queens. Rides from 924 Madaline
Lane. Rides from Fraser at 7:15 p.m.
Episcopal Morning prayer, 6:45 a.m.
Bishop Communion, 7 a.m.丹forth
Hospital
Morning meditation, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Danforth chapel. Everyone welcome.
Danforth chapel. Everyone welcome.
Baptist Student Union devotions and prayer, 12:30-12:50 p.m., Danforth chapel.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m., Music room
Student Union. Negro poets: Dumbar.
Johnson, Hughes, Cullen. Reader: Jessica
Crafton.
University Players, 7 p.m. English room. Student Union. Election of offices.
E. C. Franklin Memorial lecture, 4 p.m., 124 Malott hall. Dr. George W. Watt: "Compounds of Elements in the Zero Oxidation State." Public invited.
Der Deutsche Verein; 5 p.m., Oreden room. Student Union. Jerry Hart, base-baritone—a program of German songs. Everyone welcome.
Museum of Art record concert, noon and 4 p.m. Orlandus Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Josquin Des Pres: Profoundis Camayai ad Te Ave Maria.
AWS House of representatives, 4.p.m.
Jayhawk room, Student Union.
Christian Science organization, 7 p.m.
Danforth chapel. Students faculty and
administrators.
Psychology club, 7:30 p.m., room 305.
Student Union.
FRIDAY
Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m.
Communion, 7 a.m. D'an f o r t h
chapel
Morning meditation, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Dunhill chapel. Everyone invited.
Lahona Fellowship treasure hunt,
meet at church.
Graduate club social evening, 8 p.m.
midnight, Henley house. Meena Tyagarajan and Shanti Tangri hostess and host.
James E. Seaver, associate professor of history, will present a paper on "The Jews in the Fourth Century" Friday during the Foreign Language conference at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Seaver to Give History Talk
Rio de Janeiro is growing at a rate of some 70,000 persons a year. Its population now is estimated at 2,650,000.
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Approximately, 48 city managers, representing 16 Kansas towns and 32 towns in Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, are participating in the school sponsored by the Kansas City Managers association, the Missouri City Managers association, the Governmental Research center, and the University Extension.
City Managers Meet Today
The eighth annual City Manager school, being held at the University today through Friday, got under way at 1:30 today with a welcome address by George Smith, dean of the University.
Charles Oldfather, associate professor of law, will sing folk ballads at a dinner in the Pine room of the Student Union this evening.
James Wigglesworth, city manager of Lawrence, is chairman of the planning committee for the school.
The University of Kansas has won the Big Seven Indoors championship for four straight years. The last time another conference team coped the crown was in 1951 when the University of Nebraska turned the trick.
Another Actor-less Movie Will Show Creation of Earth
Hollywood—(U.P.)—The latest stars to create a sensation in Hollywood can roll their eyes and wiggle their tongues and have to be locked up in the studio every night.
A collection of rubber miniature prehistoric monsters are the features of an actor-less movie, "The Animal World," one of Warner studios supercolossal productions for the year.
Producer Irwin Allen had good luck with another movie that didn't bother with live two-footed actors, "The Sea Around Us."
"It was the biggest financial success RKO had, twice as big as Jane Russell, and it won an Oscar. So I decided to make another picture without actors—a documentary on animals," Allen said today.
"I love to make pictures without actors. No temperament and they're
always on time in the morning because they're the only actors you can lock away at night."
"The Animal World" will show dinosaurs for the first time in gorgeous wide-screen color, complete with bloody wounds as they do their usual battle to the death on the edge of a cliff.
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