Page FOURTEEN DISASTROUS EFFECTS ON AGRICULTURE. WEATHER PREDICTS THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Car^in^ THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956 Rilev Calls Current Nuclear Bomb Tests In Pacific ‘Costly Blunder J , . . j_,„» clear bomb tests, if the — ,1-- t>—atmosphere by such explosions early aate. ^ E. G. B. Riley, the Southern Pines resident who during the past six months has warned the U. S. State Department and the heads of several foreign nations. Pope Pius XII and other world leaders against further detonation of atomic and thermo-nuclear weapons, said this week that the time has come for the public to abandon its apathetic state of mind on the subject. He urged the public to write Congressmen in an effort to bring about partici pation of the United States in an agreement with other world pow ers that testing of such weapons be discontinued. A student of the effects of light and the holder of many patents in that field, Mr. Riley has conclud ed that all life on earth is threat ened by puclear explosions. Rea son for this, he says, is that radio active material projected into the Individually Designed Hand Made Millinery (At Highland Village) 2503 Raeford Rd. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. 500 FABRIC SAMPLES or USE YOUR MATERIAL priced $5.00 - $25.00 will, through photodynamic ac- tion, destroy those particles in the atmosphere which prevent trans-1 mission of the sun’s deadly Cos^ mic and Gamma rays to the earth. He thinks tests should be made to see if such rays are not already, as a result of past nuclear explo sions, penetrating to lower alti tudes than ever before. And he sees, in extremes and disruptions of the weather all over the world, evidence of the results of atomic and thermo-nuclear explosions which have already taken place. Tests Now Going On Since The Pilot’s last report on Mr. Riley’s activities, published January 19, he has received a let ter from Morse Salisbury, infor mation director of the Atomic En ergy Commission, which refers to the nuclear tests now being held at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds ini the Pacific. This week Mr. Riley quoted with scorn a newspaper dispatch which related how an official, ob serving the current tests, told newsmen that it was ’’the news papers’ function to persuade a troubled world that the tests are not only necessary but harmless.” The whole testing program, said Mr. Riley is “a terrible thing.” It appears to him to be a “propa ganda show to justify the expend iture of millions of dollars. “They are playing down the cost of the testing program, too,” he asserted, “but they’re spending millions. Tlley’ve had 12,000 men over there for six months. And now they’re trying to tell report ers what newspapers ought to say about the tests.” The AEC letter quotes President Eisenhower’s budget message on the need to increase the U. S. nu clear weapons stockpile, while al so speeding the development of the peaceful uses of atomic ener gy and continuing to hope “that an international atomic energy agency will be established at an The letter enclosed reports on the effects of nuclear weapons testing and effects of atomic ex plosions on weather. Disagrees With Reports Mr. Riley disagrees with the conclusions of both of these re ports: that radioactive material is “dissipated in the stratosphere andi that atomic explosions “have no pos'sible connection” with the weather. He points out that nu clear and thermo-nuclear explo sions are vastly more powerful than atomic blasts and charges the Atomic Entergy Commission with complacency in accepting this re port without apparent questioning or further investigation. “The comparison of the atomic to the H-bomb is equivalent to comparing a firecracker to an atomic bomb,” Mr. Riley said. The Atomic Energy Commission came into the Riley correspond- clear bomb tests, if the other na tions would agree to such a cessa tion of testing. Should AcceiJt Proposals Says Mr. Riley: “The old adage that ‘the United States has never won a diplomatic victory’ is being lived up to at this time, as evi denced by our futile efforts to force the Disarmament Commit tee of the United Nations to ac cept a most complex plan for dis armament. It is officially estimat ed that the plan proposed by our representatives could not be plac ed in operation within five years. “The United States should ac cept the proposals made by France, India and Russia to im mediately abolish the testing de tonations of atomic and nuclear bombs, instead of insisting that the United States will not agree to the cessation of these detonations until an agreement has been ar rived at covering all the items came into comprise our complex draft to ot the ge„er.l die»„.n.e„t et.te- the AEC lor stu^^d reply. ^„elopm.„t ol guided Soviet Re«iv^ letter missies and other defensive wea- of the Soviet ^nio^ was ^ Lately stop the staging of shows recently by Mr Riley tnroug Congressmen Georgi N. Zaroubin, USSR ambas valueless propaganda pur- sador to the USA. Lnctps ” ha^as^ fo^tr Sihl 1 Refusal of the United States to “Soviet Union, ever since the first days of the existence of the Unit ed Nations Organization, has ac tively advocated cessation of the arms drive and prohibition of | atomic weapons.” The Soviet Union, the letter said, will continue its effort to put the program of disarmament into practice, including the discontinu ance of atomic and hydrogen wea- j pons. . Mr. Riley had written to high officials of the United States, Great Britain, France and the So- | I Viet Union, asking each if his na- Ition would agree to stopping nu- | abolish bomb testing “wiU go down in history as one of the most costly blimders ever committed by any government,” Mr. Riley thinks. He has many times point ed to unseasonable and extrqme weather as the result of nuclear bomb blasts and he predicts that if the current detonations are not halted, crops will be so affected that farm production will fall to a point that will necessitate drawing on government-held agricultural surpluses. Mr. Riley believes that radioac tive particles thrown up into the atmosphere by atomic and nuclear explosions have diverted the “pol ar currents” in the upper atmo sphere from the course they have followed for hundreds of years and have also increased the en ergy and velocity of these cur rents. As evidence of this, he cites “record-breaking fluctuations of temperature” and other climatic disturbances. Mr. Riley thinks that the only solution to the problem of stop ping the bomb detonations is ac tion by Congress. And he urges the public to write their Congress men to that effect. In that bracket, 372 drivers were at the wheel at the time of the fatal accident. Other age groups showed up like this: 16-19, 166, 20-24, 308; 35-44, 261; 45-54, 117; 55-64. 68; 65-74, 34; and over 75, six. Age was not stated in 44 re ports. ACCIDENTS AND AGE There were 1,380 drivers in volved in fatal automobile acci dents in North Carolina last year. A study by the State Department of Motor Vehicles shows that drivers in the 25-34 age bracket 'were involved most frequently. hurry SUNDAY, MAY 13 Mom would like a potted plant We have beautiful GERANIUMS CHRYSANTHEMUMS FANCY CALADIUMS GLOXINIAS DISH GARDENS SHE WOULD LIKE SOME OF OUR ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS FOR HER GARDEN. See our wide selection ROY KELLY 4 Landscape Service Pinehurst 3005 — Midland Road — Southern Pines 2-4815 Brown Auto Supply ABERDEEN SOUTHERN PINES Kentucky Bourbon years old if waMBBT KEHTPCKY BOPBBOW UJG [iitieif .6 ancien distiued a bottled by gX AGE distilling FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY, 86 PROOF ancient age DISTllllNG CO., FRANKFORT. 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