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THE PILOT—Sotilhern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. AUGUST 9, 1956
FURTHER SEVERE NATURAL DISASTERS PREDICTED BY LOCAL MAN
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Raev Hails Eden’s Readiness To Seek Nuclear Bomb Test Ban
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In the files of E. G. B. Riley,
Southern Pines man who believes
that atomic and H-bomb tests are
affecting the world’s weather and
are also posing far more serious
threats to mankind, are two
newspaper clippings whose head
lines, he says, offer a significant
contrast.
Both stories are from the New
York Herald Tribune. One is
dated December 1, 1955, with a
headline that reads: “Eden Re
jects Soviet Bid To Call Off
Atomic Tests.”
The other, dated July 24, 1956,
is headed, “Eden To Lead Move
ment to Limit H-Bomb Tests.
What happened to Sir Anthony
EdSn, prime minister of Great
Britain, between December and
July? The change in viewpoint
aligns Great Britain with those
nations—which now include all
of the major powers except the
United States, Mr. Riley points
out—that are willing to discuss
limitation of nuclear explosion
tests, separately from general dis
armament.
While Mr. Riley grants that
changes in the international sit
uation (changes that were sum
med up by Sir Anthony in July
as “an atmosphere where the fear
of war is less immediately oppres
sive”) have affected the Prime
Minister’s thinking, there remains
the fact that the local man has ac
knowledgements of two letters
he sent to. Sir Anthony.
Both the letters, one written
last November and another in
January, point out climatic "dis
asters that Mr. Riley attributed
to test detonations of nuclear
bombs and both letters make
strong pleas for the banning of
such tests. Both state Mr. Riley’s
conviction that radioactive ma
terials which are projected into
the earth’s atmosphere by such
explosions are destroying, by
photodynamic action, those par
ticles in the atmosphere that pre
vent transmission of deadly Cos
mic and Gamma rays to the sur
face of the earth—a procedure
Mr. Riley says is capable of des
troying all life on this planet.
In connection with weather dis
turbances that he feels reveal the
influence of nuclear bomb tests,
Mr. Riley has another newspaper
clipping, dated about a week al
ter Prime Minister Eden’s an
nounced change in viewpoint.
The story begins: “Winds of hur
ricane force churned up tower
ing seas for thousands of square
miles around England Sunday,
smashing ships like toys and
sweeping sailors overboard.
Winds from 80 to 90 miles an
hour. . . raged across the Chan-
nell and the North and Irish Seas
The storm was unexpected,
following' several days of sunny
weather. .
Such an event as this, striking
close to home in England, exert
further influence on Prime Min
ister Eden, in his consideration
of a possible link between nucle
ar explosions and the weather,
Mr. Riley thinks.
Within the past week, the local
man notes, the occurrence of nat
ural disasters throughout the
world, striking wtih almost .un
precedented fury, reveal the in
fluence of this year’s nuclear
bomb tests by the Soviet Union
and the United States;
He cites: floods in Iran, less
publicized because they are re
mote from the United States,
i causing estimated damages of
! $60 million and leaving reports
i of 1,000 persons dead or missing:
nearly 2,000 reported dead, 36,000
homes destroyed and some mil
lion persons homeless as a result
of a typhoon and flood in China;
and, closer to home, the floods
in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area,
Expounding his theory that nu
clear explosions have changed the
course of the “polar currents
high in the atmosphere, thus af
fecting world weather patterns.
Mr .Riley said this week:
“I don’t want to be a prophet
of doom, but in the next 90 days.
you are going to see some of the
worst weather conditions in his
tory. No one can foresee where,
such storms'will hit.
“Energy is never terminated,”
he explains. “The vast energy of
an atomic or H-bomb never
ceases. Energy from explosions of
these bombs is diverting the polar
currents from their accustomed
courses, in the sub-stratosphere.”
A similar prediction about se
vere weather phenomena, in the
United States and other coun
tries, was -made by Mr. Riley last
month in a letter to Francis O.
Wilcox, Assistant U. S. Secretary
of State, with whom the Southern
Pines resident has had an exten
sive correspondence in the past
year.
In last month’s letter, Mr. Riley
pointed out to Mr. Wilcox that
responsibility for the failure to
ban experimental detonations of
atomic and thermo-nuclear
bombs “rests solely on your De-
if
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All
Costume
Jewelry
Price
Through
August
State Intangible
Taxes Amonnt To
$65,446 In Moore
Moore County will receive $65
446 as its share of the intangible
taxes collected by the state dur
ing the fiscal year ending June
30.
The state gets 20 per cent of
the total collected, with the re
miaining 80 per cent going to
counties and municipalities. The
figures are proportioned on the
basis of population and actual
collections.
The tax is collected on share
of stock, money on deposit,
money on hand, accounts receiv
able, deposits with insurance
companies, notes, bonds and
mortgages, and beneficial interest
in foreign trusts.
Southern Pines will receive
$13,676, according to town offi
cials.
Other returns in the county in
elude: Aberdeen, $4,346; Camer
on, $79; Carthage, $3,172; Pine-
bluff, $1,316; Pinehurst, Inc., $3,-
787; Robbins, $3,414; and Vass,
$1,442.
Under the intangibles tax set
up in North Carolina, the state
collects the taxes and retains the
20 per cent share for collecting it.
parment.”
The United States so far has re
fused to discuss with other na
tions limitation of such tests, ex
cept as part of an overall disar
mament program.
Hailing Prime Minister Eden’s
change of viewpoint on limitation
of nuclear explosions, Mr. Riley
says he is going to keep on plug
ging for a similar change in the
U. S. State Department. The
stakes, he points out are high; the
prevention or amelioration of
countless natural disasters in the
future, not excepting the poten
fially greates disaster of all; the
destruction of all living things
by Cosmis and Garra rays whose
lethal power is now held in check
by the earth’s atmospheric shield.
A student of the effects of light
and allied subjects for many
years, Mr. Riley holds more than
30 U. S. and foreign patents on
light-filtering substances and de
vices. Commercial production of
these products is directed by the
Rile-Coe Filttr Process, Inc., of
Pinehurst of which Mr. Riley
president.
Several Highway
Improvement Jobs
Finished In July
During July, the State Highway
Commission completed 127.69
miles of road renovations in the
Eighth Highway Division, Com
missioner Forrest Lockey of
Aberdeen reported today.
In Moore County, highway
maintenance forces placed an 18-
foot wide straight bituminous
seal on a county road from NC 27
for two miles toward Robbins;
and an 18-foot wide new bitumi
nous surface treatment on a coun
ty road from Carthage-Vass Road
east for 1.1 miles to the Carthage-
Niagara Road.
Other Moore work included
placing a bituminous surface
treatment on the following 18-
foot-wide roads, and their lengths:
from Robbins-High Falls Road, 2.3
miles northeast of Robbins, south
to junction of Calvary' Church
Road, 2.5 mileS; from NC 705 east
to junction of Calvary Church
Road, three miles; from US 15
and 501 at Hillcrest west to junc
tion of old Raleigh Road, 2.5
miles. The work was done under
contract by the Towee Construc
tion Company.
Brown Paving Company by
contract completed two other pav
ing jobs in Moore County. Brown
completed a sand asphalt resur
facing and widening to 19 feet on
NC 73 from West End through
Jackson Springs to the Montgom
ery County line, a distance of 6.14
3niles.
In Southern Pines, Brown fin
ished widening to 42 feet and re
surfacing with sancU, asphalt on
South Broad Street between West
Massachusetts and Indiana Ave
nue.
Cotton in cultivation on July 1
in North Carolina is estimated at
465,000 acres, or the smallest cot
ton acreage harvested in the state
since 1871.
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$2,00
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LADIES BLOUSES
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Ladies’
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Values to $3,98, Only 99c
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