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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1945
Page
1
The piece outlines why atomic force remains costly and distant from common use. It notes the 2 billion dollar price tag for a first atomic bomb and explains the science of nuclear fission, uranium 235, and the immense energy released. It stresses the enormous remaining challenges and the slow path to practical power or weapons.
Monroe post office sales for July totaled 5146 dollars as part of a half year totaling 32617 dollars. Average monthly sales run about 5436 dollars but purchasers buy smaller quantities per person, per state surveys.
The illustration shows uranium atoms with 92 electrons and protons, noting the tiny size and immense energy release when splitting. It compares an atom bomb to a British 11 ton earthquake bomb, detailing annihilation areas and how explosion location affects impact, per AP science editor Howard Blakeslee.
Sugar allotment details for Green County residents announced by the rationing board. Applications for the second half of canning sugar require Form 134, with the original blank showing 13 spare stamps used first allotment, plus signatures and list of original applicants. Blanks available at local boards in Brodhead Monticello New Glarus Albany Brooklyn.
Old Monroe glimpsed from 12 monthly issues of the Real Estate Journal show a year of civic pride and industrial push. The papers praise street lighting, public telephones, new blocks, and a shift to home labor, while lampooning taxes and a horse drawn fire engine. Projections foresee modern architecture, streetcars, and thriving factories with 20 smoke stacks shaping growth across nearby towns.
News from the Pacific reports censorship on atomic bomb details while admitting massive destruction at Hiroshima. Japanese communiques hint multiple bombs and extensive damage as Marianas B 29s strike Toyokawa and Nagoya areas. Allied offensives push toward Yamashita with renewed actions in Luzon and coastal defenses along the invasion front.
Pvt James L. Williams 27 of Houston, a guard at a POW work camp near Waupun, drowned while swimming in Lighthouse Harbor at Lakeside Park. He apparently suffered a cramp and his body was recovered.
An AP bulletin describes a crowded Japanese hospital ship seized as a prize of war with Red Cross symbols, its holds loaded with war materiel. The incident centers on a pre-dawn Banda Sea seizure and contraband findings, cited by a top American source as part of postwar evidence. UNRRA faces funding needs through 1946, with potential totals around 700 million for Russia depending on council grants.
Maj Richard Bong America's top aerial ace and Poplar Wisconsin native dies in a jet P 80 Shooting Star test flight explosion near Pur bank California He had downed 40 Japanese planes in 500 combat hours and perished four minutes after takeoff when the plane exploded scattering wreckage over an acre died yesterday afternoon in the crashS
In Burbank California AP reports Major Bong and his wife along with friends lit cigarettes at a restaurant dinner party last night less than 24 hours before his death. The friends say the major held a match to his wife and joked Here, Honey, you blow it out thatll take off the curse.
A 24 year old pilot died when flames engulfed a Lockheed jet after takeoff. He attempted to jump clear but flames consumed him. His body was found 100 feet from the burning turbine and his parachute partly opened. The fighter pilot had been testing P-80s for the army since July 9.
Monroe citizens sought warmth as October like cold hit with the mercury dropping to the mid fifties. Morning turnout bundled in wool while a cloudy sky kept temperatures near sixty at noon. Forecasters warn of cooler conditions tonight with a potential slight rise tomorrow unlikely to bring a late summer return.
An early morning explosion wrecked Saskatchewan Wheat Pool storage elevator No. 5 at Port Arthur Ontario near Fort William. No immediate cause, grain dust possible. Seventeen workers remained missing and several injured were treated. four bodies found 100 feet from the building as flame swept 200 to 300 feet.
Monroe merchants formed a new organization at the Monroe hotel last night electing L. E. Bothell president, Harold Scherer vice president, and Ray Lovelace secretary treasurer. Directors named were Lester Michael, W. R. Schuetze, W. A. Thayer, Paul Dinnerbeck, and Paul Paulson. The group aims to promote trading in Monroe, standard business practices, credit, and store hours, with a first meeting set for 7:30 p.m. August 20 at the Monroe hotel.
AP reports wartime act of destruction at Hiroshima signals radical shifts in defense thinking. Officials expect surrender soon as Truman emphasizes strict government control of atomic power. In peacetime use, energy could transform industry and trade, with allies retaining control while future nations may develop the weapon.
British and American leaders forecast a fresh ultimatum to Japan backed by the atomic bomb threat. Experts say the new weapon could end the war quickly and raise questions about sharing its knowledge, while Allied propagandists push Japan toward surrender.
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