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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1960
Page
13
Floyd L. Culler Jr. of Oak Ridge National Laboratory addressed the Lions Club of Frederick at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. He declared the birth of a golden age of science and noted the lab's wartime aim to develop a weapon, while outlining progress in atomic energy and nuclear physics.
Culler describes uranium and plutonium production, postwar weapon programs, and hydrogen fusion. He cites Atoms for Peace, reactor technology as common ground for foreign visitors, and medical uses from radiological research to cancer studies. He notes Oak Ridge visits, mouse experiments, tissue transplants, and the need for a reactor rocket for space power.
Lloyd Fogle chaired a meeting led by William A. Simmons who announced funds from July 4 motorcycle races and a forthcoming report. The family picnic at Braddock Heights Park last week was a success with 129 adults and 2 children attending, plus 76 at the Mountain Theater performance. Boxing results from AP show Joe Brown winning in Minneapolis and Emile Griffith defeating Florentino Fernandez in New York. The Olympic torch crossed from Greece to Rome with Avery Brundage lighting the torch at the city hall square before the 1960 Games.
When construction of the Alaska railroad began about 40 years ago, a bustling tent town sprang up along the route. Builders and workers lived in improvised shelters, rapidly shaping a frontier among timber, tracks, and distant mountains.
The News reports a settlement named Anchor located between Seward and Fairbanks, Frederick, Maryland, with August 26 dated coverage. Details present are fragmentary, noting the settlement name Anchor and its geographic reference in the Frederick area.
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