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Atomic Energy Parley SlatedWhat effect Industrial development of atomic energy will have on business in the Southwest will ho covered from every angle by some of the nation’s leaders in llie atomic field at the first 4‘Atoms In Business' conference in the region Thursday and Friday at tlie Plaza Hold.Among the featured speakers the opening day will he J. Carj-^;Urn Ward president of the Vilro Corp. of America. Ward ; fs former pres I-:: dent and chair*: man of llic board -; of Fairchild Ei-.? ppne Airplane|Corp., ami found* cd the NI5PA project for nuclear energy propulsion of airplanes anlt;] acted as head oi the project-The cmforevice s sponsored by Southwest Research Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum Inc. and will be widely attended by businessmen, industrialists and farmers over I he Southwest, Special nuclear energy exhibits showing newest developments will he on display.Opening speaker will be Dr. Vincent K. Parker, chairman of the Physics Department of Louisiana Stale University, who will talk bn ‘Hie AIKJ’s of Atomic Energy” Thursday morning.Nelson P. Jackson, manager oi the Washington office, Atomic Products Div., General Electric Co., will he chairman of a panel on “Putting the Atom to Work Thursday morning. Panel members will be Donald Kail man, nuclear economist, Dabcxk Wilcox Co.: R. N, Little, University of Texas physics professor; Denton Massey, director of customer relations, American Machine Foundry Co., and Leonard TLschlei*, manager, Houston Isotope Laboratory, Tracerlab, Inc.Panel discussions will continue Thursday afternoon with talks by Dr, C. L. Comar, chief of bio* medical research of the Oak Ridge r_lInstitute of Nuclear Studies, on f applications tf atomic energy to agriculmie, and Dr. Warren K. Sinclair, head of- the physics dent parlmcnt of the M, U. Anderson nt Hospital, on new medical develop-n, incuts using atomic energy.
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Wed, May 09, 1956
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Drew J.
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