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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1946
Page
5
Editorial discussions in Utah focus on Bushnell Hospital and Army hospital programs, urging leaders to influence national policy. Vernal probes oil potential with seismic surveys, while a new Point of the Mountain prison and a Provo plastic plant project advance, signaling industrial growth for Utah.
The twenty-fifth annual Brigham Young University Leadership Week took place over four consecutive days starting January 31. Dr. Gerrit de Jong, dean of the College of Arts and chairman of the affair, announced lectures, classes, and religious activities for the final day. Committees including a general panel were named to direct events, with the week returning to BYU campus for the first time since wartime travel restrictions.
Men already in the Army who reenlist before February 1 1946 stay in their present grade. Honorably discharged men may reenlist within 20 days after discharge in the same grade, provided they reenlist before February 1 1946. The Army offers 13 major benefits including pay raises, furloughs, mustering out pay, retirement options, GI Bill benefits, family allowances, and skill training, as part of a broad peacetime reenlistment program.
Tokyo broadcasts reported by the Associated Press claim horrific atomic-bomb effects in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They cite 60,000 Hiroshima deaths two weeks after the blast and ongoing rises, with thousands more injured from burns and presumed radioactivity. An American expert disputed ground radioactivity linger. The reports also note severe white blood cell reductions among affected servicemen and a Nagasaki toll of 13,000 dead and 10,000 missing, suggesting widespread suffering and long-term health impacts.
The June 27 1943 61 minute air raid alert in San Francisco was caused by unidentified targets spotted by radar off the Golden Gate. Officials previously censored but later disclosed that radar can detect a single pelican at sea and that a flock may trigger alerts. The army said radar protected the Pacific coast from border to border.
The Navy disclosed that New York harbor’s submarine net was removed and that only once did an enemy U boat pass Ambrose lightship. In March 1943 a mine laying sub sailed within a mile of the lightship and dropped four mines, escaping. One mine damaged a tanker while the other three were recovered before exploding.
The First Congressional District poll of 5000 postal cards shows 851 or 54.3 percent of 1569 responses favor universal military training, 538 or 34.3 percent oppose, 146 (9.3) favor school or National Guard training, 10 (0) back higher soldier pay, 8 (5) support one year training after age 21, 16 (1) no opinion. Urban respondents favor training 61 percent. rural 39 percent. Opposition leans urban 43 percent, rural 57 percent.
Grace Guymon reports on holiday break reflections at PHS Cedar City school. First league basketball game at St George venue with players Willand Decker Howard Stubbs Lyle Evans Warren A Dul ton Boyd Rotunson. chorus performed in Christmas Cantata with Cedar City recordings highlighting chorus strengths and weaknesses. Band emblems arrived gold colored. Homer Jones photographed Searthick outside due to bulb shortages. yearbook progress and Friday assembly celebrated Utah joining the Union with citizenship program and songs by the high school orchestra.
The largest snakes in the world are the reticulated pythons of the Philippine Islands, reported to grow up to 30 feet long and 15 inches in diameter.
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