ATOM ENERGY CONTROL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28480, 9 January 1958, Page 9

ATOM ENERGY CONTROL

ILS. Chairman To Quit Post

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 7. President Eisenhower was looking for a new head off the Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Allen, a “New York Post” columnist, wrote today.

I “The chairman, Mr A. E. Strauss, is definitely quitting at the end of his term, June 30,” he said. “The former New York banker who has been at loggerheads with leaders of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee through much of his five years in office, has informed the President of his determination to retire..

“In accepting Mr Strauss’s decision to quit, the President asked him to continue leading the Administration’s effort to amend the Atomic Energy Act to permit the exchange of classified nuclear data with friendly nations. . . .

“The Administration will have a difficult job. persuading Congress to revise the security provisions of the Atomic Energy Act.

‘‘Thia uncertain outlook is dearly indicated by the attitude of the joint committee leaders.”

GAS, PETROL DANGERS

Police Warn Public

(Rec. 11 pun.) LONDON, Jan. 8. Many thousands of householders were in peril this morning from two accidents yesterday in the distribution of fuel One was the accidental turning off of a gas valve at the Birkenhead gas works. The other was the sale of petrol instead of paraffin by a garage at Pinner, Middlesex.

Police early today patrolled both districts in radio cars warning early-rising householders not to light paraffin stoves and to turn off all gas valves and open windows.

Newspapers reported this morning that 40,000 householders were affected by the mistake at the gas works. The valve was turned off for only 10 minutes but this was long enough for thousands of cookers, lamps and fires to go out.

They leaked fumes when the flow was restored from the depot. Warning of this was flashed on to cinema and television screens. Police cars and gas company employees made house to house checks.

According to Reuter, 500 gallons of paraffin containing petrol was sold at Pinner yesterday. It was not until last night that the garage management discovered that the paraffin contained a quantity of unidentified petroleum spirit. Persons lighting stoves containing this fuel would be in great danger. •

So at daybreak, on orders from Scotland Yard, police cars began their patrol to warn householders of the menace and call for return of the paraffin to the garage.

English Football.—Bristol City beat Accrington Stanley 3-1 in their third round English Football Association Cup replay this evening.—Bristol, January 7.