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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 9, 1978, p. 13

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Hiroshima posting remembered Tilt lit RAID By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer Sunday was me anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima While which considered to have forced Japan to render and ended World War II is just a fact in history book to most Canadians it ha con si more for one Early Ryder of Ryder s George town spent a yea Japan the War and became with Kite man written about in Life Magazine as Hiroshimas number one bomb victim Mr Klkkawa had opera lions the lime Mr ruder met him in 1952 He had been ieci Hie area devas he bomb and the TV it the who survived the explosion the article claimed In 192 Mr a flourishing business selling and Mr has a book entitled No More which he purchased from him his near the centre of the Mr was a radiation safety officer with the missed being sent to Australia in 1956 wncn hydrogen bomb was tested there We hear all sorts of contra diction over whether he bomb should have been dropped in 1W5 Mr bull think dropping the bomb was a really proper alternative to what they were doing We hove benefited from the scare so that years later It still iwl being used They were using a different kind of bomb of course they were chip ping away elites before They wiped a whole section of Tokyo In one nigh with small bombs and it doesnt mailer which kind of bomb hits you You re just as dead with one kind as with the other hey dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki before the Mediation Aug 14 on pact Ten outsider workers seek new contract with Ihc Credit Valley Conservation Authority will seek media I Ion a Iks Aug to resolve on Impasse in negoliat Ray Whitehead bargaining agent for Local Canadian Union of Public Employees said Thursday the union mem approved the action a meeting Wednesday Employees of the Ion are seeking a one year contract to replace tier which expired March Negotiations broke down after one meeting hey began March A report issued in June a tent in hour increase in wagn the only outstanding issue under dls The union has been seeking an hour Stirling employees now re icin an hour three month receive Authority looks Ihes the hssn taken willbema position Aug II A by unionized emplo of the milt Con don know what else lo do said situation has to the point that Whitehead said he could foresee a rontallon similar the four monthold Heck Manufaclur lant strike near Exeter Accusing the authority of to ruin the local White head iid the hoard had been negative with union from day one He said local has problems with the author before and the authority nod threatened to lock employees over a dispute over working Christmas One of the board members has told me the board wants to gel the union out he said I had some discuss ions with people on the author ily hoard anil there a certain distinct union feeling by sumo people on the board Grant authority chairman denied Wednesday that board members arc union union feeling could develop If union spokesmen continue to make statements which he said were misleading Japanese surrendered he says but there is evidence now it wasn I necessary The Japanese would have rendered they were ing trouble getting it organ One of the things surprised Mr when he went to Japan was the lack of bitterness shown by the Japan esc people toward their former We could talk about he says but not about Harbor They were genuinely ashamed of that because had done it Hiroshima was our problem and wenn I sensitive a bout it The British wouldn send a prlsuncr of war back Into Japan if that wherchedbeen a prisoner he the Australians Ind no such rescr They seemed Hi be able to take it for granted that men who had been prisoners would not be for if they went back Ami the Japanese also seemed lie able to overlook how they had been trained In consider us during Ihe war The war was by he lime I got Their training was very different from ours he says very militaristic It showed significance too One of the men working In the Command Head In Kure while Mi was Ihcrc doing repairs on an equip merit damaged in K a former m The mm was a genius Mr I make him a lead band our the Jpanese repair crews because he abused bis power with the men They hid held no rank in the Japanese forces but he had been a sergeant or something like and it had given him rank privileges Mr chuckles when asked If he now sells Japanese televisions because he was impressed by skill when he s in Japan No 1 sell Hum because I haven any choice he says I Cinadian producls until the unions wiped them out mil all Ihc inadnn in win out of ess or moved to the American plants their firms owned The J pi lies nn kc Ihe better sets linn the ins so I carry their products now that there are no longer any Canadian These photos taken from a booklet loaned loThe Herald by Mr Itjdtr record of the atomic devastation Hiroshima The photo above was taken In September IMS and below of the game area was taken In 1951 The caption photos reads Ttir moment I stood my friend on Ihe roof of the Building with a camera In my disabled aching with bums made by Ihc radioactivity 1 was astonished at appalling sight disclosed under my nose It was not what hud long been familiar of Hiroshima but was so far beyond our anticipation that my intention take a snapshot of the scene way a deep regret for having climbed up to the elevation Hut as we gazed distant Ml rearing up beyond the atomic desert we were urged preserve the and helping each other reminds me of the of having peace The apple of Adams eye How to plan for a hasslefree and funfilled family outing New vacation plans offer flexible travel Ml MilllS viewed Stroll down don Whitehall look at the Screen of the Admiralty a few minutes iw is the Royil Society of Arts in John Street and is once the phi development now rep by few houses grinder Adam stylish in West ran sport purest il Much of the furniture here is Ad im he- liked to design his rooms as entities of his On Ihc northern heights of the capital in amp- si cad will find Ken wood House interiors in a set ling ll contains the superb Collection of p and is open all the year several open air phony concerts arc held summer on the away from house Also in London and not far from Ostcrlcy is ihc home of the Duke of Northumberland House which is tenng Adam interior houses further thin Park Houst don which can I by public and open to the public through Nation il Trust Origin illy built in 1V77 was remodelled by Ad the fine slate apartments occupying three sides of a square should not be missed for they show SYNDICATED TRAVEL NEWS In 1754 young Scot set off from England for Italy Full of curiosity about the newlyexcavated Roman cities of Pompeii and Robert Adam was in his mid twen ties and following a vogue in the loth the virtue of studying Roman ruins on the spot He spent three ye and the results of his labours hud a tremendous influence on British architecture and Even today when Britain celebrates the an of his birth on July 1728 his recreations of Greek and Ronnn models are still copied and he is 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