The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1951, Page 7

THURSDAY, ae sa aig Hydrogen Bomb Hits Oue City But Only For Expansion Purposes; Augusta Is Booming THE KEY WKST CITIZEN 'Miniature Writing Opens Door To Auctioneering Hae: CITY HIT WITH SUDDEN BOOM MUST PLAN FOR } EXPANSION H AUGUSTA, — Georgia. - (/P).! ~So far no wWydrogen bomb ha been dropped on any city—in fact) © far no Hydrogen bomb seems |g to heve been made in the United States. But in a way, the H-Bomb has landed square in the middle of one of our towns—the medium- | sized city of Augusta, Georgia.| nous new plant for the | enormous new bomb is being put! up just across the Savannah river, | In South Carolina | There are no communities much above villiz size on the Carolina 1e—so Augusta is the urban cen- | ter for the whole district. And if! Augusta was ever sleepy—which | it was—it's not slecpy any more. | | The truth is the H-Bomb plant is only the latest of several jolts} which have shaken this amiable | old-south community. As they say in Augusta these days, the billion- | dollar bomb plant is the biggest | event in Augusta since the Brit- | ish hanged 13 revolutionaries in | the town tavern, back in 1780. The. civil war worked its full terror on Augusta, as it did on just about everything in Georgia. But smee then, the city has been quiet—-and liked it. In 1940, Augusta had a popu- lation of about 65,000 perman- ent cjfizens. But since then the population graph has been leap- ihg up and down like a dumb- waiter—with a series of mili- tary and civilian migrations. It began with the invasion of | ably the mountains. ire it would be there when Augusta by the United States; you came out, Now—life is step-| bas hit one town, after all reabouts. The /ped up quite a bit. But Augusta!a sample of what's happened: the “Pop,” camp nearby amp Gordon, | js doing its share—maybe a lot/| fire chief has already quit to go did you go off and leave me for to work in the H-Bomb project. ppeetenensangseccnocenenansnerns ¢ A & ey ai A te K ¥€ ¥ Army in-1941 or t which in the past has been of} more, when you think of it. reasonable size and spick-and- One of the main problems span order. V/orld-war-two turned when a town gets hit with a Gordon into a huge training cent-| sudden boom is paying for ex- er—and 40,000 soldiers descended’ pansion. City water and sewer upon the city. systems and streets have to be Augusta somehow got through) built to take care of the sud- this—only to n that the gov- denly expanded housing and in- $ ernment had decided to make a| dustrial needs. small-scale T-V-A out of the Sa In Auge for instance, they é vannah river. The 76-million-dol- have been planning a seven-mil- Jar Clark hill dam above the city Jion-dollar sewer improvement is nearing completion. And a sec- | program. But this now docs not ond dam is projected further up-| seem adequate in the light of the str n. There will be several oth- | H-bomb’ project. They'll have to This, of course, is the reason | raise more money somehow © the H-Bomb plant is being built) Augusta officials estimate that @ over on the Carolina bank—they | the city will have to take care of @ noed ail the power they can get. | perhaps 88,000 more people than ~~ awingecdea lt with theaArmyyand | the normhal-popalation-—--bet ween the constructidén boys for the;now and the time the H-Bomb dams, Augusta now finds'that the | plant’ is completed, That's expect- @ Veterar administration is re-|ed to be 1955. A four-lane road opening a vast hospital nearby: already is being built to connect and the state of Georgia is also) Augusta with the site of the plant putting up a 12-million-dollar hos- | across. the river! pital in connection with the Uni-| To. meet all these needs, the versity of Georgia medical school city is making both short and long @ which is in Augus term plans, The long-term devel And now—and now! They ©x-Lopment is intended to eare for a pect ‘no less than 35,000 construc-| population increase of only about cd tion workers and their families in) ten’ percent—-including 5,000 — or connection with the H-Bomb plant 666.000 permanent workers at the ®@ building. This in a town which! H-Bomb plant. But in the mean even now has an estimated popu- ti Augusta will have to tale lation of only about 72,000. Lots care of the multitude of tran rs) of people over ten years old ean | ient remember the day when you! Just one figure: the Augu could park double without eaus-| Chamber of Commerce expects @& duck entangled in th PARTY LINE a FERINTOSH, Alta.—(A%.—-In-! w; vestigating a short circuit. on a} wide open Sab DUN OR x released the d rather uncertai '@ rural telephone line, the company trouble-shooter found a mallard Mail The Citizen to Relatives IS GUARANTERD PURE FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL USE... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear, Pare Cube »» Crushed ICE Ine Thompson Enterpris (ICE DIVISION) TELEPHON® NO. § KEY WEST, FLORIDA Dennen near arn aura nmmmnammonrme int! * i wb het | June Time Is Snow Time Here! DOWN HERE IN THE SOUTH we're sweating it out in torrid aie temperature and unkroken drought—but things are different out at Nederland, Colo. Mrs. Howard Bull from Denver surveys the winter-like snow scene in June at her summer cabin in ing a major traffic jam. They also | that the city will need 22,009 more remember that you could leave homes. And instead of the keys in the car and be reason- ion dollars on sewers—18 million So we see the H-Bomb already | Miles CENTRALIA, I!1—).—George nies tr and of right ree. Borum's son, George, is the aa ee ate aucthonees. int. ieee — The | Youngest graduate auctioneer in Hiatal ‘Society 1e country. At 14, he can plicate almost all of his fath talents, In_ his New York. constitutional by the preme Court 1929—The ty signed impressive string of hobbies, the elder Borum has developed the ability of minia ture writing, fancy penmanship, card playing, “flourish” drawing, chalk talk, sketching with both, 1942 American ship an auctioneering school sent for rain of vice. Borur ir po! an inscribed sent it with a letter expre interest in the auctione: trade. Pipe sik The auctioneer responded with on tionecring.” 1.OSS-PROOF toi ned bri FIVE-YEAR-OLD a. 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