THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981
Page 7
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United Press International
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — About
BO people put up a nativity scene
In a private park Saturday, car
ing on a 40-year tradition that a
HIS, District Court order
reatened to break.
The nativity scene has become
[rallying point for citizens in this
Iv of 76,000.
U.S. District Chief Judge
iaymond J. Pettine ruled in
November that the nativity scene
puld no longer be part of the city- (
lied display of holiday decora-
ms he cause it was an unconstitu-
[onai endorsement of religion.
“Government may not assist in
ic fight to keep Christ in Christ-
■as," Pettine said in the 84-page
decision in which he ruled the
residentL»Rtivity scene a religious symbol.
admini' *| u , c ,jty |, as appealed,
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play violated the First Amend
ment prohibition of government
sponsorship of religion.
To continue the holiday tradi
tion, the Citizens Committee to
Continue Christmas raised money
and bought the scene’s 14 aging
rubber figures from the city. Paw
tucket retained the right to buy
them/back if the 1st Circuit U.S.
Court of Appeals in Boston de
cides it can use the display until
the issue is decided.
Oral arguments will be heard
Thursday on that request.
Carolyn Palo, 27, and her hus
band Robert, 32, supplied the two
trucks that carried the figures
from their storage garage to the
downtown park. *
T wanted to see them go up no
matter what. Even if private
citizens had to do it,” she said.
“Christmas isn’t Christmas with
out a nativity scene.”
United Press International
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A
college senior said Saturday he has
designed a model of a hydrogen
bomb by using declassified gov
ernment documents and other
material.
Today he will lecture professors
and students on how to build the
real thing.
Albert R. Stoner, 21, an astro
nomy major at Lycoming College,
said he will lug his model into a
classroom and describe “the actual
workings of the thing and design of
it.”
The project is one of two that
Stoner must complete in order,to
graduate next spring.
T will he detailing how you
could build one, and I’ll also be
giving a list of where you could
procure materials for it,” he said.
Stoner said his model, which is
made of plastic foam and shows
the inner workings of a bomb, is
three feet high and two feet wide
and looks sort of like a missile
rounded at the top.
Stoner, of Altoona, Pa., said he
is opposed to nuclear weapons and
hopes his presentation will help
others understand the bomb’s
destructive power.
“It’s a terribly scary weapon
when you know this thing is
actually real, he said. “The whole
thing is mind-boggling and I am
against their construction and pro
liferation. By giving my talk, I
hope to make my little community
aware of it. ”
Out of curiosity, Stoner began
research as a freshman. He said a
controversial article on how make
an H-bomb, published in 1979 in
The Progressive magazine, en
couraged him to work on his own
design and to improve on the
bomb explained in the article.
Stoner said that one of the bet
ter documents he obtained was
the Los Alamos Primer, a publica
tion prepared in 1942 by the gov
ernment to be distributed to the
atomic scientists who worked on
the Manhattan Project.
“They ground out 30 copies and
handed them out to scientists in
New Mexico,” he said. “In the late
1960s, they were declassified. I
got a copy from Drexel Univer
sity.”
Drexel University is in Phi
ladelphia.
He said he obtained details on
the bomb’s trigger mechanism
from Penn State University and
that discussions with Lycoming fa
culty members provided other in
formation.
Stoner, who has a 3.1 grade
point average, said disseminating
information about the bomb does
not pose a threat.
“It takes gifted physicists, sci- ,
entists and engineers to get thejj
whole thing to work,” he said.'
“Any person or groups just 1
couldn’t go ahead and build one
without millions of dollars at their
disposal for equipment.”
Stoner said his project is applic
able to astronomy because “the
reaction that allows the hydrogen
bomb to function — that is, fusion
— is the driving nuclear force in
stars. Our sun runs by the same
process that the hydrogen bomb
does, except that the sun is a con
trolled type of hydrogen fusion. ”
Richard Erickson, Stoner’s pro-1
ject adviser and chairman of i
Lycoming’s department of astro- I
nomy and physics, described;
Stoner as a good but not excep-!
tional student.
“His academic performance is
variable,” Erickson said. “He does
well in some courses, not so well
in others.” But he said that Stoner
is well-read and has a “better
background of knowledge than the
average college student.”
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