Please note meeting location change. Due to concerns about the appearance of lobbying, the special session on the NPS Draft Study was moved
from the Dirksen Senate Office to room M-09 of the Old Post Office
Pavilion at 11th and Pennsylvania, NW, near the Federal Triangle Metro
station. In addition, the meeting will be convened by the National Park
Service, rather than the Atomic Heritage Foundation.
The Park Service will have an open house beginning at 1 PM in the Old Post Office Pavilion (room M-09) on Tuesday,
February 9, 2010, and make a presentation at 2:30 PM followed by an
opportunity for questions and answers. Carla McConnell, who is in
charge of the study, will be leading
the meeting, which should run until 5:30 PM.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is hosting an informal
workshop for anyone interested in exchanging ideas and plans with
colleagues from different sites on Wednesday, February 10, from 9 AM to noon.
The meeting will be at Latham &
Watkins, 555 11th Street, NW, tenth floor, near the Metro Center
station. Please RSVP to Cindy Kelly at
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The Atomic Heritage Foundation
910 17th Street, NW
Suite 408
Washington, DC 20006
202-293-0045 info@atomicheritage.org
Atomic Story of the Week
DuPont had to hire over 50,000 people but the War Manpower Board dictated where you could recruit. During the war, you just couldn’t go over to the West coast and recruit people from the shipyards or from Boeing over there. So a lot of recruitment was done down South.
In the 1940s, the South wasn’t highly industrialized and was prime territory for recruiting labor. That’s why so many Southerners live here. They were offered a paying job and given a railroad ticket.
I have to always kind of laugh because the trains came through Pasco, where the railroad station was located, about 2:00 in the morning. I’m sure if it’d come by during daylight hours they wouldn’t have bothered to get off the train. The recruiting posters lured people to come to “the evergreen state of Washington, sparkling rivers, snow capped peaks, wonderful fishing and hunting.” But what do you find? A desert with tumbleweed and jackrabbits. The new recruits arrived in the dark of the night and were given a place to sleep. In the morning they went through employment, were put on a bus and driven the fifty-odd miles from Pasco. What a shock when they ride past miles of empty desert and arrive at this huge construction camp at the old Hanford town site.
STEVE BUCKINGHAM, HANFORD
Did You Know?
"Having invented a new Holocaust
And been the first with it to win a war,
How they make haste to cry with fingers crossed,
King's X--no fair to use it any more!"
(Robert Frost; quote provided by Daniel Osborn of Colorado)
