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Requests Answers to Listed Questions Re Supposed Change in Regulations on Nuclear Power Reactor Distance from Earthquake Fault.Author Informed That Distance Lowered from 1/2 to 1/4 Mile
ML20234D727
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 07/12/1963
From: Kitchen B
ASSOCIATED DEMOCRATIC CLUB
To: Seaborg G
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Dr. Seaborg:

j I am writing on behalf of the San Francisco Bay Ama's 1 largest : Democratic club -- numbering over 400 uunnbers.

Our club has recently become interested in the proposed

. installation of four power reactors at Bodega Bay, California.

Our interest stems from three facts: 1) San Francisco is down-wind and down-stream free Bodega Bay; 2) The San Andreas Pault , .

(the fault which leveled San Francisco in 1906) runs withim  !

1,000 feet of the foundation of this proposed power station l' and 3) we are seven (7) years overdue for an eartaquake, as l they occur at about fifty (50) year intervals. .

i We have been informed .'that the regulation distance frca am tetive earthquake fault to a nuelear power reactor was lowered from one half mile to one quarter mile. l l

We would specifically like to know: 1) what office worked $tt the changing of that regulation; 2) have they published 6.

documented statement containing their reasons for this change in regulations; 3) were publie hearing held concerning this change; 4) who presented the geological evidence to support i the change; 5) who presented the evidence on the safety of i the power plant which supported the change; and 6) was any opposition evidence presented ?

ll We .. to' hear frost you soon ress.rding the answers to these  !

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s W ML as a " farm editor" in a San Francisco 199 MbfEN ,, b'kIbib7[ he acific e an le tr e Co s reality an identified Communist. . j William Reich of 7615 Sunkist Drive Vef. 4, No. 32 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 7,1963 20 Cents

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The daughter of the Communist Party's Illustrative of the Communist P a r t y Re ch was identified as a Communist by Charles David Blodgett, f o r m e r People's World reporter, at Dec. IDE j Northern California chairman has come custom of turning even its young into hearings of the House Committee en Un.

of age. political activists, Margie Lima, then American Activities. Reich, who h asso.

Twenty-year +1d Margaret ("Margie",) eight years old, was compelled in Sept. clate editor of the leftwing California Lima, a University of California junior, 1951 to deliver a speech at the Commun. Farm Reporter, invoked constituttoral ae:med to be responding to a kind M ist Civil Rights Congress local Children's immunity during his 1960 appearance be.

i I historical determinism last month when Festival. The event - duly reported in fore the committee (TOCSIN, Jan. 2, she made her debut as a writer for the the People's World - featured the youth- 1963).

Communist People's World, ful Miss Lima as guest of honor, accord. Along with Richard C. Miller, history n H1r by line article on Communist. ing to the paper and pohtical science teacher at the San backed racial agitation in which she took . $PEECH QUOTED Francisco Art Institute, and John B. Neil.

p:rt preceded by only two days her ands, professor of biochemistry &t the f:ther's guest appearance at the Univer. "'I love my daddy because he works University of California, Beich is asking <

sity of California. CP Chairman Albert for peace and socialism,'" the People's the State Public Utilities Commission )

J. ("Mickie") Lima spoke to a campus World quoted Miss Lima as saying,"%nd to forbid PG&E to engage in any political  ;

  • audi:nce under the new UC policy wel. because he works for that he is now in or advertising activitics. 1 coming acknowledged Communist Party the Los Angeles County jail.'" - i m:mbers, f" Lima," the article continued, "is one
  • As early as 1938, her father was named of the 15 California working class pris. Violent Change Near, as ene of its outstanding subscription-get. oners held under Smith Act indictments.

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-l t:rs by the People's World, while Mrs. Margaret quoted from a letter received  !

HII:n Lima, mother of the UC student, recently from her father telling her '11 The inevitable bloody explosions seeth.

served in 1949 as a People's World sales will be a little rough at first,' but she ing behind the facade of "non-violence" manager, would ' learn more about the reasons' for as advocated by Communist-fronters in his and other Smith Act victims' arrests current racial strife is conceded in an i

as she grows older.", unaccountably frank report printedin the

._ Atom +ic Pro +[ec*t Foes t r.eive year iater _ in the Jui, 2o, intest newsietter a the say Area rair 1963, People's World-Miss Lima proud. Play for Cuba Committee. a

't Use Demo Ma*il Perm +it iv reported her own arrest and brief in. quoting wiriiam worthy, who faces a "How come a private project is making carceration in a Baltimore jail for par. jail term for a U.S. passport violation i

unauthorized use of the facilities of a ticipation in a " civil rights" demonstra. following a propaganda trip to Cuba, the

_ political party?" asked one Bay Area tion. report says:

Democrat last week. g "It was one of the most exciting and " Sadly but realistically even a pacifist He referred to a circular received in fruitful experiences of my life," Miss has to make a prediction that will scare l the mail announcing a fund-raising affair ; . and alarm many persons. The predle-She im.ocently recounts that "a very tion is that it is going to take a drastic, I[g' for a group fighting the establishment of } Lima declared, a pe:ce-time nuclear power plant at Call. f nice young man" from a chapter of the Castro-type reyolution before this prob.

, fornia's Bodega Head. j Congress on Racial Equality in New York lem of the races will be resolved."

b The circular which announced that 1 asked her to participate in the demon. Calling for drastic political changes, li I l Ellvina Reynolds, an identified Com. I stration and that she agreed. She later Worthy advocates m a s s jailings a n d l} p attended a " training session" for that forced incarceration in " humanely oper.

munist, the July 28 would affair,be among used performers'at the mailing per. purpose,j; ated rehabilitation centers" for enemies mit (#4637) of the Democratic State) Following the demonstration and jail. of tho proposed new rndicai regime.

Central Committee. y ing, Miss Lima and her cohorts were re. He also demands burning of all the Prepared by California Democratic + irreplaceable evidence of svbversive activ.

Council Clubs in San Francisco, ther cib) e t u leased r n e d to to the esstody Baltimore's of their lawyers Metropolitan and by the FBI over the years itles gathered I cul:r was distributed from the mailingt Methodist Church, which she describes as and urges the jalling of J. Edgar Hoover,

,t list cf The Liberal Democrat, a Berkeley "a center of the civil rights movement." FBI director.-

1:ft wing monthly edited by Thomas Win. "The minister told us we had helped New Bay Area chairman of the Fair

,. n:tt. Baltimore tremendously," she declared Play for Cuba Committee is Marxist at.

Folksinger Barbara Dane, a regular ? "He indicated mass demonstrations were torney Vincent Hallintn of San Francisco.

. performer at Communist-staged benefits, just beginning."

was announced along with Mrs. Reynolds Miss Lima was a delegate to the Com- The Communist People's World for l as a featured attraction at the anti.

i July 20 claims #a victory for academic Bod:ga program, held at Earthquake h' summer munist in World Helsinki, Youth Festival Finland. At theheld last freedom"*in the campus-sponsored ap.

McGoon's,630 Clay St., San Francisco. L University of California she has served pearance of Northern California Com.

In an appeal to nuclear anxiety, the as treasurer of the leftwing Slate party munist Party C h a i r m a n Albert J.

, circular urged " help save Bodega Head and as an executive of the campus (" Mickle") Lima at the University ot y und your own skin)." Women for Peace organization. California July 22.

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fI.n"N.o"dra Y.ldOthi. .E Th.$,.nih7.*t'., against s%,M the anticommunist movement is to be untrue or exaggerated. The com-E,*/e*E$@.#

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[.Yr*.' [.ie!"'*dTS m'lf.""In gu Morris Kominsky, listed in a 1938 re- ued to reside in what had suddenly be.

Inunm c. t,. .,he, port of the Dies Special Committee on come a depressed area.

. gy.n r,.hnoeipimee.r.e r.no .d. . en a.d.chon Un American Activities as educational The committee report noted that Kom-not attai.i.d ".'iric!'.ny"., '.*nl0,'Oy"'.A.*Nj."; director of the Rhode Island CP, is pre- insky and his wife Anna sent greetings o ro.p- paring the book as "a serious and accur- {

to a 1950 publication of the Los Angeles '

ate portrayal of the conservative move- Committee for Protection of Foreign

,f 7_ men t." Born, a long time Communist front which l (WOTKer f Hatts eut a hint of the direction his por- thrives on the exploitation of minority i trayal will take is found in the 1961 re- groups, that Kominsky was a sponsor of l l

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committee on UreAmerican Activities, the group in 1953, and that he had signed the nomination petition for James R.

I The Worker, national Communist Party which devoted considerable a p a e e 1o Reed, Communist candidate for Governor l Keminsky's role in a Communist-foment- of Rhode Island in 1936. Kominsky him-j newspaper, announces a celebration Oct. ,

15 honoring the 90th birthday of Com- ed racial controversy that rocked the self ran for Governor of that state in j munist clergyman Rev. Harry F. Ward. resort town of Elsinore starting in mid. 1938; was a regular subscriber to the "Dr. Ward," commented the Worker of 1957. People's World, West Coast Commumst  :

July 23, "first came to prominence in Kominsky, who has remained active in paper, as early as 1942; and was among I the early years of this century, as the Communist fronts since he moved to persons protesting the 1942 prosecution j

- exponent of what has become known as Calif:rnia, served as publicist for an El. of Communist orgamzer Sam Darcy on j the ' social Gospel.'" sinore Property Owners Association head, criminal syndicalism charges.

Ward, who was identified as a Com ed by Communist James McGowan and "In 1949 Kominsky joined in a Civil .

munist before the Senate Internal Se, helped in the preparation of a TV pro. Rights Congress petition for the dis- j curity Subcommittee by former Worker gram on the Elsinore controversy which charge of the Grand Jury investigating i editor Louis F. Budenz, is a former pro- the California probers termed " highly the Communist Party," the report contin- I fessor at New York's influential Union sensational" and " utterly irresponsible." ued. The CRC is a Commumst legal

,' Theological Seminary where he was a .The controversy began when Lake El- defense front.

'l teacher of many of the country's future 'sinore dried up and the mineral waters Kominsky was also a member of a j 7 Protestant ministers. that had formed the basis of the com- Los Angeles committee supporting the He vas also executive secretary for munity's thriving resort trade completely 1950 candidacy for State Senator of many } ears of the Methodist Federation ' vanished. Resort owners, many of them Robert W. Kenny, a veteran member of Jewish, charged city omelais with bad l for Social Action, a Communist front not Communist fronts. A voter with the Com. ]

omelally connected with the Methodist alth and antiSemitism when efforts to m u n i s t-r u n Independent Progressive l

l Church. ., replenish the water were abandoned. Party, Kominsky.was also a frequent con- ] ;

The MFSA publication, Social Ques-The city took the step after the State tributor of letters to the Communist l ns ,u etin, Jan..Feb.1963, noted that Public Health Department warned that National Guardian. '

the fluoride content of the replenished The Communist People's World also studied both Marxism and lan- water would be too high for health. Into shows Kominsky to have been a speaker

_ guige i;'s the Moscow Library for three the tense situation following resort own, at various Communistrun forums in the hy inspectin ers' charges, the California committee 50's on such subjects as "the atom spy

! ur of'the SSI in 1931 2- said, came the Communist agitators. hoax.

Ward w' hose articles are regularly l The city government was shaken up, Samples of guestions Kominsky has

! in the Bulletin, declared in the angry charges made and a court action asked anti-Communists in ths prepara-i p 1 issue that the Methodist Fed-ragon , proposes to change the economic filed. As the situation was beginning to tion of his new book Include:

settle, Kominsky's television p r o g r a m Are you in favor of a thermonuclear j s e b,y getting rid of the war? Are only Communists and those i

[*E i stirred troubles anew. It stressed racial

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cal depression but the collapse of the -Jack Lotto, syndicated columnist financial underpinning of capitalist so- "

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Foreign Languages- Publishing" House, -UrbanThitaker, San Irancisco State College professor Moscow, which produces material in scores of languages. Another omeial irreplaceable, unchallenged for accuracy, TOCSIN seldom meets with indiHerence Soviet agency, Methdunarodneya Kniga from th se who reed it regularly, Support TOCSIN's growth. Use the coupon on (International Book Company) operates page 3 to p a gW s@scHphon, send a contribution that will keep TOCSIN ca the exporter of propaganda documents sounding.

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. .ANTON REFREGIER CASE Party Poses as C P' Blasted the ' Attack on Art' CultureChampion '

Communist Party efforts to link inves- fellow-artist Victor Arnautoff (who is cur' " Peace," " civil liberties" and " civil tigations of subversive activities with a rently a one-year guest of the Soviet rights" - those three currently favorite general attack on culture - and with Uruon) (TOCSIN, May 22, 1963). causes in Communist propaganda - are the supposedly innate but vague Aroeri. When the National Public Buildings not the only areas in which the Commun.

can mistrust of the rrtist - overlook one Administration in 1947 turned down Re- ist Party has managed to persuade large fact: Artists and writers who have come fregier's sketch showmg Roosevelt in one segments of the noncommunist public under suspicion of government probers of the panels, Communist H o11a n d that the CP is their champion.

have generally done so not through their Roberts, farmer head of the now defunct A less pressing but even more pervad.

function as artists but through their par. California Labor School, called for a ing reason for much of the tacit accep-ticipation in clearly non artistic areas people's revolt against "this attempt to tance of the Communist line among U.S.

of activity. In other casv. their artistic censor our history and our art." intellectuals lies in the Communist Party's efforts have been used to enhance polit. In New York the Progressive Citizens self-appointed role as the champion of ical causes. of America - cited as a Communist " culture."

A notable example is Russian-born front by a California legislative com- While in the early unsophisticated days Communist f r o n t e r Anton Refregier, mittee - held a mass meeting to protest of Communist propaganda activities in

. whose murals depicting California history the mural critics' attercpt at " thought this country, the party largely confined grace San Francisco's Rincon Annex Post con trol." its appeal to workers and racial minor-Mice. ARTIST'S SUPPORTERS itles, it has made increasingly frequent

,, o Roberts, Arnautoff, Communist radio bids since the early 50's to the cultured crea ive at of Ant n R re er, h e commentator Sidney Roger and Estelle and culturally pretentious, Caen, sister of Bay Area gossip column. An article bypthe former Hollywood wsrk is o,ften exhibited in the g

Soviet Union, ist Herb Caen, were among those whom writer, Communist John Howard Lawson,

' pointed content " So et offic a'l M ss the Communist People's World cited as in the May 1953 issue of Masses an,d i Altockhos said at a meeting of a USSR Refregler boosters in the mural contro. Mainstream contains all of the basic

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painting commission, r e p o r i e d in the versy. propaganda,line of this type of appeal.

People's World' Dac. 7,1946. Refregier - whose Communist front Entitled McCarthyism and Culture, involvements began in the early 30's the article - though written a decade Criticism of the historical accuracy of ' when he was a member of the John Reed ago - set the pace for the party's cur.

the murals and of the proposed inclusion Club - was active meanwhile in more' ^ rent courtship of intellectuals. It equates of scenes held to be outside the scope than the defense of his right to paint anti-C o m m u n i s t investigations with of their subject matter was attacked as shat he chose. "bookburning," threats to academic free.

"bookburning" in a long hassle over the He was among speakers at a Wallace. dom and " thought control."

work which took place more than a for President luncheon in San Francisco Attempts to root out Co'mmunist sub. 4 decade ago. May 17,1948 - part of the Communist. versives are first defined as "the drive Refregier had originally planne<1 to run third party movement; was a spon. to regiment every area of culture." With ,

include President Franklin Roosevelt and sor a few days later of a so called "Emer. this hyperbolic assumption as a premise, '

Communist longshore boss Harry Bridges 4ency Conference on Civil Liberties" Lawson's conclusions about them " fascist in various panels, but the plan was aimed against the anti Communist Mundt. offensive in the U.S." follow each other abandoned. Nixon bill; and was among Communist. with stunning rapidity. A probe of Com.

PERSPECTIVE QUESTIONtD fronters who attacked the Attorney Gen. munist authors' works is bewilderingly

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Scenes depicting the San Francisco eral's labeling of the California Labor linked to racism, capitalist warmaking, waterfront riots of 1934, the Warren Bill. School as a subversive organization, the Rosenberg spy-case, opposition to ings. Tom Mooney incident and the in. In 1946 the artist was also among a the New Deal and anticlimactically -

clusion of the Soviet flag were attacked delegation protesting a n t 1 Communist to an attack on " culture."

as not in keeping with the historical measures ' implemented by the Franco perspective of the project. The murals, Governmenc of Spain; intervened on be.

o p p o n e n t s held, overemphasized the half of Communist spy Gerhart Eisler; rlnforn18 tion GrCup i

" class struggle," racial hatred and dis, and was a member of the national recep. c tion committee for French Communist JendS 'WgOrkeri l.eIt crimination, labor strife, violence ,and Mme. Joliot Curie at a .New York City political corruption. The Fund for Public Information, a It was also noted that the contract for dinner staged by the Joint Anti Fascist New York organization, last month dis.

the murals had been awarded to Refreg. Refugee Committee, a declared party tributed a pamphlet with a cover letter ler by a jury which included Communist, front. declaring it is not our purpose to~ ad.

KENT TESTIMONIAL vocate any specific viewpoint . . . We seek Refregler and exiled Communist W.E.B. to promote an atmosphere of democratic TOCSIN, 2490 Channing Way 'f' DuBois were among those paying tribute discussion throughout the country - a Berkeley, California 94704 to Communist-front artist Rockwell Kent ' town meeting' atmosphere." '

, ,g,, 3 ~~ g' at a testimonial June 19, 1957, and both The pamphlet? A 16-page supplement attended a Stockholm meeting of the from the Communist Party Central Com.

. . a one-year subscription ($10.00) World Council of Peace, May 8-14, 1959, mittees of the Soviet Union and China along with Holland Roberts and Los and recent pronouncements of CP Boss a six. months subscription ($5,00) Angeles Unitarian minister Rev. Stephen Gus Hall.

-..a contribveien to yeve work ' Fritchman. The Pigner 4f the letter? Oaldey' -C.

During his trip to Europe, Refregier Johnson, an identified Communist.

Ter stopped o_ver in the Soviet Union and r ,,N_ _- _,I described his visit in the Nov.1959 issue .

he Communist New World Review. BBCk Cop.ies graduate of the Rhode Islan,d School incomplete sets of back copies of TOC.

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l New eviilence that the e a m p a i g n against establishment of a nuclear power campaign against nuclear protection for the U.S. [o ,

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j Nations Conference in San Francisco for plant at California's Bodega Head is Said Communist Party Labor Secretary F. Fortune magazine. He has also executed i more than a local affair is spelled out in John Williamson in a Los Angeles speech the National Guardian, New York based Jan. 20,1947: murals in the Plainfield, New Jersey, post Conauunist weekly, of July 18. office as well as for the ES President

' b; " America should take the lead in dis. Folk, the Lurline, the Independence and The Guardian treats the anti-Bodega armament and in barring of atomic the Constitution. A California Congress-campaign , jointly with a similar drive power for anything but peaceful pur. man noted in 1953 that Refregier was not  ;

against a Queens County, New York, A. suits." l plant. It attempts to arouse public fears an Amencan citizen at the time he re-of nuclear danger and accuses the Atomic Now that American in d u s t r y has ceived the commission to paint the San reached the stage of large scale peace- Francisco murals.

En rgy Commission and private utility time use of nuclear power, the Commu

  • companies of " increasing insouciance" to- A former teacher at two Communist ward the public's welfare, nist press is raising a new hue and cry schools, Refregier is also an occasional and appealing to the same nuclear writer. The artist is named as one of the The Worker, official Cominunist Party hysteria even though no bombs are in.

crgan, has thus far limited its discussion contributors to a collection of essays volved.

of opposition to the plants to those in assembled in a book entitled "Public In addition to its earlier opposition to Ownership in the USA" advertised in the Detroit and New York, I e a v i n g the the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Bodega

- People's World, its West Coast equival. June 3,1961, People's World. Other Bay (Calif.) A plant (TOCSIN, July 24, featured authors were Holland Roberts ent, to report the California campaign. 1963), the People's World of July 20 TOCSIN pointed out the similarity be- and Communist theoretician H e r b e r t gloats over resistance to a similar plant Aptheker.

. tween the California and East Coast op- in the Malibu (Los Angeles) area.

~ position drives in an. exclusive report The Communist press brings up to date "This is exactly the strategy which the the long record of Artist Refregier's published in its July 24,1963, issue. Communists use against the House Com-mittee on Un. American Activities," a front activities as recorded in reports of Communist strategists know how to B e r k e I e y resident commented. "The un American activities committees.

implzment one goal at a time. Last year he contributed paintings to

-- In the f-r away 40's, when the atomic HCUA should be abolished, they have the defense committee of a group of often claimed, because its function can arrested pickets from the Fair Play for bomb was already a reality but peace- better be served by the FBI. So what time use of atomic energy still in the happens? This year they started a new Cuba Committee's Philadelphia branch.

future, the Communist press launched its drive to abolish the FBL" The Communist W u r k e r's " Christmas card" department advertised Refregier's e work as available on greeting cards being e sold to readers. He was also a s Boston khemster Sunnorts Revolutions c~"~ "c c~ponsor While the Cor munist press exults in ff .a Withathe usJapan Council Against Ac &ca"H munist Party to his support of the Ameri- Bombs, held last year in Tokyo.

exhorting the U.S. to mind its image, a can Committee for Protection of Foreign Boston mimster long active in Commun- This year Refregler was among a long Born, a declared Communist front. list of Communists and fellow-travelers ist fronts was busy last month helping to tarnish the image before a Canadian More recently, Lothrop has been among who sent cheer up messages to imprisoned audfence.

sponsors of a rally held by the Confer. Mexican Communist agitator (and fellow Rev. Donald G. Lothrop ence of Greater New York Peace Groups muralist) David Alfaro Siqueiros. Du-on the Universalist Unitarian First Com. l munity Church, Boston, told the fifth In 1961 and signed newspaper petitions Bois and Cheddi Jagan, Communist, pre.

to President Kennedy for an "end to mier of British Guiana, were others. ,

__Grneva Park (Canada) leadership con-ference that U.S. citizens are being the war in South V!etnam." Artist Refregier's other non-artistic, l silenezd in Nazilike fashion when they Communist backed activities include sup-attempt to oppose " war" polices. KOMINSKY p M kr r padicipadon in aHain d the (continued from page 2) following groups and publications:

The minister, whose Communist-front california Imber School. Spanish Refugee Ap.

record dates from before the Spanish who follow the Communist line ifi favor P'*l' Daur **rk'r American Youth for Demoe.

Civil War period, spoke before an aud- of peace? Is anyone who makes any '

lence of high school students attending civil "m'iir' int 5n'.*wUw'"ihiatYr7a*n'd munist marssines):"the anti-Smith Act com.

a Yitht the conference. effort rights and on for behalf of civil liberties' our constitutional rights '

ipso facto pro-Soviet? Do you consider it N Al" n'n"c d ,[Ee dai S " N f7e* 7N eis"$ ele [

. the 1 ape of Struggle fer Nerro Rights.

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