“New” Manhattan Project spy; John Morris on public safety

The Press-Telegram writes compellingly about public safety, in a editorial which dropped online yesterday.

Apparently Smooth’s Sports Grille owner John Morris’s daughter was running things the other night–but when a customer got out-of-hand and she had to call police, Pine Avenue’s regular downtown patrollers were nowhere to be found.

Why? According to the P-T, they just weren’t on patrol. Despite City Manager Pat West’s recent comment about people needing to feel safe, these are economically tough times; city money is always tight, and every area of town wants extra police.

And, as the P-T points out, that’s a fine subject for a discussion. Talk is cheap until you really need our police–but when you do, you really need them.

Also? From the New York Times, word of a new Manhattan Project Soviet spy–Iowa-born George Koval–who had access to our top-secret sites at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Dayton, Ohio, and was never caught.

Koval, who died last year at age 92, 93 or 94 in Russia (guess his age was a secret too!) was recently made a Hero of the Russian Federation–the country’s highest civilian honor.

No wonder, the Times writes, that Russia was able to become the world’s second atomic power just four years after the U.S.

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