2B Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Thur., Jul21, 1955
'Seawolf Heralds
Navy's Accelerated
Atomic Sub Program
(Picture, Page 1)
By ELTON C. FAY
Of Tht (delated f'ttH 9
GROTO.V, Conn. W The
Nsvy's second atomic submarine
the 'long, lean deadly iller
named .Scawolt went down the
waya to the sc Thursday.
Mrs. Sterling Cole, wife of a
New York congressman, chris
tened the hlp, but mimed hit-'
ting the bow wltfl tht traditional
, bottle of champagne.
Mrs. Cole turned for an Instant
to: speak to John Jay Hopkins,
president and chairman of Gen
eral 'Dynamics Co., as he pressed
a button releasing the great steel
hull.
In that instant, the Seawolf
slipped awlftly out of reach of
Mrs. Cole's arm. She hurled the
bottle at the receding bow, hut it
missed again and broke in foam
on a portion of the launching
machinery.
SECOND BOTTLE
But the Navy, always ready for
such untoward happenings, had
a ;aeeond bottle of champaagne,
attached to a line, on the deck.
As the Seawolf raced down the
ways, a man aboard the sub
marine cracked a second bottle
on the bow. And so the Seawolf
got her chirstening, after all.
Three hours earlier, the keel
of a third atomic submarine, as
yet unnamed, was laid in a cere
mony attended by a relatively
few officials.
The fact was unknown to most
of the audience of 28,000 attend
ing the launching. Their ' first
word came when Navy Secretary
Thomas interpolated into his pre
pared speech the brief remarq
that "the keel of a third submar
ine was laid at an earlier hour
this morning on an adjacent way,
without pomp or ceremony." ,
The 3,000-ton Seawolf Is a
trimmer, sleeker ship than the
Nautilus. Unlike the bulbous
snout of the Nautilus, the Sea
wolf hai a sharp bow.
MANY OTHERS
In hit speech, Thomas said the
Navy, with eight atomic subma
rines already authorized, hopes
Logger Dies
While at Work
A Springfield logger, Otis
Jones, Bl, 4130 E. Main St., died
suddenly Wednesday afternoon
v Mle working at a Roseboro Log
ging Co. operation cast of Finn
Rock..
Coronr Fred Buell said Thurs
day the cause of death had not
yet been determined. He said
Jones had been sawing a log into
sections and had stopped to rest
when he suddenly fell to the
ground.
Buell aaid an autopsy had been
held Thursday morning and the
autopsy surgeon was continuing
his investigation in an effort to
learn the reason for Jones'
death. He said a heart attack ap
parently was not responsible.
The body wa? taken to the
Bartholomow-Buell Chapel in
Springfield. Jones is survived by
the widow, Mrs. Jessie Jones, and
four children.
Ground Observers
Schedule Potluck
Plans were started at Eugene
Observer Corps headquarters
Tuesday for a comhinatmn pot
luck and award presentation late
in August in the Veteran s Me
morial Bldg. dining room.
Attending the planning session
were officers and board mem
bers, including Mrs. MarJorie,wal(,r imripr pressure. The Sea
Bassett, president of the Eugene 'u.if wlu ,15C a form oi liquid
(.OC, and Louis Borde, atipcr- mo,8 (nr the hcat lr,ns(er. The
X ?,,r' r C"'?' 1Iar(ii' "nd Ml'- Natilus reactor is called the ther
Mlldred Russell were assigned to or mv neutron tvpe. The
the food committee. Seawolf will use an "inlermerii-
ate" reactor where the speed of
Car Hits Girl
Rose Ann Carpenter. 10, of 8! structure of the reastor is re
Jefferson St., was treated at (lu''d' T'rhsps making for a
Sacred Hcjrt Hospital Wednes- in,ore "icient, more easily main
day evenin for bruises received '"mfd atomic furnace.
when she was struck by a. car.
drjven by William I. Latham, 57, Pnilf in Pnnrco
1272 Sunnysiilc Dr. The accident 1 UUI 111 uu,c
occurred in the tliwt in front of! Four residents
the girl's home. Latham told po-!re 'nHcd this summer in the
lice tie was unable to a'void hit- "s,m -Sur' ,nd s,ud'" P"Krm
tin the girl when she stepped;"' Ino .V"""". ' .'
film behind a parked ca No
cnatigns were isssued.
, Roses Fr6m Roses
m
he Onion Editor's atten
tion has been called to a
strany looking rlustrf of
deep pink roj on the 'i
liam Oaks' property on Lo.
Creek Rd.
The cluster of thstjn roses
Is ft full btoom with each
blossom about tv iiufesln
& djanthter, but tht. odd part Is
that buds are now growing
from the centij of each.
Stems hoe pushd
through the center of each
9loom, and buds are attached
to each. (f.
to build many others "in rapid
succession thereafter." '
Thomas referred to- congres
sional action this year In approv
ing four additional atomic-driven
submarines and added:
"This means that this fiscal
'year the Navy will have eight nuclear-powered
submarine! in be
ing or under construction and, in
rapid succession thereafter, many
othnrs.
"Of course, our future plans
will include nuclear-powered ves
sels of cider types."
He said he is insuring that
the earliest and maximum" at
tention be given to development
of atomic power not only for sur
face ships but for naval aircraft.
Particular, careful attention is
being given to nuclear powered
seaplanes," he said.
Indicating a belief that Russia
so far has produced no nuclear
submarine, Thomas told his audi
ence in his prepared address that
they were witnessing the launch
ing of the second known nuclear
propulsion submarine in the en
tire world."
LOOK MUCH ALIKE
The Nautilus and the Seawolf
look much alike on the outside,
but are powered with different
types of atomic engines.
AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss
said in a companion address that
the land-based power plant on
which the Seawolf's atomic en
gines are based has "operated at
full power long enough to have
propelled the Seawolf on a Z.Z5U-
mile, nonstop trip, fully sub
merged." Thomas said the Navy has sev
en different nuclear reactor proj
ect studies under way.
The different type reactors for
the Nautilus and Seawolf, he said,
"were purposely made competi
tive, partly to determine which is
the better power plant and partly
to exploit the rapidly advancing
technology of nuclear propul
sion." The purpose of the seven
projects, he added, is "to develop
a family of reactors which will be
applicable not only to submarines,
but to surface ships."
"The Seawolf is symbolic of the
accelerating importance of nu
clear power in the American
Navy." he said. "We have crossed
the threshold of a period of
change which promises to alter
the face of the Navy even more
than did the changes from sail to
steam and of wood to steel, com
bined. ;
FIRST A SUB
The first A-submarine, the
Nautilus, was built here at the
yards of the Electric Boat Divi
slon of General Dynamics Corp.
where the Seawolf and the third
boat are building. The Nautilus
was commissioned six months ago
and now has thousands of miles
of operation, hundreds of dives
and a long cruise to the Carib
bean on her log.
Official statistics on the Sea
wolf show her to be about 3,000
tona displacement, 330 feet long,
with a 27-foot beam.
Her underwater speed is stated
in the same general manner as
that for the Nautilus "over 20
knots." Actual speed may range
between 20 and 30 knots.
The Seawolf will carry a crew
of about 100, including officers.
The official cost estimate of the
Seawolf's hull, minus the atomic
power plant, is $32,700,000. The
Nautilus is estimated unofficially
to have cost about 87 million
dollars, including the atomic
engine which accounted for
ahout half the cost.
PRIMARY DIFFERENCE
Primary difference between
the Nautilus and the Seawolf is
in the type of atomic reactor.
The Nautilus power plant trans
fers the heat produced by fission
inlo steam by using ordinary
the neutrons is faster. This, in
theory, means that absorption of
the faster neutrons by the metal
! Those taking, pari in the '6-week
summer session are Carolyn Ann
j Hurrt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
1 Stuart VC Huril; DrVpnne Kay
Link, daushter o? Mr. and Mrj.
Willin E. Wels; Helen Elva
Ward, .daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ualton A Ward, ;4I o Eugene;
and MUry Lou Walts of, Spring
field. .
lANE GRANGE,
8PE('F.R CRy.K Ornge-A
very interesting program has
been plannml ,f.- Spencer Creek
Grangers Kri'ny, July 22. A
student of Fortune! I nive.itv
wilfeshow cUt0. gides of0i tyi'
ne nras' isT,urnpe. ine prosn
will start promly 8 30and
all art urgently ydj won
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(flegliter-Guird photo, Wiltshire eng.)
HIGH HONOR Verne Hawn of Eugene thanks Eugene
Lions Club members for the welcome they gave him
Tuesday night and Wednesday on his return from the.
Lions international convention where he was elected
international director. Local members met him with an
aifto cavalcade, a fire engine and a motorcycle escort.
A Wednesday luncheon was in his honor. Hawn's first
board meeting will be in mid-September at Santiago,
Chili. Seated in photo is Hale Thompson who accom
panied Hawn to the convention.
State School Superintendents
End 2-Day Conference Here
Election of officers and a reso
lution to appoint a committee to
study school district reorganiza
tion highlighted the closing busi
ness meeting of the Oregon Assn.
of District Superintendents'
annual two-day conference on the
University of Oregon campus
Tuesday afternoon.
Ewart Jewell, superintendent of
schools at Bend, was .elected as
the new president. Other officers
are Marion Wlnslow, superin
tendent, Coos Bay, vice-president!
Clyde Martin, superintend
ent of public education, State De
partment of Education, Salem,
secretary - treasurer; and area
representatives Jack Edwards,
Portland; Al Neet, Myrtle Creek;
and Elmer Fleming, Grants Pass.
The proposal to form the com
mittee to make a study of reor
ganization preparatory to the
next meeting of the state legis
lature was made' at the Monday
evening session by Floyd Light,
superintendent of David Douglas
Union high school. Light pointed
out that school district reorgani
zation is one of the most serious
and pressing problems facing
Oregon educators today. Two
years ago a proposal for school
district reorganization was voted
down by the people of the state.
It was Light's feeling, however,
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that sentiment is now for the
needed reorganization.
An amendment to include other
problem areas in the committee's
study failed.
Wendell Van. Loan, superin
tendent at Corvallis, moved that
the executive committee appoint
the special committees as needed
to study the specific problems.
That motion passed.
At the closing meeting, the
superintendents also resolved to
encourage the state superintend
ent of public instruction to call a
conference to consider the place
and function of the junior high
school in Oregon.
Prior to the closing business
session, the nearly 100 superin
tendents who attended the annual
meeting heard a closing address
by Harold Spears, superintend
ent of schools in San Francisco.
Spears' speech dealt mostly with
questions that still face educat
ors, ones which he termed "must
be answered, but cannot be done
by administrators alone."
Spears criticized the National
Education Assn. for releasing a
newpaper article about a study
of teacher's problems. The prob
lems, in order of importance,
were low pay, overcrowded class
rooms and discipline. The article
played up the discipline problem,
but failed to relate it to the oth
er two, which, he said, are causes
of discipline problems.
nemTeh
Sard! to H0ai)e
HaqringLogs.
GeoTgeWi director rfif the'er. (tf-Tenn,, Atlem said hoe
inland Tenter for Hearine ffldf othing that I could add to
Portland Center for Hearing afid
Speech, told verniers 04 the Su
?ne Kiwanis Club WodnetcSy
that 0'! in every 10 merfcans
has a hearejif los
Leshln was the featured ap$ik
er on a progranj which focused
attention on the New Eugefle
Hearing and Speech Center which
opened several weeks ag .
Several persons responsible for
the founding of the new non
profit center were introduced to
Kiwanians. These included Mrs.
Samuel, Peters, president of the
Eugene Hearing Society; Mrs.
Earl Byrom, Eugene Quota Club;
Theo Zehrung, Scaring society
treasurer; Dr. Willis B. Shepard,
chairman of the board "for the
new center; Duane Adderson, di
rector for the center. Br. Virgil
W. Samms, board member for
the center, was program chair
man. The center is sponsored by the
Eugene Hearing Society with as
sistance from the Eugene Kiwa
nis Club, Welfare League and the
Quota Club.
Leshln, who explained opera
tions of the Portland hearing
center, said a hearing loss is "one
of the worse handicaps" a per
son can have.
"When you lose your ability to
communicate with your fellow
men, you have lost one of the
most valuable possessions in
life," Leshln said.
He said the cooperation of
all social agencies' of a com
munity are required to guaran
tee that children with a hearing
loss receive help.
Anderson spoke briefly on the
Eugene hearing center program.
In operation now, the program
will be expanded this fall,' he
said.
Eugene Woman
Heads Auxiliary
Mrs. Fred Schwictering of Eu
gene was elected department
president of the Auxiliary at the
46th annual convention of the
United Spanish War Veterans
and Auxiliary this week in Bend.
She had been senior vice pres
ident during the past year.
Other members of the General
Lawton Auxiliary of Eugene who
were elected and appointed to de
partmcnt offices are Mrs. John
W. Gates; secretary; Mrs.' May T.
Moon, treasurer; Mrs. C. C. Sin
clair, conductor; and Mrs. Mar
garet Holt, musician.
Barth Boland of Portland was
elected commander, -and Eugene
men chosen officers are George
Thompson, grand marshal; Fred
Schwleterlng, department aide,
and George Jenkins, budget com
mittee member.
Others from Eugene attending
the convention were Dr. W. E.
Buchanan, T. C. Hall, Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Burnett, E. J. Raw
son, Mrs. Minnie Steele and Mrs.
Lillah Bertsch.
Eugene was selected as the site
of the 1956 convention.
Adam? Balks
WASHINGTON OP iftsiden-lergy Commission proved that
tial assistant Sherman Adams re-! name of two key ftficials had
f u9ed Thuiftlay to testify in i been deleted from a list suAjlieri
senate ej:bcommiiee study of thCngreS and the pulic.
Ulxon-XHll'B i-uiiuuveiay. g
Tn It-ttpr to eLhairman Kefauv-
the testimony of Chairman J. Sin
clair Armstrong of the Securities
and Exchange Commission re
gnfiking postponement last moms)
of SEC headings! financing of)
the poster project.
About the same time tie let
ttr was made public, Sen. An
derson (D-NMV told the Senate
that "deliberate onver-up of
facts about he Dixon-Yates con-'
tracT had been dictated by the
Biireau'of the Budget.
Anderson, chairman of trie Sen
ate-House Atomic Energy Com
mittee, said a leteer received
Thursday frotn the Atomic En-
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