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Eisenhower said Saturday night
the administratioif's modified
cUMT plan is an effective and
economical way of'producing "a
ready reserve which is in fact
ready, available and well
trained." 5
He appealed for support of
his controversial reserve pro
gram, now pending before a not
too enthusiastic Congress, in a
message to the national council
of the Reserve Officers associa
tion. Sen. Strom Thurmond (D
S.D.), president of the associa
tion, read the presidential mes
sage at a council banquet.
Congressmen Lukewarm
Congressmen of both parties
have been lukewarm, and some
openly hostile toward the plan
Sunday, February 8. 1953
Ship With Cracked
Hull Believed Safe
Seattle (U.R) The Edgar
F. Luckenbach, an 8,170-ton
freighter which has developed a
crack across its deck and about
12 feet down one side, was mak
ing normal progress and was ex
pected to be in the strait of Juan
De Fuca Saturday, the Coast
Guard reported. ,
The ship radioed its agency
that it developed the crack Fri
' day. However, -the caption did
not request aid and said the ship
was continuing at its normal
speed of 15 knots. ;
The Coast Guard said the cut
ter Klamath was dispatched from
the Port Angeles, Wash., station
Friday, but it had not yet rendez
voused with the Luckenbach at
7:30 a. m. Saturday.
. A crew of 48 men is aboard
the Luckenbach, the Coast Guard
said. The freighter left Pusan,
Korea Jan. 23 and was scheduled
to call at several Pacific coast
ports.
for Modified
Program Called
Reserve Setup
U.R) President which calls for admitting about
100,000 youths annually to a
special corps which would re
ceive six months basic training
and then go into the rady re
serves for 9V2 years. Youths be
tween 17 and 18 could volunteer
for this training in lieu of serv
ing two years active duty
through selective service. If
there are not enough volunteers,
the Defense department would
induct enough youths I8V2 to 19
years of age to fill out the quota.
Mr. Eisenhower described this
as a "fair and democratic" plan
to operate alongside the regular
draft, which he asked Congress
to extend for four more years.
He told the reserve officers
the nation has an "urgent need
to strengthen our military re
serves" and urged them to give
"most serious consideration" to
the administration's proposals.
House Democrats conceded
meanwhile that they have no
hope of reversing Mr. Eisenhow
er's decision to cut the active
manpower strength of the armed
forces.
Will Keep Issue Alive
However, they made it clear
they will keep the issue alive
in an effort to pin responsibility
clearly on the President in event
the nation is caught unprepared
in an emergency.
Mr. Eisenhower firmly reiter
ated this week his intention to
stand by his order to cut Army
strength from 1,170,000 men to
1,025,000 by June, 1956.
That decision was supported
Saturday by Fred A. Seaton,
assistant Defense secretary who
will take over in a few days
as an administrative assistant to
Mr. Eisenhower.
Seaton told a University of
Nebraska graduating class at
Lincoln that even when the
Army is cut down to 1,025,000
men it will- be a "very powerful
force" with 80 per cent more
personnel than when the Kor
ean war started.
Atomic Flight Declared Possible Within
10 Years; New Developments Come Rapidly
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
United Press Staff Writer
Washington U.R) The at
om may take wings sooner than
even the optimists thought pos
sible a few years back.
Dr. Willard F. Libby of the
Atomic Energy commission said
this week that "prospects for
nuclear flight have been con
siderably brightened."
There had been previous in
dications of giant strides toward
the time when airplanes will be
able to fly non-stop around the
world at supersonic speeds on
the energy supplied by a few
pounds of uranium.
Because of the difficult en
gineering problems involved
such as perfecting a suitably
compact atomic reactor and rea
sonably light radiation shielding
it was believed by many as
recently as 1953 that nuclear
flight was at least a quarter of
a century away.
Within 10 Years
But something happened that
cut the forecast down to a dec
ade, and now the official word
is "within 10 years" with stress
on the word "within." At least
one well-informed source has
said he believes an atom-powered
plane will be in the air five
years from now.
An official speaking candidly
but not for attribution told the
United Press recently that the
men doing research on atom
aircraft engines "make break
throughs every few days in one
aspect or another of their prob
lem." Indications are that shield re
search at Oak Ridge, Tenn., has
established conclusively that the
atom plane of the future will
NEW RUSS DEMAND During United Nations session,
Nationalist China's delegate to the UN. Dr. Tingfu F.
Tsiang (left), goes through his papers after hearing the
Soviet UN delegate, Arkady A. Sobolev (right), demand
that he, Chiang Kai-shek's UN representative, be ousted
from the UN meeting.
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Dixon-Yates Pact
Defense Plotted
By GOP Senators .
Washington U.R) Sen
ate Republican strategists were
planning Saturday to step up
the pace in their defense of the
controversial Dixon-Yates pow
er contract.
Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R
Ariz.), said he expects other
senators to take the Senate
floor to applaud the adminis
tration's handling of the power
contract. Goldwater made such
a speech Friday.
Circulate Memo
The Senate Republican Pol
icy committee, it was learned,
has circulated a memorandum
stating the case for the contract.
That is the standard technique
when the group wants to present
the administration's side of a
controversial question to its par
ty spokesmen.
Indications that Republicans
will be more vocal . in' support
came as Senate Democrats set
up what they hoped would be a
booby-trap for the contract.
Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.), was
assigned chairman of a highly
unusual sub-committee of the
Senate Appropriations commit
tee to deal with budget requests
of the' Atomic Energy commis
sion and the Tennessee Valley
authority.
To Sell Power to AEC
Under terms of the contract,
the Dixon-Yates group which in
cludes Middle South Utilities
Inc., and the Southern Co., will
build a $107,000,000 steam gen
erating plant in West Memphis,
Ark., and sell power to-the AEC.
The power will be delivered to
TVA to replace power supplied
by TVA to AEC installations at
Paducah, Ky.
Hill promptly told newsmen
he opposes spending "a single
penny" to further the Dixon
Yates contract. He said he will
oppose giving TVA money "for
transmission lines or anything
else" connected with the contract.
not have to be any heavier or
bulkier than the big convention
al planes of the present.
There have , been other hints
that reactor technicians are in
shooting distance of a tightly
packaged atomic "furnace" that
will supply energy at a temp
erature high enough to be used
efficiently by turbo-prop or turbo-jet'
aircraft engines.
Spending Scheduled
The government already has
committed itself to spend mil
lions on atom plane engine de
velopment at a plant to be built
near East Hartford, Conn. It also
has tied up additional millions
on a testing facility in Idaho.
When all the development
projects already far advanced
begin suddenly to dovetail, as
they are expected to do, actual
construction of a prototype en
gine and an exhaustive testing
program for it will follow
quickly.
So encouraging are the pros
pects that the Air Force already
is projecting an atom-powered
intercontinental bombing fleet
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air
Chief of Staff, said so 10 days
ago
There would be no distance
barrier for such a fleet. It
would be completely independ
ent of overseas bases. Its range
would be limited only by the
nature of its; military mission
and the endurance of the crews.
Because the atom engine needs
no oxygen it could operate at
extremely high altitudes.
President Eisenhower him
self is committed to nuclear
flight. He announced in his bud
get message tor fiscal 1956 that
the Atomic Energy Commission
and the Defense department in
the coming year "will expand
and accelerate research on at
omic powered aircraft."
Dr. Libby told the Senate
House Atomic Energy committee
Tuesday that progress to date
has been such "that increased
optimism is warranted." He said
"there is good reason to believe"
this progress will continue "at
an accelerated pace."
Royal Navy 'Copter
Takes Line to Ship
Drifting Near Reef
London (U.P) A Royal Navy
helicopter bucked gale-force
winds Saturday to carry a tow
line from a rescue tug to a Brit
ish warship with 52 men aboard
drifting helplessly near jagged
reefs off England's southwest
coast.
The 19,600 -ton submarine
depot ship Montclare was towed
clear of the menacing reefs off
the Scilly Isles by the straining
tug, ending , a dramatic battle
against sea and wind.
Wallowed 30 Miles
For 15 hours, the Montclare,
without engine power, had wal
lowed some 30 miles in a gale
that drove her steadily toward
the reefs. An assorted fleet of
Royal Navy tugboats, planes and
warships had pursued the Mont
clare since it broke loose Friday
night from tugs in winds up to
90 miles an hour.
Three times during the chase
tugs fired rocket-propelled har
poon lines aboard the drifting
converted ocean liner, and three
times the lines snapped under
the pounding of the seas and the
driving gales.
Near Reefs
The Montclare was within IVi
miles of the Seven Stones light
ship guarding the reefs when the
tiny helicopter buzzed out from
the Cornish coast to the rescue.
The whirlybird squatted down
over a tug, secured an end of
the. spooled line and clattered
over the angry seas to the Mont
clare. The ship's crewmen grab
bed the helicopter's end of the
line, made it fast and then re
laxed for the first time since 10
p. m. Friday night while the tug
towed her out of danger.
Safely Underway
Other lines were secured and
the admiralty announced at 3
p. m. that the Montclare was
"safely underway" to - Ports
mouth harbor.
The Montclare was torn loose
from its tugboats Friday night
while bejng towed from its re
serve berth in the Clyde river to
Portsmouth for "de-storing" and
restoration to fleet service.
ExDiplomat Takes
License Number of
Sniper at Consulate
New York (U.R) A gun
man crouched on a nearby
rooftop fired six rifle bullets
into Egypt's Park avenue con
sulate Saturday, and former
diplomat John J. McCloy,
watching through field glas
ses, got the license number of
the sniper's getaway car, po
lice reported.
No one was injured in the
shooting, which McCloy
watched from his apartment
only a few doors away.
McCloy, chairman of the
board of the Chase National
bank and former U. S. High'
Commissioner for Germany,
was late to a luncheon in
honor of the Shah of Iran be
cause of the shooting.
At about 12:30 p.m. Mc
Cloy was getting ready to go
to lunch at the home of Gov.
Averell Harriman, police re
ported, when he heard seve
ral shots. He ran to a window
and saw a man kneeling on
the roof of a building and fir
ing at the consulate.
McCloy said the man was
dressed in a trench coat and
possibly a beret.
Church To Have Last Word
On Mixed Marriage Problem
Washington U.R) Ameri
can officials indicated Saturday
the Catholic church will hold
the final word on mixed mar
riages involving U. S. citizens
in Spain.
Reports of a prospective U.
S.-Spanish agreement along thi3
line recently prompted sharp
criticism from Protestant groups
in the United States. . They ar
gued that such an agreement
would violate the constitution
al guarantee of "free exercise"
of religion for Americans.
State and Defense depart
ments immediately clamped
tight wraps on the subject pend
ing outcome of the negotiations.
But officials noted Saturday
that the United States is in Spain
as a guest of that nation. Thus,
they said, Americans there must
comply with Spanish laws just
as Spaniards here have to abide
by U. S. regulations.
In Spain, which is almost en
tirely Catholic, the church law
is regarded as law of the land.
This canon law forbids marriage
of Catholics and non-Catholics
unless the Protestant involved
promises to abide by the church
law.
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photographer was getting ready
to shoot a male choral group in
which all but one member ap
peared in a white shirt. To get
a uniform picture, the photogra
pher gave the "shirt off his
back."
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Medford, Oregon
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all services, including Sunday School, will temporarliy be
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