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W Ji ft "Hr"-: ' i GUINEA PIG A Patton Tank from Camp Irwin, Cal., gets Into position for Task Force Razor" which will test, fifty-five tanks and men who will be exposed to atomic explosion just 3500 yards away. Tower which will house nuclear device can be seen in background at right. - Small Planes Can Carry Large A-Bombs, Air Force Man States St. Louis, Mo. (J.R) An Air Force leader said Saturday night small fighter planet now can deliver atomic bombs "m u c h more destructive" than those which big bombers dropped on Japan during World War II. He said such planes could be "decisive" in preventing or quickly ending so-called little wars. New Concept Gen. Thomas D. White, air vice chief of staff, unveiled in prepared speech to the Reserve Officers convention a new Air Force concept for using tactical aircraft "equipped with either atomic or non-atomic weapons to cope with nibbling Com munist aggression "at any trou ble spot on earth." His statements offered one answer to question some con gresional Democrats have been asking how is this country go ing to fight "fringe wars" like Korea with the Eisenhower Ad ministration's "New Look" de fense force which emphasizes air power and atomic weapons and sharply reduced army ground force strength? Use Like Bullets White also was clearly speak ing in the context of recent re marks by President Eisenhower f Now NEW! Full-view design with the biggest wrap-around windshield of any make! Wrap-around rear window available, too! Full-view design means greater safety and maneuverability, easier handling! Come In iodayl See these great new and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the effect that this country no longer 'regards atomic bombs as weapons to be used only in case of all-out world war. Mr. Eisenhower said at a news conference that if new tactical atomic weapons could be delivered accurately against strictly military targets, he saw no reason why they should not be used as routinely as bullets. White said the development of nuclear weapons and in-flight re fueling has diminished the for- WINS THIRD TRACK TITLE Portland . U.R) Gresham piled up 177 points to win the Valley Coast league track and field title for the third straight time here Friday. Parkrose was second with 105 13, followed by Milwaukie with 101. Central Catholic had 28 13; Astoria, 12; and David Douglas, 10 13. Florida Buy. between main land and the Keys, shelters about 200 spoonbills and 60 nests dur ing breeding season. When the National Audubon Society start ed protecting them, there were but 35 birds and 10 nests. The outer green leaves of head lettuce are richer in vitamins than the inner, bleached leaves. 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Rigid Navy Order Bans Displays of Guided Missiles Washington (U.R) A new rigid Navy order bans any pub lic display of guided missiles and other new weapons "until furth er notice." The order means that no Navy missiles will be exhibited on Armed Forces day on May 21 although the other two services are going ahead with plans for displaying at least two types of guided weapons . The Air Force will show its Matador pilotless bomber here, in Baltimore and in Germany. An Army spokesman said that Nike antiaircraft missile dis- Hopalong Cassidy Hero of 4-Year-Old Davy Crockett By JOHN COLTON ' United Press Correspondent Houston CU.R) Now don't holler this around the hills, but: The great-great-great grandson of the original Davy Crockett is a Hopalong Cassidy man himself. He is Davy Crockett IV, age four, a devotee of the six-gun not the long firle. He wears the standard Hopalong black hat, not the coonskin. And to top it off, there is no TV set at his house". His dad. Davy Crockett III, is the great grandson of the young- plays "presumably" will be seen this year. Heads Off Plans The Navy said its order was issued to head off plans of field commands to display missiles. The order was issued over the name of Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas. It will ban Navy dis plays of the Regulus guided mis sile, which has a similar role to the Matador's and is carried in submarines, and the Terrier, which has a similar job to the Nikes. Navy spokesmen said that the order was issued to prevent any mishaps in carrying out Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's tight new rules on release of mil itary data. The Navy has been in trouble recently for stories on the atomic submarine Nautil us and vertical takeoff airplanes. NOW OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 10 A.M. toll P.M. . . MONDAY SPECIAL . . One hand-packed quart of your favorite Ice Cream PLUS One hand-packed quart of Orange Lime Sherbert ... A $1.30 Value for $1.00 The largest selection of flavor In Quality let Cream in the Valley! Please do not confuse Hand-Packed with Bulk Packed Ice'Creaml SHIP AHOY A BANANA BOAT NORTH PACIFIC HIWAY PHONE est son of the now celebrated Tennessee mountainer. An archi tect by profession and a taciturn man by nature, Crockett takes a calm-if not dim view of all the hubbub about the king of the wild frontier.. They Don't, Have TV He allowed his family had heard the "Ballad of Davy Crock ett" a "couple of times." His wife elaborated a bit. "We don't have a television set and it's just as well for the boy," she said. "All that to-do about his name might turn his head." Prof. J. L. Highsaw, a Mem phis high school principal who can reel off the life story of the backwoodsman, doubts that line about Davy killing a "baar" when he was only three. True Slory Mostly - Not unless his father held the rifle to his shoulder for him," Highsay said. "But he really did kill 105 bears in one year." Highsaw says the ballad is true in the main. "Davy indeed Was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, near Greenville, on Aug. 11, 1786," he said. "He was an Indian fighter, did kill bears as a youngster, go to Congress, die in the Battle of the Alamo. In the main, its abso lutely perfect. And it's a good thing for people to sing." LARRY'S Rich Maid . . TRY OUR LATEST Only 29 In DUNHAM'S BUILDING 3-3161 . n 1 1 N ii Sunday. May 1, 19SS New Radioactive Element Found by AEC Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Dis covery of a new and "intensely radioactive" element which does not exist in natural form on earth was reported Saturday by University of California scien tists working under contract with the Atomic Energy Commis sion. The scientists, said they dis covered the synthetic form of matter. Element 101, when they bombarded another synthetic element, 99, with 41,000.000 electron volt alpha particles in the university's 60-inch cyclo tron at Crocker, Calif. 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