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SIX MZCTORD (OKGOH) MAIL TRIBUNE ' Tuesday, May 3, 1955 Wavy Will Have Variety of Nuclear-Powered Warships Within 10 Yean i : . : - ; .- : Advanced Atomic Reactors for Large Ships Scheduled By CHARLES CORDRY United Press Correspondent Washington OI.PJ The U.S. fleet will coast a "variety ct types" of nuclear-powered war ships within 10 yean. The Navy, already risking "great progress" with nuclear aubrnarines, now is "on the threshhold of developing ad vanced atomic reactors for large surface ships." Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief of naval operations, made those statements today to the United Pres3 in written answers to ques tions. Questions were submitted following congressional criticism that the Navy was "dragging its feet"' in converting to nuclear propulsion and was "a little slow'' in developing new weap ons for the Nautilus class of atomic submarine. The criticisms came respec tively from Sens. Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) and Clinton P. Anderson (D.-NJM.). Carney said President Eisen hower's plan for a nuclear pow ered merchant ship to roam the world in peaceful commerce "will also open the way for the application of nuclear power to military craft of comparable size and comparable speed. Five Different Reactors Other Navy officers disclosed that the Navy now has under de velopment five different types of atomic reactors designed for both submarines and surface ships. These officers said the Nauti lus carries "all modern" weap ons. But they refused to com ment on whether they include missiles and atomic weapons, The Nautilus is understood to have six torpedo tubes which will fire a new type homing tor j?edo. However, delivery ot this cprojectile to the Navy has been slow. Carney said there still are "knotty technical problems" but he was confident "our scientists and engineers will whip those problems" and bring about nu clear powered warships. "No specific date can be fixed for a fleet in which nuclear power will be commonplace al though, in the submarine field, we are making great progress now." Carney said. "I believe that in a decade from now there will be a variety of types of hips in the fleet operating with nuclear power." 'Threshold of Feasibility' The Navy, he said, is "on the threshold of feasibility" with re gard to nuclear powered ships. He called such power "one of the great significant maritime de velopments" and said "we must press to master it and to harness It." The Navy's spokesman did not Identify the five types of atomic reactor under development. Jackson, In criticizing alleged Navy slowness in shifting to atomic propulsion, said it was "regrettable" that five eonven tional submarines were sought in the fiscal 1956 budget. The Navy said those submarines "will not become obsolete dur ing their normal life span." It said they were needed while nu clear - powered submarines are "still in the development stage. McKay's Formal Opposition To High Dam at Hells Canyon Told To Senate Subcommittee Washington (U.P.) A Senate Interior Subcommittee consider ing a bill to authorize a high government dam in Hells Can yon was informed today Interior Secretary Douglas McKay for mally opposes the project. But it also took testimony from two Interior Department officials that the project is fi nancially sound and that there will be enough water in the Snake river for the next 50 years to operate it. The subcommittee received a letter from McKay noting that a "private corporation" has ap plied to the Federal Power Com mission for permission to build three low dams in the canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border. Parking Facility Eyed On Morrison Bridge . Portland (U.PJ The Portland .Retail Trade bureau voted yes terday to petition Multnomah county commissioners to provide necessary ramps and footings on construction of the new Morri son street bridge to take care of a 3000-car parking facilltv. The five or six-level parking lacility would be built on the west side of the Willamette river with private financing at a cost of between four million and five million dollars. The bureau decided to petition the county commissioners after hearing a report by city traffic engineer Fred Fowler on the giant parking area. Fowler said footings and ramps for the fa cility would cost .an estimated $357,000. Ded line 8unaav Cluslfltd U at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 3 JO orevioua day. Boy Scouts' Camp Season Will Begin June 26 This Year Camping season at the Boy Scouts' Carrm McLouehlin at Lake O' Woods will open June 26 and wift continue through August 14. it was announced last night at the monthly meeting of the Boy Scout executive com mittee. The first week will be for ex plorers and other scouts aged 14 years or more, from June 26 to July 3. Regular camp periods for scouts of all ages will be from July 10 to Aug. 14. Scout Executive Cliff Hanson said that reservations for all periods are now being accepted, and should be accompanied by a registration fee of $2 to June 1 and $2.50 after June 1. Total cost for one week is $13 plus registration. Hanson also reported on a re cent meeting in Salem which he and Gary Kiever and James Bogit attended to plan for the "Citizens Now" project designed to develop a sense of responsi bility in older scouts. Reports on Events N. H. Gladfeldter, district commissioner, reported on the Camporee held April 23 and 24 on the Agate desert. He said it was the largest and most suc cessful ever held in this area, with a majority of the troops in the council participating, and with 367 boys and adult scouters present. He also announced that scouts will participate in a Memorial Day parade here, and requested large turnout of boys, in uni form, if possible. Council Training Chairman John Patton reported on the re cent "Troop 491" overnighter for adult scout leaders held near Kirby. Seventy-five men attend ed. Council Chairman Bob Church reminded of an annual planning session to be held at Southern Oregon college June 12. PTT Radio Relay System Approved The application was filed by the Idaho Power Company. Portland (U.R) Federal Communications commission ap proval has been granted a Pac ific Telephone and Telegraph company application to build a $4,812,000 radio relay system between Portland and San Fran cisco. ' A company spokesman said today the Oregon leg of the sys tem would cost about $3,000,000. Construction of the nine relay stations from Portland to the California border would begin immediately. The transmission system, be sides being able to handle hun dreds of long-distance caljs sim ultaneously, would provide mic rowave channels for three net work television stations and one standby channel. The system would be hooked up with existing microwave sys tems between Portland and Seat tle and Portland and Pasco, Wash. Relay stations would be built near Carver, Silverton, Albany, Eugene, Cottage Grove, Rose- burg, Wolf Creek Medford and Siskiyou summit. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport ARE YOU CURIOUS? TouVt saea this symbol many times ia advertisements sponsored by this news paper or one of its advertisers urging us to give blood, help our schools, pro tact our homes from fire ... Did you realize it was all part of a great voluntary national plan of Amer ican business and industry to usa ad vertising for important projects in tha public interest? We congratulate our advertisers wa are proud, ourselves, to be a part of this plan. Published at a public service in, . permtion with Tht Advertising Council Sen. Langer Demands Bill To End Polygamy Short Creek, Ariz. (U.R) Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) to day demanded federal legisla tion to wipe out the practice of polygamy by a communal sect along the barren Utah-Arizona border. Senator Langer's demand that the government restrict men of the "United Order" sect to one wife each was revealed after Langer had attempted to keep the hearing secret. He expressed surprise when United Press correspondents met him here before he left for Las Vegas, Nev., to board a Wash ington bound airplane under an assumed name. Enraged members of the Short Creek sect said the hearing vio lated their constitutional rights because they were simply fol lowing their religious beliefs. They also contested Langer's re fusal to allow them counsel. T It T-T- ivicrvay saia max ine region should be "encouraged" to use non-federal financing in water resource development where the results will be "reasonably comparable" with federal fi- Mrs. Ike Ordered To Take It Easy Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower said last night that Mrs. Eisenhower's doctor "has ordered her to take it easy for a while." The President expressed to the nation's governors and their wives Mrs. Eisenhower's "deep regret that she couldn't come" to a banquet given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower at the Governors Conference. The White House had an nounced Saturday that Mrs. Ei senhower would cancel her at tendance at the banquet and all other . social engagements this week because her Dhvsician felt she .had not sufficiently recover ed from her recent bout with the flu. nancing. The FPC can deter mine, he said, whether the pri vate plan is in the public in terest. He also emphasized that the government is "committee" to a 51,500,000,000 water and power program in the Pacific North west, "entirely aside from the cost of Hells Canyon." Earl D. Ostrander, director of administrative management for the Bonneville Power Adminis tration, said in testimony late yesterday that the high dam would be "financially sound" as an addition to the Bonneville system. He said that a severe shortage of electric power will occur in the Pacific Northwest by 1960 unless someone starts building new power plants there. It takes six years, he said, for comple tion of major projects. 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