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' Tuesday, May 3, 1955
Wavy Will Have Variety of Nuclear-Powered Warships Within 10 Yean
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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.
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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.
Lynn Crandall, watermaster
for the Snake river and district
engineer for the Geological Sur
vey, told the subcommittee he
believes there will be adequate
water to maintain power gen
erating schedules at Hells Can
yon under foreseeable irrigation
development upstream.
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