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Thursday, July 7, 1955
New Air Force Academy To Start Next Week at Lowry Air Base
Denver (U.PJ The U.S. Air
Force Academy goes into busi
ness next week with a first year
class of 301 cadets who will
study and live for the next cou- academy, a 17,000-acre tract of
pie of years at the Lowry Air rolling ranchland at the foot of
Force Base here. the Rockies just north of Colo-
The permanent site for the rado Springs, should be com
pleted in 1957.
The official opening ceremony
Monday will mark eight years
of intensive planning, research
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and organization and the culmi-
natio of the dreams of military
airmen going back to the early
1920s.
Main speakers will be Secre
tary of Air Harold Talbot, Lt.
Gen. Nathan Twining, U.S. Air
Force chief of staff.
There also will be brethren
from West Point and Annapolis,
founded respectively in 1802 and
1845. A corps of 50 cadets from
the military academy and 35
midshipmen will march for the
newly sworn air cadets.
Began in Earnest
The drive for an academy of
the air to turn out top flight
military aviation men of the
future began in earnest in 1947 f him
when the Air Force won its "in
dependence" from the Army.
First studies were by a com
mittee headed by Dr. Robert
Stearns, Colorado University
president, and Gen. DwightD.
Eisenhower, then head of Colum
bia University.
Their report ultimately led to
a congressional authorization of
$126,000,000 to establish the aca
demy President i s enhower
signed the law on April 1, 1954,
and brought out of retirement
one of his classmates at West
Point, 66-year-old Gen. Harmon,
to take over as first superin
tendent .
In the .meantime, plans had
gone ahead steadily to work out
a curriculum. It was devised
over a period of five years by
faculty head Brig. Gen. Don Zim
merman. The courses were
chosen and reviewed by profes
ors from Columbia and Stanford
Universities and the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
Gen. Zimmerman said the
cadets will spend most of their
time in "the areas of social
humanities and scientific stu
dies." There will be more em
phasis on English courses than
at West Point or Annapolis. The
students will spend the regular
four years, spread over eight 17
week semesters and 2799 hours
of classes. They will receive
bachelor of science degrees. .
Aerial Training
In addition they will master a
course in airmanship which will
lead to a rating of aerial navi
gator. But they will receive only 25
hours of light plane pilot train
ing. The skills of flying today's
supersonic jets is something they
will learn after graduation from
the academy.
That was one of the disputes
when arguments were hot and
heavy over the permanent site
of the academy. Critics of Colo
rado Springs, nestled right
against the towering mountains,
said it was no place to teach fly
ing. It took some time to get
over the Doint they would not
be flying there.
There were .also arguments
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At Yoyo IFcovoiritee (FotmrottaiiDD or Oiroceirs
that water sutrolies were not
adequate and that Colorado
Springs was too cold and the air
too thin for the cadets.
The Chamber of Commerce
had scarcely refuted these objec
tions when criticisms began of
the architectural designs for the
buildings unveiled in scale mod
els by the firm of Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill. Talbott and
other Air Force officials ap
proved them in general.
Factory for Birdmen
But one critic said the aca
demy would look like a "mam
moth drugstore on stilts." Frank
Lloyd Wright, who lost out on
the bidding, said it looked to
like a "factory for bird-
men' ..The accordion snapea
chapel drew blasts from clergy
men and Colorado Gov. Edwin
C. Johnson termed it "an insult
to religion."
Talbott wearily replied that
there would be charges and mod
ifications before construction be
gan.
The new superintendent has
been flying since 1917 and saw
aerial service in both wars. He
also has a long record as an in
structor. Now Gen. Harmon
undertakes the tremendous task
of getting a third military acade
my on a par with Annapolis and
West Point. -
As at the other academies,
congressmen will nominate can
didates. For the first six years
the Air Force is okaying 10
nominations instead of the usual
two. That will produce more
than 5000 applications each year
from which a class of somewhat
more than 300 per year will be
chosen.
The academy, already has
plans for a big athletic program
including 15 separate sports.
The football team, necessarily a
freshman one this year, has for
mer San Francisco Forty Niner
Coach Lawrence "Buck" Shaw
and an eight-game schedule for
this fall.
World War I Vet
Finally Gets Medals
Portland U.R) A World
War One veteran who was told
in 1923. he had. been awarded
the Silver Star and the Purple
Heart for combat action, finally
received his medals yesterday.
Frank Lechleidner, . 72, said
the medals arrived by air mail
from Washington, D.C "I guess
they sent them by air to make
up for lost time," he said.
Leichneider said he wrote
every 10 years or so 'because
he didn't want to appear impatient."
Copper Producer
Strike Declared
Not Red Inspired
Denver (U.R) The strike
of 30,000 members of the Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers union
against copper, lead and zinc
producers in Western states is
not the work of Communists, a
mine-mill spokesman said last
night, . ;
Bernard Stern, research dir
ector for the embattled union,
and mine-mill public, relations
director Rod Holmgren spoke op
a program broadcast by Denver
radio station KIMN and carried
by 10 other' Colorado stations.
Union Expelled
Six years ago the CIO expell
ed the mine-mill union, charg
ing that it was infiltrated by
Communists. Since then one
mine-mill official has been con
victed of falsely swearing to the
National Labor Relations board
that he was not a Red, a former
official is awaiting trial on a
similar charge, and several mine
mill' officials have been summon
ed before a Denver grand jury
for questioning ; about a secret
matttei.
Holmgren said last night that
he could not determine whether
there were still Communists in
the mine-mill membership of
60,000 plus in this country. But
he denied that the union was
Communist-dominated.
Members Not Questioned
The independent union, which
has been fighting raids by CIO
unions in Western states recently
does not question its members
"on matters of race, religion or
politics, and therefore does not
attempt to decide the political
affiliation or theories of its
members," Holmgren said.
Negotiations between the mine
and mill union and Kennecott
Copper, American Smelting, and
Refining and Phelps-Dodge.
three of the "big four" copper
producers, were broken off Tues
day. A strike against their plants
have been in progress since last
Friday, idling about half the
mine-mill membership.
Stern admitted that the un
ion's demand for 20 cents an
hour in pay increases and other
benefits was more than the CIO
had obtained in recent automo-!
bile and steel industry settle-1
ments. But he said the union had i
amassed figures to definitely
show that the Conner industrv
could easily afford". the 20-cent
hourly boost, . .
President Nominates
Two for Promotions
- Washington -0J.R) President
Eisenhower has nominated
Maj, Gen. George W. Read Jr.,
to the rank of lieutenant general
while serving in his new post as
commanding general of Allied
land forces in Southeast Europe.
Read was named to succeed
Lt Gen. Paul W. Kendall who
is retiring.
Mr. Eisenhower also nomin
ated Rear Adm. ' Maurice E.
Curts for promotion to vice ad
miral while serving as deputy
commander-in-chief and chief of
staff of the Pacific Fleet. He re
places Rear Adm. Herbert G.
Hopwod who is being reassigned,
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July 1st, 195S
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