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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1956
Pages 1 to 8
Will Far North DEW Line Give
Exaggerated Sense of Security?
By CHARLES CORDDRY
United Press Correspondent
Point Earrow, Alaska (U.R
Will the radar warning line be
ing built in the Far North b
come a Maginot Line, a "wall"
giving the public an exaggerated
sense of safety against Russian
attack?
This question persists as one
tours the 3000 miles of desolate,
snow-drenched wasteland where
4000 construction workers of
many nationalities are erecting
the Distant Early warning or
DEW line at a cost of at least
$400,000,000.
Strung across the North
American Arctic rim, "the line"
Is intended to warn key target
areas four to six hours before
jjet bombers swooping over the
Polar reaches can deliver a nu
clear attack. It runs generally
along the 70th parallel high
above the Arctic Circle and the
continental tree line and within
1200 miles of the North Pole, at
dozens of sites where few white
men have been before.
Work Unfinished
Defense leaders believe there
was no( choice in this cold war,
air-atomic era but to carry out
the fantastic construction project.
But they know the DEW line's
limitations and hope it will not
create a Maginot complex, an
overdone feeling of safety and a
letdown in other vital defense
areas.
For one thing, it is still as
much as two years from comple-
tion, according to the Air Force
which made the prime contract
with Western Electric Co. to
build it. It was started in early
1955, more than two years after
scientists called it feasible and
urgently needed. Its sensitive
radar, mounting guard on towers
high in the northland's tundra
and rocky pinnacles, will be ar
rayed to detect sneak attacks by
planes of a type Russia has right
now in considerable numbers.
The line will hardly become
fully operational. Sometime in
1958, before military men will
be grouping for revolutionary
improvements in the hope it can
be made useful in combatting the
threat of approaching intercon
tinental ballistic missiles. There
is an evident hope that eventally
it may become the scene of
pilotless interceptor or guided
missle facilities, so that counter
attacks can be put up instantly.
Newsmen Tour Line
Entirely American financed,
the DEW line stretches from Cape
Lisburne to the southwest of
here on the Bering Strait-across
Alaska's Arctic slope and Can
ada's wind-swept northern flat
lands to Baffin Island's craggy,
fjord-marked East coast.
In the first officially authoriz
ed press tour of this sensitive
defense area, 31 U.S. and Can
adian newsmen mushed in deep
snow at temperatures as much
as 38 below zero, travelled in
vehicles up rocky roads with
hairpin turns to the radar sites,
landed on ice strips marked out
on foreign lakes and surveyed
the vast enterprise from a big
Air Force C124 Globemaster.
Little more than a year ago,
much of this territory knew only
the migrant Eskimo, the Arctic
fox bark and wolf's howl. Not a
speck marred the acres of snow.
Now the area is alive with little
construction camps of tents,
shacks and quonset huts; tractor
drawn sled trains, radio beacons,
the steady drone of aircraft over
head and the ceaseless labors of
hardy men putting up the perma
nent, pre-fabricated DEW line
buildings.
The function of the DEW lines,
when completed, will be to give
the Strategic Air Command
OSCAR ARRIVES
Rome (U.R) The Oscar
won by Italian film actress An
na Magnani arrived here from
Los Angeles tonight and will be
presented to her in a formal cer
emony in a few days.
enough warning of attack to get
its bombers off their vulnerable
bases and on the way toward
Russia. The brief warning time
it gives Air Defense Command
and Civil Defense agencies may
be enough, according to the Air
Force assistant deputy chief of
staff, Maj. Gen. James E. Briggs,
to "save millions of lives."
Air Search Resumes
For Plane in Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
An air search was expected to
resume today for a Cordova Air
lines plane missing with six per
sons aboard on a flight between
here and Seward, Alaska.
The missing Aero Command
er, piloted by John Waide of
Anchorage, left here yesterday
and has not been heard from
since. Estimated flying time to
Seward is 45 minutes. The plane
had enough fuel for six hours.
Civilian and military planes
were sent out to search for the
craft. Air Force ( officials, said,
however, a storm which has
been lashing all of southwestern
Alaska seriously hampered yes
terday'; search. Visibility was
very poor.
The search was to resume to
day, weather permitting.
CHEAP DINNER
Stockholm, Sweden U.R)
Viktor Bergman and his family
got a cheap dinner in their re
mote Lapland community of
Mandjaerv. A grouse flew
through the kitchen window and
landed on the stove. The Berg
mans twisted its neck, plucked
it and put it in the oven.
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Brit
ish security forces opened fire
ever the heads of Cypriot Greek
demonstrators Sunday when the
demonstrators surrounded a po
lice station at Evrykhou, a su
burb of Nicosia.
Britain's Russian
Envoy Flying Home
London (U.R) Sir William
Hayter, the British ambassador
to Moscow, will fly home Friday
for important talks on the forth
coming visit of the Soviet lead
ers, it was reported today.
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin and Communist Party
Secretary Nikita S. Krushchev
leave Moscow this week end for
the trip which begins officially
April 18.
Hayter had been expected to
fly here ahead of the Russians,
but his trip took on new signifi
cance in view of sudden Russian
criticism of official British ar
rangements for the trip.
The Russians said Sunday they
regretted they could not meet
more of the British people. The
British Foreign Office replied
Monday that it was "quite un
true" that there were "certain
forces" in Britain who did not
want them to have wider con
tacts with the British people.
Submarine Seawolf
Escapes Flash Fire
G r o t o n , Conn. (U.R) A
flash fire broke out Monday
night near the world's second
atomic submarine, the Seawolf,
but the $58,000,000 craft was
not damaged.
The General Dynamics Corp.,
builder of the hull which is in
wet dock, said the blaze was
confined to an electric pump
used for testing operations at
the pier where the submarine is
being outfitted.
Two workmen were treated
for face burns and two others
for smoke inhalation. None was
in serious condition.
The Seawolf, bigger and fast
er than her sister ship, the Nau
tilus, was launched July 21.
South Carolina was the eighth
state to enter the Union. It rat
ified the Constitution May 23,
1778.
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