Architects Said Blueprinting
America's Atomic-Age Army
By GLENN STACKHOUSE
United Press Correspondent
Tort Ord, Celif. (U.R; Amer
ica'! atomic a 2 Army, a trim,
fart-moving team with a mini
mum of manpower and a maxi
mum of firepower, is being blue
printed here by an expert group
of military architects with their
yes on the future.
These are the men of the U.S.
Army's combat developments
and experimentation center,
commanded by Brig. Gen. Fred
erick W. Gibb, one of the na
tion's top military planners.
Their job: to tear up the out
dated texts of military tactics
and write a new book on how
the infantry must operate
against the enemy in an atomic
'battle.
Gibb, a soft-spoken, 48-year-old
West Pointer, said today he
will start next month with the
first actual field tests of new
tactics on the sprawling 191,000
acre Hunter Liggett military
reservation south of here.
Guinea Pig Troops
Using the men of Tort Ord's
10th Regimental Combat Team
as guinea pig troops, Gibb and
his staff of about 100 military
experts and civilian scientists
will take their troops into the
field for a series of mock-war
exercises.
"We propose to start the ex
periments with platoon and company-sized
units and . gradually
work up to battalion, regiment
and full division operations,"
Gibbs said.
In the hills and canyon..? of
Hunter Liggett they will skirm
ish over and over with different
types of unit organization, wea
pons and techniques until they
can decide which combination
can fight, survive and win the
war of atomic cannon and nu
clear missiles.
"These will be controlled
field tests," Gibbs said. "You
might view them as a huge lab-oratory-in-action."
New Tactics
The new tactics, the general
explained, are being built
around the so-called "pentana
concept" which was recently an
nounced by the Pentagon. It
calls for whittled-down divisions
.of five regiments each, with the
maximum killing power per man
and the nimble mobility of a
guerilla band.
This eliminates the old con
cept of masses of men backed
by masses of materiel with as
short as possible supply lines.
The new. Army will be made
up of small,, self-sufficient
groups which will rely chiefly
on airplane or helicopter for mo
bility. It will operate in a great
ly expanded combat zone to
achieve the dispersal necessary
to hold down atomic casualties.
. Each unit, be it platoon or division-sized,
must be able to
jump quickly to the attack from
relatively far behind the front
line in order to follow up an
atomic blow at the enemy with
an infantry mop-up. Then it must
as quickly disperse again to
keep from offering the enemy a
concentrated target.
Gibb said the new Army's
equipment was being tailored
also for quick transportation. Its
heaviest vehicles and weapons
must be capable of being trans
ported by airplane or helicopter
and dropped by parachute where
they are needed.
Present Equipment
At present, the military plan
ner said, the Army is working
with a combination of old-style
weapons, gunpowder artillery
and the latest 280 millimeter
atomic cannon and ground-to-ground
missiles with atomic
warheads.
To whisk units from zone to
zone, the Army is developing
improved helicopters and light
weight, high-speed tracked per
sonnel carriers which can dou
ble in brass as mobile artillery.
Improved communications is
another major factor which the
Fort Ord group will test. The
old jeep messenger and landline
telephone are on their way out.
In their, place is coming such
innovations as airborne televi
sion cameras capable of relaying
back to infantry headquarters a
TV picture of enemy troop con
centrations and movements miles
away.
One thing is certain to be held
over for the new Army, Gibb
said. That is the old footsoldier's
standby the foxhole.
"The foxhole is here to stay,"
Gen. Gibb said. "It will be the
most important protection the
soldier has in nuclear battle."
In fact, he said, the new Army
is even coming up with an im
provement. It is experimenting
with various types of foxhole
covers with a specially-treated
cloth designed to protect the sol-
' dier from radiation and fall-out.
rOH MEN OTTLT
Christchurch, N. Z. (U.PJ
The Antarctic is for men only,
the United States ruled today.
Dr. Laurence M. Gould, director
of the U.S. International Geo
physical Year program, said he
has refused several applications
from women journalists to visit
geophysical year bases.
THIEF STEALS DOOR
Detroit (U.R) Charles Tri
miew, 33, heard a noise at his
side door and went to investi
gate but found the door gone. He
told police Sunday he saw a man
running down the alley with the
door but was unable to catch
him.
Salem, Ore., is the Pacific
northwest's largest fruit and
vegetable canning center with
upwards of five million cases
per year.
Monday, January 14. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Two Jackson County Schools Receive Standard Ratings
The Griffin Creek school and
the Applegate school have re
ceived standard ratings from the
state department of education
as a result of a recent evaluation,
according to Cliff Mekvold,
county school superintendent.
A rating of standard indicates
that the school and community
have developed a program of
education and supplied proper
buildings and materials, meeting
all requirements of the state
board of education.
Frequent Examinations
A school is not declared stand
ard for any definite-period of
time but will be re-examined
from time to time in light of
changing standards arid condi
tions, it was explained. If the
official appraisal shows serious
weaknesses in facilities, organi
zation, instruction, or adminis
tration of a school, opportunity
is given to the district to cor
rect the condition before any
change is made in the status of
the school.
Few schools in Jackson county
have achieved a fully standard
JOHNNY APPLESEED
Anaheim, Calif. (U.R) Bonnie
Fields, an elementary school
teacher, must appear in court
today on a charge of throwing
trash on a city street. A pupil
brought her an apple which she
ate as she drove home. She
threw the core out the window
and was arrested.
rating. Mekvold said. A school
must be either standard, stand
ard with advice, or condition
ally standard in order to receive
state basic school support.
Other Ratings
He pointed out that a school
rated standard with advice has
met to the extent of the poten
tial of the district at the time
of the survey, but certain ulti-
Upholstery Class
Af Rogue River
Planned for Adults
Rogue River A planning ses
sion for an upholstery class for
adults will be held Saturday,
January 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. in
the Foots Creek Community
hall, located just to the rear-of
the Foots Creek store.
This class is being sponsored
by the adult education division
of the state department of edu
cation in cooperation with Rogue
River school district No. 35. Mrs.
Mae Frye of the vocational de
partment In Eugene will be the
instructor.- The classes will be
held on five consecutive days,
from 3 to 9 p.m. each day, and
the fee will be approximately
T.75.
Those interested In this class
should call the high school,
JU 2-3J08 or GR 8-5131, accord
ing to John B. Harr, superin
tendent of Rogue River schools.
Adult classes in tailoring and
cake decorating will be offered
in February if enough interest
is indicated. These classes will
be held in the Rogue River Civic
club building and the instructor
will be Mrs. Orma Farnham.
The fee for these classes will
be approximately $7.00, depend
ing upon the number enrolled.
Those interested in these classes
should call the high school.
SMOKE-FILLED POOLROOMS
Staeton, Calif. (U.R) The
city no longer will be run from
a pool table. The City Council,
which has been meeting for a
year around a pool table in tem
porary quarters at the fire
house, has leased facilities for
city offices.
mate adjustments are necessary
to meet all the requirements for
unqualified standardization. A
school so rated holds the legal
status of a fully standard school
provided the school continues
to make an effort with advice
from the state department of
education to secure further need
ed improvement.
A conditionally standard
school is one that has failed to
meet the requirements for stand
ardization in certain fundamen
tal respects, but the local school
board and other local adminis
trative officers have agreed to a
plan providing for improvements
within a reasonable time, pro
vided the plan is accepted by the
superintendent of public instruction.
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