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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL Underwater Guided Missiles To Replace Torpedoes Being Readied By GLENN STACKHOUSE United Press Correspondent Pasadena, Calif. 1? A new arsenal of "fantastically lethal" weapons, designed to make the oceans too ho; for Russia's sub marine fleet, are quietly being hatched here by a small group of U. S. Navy brain boys. These weapons are known as "underwater guided missiles." Some of them swim through the I'.' f r i l';" jMSfap SAN DIEGO HIT BY FIRE One of a number ot residents in San Diego's Hillcrest district who were burned out, runs from his home as a huge wall of flame roars down on the house. ,Two houses were completely destroyed arid five others seriously damaged in a five-alarm fire that swept through the district The Family Council Editor's note: Ih Family Council consists of m Judge, a, psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not jive advice; it merely reports on problems that have teen dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Eunice B. We've had bad' luck with men but I'm hopeful. Sheila F. I've been burned too badly. Eunice R. Sheila and I are two girls in our mid-20s. We i have both had very bad experi ences with men. It's just our bad luck, I guess, but anyway I'm hopeful and I always expect the best. Sheila, however, has gotten so she doesn't trust anyone and doesn't want to go out. We both always seem to run into the same kind of thing. We go out with a man a few times and then he expects to have an affair. Men dorr't seem to be lieve in marriage any more and a girl who holds out for a wed ding license is called a prude. This happens more and more as you get older and I'm beginning to regret I didn't marry at 18. As far as I can see, though, the best thing to do is to keep active and in c i r culation. Sometime you're bound to meet somebody nice. But Sheila is my best friend and I like to double-date with her. If she doesn't go out, it makes things harder. Sheila F. I gjiess Eunice hasn't been burned quite as bad ly as I have, or she'd be just as disgusted as I am. I was engaged for a year to a man I believed was absolutely wonderful. But he turned out to be a regular Jekyll-Hyde charac ter. He started to lie, cheat, treat me so meanly that little by little he destroyed all my feeling for him. Still I couldn't believe he was so awful until he actually physically abused me. I suppose I'll get over it in time, but right now I am just too disillusioned to want to go out with anyone. I feel I almost hate all men. I realize I'll have to pull myself together somehow and think about rebuilding my life, but it is hard when I had count ed so much on this particular man. I don't want to influence Eu nice and I feel she should go out without me. I can't help think ing, however, she's just a bit naive. Maybe we both expect too much. The Council: These two girls, seem to have gone strangely off the beam in their social relation ships. They ought to understand that generally people get what they really ask for, or a close approximation of it. Human be havior is directed toward creat ing particular situations or rela tionships. A WVTSfOW Of MCfflC twee PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL IHLK4- 16 S. Central Phone SP 3-5308 TRIBUNE water, some fly through the air and some can do both. All of them have electronic brains with homicidal tenden cies. They are fast enough to give an atomic sub commander night mares. They are versatile enough to make a torpedo bomber pilot cheer. The incubator for these super weapons is the Naval Ordance Test Station, Pasadena, an im- 4' v 4 Z v ? i ' W don't mean to suggest the girls want illicit relationships with men. More likely, for some strange reason, they want and expect to be hurt, disillusioned and humiliated by men. The ex periences the girls describe could happen once or twice to anyone, but when it becomes the rule rather than the exception, it is time for them to examine their own attitudes. Both girls should take honest surveys of their relationships and Sheila should particularly analyze her relationship with the Jekyll-Hyde character. There are such people in the world, but they are few and far between. Did she really see this man as "absolutely wonderful" or did did she make up his wonderful characteristics in her own mind just to prove far short he would fall in terms of actual behavior? Sheila should also ask herself whether he really turned out to be as black as she claims or is she exaggerating a bit.' If these girls are sincerely in terested in marriage, they will look for new sources of social contacts to bring them in touch with men of similar inclinations. It is not enough to "stay in circulation" as Eunice believes. The area of circulation should be planned. Church contacts are good and so are friendships with happily married couples. The girls should get over depending upon one another for dates, for they have the same self-defeating pattern. (Copyrighi 1957. General Features Corp.) U. S. RENTS COMPUTER Washington OT The U. S. government has rented a giant electronic brain from Canada to try to solve mutual air traffic control headaches of the two nations. The Civil Aeronautics Administration disclosed it rent ed the 55,500,000 machine from Canada's Department of Trans port for SI a year for 15 years. It's Mere! It is produced by all worker bees for enriched nourishment of the Queen Bee. 1 month's supply of capsules Central Tuesday. October 1. 1957 pressive cluster oi wood ouua- ings tucked away close to the Bowl. Head man is Cmdr. John J. O'Brien, a veteran destroyer skipper and one of the Navy's top underweater ordnance ex perts. O'Brien would rather call his weapons '"guided missiles" rather than torpedoes. Torpedo 'First' Missile "After al," he says, "the tor pedo was the first guided missile we had. It dates back along be fore the household term associat ed with today's airborne rockets. "Just as the guided missile has replaced the 50 caliber machine gun in air-to-air combat, the un derwater guided missile is re placing the conventional tor pedo in submarine combat." O'Brien points out that the torpedo is actually a small, un manned submarine. "Here at NOTS we have min iaturized it; cleaned it up; streamlined it hydrodynamical ly; put in an electronic brain and computers; equipped it with high energy fuel and the most advanced warheads known to science. A 'Pilot's Dreams' This has resulted in a fantas tically lethal, weapon." The new torpedoes are a pilot's dream. Where the old torpedo bombers had to fly low and slow in what often amount ed to a suicide mission in order to make their "fish" behave, the modern counterparts will be able to launch their torpedoes at near supersonic speed and from thousands of feet in the air. The test station tried out these new aerial torpedoes at Morris Dam, a fresh water lake in the San Gabriel mountains 30 miles from the ocean. Here it operates a monstrosity known as the "va riable angle launcher," a bridge like structure with one end an chored to a cliff and the other on a raft in the lake. Down the launcher, which is an long as a football field, the engineers catapult 1,500 pound torpedoes at speeds up to 750 miles an hour to see what hap pens when they hit the water, Water Poses Problem Douglas Wilcox, head of the underwater ordnance depart ment, says one of the toughest problems has been the riddle of "water entry cavity. This, he explains, is the pit of water vapor and air suround- ing the missile as it enters the water, causing it to be damaged and thrown out of kilter. We have now arrived at a state where we can devise the best shape of the weapon to overcome this," he said. "We already have weapons that can 'think' and we are in the process of developing weapons that can think better. Delinquent Parking Payments Lagging All parking meter violations must be paid within 24 hours or face the possibility of having the fine doubled, according to police department officials. The standard fine is 50 cents for a meter-1 infraction. This is upped to $1 when the 24-hour period is passed, said the of ficials. If the fine is not paid within seven days, a bench war rent will be issued for the viol ator. ii a warrant is issued for a parking meter violation, the car owner must pay the $5 warrant fee in addition to $1 for every over-parking ticket, said police. They urged citizens to pay their fines within the 24-hour periood to avoid the higher fine and keep department bookeeping "to a minium. Three-fourths of the logs and lumber moved within the U.S. travel by truck. E. G. "Ted" Sommer PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ANNOUNCES THE REMOVAL OF HIS OFFICES TO 366 Lithia Way Ashland, Oregon OCTOBER 1, 1957 The Rare Special, Precious Food Substance Drug Cily Rejects Car Bid For Lack of Bidders The city has rejected the only bid received on an additional police " car because of lack of competitive bidding, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. Bids will be reopened in about 60 days for the additional car, said City Purchasing Agent Richard V. Hogan. Hogan said the bids might be extended even farther if dealers did not have their 1958 model cars in stock at that time. He reported the new car will be let on bid at the same time as the replacement of the five cars now in service. Up for re placement are four marked ancj one unmarked car. Ihe new station wagon will be marked and put into use as a patrol car. Hogan said the only bid for the additional car was 52,723.60. He blamed the end of the cur rent model year for lack of bids. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington Gov. Frank Clement of Tennessee on today's conference between Southern governors and President Eisenhower on the school integration crisis: "We cannot sit back, we cannot countries disarm and sit down at got to follow the same example." Little Rock, Ark. Capl. Ollie Metheny, on she withdrawal lo nearby Camp Robinson of about 250 paratroopers guarding Cen tral High school: . "They are going to take showers and have a different look at life for a change." - Los Angeles Richard Pugliese, a 14-year-old student, describ ing the scene after a parochial school bus plunged into a 3-foot ditch, killing three youngsters and injuring 18 others: "All you could see were children bleeding and crying." Washington Senate Rackets Committee Chairman John L. McClellan, in charging that half the delegates, to the Teamsters union convention Miami were chosen illegallyt ". . . Information the committee has, but not yet fully con firmed, clearly indicates that 50 per cent or mare cf ihe delegates in attendance-were not selected in accordance -with constitutional provisions." Chicago Dr. Edward H. Rynearson of the Mayo Foundation, in saying that employees who slip out for ctjrffee breaks aren't loafing, but are seeking a bodily need: "Their nervous tension may cause them to ctevelop a low blood sugar. They need refreshments and regain strength. New Tri Hi-Y Club Will Be Formed Here An organizational meeting for a new Tri Hi-Y club for high schools girls will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, it was an nounced today. The new club will consist en tirely of junior class girls at tending Medford high school, it was explained. Membership is opetf'to all junior girls, accord ing to Herb Partridge, YMCA youth secretaary. Acting as steering committee are Noralene Schell, chairman; Ailene Doran, secretary; Diane Plankenhorn, Marilyn Ander erson, Sharon McNeill, Mimi Jones, Danusia Kosecka and Sylvia Baker. Partridge, Miss Joyce Gillin sky and Miss Carolyn Carr will speak on the functions and pur poses of the Tri Hi-Y during Wednesday's meeting. Partridge explained "Tri Hi Y is a voluntary club program for girls in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades of high school. It is sponsored by the Young Men's Christian Association." "The movement is internation al in scope, Christian in emphas is, interdenominational in char acter," and democratic in prac tice," Partridge concluded. "Any girl interested in becoming a member is welcome to join." Tlie savage soldier ant Is so tenacious it will allow itself to be pulled' apart rather than to relax the grip of its jaws. Even elephants are afraid of them. MUrdock 5-6626 Reliable Prescriptions Cor. Main and Central $d50 Russians Against Cooperation in Satellite Program Washington IIP) Soviet sci entists have disclosed conditions which will ma'ke it difficult if not impossible for most other nations to track Russian earth satellites by radtio. They also reiiused to give any details about vrhen they expect to launch their first artifical moon and about the orbit they expect it to take in its flight around the wodd. Join Colleagues Four Soviet scientists joined scores of their colleagues from a dozen other n ations at a confer ence being held here this week on rocket and satellite programs for the International Geophysic al year. The other scientists had look- be the nation that says to other the negotiaticm table. We have to restore thedr ugar to normal ed forward eagerly to getting technical information about the Soviet program to put artificial satellites into the sky. The Unit ed States, the only other nation with a satellite urogram, has supplied a wealth of such infor mation. Such information is necessary for international cooperation in tracking the artificial moons, and precise tracking is necessary for success of scientific experi ments associated with the satel lites. 'Miniirack' Stations The U. S. and cooperating countries have set up 10 so-called "minitrack" radio stations which will get the first informa tion about the U.S. moons. Each satellite will broadcast signals on a frequency of 108 mega cycles, and all of the the mini- track receivers are geared to re ceive on that frequency. But Russian scientist Sergi M. Poloskov announced that the Soviet tracking signal will be broadcast on only 40 megacycles, which means minitract stations are no good for keeping tabs on the Soviet satellites. Poloskov's announce ment threw the rocket-satellite meet ing into consternation. Western scientists had understood the Russians would employ a track ing system compatible with the U.S. System. One American said it appeared to him that the Russians are deliberately trying to keep the rest of the world in the dark on their satellite program. AUSTRIAN AIRLINE READY Vienna (IP) The new Aus trian AiFlines was ready for business today. The company, es tablished officially Monday, will start its service with four British-built Vickers Viscount turbo prop aircraft. Bonn, Germany (IP) Eric 01 lenhauer, leader of West Ger many's Socialist Party, has urged the Western powers to make "one final effort" in a new Big Four conference to overcome Soviet objections to reunifica tion of Germany. (A3 kaJLTiO SVL drift he safe . SAVE FDS T4 Traffic Toll Up During August Chicago (IT) The, nation's traffic toll per month went up in August for the first time since last November, according to Na tional Safety Council. It said August deaths. 3,790, were 5 per cent higher than the 3,610 in August, 1956, and the highest August toll since 1941. The council said part of the rise may have been due to the fact that August had five Saturdays this year, one of them the Satur day of the Labor Day week end. Despite the August increase, highway deaths for eight months were down 2 per cent from the same period last year, 24,730 against 25,200. . According to the number of deaths per 10,000 registered ve hicles, cities with the best re cords in each population group at the end of eight months in cluded: 750,000 to 1,000,000 San Francisco; 500,000 to 750,000, Seattle; 25,000-50,000, Las Vegas, Nev., and Yakima, Wash. Many of the Indians and Eski mos of Alaska belong to. the Greek Orthodox church, the re sult of missions which were es tablished when the Russians con trolled the territory. For Over 25 Years A Dependable Place to Buy Safe -Satisfying !L YTERS QUAKER HEATERS STANDARD Expert Oil Ifalley 26 West Main . . t o guarantee your children's future ! 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