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4 i i i jiiiiiiji ,j i ip i i Tuesday, October 29, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVErT FILMS THE RESULT The Army's Combat Development and Experimentation Center of Fort Ord are revolution izing warfare tactics at Hunter Liggett, Calif. Operation Textbook will carry on mock warfare for a number of years in attempting to find out just what sort of tactics and weapons it will take to fight an atomic war. Above, SSgt. Shelman Angain of Fayatville, Ark. uses an M-3 submachine gun with a gunsight movie camera with a three-inch lens. The camera accurately records effective ness of ground fire against low flying aircraft. Aerial Photographs Key To Interstate Highway Program Salt Lake City HP) Aerial photographs and technicians who translate them into maps may be the key to successful completion of the 13-year, multi-billion dollar interstate high way program. This program is America's most ambitious construction un dertaking, and one of the bottle necks already facing its sponsors is the lack of engineers to pre pare maps by conventional methods. Proponents claim that the sys tem of making maps from aerial photos is about five times as fast and can be done at one-third the cost of old-style map making from ground studies alone. The aerial-based system, known as photogrammetry, is a generation old. It was used ex tensively in planning and con- been pin-pointed in at their pre cise location and altitude. This is done from data made by ground crews which establish an average of four surveyed points for each photograph, far under the number that would be re quired if the entire map was be ing done by ground methods. The dot's "altitude" is pre-set from the known features. Thus, as its pencil line is traced, it can establish contour lines that char acterize the valuable engineer's topographical mao. The scale of the maps pro duced depends on their intended use. For detailed work, like planning an expressway inter change, the contour lines show changes of only one foot in alti tude. In others, the contours rep resent two feet, five feet or more. The map scale ranges up- 2- jnjm -LZI- " ' ;frj"'1i"m'mJmmn mm,mmm mill , IT WILL BE THE WORLD'S HIGHEST Superimposed on this aerial photo is an artist's conception of the proposed Oroville Dam, key part of the Feather River proj ect near Oroville, Calif. The dam will be 730-feet high, 680-feet thick and VA miles long. It will be the world's highest and' most massive dam. Concrete in it would make a 10-foot-wide roadway around the earth's equator. ilitary Housing Shortage Causes Biq Morale Problem struction of the Pennsylvania ward from one inch equals 50 Turnpike, among other major projects, and is widely applied in preparing maps for mineral development and pipeline rout ings. From 6,000 Feet One of the largest photogram metry enterprises in the nation is that operated by the Aero Service Corp., with its main of fice in Philadelphia and field of fices in Tulsa, Duluth and Salt Lake City. This firm has a staff of more than 750 men and a fleet of 35 airplanes. How the process operates was explained by Normefn Rubin, chief photogrammetrist for Aero Service Corp. (Western) in their offices here. For illustration, he used a survey recently made for Salt Lake City of a proposed highway along the eastern face of the Wasatch mountains. Engineers first took an old, conventional map and decided the flight lines the photo planes were to use on the actual survey. When the actual flights were made, the pilot held his plane flying at an altitude of 6,000 feet over the terrain precisely on the flight line. Photographs are taken only in the heart of the day, to mini mize shadows, and at a time when tree foliage is absent to permit maximum visibility. Overlapping Photos The photographer-navigator in the nose of the plane aids the pilot in keeping a true course as he operates his aerial camera taking nine-by-nine-inch expo sures on long rolls of film at precisely timed intervals. The pictures are made so that each exposure overlaps the pre vious one by 60 per cent in a forward direction and 30 per cent on the sides. Level flight is necessary to hold the camera in a true plane. The films are carefully de veloped and contact prints made that, when put together shingle fashion, form a mosaic of the entire area being studied. This mosaic alone, -Rubin ex plained, is of tremendous help for preliminary routing studies since such features as drain and ridge structures are readily vis ible. But for the major task of map making, the films are changed to a glass platform that can be projected through a device called a stereoplotter one be ing projected in red, the other in green. Technicians using glasses with red and green lenses then study the platen of their instrument where the two beams converge. The effect is identical with that of a steroscopic camera, or the human eye, producing a three dimensional image. Elastic Scale A key facet of the plotter is a white dot that can be moved around with the platen, tracing terrain features, and making a rough map on the paper mount ed below by means of a tracing pencil directly under the dot. Key features on the map a prominent rock, a road bed, or a stream-bank hav already feet. Once the rough map, includ ing "cultural" features such as houses, fences and factories, is made, it is traced onto linen map cloth a type that permits un limited duplication and the finished product is complete with all data needed for planning. Billy Graham Given Testimonial Dinner New York (IP) The churches that sponsored Billy Graham in an evangelistic crusade that turned out to be the most im pressive in the nation's history bade him a sentimental farewell Monday night. Graham was given a testimon ial dinner by the Protestant Council of the City of New York, an organization of about 2,700 churches in the metropli tan area" that brought the fiery evangelist here to pump new re ligious vigor into both the min istry and the laity. The evangelist was thanked for preaching 120 sermons that resulted in neary 60.000 "deci sions for Christ" following his Madison Square Garden rallies and meetings elsewhere in" the area. ' The .council considered the Graham crusade so successful that it has embarked on a pro gram of continuous evangelism, budgeted at a million dollars a year. A NEW TWIST Chicago (IF Which came first, the egg ... or the egg? Mrs. Frank Coppinin cracked an egg and found another egg, com plete with shell. Heidelberg IIP) The military housing shortage, which the U.S. Army promised to have licked two years ago, is still separating G.I. families for as much as a year and is causing sizable morale problem. More than half of the officers and non-coms assigned to Europe individually must wait from five months to a year before their families can join them. Two years ago, 67 per cent of the families were traveling concur- j rently. Three years ago, an Army press release promised that "con current travel for the great ma jority of personnel ordered to Germany is anticipated by mid 1955." The picture is much brighter for members of combat divisions and regiments that transfer from the U.S. as a unit and trade bases with a similar group in Germany. In these "operation gyroscope" rotations, 95 per cent of the fam ilies can come with the men. - But for the married soldier assigned individually, a 12 month wait means one-third of his three-year overseas duty in a barracks without his family. His alternative is to try for space available transport on a troop ship for the wife and kids and find them an expensive apart ment in housing-short Germany or France. Property Returned Although officer and troop morale cannot be measured in figures. Army officials admit that this waiting period is always a source of grumbling and dis content. The entire expensive program of building housing and trans porting dependents and house hold goods overseas is based on the idea of keeping up morale. In the words of Lt. Gen. Bruce C. Clarke, Seventh Army com mander, "the presence of de pendents does a great deal for morale ... an important ele ment of combat readiness." Officials concede privately that the concurrent travel pro gram fell victim to another Army program German-American relations. They say the Army gave back requisitioned German housing too fast and that the substitute building program could not keep pace. With the . return of German sovereignty in May, 1955 the return of private property began to accelerate. More than 7,000 properties were given back in 1955. A further 4,500 went out of Army control in the first half of 1956. In June, 1956, Army families were living in 3,444 German- Satisfied Sam Just Paid His Bills with Money He Borrowed from Commercial Repay In Convenient Monthly Payments - LOANS FROM s25.00 to 52,50 AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE COMMERC INDUSTRIAL FINANCE C Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Bldg. 0.00 SALARY SAL RP. Medford owned apartment units. Ten months later, 2,000 of these had been given back. Some Odd Delays The de-requisitioning schedule includes a further reduction to 708 German homes by Septem ber, if "completion of housing now under construction is not unduly delayed" and leasing ar rangements can be made for other properties. Many of the places leased will be villas for high-ranking officers and others will be offices. The Army is the landlord of 39,700 new apartment units throughout Germany and is building several hundred more. They range from two, three, and four - bedroom apartments for non-commissioned and junior of ficers and their families to du plex houses for majors and lieu tenant colonels and single houses for colonels and generals. Civil ians employed by the govern- BIG BUTTERNUT ' West Bridgewater, Mass. OP) Manuel Travers reported a -13-pound butternut squash from his garden. The average weight of a butternut squash is one to four pounds. ment get housing scaled to their pay grades. In any housing project of this scale estimated cost is 400 mil lion dollars, paid by the German government as defense support costs there are bound to be snags, and these add to the wait ing time. A bird in the chimney kept one building in Stuttgart from being occupied for six weeks. The Army refused to accept an entire block of apartments in the Stuttgart area because of giant cracks in the walls and poor workmanship. The build ings were set to rights but there were months of delays. Near Frankfurt, several apartments stood empty for weeks while the Army and a German electric company argued over ownership of transformers. Poland's Economic Crisis Felt Most in Coal Mines Katowice (IP) The economic orisis that threatens Poland to day is probably felt most of all in the coal mines, once the stronghold of Communism but now an industry that needs help from the .capitalist west. The General Direction of Mines at Katowice, 200 miles south of Warsaw, controls 13 mines. Among them is the medium-sized Myslowice mine which produces between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of coal a day. The director of the mine, Ka zimier Tyminski, a man in his middle 40s, an accomplished Chopin pianist, with two years each in Buchenwald and Aus chwitz concentration camps be hind him, spelled out the prob lems. Although the stick has been removed from behind the min ers, there are no carrots to dan gle in front of them. And Pol and's lack of hard currency and credits means no replacements for the machinery to work the mines. Much of it came from Czecho slovakia in recent years but now supplies have dropped. Although there is a small amount from West Germany and Britain, it is not enough. Soldier Miners Tyminski has 4.000 workers in the mine. Of them 200 are women and 400 soldiers. No women now work under ground, but they did up until two years ago. The troops all young recruits enjoy mine work, for instead of a soldier's pay of 10 zloty (45 cents) per week, they get miners' pay. Coal miners are the highest paid workers in Poland. They average about 3,500 zloty ($145) a month. For this they work six day a week and about one Sun day in four. A 39 -year -old miner ques tioned in the main gallery 1,500 feet below the surface was bit- POLICE CHIEF DIES New Rochelle, N.Y. (IP) Po lice Chief Alfred Bruecker of New Rochelle died Monday night at a dinner during which he was to' receive an Elks club award for his 31 years of police duty. Bruecker's wife, son and father were present as he col lapsed shortly before the award ceremony. ter about it. "If you want to write what 1 think, don't use my name," he said. "I have three children and my wife, and we live in two rooms and a kitchen. "We are lucky. I am supposed to work eight hours a day, but some days it is 10 to 12 hours due to stoppages or breakdowns. We only get paid for eight hours most times this happens. Machinery Needed "And there are many acci dents. I suppose we lose one miner a month killed and per haps half a dozen are seriously injured." Asked if there had been any strikes in the mine he replied: "Of course; what do you think we are?" - Among the miners there was a general anti-Soviet feeling but it was not specific. Just a gen eral attributing of their bad time to the Russians. All of them agreed that help from the West was their only hope. "We need new machines and equipment, from the mechanical coal-cutters to non-inflammable conveyor belts," one of the engi neers said. "We have a lot of fire in this mine. The fire bri gade works 24 hours a day. And it will go on until we get non inflemmable belting and equip ment." He proudly showed some new British belting, "non-inflammable and the first we have had." But he anxiously wondered if there would be any more whether Britain would grant credits for more or whether there would be more help from America. It is the same in most indus tries. It is difficult to imagine the extent to which Polish work ers are looking to the West for help. 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