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o TWO MECrORD (OREOOKJ MAIL TRIBUNE Tbuwday, rTormb? 7, 1957 J ) Lack of Firm Hand at Top Cost U.S. Satellite Race, London Wri Edltor't note: Bow did Kuiii fct xna Lotted state In the race to spacer Why were we left behind In developing the Intercontinental mit lile? The Unit', Pres. put the ques tion to its LonStm bureau and to its experts in Washington. This is the first of two dispatches jrvlnj their replies. Says Br ROBERT MUfEL United Press Correspondent London (W Aesop wrote a fable about a hare and a tortoise. It was true 2,500 years ago and it is just as true today. There are tfro satellites whirling around in space to prove it. The United States is the hare of this story, Russia the tortoise. In 1947 the Rand Corporation produced for the U. S. Defense Department a brilliant study of the possibility of breaking into O space. Outside of the dreams of German rocket pioneers, this was the first scientific verdict anywhere in the world that the age of space travel was at hand. A year later, Secretary of De fense James Forrestal announced what he called "The Earth Sat ellite Vehicle Program." Mark the date well Dec. 30, 1948. In the opinion of the world's most authoritative rocket ex perts from East and West, gath ered last month in Barcelona, Spain, at the International As- tronautical Congress, the United States should have been able to breach the skies and have launched a satellite bv 1955 or even a year or two earlier. It is highly likely that the Soviet Union started at about the same time on a rocket pro gram of its own and may have had available much of the same information both nations lean ing heavily on a nucleus of for mer German rocket men. Odds on America The odds at that time were all on America. Russia had hardly recovered from a war that killed millions and devastated her land. The United States had available an efficient military- ) PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Cmtral PfcoM SP 1-3308 scientific organization which had accomplished world - shaking feats in nuclear fields. But one thing Russia had to herself singleness of purpose. There were two things Russia was vitally interested in in 1947 a hydrogen bomb and rockets. Because it was a dictatorship, the Soviet was able to order con centration on those two pro grams and shunt aside the de mand for consumer goods. It assembled an advisory board of scientists to which the actual workers and planners of the two projects could apply for help and advice. Experts in West Germany say that the Russians rounded up the amazing total of 6,000 Ger man workers on rocket projects at the Vj and V2 base at Peene muende and elsewhere. They moved them all to Russia with their families 20,000 persons in all. For the next five years, young Soviet scientists worked daily beside them in the laboratories, picking German grains of all in formation. Then the Russians went on from there. In the meantime there was a sorry story to tell in the United States as I heard it from famous Medford Men Attend Finance Conference Portland Stan L. Stark of the Stark Finance company, Medford, was elected vice presi dent of the Oregon Consumer Finance association at its an nual meeting here last week end. L. T. Anderson, Commercial Finance company, Medford, also attended the meeting. The law regulating consumer finance which was amended by the 1955 state legislature was praised as one of the outstanding consumer finance laws in the United States. scientists at Barcelona before silence was clamped on. Effort Hampered When the war ended, Maj. Gen. Holger Toftoy of Redstone arsenal, then a colonel, tried to round up as many German rocket scientists as possible for the United States. He received permission to bring back only about 100 because of strong anti Nazi feeling. But most of them were top men and, with German guidance, the Army began a missile pro gram. By September 1954, they were able to inform superiors that they could orbit a satellite Try and Sfop Me By BENNETT CERF- LAWRENCE LANGNER, absent-minded impressario, board ed a taxi in New York City and announced, Tve only 20 minutes to catch my train. Please get me to Grand Central as quickly as you can." He then opened his evening pa per. Fifteen minutes and ten pages later, he looked up for the first time and dis covered there was no driver in the cab. John Charles DaJy ver heard this choice bit of repar tee at the Rye (N.T.) rail road station: A commuter slapped a 4-year-old boy on the back and inquired hearti ly, "Well, there. Jocko, what do you know?" The kid an swered very seriously, "Yon know perfectly wen T dont know anything!" A hock-shop on the feowery featured a stringiess violta la Its window display. To it was affixed this sign: "Twenty bucks and this superb instrument is yours. No strings attached." 1957, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. 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Sir John Eccles, British home fleet com mander in chief, in saying NATO naval forces are inadequate: "If there were a threat to the eastern coast of America and if the full power of Soviet submarines were brought into play, we have insufficient forces to maintain an Atlantic lifeline." United Nations U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge on dis armament: "I cannot believe the Soviets would choose to bring on their heads the obloquy and condemnation of the whole world com munity as those who sabotage peace." Richmond, Va. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), in saying the smashing gubernatorial victory of Democratic , pro-segregationist J. Lindsay Almond Jr. shows Virginia's determination to resist integration: "Almond's majority is a vote of confidence in his anti-integration program. The result was so decisive it is bound to have a great effect." Palm Springs, Calif. Former President Truman, in comment ing on the possibility of a bipartisan foreign policy: "It would be a good plan to restore the bi-partisan foreign policy which had been in effect while I was in the White House and President Roosevelt was there and which has been thrown to the winds by the present administration." San Francisco Under Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, in saying that mutual cultural understanding between nations as promoted by UNESCO is essential in reaching intelligent political decisions: "Without knowledge and undestanding, there can be no mutual confidence and no solid basis for satisfactory mutual cooperation." Plentiful Turkey For Holiday Season With Prices Lower GENUINE EVEREADY PRESTONE ANTI FREEZE 39 GAL. New York Iff) Turkey for Thanksgiving will be plentiful and cheap this year maybe about five cents a pound less than last. While food consumers have been sky-gazing, watching "Sput nik" and the cost of living index do unexpected tricks, turkey prices have been going down. Gobblers in retail stores now are at a 15-year low and super market merchants indicated to day they may be even lower in the weeks ahead. Heavy Slock in Storage A record-breaking crop and a heavy stock in cold storage un derlie the lowering prices. Housewives juggling family food funds can count on big sup plies, not only for Thanksgiving, but for Christmas and the New Year's holidays, market econo mists indicated. Turkey raisers this year pro duced a record crop of 81 million gobblers 5 per cent more than the 1956 record. This year's crop has been unusually early. So dis tributors have been freezing the surplus in anticipation of the November - December holiday season when half of the supply is usually consumed. A big carryover stock from last year has swelled the supply. End-September stocks In stor age were 33 per cent more than 1956. Big birds, tilting the scale at more than 18 pounds, will be in best supply and the most eco nomical in price. . Home marketing economists said the lower prices for the large birds and the "greater pro portion of meat to the amount of bones" made them the "best buy" for cooks serving a big dinner, or for next day warm overs. While overall supplies will be more than generous, the propor tion of small whites under eight pounds will not be as great. The small birds have be come very popular with small families and have largely sup planted big chicken on some dinner tables. Present Prices Turkey prices now, around the New York metropolitan area, are about two to four cents a pound less than last year. On Nov. 1, the ready-to-cook turkey, under. 16 pounds, in one leading supermarket chain was 49 cents a pound. The large birds, over 16 pounds, carried a price tag of 45 cents a pound. For generations, the turkey was a farmyard bird, eaten only once or twice a year, and raised mostly for local home consump tion. Today, things are different. Turkey breeders have improved methods for raising quality birds. And distributors have de veloped better methods for handling, storing and transport ing turkey. The average American.in 1956 consumed over five pounds of turkey as against 1.4 pounds in 1929. And indications for 1957 are for a per capita consumption of six pounds. Cranberries, the companion piece for turkey, will be in good supply, both canned and fresh. The crop of fresh berries this year is expected to be 8 per cent more than 1956 and about 12 per cent more than the 1946 55 average. VII U UU IUJ UV! MIDWAY MARKET We Reserve the Table Rock Read Right to Limit Phone NO 4-1511 At 4 Corners THE HIGH PROTEIN PET FOOD pefs love BonniQ in less than a year. Still gather ing dust in an Alabama ware house are the satellites they thought would be, by now, circling the earth. Instead of a go-ahead, the Army got a committee. It con sidered the satellite programs of the Army and Navy and to the astonishment of rocket experts worldwide awarded the Inter national Geophysical Year satel lite program to the Navy which, in 1955, began on this new pro ject. Americans at Barcelona said top levels in the United States took the view that there was no hurry, no race and when we launched a satellite it was to be a real, gleaming, gadget-crammed, hundred per cent scientific vehicle. Said one scientist: "It was just as if Columbus had said he wouldn't sail in that little boat he wanted the Queen Mary." So while the Eussian tortoise crawled along, the American rabbit was floundering in a quicksand of inter-service riv alry and industrial feuds. A dozen electronics and engineer ing firms lobbied for their own ideas with the Army, Navy and Air Force. Meanwhile, the Russians passed us. Apparently we didn't even know it, although we should have. For example, in September the United Press bureau in Mos cow reported the launching of a Russinan satellite was imminent. It is now known that Soviet scientific organs were printing specific instructions then to amateur astronomists and ham radio operators on how to sight and contact Sputnik. The Reasons Are there greater incentives in Russia for scientists? Comparatively, yes. A British scientist recently returned from the Soviet said they were "priv ileged in every way including, in my experience, freedom of opinion, at least in private." He is Prof. H. W. B. Skinner and he also had this to say: "We do not want to copy Rus sian political methods. But we ought to look closely at how they achieve their successes. The formula seems to be simple: to train scientists and engineers in large numbers and to employ them on reasonable projects, to support them in every way and not to waste them by splitting up their efforts among too many parallel lines of work." In the opinion of every au thority to whom I spoke at Bar celona, in London and elsewhere in Europe this was. the major reason the United States was beaten its effort was split up among too many people, too many industrial firms and mili- compact program. singleness of purpose. tary segments. It lacked at the There is no other reason. Rus- . ,.. . . . ..... , , ,. . . , . . . , , , Tomorrow: A Washington ex- top the firm hand that might sia wields no magic wand ex- pert view of why we are be. have drawn all of these into one cept the wand of efficiency and hind. STARLAC the hearMmilk is the heart of the healthful balanced diet For drinking, cooking, baking and whipping o p ;X Use this thrifty nonfat dry milk in all mide- with-milk recipes. Drink Starlac, too. It's good. And it's the best kind of nourishment Borden's takes fresh pasteurized milk re moves water and fat. What's left? B vitamins, proteins, calcium and other minerals. They're the heart of milk. They're Starlac! 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