FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, January 8, 1958
Camp Cooke Base
May Be Missile
Launching Center
Los Angeles OH Camp
Cooke Air Force Ease may
become a future launching
site for the U. S. satellite pro
ject and a firing range for
intercontinental ballistic mis
siles.
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ine Air force has an
nounced the camp would be
used eventually as an ad
vancel training base for mis
sile crews. However, it was
emphasized no firings were
scheduled in the immediate
future from the base, located
163 miles north-northwest of
here.
The announcements came
from Gen. Thomas S. Power,
commander-in-chief of the
Strategic Air Command, and
Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schrie
ver, head of ballistic missile
development for the Air
Force.
Camp Cooke will be head
quarters for the Air Force's
first missile division, headed
by Maj. Gen. David Wade
who assumed command Fri
day. It was believed the Atlas
ICBM, manufactured by Con
vair, Astronautics at San Di
ego, Calif., might be among
the missiles fired from the
base. Air Force spokesmen
declined to say when firings
would start over the 5,000
mile range extending out in
to the Pacific ocean. The 100
million dollar base is not yet
completed.
It was stressed there would
be no danger in the firing to
coastal residents. Spokesmen
said firings would be infre
quent and cnly dummy war
heads used in the training of
the missilemen.
Air Force officials pointed
out the site will not be turned
into a research and develop
ment range such as at Cape
Canaveral, Fla., but will be
primarily for training pur
poses. They said crews will be
trained to handle the Thor
1KB 11 missile but no firings
will be made at Cooke since
the Thor and the Jupiter are
slated for firings in England
within a year.
It was noted unofficially
the site might be used as a
launching site for the satel
lite project now planned by
the Air Force.
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Charles O. Heydt, 81, Mont
clair, N.J., an adviser and in
timate of the Rockefeller
family, died Friday at a hos
pital here after a short ill
ness. Heydt, who began his
career with the Rockefellers
as stenographer to John D.
Kockefeller Sr., in 1897, con
ducted the negotiations for
the building of Rockefeller
Center.
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Lucille BaH-Desi Arnaz
Show Trips on Own Heels
Br WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York 0P The Lu
cille Ball-Desi Arnaz special
one-hour show Sunday
tripped on its own heels.
It presented five characters
Lucy, Desi, the Mertzes
(William Frawley and Vivian
Vance) and Fred MacMurray
set them off on a hunt for
uranium, then let them think
they had struck it.
But the trouble with the
principal characters is that
they were all unprincipled.
DIVA WALKOUT IRES ROME Fiery soprano Maria
Meneghini-CaHas walks past an unidentified cast mem
ber as she returns to her dressing room at the Rome
Opera where she refused to go on for the second act of
Bellini's "Norma." Her sitdown strike caused a near riot
and police were called to restore order. Miss Callas said
her walkout was due to "hoarseness,' while others at
tributed it to temperament and boos from the low-priced
top-gallery seats.
Finland Continues
To Keep Neutrality
In Troubled Europe
Helsinki (W Whatever the
merits or drawbacks of the
Soviet plan for troop with
drawals of East and West
from Central Europe, the fact
remains that a military neu
tralized area already exists
in Europe. It is Finland.
Finland does not belong to
NATO. She turned down an
invitation to join the Warsaw
Pact. There are no foreign
troops on Finnish soil. And
Finland has managed to re
tain friendship with East and
West through an uneasy post
war period.
Soviet diplomats have pri
vately admitted that they
would have had more friends
if they had treated Central
Europe as they treated Fin
land. Peace Price Heavy
The price for peace with
Russia in 1944 was a heavy
one a reparations bill equal
to a full year's Finnish gov
ernment budget, loss of 10
per cent of her territory, al
most half a million persons to
resettle, drastic cuts in armed
strength, and the uncertainty
of what lay ahead.
The Leningrad military dis
trict continues to send ama
teur spies across the border,
and the Finns just as regular
ly arrest them and apply one
or two-year jail terms.
Finland is shunned by Iron
Curtain refugees who know
Finnish authorities would
have to send them back if
picked up.
Finnish-Soviet trade is reg
ulated by five-year pacts.
Finland's armed forces
total less than 42,000 with
no tanks, bombers, guided
missiles, submarines or large
naval craft.
Postwar Policy Pattern
All these are the pattern
of postwar Finnish Soviet
policy. But there are other
aspects, too.
Finland kept her independ
ent republican form of gov
ernment. There are no occupation
forces.
Britain is still Finland's
biggest trading partner, al
though the Russians run a
close second.
Finland is a member of the
United Nations and also a
member of the Nordic Coun
cil, which links five northern
European states.
Despite the irritations, So
viet policy toward Finland ap
pears to be one of genuine
desire to make friends.
There is no indication that
Mothers On Way
To Visit Sons
Hong Kong (W Three
American mothers will stop
over here today on their way
behind the iron curtain to
visit their sons in Communist
Chinese prisons.
The three women, and an
American attorney seeking
testimony for a sedition trial
in the United States, were the
first Americans granted valid
passports for travel to Red
China.
They were scheduled to ar
rive here at 7:30 a.m. (7:30
p.m. EST. Sunday), and leave
for neighboring China on
Tuesday or Wednesday under
the auspices of the China
Travel Service.
The mothers are Mrs. Mary
Downey of New Britain,
Conn., Mrs. Philip Fecteau of
Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. Ruth
Redmond of New York.
The attorney is A. L. Wirin,
who is defending John and
Sylvia Powell. The U. S. has
accused them of publishing in
their Shanghai magazine
claims that the American
forces in Korea resorted to
germ warfare an old Com
munist charge which the U.S.
has denied.
The three women will
travel to Canton by train and
then continue north.
STOMACH BANK
Sedgefield, England (If
Doctors at Sedgefield General
hospital reported today a
monied patient, admitted after
he complained of "feeling
queer," was doing nicely. Ex
amination disclosed that the
man, whose name was with
held, had 424 coins worth 37
shillings (a little over $5) in
his stomach.
There was nothing about them
or their plight capable of
evoking viewer sympathy. All
five were dishonest. All five
were motivated by greed, and
friendship was forgotten in
the quest to lay claim to the
supposed strike.
The materials of comedy
are, of course, .frequently
based on the less attractive
traits of human beings pride,
sloth, avarice but there
should be a base of softness to
offset the flaws. I guess the
key word is lovability or at
least, likeability a quality
found even'in such brittle por
traits as Jackie Gleason s
Ralph Kramden, Phil Silver's
Sgt. Bilko or Groucho Marx'
TV personality.
The main body of the Lu
cille Ball-Desi Arnaz film was
hung on a chase scene and the
efforts of each of the partici
pants to muscle each other
into nowhere. The mechanics
of the chase were at times,
funny, but I found myself not
caring who won because I
didn't care for any of the
characters. And in the final
analysis, of course, that means
that I didn't care for the show:
New Jef Fighter
To Be In Action
Dallas, Tex. HP) Marine
Corps pilots will soon be fly
ing the Navy's fastest jet fight
er, the F8U-1 Crusader, the
Chance Vought Aircraft com
pany announced Saturday.
First Marine unit to fly the
Crusader will be Marine Fight
er Squadron 122 of Beaufort,
S.C., which has already re
ceived the first of five planes
to be delivered from the
Dallas plant.
Delivery of the '.'world's
fastest Navy fighter" marks
the first step toward jet age
conversion of Marine air strik
ing power to fighters capable
of above 1,000 miles-an-hour
speeds, officials said.
The first class of six Marine
pilots will begin training
Monday at Moffett Field,
Calif., it was reported.
Although VMF-122 will be
the first Marine unit to re
ceive the Crusader, one
Marine already has made avia
tion history with the airplane.
Chance Vought officials said.
Maj6r John H. Glenn Jr. set
the first supersonic transcon
tinental record in a Crusader
last July.
Oregon Delegation
Cordial at Reunion
Meeting in Capital
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Oregon's
Democratic members of Con
gress, who were suffering
some strained relations when
they left here last August,
met this morning in an at
mosphere of cordiality.
"Nobody was angry at
anyone," observed one of the'
20 or so persons who attend
ed "the 90 minute breakfast
reunion.
It was attended by Sens.
Wayne Morse and Richard
L. Neuberger, who were
somewhat disenchanted with
one another at the close of
the last session, and Reps.
Charles O. Porter, Edith
Green, All Ullman and top
staff members from each
member's office.
First Regular Pow-Wow
The meeting was the first
of the regular breakfast pow
wgws held by the five Demo
crats during congressional
sessions. The meetings are
closed to the " press -;and
To get reports and pictures
of the world's news U&a4
Press has at is disposal a
force of 10,000 people.
usually devoted to legislative
and political discussions.
Each of the five members
gave a resume of his impres
sions of conditions in Oregon,
based on the recent months
most of them have spent in
Oregon. One observer as the
meeting said they boiled,
down to this:
1. Economic conditions in
Oregon are bad and not seem
ing to get much better.
2. Things look good for the
Democrats in the upcoming
fall election.
, The group plans to meet
again Jan. 20 on legislative
matters.
POTION SECONDED
Seoul, Korea OPi A Ko
rean distillery boasted today
in an advertisement for "re
fined Korean chung joo trice
wine)" that it is the only
Korean alcoholic beverage
given special recognition by
the vice president, speaker of
the National Assembly and
five ministers.
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Dominick Turchi, 74, told po
lice a passerby asked him to
stop so he could "brush that
speck of dirt off your coat."
After the man left, Turchi dis
covered $200 was missing
from his wallet.
the Russians would like . to
make Finland a satellite
even if the opportunity pre
sented itself.
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