Air Force Academy Cadets To
Do Without Traditions Awhile
By DAVID J. OSTREICHER
TJPI Correspondent
Colorado Springs, Colo.-TCPD
-Cadets on the lavish new
campus of the Air Force Acad
emy near Colorado Springs
will have to do without tradi
tions for a while-until they
have time to build some up.
They'll also have to get
along without an airfield until
that's built too.
It's one of the things that
are missing from this 18,000
acre installation that someday
will be as closely associated
with the Air Force in the pub
lic mind as West Point is with
the Army and Annapolis with
the Navy.
Someday, in fact, the Air
Academy will even have an
airfield. But it will be quite a
few years. Congress refused
to appropriate the 15 million
dollars needed to build one in
1957 and the Air Force did
not repeat its request for the
funds this year.
And once the appropriation
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is approved, the airfield will
take two years to construct.
Until then, the cadets will
have to travel by bus from
the academy to Lowry Air
Force Base near Denver-70
miles-for their flight train
ing, a total of 171 hours over
four years.
Since July 1, 1955, the
academy has been temporarily
located at Lowry. Construc
tion of the permanent acade
my, a 133-million-dollar proj
ect, was started in 1954. It is
now 85 per cent complete.
Not Completed
The cadet wing of 1,160
young men has moved into
this 85 per cent-living quar
ters, classrooms and an ad
ministration building.
A gymnasium, a social cen
ter, a theater and a museum
aren't completed yet, but
should be by the middle of
next year.
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less of a problem than is the
lack of an airfield.
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As Cadet Lt. Col. Eugene
C. Vosika, 22, a first classman
(senior) and group command
er of the summer training pro
gram for fourth classmen
(freshman), put it:
"What are traditions any
way?" Next June, his class will
become the first to be gradu
ated with bachelor of engi
neering degrees and regular
Air Force commissions as sec
ond lieutenants.
In its three years at Lowry,
j the academy has broken away
from many of the procedures
followed by Army and Navy.
Brig. Gen. Henry R. Sulli
van Jr., commandant of ca
dets, explained that the West
Point-Annapolis custom of re
quiring cadets and midship
men to memorize seemingly
inane definitions is out at the
Air Force Academy.
Instead, Air Academy fledg
lings must memorize such
functional Air Force terms as
"thrust," "airspeed," and
"trajectory" and be able to
reel them off at the beck and
call of upper classmen.
West Point Graduate
Sullivan, 43, took over as
commandant Aug. 1. His last
assignment was commander
of a SAC bombardment wing
at Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico.
A graduate of West Point of
1939, he is a combat veteran
of World War II who served
in the China-Burma-India the
ater. Be-ribboned Col. Benjamin
R. Cassiday Jr., with 3,300
hours of flying time on his
log, is deputy commandant of
cadets.
Both' officers agreed that
the academy's rigorous "hon
or code" is the backbone of
the institution.
"We have taken the best
from honor codes in use at
both West Point and Annapo
lis and other colleges and uni
versities and deleted the
worst," Sullivan said.
The code states: "We will
not lie, cheat or steal and will
not tolerate anyone among us
who lies, cheats or steals."
Sullivan declared: "We
have placed the code entirely
in the hands of the cadets.
They both enforce and admin
istrate it."
The academy has provided
fuel for a raging congression
al controversy.
Charges Made
Charges of waste and ex
travagance and sharp criti
cism of the academy's archi
tecture has come from con
gressmen on both sides of the
political aisle.
One member of the House,
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On Parent's Death
New York-DPD-A children's
court judge ordered Monday
that eight-year-old Melvin
Fean Nimer be released from
custody as a material witness
in the slaying of his parents.
Justice Charles E. Rams-
gate said the court had no
power to legally detain the
boy, "unless the district at
torney would file a petition
charging him with some de
linquent act."
The boy's attorney, Harris
Steinberg, said he might take
young Melvin to Utah, but
that he would return him to
New York at the request of
District Attorney John M.
Braisted Jr. "If at any time
he wants him for a legal pur
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"But we will not bring him
to Mr. Braisted's office if he
questions and badgers him,"
Steinberg said..
Steinberg said he would
give the district attorney an
opportunity to make a formal
charge against the Nimer boy,
who, authorities said, admit
ted, killing his parents, but
later recanted and returned
to his original version that
the crime was committed by
a masked prowler. Steinberg
said he would welcome a for
mal hearing at which testi
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"sworn witness."
COUNCILOR DIES
Brussels (UPD Argentine
Embassy councilor Abelardo
Gonzales, 47, died Monday of
a heart attack.
Rep. Jamie . Whitten (D-Miss.)
last month called the academy
buildings "a shrine to the
loose fiscal procedures of the
Air Force."
Another, Rep. Errett P.
Scrivner (R-Kan.), denounced
the academy as "a monument
to extravagance."
As for the architecture, de
scribed as "timeless" by its
designers - Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill-one congressman
has said that the academy's
aluminum - spired and glass
chapel either looks like "a
museum of modern art or a
skating rink."
Rep. Whitten called it "a
rectangular accordion stretch
ed out on the floor."
. In their own defense, the
architects said the buildings
are designed to blend in with
the spectacular beauty of the
Rocky Mountain foothills in
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Like their cousins of the
mainland, saltwater raccoons
are gradually staging a come
back after the trying days of
the coonskin coat craze of the
1920s.
In case you haven't heard
of the saltwater raccoons,
they are the ones that live on
the low mangrove-ringed is
lands from Yucatan, in Mexi
co, around through the Flori
da Keys to the Bahamas.
They are considerably smal
ler than those of the conti
nent, and the reason isn't due
to lack of food. There is plen
ty of it. These diminutive rac
coons subsist on fish, crabs,
mollusks and an occasional
rodent which also likes sea
food. They also get a fair
amount of vegetable - matter
among the mangroves, and at
certain seasons fruit is avail
able on their islands.
Fresh water, however, is
very much of a problem, and
though the raccoons don't
seem to mind its scarcity, that
is quite possibly the 'reason
for their smaller size. In most
cases, the only water availa
ble is from rain.
Support for this as the rea
son is found in the raccoons
of the islands of the Tres Ma
rias, a Mexican penal colony
100 miles out in the Pacific.
They have plenty of fresh wa
ter, are high and well wood
ed, and their raccoons are just
about the same size as those
of Mexico.
No Natural Enemies
Thanks to the saltwater
raccoon's coat being lighter
and of poorer quality, he
wasn't hunted very much be
fore the days of ' the Stutz
Bearcat era. Because of that,
plus his having no natural
enemies of any account, his
numbers were heavy. So
much so that when the de
mand arose, trappers took as
high as 800 pelts a season.
As to how saltwater rac-
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Patient Going Home
Portland (UPD - Marta Van
Cleave, 7, Portland, who un
derwent heart surgery before
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P. R. Chamberlain, failure to
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Douglas Reedy, divorce complaint.
Sheila Ann Hornsby vs. Lewis
G. Hornsby, divorce complaint.
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Idaho, and Eileen Rossi ter, Grants
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and owners of five giant, un
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anxious to run the last and
deciding heat to determine
the winner of the 27th Presi
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heat of the $30,000 cup was
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coons got that way, it is high
ly unlikely that they made it
to all their islands by swim
ming. Good as they are in the
water, many of the islands are
much too far off shore for
that.
The probability is that they
were taken there by man.
Raccoons make excellent pets,
a fact well known to the In
dians. And since many of the
islands on which the raccoons
live have no other mammals
except rats, their ancestors
were probably brought there
by seafaring Indians of pre
Columbian times.
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