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! i it Strategic Air Command Poised For Day It Hopes Never Comes Offutt Air Force Base, Neb -UPD-The Strategic Air Com mand, founded on the theory that the best defense is a good offense, is poised for the day it hopes will never come. Even as you read this, SAC planes could, if necessary, de liver hundreds of nuclear weapons to already-plotted targets anywhere in the world. The crews by winging their way within minutes af ter receiving the signal they hope never comes the signal that the enemy had attacked. They know that the atomic and hydrogen bombs in their bomb bays are so destructive they could obliterate every key factory, city and military position of the enemy. Moved To Nebraska SAC moved its global head quarters to Nebraska 10 years ago, a decade dedicated to per fecting the Free World's No 1 striking force, a force so powerful that no one would dare attack America or its al lies. It was a small force with a handful of men' and propeller-driven aircraft when it moved here in 1948. Today, its bases ring the world. Vir tually all its planes are jets, with missiles being " phased in rapidly The Strategic Air Command is now capable of launching one-third of its bombers the "alert force" on a few mo ments' notice. The remainder of its 3,000 B-47's and B-52's, and one wing of out-modeled B-36's, would be right behind in keeping with SAC's deter mination to hatch all its nu clear eggs at once. Planes Kept Ready Bomber crews on alert pull shifts around the clock, sleep ing and eating near their planes. Ground crews keep the planes ready to zoom sky ward. The fliers live in their flight suits, waiting for the squawk of a siren peculiar to all SAC bases the siren that sends them on daily practice alerts but some day could mean the real thing. The alert force is strength ened further by SAC's dis persal program. By keeping a number of its aircraft scattered at bases around the country and around the world, the alert orce has more runways from which to take off, making it possible to put more planes in the air simultaneously. Governing the dispersal and aiert concepts is the fact that there would be a dangerously iort, period of time during which SAC could get its bom bers bound for Russia. B-52 Longest Range The goal of the dispersal program is to have not more than one B-47 medium bomb wing and not more than one B-52 heavy bomb squadron at each bease. The B-52 is SAC's longest range craft. It is capable of penetrating deep into Rus sia and returning to the U.S. faster and with less in-flight refueling than the B-47. The '47 however, is more maneuverable than the giant '52 and is capable of great distance flights by taking on fuel aloft from KC-135 and KC-97 tankers. But what happens if there is ' an error in the United States air defense setup and SAC sends the alerted third of its jet bombers on their pre determined courses by mistake? The planners have thought of that, too. Gen. Thomas S. Power, commanding the split-second force from his war room deep in a Missouri river bluff here, can deploy his bombers around the Soviet Union. Poslive Control But the command to drop the bombs can come only from the President of the United States. Without that order, SAC pilots have a "positive control" program under which t"iey turn back at a pre-de-termined point. SAC's greatest expansion these days is in the missile field. It has been assigned the mission of operating the na tion's intercontinental ballistic missile for more than a year and its missile organization has mushroomed. But the incorporation of the missile into the powerful striking force will not cancel the need for the manned bomber. As far into the future as SAC planners can see, man ned bombers and un-manned missiles will complement each other to maintain the most flexible operation possible. Power envisions his force as an "unmatched combination of the most advanced weapons systems" missiles and bomb- "Eventually, in keeping pace with the growing Soviet threat, SAC will have to be made up of conventional bombers, missiles, and aircraft both manned and unmanned," he said. He did not elaborate on the "aircraft both manned and un manned," but SAC is testing the B-58 a light bomber cap able of flying twice the speed of sound. And it has coming off the drawing board the B-7- Valkyrie an even faster bomber which would be able to slip into Russia at altitudes of more than 70,000 feet. Ironically, though, by the time the B-70 is in use it prob ably will be outmoded by newer craft on the drawing boards. We've Put A CANDLE in the WINDOW Oil Electrifies Alaska as Firms Continue Drilling Anchorage, Alaska - IUPD Statehood isn't the only thing causing excitment these days in Alaska. The black magic of oil also has electrificed the territory that will soon be come the 49th state. Many Alaskans are con vinced statehood and oil will make beautiful music togeth er. Already they're talking of the day when Fairbanks and Anchorage will become the "Tulsa and Houston of the North." A flurry of leasing for oil exploration so far has put more than $5 million in the treasury at Juneau, at least a third of Alaska's nest egg when it officially begins its career as a state early next year. Potentialities Indicated As of now, no one is certain just how much oil lies wait ing beneath the territory's primitive surface. But the fact that more than 20 oil companies plan to spend $225 million to $300 million ex ploring in the next 10 years would indicate Alaska's oil po- . . . CORDIALLY INVITING YOU TO VISIT US DURING THE OREGOK CENTENNIAL NEXT YEAR. THE PEOPLE OF THE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY ARE PLANNING WONDERFUL THINGS FOR YOUR PLEASURE. WE WILL IE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU JOIN US IN THE CELEIRATION. 'Gift of the Magi' Said To Be Undistinguished Contribution To Video SPECIAL CARD-Rogue val ley residents with out-of-state friends are asked to use the special Christmas card shown here for inviting their friends to visit Jackson county dur ing the Oregon Centennial, according to Ernie Hood, County Centennial coordina tor. Such cards may be picked up by calling the Centennial headquarters in Medford or by picking them up at the of fice. The Centennial office is located south of Medford be hind the new city park near the Armory. The cards may be picked up at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce and the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce offices. fi 111 thermometer. 1 Jj: I ,mnmeter mounted indoors Rl lsmartWdeedto jU Uh lW M MT1 VAXjMMHL. 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The best showing to date has been made by the Rich field and Standard of Cali fornia companies, drilling to gether on the Kenai' Peninsula which juts southwestward from Anchorage into the Gulf ' of Alaska. Richfield brought in the first well last year and later acknowledged it was a dandy, capable of producing 900 barrels a day. Fierce Scramble The scramble for leases, which become negotiable in struments once secured has be come necessary to hold a drawing at Fairbanks on the opening of several million more acres to oil exploration in the Alaska interior. Although Alaska hasn't yet reached the oil shipping stage, some of the luckier and more visionary citizens have made small fortunes by selling leases on lands which have yet to produce a drop of oil. As an indication of the ex pense of oil exploration, the combined Richfield-Standard effort will cost up to $30 mil lion by the time they've fin ised poking into the Kenai. But the cost of drilling is peanuts compared with what Alaska and the oil compan nies will receive if their hopes are justified. Geological sur veys show Alaska has at least nine potential oil basins of major capacity. And with the scent of oil already heavy in the Arctic air, it's ,a cinch none of these potentials will be overlooked. , f 1 Ll William Ewald By WILLIAM EWALD New York-0JPD-"Gift of the Magi," a one hour special of fered bv CBS-TV Tuesday night, was, to put it kindly, a rather un d i s tinguished c o n t ribution t o television I e n t e r t a i n- ment. I could put it less kindly and say it was tedious, but I won't - partly because tis tne season to be jolly, but mostly because it wouldn't be com pletely true. What saved it from complete humdrumness was its Richard Adler score which was far more service able than that of most TV musicals. Songs Sweetly Mediocre One number - "It's Much Too Nice To Be Cut" - bor dered on the charming in a phony folk way. Several other songs - "The Name's The Same," "Christmas In Your Heart," "A Better Word Than Love" - were sweetly medio cre, which in TV is rather good. The play itself was another matter. If O. Henry's original story on which the musical was based had any merit at all matter open to conten tion - it lay in its simple un embellished telling of a love story. Office Party Added . The TV version padded the bones of "Gift of the Magi," with a clutter of extra char acters and such added busi ness as an office party, a suf fragette venture and a bar- AGE NO BARRIER Netley, England (UPD Nei ther rain, nor sleet, nor age stays postman Fred Hine fron completing his appointed rounds. Hine covered his us ual eight-mile route Monday on his 80th birthday. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Richard Newman Thompson, Camp White, drunk in public. $15. Nelson Maine Northrup, Camp White, drunk in public, $10. Marion Douglas Kapsabelis, tran sient, vagrancy, $10. Kenneth Donley, transient, drunk in public, $10. Emil Herdt. Camp White, drunk in public, $10. Jessie Kay Garner, failure to stop. So. Lamarr Archie Wilkinson, dis obeyed stop sign, $5. Stanley Richard Murrey, viola tion of basic rule, $10. Ruth Lorraine Sexton, disobeyed stop sign. So. Hugh Downing Remington, dis obeyed stop sign, $5. DISTRICT COURT Dale R. Hibbs, defective light, $10. Jack R. Gault, unnecessary noise. $15. Walter Doherty, no motor vehicle license, $6. John F. Zimmerlee. overload, $89: overload, $59; overload, $129. Elbert Hall, failure to dim lights, $7.50. Leonard R. " Moyer, failure to stop. $10. Milton L. Sanderson, violation of basic rule, $15. room caper which blotted out the simple lines of the story. What resulted was a mopish collapse-the play's thin bones just couldn't carry it all. Sally Anne Howes, who is Adler's wife in what is some times called real life, played one of the lead roles with in offensive earnestness. Gordon MacRae as the other lead seemed a little over-ripe to be playing a 26-year-old, but sang and acted adequately. Master's Whip Brings Divorce Detroit-dTD-A woman Was granted a divorce Tuesday when she charged her hus band beat her with a cat-o-nine tails. Mrs. Lura Pajewski, 30, said her husband, Casimir, an automobile technical writer, made the whip of leather throngs in a basement work shop and kept the lash hang ing in the kitchen between the pots and pans as a lesson in psychology. She said her husband is working on his master's de gree in psychology. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Wednesday, December 10, IMS Army Engineers Announce Contracts Portland-(UPD-The award of two contracts totaling more than $200,000 was announced today by Army Engineers. General Construction Com pany of Portland won 'a con tract for $192,150 for 900,000 cubic yards of dredging in the Columbia river in the vicinity of Government Island. Com pletion date for this work, part of the 27-foot channel project from Vancouver, Wash., to The Dalles, Ore., is next April 30th. Raytheon Manufactur i n g Company of Waltham, Mass., was awarded a contract for $ .0,185 for furnishing a radar set for the Corps of Engi neers' seagoing Hopper Dredge Harding. REDUCED IN GRADE Karachi, Pakistan-(DPD-Haji Moosa, a millionaire, today was suddenly only a half-millionaire. After customs offi cials discovered hidden gold and currency worth more than , a million rupees at his plush home, he was fined the rupee equivalent of a half million dollars. CIRCUIT COURT Bruce Arnold Lindgren vs. June Walker Lingren, divorce decree. Mary Lou Lowden vs. Ivan An drew Lowden, divorce decree. consigua Maria towards vs. wu liam Douglas Edwards, divorce de cree. Carole Ann Govreau vs. Law rence George Govreau, divorce de cree. Harriet Ruth Speare vs. Walter Richard Speare Jr., divroce decee. ONE POINT LANDING Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-(UPD-Civilian pilot David Elliott made a one-point landing-on one wheel-Tuesday after cir cling an airfield for nearly two hours with a loose land ing gear. Elliott and a passen ger were unharmed and the plane was only slightly damaged. SPEEDY SPEED FINED Lymington, England - (UPD -Truck driver Albert Speed was fined $5.60 Tuesday for speeding. 515 TH? Popular English Chippendale . ntr with thermomew humidity units. Solid mahogany . trim polished wa 1 ,nd silvered dials wd ale. 26V4'h.gh. BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS Wonderful Gift for the man in your life! LEATHER SLIPPERS with deep, warm A Jl Sire ar 6 to 12 WARM SHEARLING-LINED SLIPPERS in Brown leather. Flexible soles, rubber heels. Beautiful to look at . . Beautiful to listen to S;7 " 119 Vail fl Hp. m . wk ii 11 I mm: IB '"EEMRWmtl ii I It I aw fH 22E5SXW"il $ I Hli IH ! 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