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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.
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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
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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
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More than 40 million acres
already have been leased in
the hunt for black gold and
competition is keen for more.
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
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producing 900 barrels a day.
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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
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leases on lands which have yet
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As an indication of the ex
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But the cost of drilling is
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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
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