Cape Canaveral
Space Age
Of Frontier Town
Cape Canaveral, Fla -(UPD-
Cape Canaveral, America's
doorway to space, is a space
age version of the old frontier
boom town.
It is a wild mish-mash of
packed bars and nightclubs,
genuine religious feeling and
Home life, sick jokes, press
agents, scientists, sunburned
construction workers, mil
tary dash and precision, and
everywhere the talk of rockets.
Ten years ago, there was
nothing on this long, skinny
sandspit in the Atlantic but
the sleepy little village of
Cocoa Beach, sandspurs, sea
gulls and the old Banana Riv
er naval station,
Then on July 24, 1950, the
Air Force fired a German V-2
rocket from the isolated Cape.
There were then only 1,133
residents of Cocoa Beach.
Now, about 36,000 people
live or work on the Cape
itself. Almost every night
windows are rattled by a
rocket's boom. The 30-odd
swank hotels are full of ar
riving or departing scientists,
public relations men and the
plain curious. The bars, fea
turing night club entertainers
from Miami Beach and New
York, are packed.
Services for Workers
The Rev. Milton Stohs mov
ed to the area in 1953 as the
first Lutheran pastor in Bre
vard county. Now there are
six Lutheran churches in the
county, and Stohs helps con
duct services for missile
workers each Sunday in the
auditorium of the newest and
most lavish hotel on the
beach.
"Missile people are very
ehurch-conscious," he said.
"More so than many others."
The Rev. Hamilton was
sent to the area only two
years ago by the Southern
Presbyterian church. He had
no congregation to start with,
but now his worshippers have
built a $40,000 sanctuary and
urgently "need more room.
Many of the church officers
are rocket scientists with fam
ilies who live in the less fran
tic environs of Cocoa, eight
miles inland from the beach.
Cape Canaveral, a largely
barren area of sand, is at the
north end of the island. Pat
rick Air Force base, head
quarters of the Air Force Mis
sile Test Center, is about 15
1 . n U .Mitk
ury motels and beach houses
of concrete block. New ones
rise every day.
The motels and bars reflect
the general mood. Their
names are Polaris, Sea Mis
sile, Vanguard, Satellite and
the like. There even is a gift
shop named "Terra Luna."
Public relations men for
any company that makes any
part of a missile swarm to
the Cape on advance of an
Air Force test of their prod
uct. Everyone is a "source"
for some choice tidbit of in
formation about the trouble
or success that this or that
missile or rocket is having.
Almost everything but the
rockets is made of concrete
block or aluminum because
the constant spray from the
sea can turn just about any
other metal to rust in days.
Everything is painted in viv
id, gaudy colcrs.
Conversation
There are restaurants that
would be the envy of a Pari
sian gourmet, but the conver
sation in. them is not of food.
It consists of phrases like
"pounds of thrust" . . . "the
transponder failed" . . . "sec
ond stage separation" . . .
"solid propellant."
The requirements of outer
space force a constant change
in the physical makeup of the
island. The roads were paved
only recently, but most of the
new houses and motels still
have no pavement because
there isn't time. Residents
make their own roads through
the sand.
If the huge new Saturn
rocket is brought here by
barge from Huntsville, Ala.,
an entire bridge over the
Cape Canaveral barge canal
will have to be demolished to
make way for it.
Traffic up and down the
island is constant throughout
the day and night since many
of the rocket firings are pre
dawn affairs. The restaurants
for the most part stay open
around the clock.
35 Adult Education Classes to Start in Med ford Next Month
A total of 35 adult educa
tion courses for the winter
term will start the week of
Feb. 1, Lindsay Vinsel, direc
tor of adult education for
Medford public schools, has
announced.
Registration will take place
the first class meeting date,
and classes with insufficient
enrollment will be cancelled,
he stressed. Tuition fee does
not include textbooks or sup
plies. Hobby and craft classes
scheduled include landscape
design, Tuesdays, Medford
High school, Mrs. Maryl Lor
ish, instructor; oil painting,
Tuesdays, McLoughlin Junior
High, Jack Teeters; basic mo
saic, Tuesdays, Medford High,
Mrs. Audrey Sims; figure and
still life drawing, Mondays,
Medford High, Warren Wolf;
photography, Tuesdays, Med
ford High, Edward Klimko;
small boat seamanship, Thurs
days, Medford High, Harvey
Brown; beginning judo, Mon-
Quotes From the News
ROCK MARATHON OFF
Lemington Spa, Eng.-flJPD-
The Lemington Spa Youth
Center cancelled a rock 'n'
roll marthon because:
Welfare workers condemn
ed the event as "dangerous
exhibitionism," doctors said
it was harmful to health, and
alderman resigned from . the
youth center's board of the
controversy and teen-agers re
in between are bars, lux-1 fused to participate
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
London-British Minister of Traffic Ernest Marples, dis
cussing American traffic control after completing a tour of
the United States: .
"It really is incredible how the American motorist obeys
the lane rules. He has to. or he soon hears about it from other
motorists as I was unfortunate enough to do at one point.
Baton Rouge, La-Defense Attorney Robert L. Kleinpeter,
protesting a district attorney's expressions of doubt concern
ing the alibi of Louisiana State University Dean George H.
Mickey, charged with murdering a woman biology professor:
"It's unfair to my client, his family, the town and to LSU
for District Attorney J. St. Clair Favrot to be making state
ments he can't back up."
Sandringham, England-Patricia Green, 13, one of a group
of children who got involved in a snowball fight with Brit
ain's Prince Charles and Princess Anne:
"It took a bit of courage to snowball a real prince and
princess.
Miami-Mrs. Alice Steel Taylor, expressing her belief that
her missing husband, William, took the place of ex-convict
Dr. Robert Spears on a National Airlines plane that crashed
in the Gulf of Mexico Nov. 16:
"It could have been that he (Spears) could have hypno
tized my husband."
Script Writers in Hollywood Strike
Hollywood - (UPD - Script
writing activity was at a
standstill today at major
Hollywood movie studios.
The 3,000-member Writers
Guild of America called the
strike this week end against
all major motion picture
studios and an alliance of
television film producers. But
the guild has no immediate
plans to picket the film com
panies. Some 425 writers at work
on TV assignments and 90
scripting movies are affected
by the dispute. It was the first
such strike called by the writ
ers since the guild was formed
in 1933.
A guild spokesman said
there was no immediate threat
to film production but a tieup
could result if the strike ex
tended over a period of weeks.
The key issues involve pay
ment to writers for post-1948
movies sold for viewing over
television and plans for com
pensation from films shown
on pay television if that comes
into existence.
NO BED OF ROSES
London-(UPD - Lionel Swift
fired all 12 mattress makers
at his bedding factory for ly
ing down on the job. One of
the mattress makers, George
Asling, admitted they used to
stretch 10-minute tea breaks
to 30 minutes because "you
get worn out, working on beds
all day."
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days, Medford High, Tom
Ball; mining and prospecting,
Tuesdays, Medford High, Nor
man Peterson; flower arrange
ment (two classes), Tuesday
mornings and Wednesday eve
nings, 22 South Groveland
ave., Mrs. Lillian Gentner.
General Courses
General courses include
business law, Mondays, Med
ford High, Brian Mullen; pub
lic speaking, Wednesdays,
Hedrick Junior High, Jerry
McDougall; business letter
writing, Thursdays, Medford
High, Mrs. Barbara Tomlin
son; world culture, Wednes
days, Medford High, John
Smock; publicity techniaues.
Tuesdays, Medford High,
Russ Jamison; ancient history,
Thursdays, Medford High, Ro
bert Huff; beginning Spanish,
Tuesdays, McLoughlin Junior
High, Howard Gang; and ra
dio workshop, Wednesdays.
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radio station KMED,
Barker.
Homemaking classes
elude tailoring, Mondays, Mc-
Liougmin Junior High, Miss
Ruth Osborn; beginning cloth
ing, Wednesdays, Hedrick
Junior High, Mrs. Dorothy
Sneed; Bishop clothing II (two
classes), Mondays at Medford
High, Wednesday mornings in
YMCA social hall, Mrs. Jean
Hood; millinery (two classes),
Tuesdays at Medford High,
Thursday mornings at YMCA
social hall, Mrs. Lucille Col
lins; cake decoration (two
classes), Tuesdays at Medford
High, Friday mornings at
YMCA social hall, Mrs. Bar-
fa a r a Vinsel, international
foods (two classes), Tuesday
mornings and afternoons,
YMCA social hall, Mrs. Julie
Tummers; and upholstery,
Monday and Friday evenings,
917 West McAndrews rd..
Harry I Heinz Bertram.
Commercial classes include
briefhand, Mondays, Medford
High, Gerald Eurich; begin
ning typing, Mondays, Med
ford High, Mrs. Marjorie Ten
ney; intermediate typing,
Tuesdays, Medford High, Mrs.
Janet Goodrich; beginning
shorthand,- Tuesdays, Medford
High, Carl Bergman; interme
diate shorthand, Thursdays,
Medford High, Bergman; be
ginning bookkeeping, Wednes
days, Medford High, Gerald
Eurich; business machines,
Thursdays, Medford High,
Miss Gertrude Frederickson.
Trade preparatory courses
offered include blueprint and
mechanical drawing, Wednes
days, Medford High, Harold
Soballe; internal combustion
engines I, Wednedsdays, Med
ford High, Fred Gardner; fuel
system and carburetion I,
Tuesdays, Medford High, Er-
vin Goltz; and automotive
chassis I, Mondays and Thurs
days, Medford High, Edward
Reed.
Information concern
ing time, tuition and room lo
cations may be obtained from
the adult education office at
Medford High school, tele
phone SPring 3-5341.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. J
Monday, Jan. 18, 1960
The trade preparatory class
es are 12-week courses, and
upholstery class is for five
weeks, and international
foods, figure and still - life
drawing, small boat seaman
ship and publicity techniques
are eight-week courses, Vinsel
said. All other classes are for
a 10-week period.
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