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Gigantic Miiitary Communications System Eking Built. To Face Russia Editor's note: Here Is an exclu sive dispatch describing a giant "burglar alarm" system that the Western powers are erecting along the Iron Curtain in Europe. Hither to unpublished information in this dispatch has been cleared with the proper authorities. By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW President United Press International Copyright 1960 by UPI New York-UPD - A gigantic military communications sys tem, designed to run an elec tronic fence around Europe's edge of the Iron Curtain, is nearing completion across an 8,845-mile ere from Norway to Turkey, United Press In ternational has learned. ; Eighty-six powerful trans mitting and relay stations across nine NATO countries constitute the electronic fron tier facing the Soviet Union and its satellites. This is the largest single package of its kind in history. The project, already half completed, will cost between 50 and 75 million dollars in electronic installations alone. In addition, each host coun try contributes land, buildings and operating personnel. Its purpose is to provide in stant warning to the NATO nations and to the Allied su preme command post in Paris in event of surprise enemy at tack at any point. The great alarm system be gins at a point 530 miles north of the Arctic Circle, then swings in a Turkish crescent to Asia Minor, interlocking Norway, Denmark, West Ger many, England,. Belgium, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Feeder stations are under construction on the Faeroe Islands between Scotland and Iceland and on Malta. Crete and Cyprus in the Mediter ranean. The Norweaian section is already operational. Construc tion there was begun in May 1957. and on Aug. 12. 1958, the system was quietly inau gurated. In a year and a hair of intense military testing, h has demonstrated "circuit availability" 99.7 per cent of 24 hours daily. Much of the program has been under security restric tions since its inception. Some of it still is. However, at the half-way point in construc tion, with the sensitive north ern end already functioning and successful operation of the entire network in sight, it is now possible to present, a panoramic description of the whole. It is called "Ace High." Ace stands for Allied Command Europe, high because the sys tem is what the electronic en gineers call tropospheric scat ter forward and utilizes trans mitters often located upon the hi chest mountain tops. The section already operat ing in Norway is called "Hot Line." It was financed by the United States. Soon it will be melded into Ace High. Thi tremendous job of syn chronizing the station opera tors and maintenance person nel, who speak eight separate languages, will be undertaken in Anril in a school now near ing completion at the Italian air force base at Latina, 40 miles southwest of Rome. Teacher will be Internation al Standard Engineering, Inc., 9 snhsidiarv of International Telephone and Telegraph Teamster Union Members Indicted For Donations Washington - (UPD - The Jus- V.cff DeDartment announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury in St. Louis nas indicted six members of the Teamsters Union on charges of making illegal political contributions to the 1956 elec tion campaign of two Demo cratic senators and two Demo cratic house members. The indictments charged that St. Louis Teamsters Lo cal 688 and the Taxicab Drivers Local 405 and six union officers violated the Taft-Hartley act by making contributions to the cam paigns of Sens. Thomas Hen nings (Mo.) and Wayne Morse (Ore.) and Reps. James Roose velt (Calif.) and Henry D- Reuss (Wis.). Named in the 22-count in dictment was Harold J. Gib bons, an international vice president of the Teamsters and head of the St. Louis Teamster local. The other Teamsters named were Sidney Zagri, recently named director of the Team sters national political depart ment; Philip C. Reichardt, Gibbon's deputy, and John Naner, William Latal, and Joseph Bommarito. g ,. v iiiiii'i in)n -iligfflSl f HOtrwAYi III "W fMlMiilllll "ACE mum FENCE NEARING COMPLETION - A gi gantic military communications system, de signed to run an electronic fence around Europe's edge of the Iron Curtain, is nearing completion across an 8,845-mile arc from Norway to Turkey. Eighty-six powerful transmitting and relay stations across nine NATO countries constitute the electronic frontier facing the Soviet Union and its satellites. Its purpose is to provide instant warning to y the NATO nations and to the Allied Supreme Command post in Paris in event of surprise enemy attack at any point. The European warning system is called "Ace High." Systems similar to Ace High -now shadowed by this newest giant which is closest to the potential enemy - are No. 1, "Stretchout" and No. 2, "White Alice" in Alaska; No. 3, "Dewline1' across Canada; No. 4, "Bmews" across the middle of Can ada; No. 5, "Pole Vault" which connects No. 3 and No. 4 with a line down to New foundland. These interlocking western de fense systems are already completed or now being built. ' (UPI Telephoto) Corp., which engineered the entire project under contract with "SHAPE" - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers of Europe. The students will be the young men, military and civil ian, upon whose "precise un derstanding of . the highly technical data Europe's chanc es of survival may rest. Heart of the Act High' net work is the SHAPE command in Paris. To this control cen ter any report of a sudden mil itary move at any point along the whole long perimeter of the Iron Curtain will be in stantly communicated. ' A basic value of Ace High is that its operations are in dependent of the various na tional communications sys tems, which could be silenced by sabotage or sudden enemy invasion. Further, it is not suscepti ble to interruption by atmos pheric conditions or sunspots, as is ordinary radio. Nor can it be jammed by nearby ene my stations. We Give dV GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central Midget Prices Thursday, Friday, Saturday TOM I In OPEN 8 a.m. -7 p.m. EVERY DAY Table Rock Road at 4 Corners We reserve the right to limit WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Bacon Ends snced PlCHiCS Swift's Premium, fully cooked Sausage po POf ROOSt U.S. eroded Good Lord 2 h. 25 , 33 3 ... $1.00 . 49 Nebergall's 100 Pure Pork lbs. 49 WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS CoffCC MJB Instant QUlk Nestles Toll House Morsels - O oi. Jar 89' . 2-lb. 6-oz. family size 89' 39 Nestles Semi-Sweet 12-oz. l D .m. Plumrose, Sliced UUI1IMI DUCUI1 Handy Store Away Can 1 59' WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS POtatOeS U.S. No. 1 Klamath . 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Rayner said Tuesday the blunt critic of his pulpit technique was his 6-year-old son, Robert. Salem -(UPD- District Judge Wendell H. Thompkins, Al bany, has filed for election to Circuit Judge, position num ber 1 in the 21st judicial district. Disastrous Results Seen in Attempts To Control Weather Hong Kong (UPD Don't fool around with the weather! Maybe it's bad now, but it could be worse. ; This is the opinion of Prof. S. G. Davis of Hong Kong university who says that ex perimenting with controlling the weather could lead to disastrous results. The professor got talking about weather experiments in the course of discussing the unusually mild winter Hong Kong has experienced this season. One thing he doubted was that nuclear explosions have tampered with the usual (or is it the unusual) course of weather. If anybody is going to change the weather, Davis said, it will be man himself. Russians Tackle Problem The Russians have been working on their bad weather for some years now. They are not just mere theorists be cause their ideas can defin itely work. "They (the Russians) know how to do it and it may be in the near future that Russia will have no winter," he said. "However," he hastily add ed, lest the world start de manding better weather, "drastic : changes could . be more dangerous to the world than all the nuclear weapons invented." - According to Davis, the Rus sians have devised a means by which nuclear fission has been harnessed to melt snow - something Russia has got plenty of. Vast Areas of Snow Melt "Thousands of small nuclear fission pellets can be shot in to the snow and within no time vast areas of snow have been melted," Davis explain ed. It would be possible, he said, to have sunshine 24 hours a day by sending huge quantities of fine meteoric dust into one location where the sun's rays would be re flected onto any given point. "In other words, if Russia decided to have sun all the year or part of the year round, it would be possible. However, I think most scien tists are treading carefully on this score." The troubles which could arise from such experiments are enormous. "If Russia did make their weather warmer there would be an immediate build-up of pressure. This would cause a greater wind activity and cause the world to be trashed with continual typhoons." the professor said. "The Sahara desert could suddenly change into an equatorial rainbelt." The frightening prospects he mentioned included peo ples used to cool weather dy ing in tropical temperatures, and the entire world would have to adjust to a new living. "The whole thing must be investigated more thoroughly to insure that mankind does not suffer," he said. "In the meantime old mother nature isn't going such a bad job." EX-RESEARCHER DIES Montclair, N. J. -(UPD- How ard S. Warren, 86, retired re search engineer and former director of protection devel opment for the Bell Tele phone Laboratories, died Monday. Princess Anne Makes First Speech London-(UPD-Princess Anne Tuesday made her first public speech 13 words long. "I would ask you to to light this candle for us for Brown ies everywhere." Then the blonde princess smiled, handed the candle to Lady Baden-Powell and re joined her fellow Brownies of the elite Buckingham Pal ace Pack. The candle presentation to the widow of the late Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy and Girl Scout Guide movement, highlighted the pack's observance of "Think ing Day." Fellow Brownies later re ported Anne took no chances. She had memorized and re hearsed it for days. Portland (CPE The State Board of Health said it had confirmed through laboratory tests two more cases of Asian flu in Oregon. aV Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Til. Brick:, Flues 727 W. McAndrew Phone Sr 3-4575 or SP 2-4107 CAT IF jfoor oat JO CAt Five completely new cat foods... Kidney n Meat, Liver 'n Meat, Chicken, Meaty Mix and Chopped Fish. 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