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Jimmy Doolittle Claims U.S. Is Losing Space Race
Wholesale Prices
Drop 7 Per Cenl
Washington, (Science Service-Wholesale
prices of pre
scription drugs have declined
more than 7 per cent since
1949.
Prof. John M. Firestone of
the City college of New Yorle
told the American Pharma
ceutical association meeting
here that the decline is strik
ing when compared to the
20 per cent increase in all
wholesale prices as measured
by the Bureau of Labor sta
tistics. Los Angeles - IUPD - Retired
in isn't any Saturday after
noon ball game with the out
come to be measured in runs,
hits and errors," Glennan said
at the opening session of a
space symposium sponsored
at the University of Southern
California by the Air Force.
Evaluations Differ
Glennan and Doolillle dif
fered, however, in their evalu
ation of the United Slates'
position in the space race.
Doolittle said that while he
believed the United States to
be the "technological leader
of the world," he thought Rus
sia was ahead in the missile
race because that country has
given missile development
higher priority than the Unit
ed States.
"We must develop a sense
of urgency." said Doolittle.
"We as a nation have had it
too good for too long. We
want to coast and maintain
the pleasant status quo. In
part this naivete is due to
public lethargy because we
are inherently a nation of op
timists." He called for national sac
rifices to fight t h e "space
war," including extra efforts
by management and labor.
Air Force Gen. James A. Doo
little Monday called the space
race between the United
States and Russia a war. He
said we were losing.
Doolittle warned that most
Americans "do not yet real
ize the frightful seriousness
of this war."
The leader of the famed
World War II attack on Tokyo
was joined in emphasizing the
seriousness of the space race
by Dr. T. Keith Glennan, head
of the National Aeronautics
and Space administration
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HIGH SOCIETY Ku Klux Klanners mingle with specta
tors at a shopping center in Birmingham, Ala., the second
of three meetings Sunday during a five-hour motorcade
through the western section of the city. About 50 hooded
Klansmen and 300 spectators rallied, burning a 13-foot
cross at the first stop and listening to a rare public ad
dress by Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon, U.S. Klans, Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, at thelast stop. (UPI Telephoto)
Storage of Flood
Waters Planned
Klamath Falls - Plans for
storage of the flood waters of
the Upper Klamath lake in
three normally dry lake beds
adjacent to Klamath lake re
cently were announced by
California Oregon Power com
pany officials.
The program would involve
pumping with- dump power
by a reversible turbine gen
erator through tunnels to a
maximum height of 260 feet
and a total storage capacity
of 1,275,000 acre feet of wa
ter. Copco said this stored water
could, in time of need, be re
turned through the same sys
tem to the lake, developing
peak power and would then
be available for multiple use.
Use of the surface water
in the upper Klamath basin
has been designated for do
mestic use, irrigation, recre
ation, industrial, power, and
other uses, in that order.
The three lakes are design
ed to be "beautiful, excellent
for fishing, boating, swim
ming and camping." To pri
vate owners of property in
the Round Lake area, offi
cials said consummation of
Copco's storage program is
probably 10 years away and
the company is not seeking to
purchase any land in the lake
drainage area at this time.
Military Not What It Used
To Be, Says Sergeant, 71
Los Angeles - IUPD - Things
aren't what they used to be
in the armed forces, accord
ing to the oldest man in the
United States Air Force.
M. Sgt. George J. (Pop)
Hunt, who will retire from
the service Wednesday at the
age of 71, said the fighting
men of today lack the disci
pline of soldiers of the past.
"The young men of today
don't have it as we had it,"
said the gray-thatched Hunt.
"There's a lot more monkey
business. Why if we did any
of the things they do now
we would have been whipped
right on the spot."
Hunt, who re-entered the
service after a five-year
stretch in the Army during
World War I, is in Los An
geles for guest appearances
on several television shows.
He'll return to Bergstrom
Air Force . base in Austin,
Tox., on Wednesday where
he'll officially retire from
uniform for good.
At least he said it will be
final. Once before he quit the
sefvice for civilian life. That
was in 1920 when he retired
from Gen. John Pershing's
famous American expedition
ary force as a first lieutenant.
He went to work as a con
struction engineer, but the
call of duty was too strong,
"and after Pearl Harbor he
signed on with the Army.
.He enlisted as a private
'rather than return as an of
ficer because he remembered
the problems he had running
out of money while he was a
lieutenant. .
Hunt, who will live with a
niece at Denver and do youth
work after his retirement,
Havana - IUPD - Premier
Fidel Castro's government
held marriage ceremonies Sat
urday for 5,000 couples who
have been . living together.
The ceremonies, sponsored by
the' justice department, were
part of a government pro
gram to legalize common-law
marriages or cohabitation arrangements.
said that the men of today's
services are much better edu
cated than those of the past,
but added that they- need to
be trained for every job and
role.
Paraglider Studied
For Astronaut Use
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) Astronauts could glide
back to earth on a flexible
"paraglider," a cross between
a parachute and a glider, stu
dies reported to the National
Aeronautics and Space admin
istration show.
The glider is so simple it
looks like something a boy
might devise to glide off a
garage roof; a flexible wing
with rigid leading edges. A
space capsule with an astro
naut inside could be suspend
ed below the glider
NASA has been looking for
a low-weight device to slow
the speed of re-entry so that
a space capsule does not burn
up from air friction. The par
aglider is light and could re
main compactly folded until
needed.
Research has shown that
maximum re-entry tempera
tures could be held as low as
1,500 degree Fahrenheit by
the paraglider.
A paraglider of a nonpor
ous material such as alumin
um alloy would slow re-entry
much better than a conven
tional parachute at supersonic
speeds, wind tunnel tests dem
onstrated. At these speeds,
parachutes exhibit a pumping
action that makes them
bounce their cargo dangerous
ly. The research was conduct
ed at the Langley Research
center at Langley Field, Va.,
by Francis M. Rogallo, John
G. Lowry, Delwin R. Croom
and Robert T. Taylor. They re
port that several methods of
packing and deploying . the
paraglider have been success
fully demonstrated.
Porter, Other Congressmen
Attempt to End Segregation
At Capitol Amusement Park
By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mail Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington - (Special) -Rep.
Charles Porter led a
small band of determined
congressmen in an attempt to
scale the wall of segregation
at a local amusement park
last week. The wall wasn't
quite breached, but, with
hardly a verbal shot fired, the
management opened up a slit
in the battlements for future
peace negotiations.
After announcing on Aug.
15 that he intended to dem
onstrate support of the young
people who have been picket
ing Glen Echo park since
June 30, Porter picked up
support from three fellow
Democrats (two of, them Ne
groes: Adnm Clayton Powell,
N.Y., and Chas. C. Diggs of
Mich.), Byron Johnson of
Colo, and Republican Sey
mour Halpern of New York.
The five showed up at 7:30
one night, borrowed signs
from the regular picketers,
and marched around the park
ing lot entrance to the amuse
ment park. After 30 minutes,
they joined other pickets at
the park's main entrance.
There they shook hands with
the 50 young people, whiie
and colored, who were quiet
ly marching. They then enter
ed the office of the young
manager of the park to dis
cuss the possibility of an end
to the racial discrimination
which bars Negroes.
Glen Echo is a large amuse
ment park, with swimming
pool, to which white Wash
ingtonians, Marylanders and
Virginians repair on a sum
mer's day or night. Contrary
to the public practice in the
District, which has gradually
integrated all public swim
ming pools, theaters, restau
rants and schools over the past
10 years, Maryland has only
token integration.
The swimming pool is
thought to be the sticking
point at Glen Echo; here white
District residents can bring
their children if they don't
want to go to an integrated
pool in Washington.
Northern Virginia, where
many district government
workers and congressmen live
(as well as suburban Mary
land), only recently was the
scene of sit-in demonstrations
at drug stores. There the
young people involved scored
a victory in that shortly after
they began sitting down at
lunch counters in a mute re
quest for service, and after
meeting with the manage
ment of several large chains,
they were permitted to begin
eating at the counters.
Maryland and Virginia
beaches and amusement parks
along the Chesapeake Bay are
generally segregated, and the
Capitol has been embarrassed
by racial incidents in recent
months involving brown-skinned
foreign visitors, who have
innocently attempted to go to
the beach. One large Mary
land state beach is integrated.
Beach property is generally in
private hands.
At Glen Echo, company
hired private policemen, on
hand to keep order, and to ar
rest any Negro who trespass
ed,, said there have been 15
arrests so far - Negroes who
crossed the property line and
tried to make a phone call, or
buy a ticket, or who sat on
a merry-go-round.
The demonstrators are most
ly young, there are a few
youngish parents with small
children also placarded. One
little 8-year-old on her way
home at 8:30, had marched
with her parents since the
picketing began on June 30.
She was very tired, but her
parents had made her under
stand what it was all about.
After the meeting with the
manager, Porter, who was
spokesman, said that the man-
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ager had promised to try to
arrange a meeting with the
owners, who were in Florida,
because they were responsible
for the racial admission pol
icy.
Asked how and why he got
involved in the picketing. Por
ter explained that just before
Congress adjourned, on June
25 he wrote to his colleagues
in the House, urging them as
residents of the nation's Capi
tol and environs to join with
him in a statement of sympa
thy for the sit-in demonstrations.
The passive . resistance
movement called the sit-in
has spread from the deep
south throughout the eastern
seaboard and toward the end
of June young people started
sitting down at lunch counters
in drugstores across the Poto
mac in northern Virginia
They quietly read books and
remained unprovoked as seg
regationists poured ink in
their pockets and burned them
with cigarette ends and drop
ped lighted matches in their
pockets.
Seventeen congressmen
joined Porter in supporting
the sit-in demonstrations. Rep.
Edith Green of Portland sign
ed the statement; Reps. Al
Ullman and Walter Norblad
did not.
When Porter returned to the
capitol after the recess, dur
ing which time his party and
the Republican party both
wrote strong civil rights
planks at their conventions,
the congressman thought it
time for action by leaders in
the congress. He wondered
why they weren't speaking
up, especially since at Los An
geles, after much hot debate,
the Democrats endorsed the
sit-ins. On Aug. 16, he wrote
another letter to the signers
of the earlier statement, and
asked that they join him in
lending support to the young
people seeking to end discrim
ination at the local amusement
park.
"I think you should not
confirm your approval of
these things to just words -j
this is too often the case with
platforms - a nice bunch of
words everybody soon for
gets," Porter said.
"Thif civil rights issue was
very important at Los Ange
les, and I say that it is one of
the most important issues we
face in this country, and it
goes farther back than cither
party platform to our Consti
tution. It has a lot to do with
whether we have a peaceful
world, since two-thirds of the
world is colored," he contin
ued. As he said afterward, "You
know, the NAACP asked me
to speak to their chapter here
in Montgomery county and I
almost said no because I was
busy. This isn't an issue in
my district, there are hardly
50 Negroes there; but I said
to myself,
" 'Charlie, what kind of a
guy are you anyway? This is
something you believe in.'
And of course I made the
speech."
"This is not a casual Inter
est of mine. This is a matter I
deeply believe in. A politician
who does these things insin
cerely deserves his own re
ward, said Porter.
"But I believe that the best
way to achieve anything is to
go yourself. By sitting on the
spot and negotiating, you get
more accomplished than if you
sit up there in an ivory tower
and make pious pronounce
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