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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1962 - C 7 7 r CHASED BY RAIN - Tense officials at Audubon Park Zoo in New Oreans had to chuckle when a small rain shower caused the newest members of the rare Whooping Crane family, top photo, to holler for dad, who was setting on an egg in the nest, to open up and let him in, lower photo, out of the downpour. Zoo officials are hoping for the safe arrival of a second chick from the egg on which pop is sitting. (UPI) Capitol Memo 110 Measures Being Drafted for 1963 Legislative Session 'Enormous E' Ready To Take Place In Nation's Nucelar Striking Force Editor's noli: Down through the centuriei, the United States hat let the other fellow strike the first blow in war. To continue this policy, a means must be found of riding out an atom ic attack and still have pow er to strike back. In this re- Donations Sought For Asbestos Suit Happy Camp - Mrs. Joyce Higley has asked friends to donate to the Happy Camp Volunteer Fire department to ward the purchase of an as bestos fire suit in memory of her husband, Leon, who was killed here last Sunday. Higley died when a two-ton grader motor fell on him as he was trying to help two other men move it. Higley was a long-time member of the fire depart ment here, and had been in strumental in building the organization into a well equipped outfit. pect, the nuclear aircraft carrier is an instrument of this policy. UPI Correspond ent Norman Runnion, who was aboard the Enterprise during her shakedown cruise, tells how this would be done in the following dispatch. Fan Afghans By NORMAN RUNNION Aboard USS Enterprise OIPD The Enormous E is ready. It has worked under simu lated battle conditions, taken and survived an "atomic" at tack, catapulted its bombers and fighters into the sky, and brought them back home in the inky blackness of a sub tropical night. From its first sea trials last October until its just-completed shakedown training off Guantanamo Bay and the Cu ban coast, this $440 million warship has exceeded all expectations. It is bigger, faster and more powerful than anv carrier afloat, and it shortly will car ry enough nuclear weapons punch to deliver a crushing blow against any aggressor. Now it will spend four to By DOUGLAS GRIPP Salem -OIPD- The 1963 legis lature is nine months off but Legislative Counsel Sam Ha- n -I V,i a lcJ o 11 u ma 4 etnff n I marlv are drafting 110 bills for the s e s sion, Haley reveal ed today. Most of the requests for drafting so far have come from legisla- DouriM Grips 1 1 v e interim committees, and almost an equal number from individual legislators. A few of the bills are for state agencies. The 110, however, is a drop in the bucket compared to what's coming. A total of 1,588 measures were introduced in the 1961 legislature, and 894 of those were drafted by the Haley forces. Although the session which convenes here Jan. 14, 1963, can count on plenty of hot Dotatoes. some of the early requests could cause a gush of farenheit all by themselves. In the mill are bills to: -Grant heavy truckers a big reduction in state weight-mile taxes. It's identical to one passed last session and vetoed by Gov. Mark Hatfield. -Let farmers form bargain ing associations to deal with food processors. Like the 1961 bill, which died from heat ex posure, it would forbid pro cessors from discriminating against such farmer groups. -Flatly repeal the 1961 am bulance law that volunteer ambulance operators have been screaming about. Create a department of ur ban affairs in Oregon's execu tive branch. Actually, Haley's bill draft ing never ends. A number of solons who didn't get some of their bills either introduced or passed last session asked Haley soon after adjournment last spring to redraft for the 1963 session. The 42-year-old Haley, who likes to shoot rapids in his kayak when not pondering a statute, will help the Oregon Constitutional Revision Com mission with the mechanics of drafting a new state con stitution for presentation to the 1963 legislature. That alone is going to be a kingsize job. As counsel to the legisla ture, Haley - who smokes big cigars and has a slight Mis souri drawl - has duties other than bill drafting. One of them is updating all statutes immediately after a session adjourns, incorporat ing new laws into tomes known as the Oregon Revised Statutes, or ORS. The bill drafting service is free to legislators, interim committees, the governor, and state agencies - the only cus tomers. Haley has been legislative counsel since the post was created in 1954. Before that he had similar chores as re viser of statutes for Oregon. So beautiful and useful, this afghan's sure to be cherished by all the family. Fan - of - colors afghan uses bits of knitting worsted. Shell stitch background. Pattern 7040: directions for 9 - inch square: color schemes. Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Alice BrooKs care of Medford Mail Tribune Needlecraft Dept., P. O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. NEVER - BEFORE VALUE! 200 designs to knit, crochet, sew. weave, embroider, quilt - in our 1962 Needlecraft Cattalog. Beautiful Bulkies in a complete fashion section plus bedspreads, toys, linens, afghans, slipcovers, plus free patterns. Send 25c now, Rocket Length Set By Traffic Problem Buffalo, N. Y.-OTD-Dr. Wal ter R. Dornbcrgcr, chief sci entist for Bell Acrosystems here and military head of the wartime German rocket re search center at "'eenemundc. says the V2 rocket was short and stubby because of a traf fic problem. "Th aerodyna-iics gave way to a more pressing problem-how to haul the rocket through n- row winding village streets," he said. '"We fixed the length by hauling a long wooden pole along the route. "Whenever we came to a place we couldn't get past, we chopped off a piece. What was left at the end of the trip was the length we made the rockets." Brookings Man Gets SuspendedSenfence Howard Freeman Puckett. 46. Brookings, Ore., received a five-year suspended sentence to the Oregon state peniten tiary Tuesday in Jackson county circuit court on charges of obtaining property by false pretenses. Puckett had pleaded guilty in tlip rharce. Mary Ann Ottesen. 30, of Salem, Utah, was committed in ih Drpaon State hospital after appearing on charges of obtaining property Dy laise pretends. SAVE mm etc " SAVE ON DUNCAN HINES QUICK FRIED RICE MIX! r.nling lliuujii Hiuo Otiitl I rirtl Rite iciin itp ith ect mr.il mii (.in thiol of x a tiilclith .mil a a ttimplelr tural itt it wlf. Il'ia uiuiM'i ptrparctl a il come hnm l)if l or jniiicl Itv Icllmrr thicken. lohMC"!. lltinii rtr ll.lnl ItirirTv lor'ni(t I nit h'. ihnnrr ami part timr. five weeks in Newport News, Va., undergoing its post-shakedown analysis. Then on June 2 it is to go on station with the 2nd Fleet in the Atlantic. For Mediterranean Duty And probably next fall, it will take its enormous power to the Mediterranean to serve with the 6th Fleet. There's never been any thing quite like this ship, the deadly successor to the old "Big E" of World War II Pacific combat fame. It can carry 100 jet and piston-engined planes which pack a nuclear punch; has a flight deck covering 4V4 acres; and a crew of 4,200. It also has a dedicated and highly talented crew and some of the best pilots in the world. It is an atomic age carrier in every sense of the word offensively and defensively. During its shakedown train ing in the Caribbean, the crew men went through intensive drills to prepare for the even tuality that they one day might be subjected to an atom ic attack. The drill started with gen eral quarters and ended with a full-scale aircraft launch op eration after the Enterprise had been subjected to a "near miss" by an atomic bomb. Outruns Fallout After the initial "shock waves" had passed the great carrier turned tail and ran its four nuclear-powered pro pellors churning up the blue seas with speeds that can reach 40 miles per hour. The objective: outrun the fallout. Since the Enterprise has nuclear power, it has no smokestacks. It therefore can be closed up into a "gas-tight" envelope. When this has been done. and the crew has vanished to leave the flight deck looking as empty and strange as a big city on early Sunday morn ing, the ship can be washed down from top to bottom by seawater. In effect, this would turn the carrier into an enormous fountain 1,123 feet long and 23 stories tall. Most of t h e fallout from the bomb would be washed overboard. Some, however, would re main, and before the Enter prise could retaliate it would be care fully inspected by crews carrying Geiger count ers who would mark out ra dioactive "hot spots" on the flight deck. It wouldn't be long, how ever, before the carrier's planes would be off. During the Caribbean drills, it took only 20 minutes from the time of the "attack" until the flight deck was declared suf ficiently safe to begin launch ing preparations. Rickover Selects Officers If the Entcrpiise has nu clear capability, so does its top command. Each officer dealing with the nuclear plant was personally selected by Adm. Hyman L. Rickover, the "father" of the Navy nuclear power. This includes the Enterprise skipper, Capt. Vincent Paul De Poix. a trim, efficient man of 45 who served as a combat fighter pilot aboard the old Enterprise in the South Pa cific. He had to learn how nuclear propulsion operates before he took over. In charge of the reactor de partment is Cmdr. Daniel Brook, who was skipper of the Sargo, the third U. S. nuclear submarine. He and his specially trained crew all of them subject to security checks as well as psychiatric tests are virtually the only ones allowed near the Enter prise nuclear plant. While on duty all of them wear special film badges, which can be analyzed to test the degree of radioactivity they encounter. The eight reactors they han dle, each about twice the size of those in nuclear subma rines, churn out 280,000 horse power. It is the largest accu mulation of nuclear power in the world. They are confident nothing dangerous will happen. 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