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p THURSDAY. MAY 10. 19S2 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Historic Base To Vanish From Map; Sealed Own Doom By JAMES R. GOLDEN United Preii International Wendever, UUh - (UPII - Ex cept for the noise of an oc casional et interceptor on the way to gunnery practice, old Wendover Air Base waits quietly now to vanish from the maps of the white-flecked Utah desert. It has a busy, proud history fmm a war which some Amer icans already find it hard to remember. The coming of the atomic bomb made the squad mni nf B17s. B20s and Liber ators that came to Wendover antique by the standards ol modern warfare. Wendover, in a way, sealed 1U own doom at the same time It was instrumental in win ninff the Pacific war In 1945. On its black-topped runway one day landed a big Oiv which came to be called the "Enola Gay." And to the war painted bomber came a spe cial crew. Over the salt flats and the brownish miles of the desert they trained to drop one bomb. The crew did its Job over the heart of the Japanese manufacturing heartland in 1945 and speeded the end of a long war. The plane never rum hack to Wendover, and it wasn't long after the war ended that Wendover Air Base was deactivated. At the end of 1961 the Pen tagon decided Wendover was of no further use to the mili tary and turned over to the General Secrvice Administra tion for disposal. In the hectic early days of Wnrirf War II Wendover fill ed a less spectacular, but especially important use. ine crews of the heavy bombers formed in the Second Air Force came there in 1942, 1943 and 1944 to train. They took their four-engined giants -Liberators and B17s first, later B29s-out into the waste land and dropped sand-and-black powder bombs. In six weeks they were ready for the hop to the European or Pacific theaters. The bombing range at its height took in several mil lion acres where not a human being or animal was permit ted without Army authoriza tion. When the age of rockets dawned Wendover's vast miles of arid land was long discussed as a test site and some tests actually were made. But it never nas w rnmp Imoortant for that use Where there is grass growing the range has been leased to sheep owners. National Guard let fishier many of them manned by pilots who fought in the Ko rean War, still streak high over the almost-deserted air field in the summer for rock et and gunnery practice. Ex cept for that, the great hang ars, wooden barracks and ra dio towers ane useless. Some already have been sold and hauled away. Wendover Air Base, where atomic energy as a weapon found its way into military training, Is on its way to extinction. Johnson at Fair After Dedication Seattle -IUPIU Vice President Lyndon Johnson arrived here Wednesday night for a tour of the world's fair. Johnson came from Eustern Washington where he deliv ered an address during dedi cation of the Ice Harbor dnm on the Snake river, 12 miles east of Pasco. The vice president called the $122 million spent on the project "a wise investment." He then touched a button that set in motion a 90,000 kilowatt generator at the dam, first of four on the lower Snake river dt'signed eventu ally to add nearly three mil lion kilowatts of power to the Northwest pool. The generator is one of three In the initial installa tion. Three more will be add ed later, bringing the dam's power -producing capacity to 550.000 kilowatts. Located about 10 miles up stream from the mouth of the Snake river, the 100-foot high dam has a navigation lock de signed to carry barge traffic up the Snake. To Lose Weight Eat Less, Become Active Chicago - (ITU - The reason you gain weight is that you eat more food than you need. The food you don't use lor energy is stored as fat. To lose weight, you need to change your eating habits and be come more physically active. 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