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Antimissile Bullseye Tremendous Technological Feat for United States Washington - HOT - Just week ago today Soviet Pre mier N i k 1 1 a Khrushchev boasted that Russia had a missile which could hit a fly In space. Now the United States has come forth with a flyswattcr of its own. As if In deliberate answer to the Russian claims, an Army launch crew Thursday sent a 48-foot Nike-Zeus anti missile missile screaming alnlt from Kwajelein atoll in the Southwest Pacific. Their target: the nose cone of a huge Atlas intercontin ental ballistic missile streak ing out of the skies at 16,000 miles an hour. Within minutes - possibly three - the nose cone had been Intercepted. In a war, it would have been destroyed -"melted" by the detonation of the Nike-Zeus' nuclear charge. The Nike-Zeus intercept was a tremendous technologi cal feat. It meant that both the United States and Russia now can make the same claims about space flics. But it prob ably also meant that both na tions are a long way from a sure-fire defense against missiles. Earlier Tail Failed In" fact, the Pentagon art mitted that there had been an earlier shot in the Kwaje lein series that was not suc cessful. The Nike-Zeus is so contro versial that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has in dicated only a real break through In the current testing aeries would convince him the system should be fully de veloped. Even so, the secretary was described as delighted with Thursday's shot. But he must not have been too surprised. He said last January that "I think we can almost guaran tee the success of our Kwaje lein tests . . . because it is a simple test." In any case, the test was not expected to have any ef fect on the size of the Strate gic Air Command, this coun try's chief retaliatory force, or on the controversy over the RS70 supersonic strike plane. These are offensive weap ons, designed to carry the war hack to an enemy, and there by deter attack. Unlike wartime, Thursday's feat was carefully controlled. The Atlas was launched from Vandcnbcrg Air Force Base in California, 4,500 miles from Kwajelein, on a ballistic trajectory known in advance to the crew manning , the Zeus out In the Pacific. Information on the Atlas flight was fed Into the anil missile missile's computers, and a short time later theljcstic bullseye, comparable, intercept took place. some have said, to a bullet Electronically it was a ma-1 hitting a bullet. Foreign Briefs MORE THAN $1 BILLION RAISED FOR JEWISH RELIEF Tel Avir - illPII - The United Jewish apptal In the United Slates has raited more than S1.3 billion since the fund-raising organisation was established in 1133, it was announced Thursday. UJA executive vice chairman Rabbi Herbert Friedman said the money has been used primarily in resettling about l.SOO.000 Jews in Israel and other countries. Relief work has aided twice that number. Rabbi Friedman said. CRIME RATE INCREASES IN LONDON London-H'li-London'i crime rate in 1961 rote 4.5 per cent over 1960. Scotland Yard Chief Sir Joseph Simpson re ported Thursday. "The mounting figures constitute a threat to society which cannot be ignored." Simpson said in his annual report. The report showed 196.854 indictable offenses here last year. RUSSIA INCREASES INDUSTRY OUTPUT Moscow-Wli-Soviet industry in the first half of 1962 boosted its output by 10 per cent and its labor productivity by 6 per cent over the first six months of 1981, Tass said today. The Soviet news agency said both industrial and farm outputs for the first half of this year were 3 per cent over the planned quota. WEST GERMANY DISMISSSES ATTORNEY GENERAL Bonn-illl'luPresident Heinrich Luabke Thursday approved the dismissal of West German Attorney General Wolfgang Fraenkel, who served as Neil prosecutor at the Supreme Court in Peipiig from 1940-43. Fraenkel, 57, was fired last week because he concealed his wartime activity as an assistant prosecutor. Engineers Will Seek To Unravel Mystery of Ghost of Joe Baldwin Maco, N.C.-lUPIl-On a murky night in 1863, the legend goes, railroad fireman Joe Baldwin fell beneath the wheels of a train while switching the tracks and was decapitated. Since then, some folks in this small community near Wilmington relate on every cloudy or rainy night, ' Ole Joe returns to the place of his death to look for his head. Scores of persons have sworn during the years that they have seen the light from Joe's lantern, bobbing in the dark. One of the witnesses, it Is said, was former President Grnver Cleveland, who saw the mysterious light when his train passed through the area. Army engineers and investigators from the Smithsonian Institution have sought to solve the mystery, without success. Saturday, three North Carolina engineers, using modern electronic equipment, will have their try. The engineers, Bill Ward of a radio station in Charlotte; C. E. Bennett III of Bell Laboratories, Burlington; and Larry Gardner of a radio station in Raleigh, will use photo multi pliers and audio amplifiers for converting light into sound and a spectrascope for measuring light wave lengths. The Smithsonian team worked on the theory the light was caused by swamp gasscs or thermal rays but after an extensive investigation, they said neither was the case and gave up. The summary of the team's report: "Inconclusive." Persons who have seen the light say It moves up and down, indicating that wind may be a factor. Another expla nation that failed to solve the riddle was that the glow was the reflection of automobile headlights. The Army Corps of Engineers put this theory to test by blocking off the area for five miles. But the light remained. But in this age of electronic wonders, much can be done with computers and gadgets. McNamara's worry Is that in a combat situation, the Nike-Zeus would not be able to differentiate between a real missile and a decoy. Mis sile decoys can be deployed to fool radar just as World War II bomber pilots dropped chaff to accomplish the same purpose. But the Army, which nur tured the Zeus during lean and uncertain times, main tains that the missile can de tect the real thing because the size and weight of an au thentic nuclear warhead is different from a decoy. To Carry Decoys One purpose of the current Kwajelein tests is to check out this theory. The tests may run a year, and involve near ly 50 shots. Toward the end of the series, it has been said, Atlas rockets will carry de coys in an effort to throw off the Nike-Zeus. But even if all these tests are successful, McNamara may need further convincing before deciding to spend another $10 million to situate Nike-Zeus sites around American cities and indus trial complexes. He has told Congress, for example, that "in actual com bat we could expect a greater number of missiles, and mis sile of varying types, which the system might or might not be effective against. In any case, its effectiveness under combat conditions will not have been proven by the Kwajelein tests." REENLISTS Photographic Intelligence man Second Class Joe K. An drews Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe K. Andrews, route 1, Eagle Point, recently reenlist ed for six years in the Navy. Andrews is stationed at the Naval Air facility, Naha, Ok inawa. He is a graduate of Eagle Point High school, and enter ed the Navy in 1950. SEARCH FOR COMFORT New Britain, Conn. - IUPD -Robert McMillan wants to be assured of sacktime comfort when he becomes a freshman at Central Connecticut State college this fall. In a letter to the dean of men Thursday, he asked whether the college could find him a 7-foot bed on which to rest his 6-foot, 8- inch frame. Marshall May Have Rescinded Estes Crackdown Washington -ll'PH-An ousted federal farm official suggested today that the late Henry H. Marshall may have rescinded his crackdown on Billie Sol Estes' cotton allotment trans fers because of pressure from superiors. William P. Mattox, who de scribed Marshall as a "good friend," also suggested as an alternative that Marshall may have believed amended regu lations ultimately would bring justice to farmers who made illegal transfer to Estes. Muttox testified for the sec ond day at the Senate investi gation of Estes' operations. Marshall, program specialist for the Texas Agriculture Sta bilization and Conservation Committee, died from gunshot wounds in June, 1961. His death originally was ruled a suicide but the Texas Rangers announced Thursday that they are Investigating on the as sumption it was murder. Mattox, former vice chair man of the Reeves County, Texas, ASC Committee, was removed from that post for accepting expenses from Estes' for a trip to Washington. A self-styled "country boy" from Estes' home town of Pecos, Tex., Mattox Thursday accused Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman of seeking to transfer blame for the Estes case to scapegoats at the local level. American Home Graham's Topic Fresno, Calif. -IUPD- Evange list Billy Graham Thursday night warned that the disinte gration of the American home endangers the future of Amer ican civilization. The North Carolina minis ter told a crowd of 26,000 that "The problems of the home will never be solved until we get back to the laws of God regulating marriage." He said that when the home, the basic unit of any society, begins to crumble, then that society is on the way to disin tegration. Graham said the evidence of the eroding U.S. family unit is overwhelming. He cited the nation's rising rate of divorce, separations and annulments. "Nor does the divorce rec ord reveal the vast number of unfaithful husbands and wives whose extra-marital relations place them in the class of adul terers about whom Jesus said there was no place in the kingdom of Heaven." s,l,,"'il To Stay Cool and Comfortable This Summer - v. -X x.v . '. 'N VvA I x ; v -y J U.JL 111 111. M i at hsn A & ?-Jr k-.i rflf WtY - HQfOE "Whon the mercury soars to summer levels, keep your home the coolest spot in town ... A modern air conditioner puts "life" into summer liv ing . . . circulates cool, clean, filtered, dehumidified air for your family's health and comfort. This summer and every summer, live in the cool comfort of an air con ditioned home. 'VWvVNVVVYV VxWXYX VVYVWVXXV V V. YYVVVYV xvx.N Appliance Mart 772-4131 Hotpoint Big Y Appliance Center 773-3052 Westinghome Feldmin & Olson 773-7751 Fedden Home Appliance Company 773-5395 General Electrit Johnston Stores 773-3619 .... 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DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - ilPli - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 577.18. up 4.02; 20 railroads 123. OS, up 0.54; 15 utilities 113.56, up 0.44. and 65 stocks 202.17. up 1.15. Sales today were about 2.61 million shares compared with 3.09 million shares Thursday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Alum Co. Am 541. American Air Lines lfi, American Can 43 American Motors IS AT&T 110H American Tobacco 3!?. Anaconda Copper 40, Armco 47 . Bethlehem Steel 34 Boeing Air 4lXl', Brunswick . 23 Caterpillar Corp 31 'i Chrysler Corp 43 u Coca Cola . ft I s C B S 3.1 ' t Continental Can 41 Crown Zclleroach 40 ' Crucihle Steel is, Dow Chemical 44'a Stock Market Closes Up Commission Orders Billboard-Free Areas Portland lUPli The state Scenic Area Commission to day ordered virtually billboard-free scenic areas to be established along the old and new Columbia River high ways. 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The well-known lecturer and founder of Colorado's Shakespeare Festival of Boul der, is now in southern Ore gon directing "Coriolanus," one of the series of Elizabeth an plays plays to be presented at Ashland. Speaking at the Rogue Vat ley Country club, Dr. Crouch pointed out that presentation al acting afforded "privilege communication" between the audience and the actor, aid ed by the familiar soliloquy. When an audience participates in a presentational - type play there is a continual remind er of being in a theater. The representational approach to acting, however, gives an au dience the illusion of peep ing through a keyhole at life. Elizabethan acting fills an evening for the viewer while late television movie empties the evening, Dr. Crouch observed. Northern Pacllie Pac Gas Elei Penney. J.C Penn RR Perma Cement Phillips .. . Procter & Gamble Radio Corp Richfield Oil Safeway St-ars Shell Oi! 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