Defense Issues Set of Strict Rules in Handling Nuclear Weapons
Steps Taken To
Curb Chance of
Human Failure
Washington -fflPU- The De
fense Department today issued
I set of strict rules that are
designed to prevent the un
authorized detonation" of nu
clear weapons.
It issued two lengthy di.
rectlves to tighten security
procedures in the storage and
handling of nuclear weapons.
Their purpose is to guard
against sabotage and the pos
sibility that "human failure"
might cause an explosion.
Special Precautions
The Defense Department
said the destructiveness of nu-
clear weapons and "the at
tendant consequences of an
unauthorized detonation call
for "hieh standards of human
reliability" and special pre
cautions against sabotage,
tage.
One provision would dis
qualify a person from access
to nuclear weapons lor over
indulgence in alcohol, finan
cial or family irresponsibility.
or "poor attitude or lack of
motivation toward the mis
sion of the military program
of which he is a part, or
toward duty with nuclear
weapons."
A spokesman said the di
rectives contained procedures
that in general are already
practiced in the armed forces.
One of the directives dealt
entirely with the selection of
personnel. The other laid
down the rules for the stor
age and transportation of nu
clear weapons.
The personnel directive
provided that persons given
access to A-weaporu must
have "a positive altitude," a
good military record, appro
priate formal education, good
physical condition and "evi
dence of adequate social ad
justment." Day-To-Day Evaluation
Supervisors were told to
take steps to "evaluate indi
viduals from day to day and
remove from duty assignment
any Individual whose general
behavior, emotional stability
or reliability" falls below
standard.
Such persons must sign a
certificate to the effect that
they have been briefed and
understand the importance
and the "need for reliability"
In their assignments. I
To guard against possible
sabotage, the second directive
called for a "sabotage alert
team" of two or more persons
who can come to the aid of
guards within five minutes
wherever atomic weapons
are stored.
The directive calls for a
"backup alert force" that
could be on the scene within
10 minutes and a "reserve
force" that could reach the
storage site within an hour.
Sentry Dogs Raled Highly
Recognizing the danger of
"covert actions by persons
with approved access," the
directive stipulates:
"Access to complete atomic
weapons will be accom
plished only when two or
more persons are present who
are capable of detecting in
correct procedures."
The directive gave high
rating to the use of sentry
dogs as well as fences and
walls, electronic alarm sys
tems and other precautions.
Man Found Guilty
On Check Charge .
Royal P. Harlacher, 30, of
Chestnut si. and Stewart ave.,
formerly with Royal's Quality
Cabinets, 044 South Central
ave., was found guilty in Jack
son county circuit court Wed
nesday afternoon by a jury on
a charge of drawing bank
check with insufficient funds
in the bank.
The trial started Tuesday
before Judije Edward C. Kelly.
Harlacher was charged with
writing a check for $263.91 to
local transfer company.
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Foreign Briefs
BUDDHIST PRIEST ARRESTED FOR THEFT
Tokye-WPIi-Pollca said Buddhist Priest Kodo Mitsunari,
67, was irrtittd ntar here Thursday tor stalling a statue
of Buddha from a temple whin h had been rtfusad a job as
part-tima abbot.
RED CHINA, ALBANIA SIGN AGREEMENT
London-WN-Hed China and Albania signed a scientific
and tachnical cooperation agrtamant in Tirana Thursday, ac
cording to a naw China naws agency dispatch raceivad hare.
Witnesses at Women's Peace Movement
Hearings Study in Poise and Coolness
MOROCCO TO IMPORT SUGAR FROM CUBA
Rabat, Morocco-IUPII-Morocco will import 20,000 tons of
crude sugar from Cuba during the first six months of 1963,
the govarnmant announced Thursday.
A spokesman said an agreement covering the sala was
reachad by Cuban Foreign Commerce Minister Enrique
Francisco and Moroccan official!.
PALESTINE TRUCE CHIEF TO BE REPLACED
Jarusalem-'liPli-Ma). Can. Carl yon Horn of Sweden will
be replaced within a few months as chief of staff of the
United Nations Palestine Truce commission, according to a
reliable source here.
The sources said Von Horn's contract expires in a few
months and that it will not be renewsd. Von Horn was ap
pointed commander of the commission in 1958.
Rally Fails, But
Stocks Close Firm
County To Receive
$6,132 in Boat Fees
Jackson county will receive
$6,132 from the Oregon state
marine board as Its share of
boat licensing fees. It will be
the second payment the coun
ty has received this year from
the marine board.
Josephine county wlli re
ceive a total of $2,068 for Its
share.
Payment to counties is bas
ed on $3 per numbered boat.
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close firm at best.
Du Pont, Chrysler, and IBM
were among the leaders, up
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Steels and autos firmed
while Allied Chemical added
nearly 1 and Union Carbide
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Halliburton and Champlin fea
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Litton and RCA performed
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Naw York-tl!Pli-Dow Jones
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railroads 137.64, off 0.15; 15
utilities 127.56, up 0.51 and
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Palestine, Tex. -IITO- Scien
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life on Mars will be shot down
by Air Force jet planes.
The scientists said they have
given up hope of recovering
the two balloons, which lo
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long. They were launched
from near Palestine, Tex.,
Wednesday, carrying a dum
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By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mail Tribune Washington
Bureau
Washington- (Special) -On
the first day of House Un
American Activities Commit
tee hearings
into alleged
C o mm unist
infiltration of
the Women
Strike for
Pcave move
ment, three
women who
testified
struck out.
Franklin This move
ment started in Washington,
D.C. and has spread nation
wide and has a similar organ
ization in Portland, Ore.
Chairman Clyde Doyle told
reporters he did not think
the committee would get to
Oregon, that the material de
veloped mostly covered the
New York area.
The three women who testi
fied were a study in poise
and cool, smiling contempt for
the HUAC. A claque of about
300 women from New York
filled the hearing room. The
three-hour hearing was fre
quently interrupted by mur
muring, snorts of derisive
laughter, applause, and at one
point an irate young man
strode to the front of the
room and demanded an end
to the proceedings.
Doyle started the hearings
by citing evidence that Com
munists sought to infiltrate
peace groups in order to fo
ment agitation.
"All of the women in the
Women Strike for Peace
groups are not Communists,"
he said, "but some of them
are."
He said that the commit
tee's purpose was to determ
ine whether or not the move
ment had been infiltrated,
and he thought the innocent
women in the group should
know who the Communists
were.
The first two witnesses be
fore the committee took the
fifth amendment when asked
if they were or had been
members of the Communist
party, but the third woman
admitted that she had once
been a member.
Counsel for the committee
and chief questioner, Alfred
M. Nittle, developed his evi
dence slowly in calm and
patient voice. The first wit
ness, Mrs. Blanche Posner of
New York, seemed to take
the proceedings as a great
joke.
At one point she looked up
after counsel had asked about
her alleged Communist ac
tivities and said "Oh, I was
looking for a cigarette, would
you repeat the question."
At the outset of her per
formance - characterized by
utterances of "Oh, I take the
5th" - Mrs. Posner made a
high-voiced rapid speech in
which she said the "women
of America were motivated to
make demonstrations because
the milk on their breakfast
Wheaties had strontium 90 in
it, also by the fear of cancer
and leukemia."
Doyle gaveled her down
and warned the applauding
audience not to do it again
and threatened to clear the
room. But Doyle is a mild
mannered man and couldn't
bring himself to do it even
though applause rocked the
room after each woman's appearance.
Mrs. Posner invoked the 5th
amendment when asked
whether she had been a mem
ber of a Communist cell group
when she was teaching high
school prior to her resigna
tion. She giggled at the ques
tion, but a moment later apol
ogized, said the question was
not revelant and took the 5th.
The second witness, Mrs.
Ruth Meyers, talked rather
more than Mrs. Posner who
was busy with the 5th amend
ment; however, her answers
were so tangled and obscure
that counsel could not get her
to admit that she was a leader
in the movement, whether she
knew Mrs. Posner or Mrs.
Dagmar Wilson, the ostensible
leader of the Women Strike
for Peace movement. She took
the 5th on whether she was a
Communist, terming the ques
tion "a disgrace."
Lyla Hoffman, third of the
cool cookies, who all had at
torneys by their side, was
more frank about her leading
role with the New York group.
Young, attractive and ex
tremely self-assured, she said
she was an active member of
the Central Coordinating com
mittee in New York, but she
wouldn't admit knowing any
body in the movement.
She cited the fifth amend
ment on that question and de
clined to answer when first
asked whether she had been
a Communist party member
in 1944 in a cell group in
Brooklyn.
She said, after conferring
with her counsel:
"I do not see that the com
mittee has the authority to
pose this question. I do not
believe that past membership
experience on the dale you
mention could possibly be
pertinent to anything this
committee is undertaking."
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