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8 B SUNDAY. JANUARY 20. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Noise Expected in Congress Over Death of Skybolt Missile Br CHARLES W. CORDDRY Untied Presi iniernaiionai : Washington (UPD - There will be a lot of noise in con gress over the death of the Skybolt missile, and come wrathful advocates of the weapon may take to jabbing pins Into the image of De fense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. But neither Capitol Hill nor Pentagon authorities ex pect the Air Force's lately cherished bomber launched missile 10 Be resurreciuu. In the Air Force's upper echelons, the idea is to put the Skvbolt out of mind ana get on with other means of fortifying uaz rjomoers. tin men expect the huge Jets, armed with Improved ver sions of other type missiles, to be key strategic weapons for another decade. May Ignite Debate But if the Skybolt is dead, its fiery exit may Ignite a fundamental debate in Con gress and around the nation on where- President Ken nedy's defense policies are heading. Bv the time the new Con gress convened, the president had taiKea Britain imo sub stituting submarine-launched Polaris missiles for the buy bolts it wanted and McNa mara had instructed the Air Force to shut down the proj eot. . A year ago, the defense chief was telling Congress he and the Air Force believed the Skybolt could be developed "satisfactorily" as a 1,000 mile range ballistic missile to be launched from B52's. Now he has executed the nraiect. which employed thou sands, promised longer life for bombing planes, and of fered a potent new war de terrent. Done for a combina tion of financial, technical and military reasons, the deed annoyed a variety of mem bers of Congress, defense ex perts, representatives of com munities that will suffer eco nomically, Republican critics, and service veterans. The Skybolt episode stimu lates two questions, further underlined by the defense budget sent to Congress last week, around which a new strategy debate is likely to revolve: -Is the bombing plane face to face with oblivion, with America about to base its strategic forces entirely on intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles? -Are there to be enough missiles? Is the trend toward a latter-day Maglnot line con cept based on a rigid force of missiles mainly designed to prevent war through the threat of annihilation - in brief, a city-busting force? Or will America continue to de velop flexible forces able to "prevail" over an .enemy armed force if deterrence fails-in brief, to come out of nuclear war at least less of a loser than the enemy? For his advocacy of the B52-Skybolt combination and the RS70 war plane, which the administration also does not plan to produce, Gen. Curtis E. LeMay is being charged in some quarters with vainly holding on to out moded concepts. In other words, the man the free world praised for building the great est bomber force in history is now being accused of being a bomber general. The criticism ignores thnt LeMay, now Air Force chief of staff, was Air Force re search chief as a major gen eral in 1945 when McNa mara was an Air Force major and some of McNamara'a pres ent strategic weapons advis ers were in high school. LeMay could be culled a father of the Air Force missile program. Last year he urged far more Minutcmcn Inter continental missiles than Mc Namara allowed. His sole aim is to be able to deliver won pons on targets accurately If there it war. He told Congress he would use a kiddle car if that were the best way to do it. In-Being Protection He said: "We should never replace trsted and reliable weapons with new and un proven ones until we are sure that the new one can cither do a better Job or a necessary job that can not be done at all by the old systems. In short, I believe in having in being protection along with progress." The Air Force Believes, with support from the other serv ices, that America must have a "mix" of missiles and manned air craft in its strate gic forces, with emphasis in creasingly on missiles. It is certain that later on there will have to be manned space-craft-espccially when missile defenses are perfected - and men arc needed aloft in ma chines to defeat mechanical devices. Its arguments are generally that manned war planes, as Cuba shows, can provide any kind of response from show ing the flag up to total anni hilation. Missiles are last re sort weapons. With both mis siles and planes, the nation has a variety of attack meth ods in case one or another is rendered ineffective by enemy defense. Moreover, the enemy is forced-as Russia has been for years - to invest enormous sums in defenses against many kinds of weapons. The enemy also has an almost insoluable problem in trying to attack this country. Finally, there are many targets that inter continental missiles cannot attack. . , Those are some of the rea sons the Air Force will be try- ing to improve the Houng Dog missiles now carried on B52's, devise new types of missiles of shorter range than the Skybolt- would have had, and de sign a successor to the B52 that McNamara may endorse. Curiosity whether present administration defense poli cies may lead to a "Maginot Line concept based malnlv on a city-busting force stems from action like that taken on the Skybolt and others in dicated in the new budget. Clues Arc Seen . These are some of the clues seen by those asking the ques tion: Skybolt is dead. RS70 is dying. The Nike-Zeus anti missile missile is not being put into production. The B47 jet bomber force will be ex tinct by about 1966. Only a few hundred B52's will be left by 1970. In fact, there are estimates that Russia in a few years may have more bombers than America. " With these factors are the other controversial questions whether an adequate force of Minute-man and Polaris mis siles is being built to do more than bust cities, that is, to im pose some sort of defeat on the enemy's military forces if deterrent fails. McNamara's computors and judgments apparently say yes, while those of the mili tary men are not at all sure. $2.8 Million in Permits Are Issued Grants Pass - Building per mits totaling an estimated $2,816,623 were Issued in Grants Pass during 1962. ac cording to M. C. Loughridgc, city building inspector. Out of 217 permits, SO were for non -residential construc tion, Loughridgc said. The largest was $1,098,009 for the new Josephine General hos pital, which Is now under con struction. Second largest was $240, 000 for the new First Federal Savings and Loan association building on Sixth St., also under construction. Seventy two residential building permits were Issued, for i total of $892,430. 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