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Mrd., Ore., Thuri., March H. 1983
Missiles Common
Thing In Mexico;
Firing Welcomed
By SAM MARLER
United Praia International
' White Sands Missile Range,
N.M. - IUPD - Missiles are no
more disturbing than road-
runners to some New Mexico
residents who calmly antici
pate another historic first this
spring - firing of ballistic mis
siles over their homes.
Residents of the Alamogor-
db area, known as the "birth
place of the space age," heard
the world's first atomic bomb
blast in 1943. In May the
first tests of military surface-to-surface
ballistic missiles
fired over American homes
begins.
The Army's solid-fuel Ser
geant missiles will be launch
ed from south of Dam, n.m. -
about 100 miles west of tar
gets on the vast White Sands
Droving grounds.
A United Press Internation
al survey of .southern New
Mexicans showed that citizens
are not alarmed, and some
are even eager for the tests
to start.
Missiles Common
Rancher John Prather, 87,
who lives on a ranch in the
middle of McGregor missile
ranee adjacent to White
Sands, said, "Missiles have
been flying over my head
for years. They're just as com
mon as a roadrunner down
here."
: (The determined rancher
claims he will shoot it out
,with the Army rather than
move. He has turned thumbs
down on, the $100,000' the
Army has offered him for
the 15-acre ranch.)
; "I'm gonna stay here till
I die," he proclaims. "They
(the missiles) don't bother me
a damn bit.
No Criticism
Alamogordo Mayor Richard
. Stanley pointed out, "The
Idea of firing long-range mis
siles across the state has been
favored by the New Mexico
. municipal .league." Stanley
said he had heard no criticism
of the program.
At New Mexico Institute of
. Technology and Mines at So
corro, Magazine Editor Teri
Ray said, "Assuming the proj
ect is conducted under con
trolled conditions, damn the
torpedoes go ahead!"
Robert Huxford, a depart
ment store owner at Grants
said, "If necessary - tine!"
Officers at White Sands
said the tests are both neces
sary and safe. A spokesman
said although the missiles
have been fired successfully
over water, they could not
be recovered. He said it was
necessary to test gyro systems
jn the rockets by firing them
from angles and directions
that can be attained only on
land.
The spokesman said a series
of control instruments should
be installed along the routes
to direct the missiles. There
is virtually no chance, he said,
of a missile falling on civilian-
owned land.
July Test in Utah
In the- first phase of the
tests, three Sergeant missile
shots will be made over a
period of several months. In
July, tests on the Army's
Pershing missile will start
from a launch site near
Blanding, Utah, in the Four
Corners area where Arizona,
Colorado, Utah and New
Mexico join borders.
An experimental Air Force
missile also will be tested
from time to time in the next
two years. It will be fired
from Green River, Utah, and
pass over southeastern Utah
and northwestern New Mex
ico. Eventually, space authori
ties plan to fire polaris mis
siles from submarines off the
West Coast - across Califor
nia, Nevada, and Arizona - to
White Sands.
Officials began briefing
citizens throughout New Mex
ico this month on the tests.
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