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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1963)
Tourists Eye Big Military Buildup in Florida Keys What has been the effect i ins and. for Miami itself, this ed about an 8 per cent falloff I Colonel Nolte. who lives traded people curious to sec SECTION B PAGES 1 to 3 of the Cuban crisis on the has been one of the best years in November. But once the with a small staff and gar- the "military buildup. fnfvnAni southern Florida tourist ever Hialeah race track did crisis passed, business was rison, in the old Casa Marina "If you see any signs of it MRDFORD--n. umui ; ; l-.ni.lr in nnrmil nr pvpn hotel in Kev West, savs lie i on the wav back to Miami. ' AiJ 'PfTltfTI 31 itlDUJJ2r ' The winter peak is just :nd-1 In the keys, resorts suffer-1 better i believes the whole affair at-! let me know," he said. MKD"OKD. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1963 Penneys ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY UNTIL 9:00 P.M. everything comes up ft x . - S in .JatoaaaflfJ Hmhu INSPECTS HAWK Lt. Mark Manley. 22. of Cincinnati, Ohio, inspects mounted ground-to-air Hawk missile at the V.S Army's rocket area near Key West, Florida. (UPI) By JACK V. FOX ' United Press International ..? Key West. Fla.-HOT-Driving idiun l he rihhon of U.S. Hisll- ...'tp.v 1 that tics the Florida He.s lo the mainland, the tpurist keeps a sharp eye for fpbiat he has heard is a big military buildup close to Cas 'tjo's Cuba. !There have been reports of huge missiles rolling along Ouval street which runs 3ross the town of Key West ftora the Atlantic to the Gulf Of Mexico. SSL Stories of truck convoys, ;itrctehing for miles, on the BHghway. Gossip of "hard BBarc" and "troops" in such SHuanlHy thai tlic keys must iurrly sink. Second hand ru fijhnrs of generals muttering: .We have enough now." Missiles Missing I But if it is there, it is the - greatest job of camouflage yet Most of these little coral islands are so narrow and so barren that concealment is I next to impossible. What the vacationer sees are motels and marinas and fishermen on the causeways (one seven miles long) and dozens of signs proclaiming the virtues of Key Lime Pie. It is not until the car rolls I onto Saddle Bunch Key that I he first evidence of a "build- up" can be seen. There, in I plain view, is a battery of Hawk ground-to-air rockets 3 pointed toward Cuba. The Hawk is used in knocking Bdown low and medium alti tude aircraft, y. This particular battery has Hthe primary job of defending "2W huge Boca Chica Naval jir Station 90 miles from fRiavana. : Pull into that U.S. Army rocket area and you gel a pleasant erecting from com .ajnandiiig officer, Capt. Tom sfstiiy Thompson of Tacoma. SrVash. A quick call to the Mfeolonel in Key West and frhompson okays a reporter and photographer taking a ; closcup look at the Hawk in ' ttallation. Manley Controls Fire rnntrol officer is 22- - year-old Lt. Mark Manley of SKpincinnati. Manley ana ine too or so men of the unit JBtiovcd in here shortly after the late October contronia tion with the Soviet Union over Russian missiles in Cu ba. For a time, they were on a 24-hour battle-station basis. This is one of four batter ies in the lower Keys under the command of Col. Marvin Nolte of St. Louis, Mo. Nolte says his is the only tactical Army unit in the Key West area. It is apparent that the American military posture in this area at present is pri marily defensive. Military security, however, is light. Newsmen are not permitted on the naval air station at Key West although White House correspondents were there recently when President Kennedy visited the hacr 11 was a favorite vaca tion spot for President Tru man. At the Strategic Air Com mnnn". Hnmpstpad Air Fore Base, 25 miles south of Mi ami, home of the 19th bomb group under Col. Richard B Stewart speuritv is also clone The base recently underwent a simulated nuclear attacK Mw Tl Patrol An Armv Hawk missile command also has been sta tinner! there and early in March the air defense com manrl moved in with t h e new F104 Starfigliter jets for patrol and interception. Near the town of Marathon, halfway down the Keys, is an IuMm lnnc as those at New York's International air-1 port. The runway is capaDie f hanrltinn the bicEest jet military transports and bomb ers. At the heishl of the Oc- inher-Novrmber crisis. Mara than was. in fact, jammed with combat troops reaciy 101 airborne operations They have since pulled out. Tourist Gain era MP ROOM New York - - Retail ectahiishments snent S780 mil lion for tradinn stamps during 1962 and are expected to spend about S820 million in lofii aeenrdinc to SDcrrv and Hutchinson Co., makers of S and H Green stamps. for ifeaM Ea i : : i v,' y ,t i,.n. rrrrm li- Llr- 'sriS? 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