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. mautwu j mviL. mmunt, wluiuhu, omboh WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24, 1N3 g Polaris Able To Reach Any Major Military Targets On Land r sssi - If :' sssKJs9 H '' 'iW j Lr II I I fill I IP pg H i ' P . f ; H : ' " 1 Lrl Re wBlLI seam Ba sew J H -.f-'flgl K I ssssv 'aBBBBBBBBr Jfei eV 85 sssssssssssab sssssSsa- ? jHI-fB Jiff I'M IN 'SHERWOOD FOREST' A Navy tech nician works in the missile compartment, or the "Sherwood Forest," as crewmen call it, of a Polaris submarine in Groton, Conn. Life aboard a S100 million atomic sub marine is described in accompany article. (UPI) 9 Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicits '.9631 Big and Wily, This Seafood Connoisseur with Four Fact The big raccoon, evidently much wiser and considerably larger than most of his fel lows as evidenced by his size and the deliberate attention to detail he was displaying, slowly patrolled the mudflat. The animal was wading in water barely three inches in depth. As he walked slowly, he turned his head from one side to the other, evidently scrutinizing every inch of the mud near the edge of the small lake. With the aid of binoculars we could plainly see that the raccoon was passing up sev eral snails that would seem to have been of interest but ob viously he was searching for something else and apparent ly knew exactly what that something was, for he seemed very intent, carefully and ster, that creeps forward when walking but swims back ward when in a hurry, buries itself in the mud after throw ing up a circular wall of marble-sized pellets of mud around its burrow. Down in the ooze the crayfish thinks itself safe from its enemies. The wise raccoon watches for the' little wall of mud pel lets, knowing the crayfish is down below. Finding the wall, the animal plunges a paw into the water, but inside the cir cle of pellets, and churns the water and ooze until it is cloudy. Then the raccoon waits. . Tiie crayfish stands the suspense as long as it can then comes up to see what all the commotion is about. His curiosity is his undoing for the wily raccoon is waiting: one flip of a patw and tiie cray fish becomes a delicious tidbit daintily stepping along in the j for a four-footed connoisseur mud. ! of seafood. Shurns the Water We saw him stop. He leaned forward and with his right fore paw reached down into the mud. We expected to see him pull forth a frog, a small fish or some variety of mol lusk. But instead, he began to churn the water, moving his paw up and down and around and around. He stirred the ooze until he had made a muddy soup. Evidently satisfied that he had mixed the mud and water sufficiently in that one spot, he settled back on his rear legs in a half-crouch. Intently he watched the area he had agitated; he never took his eyes from that place right ahead cf his nose. He knew what he wa i doing but we, the human observers, didn't; it all seemed like a silly, useless pastime as we kept the glasses focused on him. After what seemed sev eral minutes, the big raccoon thrust one paw suddenly into the muddy swirl and flipped something out into the air. Quickly it leaped upon it. grabbed it with both paws and sank his sharp teeth into the thing. As he turned his head, we could plainly see that what he had flipped from the churned-up place was a crayfish, a delicious tidbit, for the four-footed animal ate the crustacean with evident rel ish. It probably tasted as good to him as the crayfish's cou sin, the lobster, tastes to us. Behavior Trait The swirl in the mud cre ated by the big raccoon was a device designed to take ad vantage of a characteristic be havior trait of crayfish This funny little fresh water crus taccon. like its cousin the lob- SHOULD HAVE LOOKED Los Angeles-iUPI-A burglar threw 50 suede jackets from the roof of a store Tuesday to the pavement beside his truck. Two patrolmen who had been investigating the truck climbed from beneath the pile of jackets, onto the roof and arrested Arcellas Leavurette, 20. Graham To Attend Daughter's Swiss Wedding Rites Paris-IUPIJ-American Evan gelist Billy Graham left"Paris today for Switzerland to at tend the wedding of his eldest daughter and prepare for his forthcoming French crusade. Graham, who arrived here late last night, will attend the wedding of his daughter, Vir ginia, in Montreux. Switzer land, a spokesman at the Evangelist Church of Paris said. The evangelist was expect ed to return to Paris May 9 to give news conferences in advance of his tent meeting near the Paris "Flea Market" May 12. Graham conferred early this morning with the publi city committee for his religi ous crusade. A spokesman said details also were discussed for putting up a special tent, brought from Germany, which will house 10,000 spec tators at the Paris meeting. Graham arrived at Le Havre Tucday aboard the liner France and was greeted by David Barnes, of the Euro pean Bible Institute, who will direct the choir for Graham's Paris crusade. Graham also was met at the dock by his daughter, her husband-to-be, Stephen Tchig Idjlan, a Swiss businessman, and members of his family. The entire party drove to Montreux today for the wed ding May 3. By WILLIAM D. CLARK United Press International Groton, Conn. - ilIPl1 - The Navy's big-punch Polaris sub marine, whose 16 nuclear mis siles will be able to reach any major land-based military tar get in the world, joins the fleet Tuesday. Lafayette, the first of 31 subs which will carry the A-3 missile with a range of 2,- 500 nautical miles, will be officially turned over to the Navy in commissioning exer cises at the electric boat ship yards of General Dynamics Corp. Super-sub of the Polaris group, the missiles of Lafay ette will be able to travel 1,300 miles farther than the A-l carried by the five George Washington class boats and 1,000 miles farther than the A-2 carried by the five Ethan Allen class ships, all of which now arc operational. Ready for Action By July. 1964, Lafayette and eight others of her long range sister ships, are expect ed to be on station, fully arm ed and ready for immediate action. The United States then would have 19 deployablc Po laris submarines, or a total of 204 missiles, guarding the Atlantic, Pacific and the Med iterranean. The combined destructive power of this formidable fleet would be 19 times greater than all of the bombs drop ped by all combatants during tor fire control oulnmant and advanced inertial navigation , Lafayette operation include new launcher system, bet Family Council Editors Nce: The Family Coiin ell crnatktK of a Judge, rtSTthla- rist, three clergymen, newspaper dttor a ffntnerfj editor, and two writers Eaf article Is a timmary f an actual case history Tltu Council reports on prohlernt that ksve been dealt with by respon sible afet.eles and counselors. iLopyrteht 1961 General Features Corp Mr. G. L. - It's mv desire to be cremated when I die. Mrs. G.L.I won't hear of such a thing. It's brutal. Mr. G. L. - All the way back from a funeral in Chi cago I've been thinking of how ghoulish those things are. I hale to think of being fan cied up and stared at that way when I die. I ve asked my wife to promise me cremation. What's left is just remains and they can be disposed of neatly that way. But she's hor rified and says she'll order the same "works" for me as those in Chicago. Mra. G. L. - Since my hus band raises this dreaded sub jeet, I must remind him that our bodies are not our own. They belong to God. If I sur vive him I'll certainly want to give him the dignified, beautiful farewell that our religion offers. I'd want to gaze at him as long as possi ble, even though I'd know it's the final view. I'll never agree that the body is only a worth less shell. It's sacred. The Council: This morbid topic comes up in ordinary conversation rather frequent ly. Hence we offer a bit of light on what's possible. Trag edies where the bodies arc lost avoid this problem com pletely. While Mrs. L.'s posi tion is that of the religionists, she is wrong legally. Our bodies are own own. Witness the willing of eyes, kidneys, bones, etc., to hospital banks. But . . . and here's the answer for Mr. L., when one's nearest kin has a strong feeling about the body, one goes along, one doesn't insist. A man without close survivors can instruct his executors to see thai he is cremated. But a man with a loving family may express his preference, and leave the sad matter open. For Mrs. L , her religious and psychological needs will dictate the decision. End of subject, Mr. L.? the second world war To Be Checked Out When the Navy signs a re ceipt for the Lafayette, the biggest nuclear submarine ever built (425 feet long, with a displacement of 7,000 tons) will be ready for test-firing of her missiles at Cape Canav eral. Fla. When this check out is completed, Lafayette will be ready for business. And as quickly as the other 30 of these super-subs are com pleted, they will follow the same routine and they will incor porate improvements developed as result of exper iences with the earlier ships. Currently, eight other La fayette class subs are being fitted out for sea trials and acceptance tests. And another, the Daniel Webster, will be launched here at Ihe electric boat yards April 27. She will be chris tened by Mrs. W. Osborn Goodrich Jr. of Farmington, Conn., a great-great grand daughter of Webster. Two To Be Launched This summer two Polaris subs will be launched simul taneously at the Groton ship yards, for the first nuclear double launching in history. All Polaris subs now being built arc of the Lafayette mod el, each with the 2,500 nauti cal mile missile range. While Polaris submarines of the three classes each have 6 missile tubes of the same diameter, the missiles them selves vary in length. The La fayette's A-3 is about three feet longer than those being carried by the 1,200 mile A-l Washington subs, and slightly more than two feet longer than those carried by the 1, 500 mile A-2 Allen subs. Provides More Space The Int-reneed Ipnrjth of 1hr Lafayette missiles provides morn space lor me sonci iiici propcllant. Still mote space IN nrnvlrirH hv ripvplrmmpnt of a smaller inertial missile guidance system which adds range and accuracy to the A-3 missile. Other improvements in the systems. Also aboard the ship will be two computers which will help guide the missiles to their pre-detcrmined destina tions with pin-point accura cy. Capable of handling more than 2,000 computations per second, the complex system is known as navigation data as simulation computer, with double the memory capacity of earlier models. It will proc ess and evaluate navigational data eight times faster than any previous method. The memory section will be able to store 600,000 bits of in formation which can be call ed upon with split-second no tice. Another device which La fayette will carry is a new star tracking periscope, with an improved optical system to provide greater precision in sighting on stars. Launch from See All Polaris submarines arc designed to launch their mis siles from beneath the sea. They are mobile launching platforms, always on the move, and all but impossible to track down. Their 16 mis siles can be trained on as many targets. Because of their capabili ty to launch from concealed positions - employing hit-run tactics - the Polaris subs have been repeatedly called "our greatest deterrent to war." La fayette was christened May 8, 1962 by Mrs. Jaqueline Ken nedy. When the submarine joins the fleet she will have co skippers, like all other Po laris ships, and also two al ternating crews of about 100 men each. Commanding the) Gold crew will be Cmdr. Lane do W. 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