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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
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propcllant. Still mote space
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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. Zech of Astoria, Ore,
while Cmdr. Patrick J. Hanni
fin of Roswell, N.M., will
command the Blue crew.
Zech is a former command
ing officer of Nautilus, the
first atomic submarine. Han
nifin at one time was first ex
ecutive officer of the Georga
Washington, the first of th.
Polaris submarines.
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