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Mx.Pf OHO MAIL TKlBUHfc. MWIOMU, OHLQOH THURSDAY, JUNE t. 19(1 JJ J Cadeti Weddings Aoved cos Chape E?ooff Springs leak By EDWARD M. McMANUS , was approaching, and many of , emy to deliver the 1963 com-1 Colorado Rockies for the Air , area, and separate, lower level , termine just where the leaks fectly safe structurally. I chapel design. The 130-foot I building did not look like a Unittd Press International Air Force Academy, Colo -m - Maj. Gen. William S. Stone, superintendent of the U.S. Air Force academy, stood at his office window on a riamp day last spring watch ing the rain sprinkle on the 17 aluminum spires of the new academy chapel. Workmen had been putting the finishing touches on the structure, and it appeared fin ally ready to be opened after years of controversy over its revolutionary, multi - spired design. Commencement time the graduating cadets hoped to get married in the new chapel. Then Stone received the news: A few puddles of water had been discovered on the concrete upper floor, and the contractor was faced with the job of repairing a leaky roof. Stone is gone now, trans ferred to the Pentagon, and his successor, Maj. Gen. Rob ert H. Warren, has taken over the task of repairing the chapel. Kennedy visited the acad- mencement address, and plan ned to stop at the chapel for a first-hand look. The usual rash of graduat-ing-cadet weddings-there will be about 40-will have to be held at churches in nearby Colorado Springs. Completion of the chapel repairs will not be before mid summer. The leaks in the roof are the latest in a series of prob lems which have plagued the chapel since it was conceived back in 19S4, after a site was chosen in the shadow of the Force' first service school. The biggest roadblock was congressional approval, and the unusual design of Chicago architect Walter A. N e t s c h was fair game for the oratory of dozens of senators and rep resentatives. Senator Criticises The $3.5 million building has IT spires reaching up to the sky, which prompted one critic. Sen. A. Willis Robert son, D-Va., to describe it as "an assembly of wigwams." The chapel's main, upper level houses the Protestant chapels are provided for Cath olic and Jewish services. The spires were made of pre-fabricated steel tetrahe drons, which are elongated pyramid-like structures. It was the first time such a con struction technique had been used on a building this large. When the leaks were spot ted, contractor Robert E. Mc Kee of Santa Fe, N.M., began the tedious task of patching them. Fire hoses were trained on the spires, and workmen stood inside the chapel to de- were. Only a Jew spires showed cracks, but all of them were given corrective treatment. Steeplejacks covered the joints with aluminum strip ping, and placed storm win dows over the stained-glass windows. 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DOYLE United Press International Portland, Ore. - (UPD - The vanishing Indian languages ot Oregon may unlock some lin guistic mysteries tor anthro pologists, according to Dr. Joe Pierce of Portland State college. when the white man ar rived In the Oregon country about ISO years ago, Dr. Pierce said, there were pos slbly 52 separate languages being spoken here. Many have died, and a few are on the way out. Pierce, who Is going spend the summer trying to track down and record the dylnst tongues, says about 15 languages remain, ot which little Is known. They have never been written down or recorded. Oregon may have the key to "upset or confirm the Jin' gulstic theory," he said. This theory is part" ot a study to unravel the languages that de rived from the six basic lan guage stocks that were spok en on this continent Of those six stocks, four of them and possibly five were spoken In Oregon. And three of them were spoken by tribes living slde-by-slde for centuries in a coastal strip rca of Oregon no more than 200 miles long. A fourth dipped into Northern Cali fornia. As far as anthropologists have determined, this has never happened anywhere else In the world. In all of Europe there are only two language stocks. Another mystery Is how these tribes lived so closely without one dominating the others, which would have re sulted in a single tongue for all. Would Not Cross Pierce thinks the tribes ot that time, before the arrival of the white man, would not cross mountains. So even if they were aware of another tribe's existence, there was no interchange. The hard part of tracking down these languages 1s to fli:d the "Informant" or In dian who does speak a cer tain language and will co operate. One of the problems is an understanding of the langu age. Informants have told Dr Pierce they spoke a certain language and after lengthy study it was found they spoke an entirely different tongue He says Informants - when they are found - are usually the remnants of tribal lead ers who shunned the white man. His method, once he has made contact, is to have the Informant tell a folk tale or legend In his native tongue which Is tape recorded. Then he goes back over to get the English equivalent. Hopes To Use Computer He hopes to use a com puter to sort the words, elim inate duplications and similar sounds and sounds having dif ferent meanings. But com puters have to be programmed and this means a lot of manu al work. He has not used com puters before but has made a study of systems for record ing languages electronically. Dr. Pierce says there is lit tle hope that his task will be completed In Its entirety. There Just isn't time. He says It would take between 10 and 20 years to record and learn the existing Indian languages in Oregon. 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