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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. The additions are
barely noticeable.
In all, the leak repairs cost
$240,000. The government
agreed to pay the bill.
No pews will be installed
in the Protestant chapel until
the repairs are finished, but
the building is considered per-
The lower level has not
been affected by the leaks.
The architect and engineer
ing firm of Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill has taken all the
criticism and praise-there has
been a lot ot both-for the
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high spires suggest giant
wings, symbolic of the Air
Force, and the hangar-like
quality of the Protestant
chapel seems appropriate, too.
The critics were unmerci
ful, charging not only that the
house of God, but also that
its jagged structure seemed
to clash with the rolling
mountains behind.
The architects called it "a
chapel of the future for an Air
Force of the future.'
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ALUMINUM SPIRES-This new U.S. Air
Force Academy Chapel with Its 17 alumin
um spires could not be used for commence
ment or weddings because of leaky roof.
The spires loom above the glass and con
crete foundations, (UPI)
Key to Linguistics
Found in Oregon
Castro's Offer for
ReJafions Turned Down
to
By JAMES J. 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.
He says there is evidence
that these language stocks
would be the same as some
spoken In Asia, since it is
current anthropological dog
ma' that this country was
inhabited by tribes which ml
grated across the Bering Sea
from Asia, He says even the
cultures are the same in many
instances.
But the political situation
In Asia prohibits studies be
ing made there. What is to
be learned must be learned
here, and in a short time,
Washington - (UPD - An of
fer by Cuban Premier Fidel
Castro to "normalize" rela
tion with the United States
on his own terms got a cold
reception Wednesday at the
State Department.
Castro said diplomatic re
lations could be resumed It
the United States would end
Its demands that Cuba brenk
Us ties with communism.
Communism in this hem
isphere is not negotiable.
said Lincoln White, State De
partment press officer in
commenting on the Castro
broadcast.
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