I
:l!
2 g THURSDAY. JUNE 27, 1963 MiWOhD WML TfilftUME. MfcDrOHD, OhLOOM - - - - - ------
ifiock jHlillls Cove posed cas SAC Commoinidl location
B RAY 8ERATI
United Frm International
Prinsle, S. D. - (WD - South
Dakota's ancient Black Hills
have known many strangers
Gen. George Custer, Wild
Bill Hickok, the Gold Rushers
of Deadwood.
The latest) strangers in
in America's oldest mountains
are crisp experts from the de
tense department and Air
Force. They are looking for
caves. One of the caves could
become a new home for the
heart of the nation I air pow
er, the Strategic Air Com
mand (SAC).
The newcomers have be
come spclunkers and have
crawled into darkened, Rocky
caverns with an eye for po
tentialities for a vast, under
ground military headquarters.
One of the caverns and per
haps the most likely is
Wind Cave, chief natural won
der of the Black Hills.
The present SAC command
post is underground at Oma-
ha, Nebr. Recently, Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara
said he felt the post was too
vulnerable to attack. He said
he would like to move part
of SAC's deadly eggs to an
other basket.
AIUrnatM listad
At that time McNamara
listed what he considered to
be three acceptable alternates.
They were to bury the Omaha
headquarters deeper with a
harder core on top; find a
mountain in Colorado and put
T
r
LOOK OVER FORMATION Two tourists
look over the rock formations in one of the
rooms In Wind Cave in the Black Mills of
South Dakota near Pringle, S.D. The cave
is being considered as a possible alternate
site for Strategic Air Command headquart
ers. (UPI)
the alternate SAC command
inside; or put in Wind Cave
National park in the Black
Hills.
McNamara implied Wind
Cave, with its miles of sub
terranean passages, was the
most likely choice.
That touched off one of the
Black Hills greatest outcries
against the military since
Custer's last stand. Spclunk
ers, park lovers, naturalists
and Black Hills residents join
ed forces in the attack on
the Pentagon.
Defense department spokes
men were quick to say there
might be other likely caves
In the hills. They mentioned
abandoned gold mines or
parts of the still operating
and long famous Homestake
mine, the leading gold pro
ducer In the Western hemisphere.
South Dakota state officials
believe the Black Hills had
the inside track as the alter
nate headquarters site. Their
reasons were the big Ells
worth Air Base, a SAC base,
nearby and a vast dispersal
of missiles immediately out
side the Black Hills.
Preliminary surveys of the
caves have been completed
and they are now in a "lim
bo" while the initial surveys
are digested, according to Air
Force officials.
Defense department men
have said that because of the
Black Hills' rugged and moun
tainous topography anyone
shooting at a target would
have to make a direct hit. A
near miss would leave a tar
get unscathed.
The Black Hills nave a
dome - shaped up - thrust and
ONLY
2
DAYS
LEFT!
STORE
empster's
-WODI
Hurry! -
QUANTITIES LIMITED!
VPJ
X. -X
BIG VALUES!
We MUST Reduce Our Stock DRASTICALLY Before
July 1st Inventory . . . Prices are SLASHED!
Many Important Savings on Decorator
Styled Home Furnishings Left
In Every Department-Buy Now!
ALL SALES
FINAL!
NO EXCHANGES
OR REFUNDS!
ASK Your FRIENDS and NEIGHBORS
. They'll Tell You A Dempster
SALE IS A REAL SALE !
323 Harnett
Road
Phone
7734CC0
NO DOWN PAYMENT
UP TO 24 MONTHS
BUDGET PAYMENTS!
grjj TOUR FAMILY FURNITURE STORE
"Shop at the Store
Where you Park at the Door"
they are the tallest mountains
between the Rockies and the
Alps. Geologists believe they
are the world's oldest moun
tains that the Himalayas
were still swamps when the
Black Hills were formed.
Granite found in the hills
is estimated at more than one
billion years old. Ancient sed
iments into which the Gran
ite intruded as molten rock
are even older.
The Geologists believe
Wind Cave, like many other
caves in the hills, was cre
ated in the Paha Sapa lime
stone formation as ground
waters containing carbonic
acid disolved limestone along
rock fractures. The rock frac
tures apparently were form
ed by the same forces that
lifted up the Black Hills.
In 1874, an expedition led
by Custer discovered gold in
the Black Hills.
Up to that time the hill had
been the "Paha Sapa," the
sacred land of the Sioux In
dians. Word of the discovery
spread. Hickok was 'shot to
death in the back at Dead
wood in 1876. In 1877, the
Homestake mine was started
at Deadwood Gulch and now
produces more than $20 mil
lion a year in gold.
Wind Cave was the first of
the large Black Hills' caves
to be found.
It was discovered in 1881
by Tom Bingham, a Black
Hills pioneer. While deer
hunting, he was attracted by
a strange whistling sound
coming from beneath a clump
of brush. Bingham found a
small opening in Jie rock
underneath the brush from
from which the wind was
blowing.
Geologists have found that
when the wind blows out of
the cave the barometer is fall
ing. When it blows in, the
barometer is rising. The tem
perature of the cave is an un
varying 47 degrees fahren
heit, winter and summer.
National Park
Wind Cave and the sur
rounding 44 square miles be
came the seventh National
park In 1903. It was the first
National park to include a
unique cavern.
Another cave which might
make an alternate SAC head
quarters is Jewel Cave, dis
covered in 1900. The cave,
which became a National
monument in 1934, takes its
name from the thick crystal
line calcite covering the
walls.
Last yer Herb Conn, Cus
Last year Herb Conn, Cus
Jewel Cave. He mapped 12
miles of passages, seven more
than Wind Cave.
Jess Lombard, superinten-1 Crystal Lave, wonderland
dent of Wind Cave, says Cave and Wildcat Cave.
Conn's explorations n a v e
opened the most beautiful
rooms "really dazzlers" i
of Jewel Cave.
There are many other caves
in the hills Rushmore Cave,!
Sitting Bull Cave, Stagebarn
Healthy
(SEPTIC
' J TANKS
0.S rruanrni
AND BRAINS
ruittlUt 1011(11
is fuioui smiiui
Um SEP-T0NIC Regularly!
(m ' ";tv: 49
i,... u.i i. '. . T " w
h.rnilllplu'"'.Coi
Mon.r bk ,UW0H..I Tiiatmwtl
At Your Oiwr or Hardware
GLASSES
ON CREDIT!
Crttn Stamps
COLUMBIAN
OPTICAL CO.
MEDFORD
SHOPPING CENTER
tp jp) "
1CA"T ,,1T I 12 CARAT OLOWIFIBO lOO OBStALDINt:'
WWlH I.I.IW.hl T.I.I W.i,k! ' 7r.VTTr ,.,,
8-DIAMONO 8-DIAMOND . 8-DIAMOND DIAMOND DIAMOND
KIOAL PAIR ' BRIDAL PAIR BRIDAL PAIR BRIDAL PAIR I BRIDAL PAIR
2YEARSSQOoo 2YEARS12500 I 2 YEARS 2YEARS000a 1 2 YEARS 67500
TO PAYOUU TO PAY I T0 pAYOU TO PAY TO PAY W
3 DAYS ONLY!
j 11 DIAMONDS I VL 7 if ) )) 1 I 7 DAZZLING
S"iM" StHir., I fll I II " SI ' y 111 DIAMONDS
1 5 ISMS? I 1 1 '"r?Jf I
This European Genuine I I , W
y China and Crystal Stemware I
pjjjgJ With Any Diamond Purchase of $99 or More! ; p
J 8 SPARKLING M
125 NO MONEY DOWN C I D,AM0NDS I
s RINGS a I g
9 W
-1
tKk 1. a, A a. r ar
g New stHinai with w uon t miss I his rabuious utter!
ft DIAMONDS 3
g I0TH
M RINGS
sr ciiorr nMS
NO MONEY DOWN
Up To 2 Years To Pay!
10 MAGNIFICENT I
NOT E)Hbenste!m BUT 6tnmt CHINA mi CRYSTAL STEMWARE !
VljLl Ca j
jMwmmm mm m. m w -- i Jiiw
LOW EASY TERMS
,iVM V -fI--N , -S BE
u . . . . 5 w -nMmrsTJM rj v . mMj mtk-w-m .. - . .. m
1 15022 I STt FTMSk 1 '"Sn.
p iewAsrr..M, U Ourltt V B RINGS 199 P
1 "set with I Fiery V' N
DIAMONDS I X teMMYL JnL Wd Jl i ' SCINTILLATING
1 .oih ocoo I N--, V jagS, rri 'MEES diamonds
I RINGS I tS5P5:?i,i- ' I 0IH n coo I
Jmnim an mi 1111 3 IASY IUDGET Tf RMS g
Free- Free- Free gig
fmn SHOP FRIDAY and MONDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. Rfel
Kjg" Free Parking mliZBM
t- . ll, : . - X
g LARGE SOLITAIRE I
i 2 DIAMOND IAND 3
I0TH
165
SHOP FRIDAY and MONDAY UNTIL 9 P.M.
Free Parking
oo
n RINGS
low ivaon niut
10 FLASHING
DIAMONDS
150
Medford Shopping Center Phone 773-5348
H I0TH
RINGS
II IU05IT THUS
00 I