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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1959)
nmuv. JUNT 5. iWa, HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON' PACK Part In Cold War Drama Played By Klamath Basin By TOM ST1MMEL An essential part of the cold mar is played right here in Klam ath Falls. It isn't an abstract, theoretical part either; it's the business part as businesslike as 28 rockets fired at an enemy bomber Irom the belly of a supersonic jet plane We do the whole thing here. We can spot an unknown aircraft miles at sea. compute its position with in 200 feet, and send our own men scrambling alter it four or five minutes after it first was spot ted. - By "our," I mean the Air Force men who have come to Klamath Falls: For these are the functions of Kingsley Field and its potent little electronic satellite, the Keno radar station. Just what these Air Force in stallations do. and just how adept they are at doing it, was demon strated to the chamber of com merce board of directors Tuesday. It was the first of what is to become a series of tours for the public. The Air Defense Command, of which our installations are a part, has four specific functions. Col. Jack W illiams, Kingsley Field base commander, said these were de tection, identification, interception and destruction. We can do all these things from here. First stop on the chamber tour was the radar station on Haymak er Mountain above far above Keno. The ride aloft in a GI bus grinding up an $825,000 highway to the sky, seemed remote indeed from the troubled world we ap peared to be leaving. Even on that hazy afternoon, Mt. Shasta and Mt. McLoughlin never shot out more dramatically. Charley Bane of Bend-Portland Truck Service eagerly pointed out the path taken when one of his trucks, assisted by two D-8 Cats, hauled the first load of steel up the mountain. Charley must have hauled a lot of steel. The Keno radar station i not one building manned by one or two men. It is a complex little city with facilities for dozens of " men. It has three radar domes, a vast operations building, power plant, barracks and chow hall. Maj. James Thompson, com mander of the 827th Aircraft Con trol and Warning Squadron, took ' us into one radar dome. The dome, a fiber weather cov ering for the giant radar scanner ' inside, is kept m place by air pres sure. The pressure is that of sea level. To enter it Irom an alti- ' tude of more than a mile, we first stepped into something of a pres sure chamber Then we could climb up and stare into the scan- ; ner'that looked like a giant tele scope. I Beneath the domes two of the three; scan the horizon and one scans vertical distances are bat tery after battery of electronic equipment. Here are genuine elec tronic brains, some of them un der constant temperatures main tained by air conditioning. What it all means is evident In the operations room, something like a theater with a radar scope at every seat. The "screen" is a huge transparent plotting board where positions of unknown air craft are marked from behind by men who have learned to write ' backwards. Signals from the radar domes ' reach far out to sea, overlapping with those from the Yreka substa tion and stations at Red Bluff. Coos Bay and other Pacific Coast points. They pick up anything metal that flies. The electronic computers gulp down these facts, compensate for distance, altitude and even weather, and feed the data into tireless scopes in the operations room. Here men plot locations and check them against flight plans and other information. If the object is unknown, the ' alarm goes out immediately. Peering into radar scopes is te dious work. 'Men work at them 45 minutes, then take a 15-minute break. Their efficiency drops after 45 minutes and studies have shown that after two hours of constant scanning, a human being is worth less. There might lust as well be no scanner in front" of the scope at all. An alarm from the radar oper ations room here goes to "Jona than." the airman on duty in the Kingsley Field operations room. He sounds the scramble horn and pilots dash out of the ready room toward planes virtually ready to take off. Their dash to the planes is a race with the ground crew, It should take less than five minutes from the first blast of the raucous, incessant scramble horn until interceptors are in the air. The 322nd Fighter - Interceptor ,-quadron, , the business end of Ivingsley command, usually does it in three-and-a-half to four minutes, and for that habit has won the nickname "Perfection" squadron. There was a scramble while we were on the base and we were surprised to see how something wnn sucn urgency could be done with such efficiency. Lt. Bill Gregory showed us the ready room, the briefing room, pilots equipment including para chutes that open automatically at 14,000 feet, and a film describing Aid uelense Command operations The film was taken at Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francis co but the procedure and the pre cision are the same here. Lieutenant Gregory also showed us a film of his radar screen during a scramble. The technique is to fly the dot by radar. All interceptor flying is by radar, in tact, trom the time a pilot leaves the ground until he meets his tar get and then is "recov ered" by the radar scanners at Keno who sent him out in the first place. It s a little disillusioning to rea lize that a supersonic - jet pilot makes his entire flight with his nose stuck in a radar hood (he looks at nothing elsei. The gay days of World War I and even World War II are over. But ra dar doesn't make mistakes, and flight at maybe 600 miles an hour to meet an enemy approaching at 500 miles an hour leaves no room for mistakes. , The scramble was made in the good "old" F-86 jets, but we got a close look at the new F-101 on base. Most of the questions about it were answered "Classified." but we did learn that it weighs something like 25 tons and has two seats instead of one. The second seat is for a radar observer, who follows instructions from Keno. or wherever, and directs the pilot un til the plane radar takes overj about 30 miles from the target. Eventually the squadron will convert fully to F-lOls. That first plane was scheduled for its first trip aloft Wednesday. And there will be many more. The F-101 requires afterburners, in this altitude and that means even more noise than we've heard so far. The noise should be a con fident, and vigorous reminder that the men at desks in a darkened room at Keno and the men racing out of the ready room at King-1 sley Field are "Ever Alert." That's the motto of the 322nd "Perfec-, tion" Squadron. I i . I ' s - .' 4 " fc' . 4 t :I - r. : .. I.-. r.i. i .. f T ' 0 THIS IS on of three radar domes atop Haymaker Mountain above Keno housing giant teletcopc-likt radar scanners that reach far out to sea. The entire dome above the walkway is supported only by air pressure. Freak Accident Injures KF Man A spinning piece of heavy wire. Keller, an employe of Don's ahnnt half m thri-e nuarters ntiMens store is marriea ana tne n inrh W thrown from rntarv (cther o two-week-old jnfant. lawn mower he was operating, pierced the right side of Roger Keller, 20. tearing a gaping hole in his right side beneath the rib cage. The metal continued to a spot near the liver, and surgery was necessary at Klamath Valley Hos pital to remove the metal and close the wound. The accident hap pened late Tuesday near his trailer home. Star's Home Said Castle WILTON'. Conn. AP Acloi Raymond Massey's home is hi castle, the town prosecutor rulei Thursday. Because of that ancient princi pie of English Common Law. Prosecutor Julian Gregory dtciil ed that Massey didn t coinnu breach of the peace when he elected his gardener from his- home here May 11. The gardener. 50-year-old Mi chael Hoshko. said he quit his job and went into the Massey home to collect his pay. Then. Hoshko told police, Mas sey called him a name, threatened to kill him and rougnea rum up. Hoshko filed a complaint against the 63-year-old actor. Massev's wife. Dorothy, gave a ditterent story. She said Hoshko created a disturbance in the home and Massev asked him to leave. He refused and made a threaten-; ins gesture, she said. Then, said Mrs. Massey. her husband pushed Hoshko out the door. f OPEN TONIGHT TIL 9 P.M. LOW RATES on Moving & Storage' Get Our Low, Low Estimates Before You Act! 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