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f PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, Dee. 21, 1959 "DENNIS THE MENACE" "loo, j KNoWttwfcR mm a fur coat kxz cmstws. 6UT WE'RE -IRNQ TO THM Of SOWmiHG $." Anti-Satellite Defense To Be Reedy For 1965 By RAY CRO.MLEY N'EA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - By 1965, the Department of Defense expects to have a guided missile (hat will shoot down a satellite The object: to destroy enemy satellites and, eventually, enemy (pace platforms that spy from the sky. These missiles also will be designed to blast enemy mis sile-launching satellites, triggered to fire on the U.S. in time of war. Details of the new missile sys tem haven't been worked out yet. It will be at least six months before Radio Corporation of Amer ica which has been given a $H00, 000 "detailed-study" contract comes up with the preliminary con cepts. Research for the past six months on the project has been aimed at proving it's a practical idea. The Ideas that have been worked out so far are secret for the most part. This much is known: The missile will be designed to "observe" the enemy satellite, "see" what it's doing by radar, Infra-red, or some other as-yct- unknown device. It will send that Information to the earth. It will have some sort of "homing" do Vice maybe infra red to help guide it to the enemy satellite. But a major share of its guidance will be from the earth. There's one big bonus inherent In the new system. Though de signed to hit satellites, this sys tem is likely, defense men think, to replace Nike-Zeus. And, further more, it's likely to replace the Nike anti-missile even before that multi-billion dollar network is fully Installed and operating. 4--M-IH Tat bold, bittfr-wt lovt affair ol F. Scott ribitrald and bis BtloTtd Infidel. Sbcilib Gnbim! Some Pentagon planners think the new missile may be the fore runner of a new series of guided missiles that could begin to replace ballistic missiles in the late 1960's Despite the increase in funds being asked of Congress for the Nike-Zeus system of defense against Soviet ballistic missiles, the Department of Defense is go ing ahead on the assumption that hy the time the Nike-Zeus system is fully operational sometime in the middle 1960's it already will be largely ineffectual against the advanced missiles the Russians will have by then. The thinking in the Pentagon is that by the mid ineo's, Soviet mis siles are likely to be of a type that change their course. They'll citl.er be some Sort of zig-zag missile, or a type that gradually veers from a predictable ballistic course. And, worse yet, the Red missiles by then are likely to come in from such a high altitude that Nike-Zeus will be impractical as a defense. By the end of the 1960's, these Pentagon military scientists ex pect, both the Russians and the U.S. will be able to launch mis silcs with hydrogen warheads from some sort of space platform. The virtues of the new missile system will be these: It will be able to seek out and destroy enemy ballistic missiles that zig and zag or otherwise change their course. It will be able to catch and blast enemy ballistic missiles fired from Russian space platforms hundreds of miles up in the sky and catch them high enough to protect the U.S. from high-in-the- sky atomic blasts. This anti-satellite missile will not be cheap. An operational sys tem would cost in the billions. Probably a lot of billions. But De fense Department men hope to make some savings by incorporat ing in the system as much as pos sible from present-day missiles, guidance systems, defense radar and communications. They're working, in tact, on see ing how much they'll be able to salvage from the Nike-Zeus sys tem to use in this project, if and when Nike-Zeus is installed and this new system is ready to go, So it's not likely that all the Nike-Zeus construction funds will go down the drain. 09 t COLOR kv DK l.l'XF. 0? Ft STUUOPtlONIC SOUND :45 Firm Planning Market Idea PORTLAND (AP) Motorists will be able to reach out, select groceries and other merchandise from revolving shelves, and com plete their marketing without ge'ting from behind the wheel That at lenst is the plan of a group of businessmen here. A new firm headed hy l,eo C. Rush said it planned the drive-in shopping center here. D It's a real big treat for I everybody in every family! WIIHAM A WELLMAN'S D.ara Oft" :41 P.M. NOW PLAYING! Ftoturo Ttmti "Laufhino Dot" 7:00 oimI 10 1$ "Circvt Girl" at :4J ONLY P L a m- ,. w Industry Asks Speedup In A-Power Development By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON W Calls for a speed-up in the American program for developing cheap electric power from the atom have come recently from private indus. try and tho government's Atomic Energy Commission. For the past 10 years, the indus try and the AKC have been part ners in the effort to harness the atom. The government has spent more than 750 million dollars on the program, while private industry nas invested aoom 5U0 minion Dr. Chauncy Starr, vice presi dent of North American Aviation, Inc., and a key atomic industrial ist, said in the presence of many of his colleagues and government atomic officials that the once-ac tive push to develop economic nu clear electric power has slowed. He blamed both the government and some sections of industry, but especially the government. In fact, said Starr, it's becoming so difficult to remain optimistic about the future prospects under present conditions that many com panies are turning to other fields of endeavor. FOR ONE THING, said Starr, the government has given "shoe string" financial support to com mercial atomic power develop mentcompared with what it has given to reactors for military use. At the same meeting where Dr. Starr spoke the annual convention of the Atomic Industrial Forum the AlX's chief, John A. McCone, also indicated there was a need for stepping up the pace of the program. McCone offered no criticisms of anyone's efforts, but spoke of Rus sia's "facility to direct and con centrate effort." 'If we are to continue our lead ership in the atomic field and, in deed, if we are to match the So viets in other scientific areas," he said, "we must find ways to match their facility to concentrate upon and advance the important under takings even at the expense of projects of lesser importance." One w a y of doing this, he said, "is to develop types of coopera tion" between the AEC and the atomic industry "that will increase the effectiveness of our dedication to a common purpose" achieve ment of economic nuclear power at the earliest possible date. Mc Cone said industry and the AEC must now place greatest emphasis on reactor concepts that offer the highest promise Of early progress and drop or hold in a research status those that don't offer equal promise. MEANWHILE, what is the status of the American effort in the nu clear power field? - The United States now has near ly .30 civilian nuclear power proj ects either in existence, under con struction or planned in various sections of the country. Their locations, types, present status and electrical capabilities in terms of electrical kilowats (ekw) are shown on the accompanying map. In addition, two American-made stationary power plants are being built abroad one at Mol, Belgium, and scheduled to go into operation early next year; the other at Kahl- am Main, Germany, also sched uled for operation in 1960. Also, three other American reac tors are presently in the planning stage for operation at Santa Lucia. Cuba, and Milan and Naples, Italy. All reactors for foreign export have been or are being purchased from American industries by the countries involved. ui tne reactors located m tnis country, oniy mrce are actually feeding atomic electric power into commercial- grids at present, and of the three, only one the reactor located at Shippingport, Pa. is do ing so on a large-scale basis, The Shippingport device has an electrical capacity of 60,000 kilo wats. It feeds power into the Du. quesne Light Co. system. mese three reactors still are considered experimental, despite their practical use, and none is producing power at a cost competi tive with power from conventional fuel sources. THERE ARE other electricity- producing reactors but their pur pose is even more clearly experi mental. One at Lemont, III., pro duces power solely for the Ar- gonne National Laboratory. There are two research reactors at the AEC's Idaho Falls research and testing plant and one at' Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Dresden Nuclear Power Sta tion at Morris, III., 50 miles south west of Chicago, achieved "initial criticality" that is, achieved a nuclear chain reaction for the first time in mid-October. This plant is scheduled to begin, producing electric power in appreciable quan tities early next year, and is slated to go into full operation by mid-1960. Officials of the General Electric Company, which built this plant for the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the co-sponsoring Nuclear Power Group, Inc., told reporters recently they expected the plant would be producing atomic power at a cost competitive with power produced by conventional fuels in its geographic area by 1966. There are eight different types or concepts of power reactors which the United States rates as having technical possibility for power generation and either has in operation or at some stage of experimentation. They differ main ly in the type of "moderator" em ployeda moderator being a ma terial that is designed to keep a chain reaction going in the urani um or. plutonium fuel used in all reactors. Recently, a top AEC reactor of ficial said that with sufficient re search and development support from the federal government and private industry, the first six of these could be made competitive with conventional power in high cost fuel areas in five to eight years. This official Dr. Frank Pitt- man, director of the AEC's divi sion of reactor development said new studies indicated the pres surized w a te r reactor system napes up as the best bet for reaching the goal at the earliest time. Several others are rated not ar behind. The United States is the most technologically advanced at pres ent on pressurized water type. This is the kind used in the Shipping port system. It's also the type used in all but one of the atomic sub marines that have been built or are planned. 2-2I i n a. rwL on 1W t7 MCA hnte tafc "I think he ought to go into banking. He'd never catch the 7:28!" Butler Battles Bluebloods, Sacked For Social Sipping LUTON IIOO, England (UPI) Had the butler been at the bottle when he served the Queen? "Yes," says his former boss, Lady Anastasia (Zia) Wernher. That's why I sacked him." "No," says the tall and stately William O'Rourke, 37, a man of impeccable bearing and dignity who has been serving bluebloods in the Luton Iioo mansion of Sir Harold and Lady Wernher (Elec-t.-olux, Ericsson Telephones, etc. etc.) for ten years. O'Rourke's downfall started a month ago when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were guests of the Wernhers. O'Rourke told of it as he sipped beer morosely with reporters in a nearby pub. Naturally when there is a shooting party the servants have a drop," he said. "It is the custom. I had a few when the Queen was here. But tight? No! Townsend Takes Belgian Bride BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -Princess Margaret's onetime suit or. Peter Townsend, was married in Brussels today to Marie-Luce Jamagne, 20, daughter of an An twerp tobacco tycoon, a friend of Townsend reported. The friend said the ceremony was performed at noon. The engagement of Townsend 44, and Marie-Luce, his secretary, was announced by tier mother Oct. 9. Townsend's romance with Prin cess Margaret broke up four years ago. He had been divorced. The Church of England forbids mar riage of a divorced person. so long as the other party to the divorce is living. The former Mrs. Town- send is living and Princess Mar garet bowed to the rule. , "Could I have served the Queen and Prince with wines nnH mnalc faultlessly if I had been tieht?" he asked. O'Rourke paused and sinned again at his beer. "I didn't soill a dron or knnek over a glass," he said. "I was perfect." Maybe he was but the clincher came last week when the Duke and Duchess of Glnueeuler ui p r guests in the home of the Wern hers. "I had a brief snort." O'Rourke admitted. "Her ladvshin displeased with me. She seldom annus and can always smell it when a chap has one." She apparently smelled it and O Rouke's career as a butler came to an end. O'Rourke. who admitted a lik ing for beer, wine, champagne ana wniskey, concluded sadly: "I want a job like an ordinary fellow. I've had enough waiting on the famous and wealthy." Court Records K I , A M A T n COVNTY 01STRHT COl'RT Evelyn Lucille Bowen, violation bi lc rule. 7.M. Evelyn Lucille Bowrri, (ail drive right half highway. $7 SO, Jmc Bay Pynet, violation baic rule, 15 forfeited. Dennla Allen N'euberl, violation baMc rule. 11330 Melvln Ollle Brook , fall ttop at top itn. M forfeited. Raymond W. Hicki, combination overload. $M forfeited. Fred Phelpi Jr., overheight, 13 for feited. Kvelyn Lucille Bowen. driving ve hicle while right to apply for opera tori llreme ii nunpended; enter plea of not gvitliy; trial without Jury aet Derrmher 3.1 at 10 a m : bond aet at HXt; remanded to sheriff. Howard John Rusiell Jr., violation bamc rule. $7 .W Sara Anne Willlamt, violation basic rule. 110. William Henry Yount Jr., intoxicat ed public highway. $.13 or aix dayi in lieu of fine: commuted. 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