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PAGE 12 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Orrgon Monday. March 13, Ml Old Camp Turned Into Space Base VANDENBERG AFB. Calif. (UPI This once unwanted piece of real estate on the shores of the Pacific has been transformed in the last two decades from 65, 000 acres of shifting sands and scrub oak into one of this coun try's most important space age bases. The transformation has been gradual. The area first came to the attention of the military short ly before World War II when anj armored training bai.e. Campl Cooke, was established there. It was closed in 1946, reactivated briefly during the Korean War. and then abandoned ngain in 195;. In December. 1936, two Air Force officers arrived at old Camp Cooke. It was one of 200 sites being investigated as a pos 'DENNIS THE MENACE' uu What are you gonna w m aw dap's quarter ? OCE President To Speak At Farm Bureau Meeting Dr. It. E. Lieuallen, president of Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, Ore., will be the ban quet speaker at the second annual education conference of the Ore- Charles Gossett Aboard Frigate Charles D. Gossctt, seaman ap prentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gossett of Star Route, Chiloquin. is serving aboard the guided missile frigate USS Malum on a five-week cruise in the Pad fic. . The Mahan departed San Diego, Calif., Feb. 16, and is scheduled to visit Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Acapulco, Mexico, before re turning March 21. The Mahan is the third .ship named in honor of Rear Adm. Alfred T. Mahan, whose writings, citing the importance of sea-power for nations, became world fa mous. The first Mahan, a destroy er, was decommissioned in 19.10, and the second was sunk in the Leyte Gulf, Dec. 7, 1944, gon Farm Bureau scheduled for Salem, Ore., March 16 and 17. Oregon College of Education has done a great deal of research in new systems in teaching such as machine teaching and closed cir cuit TV which lends itself to Dr. Liounllcn's topic, "The Next Dec ade in Education." The two day meeting Is expect ed to draw some 300 from 32 counties in Oregon to discuss three specific areas of education, School Finance, Fundamentals of Local Control and New Ideas in Education. Top speakers in the various fields will present a shortl factual talk on each topic to be considered and group discussions' will follow the speakers' presen tations. Dr. L. P. Minear, superinten dent of Public Instruction for Ore gon, will address the group at the beginning of the afternoon ses sion March 16 on the subject, "Improving Education in O r e gon." The session is scheduled to adjourn at 2 p.m. the afternoon of the 17th following a legislative report on school legislation being considered. sible nlaeo to establish the Ail- Force's first missile base. The abandoned camp was not ;m impressive site. Trees had grown over the roads, sand blew over the tops of fences, and the relentless wind and sun had drained the color from the few remaining buildings. Finds It Perfect But the Air Force decided old Camp Cooke was perfect for what it wanted a site for training missilemen along with maintain ing an operational missile force. That is the prime reason Van denberg has for being. But scien tists soon found it was perfect, too, for launching satellites into orbit over the poles. It is one of the few places really suited for that in this country. "You can shoot a rocket south from hero," one officer said, "and the first land mass it crosses is Antartica, 6,500 miles away." On a drizzly Dec. 16, 1958, the first successful missile was launched from Vandenberg. It was a Thor and it roared 2,500 miles out into the Pacific. Since then, some 50 other missiles have departed Vandenberg Thor in tcrmediate range missiles, Atlas 1CBMS, Discoverer and Midas satellite shots, The satellite launches 'the first was Discoverer 1 on Feb. 2. 1959) made Vandenberg, along with Cape Canaveral and Wallops Island, Va., synonymous with space research. Make First Recovery Particularly so on a sunny Au gust afternoon last year when a Discoverer, No. 13, sent back the first man-made object from orbit Three more recoveries followed quickly, planes catching them in night off Hawaii. Scientists hailed the recoveries as proving that plans for the Mer cury man-in-space program would work. They pointed out that the mechanism that fired the capsule out of orbit and down toward the Pacific was similar to the one planned for the Mercury astro naut capsule. Nineteen launch pads are scat tered around Vandenberg and its adjoining Navy counterpart. Point Arguello, Including four pads for the short-range Thor where Air Force crews still train British Royal Air Force missilemen to handle the IRBMs positioned throughout the British Isles. Other launching facilities are under construction, including silos from which to fire America's new est ICBM, the solid-fueled "more bang for the buck" Minutcman, which a few months ago complet ed its first full-scale test at Cape Canaveral. Silo Launching Near Within the next two or three months possibly, the first Titan ICBM will be fired from a silo launcher 160 feet below the sur face of a Vandenberg hillside. The Air Force has stationed about 7,000 officers and men here, and there is an equal number of civilian workers on the base build ing new facilities for new rockets. What do the natives in ink ol tnc nearby missile base? When they shoot one of the flO-lon missile into the sky now, the people pay little atteniion. They glance up for a minute, and then go back to raising cattle, drilling for oil, har vesting broccoli, or weeding the many commercial tlower sera fields around the base. Said one native recently who has lived all his life in this costal area hallway hetween Los An peles and San Francisco: I guess it s a good thing they made an air base there. Nobody else wanted it. Flood Of People On Forest Land PORTLAND (AP) - A flood hit federal forest lands' in Oregon and Washington last year a flood of people. Swarming over national parks and lorests in the two slates in I960 were about O'.i million sight seers, hunters, fishermen, skiers, campers, hikers and other per sons, the U.S. Forest Service said today. That was 16 per cent more than the previous year. Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone said creation of new facili tics has not kept pace with the deluge of visitors, and added that the pressure will be even greater in the future. 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