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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'
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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.
"Recreation use of national for
ests throughout the nation has
quadrupled in the past 15 years
and is expected to be 9 times
greater by the year 2000," he said.
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