Air Force
Hails Shots
Of Missile
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. (LPI) - The Air
force hailed the ability of the
Minuteman Missile Saturday to
provide the United States with an
immediate retaliatory force
against a nuclear attack.
For the second day in a row
Friday, the Air Force successfully
launched the Minuteman Missile,
America s "instant ICB.M," under
fully operational conditions.
Both missiles were fired under
simulated war conditions by a
Strategic Air Command crew and
employed full weaponry, includ
ing mock nuclear warheads. Air
Force Systems Command and pri
vate contractor personnel super
vised the crew.
The solid-fuel Minuteman, which
can be fired within minutes after
an enemy attack, blasted out of
ils 85-foot-deep underground silo
and shot in a ballistic arc for its
destinauon 5,000 miles away in
Pacific.
The three-stage, 63-foot missile
which has a potential range of
6,300 miles, streaked downrange
over the Pacific at a flashing
16,000 miles an hour.
Although the Minuteman was
declared operational last Dec. 11
after it underwent successful test
ing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the
last two shots marked the first
war-like launchings.
The back-to-back successes ol
(he "instant ICBM" last week dis
pelled concern expressed earlier
this year over failures of Minute
man both at Cape Canaveral and
here to either hit targets or fire
successfully.
Two previous launches from the
Pacific missile range Sept. 28
and Dec. 10 veered off course
immediately after blastoff and
had to be destroyed by remote
control.
The first operational Minuteman
site has been activated at Malm
strom Air Force Base near Great
Falls, Mont., with other opera
tional bases under construction in
North and South Dakota, Missouri
and Wyoming.
The Air Force is scheduled to
install nearly 1,000 Minuteman
missiles in silos throughout the
United States during the next
three years.
j HERALD AND .VEHS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Monday, April IS, 1963
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awards in the first library buildings awards program sponsored jointly by the Am
erican Institute of Architects, The American Library Association and the National
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design being used more and more in college construction. UPI Telephoto
SPECULATION
Can Life Move From Planet
To Planet Via Meteorites?
I.OS ANGELES IUPU - Scicn-1
lists have discovered .biological
forms in meteorites which they
believe might once have been liv
ing matter that originated some
where in the solar system other
than on earth, it was reported
Saturday.
In a cautiously worded report,
the team of scientists left the door
open to speculation on the move
ment of primitive living matter
from one planet to another within
the solar system.
The disclosure was made in a
paper delivered by a group of sci
entists headed by Dr. Harold C.
Urey, Nobel prize winning chem
ist who played an important rolej
in development of the - atomic
bomb during World War II.
The paper said electron micro
scope of particles of a meteorite
revealed organized structures
which "suggests, but does not
prove, biological origin."
Urey, now on the staff of the
University of California at San
Diego, headed a team consisting
of Bartholomew Nagy, Kurt Fred-
riksson, George Claus, Christian
A. Anderson and Joan Percy. Urev
said he did not participate in the
actual microscopic studies but
helped evaluate the data compiled
Urey stressed caution in cvalu-
Sabotage Seen Possible
In Nuclear Sub Sinking
Visa Given
To Cardinal
BUDAPEST (UPD - Hungarian
officials confirmed unofficially
Saturday that Viennese Arch
bishop Franz Cardinal Koenig has
been granted a Hungarian entry
visa for his long-scheduled meet
ing with Joszef Cardinal Minds
zenty. Reports in Vienna Friday night
said Hungary had granted a visa.
A spokesman for the Hungarian
foreign ministry confirmed this
but said he could make no offi
cial statement since Koenig is
coming to Hungary at invitation
of Bishop Endre Hamvas and not
the Hungarian government.
Informed sources expect the
Australian archbishop to leave for
Budapest Monday morning.
Koenig indicated last month he
will include a meeting with
Mindszenty during his Hungarian
itinerary. Koenig will be Minds-
zenty's first outside visitor with
the exception of his mother since
the Hungarian primate entered
the U. S. legalion Nov. A, 1956
After the revolt, the Americans
cave him sanctuary. Mindszcnty's
mother visited him before she
died three years ago.
After an audience with Pope
John XXIII in Rome last month
Cardinal Koenig said he planned
to talk to Mindszenty. He denied,
however, that he had been offi
cially entrusted by the Pope to
persuade Mindszenty to leave
the country.
U.S. Drafts
Ban Treaty
WASHINGTON (UPD -The
United States has completed a
draft of a nuclear test ban treaty
proposal embodying its new posi
tions. But officials said no deci
sion has been made on when to
formally present the document to
the Geneva disarmament confer
ence. The Kennedy administration
has been under attack by some
congressmen for alleged conces
sions to the Soviet Union in
modifying earlier demands of
treaty safeguards.
Chances in the U. S. position
have failed to produce any sig
nificant evidence that the Rus.
sians are ready to accept a
Irralv orovidino adequate inspec
tion and control as seen from the
Western viewpoint.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) -The
Long Beach Independent,
Press - Telegram Saturday pub
lished an article quoting the na
tion's top submarine admiral in
World War II as saying he be
lieved there was a strong possi
bility the sunken nuclear subma
rine Thresher was sabotaged.
The newspaper said ithat' Vice
Aflm. cnaries A. LocKwooa, ret
indicated that the Thresher could
have been tempered with in such
a way that the surface ship with
which he was in contact could
not have heard an explosion.
"I figured it was a manhole or
sea valve in the attack center, the
heart of the ship, that carried
away," Lockwood said. "This
forced the crew out of the control
room, the attack center, and
therefore forced them away from
control of the ship."
ating the preliminary data, and
emphasized more work was need
ed to determine the significance
of the undertaking. He said as a
scientist, he remained skeptical,
but felt the subject worth full in
vestigation.
If lis true, its very wonder
ful." he said.
The report itself said "prelimi.
nary work with the electron mic
roscope needs to be confirmed in
order to evaluate properly the pos
sible biological origin of some such
acid-resistant particles."
The note of caution accompanied
further elaboration by Urey that!
there was no general agreement
among scientists on the possibility
there were mierofossils m meteor-
itcs that would substantiate theo
ries that life forms exist in space
further substantiation would
open the way to studies of the
possibility of life being transmit
ted from one planet to another.
Such fossils could have been
caught in inner space, remnants
of living forms that died billions
oi years ago, one scientist theorized.
Urey himself said he was of the
opinion life of some kind did exist
on Mars, for example.
Yugoslavia produced 25,000 tons
of aluminum in 1960.
'McNamara
Wins Funds
At Session
WASHINGTON H.TH - De
fense Secretary Robert S. McNa
mara emerged Saturday as a big
winner in the Senate's extraord
inary secret session which pro
duced a decision not to speed de
ployment of the Nike-Ecus mis
sile killer.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D
Ga., who fashioned tlie clear-cut
victory, won new laurels too. His
very considerable prestige was
put to something of a challenge
by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D
S. C.
In the end, the Senate opened
its doors closed to the public for
the first time in 20 years and
voted with Russell to uphold Mc
Namara's judgment on a rather
touchy question. The vote came
at a time when McNamara's
judgment was being sharply
questioned by congressional crit
ics. With Russell's support the Sen
ate, in the same Thursday ses
sion, voted McNamara some $364
million in authorizations he does
not want to speed development of
the RS70 strike plane. That
underlined the long-held congres
sional view that McNamara was
moving too rapidly to phase
manned bombers out of the na
tion's striking force.
The Nike-Zeus decision was a
more recent one, however, and it
involved the matter of defending
If. S. cities against a possible
nuclear attack. The McNamara
Russell viewpoint was that tlie
Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile
should be developed into Die
more sophisticated Nike X, with
the new Sprint missile, before
Congress begins spending the $12
to $20 billion which will be re
quired to deploy the system
around U. S. targets.
Thurmond led forces who con
tended that the fJike-Zeus, suc
cessful in several intercepts of
U. S. intercontinental ballistic
missiles, should be deployed as
soon as possible and converted to
the Nike X after it is developed
The additional cost $1.5 to $2.8
billion would be well spent, they
said.
Adding to the complexity of the
issue was the fact that the Joint
Chiefs of Staff were not unan-l
imously behind McNamara.
Chairman Maxwell D. Taylor, an
old Army man, and Gen. Earl
G. Wheeler, the Army's current
chief of staff, supported the
Army's Nike-Zeus. Gen. Curtis
E. Lemay, the' Air Force chief of
staff, was quoted as saying the
speeded program would not be
worth the effort.
T '.:
NEW YORK (UPD-The will of
Mrs. Charlene Wrightsman Cas-
sini left the bulk of a $100,000
residuary estate to her husband
Igor Cassini, tlie society columnist.
The 38-year - old Mrs. Cassini
died Tuesday in a hospital here
after taking a quantity of sleeping
pills. Pending laboratory tests,
authorities have not ruled whether
tlie death was accidental or suicide.
The will, executed about a
month before her death, was filed
for probate Friday. It waived any
powers of appointment she might
have, such as trust funds set up
by her wealthy family. It was
pointed out that those might have
been exercised on behalf of her
husband.
1
Yost
HOT AIR BALLOON Balloon carrying pilots Ed
and Don Piccard, both of Sioux Falls, S.D., swells on
take-off from Rye, England, Friday. Less than three
hours later, the pair landed near Calais, France, to claim
the first English Channel crossing by hot air balloon. The
men, both experts, used a two-man modified version of
a sports balloon. UPI Telephoto
Sub Disaster Families
Receive Compensation
WASHINGTON (UPD -The
Navy said today that the families
of the men who went down with
the submarine Thresher will re
ceive the following benefits:
Back pay and allowances to be
paid Sunday.
A lump sum payment of $800
to- $3,000, depending on service
pay.
The Veteran's Administration
pays non-taxable dependency and
indemnity compensation ranging
from $15 to $130 a month.
All military men are covered
by Social Security.
Eligible widows, children, and
dependent parents are provided
medical care, commissary and
other benefits.
War orphans' educational
sistance up to $110 a month
available to surviving children
Government and commercial
life insurance is payable
mediately.
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Husband Gets Bulk
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Cassini, who writes under the
name of Cholly Knickerbocker,
was named guardian of their son.
Charles Alexander Cassini, and of
Mrs. Cassini's son by an earlier
marriage, Dana. Tlie latter's fa
tlier is actor Helmut Dantine.
Cassini currently is under in
dictment for allegedly acting as
an unregistered agent for the late
Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic. Ho is scheduled to go
on trial in Washington May 13. ,
Private services for Mrs. Cas
sini are to be held here Monday. ,
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