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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1963)
Space Men Learn How To Survive CAPE CANAVERAL (UPH -I Strange days on the doorsteps to space... John Glenn, America's first or biting astronaut, has learned how to use a native blowgun. He added this somewhat obscure talent to his versatile repertoire during a recent survival course in Panama. With nowhere to go in space (or another 15 months or so. Glenn and his IS fellow Mercury- Gemini astronauts have spent the past few weeks learning how to get along in earth's jungles and deserts just in case tliey should accidentally land there. If happiness is a 12-foot boa constrictor, then survival train ing can be fun. An instructor's favorite trick during dull periods of the astro nauts' sojourns into the wilds is to stuff tlie snake into a candi date's overnight pack. The boa constrictor is relative ly harmless, even if the victi mized astronaut thinks otherwise when first coming face to fang with the fearsome-looking beast in the sleepy hours of the morn ing. I Closer to civilization, astronauts prove to be just as human as the rest of us. Spaceman Virgil I. (Gus) Gris som's contribution to this little homily has been the collection of speeding tickets. The diminutive; astronaut was nabbed recently tor allegedly doing 75 miles per hour in his sports car on a Flor ida road. Grissom came similarly at var iance with the state's speed laws last November at a cost of $20. For the record, Grissom tooled along at 5,280 miles per hour on his sub orbital flight through speed-lawless space on July 21, I'M. Lt. Col. John A. (Shorty) Pow ers was silenced as the "voice of the astronauts," NASA officials said, in an over-all realignment of personnel at the close of Project Mercury. The real reason, according to Informed sources, was that Pow. Development Of Nuclear Weapons Led To Test Ban Attempts EDITOR'S NOTE: Russia and the United States, on the brink of war over Cuban missile bases less than a year ago, re cently signed a treaty designed to steer mankind away from possible nuclear destruction. Now it is before the U.S. Sen ate (or ratification. In the fol lowing dispatch, a veteran L'PI reporter who covered the first Bikini bomb tests describes the nuclear race which led to the treaty and what It has meant to space-age weaponry. By JOSEPH L. MY1.ER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPH His Workers Sign New Contract VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPH Aluminum Company of America signed a contract agreement with the Aluminum Trades Council of Vancouver Friday. The local trades council, which represents 1,000 men, had been in negotiations with Alcoa officials for 45 days. Crux of the negotiations was a worker demand for a ten-consecu tive week holiday every five years. The workers also asked that they be paid for 13 weeks during the vacation, with the ex tra three weeks pay going into a savings account which will be paid upon retirement. The new contract would also provide 75 weeks base pay for workers retiring with years service. Ihe agreement would expire July 31, 1964. ors stepped on numerous NASA toes from administrator James E. Webb on down when he went on a lectuie-for-pay tour for a publications firm that was ne gotiating to "buy the persona! stories of the astronauts. The selection of former Wash ington newsman Paul Hancy to replace Powers appeared to please most "space beat" report ers who preferred a man with news-handling experience in a news-handling job. No Reason Needed To Respect Parents By ANN LANDERS Dear Ann Landers: I am sick ot people who demand respect simply because they are older. i Some ola peo ple are dumb ; and some young people are smart so why all this crummy advice about "honoring your father and mother?" My parents are so square you wouldn't believe it. Some of the things they think a 17-year-old kid should be doing are an absolute gas. My ma wants to go look at junk in museums. My old man thinks I ought to work up a sweat on the lawn. Why should 1 when we have a yard man who gets good money for loafing most of the lime? My parents haven't been teen agers for 35 years so what do they know about it anyway? I'm sure you won't print this letter because I am right and you don't know how to answer it. BILL Dear Bill: The Ten Command ments are still the best rules to live by. No one has been able to improve on them In 5,000 years. The Fifth Commandment says, "Honor your father and mother." In this sense, rpnor means re spect. It didn't say. "Honor your father and mother If they are bright, or If you agree with them or because they arc older." It savs honor them and it suggests no reason except that they are your father and mother. And this is reason enough. will probably get sick from just looking at them. Sr tell them they can't stay with you next year. Incidentally, my medical con sultants agree with your physi cian. Dear Ann Landers: That letter from the girl who didn't see why her parents should charge her room and board, even tnougn sne was 23 years old, and earning 75 dollars a week, really got my dander up. So she "didn't ask to be born." That was some snappy comeback. When I graduated from high school I handed over one-fourth of my paycheck to my mother. I grumbled a little and thought of all the extras I could be buying if I didn't have to pay room and board at home. Three years later I had my big blue eyes opened up. I mar ried a fellow who never had had responsibility in the world. He was an only child, plenty spoiled, and had always lived at home for nothing. To him, money was something to throw around, lt was rough at first and if my train ing hadn't been any better than his we would have been divorced the first year. I finally taught him to budget and now we are managing just fine. Believe me, Ann, our children are going to be brought up like f was not like my husband. I hope you print this. S.G. Dear S.G.: Here It Is and I can only add a hearty "amen." tory's first nuclear weapon was exploded in the summer of 1945. Its power frightened even those who made U. Some called it the "ultimate weapon." It was so bulky that only the biggest U. S. bomber could carry it. It weighed five tons. But it was equal in violence to nearly 20.000 tons (20 kilotonsi of TNT. This bomb and another one. dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshi ma in World War II, killed 106, 000 persons outright and inflicted grievous injury on 97.000 more. The fust combat use of a nu clear weapon was the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The second was the bombing of Naga saki on Aug. 9, 1945. To date there have been no others. But in the 18 years after the first experimental blast in the New Mexican desert tliere have been approximately 450 nuclear test explosions. The first nuclear bomb repre sented a 4,000-fold jump in power over TNT weapons. Now there exists in the Soviet arsenal a weapon with an energy potential 5.000 times greater than the early A-bomb's. Like the bombs of 1945, the So viet weapon can be carried only by a heavy modern bomber, al though missiles or spacecraft cap able of delivering it may be in the cards. The Soviet bomb is equivalent in energy to 100 million tons ( 100 megatons) of TNT. This one weap on could do to greater New York what those little ones of 1945 did to Hiroshima. Us toll would be reckoned not in thousands but in millions of lives. The 25-megatonner is the big gest bomb in the U. S. arsenal. This country, scientists say, could have developed a 100 megaton bomb any time it wanted to in the past 10 years. But the megatonner is considered the biggest with any real military worth. Since 1945 both sides have ex ploded more than 400 nuclear test weapons equal in power more than 511 million tons (511 mega tons) of TNT. This works out at 25,550 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. Of the 511 megaton total, the Russians exploded 357.7 megatons and the United States and Brit ain together, 153.3 megatons. If nuclear experimentation should continue indefinitely, ac cording to the experts, the variety of weapons might also be ex panded indefinitely, resulting at one extreme in the gigaton weapon. This would be a bomb equal to 1,000 megatons of TNT. It prob ably would weigh 100 to 200 tons. It could hardly be delivered by anything but a submarine or sur able of killing with radiation at hort range witiiout destroying property or contaminating tlie at mosphere. This, the little "clean" H-bomb, is otherwise known as the neutron bomb. Now the three nuclear powers have proposed a limited test ban treaty, lt would not necessarily halt (lie arms race, but it might slow development of horrible new weapons and curb contamination of tlie world's atmosphere with dangerous debris. It would prohibit tests in the at mosphere, under water, and in space, lt would permit only those deep or shallow underground face ship. A few of them explod ed off tlie West Coast could doom half cf the United States. At the other end of tlie scale might be the tiny H-bomb cap tests w hich did not pollute the air outside the testing nation. Tlie United States apparently has a fine head start on all other nations in testing underground N1KITA WINS MATCH WASHINGTON (UPh - Bas ketball has always been his game, Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk said Sunday in offering an explanation of why he lost a bad minton match with Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev. So far 71 of its tests have been underground. Tlie British have tested two nuclear devices in un derground shots in Nevada. Tlie French, according to reports, have staged two underground ex plosions. Russia is known to have exploded one nuclear weapon underground. Authorities have emphasized that tlie limited test ban would not, of itself, slow down the stock piling of nuclear weapons. Missiles are the big thing these days. But this country has 500 or more BJ2 and 1,000 or more B47 bombers capable of carrying its big city-killing bombs. Practically every U.S. warplane is geared to deliver nuclear weapons of one kind or another. A recently published list shows that tlie United States has 34 dif ferent kinds of missiles aside from its warplanes designed to deliver nuclear blows. Of the 34 tvpes, 24 arc said to be ready to tire with tlie other 10 still in the development stage. Less is known about Soviet capabilities. But the Russians have their Badger, Bear, and Bi son warplanes, plus a long list of ballistic missiles. Of a dozen So viet missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads at various dis tances, 10 are said to be ready for combat and two are still un der development. Both countries have striven con stantly to improve weapon effi ciencyto get "more bang per pound" of warhead. There is some belief that Russia may be somewhat ahead in this respect, at least in the bigger bombs. Both sides also have been try ing to cut down tlie size of the costly and radioactively "dirty" fission triggers of their H-bombs. If another trigger can be made, it will be possible to replace high priced and inefficient tactical weapons, now all fission, with cheap and efficient fusion weap ons. In this category would be the so-called neutron bomb. Work on the all-fusion bomb can be done with underground testing. The Moscow treaty would not stop it. HERALD AND NEWS, Klumath Kails. Oregon Monday, August 12, IW-'l PAGE 7 CANCEL YOUR MORTGAGE Through , . . EquitabU't Living Insurant: John H. Houston Srrvlr Stm-p I'r't WOW... HAS SAFEWAY COM UP WITH Shenandoah & nnru cornish c MISHAP KILLS DIVER NEW YORK (UPD A skin- diver stabbed himself to death with his own spear gun Sunday when he was knocked off balance by a huge wave crashing against a stone jetty near Jones Beach. Authorities said Robert Petty, 31, Westbury, N. Y was adjust ing his face mask and had wedged his spear gun between rocks when tlie wave came, im paling him on the spear. MAKES BOGUS CATCH NEW YORK (UPD Michael Rampino, 28, while fishing from a Brooklyn pier Sunday, hauled in a bundle of 49 one-hundred-dollar bills. They were counterfeit. THEXTON'S AQUARIUM Fifth A Kuppliri Alfttnrda Ave. HAVE ADDED GOLD FISH Phone TIT 4 -MUX .? . : . 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