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
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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.
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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.
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Dear Ann Landers: My sister
is a nurse. She is married to a
physician and they have three
children.
Every summer they come to
visit us for two weeks. For the
last three years they have man
aged to bring hearty Chicago
style germs to our Old Kentucky
Home. Two weeks ago, as a re
sult of their annual visit, we
almost lost mother. She is still
in the hospital with a staph in
fection and I am not feeling a
bit well myself.
I have discussed this with our
family doctor and he said it is
possible for people to carry germs
without being ill themselves. He
also said he thinks perhaps the
family illnesses were coincidental,
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