Missile Program Strengthened
With Organizational Change and
Work on Anti-Missile Missile
WASHINGTON, Iff)—Sen. Hum-*
phrey (D-Minn), applauding re
cent moves to strengthen U.S.
missiles capability, said today he
hopes “the sense of urgency will
not evaporate as time goes on.”
Humphrey called on the Eisen
hower Administration to “come to
Congress with a program that is
equal to the demands of national
security and survival, and com
mensurate with the scope of the
Soviet menace”—even if such a
program should require higher
taxes. ,
The Minnesota senator spoke
out in an interview after these
developments:
1. The Air Force announced a
number of organizational shifts in
connection with efforts to put
long range U.S. missiles on an
operational basis. One of the most
important of these moves was the
transfer of responsibility for both
intercontinental and intermediate
range ballistic missiles in their
“initial operational capability”
phase from the Air Research and
Development Command to the
Strategic Air Command (SAC).
The SAC has charge of this na
tion’s retaliatory striking force,
including long range nuclear
bombers.
2. Gen. Thomas D. White, Air
Force chief of staff, also an
nounced the Air Force is working
on an anti-missile missile called
the Wizard. White said its per
fection “will be a terrifically dif
ficult problem, but I think we’ll
lick it.”
Humphrey welcomed these new
moves, along with a recently an
nounced decision to order pro
duction of the Army’s Jupiter and
Gen. Foote Awarded
Legion of Merit on
Eve of Retirement
ANCHORAGE—A Legion of
Merit Oak Leaf Cluster was
awarded Nov. 22 at Portland to
Brig. Gen. L. H. Foote, North Pa
cific Division engineer of the
Army’s Corps of Engineers.
Gen. Foote was commended for
his “fine record of consistently
superior achievements in peace
and war.”
The award was presented at a
party in honor of Gen. Foote on
the eve of his retirement from the
Army.
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Selective Service Board
Is Hard on 55-Year-Old
OKLAHOMA CITY —M. Sgt.
Virgil D. Flynn, 56, a military
man since 1921, thinks the Ta
coma, Wash., selective service
board has gone a little too far.
He received this week a post
card from the Tacoma board an
nouncing that he is available for
Order to active duty. This wasn’t
Flynn’s first difficulty with a
draft board. In 1942, when he was
with an Army Air Corps unit in
Greenland, the sheriff called at
his home in Omaha to serve no
tice he was to appear before the |
local board for induction.
Flynn said he was willing to!
leave Greenland, but the Army
“couldn’t see the trip as neces
sary.”
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Eggheads Are Coming
Back Into Their Own,
Says Adlai Stevenson
NEW YORK, (#)—Adlai Steven
son flew here from Washington
for the weekend Saturday with
j the observation that “eggheads”
j (intellectuals) are coming back
I into their own, “thank God.”
Stevenson, newly appointed spe
cial consultant to .the State De
partment on the forthcoming
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion conference in Paris, visited
•with his sons, Bordan and John
Fell.
The twice unsuccessful Demo
cratic presidential candidate de
clined direct comments on the
possibility that the security case
of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer,
atomic scientist, may be reopened.
Stevenson said, however, that
“I have always thought very high
ly of Mr. Oppenheimer and have
felt that he should have been in
service all along.”
Stevenson returned to Washing
ton yesterday.
the Air Force’s Thor, both of them
intermediate range missiles with
a planned range of up to 1,500
miles.
Humphrey, testifying before the
Senate Preparedness Subcommit
tee, said, “It is more important to
have the balance of power on the
side of the free world than it, is
to have a balanced budget.”
Report Says Air Force
Will Spend $300,000,000
On Alaska Missile Base
ANCHORAGE, —T he An
chorage Times said Saturday it
had learned the Air Force would
spend about $300,000,000 con
structing an intermediate range
ballistic missile launching site
about 100 miles northwest of here.
The newspaper said the launch
ing site would be located in a
narrow valley between the towns
of Willow and Talkeetna, and
that construction would start
within six weeks.
Surrounding mountains, the ar
ticle said, would be used as stor
age dumps for ammunition and
missile fuel. It said the site would
be ready for use by the fall of
next year.
A spokesman for the Alaska Air
Command told the Times that its
headquarters had no knowledge
of such a project. The newspaper
did not say where it learned of
the project.
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NEW YORK—America’s first
national "headquarters building for
the churches will be a reality by
1960.
Dedication of the site and sym
bolic ground breaking ceremonies
I were held Nov. 17 for the head
quarters, to be known as The
Interchurch Center.
It will cost $19,700,000.
The 19-story building is being
erected on a block-size site made
available by John D. Rockefeller
Jr., next door to famed Riverside
Church. ............
The center will house various
denominations, their boards and
agencies, now occupying separate,
structures in New York City. It
will also bring under one roof the
70 church-supported program units
of the National Council of Church
es and- its staff of about 700, now
scattered at eight different ad
dresses in the city.
The dedication “marks an im
portant milestone in the coopera
tive work of Protestant, Angli
can and Eastern Orthodox com
munions,” said a spokesman.
The center has a 99-year rent
free lease on the site. Rockefeller
also supplied $2,000,000 of the
building’s cost.
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