Army Missile Chief Says High Thrust Rocket Work
Is Coasting; Should Be Put on a Crash Basis
WASHINGTON. UR—Maj. Gen.
John B. Medaris testified Satur
day that lack of funds held up
Army development of a 1,500
mile missile. And he said that
even now the United States is
doing virtually no work on a
rocket engine as powerful as Rus
sia has already perfected.
Medaris also told the Senate
Preparedness Subcommittee that:
1. Army scientists offered two
years ago to put up an earth sat
ellite but their offer was rejected.
2. The Army has solved in two
tests the “re-entry problem” of
bringing missile nose cones back
to earth thru atmospheric friction.
Medaris, commander of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency at
* Huntsville, Ala., said the United
States is doing very little work
on a rocket engine of the type
that propelled the Soviet Sputnik
II into space.
Under questioning by Chair
man Lyndon Johnson CD-Tex),
Medaris said he was talking about
the kind of engine he believes the
Russians used in the first stage
launching of their 1,000-pound
satellite.
Medaris said North American
Aviation has a rocket engine of
high thrust in the engineering
stage. But he said this project
isn’t being pushed because no one
can prove it would be essential
for any missile project now in the !
works.
“It should be put on a crash
basis but it is coasting along.” he
said.
Unless this country develops an
engine with “one million pounds
thrust by 1961 we will not be in
the race,” he added,
Medaris said that in the sum
mer of 1956 a committee he head
ed made the specific recommen
dation that development begin on
a rocket engine of 220,000 pounds
thrust.
He said this was “not as for
ward looking as it should have
been but it was as much as we
thought we might get away with.”
The recommendation was turned
down by the Defense Department,
he added.
Such developments ought not to
wait until proof Of the need for
such an engine is apparent, -Me
daris said.
“If you wait until the time
when you can envision the final
product, break it down into pieces
and test each one, you are going
to be behind and you are always
going to be behind,” he said.
The Army now has been ordered
to proceed with plans for a satel
lite launching and Medaris confi
dently asserted this will be done.
The Army got these orders after
the failure of the first launching
attempt in the Navy-directed
Vanguard satellite project.
A Tough Job, By Golly,
To Get This Girl’s Dolly
ALBUQUERQUE, 13V—Santa is
going to have a tough time with
this little girl’s Christmas request,
says the Albuquerque post office:
“I want a dolly that can walk
all by itself and can talk all by
itself when I tell her what to
wear. And a dolly that will help
mommy and sister with the dishes
so I will not have to wash them
myself. And she should be able to
jump rope all by herself.
“And the dolly can play with
me.”
Barnacles can add about 30 tons
to the weight of a 10,000-ton ship
in a year’s time.
French Guard Almost
Stops Ike for Credentials
PARIS, —A French guard al
most halted President Eisenhower
as he arrived today for the open
ing of the NATO summit meeting.
The guard was routinely check
ing credentials as others entered
the Palais de Chaillot. Press Sec
retary James Hagerty said the
guard, without looking-up, auto
matically reached for Eisenhow
er’s credentials.
The guard then looked up, reg
istered great surprise and some
chagrin, “and then stepped back
quickly.”
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