U.S. Aims to Have
Nuclear Rocket Ready
For Flight Tests in 5 Years
WASHINGTON UR — The Unit
ed States aims to have a rocket
with a nuclear engine ready lor
flight testing in about five years,
a <U.S. space official said Tues
day.
Nuclear propulsion, he said, is
“necessary for manned inter
planetary flights.”
The official, Harold B. Finger,
assistant director for Nuclear Ap
plications for the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion made his remarks in a paper
before the International Astro
nautical Congress.
He said NASA and the Atomic
Energy Commission have been in
vestigating flight-testing methods
in a program known as RIFT for
“reactor in flight test.”
“Some time after the begin
ning of 1962, an industrial con
tractor will begin development
activities on a rift-vehicle to
meet the objectives of achieving
flight testing in the 1966-67 time
period,” Finger said.
Plans call for launching the nu
clear rocket on a short-range bal
listic flight frosn Cape Canaveral,
Fla. It would be lifted by a
Saturn-type first stage.
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Patterson-McNeely
Heavyweight Match
To Be Held in Toronto
TORONTO W — World heavy
weight champion Floyd Patter
son will defend his title in Toron
to against Tom McNeeley Mon
day, Dec. 4, it was announced
Tuesday.
It will toe the first world heavy*
weight boxing title bout ever held
in Canada.
Tom Solan, president of Cham
pionship Sports Inc., told a news
conference he has submitted a
proposed agreement to Merv Mc
Kenzie, Ontario Athletic Com
missioner, and that all obstacles
have been cleared.
The fight will be held in
Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens,
home of Toronto’s National
Hockey League club. Seating ca-.
pacity is about 15,000.
The fight will be shown on tele
vision in Canada and the United
States, he said, but there will be
a blackout in a radius of about
' 100 miles of Toronto.
The Patterson-McNeely fight
originally was scheduled for Bos
ton. Nov. 13. But Bolan canceled
that arrangement because of a dis
agreement between the Patter
son camp and the Massachusetts
Boxing Commission concerning an
out-of-town referee.
McNeely is undefeated, but
unranked.
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If your pet pooch is missing at
mealtime in San Francisco, you
can dial L-O-S-T D-O-G on your
telephone and listen to recorded
descriptions of missing dogs
brought to ASFCA.
Disc-Shaped Object
Sighted Hovering
Over Utah Lake
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah to—
A civilian pilot reported an un
identified dying object south of
here Monday. Seven persons on
the ground said they also saw it.
Waldo Harris, a Salt Lake City
insurance man, said he spotted
the disc-shaped object as he was
taking off from the Utah Central
Airport. “When I got airborne, I
noticed that It was still in the
same spot and had no wings or
tail.”
“Another witness said the ob
ject, seen about 1 p.m. seemed to
be hovering over IJta'n Lake,
about 40 miles south of here.
Harris esdmated that he got
within three to five miles of it
before it disappeared.
In Washington, the Air Force
Command Post said it had not
heard of any sighting of uniden
tified flying objects.
Pvt. Oksoktaruk Completes
Field Communications Course
FORT ORD, Calif. (AHTNC)—
Army Pvt. Robert C. Oksoktaruk,
16, son of Mr. and -Mrs. James
Oksoktaruk, of Nome, completed
the eight-week field communica
tions crewman course at Fort
Ord, Calif.
Oksoktaruk was trained in
communications wire laying, mes
sage center organization, and
switchboard operation.
He entered the Army in March
of this year and received basic
training at Fort Ord, Calif.
Oksoktaruk attended Nome
High School.
Firm Job Printing At Tho Nuggos
Margaret’s Hubby
Accepts an Earldom
LONDON UR — Buckingham
Palace announced Tuesday night
Queen Elizabeth II has conferred
an earldom on Antony Arm
strong-Jones, husband of her
younger sister, Princess Margaret.
The announcement said the 31
year-old former photographer’s
title will be Viscount Unley and
Earl of Snowdon. He will be
known as the Earl of Snowdon.
The subsidiary title of Viscount
Unley would go to the eldest
son, if any, of his marriage to
Margaret—who is expecting her
first baby late this month or
early in November.
If the baby is a girl, she will
be known as Lady Armstrong
Jones.
Princess Margaret henceforth
will be called “Her iRoyal High
ness the Princess Margaret,
Countess of Snowdon.”
Princess Margaret’s baby would
have been born plain Armstrong
Jones if her husband had de
clined tjhe title.
Court informants said Snowdon
was chosen as the name for Arm
strong-Jones’ earldom because of
the Welsh origin of his family.
Snowdon, a Welsh mountain, is
the highest peak south of the
Scottish bolder.
Dag Bequeaths Summer
Home for Us# of Conferences
STOCKHOLM, Sweden iff* —
Dag Hammarskjoid bequeathed
his summer home on the Baltic
Sea to be used for conferences
suggested by the United Nations
or other talks held in that spirit,
his attorney disclosed Monday.
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Two Men
Narrowly Escape
Death in Test
Of Fallout Shelter
HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. UB—
Two men testing a fallout shelter
narrowly escaped death yesterday
when the air gave out in the con
crete Structure.
William Kennedy, 34, a restau
rant operator, and his friend,
Robert Moore, 22, entered the
above-ground shelter Monday and
had planned to stay inside for five
days.
Kennedy called his wife — their
adjacent home — over an inter
communications system and told
her he was having trouble breath
ing. He said his head felt as
though it was “going to explode."
Moore complained of the same
symptoms.
Mrs. Kennedy rushed to the
reinforced steel door. She told
her husband to turn the handle
and he finally managed to open
the heavy door, and fell to the
ground beside her.
The men were taken to a hos
pital where oxygen was adminis
tered. They were released a short
time later.
Kennedy and Moore were com
piling reports on psychological
and sanitary conditions in the
eonfines of the shelter.
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South Koreans Warned
Not to Drink Rain Water
SEOUL, South Korea Ufi — The
South Korean Atomic Energy
Agency reported yesterday it
had detected up to 16 times as
much radioactivity as normally
permissible for human beings in
rain that fell Saturday.
The agency warned the public
not to drink rain water—the sec
ond such warning in a week. It
added that the radioactive con
tent in the atmosphere over South
Korea was five times as high as
permissible for humans.
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