Dr. Langmuir, One of 20th
Century Scientific Greats,
Dies At The Age of 76
FALMOUTH, Mass., —Rain
maker Irving Langpiuir, one of
the scientific greats of the 20th
century, died here Friday. He
was 76.
Dr. Langmuir was vacationing
on Cape Cod when he suffered a
heart attack Wednesday.
Langmuir won many scientific
honors, including the Nobel Prize
in chemistry in 1932. Besides pio
neering in artificial rainmaking,
he developed techniques that led
to brighter and cheaper electric
lighting and others that helped
make modern radio and television
broadcasting possible.
He was a member of the Gen
eral Electric Co. research staff
for 40 years and continued as
consultant to that company after
retiring in 1950. His home was in
Schenectady, N.Y.
Langmuir developed atomic hy
drogen welding and a smoke
screen generator for military use.
He won the Nobel Prize for his
experimentation with oil films on
water. This opened a new branch
of chemistry, known as two
dimensional or surface chemistry.
The artificial rainmaking tech
nique, developed with two other
scientist^, consisted of seeding
clouds with dry ice or silver io
dide. A third Langmuir technique
consisted of dropping water into
certain types of clouds to cause
rainfall by chain reaction.
12-Year-Old Lillie Leaguer
Pilches Perfecl No-Hiller
NEWPORT, R. I., UP) —Twelve
year-old Ricky Hole gave his
Little League teammates a rest
by striking out every batter in
the five-inning game for a 10-0
no-hit victory.
The youngster didn’t even al
low a #ong foul as he mowed
down 15 batters in a row.
At bat, however, he wasn’t so
. lucky. In the third inning, Hole
was knocked out by a pitched
ball but was quickly revived and
resumed his pitching chore.
Pan American Airways
Arriving Saturday were: Peter
Cappanilolokus, Zenith Perkir*6,
Gene Miller, Chuck Seigel, G.
Beltz, Mr. Raison, Mr. Brunner,
Mr. and Mrs. Kline and.two chil
dren, John Kiminock.
Departing were Mrs. V. Waiter
son and daughter Elin, Mrs. Car
ter and two children, Mrs. Swen
son, Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Thailander,
Mr. Carlsson, Mr. Betts.
[States-Based Air Force Pilots Learn
! Confidence in Flying Transports
In Formidable Alaska Mountains
By ELTON C. FAY
Elmendorf Air Force Base, —
New supersonic jet interceptors,
able to carry atomic rockets for
blasting enemy H - bombers from
the skies, are now being deployed
to strategically critical Alaska. -
First of the faster-than-sound
Convair F102 jets were viewed in
Alaska this weekend.
The dart-winged, needle nosed
fighters, with their pilots and
maintenance crews, have been fly
ing in recent months from Mc
Chord Air Force Base, near
Tacoma.
Along with the^ F-102s, the Al
askan Air Command will receive
new versions of the Northrop F-89
Scorpion. This latest, “J” model
of the Scorpion series, like the
F-102, will be capable of carry
ing the MB-1 nuclear rocket,
nicknamed the “Genie.”
The advent of the new jets
shows the broad changes taking
place in the system for detecting
and intercepting enemy bombers
over Alaska, before they can fly
on southward toward target cities
of Canada and the United States.
This reinforced barrier in Alas
ka presumably will include such
other weapons as the 300 - mile
range Bomarc antiaircraft guided
missile of the Air Force and the
Army’s Nike antiaircraft guided
missile.
One immediate effect of the de
ployment of the new, faster,
atomic-armed fighters to Alaska
is expected to be a reduction in
the number of squadrons of the
Air Defense Command in the
territory.
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With the existing subsonic
speed jet fighters, the defense
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.^tup includes use of forward air
fields, like the one at remote
King Salmon, on the Aleutian
Peninsula. Squadrons from home
fields at Elmendorf and Ladd are
rotated for duty at the forward
strips.
The air defense squadrons de
pend upon the electronic eyes of
the newly opened DEW Line and
the aircraft detection element of
the Alaskan Early Warning and
Aircraft Control System. The de
tection phase of that system is
merging into a westward exten-.
tion of DEW Line, for which the
present terminus is Cape Lis
burne, on the northwest coast of
Alaska, across the narrow sea
from Soviet airdromes in Siberia.
The Control and Warning sta
tions have a capabilty not built
into the DEW Line system. A dif
ference , in the type of/ radar
makes it possible for an AC&W
station to direct—or “vector”—
jet interceptors toward an ap
proaching unidentified ' plane !
which has come into the range
of the searching radar beams.
Except for the Alaskan sector,
DEW Line stations do not have
aircraft control missions. The
reason: There are no fighter
bases near the Canadian sector of
DEW Line, stretching east from
Barter Island to Baffin Island, |
opposite Greenland. Control of
fighter planes — going up from
fields in southern Canada and the
northern United States — is as
signed to AC&W stations of the
Pinetree Line, located in the re
gion of the U.S.-Canadian border.
What this means is that Alaska
is a' potential theater of combat,
the place where the first phase
of defensive aerial action might
occur in the opening of a nuclear
World War III.
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