Air Force Missile
Attains Continental Ran<*e
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Ub—
The Air Force virtually aban
doned hope of recovering the
top-secret missile nose cone hurled
across the Atlantic in an effort
to solve the problem of re-entry
from space.
“We did not recover the nose
cone and I doubt we will,” Maj.
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Com
mander of the Air Force Ballis
tic Missile Division, told the
House Space Committee in Wash
ington.
Because some of the telemetry
equipment aboard the Thor-Van
guard combination failed to
function, the missile’s course
could not be followed as accur
ately as had been planned.
However, the Air Force con
firmed that the nose cone had
attained continental range—pos
sibly 5,500 miles.
This meant it was the longest
flight any American ballistic
missile has yet attained. It re
quired only about 30 minutes to
travel to the ascension island area
off the African coast.
This was also the most widely
seen U. S. missile ever launched.
On a brilliantly clear evening
just at dusk, it climbed so high
so quickly that the sunlight
caught it, turned its vapor trail
to a long and beautiful serpen
tine, and spotlighted the missile
itself for long minutes.
The mission was to launch
the highly advanced and elab
orately equipped cone 80 miles
up in space and then 5,500 miles
southeastward to a previously
selected impact area near as
cension.
The launching was sensation
ally successful, and the flight
appeared—after some initial ex
citement—to be perfect.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Seeks
Additional Acreage At Noatak
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
has filed application with the Bu
reau of Land Management for
a 1.3 acre tract of land at Noatak
to enlarge the existing school re
serve there.
Much of the original reserve
has been washed away into the
Noatak River and it is necessary
to move the school building fur
ther from the river. The addi
tional tract will also be used for
the construction of other build
ings needed in connection with
the school.
Curtis and Taylor
Disagree Over
Possibility of War
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NEW YORK, UP) — Gen. Curtis
E. Lemay said Thursday the
threat of general war. increases
each day as the Soviet Union
grows stronger.
But Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
said general war is less likely
than imited wars because of the
nuclear strength of both sides.
Taylor, Army chief of staff,
and Lemay, Air Force vice chief
of staff, prepared their remarks
for the convention of the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers Assn.
(ANPA).
“Where before they (the Rus
sians) had no capability for gen
eral war,” Lemay said, “today
they have a nuclear stockpile,
25,000 operational aircraft, and a
strong scientific and technical re
search and development program.
The danger of general war is on
the increase as these capabilities
are moulded to fit their desire
for world domination.”
Lemay and Taylor differed on
“mutual deterrence”—the idea
with each side able to destroy
the other with nuclear weapons,
neither will start a war.
“The Air Force believes in de
terrence.” Lemay said. “We do
not, however, believe in the
false security that derives from
believing the myth of mutual
deterrence.”
Taylor expressed the view that
“under such condition, we are
probably justified in assuming
that neither side would volun
tarily start a general atomic
war,” but he added:
“It does not follow that the
Soviet bloc will renounce other
forms of aggression as a means
of gaining their ends. It would
rather suggest that they will pre
fer lesser forms of military ac
tivity pursued at an increased
rate of occurrence.”
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^ Dead, 137 Injured
FT. CAMPBELL, Ky., UP) —
Military authorities announced
plans Thursday for another mass
air drop Saturday three times as
big as <the one Wednesday in
which five paratroopers jumped
to their deaths and 137 were
hospitalized.
Saturday’s drop will involve
more than 4,000 men from the
famed '101st Airborne Division,
comrades of the men who jumped
to their deaths across wind-swept
drop zones Wednesday.
Saturday’s jump will be spread
over eight drop zones on this
SS.OOO'-acre reservation.
The 101st, a streamlined pen
tomic division, was the nation’s
first unit of that ,size to be
equipped for atomic warfare.
It is composed of five battle
groups—origin of its designation.
Treacherous and gusty winds,
ranging on the ground up to eight
knots at jump time, turned Wed
nesday’s exercise into unexpected
tragedy.
The victims, among nearly
1,400 taking part in the air
drop, were dragged across the
rough drop zone by billowing
parachutes which they were
helpless to deflate. None of
those hospitalized was believed
in serious condition.
The five who were killed were
blown against trees and rocks by
the wind gusts or strangled by
the suspension lines when they
were unable to collapse their
parachutes.
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