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U. S. To Spend. Eight Million Dollars
On Five Space v ehicles To The Moon
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The United
States said today it will make up
to five attempts to send unmanned
vehi les to the vicinity of the
moon.
The White House and Defense
Department issued separate an
nouncements of the plans.
Secretary of Defense McElroy
said that with President Eisen
hower’s approval the Pentagon’s
Advanced Research Projects Ag
ency (ARPA) “will proceed with
several programs for launching |
a number of small, unmanned
space vehicles.”
An initial allocation of about
eight million dollars has been
mace to start the space program.
The administration thus moved
to follow up Eisenhower’s state
ment last night that studies of
©uterspace can provide benefits
for the world’s people and their
children.
■McElroy said Roy W. Johnson,
ARPA* Director, is issuing in
structions to the Army, Air Force,
and Navy to undertake the new
programs.
The Pentagon announcement
said: “The programs authorized
include both scientific earth sat
ellites and efforts to determine
our capability of exploring space
in the vicinity of the moon, to ob
tain useful 'data concerning t .e
moon, and provide a close look
at ice moon. In technical terms
the programs are called ‘Uunar
Probes’.
‘The Naval Ordance test sta
i at Inyo'era, _alif. has been
dered to develop a mechanical
ound scanning system for use,
when available, in lunar probes.”
A Defense Department spokes -
n an said the present intention is
„ specifically to hit the moon
but “It is possible that one of
sa vehicles could hit it.”
The spokesman said the ground- j
scanning system for mounting in
the space vehicles would be a!
“Primitive TV” device, sufficient
to provide a relatively crude im
age of the geographical features
of the moon, on its unknown far
side.
CANDIDATES SCHEDULE
TELEVISION SPEECHES
OTTAWA, UPl — Conservative
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
and Liberal Party Leader Lester
“arson scheduled nationwide ap
peals for votes tonight in final
television speeches of their cam
paign for the Parliamentary elec
tion Monday.
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Seaton Converse
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V AMTINGTON, UP)—Opening of I
± million dollar White |
ALc ..•nunications system was!
mauM-a. d Wednesday in an ex
....g ..peasantries between
Interior secretary Seaton and
uov. .11 mepovich of Alaska.
Stepovich spoke from Elemen
uorh An r orce Base, Anchorage,
wrier., .. network acceptance
. rcmony was staged.
The White Alice System, an
Air Force project, is designed to
provide communications facilities
or continental defense against
air attack from the North. The
coadary purpose is to provide
telephone and telegraph services
.or the public.
It is the largest such “beyond
' orizon” communications network
ever built. There are 33 micro
wave relay stations. The net
work covers 3,000 route miles.
A total of 170,000 telephone cir
' it miles and 50,000 telegraph
circuit miles are provided.
^earon, invited by the Air
Force to make the inaugural call,
old Stepovich: “It seems to me
this network not-only has a tre
mendou. . p.i .mu um
it ought lo a great deal of help
I in the improvement of civilian
J commumc ons in the territory
and between the continental Uni
ted States.
I might also say that as often
[ as we hav talked together at
this great distance this is the
easiest conversation to perform
I ar.d that I can understand every
word you say and hear you per
fectly.”
The Secretary asked Stepovich
to congratulate all who took part
in building the network and to
extend his good wishes to the
Governor’s family.
Witnessing Seaton’s end of the
conversation were C. W. Snedden,
Publisher of the Fairbanks News
Miner; Anthony T. Lausi, Direct
or of the Office of Territories;
and Ted Stevens, a former U. S.
attorney in Alaska who is now
an assistant to Seaton and his
legislative counsel.
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rash' rv’s Election As Premier Of
Vssia een As Return To Stalinism
'ASHINGTON, <£> — United
lies leader, were startled to
ny the news that Soviet’ -Com
list boss NThita Xhruschev
d become Premier of the Sov
. Union. It appeared to -be a
■;urn to the Stalinist pattern
o 1 power.
• The move put Khrushchev in
si ion to negotiate directly with
sident Eisenhower and other
estern leaders at a Summit con
ierencc—if one is ever arranged.
This could have been one rea
rm for the Soviet Communist
'■rider’s decision to take over the
Premiership.
U. S. experts on Soviet affairs
saw it as evidence of a vast in
crease in Khrushchev’s personal
power which had heretofore been
assumed by many foreign ob
servers but which had not been
demonstrated by the actions of
the Soviet leaders themselves.
The resignation of Premier
Nikolai Bulganin had been ex
pected but there was surprise
that Khrushchev was assuming
the premiership.
The idea that Khrushchev
might take over had been heavily
discounted because of the division
between party controls and gov
ernment controls which the post
Stalin leadership in Moscow has
carefully cultivated and main
tained.
It is just possible that Khrush
chev fegls this cover up for his
expanded personal power is no
longer necessary. While Bul
ganin had been considered little
more than a figurehead in the
last year or so, it was assumed
here the existence of a front man
was useful to the real boss.
The White House said Presi
dent Eisenhower had been ad
vised of the switch of Soviet pre
miers but that there would be no
comment.
Nor was there any immediate
comment from Secretary of State
Dulles.
U. S. experts expect no basic
changes in Russian policy to
ward the rest of the world since
Krushchev has been the real
power in the conduct of Soviet
affairs for years.
lilies Committee
Hold Hearing On
Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP) — Mem
bers of Congress advocating Alas
a statehood were given a hear
ng today before the House Rules
Tommittee.
The hearing came nine months
and one day after Chairman En
gle (D-CalifT' of the House In
terior Committee first requested
the Rules Committee to bring the
Alaska statehood bill to the floor
under a resolution allowing rea
~oable rime for debate.
Chairman O’Brien (D-NY) of
the Territories Subcommittee was
prepared to appeal for the res
olution, or rule, on behalf of the
interior Committee which ap
proved ’ast June 25 the State
hood bill.
Expressing hope that the bill
will oe passed by both the House
and Senate at this session of Con
gress, O’Brien fixed May 1 as the
deadline for House action.
O’Brien said in the event the
Rules Committee fails to meet his
May 1 deadline, he will advocate
use of the unusual procedure un
der which Statehood bills may be
called up on the floor without
Rules Committee clearance.
General rules for consideration
of privileged legislation in the
House would permit an hour’s de
bate by each of the 435 members
on the bill and each amendment
offered.
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