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Minuteman Missile
Fired From
Underground Pad
By VERN HAUGLAND
EDWARDS AFB, Calif., UP* —
The Minuteman has made its first
public appearance, a fiery spurt
from an underground launch pad
to an altitude of 130 feet.
The flight Friday night lasted
only 2Vi> seconds, just long enough
to prove the giant intercontinen
tal ballistic missile could be
launched from a steel-lined dry
well more than 70 feet deep.
It was so successful that the
Air Force pronounced this part of
the Minuteman program complete.
The next part, letting the big
bird actually fly along a test
range, gets under way soon at
Cape Canaveral.
It was a busy day for the U. S.
space program.
The Quail diversionary missile
was launched at Elgin AFB, Mex
ico. A B-52 stratofortress bomber
released the decoy from its bom
bay and the 12-foot missile was
tracked by radar and then de
stroyed on command.
An Atlas ICBM was fired from
its new “Coffin” launcher for the
second time at Vandenberg 'AFB,
Calif. It had to be destroyed mo
ments later at an' altitude of 5,000
feet. An undetermined malfunc
tion was blamed.
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Eaton Says U.S. May
Have Provoked Russians
Into Downing Plane
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Wl — Cleve
land industrialist Cyrus Eaton
says the United States may have
provoked the Soviet Union into
shooting down an American plane
over Soviet territory a week ago
yesterday. • >
“I don’t believe in shooting, but
I believe there was a great deal
of provocation,” Eaton said in an
interview.
He long has been a proponent
of closer ties between the Soviet
Union and this country and re
cently was awarded a Lenin peace
prize by the Soviet Union.,
Eaton came here in a special
railroad car with his wife and sev
eral friends in order to attend the
Kentucky Derby.
REDS SWITCH TO ROCKETS
LONDON, UPl — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev said the U.S.S.R. has
switched over to rocket weapons
as the spearhead of its armed
might.
He told the Supreme Soviet par
liament a strategic rocket com
mand has been set up under vet
eran artilleryman Marshal Mitro
fan Nedelin, Moscow radio said.
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U2 Was Snooper
For Evidence of
Atomic Explosions
NEW YORK, GW —George Car
roll, New York Journal-American
aviation editor, terms the U2 air
plane a “hush-hush” craft which
keeps taps on Soviet atomic tests.
The U2 is the kind of plane
flown by the U.S. pilot the Rus
sians say was shot down over So
viet territory.
Carroll, an Air Force reserve
lieutenant colonel, in an article
last Nov. 24, wrote:
“Few people ever have heard of
an airplane called the U2. It’s
done quite a job, though, for the
American people.
”U2s have flown hush - hush
missions in many parts of the
world. By means of the U2 we
have kept some of our closest tabs
on the location, size and signifi
cance of Sovet weapons tests with
atomic explosives.
“Slipping through the heavens
like almost indistinguishable
ghosts, these little airplanes have
gathered countless samples of
radioactive particles drifting out
of the USSR.
“No official agency ever has
said so in so many words but you
don’t have to be a champion be
tween the lines reader to get the
pitch.”
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
The meteor, show of 1866 was
also a grand spectacle. It was at
11:30 p.m. on November 13th that
the shower began. The meteors
fell in twos, then threes, and con
tinued to increase until the early
hours of November 14th. The
shower ceased at 4 a.m. It has been
estimated that 240,000 meteors fell
within the limits of the earth’s at
mosphere.
This shower- was not equivalent
to that of 1833, when meteors fell
like snowflakes. One observer in
Great Britain said that the great
majority were white, with a bluish
or yellowish tinge. A considerable
number were red and orange, and
a few were blue. Many surpassed
the fixed stars in lustre and some
were even brighter than Venus.
Most of the meteors left trains
of vivid green lights 5 degrees to
15 degrees in length, which
marked their course through the
heavens.
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
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Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
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