Senate Gives Green
Light to C.G.S.
Ocean Surveys
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate voted Wednesday to give the
Coast and Geodetic Survey
broader authority in charting the
ocean’s depths for submarine
operations.
The Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee said in recom
mending approval of a bill passed
and sent to the House, that more
information is needed on the
underwater areas.
The committee added: “Crying
‘Russia, Russia’ must become tire
some to our people at times, but
it certainly is no secret now that
Russia has far exceeded any ef
forts of this country to explore
and chart the waters of the North
Pacifc, for instance, as well as.
the entire Arctic area.
“Our security in the years
ahead may depend to large ex
tent upon our ability to defend
aganst long-range missile sub
marines lying off our shore, but
we have little knowledge of the
continental shelf and adjacent
depths on which to base such de
fense. Attack may come over the
frozen north, but here again our
data are negligible.
The bill would abolish restric
tions limiting the survey!® opera
tions to coastal, territorial and off
lying island areas.
The Senate also passed and sent
to the House a bill to fix overtime
pay schedules for crews of survey
and Weather Bureau vessels.
The so - called cloud-burst is
caused by violent uprushes of air
which prevent the condensing
raindrops from falling to the
ground. When a large amount of
water has accumulated at high
levels and the upward currents
weaken, all of the water falls at
once. During a severe cloud-burst
at Porto Bello, Panama, almost
two and a half inches, of rain fell
in three minutes."
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QUONSET POINT, R. I„ UP) —
An unusual tape recording of the
explosion and fire which killed
two men and injured 28 aboard
the aircraft carrier Wasp is among
the evidence being studied by a
Navy investigation board.
The sound of the blast and the
spontaneous reaction of the men
was recorded because a tape-re
corder microphone had been
opened to pick up the voices of
Cribbage-playing officers.
The recorder picked up some
of the cribbage game, men count
ing their scores. Suddenly came
the distinct boom of the explo
sion followed by muffled noises
of men escaping from the bunk
room, accompanied by the shout
of men suddenly endangered.
The Wasp was on antisubmarine
maneuvers 250 miles off the Vir
ginia coast when the mishap oc
curred Tuesday.
Lit. (J.G.) Jim Frank Hagen of
Marianna, Fla., perished when
trapped in the helicopter whose
engine exploded while he was
testing it in a hangar aboard the
Wasp.
Aviation Apprentice Donald H.
Trask of Keene, N. H., whose
body was found at the bottom of
a plane elevator, apparently was
asphyxiated.
None of .the injured was con
sidered in a serious condition.
Sources at this naval base said
the damage to the Wasp might ex
ceed five million dollars.
Rear Adm. Robert Stroh, com
mander of Carrier Division 15,
said the helicopter engine “ran
away and exploded while it was
being tested by a qualified pilot.”
He said runaway engines are
not uncmmon in flight and the
governors fail to function proper
ly. But he said he never heard
of a runaway engine under han
gar-deck testing conditions.
Officers were playing cribbage
near the deck hangar. Lt. Patrick
Harney of Robinsdale, Minn.,
turned on a tape recorder as a
joke. He got two minutes of re
cording of the disaster, including
the explosion that started the fire.
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