Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1954 — Page 6

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U. S. Defense Against Air Attack Improves

WASHINGTON. UP—-America’s ability to defend itself against air attack has improved rapidly in the last four years and will rise sharply in the years ahead. To be sure, military authorities find no cause for boundless optimism when they weigh the American defense problem against Russian ability to wage an air-atomic attack. There is no complete defense, and one H-bomb can wreck a city, incinerate its people. Neither, howefer. do those familiar with the gigantic tasks see any justification for hysteria. Undoubtedly moved by Russian H-bomb developments, the administration has determined to ‘"enhance and accelerate” continental defenses. Significant evidence of that is the decision to devote a larger portion of the air force to the air defense command. Under the old 143-wing plan, 29 wings were to be air defense units. Under the military "new look.” there will be 37 Such wings. And science and the aircraft industry now are turning out electronic warning devices, aircraft and weapons of vastly increased performance and power. But air defense is not a neat package that can be segregated from other elements in American military strength. Whatever encouragement about continental defense that is found la military quarters is based also on such vital factors as these: 1. The free world's far-flung al-

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Hances, growing military strength, intelligence nets and detection systems are reducing the earlier danger of all-out surprise attack with no warning at all. 2. Russia’s ability to deliver atomic weapons, based on information available here, is still much inferior to America's. 3. Any Russian attack wonld be an act of suicide by the Kremlin. President Elsenhower has made crystal clear that the United States’ retaliatory capacity is overwhelming. There are both atomic and hydrogen weapons that can destroy cities and America has the superior air power to deliver. Adm. Arthur W. (Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has told the senate armed services committee a purely defensive system therefore will not get an undue share of our military resources. The “greatest single deterrent’ to Soviet attack is the counterattack the strategic air command would deliver at once. The air defense command, which would have to blunt the first blow, now' mounts about 1,000 interceptor planes, many of them heavily armed with rockets. They are deployed along all the approaches a bomber attack might follow. The radar warning net, still sketchy considering its vital importance, is improving and is arrayed in some depth from the far northern avenues to North America down to major individual targets. For last-ditch defense, the army

anti-aircraft command operates radar-aimed 90 mm and 120 mm guns in target areas. Strung through the continental defense system are 333,000 parttime civilian members of the ground observer corps, spotting unidentified planes and funneling information to air defense command centers. Nobody knows how many bombers could get through the defense system. That would depend on scores of factors peculiar to each raid, such as weather, approach path, condition of detection devices, "amount of advance warning, human mistakes. But all military authorities appear to agree that 100 percent protection is not in the cards. The aim in air defense must be to keep the price so high, attrition so heavy, that the enemy cannot sustain an attack. And, above all, to protect our retaliatory force’s bases and national industrial resources for the overwhelming counterattack. The immensity of the problem is clear when it is realized that a few atomic bombs, fewer hydrogen bombs, can do as much as an entire campaign in World War 11. That puts a premium on early detection of attacking planes, instant warning to interceptor stations, and aircraft that can climb like rockets and track down their quarry with radar eyes. Progress now is toward making much of thiA operation automatic. New types of radar will give sound as well as sight warnings of approaching planes and electronic devices will flash word automatically. For point defenses, the big antiaicraft guns will be supplanted by 'this army’s NIKE guided missile. A little later will come pilotless fighters like the air force’s F 99 Bomarc, launched from the ground, and the F9B Falcon, launched from the air. But the power of the offense will march apace too, so that what 50 bombers might do today, two possibly can do on a not too remote tomorrow. The albatross used to be known as “Cape Sheep,” apparently because sailors sometimes used their skins as rugs.

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stration agents of the area. Miss Williams will be interviewed by Jane Weston, WOWO home service director. They will discuss hats and bags. President Sets New Television Standard ’ Eisenhower Relaxed During TV Speech WASHINGTON UP — President •Eisenhower set a new standard for television speakers Monday night. Although dealing with such ten-sion-loaded subjects as the H-bomb, communism and depression, he was as relaxed as a neighbor leaning on his lawnmower, informal almost to, the point of being chatty. The President used no script and spoke With a sort of effortless sincerity and calm that Irelied the concern of a bomb-worried world which he was attempting to assure. Just as one of ms predecessors, .the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, was the first President to master the radio microphone, Mr. Eisenhower has progressed from his own early days of knuckle-cracking uneasiness on TV to The smooth" job he did Monday nigjht over the major television networks. Some of the credit for iMr. Eisenhower’s top - notch performance must go to his television and radio adviser, Robert Montgomery, the actor and producer who has concentrated for several months on smoothing the technical aspects of the President’s appearances. But Montgomery says, "I’ve never worked with a man so quickly competent.” Mr. >Eiseniiower spoke from the broadcast room on the ground floor of the White House. Instead of sitting stiffly behind a table and reading from a prepared text, he perched casually on the edge of his desk. — Directly in front of him were two “live” TV cameras, a newsreel camera and one camera shooting film for the television reels. In the middle of the cam eras was a large. clock: with which- -Mr. .Eisen ho wer paced himself to conform to the inelastic network schedules. Besides each of the TV cameras, was an easel and a set of cue cards. These cards were the only guides the President used in his delivery, although he had put in many’ hours thinking about what he would say. Thoughout the speech, Montgomery crouched on the floor and shifted the 3-by-4-feet cue cards as the President covered point after point. The cards bore such prompting lines as “a big subject .... under stand power” or “faith: believe in our country.” From these cues, the President, sometimes slightly smiling, sometimes quite stern, proceeded to fashion some of his most effective speech phrases to date. Trained attendants supplied with timetables, travel literature and general information serve as walking information desks mingling with the crowds of travellers in British Railway stations. The ninth known planet, Pluto, Was discovered Wrch 13, 1930, at Lowell. Observatory,

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Examinations Listed Under Civil Service The civil service commission has announced examinations for a bank examiner for duty in the federal deposit insurance corporation and for a tobacco inspector in the agriculture marketing service of the department of agriculture. Information may be obtained from Earl Chase at the Decatur post office. Radio, TV Giveaway Programs Approved Industry Is Happy At Court Blessing WASHINGTON UP man for radio and TV said today the industry is “delighted” that the supreme court has given its blessing to telephone giveaway programs. The federal communications commission, which started the fight against giveaways five years ago, voiced little surprise and less disappointment at the outcome. The general feeling of members is that giveaways have about run their course anyway. Commission chairman Rosel H. Hyde decllned-eomment on grounds that he hadn’t read Monday’s 8-0 opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. The commission ruled in 1949 that telephone giveaways are violations of federal lottery laws, it announced that stations carrying the jackpot programs would not geb license renewals." The most popular programs of that period, such as •‘Stop the Music" and Double or Nothing” are no, longer on the air. Warren said "it would be stretching the statute to the breaking point to give it an interpretation that would make such programs a crime.’’ He noted that to get prizes participants don’t have to buy anything, or do anything except sit in their homes and listen. The NBC network said it is “delighted" with the court’s ruling in the case. CBS pointed out that the ban has never gone into effect because the issue was immediately taken to court. One of the chief advantages of the giveaways from the industry’s viewpoint has been low production costs. - » 25 AMERICAN (Continued From Paare One) with the Communist Chinese province of Ypnnan. They hit the enemy with 1,000 pounds bombs and strafed convoys. ■ French military sources said the situation was one of “uneasy equilibrium.” capable of being overbalanced either way depending on the sending of troops reinforcements, the difficulties of supply and the evacuation of wounded. Coast Guard's Loss NEW LONDON, Conn., UP — Richard G. Hall pulled a switch on his fathre, Rear Admiral Arthur G. Hall, superintendent of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. He's a candidate for West Point. „ , .-w.-.-,— • The sales of automobiles, parts and accessories, making up w’hat the Department of Commerce terms the “automotive group,” rank second only to the total sales of all types of foodstuffs in the United States. Michigan in 1954 became the 16th state to place a slogan or other symbol on its automobile license plates. The new Michigan plates will bear the legend “Water Wonderland."

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Two-Headed Baby Is Reported Improved Infant Taken Out Os Oxygen Tent INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s two-headed baby has been out of an oxygen tent more than £4 hours and his <-ondition is “satisfactory," a hospital spokesman revealed today. The baby may be taken soon to its home in Petersburg, Indwhere it contracted pneumonia in its one-lunged weaker side several weeks ago. Removal of the child from the oxygen tent indicated the baby "is improving steadily,” the spokesman for Riley Hospital said. Continued improvement would doubtless mean the infant will be taken home, he added. The baby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hartley, has spent exactly Half of his life in the hospital. He was in Riley from the day of hia birth Dec. 12 to Jan. 18 and again from March 18 to the present, a tntal nf 58 days out of 11$, He will be JJ weeks old Saturday. BOSTON LAWYER ((.'oßflnuei£_From OuH changed l>ut~foggy weather may delay it a little." The subcommittee had expected to start the longdelayed public hearings next week. TRY OUR MARKS FILM SERVICE FOR QUALITY PHOTO FINISHING Smith Recall Drugs INSURANCE Leo “Dutch” Ehinger FIRE WIND AUTO 720 No. 3rd St Phone 3-2004

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