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ToHouseMighty TitansSEARCY, Ark - (NEA) -The small hoy was sitting on theground Ho was digging with a spoon in the yard of his home near here.liess than three miles away, I found another hole being dug in the Arkansas earth. But instead of a spoon, men were using dynamite, cranes and bulldozersto gnaw into the dark shale.These nun weren't playing, andthey couldn’t stop digging as the small bov did when the started.rammissile silo for a nuclear war deterrent—the Titan II.This hole in the ground is one of 18 such sites near here.The missile in ea.'h silo is designed to weather all but a direct hit by a nuclear weapon The Titan’s firing will be controlled by intricate machines also housed underground nearby and operated by four-man crews.If a war alert were signaled, this mighty missile and the other 17 like it would rise within threetargets only described 6,000 miles distant.”I #as overTo assure that these missiles are in place at the earliest pos-date, this program is being performed under what themilitary calls “concurrent construction.' This means that silos are being dug and the missile is being developed at the same time.The Army Corps of Engineers, constructing the silos, knowsvaults and slice through the air Night and day these men were 900 miles up at a speed of some digging an underground ballistic j 3,000 miles per hour to strike | the siloapproximately the size and make-underground j up of the 125-ton missile. TheMartin Corporation, building the missile, knows the character ofFor Streets, DrainageNewFinancingFormulaTold$1Changes in the method of financing a street and drainage improvement program were outlined by Mayor Toler Buchanan in a civic club address yesterday.Under the proposed new formula. one-half of the cost wouldBy working on both simultaneously—both will b# readvW together.The 18 silos will b* scatteredover an area of 70 bv 30 miles§faround Searcv. No silo will be|rcloser than seven miles to another. The base operations for these 18 missiles will be at the Little Bock Air Force base There are similar installations elsewhere in the nation.The liquid fuel that will power million Blvtheville Mhe Titan II can be stored atthe site, unlike the liquid oxygen used in the earlier Atlas 1CBM. But extreme caution must beSome months ago. City Counciland the mayor had discussed acome from parking ceipts, one-third from a 2.5 mill tax and one-sixth from owners of property on improved streets.Speaking to Blytheville's Botarv Club. Buchanan said bonds will b« issued (on voter approval) for 20 years, but “the issue should pay out in about 14 or 16 years.”used to keep the two chief chemicals from coming into contact meter re- cost-sharing formula, which as- prcmaturely.signed one-third shares to thetocity parking mpter fund, millage and the property owner.Bond brokersOnce the Titan is fired, it isthe citv, Buchanan said,parking meter revenues handle $500,000 of the issue.gone. There is no calling it back have informed 0r destroying it in flight fromthat the ground. Thus an enemy couldwill not jam its controls.It can correct its own courseIt will be possible to take these funds from the city for two reasons, he said.First, this money now is be-to its destination while in flight with its nuclear warhead capable o( knocking out an entire metropolitan area.To fire the Titan, a cover made of tons of concrete rollsthe 63-foot-iTO SPEAK HERE —Mayor Henry Loeb will address anVApril 26 meeting of Blytheville's Kiwanis Club. A group of Mem-business leaders are toing used on mainteance of pre-, sent streets and “with this new program maintenance costs will be back from over reduced bv this amount.” j diameter silo.Secondly, state turnback funds ! The. underground control centerto Blytheville will be increased | *s se^*sust^ining. Ttit men artfed and housed there while ontheir shift of duty. A 100.000-gallon water supply will be storedfor use.The work this reporter saw' on a tour of the installations was only 73 days old. Vet on the 12 of 18 silos now’ being worked on. $2.5 million has already beenIf all 18 silos are com-under the new defensephisaccompany Cooper)himare(Photo KyDAILY RECORDMunicipal Court(Charges and disposition)by about $25,000.* * •Of the $1 million total, $800,000 would be spent on streets and the remainder on drainage.In essence, the street program is this:All the city's major streets will be paved with a five-inch layer of concrete, with a minimum width of 26 feet.Secondary streets (plus Ash) will be paved w-ith hot-mix asphaltExcluded will he streets already pavedHowever, those streets (such as North Tenth* which have a seal coat of asphalt will be included in the new program, again arterial streets getting the concrete. secondary ones (in the main), the asphalt.Most of Ash Street would be overlaid with the asphalt, Buchanan said, and the gutter linewnnlH h o mnvoH hnr»L' t*\The underground silo. a big hole a 150 fert deep. Is blasted Into Arkansas shale, above.gases that gatherBig pipe in center is to clear poisonous Shown below is how a missile silo will lookwhen completed. Heavy concrete doors slide open, permitting releases of missiles. To operate a four-man squad will enter through the small unit in the center and go through the tunnel. The men will live in the igloo at left.EvenIsraelispent.pleted under me new budget, they will cost about $60 million.Trying Of EichmannSparks Controversyedly\eaion iAKa iinfoiUSdiscersThewhitorAandthemgwhinesof iawhtheanlt;spc1witagiofurnSV!wpndelmitorisBrdiron inemiagthineteivePrdrpr(Jlt;edFor each silo, it would he a one-shot deal. Although the firing of the missile wouldn't destroy the site, the military strategists do not feel a reload would be necessary.Completion date for the first site is the end of 1963.When I returned form the site, the little boy who had been digging for fun in the dirt with the .spoon was gone.But the menwere still dig-By RELMAN MORIN ..JERUSALEM lt;AP - Spreadacross «ix columns of discussionin the Israeli newspaper .Jerusalem Post is the caption “Trying Eichman — triumph or tragedy?’’ This question is the subject of fierce controversy in Israel today with many clashing point ofview*.Adolf Eichmann. chief of the Jewish affairs section of the Nazi Gestapo, goes to trial here Tuesday.Iging.• imination plan known as the “final solution of the Jewish question.’’You might expect to find unanimity of opinion on this extraordinary case, the justification for kidnaping Eichmann in Buenos Aires last yea, and the desira-bility of trying him in Israel.But opinion ir by no means unanimous.A young Israeli, noting the immense labor in preparing for the trial, remarked quietly : “One bullet in Buenos Aires would have made all this unnecessary.”klt;allwlntSllfeihaerto'Gtsilt;mthafta
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1961
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