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The Altus Times-Democrat
Wednesday, September 3, 1969
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The Altus Times-Democrat:
JACK ANDERSON
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA <735211
Published Daily (Except Saturday) and Sunday Morning by Altus
Newspapers, Inc., 218-220 West Commerce St. P.O. Box 578, Altus
Oklahoma 73521. Member of The Associated Press. AP is entitled
exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed
in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches
JAMES H. HALE
Editor and Publisher
HARRINGTON WIMBERLY
Associate Editor
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
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FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1969
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"No, no—when I said 'Salt' I meant the 'Strategic
Arms Limitations Talks'!"
Subscription Rates 'Payable in Advance! —City by carrier $1.80
every four weeks, $5.40 every twelve weeks, $10.80 every twenty
four weeks, or $23.40 per year in advance; rural by mail in Jack
son and surrounding counties, $15.00 per year in advance, elsewhere
in U.S. $18.00 per year.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pay attention
to those you care about, but resist undue
claims on your time and resources. You
have more intangible assets going than you
realize. Plan a more effective approach to
life.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have the
initiative and energy, but nobody is in step
with you. Do what you can alone; take care
not to distract neighbors, fellow workers.
Treat others as you would wish if the
circumstances were reversed.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Diligent
search turns up a chance for you to im-
prove your situation lots. The mails may
also carry a big message for you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ev-
erybody has a different idea about what to
do and where to go. Most do not have the
drive or the energy to match yours. Make
allowances, and proceed with your own
interests.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Impulse
that comes readily today should be chal-
lenged or else channeled into clearly con-
structive acts. Your vocation takes a turn,
slight but significant, for the better.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Romantic
interests and distant matters combine to
fill your time. Travel, if you can schedule
it today, promises to be helpful. Use the
evening for meditation, particularly if in a
strange place.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The temp-
tation is to come to the point too abruptly
and upset people. The fact that you are
right does not help. Make an early evening
of it.
ALSO IN 1966, a worker at the
Bradwell Atomic Plant near
London stole $25,000 worth of
combustible fuel elements.
Fortunately, he was caught in
the act of tossing them over the
security fence.
prepare its recommendations for the
President and Congress. Any ideas for
savings on government purchases will
be welcome even if it does take two
years to determine how.
ONE OF the first things such a
commission should do would be to
decide to save a lot of paper and
printing cost by reporting only the vital
facts and not turn out several volumes
of a running diary covering the whole
two years play-by-play. That would
add stature to any recommendations
the commission might have to make on
how Uncle Sam can save money on
everything from mucilage to missiles.
In fact, The Times-Democrat wouldn't
have its feelings hurt if it didn't get a
copy of the whole report. Just a single
sheet of paper summarizing how and
how much would suffice. Our library of
government reports already runneth
over.
procedures. The AEC keeps more
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Your birthday today: Career and living
conditions are subject to considerable
change (and probable improvement) in
the year. Every activity of your life in-
volves more people. The challenge will
shift to include learning more psychology
and practical diplomacy. Romantic inter-
ests flourish, sometimes swiftly or with
brief drama. Today’s natives are interested
in occult studies or some special technol-
ogy.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Clear away
the routine. Expect the opposite sex to
make extra fuss. State your views directly;
be prepared for quick answers. In the eve-
ning or for a long weekend if you can
manage it, take a trip for diversion.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stick to
tested methods today. Rely on your own
work instead of other people. New meth-
ods work well, but speculative ventures are
especially vulnerable to today’s pressures.
GEMINI (May 21-Junre 20): Fresh views,
some odd coincidence, perhaps even pure
luck mark the dav for you. Sentimental
interests thrive, although a better atmo-
sphere for romance must be created by you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will lx*
happy later if you will restrain the impulse
to lx* impudent today. Haste now is partic-
ularly wasteful. The moderate approach
wins with mate and associates.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your own growth
involves passing moments of internal, un-
conwcious conflicts which may upset sensi-
tive people without your knowledge. No-
body seems to get the right picture now, so
be somewhat conservative.
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RISK NO. 1—These private for mercenary scientists to put
plants are poorly guarded and together a missile. The ease of
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WASHINGTON (NEE
On the small Rincon Indian reservation north of Sana
Diego stands a brand new prototype house which ought
to stir everyone concerned with the nation’s headlong push
toward a population of 300 million by the year 2000.
To the naked eye, at a little distance, it looks like a con-
ventional, even old-fashioned adobe ranch house with a
Spanish-style red tile roof. Actually, it could help to revolu-
tionize the housing industry.
The big news about it is that it is the work of 12 aero-
space engineers who were eager to show what could be
done through applying to the civilian scene some of the key
technologies developed in pursuing the remarkable space
program.
They have turned out a house that, as designed with
three bedrooms and a two-stall garage, could sell for
$10,000 if produced in substantial volume. If made some-
what more compact, it is estimated the selling price could
be brought to around $6,000.
The prototype is almost wholly a thing of composite
materials, principally fiberglass and resins (for bonding).
Resins are similarly used to bond metal surfaces in to-
day’s aircraft construction. They are also vital to the het
shield of the Apollo spacecraft.
Other engineers have looked at the Rincon model and
pronounced it sound and durable, perhaps more resistant
to California’s occasional earthquakes than anything that
could be built.
The new house is conventional in style because the
Indian leaders were given their choice and that was it.
What the aerospace engineers have done is to simulate
adobe, tile, wood and other surfaces which mask the fiber-
glass composite. This reporter has seen the simulated sur-
faces and all have the look of the real thing. Evidently the
composite can be made to resemble any building or decor-
ative material.
The Rincon experiment is a bellwether in the use of
aerospace technologies in earthbound civilian realms. But
in California other space engineers are trying to apply
their techniques and modes of thinking to the problem!
of pollution, and there is one cluster of specialists pre-
pared to apply space expertise to almost any imaginable
earthly challenge.
The 12 engineers who worked up the Rincon prototype
got off and moving because two one-time Yale law school
classmates, Ray Lamontagne and Alan Novak, were look-
ing for a chance to implement programs in various fields
that seem desperately to need what they call “develop-
ment technologies.”
They formed Material Systems Corp., found a business-
man, Joseph Elman, to head it, and put the 12 aerospace
experts to work on the house problem.
Starting only last September, these men threw into the I
task their average 20 years’ experience in space materials’ I
breakthroughs. Their results clearly offer great promise. I
Everything in the model is of composite except the core
bathroom facilities. The company plans to erect soon a
small factory on the Rincon reservation to prepare mate-
rials for further construction.
The word is getting about. A New York construction firm
has placed an order for siding made of MSC’s composite.
Architects and others are traipsing to Rincon to study the
prototype.
With overhead, start-up costs and the materials pioneer-
ing cranked in, the adobe house at Rincon actually cost
$150,000. But Lamontagne and Novak, who have a varied
background in public service, insist an ultimate selling-
price range of $6,000 to $10,000 is reasonable for similar
houses in standard production.
Whatever the future of this particular prototype, it is a
ringing response to those who say space engineers cannot
cut it in the earthbound world.
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So How Come It's Still Heavy?
HE COULD have saved
himself the trouble by con-
tacting salvage dealer Frank
Fink, owner of B & F Em-
terprises of Hawthorne, Mass.,
who told this column: “Seitz was
wasting his time buying the
rockets piecemeal. They are
available whole. I have an in-
vitation now from the Defense
Logistics Services Center in
Battle Creek, Mich., to bid on a
group of Titan II-C missiles.”
The Defense Department does
a big surplus business. The
hardware that is sold to the
public is supposed to be
“demilitarized.” But many
extremely dangerous military
items apparently slip by with a
minimum of demilitarization.
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AU it would take is a little cash loosely staffed. Only in rare such an operation was
and an unscrupulous scientist, cases are employees given more demonstrated only last month
Indeed, a dropout from a high than the most perfunctory when Joseph Seitz, a student at
school science class could security check. the Massachusetts Institute of
probably construct a crude Technology, constructed an
atomic bomb in a basement or RISK NO. 2—F ew controls are ICBM from parts he obtained
backyard garage. All the in- enforced over nuclear ship- from junk dealers,
structions for a homemade ments. Truck drivers aren’t
Church worship, of course, can It is that mysterious blending to God.
be many things to many people, of minds and hearts we call It is a moment of rest from the
Worship is not sitting in a "fellowship". noise and clamor of a
padded pew, givihg to it is a church full of hearts materialistic world.
primarily of accounting
CONGRESSMAN Tom Steed's
announcement that he will seek re-
election is welcome news to the
communities and cities in the Fourth
District whose economy is closely
allied with defense activities at
adjacent military installations.
Congressman Steed, serving his 11th
consecutive term in Congress, is a
ranking member of the House
Appropriations Committee. This
means he will remain in a position to
protect the vital interests of this
district with its large array of military
bases.
Until a few years ago, the
federal government maintained
a careful monopoly on nuclear
production. However,
fissionable materials have now
come into great demand for
“peaceful purposes’—chiefly
for use in nuclear reactors to
generate electricity. As a result,
an entirely new nuclear
manufacturing industry has
sprung up, completely private
and competitive.
Worship is practicing the It is a period of praise where
presence of God. people show their thanksgiving
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defense spending is concerned. No one
can predict with any degree of
certainty how much damage the ultra-
liberal forces can do to the military
establishment, or to national security.
THE FOURTH District, more than
any other area of Oklahoma, relies
heavily on defense activities for jobs,
payrolls and prosperity. Any sharp
cutback at Fort Sill, Tinker, Clinton-
Sherman or Altus AF B would be keenly
felt in the surrounding areas, as well as
throughout the state.
From his position on the key
appropriations committee,
Congressman Steed can protect these
bases during a period when overall
defense spending will be reduced and
the nation's military posture
undergoes changes. His contacts in the
Defense Department likewise will
serve Oklahoma's vital interests.
I saw a sign on a church: benevolences and world going out to the needy, the lost,
WORSHIP WITH US SUNDAY, missions. Worship is not just a and the suffering of the world.
With all the crying needs of the boresome hour on Sunday It is the place where Christian
world around us, it struck me as morning spent dutifully and service begins, not ends.
a little selfish. Maybe I’m grudgingly. It is not the display Worship is hearing the Word of
wrong. Could you explain to your of fine apparel, nor a period of God explained, and interpreted
readership what worship really grabby visiting with old friends, by the Holy Spirit.
Ersatz House for $10,000J
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watch over the total nuclear temptation enough to attract
mass by taking periodic in- professional smugglers. As yet, SENATE FOREIGN Relations
ventories. But the results depend there is no evidence of an Chairman William Fulbright
largely on figures submitted by organized black market in should be able to get the answers
private manufacturers. fissionable materials. But given to his questions about the con-
Several months can pass the high stakes and the troversial military pact with
before a theft is discovered— inadequate controls, the Thailand when Graham Martin
much too late to stop delivery to emergence of a black market is comes up for confirmation as
a foreign power or underground almost inevitable. ambassador to Italy.
bomb, complete with scale required to follow any
drawings, are available in a prescribed route. They are not
number of scientific armed. There is no checking in.
publications. The priceless nuclear loads are
handled no differently, essen-
WITH SUCH a weapon, tially, than baby food or bottled
Washington could be blown right beer. Parenthetically, truck
out of the Potomac Valley, thefts cost the industry $600
Guerrilla forces could paralyze million last year, almost double
the government. Hate groups the losses in 1967.
could pull off mass slaughters.
Enough nuclear material to RISK NO. 3—As for the air
build 3,000 atomic bombs is now shipments, anyone familiar with
floating around unprotected, current events is aware that
The Atomic Energy Commission airline hijacking has become
is doing its desperate best to distressingly frequent.
keep track of these dangerous JERRY ADD DREW PEARSON
ingredients.
Its methods, however, consist
presidential commission to study
purchasing by all government
departments and recommend
sweeping changes in purchasing
regulations. The bill died in the House
rules committee. However, because of
the current so-called military-
industrial complex furore, its
supporters are anticipating easy
sailing now for the bill through both
houses.
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WASHINGTON — Despite Every day, fissionable Once fissionable materials are
strenuous world efforts to materials are processed in these obtained, the rest is easy. For a
prevent the spread of nuclear plants and shipped by truck and bomb the size that destroyed
weapons, it has now become plane to all parts of the country. Nagasaki, all the hardware
possible for any nation to About once a month, nuclear needed is an old bomb casing, a
possess the atomic bomb. Even materials are flown overseas on tube the size of a 155-mm ar-
a renegade group such as the commercial airliners. The tillery barrel, and some
WE ARE PLEASED to learn of
Congressman Steed's decision to seek
re-election. His experience and
position of influence can be extremely
valuable during a critical period.
(Lawton Constitution)
group. Two mysterious disap-
pearances have already shaken
the scientific world to its very
roots.
In September, 1966, enough
material to build six A-bombs
disappeared from a processing
plant run by the Nuclear
Materials and Equipment
corporation at Apollo, Pa. Of-
ficials later claimed that most of
the material was recovered.
Insiders have told this column,
however, that some of the
material could have been
diverted for weapons
manufacture.
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WITH MILITARY spending under
attack from many quarters in
Congress—maninly from a new breed
of isolationists—the value of
Congressman Steed's experience and
influence in Washington cannot be
overstimated.
Furthermore, the shifting
alignments in the Senate and the
jockeying for positions in the
Democratic party ranks are having the
effect of eroding old loyalties and
creating many uncertainties insofar as
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