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University Daily Kansan Friday, December 1, 1961
Kennedy to Make Test Decision Soon
WASHINGTON — (UPI) Informed sources today forecast a Presidential decision in a matter of weeks on U.S. resumption of aboveground nuclear weapon tests.
President Kennedy has said the decision will hinge on a study of the record-setting test series conducted by Russia this fall. There is evidence the President has received conflicting recommendations.
He has been told, according to some sources, that analysis of early radioactive fallout from the Soviet tests indicated no breakthrough in atomic weaponing by the Russians.
Other sources said, however, that military advisers have told Kennedy the Russians made advances in their September - October - November series which warrant resumption of research and development by this country.
There is general agreement that if the United States does resume
US Navy Shoots Successful Polaris
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — The Navy today successfully fired a Polaris missile more than 1,000 miles to test the rocket's ability to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the atmosphere.
The bottle-shaped rocket blasted from a stable launching pad on the Cape at 11:29 a.m. EST. It climbed steeply into a blue sky ahead of a brilliant white vapor trail.
Three minutes later, it disappeared from view en route to a target in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Cape Canaveral.
It was the second successful test of a solid-fueled ballistic missile here within about 15 hours. Last night, the Army's Pershing "shoot and scoot" rocket was shot about 200 miles over the Atlantic.
The Polaris tested today was one of the "A-1" series which has been operational for about a year. Five U.S. nuclear submarines are now cruising the seas with stores of 18 nuclear-tipped "A-1" models each in their launching ships.
The "A-1" has a range of about 1,375 statute miles. The Navy already is test-firing a more updated model, the "A-2," with a range of about 1,725 miles.
Soviets Failed Says Rocketeer
PASADENA, Calif. — (UPI)—Soviet scientists placed a man in orbit in 1958—and he died there.
That was what Herman Oberth, pioneer German rocket expert, told a news conference yesterday. He said the failure caused Premier Khrushchev to cancel the orbital program until better reliability could be achieved.
The German scientist said he did not know details of the abortive launch or how the spaceman died.
Two men have been launched into orbit around the world since then by Russia but Oberth said the United States was "not dangerously behind —vct."
Oberth said he got the information from "intelligence reports" but did not say whose reports.
He did criticize the U.S. program for being too decentralized. Oberth explained it was this failure by the United States which enabled Russia to do more work with fewer scientists.
above-ground tests, it will not be to match the 55-60 megaton bomb exploded by the USSR Oct. 30.
The United States could make such a bomb but has "no military requirement" for it, one source said. What both countries urgently need, this source said, is a defense weapon against enemy missiles.
Proponents of further U.S. testing assert that Russia in her recent series made important strides toward development of an effective anti-missile missile which this country must match.
It has been suggested, for example, that America's Midas satellite, being developed as a missile warning device, may have spotted and reported otherwise undetected facts about the Soviet explosions. Midas, plying a polar orbit, covers the world.
In the absence of official reports, there has been a rash of unofficial speculation about the Soviet tests and what the United States knows about them.
The soldiers of Co. C, second battle group, 6th infantry were ordered to western Europe for training. The official Soviet news agency Tass last night denounced such convoys as "propagations."
It also has been reported without confirmation that this country observed a Soviet missile plunging toward the fireball of the monster bomb tested Oct. 30. The purpose presumably, was to find out what atomic heat and radiation would do to a missile in flight.
Whatever the facts are, Kennedy now is in full possession of them, it was understood. He has been thoroughly briefed, according to informed sources, by both his scientific and military counselors.
Troops Move in Berlin, Defy Soviet Threat
BERLIN — (UPI)—A U.S. Army convoy rumbled along the 110-mile autobahn from Berlin to West Germany through Communist territory today in defiance of Soviet threats of "dangerous consequences" from such "provocations."
The entire convoy, composed of three separate elements, carried about 200 troops of the U.S. Berlin garrison in a new expression of the western allies' determination to keep the divided city's access routes open.
U. S. Army headquarters in Europe announced that two complete battle groups will travel on the super highway connecting Berlin and West Germany in the near future.
Speed Up Planned For Civil Defense
In Person DUKES OF DIXIELAND
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— A top Pentagon official was expected to unveil today plans for speeding up and expanding the big-scale civil defense program assigned to the defense department.
Steuwart L. Pittman, who became assistant secretary of defense for civil defense. Oct. 1, scheduled a news conference to "discuss the national survey of fallout shelter space."
THE SURVEY, costing $90 million and designed to locate and mark public basements and other underground spaces that might shelter 50 million people. now is scheduled to be completed next June.
THE QUICKENED PACE also may enable the administration to plan for a larger civil defense budget during the fiscal year beginning next July 1.
President Kennedy has indicated that this budget will be substantially increased in his money requests to be placed before Congress in January.
Soviet Film to Be Tested
In the original plans, it was expected that at most half of the shelters would be stocked by the end of 1962.
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Original plans called for devoting all of 1962 to the survey.
For the current 12 months, civil defense is operating on a budget of less than $300 million — $50 million of which is earmarked for stocking half the shelters.
The accelerated program may enable the defense department to move ahead about six months sooner with the task of stocking the shelters with food and water to last two weeks.
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A Soviet animated cartoon, "The Magic Horse," will be shown next Monday by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature in the Bailey Hall projection room.
Showings are scheduled for 4:00, 6:00 and 7:15 p.m. The film runs 57 minutes.
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The immaturity of today's college students is exceeded only by that of the alumni—William Dailey
High Blood Pressure Drug Termed Poison
NEW YORK-(UPI)-A drug in widespread use to tranquilize people and to lower their elevated blood pressures is newly and scientifically described as "one of the most powerful 'poisons'" known to man.
However, this was no reason to alarm physicians who prescribe reserpine nor the persons for whom it is prescribed. The doses used to demonstrate its poison potential were about 50 to 100 times greater than those prescribed in medical practice.
But it was a big step in exposing the chemical secrets of how resperpine brings about its good results when used in very small amounts. Exposing those secrets has some urgency because resperpine will slow the growth of three kinds of experimental cancers in animals.
THE SCIENTIFIC DESCRIBER was Dr. Eleanor Zaimis, a London professor of pharmaceology whose research work with the drug is financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private American foundation. Her experimental animals were cats.
Reserpine obviously affects the mechanism of blood circulation, since it lowers blood pressure. But the how of it is not understood and the how of its tranquilizing effect in neurotic and psychotic human beings is even more of a mystery.
Dr. Zaimas in her heavily dosed cats eliminated several possibilities as to the how of its circulatory effects. This centered her attention on the heart itself and her final conclusion was that in the cat the heavy dose "produces a most spectacular poisoning of the heart muscle, leading rapidly to disastrous functional impairment."
She found that an "active" tissue like the heart muscle which is continuously fueling itell with oxygen is much more susceptible to reserpine than a tissue which is more "at rest." This "strongly suggested" to her that reserpine "inhibits either some energy-yielding or energy-consuming reaction" in body chemistry.
OTHER SCIENTISTS HAVE REPORTED evidence that reserpine "is a highly toxic drug," she said, and "unfortunately such evidence has not received the attention it deserved."
In reporting to the technical journal, "Nature," she recalled experiments that indicated reserpine drastically reduces the amounts of hormone discharged by the pituitary gland to stimulate the adrenal glands. These experiments suggested this was produced by a "shock" reaction in body chemistry.
She also recalled the work of American scientists who with reserpine prolonged the lives of some mice afflicted with a type of mouse leukemia and inhibited growth in other mouse cancers. These scientists did not believe reserpine was a specific anti-cancer drug but rather had served to depress chemical reactions.
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