University Daily Kansan
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Three AFROTC Cadets Take 600-mph Plane Ride
Friday. Jan. 16. 1959
Three KU seniors recently flew from Spokane, Wash., to Elgin, Fla., in four hours.
Jerry G. Miller, Lawrence, Robert E. Boehme, Goodland, and John L. Fourrét, Mission, Air Force ROTC cadets, were Air Force guests in a 600-mile-an-hour KC-135 jet transport.
The men, who are in pilot training in connection with BOTC, are carefully screened through aptitude and physical examinations for the advance training.
The three watched the Air Force's firepower demonstration at the Air Proving Grounds at Elgin.
Thirty-six and one-half hours of flying instruction is given senior cadets who have been selected for pilot training. The men can qualify for a private pilot's license after completion of the training.
First hand observation of Air Force Base operations is part of the training.
The KU 213-man Air Force ROTC Cadet Corps is one of 180 such units in universities and colleges over the nation.
The KU unit was established in 1949 when the Air Force was made a separate branch of the Defense Department. Since then over 650 cadets have been commissioned second lieutenants from the KU detachment.
Enrollment in the program is voluntary. In the junior year each cadet is designated to specialize in one of four areas—pilot training, navigator training, scientific-technical, or administrative.
SKY SCANNING—Four Air Force cadets and staff officers from KU observe landings at Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla., on a recent tour of the base. From left are Richard L. Branham, Neosho, Mo., freshman; Jerry L. Friedman, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Capt. Donald T. Hawkins, assistant professor of air science, and First Lt. Donald L. Hunter, instructor of air science. (Vance Photo)
Civilian Clerk Wins From Navy
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A civilian naval clerk found guilty of insubordination for answering her hospital office phone a minute after the official closing hour, has appealed her case to the Secretary of the Navy and won.
The triumph of Mrs. Anna Wasylkow, 39, was disclosed today. The Bureau of Medicine, acting for Navy Secretary Thomas Gates, ruled yesterday that the charge be expunged from her record.
Two weeks later she received a reprimand from Capt. Cecil L. Andrews, commanding officer of the hospital, which said:
"You are hereby officially warned for failure to carry out instruction relating to answering of phones after working hours on July 31, 1958. A repetition of the offense within one year may result in application of higher penalties."
Mrs. Wasylkow left her desk promptly at the 4:30 p.m. closing hour last July 31, but was called back immediately by a ringing telephone. She took a message regarding hospital supplies and left it for the appropriate authority.
The repreimind would have made it difficult for Mrs. Wasylowk to obtain a future promotion so she appealed through grievance procedure. On Oct. 15 Andrews informed her that the appeal was denied and that she was "guilty of insubordination."
Her lawyer then filed a brief will Gates. The latter turned the case over to the Department of Medicine, which ordered the single blotch on Mrs. Wasylkow's record removed.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles talked for two hours and 25 minutes today. The Russian said they had "an exchange of views on questions of interest to both sides."
Mikoyan and Dulles Talk
U.S. Described Safe From Enemy Air Attack
The United States is protected from bomber attack by the SAGE air defense system which automatically alerts jet interceptors and directs them to the enemy plane.
Maj. Logan C. Atthebury, electronics specialist assigned to the 4908th Air Defense Group, Richard-Gebau Air Force Base near Kansas City, described the new defense system Wednesday to the Arnold Air Society, honorary Air Force ROTC group.
SAGE is a vast electrical system which uses radar to detect, position and identify aircraft over or near the U.S. The information is fed into a computing machine which interprets it and beams it to a special scope.
"Eventually we will have defensive weapons capable of destroying an inter-continental ballistic missile," he said.
Civil Service Tests Offered This Spring
"With SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) we can track and destroy objects traveling across our skies at speeds up to 100,000 miles an hour," Maj Attorey said.
"SAGE is still very new, and expensive. Because of the impossibility of any Russian aircraft in operation flying from Russia to the Caribbean area and attacking us from the South, most of Florida just hasn't any air defense system.
Asked about the Cuban bomber which flew undetected within a few hundred miles of Cape Canaveral missile launch site in Florida, Maj. Attebury replied:
Examinations will be given for:
mediator, $7,030 a year; digital computer and operator, $4,980 to
$8,330 a year, and geologist, $4,450 to
$5,450 a year.
Maj. Myron Peale, who assisted Maj. Attiebury with the presentation, said the capability is much greater than any aircraft or missile in use.
The Civil Service Commission will give examinations for positions in several fields this spring.
Exams will also be given to college students and high school seniors for student trainee in the scientific, technical, agricultural, accounting, statistical, and civil engineering fields.
Additional information and application forms may be obtained at the Lawrence Post Office.
Maj. Logan Attebury
A map of the United States is superimposed on the scope, so that the aircraft's position, course and speed can be seen at a glance.
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Air Force Missile Fizzled Last Night
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A powerful Atlas missile which the Air Force had hoped would travel 6,000 miles was reported today to have sputtered out less than 300 miles from its Cape Canaveral, Fla., launching pad.
Informed sources in Washington said it was believed that the missile's engine cut off and it was not thought that the Atlas blew up.
This would make its performance "partially successful," they said. An official Defense Department announcement was expected later today.
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The missile was fired last night as a second test of its capability as a potential intercontinental weapon.
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Iowa Publisher and Native Kansan Dies
AMES, Iowa — (UPI) — W. S. Rupe, native Kansas and publisher of the Ames Daily Tribune since 1935, died recently.
Rupe, 72, underwent surgery Jan.
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