Thursday, April 20, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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KU's centennial desperadoes stand before Strong Hall minutes before they staged the robbery. Reward is offered for the capture of members of "Black Pete's" gang.
Wanted一
Sheriff Captures 3 Men In Robbery; 3 Loose
A six-man band of desperadoes held up the registrar's office yesterday afternoon. Three of the bandits escaped in a horse drawn wagon. The other three were captured in a running gun battle when they tried to kidnap the maver's daughter.
The elaborate plan to rob the registrar's office, kidnap the mayor's daughter and hold her for ransom was the first step in the celebration of Centennial Week.
THREE OF THE outlaws, members of Black Pete's gang, went in through the front of Strong Hall and the other three came in a side door. The ones who came in the side door were a little behind the time schedule and as a result ran into the sheriff, four deputies and a retired Army Captain as they tried to escape with the mayor's daughter.
It was the retired Army Captain who led chase in the capture of the three kidnappers.
Each of the three who got away in the horse-drawn wagon carried a bag of money. The loss is still undetermined. There have been rumors, however, that the amount was so great that tuitions will
THE SHERIFF said he was confident that the money would be recovered. He said he thinks the three who escaped may try to return to help their pardners break out of jail.
have to be raised next semester to compensate for the loss.
The outlaws had originally planned to rob the business office but changed their mind because someone with more serious intentions might have taken advantage of the situation.
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And he was right to a point. The United States had the Atlas and was perfectly capable of stepping up production in a program that started with only grudging support in 1954.
BUT HE MISSED one point that is only today coming home in this deadly game of nuclear chess being played with the Soviet Union in ability to deliver a warhead by rocket over 6,000 miles and hit on target.
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INGLEWOOD. Calif. — (UPI)—In the uproar and hysteria that followed Russia's launching of Sputnik in 1957, a high government official is said to have reacted:
An Air Force colonel put it this way:
"Missiles?" Well, hell, build more missiles."
U.S. Missile Programs Advancing
"Simply to have rolled out missiles would have been as if Detroit spewed out brand new high-power automobiles from its assembly lines into a nation that had no highways, no filling stations, no traffic laws, no police traffic force and only a handful of people who knew how to drive a car."
The missile itself is only 20 per cent of the job
And that fact is behind what has became a highly vociferous and controversial argument over whether there is a "missile gap" and whether there has been a colossal mess in what is known as "activation"—getting a missile pad into the state of readiness that the Strategic Air Command can fire within 30 minutes of warning of an enemy attack.
THE MAIN CONCEPT that must be understood in the whole endeavor is that of "concurrency."
In the past it has taken eight to ten years to put into operation a
Ten Women Attend AWS Convention
Ten KU women took part in the annual convention of Intercollegiate Associated Women Students (IAWS) held on the University of Wisconsin campus during Easter vacation.
They are Lois Ann Ragsdale, Karlene Howell, Kansas City; Judy Anderson, Garden City, junior; Marilyn Mueller, Kirkwood, Mo.; Susan Callender, Bonner Springs; Sharon Saylor, Morrill, sophomores; Ann Leflter, Pittsburg; Sondra Hays, Norton; Patricia Kendal, Holton, and Ethel Maxwell, Mission, freshmen.
brand new weapon—a bomber, for example. And even then there was previous experience to fall back on. But the ability to build and fly a plane is of no value in launching a missile.
The Air Force—under tremendous political pressures—has been attempting in two years to coordinate the designing, planning, testing, production, installation and crew training for these slender "birds" that grow more sophisticated from day to day.
SOME CIVILIAN contractors allege the military has botched the job of building the launch sites. Their complaints are mainly in the manner of the construction process. They say organization and command are lacking.
Whatever the rights and wrongs, Atlas operational bases are beginning to role into being. There are now two near Cheyenne and one at Omaha—with 24 pads altogether—activated in the last year.
The Air Force was baffled at the little attention paid the turnover of the Omaha sites to SAC after all the furor over the necessity to get these missile facilities operational.
Air Force Brig. Gen. William Leonhard, with experience building the ALCAN Highway and the Burma Road, is one of the men with chief field responsibility for activating the sites.
The main troubles have been in the primary work—excavation, concrete foundations, tunnels and shellers, steelwork, plumbing for liquid fuels, communications and power plants. Convair, makers of the Atlas, have enough experience that the second phase of installation has gone smoother except that Convair demanded precision the prine contractors were not accustomed to.
"WHEN OUR plans specified a bolt should be placed right here," said one of Leonhard's harassed subordinates in Nebraska, "it meant the bolt must be right there—not one-twelfth of an inch away. When we called for a 500 kilowatt generator, they thought 'well, here's an 800 kilowatt generator and that's even better.' Then we had to tear out the whole thing."
The program now has been modified so that contractors can be screened by the Air Force before their bids are submitted.
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gained from mistakes are now "flowing downstream" to the new sites. At the outset contractors could not go from one base to another. They were building simultaneously at sites across the country.
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