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Symbols Needed To Clarify Ranks
By Dick West United Press International
WASHINGTON - Although the Pentagon is widely recognized as the symbol of our military establishment, it is populated to a sizable extent by civilian executives and employees.
The place is crawling with assistant secretaries, deputy assistant secretaries, and assistants to the assistant secretaries, who labor in relative anonymity.
SINCE THEY ARE clad in mufti, rather than uniforms, the only way to tell them apart is to run one of them up the flagpole and see who salutes him.
This lack of identifying markings was pointed up recently by a report that some Pentagon civilians were thinking of designing their own insignia to display their rank, or caste.
The idea would be for them to wear shoulder boards, similar to those used by Navy officers, upon which would appear heraldic symbols representing their place in the Pentagon hierarchy.
IT WAS POINTED OUT, for instance, that the number of windows in an office is one measurement of official standing. Therefore, the shoulder boards would have glass panes showing whether the wearer was a one, two or three-window executive.
Private lavatories were mentioned as another sign of status, and these would be shown on the shoulder boards by means of miniature plumbing fixtures.
It seems to me that the insignia suggestion is an excellent one, which should be adopted not only in the Pentagon but throughout the government at large. I can think of several ways that the systems could be used in Congress.
LAST YEAR, you may recall, our congressmen considered, and then discarded, a plan to create their own private flags.
To offset this self-imposed privation, they could start wearing shoulder boards showing whether they were senators or House members.
Army Holds Berlin Exercise
BERLIN — (UPI) — U.S. Army troops raced to key positions throughout the American sector of West Berlin today in a surprise "operational readiness test."
Troops and vehicles of the 2nd battle group which joined the Berlin garrison last week manned the U.S. Sector borders and other strategic points early this afternoon, an Army spokesman said.
The spokesman said the exercise was a "routine test to familiarize the new unit with its mission and surroundings in Berlin." Yesterday West Berlin police reported that a contingent of Communist troops moved along the edge of West Berlin, apparently enroute to maneuver grounds in the Soviet Zone.
Board Purchases Lutheran Property
Land on which the new Lutheran church will be built for KU students and faculty members was purchased this week by the Kansas District Mission Board of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
Site of the five-acre tract is the northwest corner of 15th and Iowa Streets. The building is expected to be completed within the next two or three years.
The present center for Lutheran students is at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1645 Vermont Street, of which Daniel DeBlock is pastor. Last fall 275 KU students were participating in activities at the cent-
rastor DeBlock said the new building is necessary because of present and anticipated growth of Lutheran student participation and because of the growth of the Lutheran church, generally.
The new building will be entirely separate from the existing church, having its own pastor and congregation.
their committee assignments and other prerogatives.
FOR THE SENATE insignia. I would suggest a weathervane indicating high winds, and for the House a pork barrel.
Membership in the House Ways & Means Committee would be depicted by the figure of a taxpayer impaled on the end of a skewer. The Senate Agriculture Committee would provide for its members the figure of a prostrate farmer. And so on.
Committee chairmen would be entitled to wear on their boards crossed gavels overlaying a water pitcher. The head of a subcommittee would be symbolized by an abstract arrangement of paperweights.
Finally, there would be need of an insignia showing the number of junkets a lawmaker had taken. I recommend that each trip be denoted by the silhouette of an airline stewardess rampant on a field of counterpart funds.
Missile Flight Called Success
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI)—The Air Force is building more muscles into its Minuteman "Instant ICEM," and it flexed them for the first time last night with a spectacular ocean-spanning flight.
The three-stage intercontinental rocket, shorn of some of its weight "fat," hurled a dummy warhead more than 4.000 miles squarely into a target in the South Atlantic ocean
The launching was the first at night. Minuteman spectators got a brief but brilliant view as the 55-foot missile thundered from the bottom of an underground launching pad and rode a fiery column of smoke and flame into the cloudy sky.
THE SUCCESS, seventh straight in firings from underground "silos," demonstrated that two new ways for trimming weight from the Minuteman would work fine.
In missile science, a pound of weight saved in building the rocket means an additional pound of nuclear warhead, or another pound of rocket fuel.
Lighter weight nozzle control units were used and more weight was saved with the first use of "skirts" between stages that could be jettisoned in flight.
MINUTEMAN, a three-stage solid-fueled rocket, is the smallest of the nation's three intercontinental ballistic missiles. The liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan ICBMs can carry larger warheads greater distances.
THE AIR FORCE already is building 150 underground silos over a 15,000-square mile area in Montana, near Great Falls. The first Minuteman rockets equipped with nuclear warheads are expected to be installed in the concrete-lined holes this summer.
But what it lacks in a large "bang," it makes up in its ability to be fired on almost a moment's notice. Should an alert of an enemy attack come now, precious minutes would be spent fueling up the liquid-fueled ICBMs before they could be fired.
Eventually, about 900 nuclear-tipped Minuteman missiles will be buried throughout the United States, ready for almost instantaneous retaliation in event of a nuclear war.
Portraits of Distinction
Vacation Flights May Be Reserved
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Students interested in making vacation flight reservations may do so at the information counter in the Kansas Union by March 26.
The Student Union Activities travel committee has made arrangements for airlines representatives to be at KU March 27.
Students may reserve seats to New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. Tickets will be issued by the airlines representatives in the Kansas Union lobby.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — (UPI) — Lester Fox was serving a 60-day jail time today because one of his children talked out of turn during a visit by a county welfare worker.
Child Talks; Daddy Arrested
"Daddy, is this the man who is going to take away our car?" the child asked. and Daddy was arrested for failure to report a change in circumstances as a relief recipient.
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