Wednesday, April 17. 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Navy Board and Destroyer Probe Thresher Tragedy
Aboard the USS The Sullivans—(UPI)—a destroyer, equipped with super-sensitive sonar devices to map the ocean's floor, joined the search today for the exact location of the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher with 129 men aboard.
Week-long attempts to pinpoint the watery grave one and a half miles under the North Atlantic have failed. The scene is 220 miles east of Cape Cod.
The arrival of The Sullivans will increase to eight the number of vessels patiently criss-crossing a 10-square-mile patch of the ocean in search of the wreckage and hunting for additional debris from the stricken vessel.
The Sullivans was to rendezvous with the destroyer Warrington to transfer new charts and supplies to the task group flagship. Capt. S. A. Andrews, commander of the submarine development group and head of the search, is aboard the Warrington.
Besides The Sullivans and Warrington, the other six ships patrolling the search area are the Polaris missile submarine USS Thomas Jefferson, the submarine rescue vessel Sunbird, the USS Gillis, the conventional submarine Redfin, the USS Rockville and the research vessel Atlantis II.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. —(UPI)— A Navy board of inquiry investigating the sinking of the nuclear submarine Thresher with 129 men aboard yesterday ordered the skipper of an escort vessel to explain why he did not report the sub's final messages.
The board named Lt. Cmdr. Stanley Hecker; 36, of Brooklyn, N. Y. commander of the escort ship Sky-
lark, "a party to the inquiry" into the tragedy.
The Navy said the court will not meet today as originally scheduled, presumably to give Hecker time to confer with his counsel and to re-examine the Skylark's log. It was expected to resume hearings tomorrow.
THE COURT EMPHASIZED that Hecker's action could not "conceivably have contributed in any way to the loss of the USS Thresher and those on board."
Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin, president of the court, said Hecker was not accused of dereliction or neglect of duty. By making Hecker a party to the inquiry, Austin said, it will "enable him to present his side of the story."
IN WASHINGTON. Adm. George W. Anderson Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, said he believed the Sky-lark officers did some "Monday morning quarterbacking" during their testimony before the inquiry board.
"I am sure that they were endeavoring to report everything that they considered important at the time. But later, in retrospect, Monday morning quarterbacking you
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Math Dinner To Be Held Monday
The dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
"Mathematics Today: A Discipline in Fission," will be the topic discussed by the guest speaker at the annual honors dinner of the department of mathematics.
might say, they came to certain conclusions and very properly presented these conclusions and their observations at the time of the court of inquiry," he said.
The speaker will be Wallace Given, professor of engineering sciences from Northwestern University. He is presently associate director of the applied mathematics division of the Argonne National Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission.
In previous testimony Hecker and his navigator aboard the Skyklar, Lt. (ig) James D. Watson, said they received a message from the submerged Thresher that she was "Experiencing minor difficulty. Have positive up angle. Attempting to blow." This meant that she was trying to surface.
BEFORE RECEIVING these messages, the Navy had said there was no indication of trouble aboard the Thresher.
They also said they heard sounds of blowing and a "muted dull thud" like a compartment collapsing.
The 351 foreign students attending KU have been invited to an American-style picnic to be sponsored by Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Kappa Theta fraternity this Sunday.
Happy Hour Picnic To Be Held Sunday
The picnic, under the People-to-People Happy Hour program, will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on the grounds behind the Phi Kappa Theta house.
Included in the planned entertainment will be singing of sorority and fraternity songs and folk songs.
In addition to offering the foreign students and members of the two houses an opportunity to become acquainted, the picnic will also serve as a type of farewell party for the students who will be returning to their native lands at the end of the semester.
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How Ford economy won for Tiny Lund at Daytona
The Daytona 500 is one of America's toughest stock car events. It measures the toughness, stability, over-all performance and economy characteristics of the cars that take up its challenge in a way that compresses years of driving punishment into 500 blazing miles. This year mechanical failures claimed over 50 per cent of the cars that entered. That's why Tiny Lund's victory in a Ford (with four other Fords right behind him) is a remarkable testimony to sheer engineering excellence.
Lund attributed his victory in part to the "missing pit stop." He made one less pit stop for fuel than his competition proving that Ford economy can pay off in some fairly unlikely situations!
Economy and the winner of the Daytona 500 might sound like odd bedfellows at first. Yet economy is basic in every car we make . . . yes, even the Thunderbird is an economy car in its own way. Here's what we mean . . .
Economy is the measure of service and satisfaction the customer receives in relation to the price he pays for it. It does not mean, however, austerity . . . you have taught us this. Americans want—and we try hard to give them—cars that are comfortable to ride in, fun to drive, and powerful enough to get out of their own way. Not many Americans want to settle for basic transportation. You see this in our sales figures—more than half of our 1963 sales are coming from the top of each model line. We're selling convertibles, hardtops, the jazzy cars . . . the bucket-seat, high-performance, luxury editions are going like hot cakes.
Yet for all the fun that people are demanding in their cars, they still are
very conscious of the element of thrift of avoiding unnecessary expense. This is the kind of economy we build into every car from the compact Falcon to the luxurious Thunderbird.
There's a special economy, for instance, in Ford's freedom from service. Every car and virtually every wagon can travel 36,000 miles before it needs a major chassis lubrication. Other routine service has been reduced, too—because these Fords are simply built better—and of better materials than ever before.
In its own elegant way, even the Thunderbird gives you economy. It will travel 100,000 miles or 3 years before you have to lubricate the chassis. Thunderbirds have a way of becoming classics—as a look at their remarkably high resale value will quickly tell you. This, too, is economy.
Once, long ago—before the arrival of the Income Tax—a wealthy lady was asked to comment on the solid gold plumbing of her latest villa at Newport. "So thrifty, my dear," said the dowager . . . "it will never, ever rust."
Economy then, is many things to many people. Whatever economy means to you, you're pretty sure to find it in a Ford.
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