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Summer Nebroskon
Tuesday, June 27, 1951
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Isolation-Minded Midwest Becomes
Front Line of Missle Base Deterrent
By Ingrfcl Leader Krans
la the threatening shadow
of an atomic war, the former
ly ilaliea-minded Midwest is
no longer isolated, bat is be
aming the front Wrte f de
fense for the United States.
With the build-up of bomber
and missile bases in the Mid
western states, this segment
of the country is fast becon
itrig the primary deterrent of
war, according to Maj, J, R,
Ewehle, former information
&ffioesr at Lincoln AiT Force
Base, ,
Rve types of Atr Force mto
$., raiwctKg ia sir fr the
ltfet Titan mteroontlnental
ballistic mlssfle (1CBM) to the
less Chan H-foot QoaH decoy
missile, mill be distributed to
II Strategic Air Command
statrsfele base hi Wyoming.
Kansas, NehrasVa, Sooth Da
kota, North Dakota, Colorado
and On?,
They indltrde Atlas ami two
eratioaal, a major proportion; weapons become prime tar
ot these missiles will soon be 1 few, tx Thus, the location tt
m w Midu ! iae launching sites ia the
Also, Army Nike missile
sites ill be located in the cat
tie, and tall cwra coun
try, the 'bread basket" of the
Target
Midwest could turn that sec
ition tntd a major battle
j ground,
i Why this concentration of
(defease power in the Mid
west? AceoidiR ta Mil RueMe.
Omaha, Nebr,, has often t, iV;led Slates m longer
been mcnlioned as the first jrs ta reach the enemy ever
target in the limited States in f bwt g ever the
me new war. ine reason iw jvis instead
whs ssOTnpww is uwu o.w
headquarters are tocated a
few miles south of Omaha, at
Offtat Air Force Base, SAC
(headquarters Is the control
center or central targeting
agency for assignment of tar
gets to all anted forces.
crea singly iatcresled 5w world lumber la November at
aliairs
Hatcher said:
"Formerly the fanner first
turned t the market page
when epenia? the e-enin j pa
per. Now, chances are pretty
od that he will first read the
front page aad iateniat'iorial
stories and is Merested, for
Tamlajf kis records to Octo
ber, be bserved that la
that maaia be kaftdW 11
ears, all eataUiiaS materiaU
esUae4 fr the R AUas mia
sile sites that iU be ea
strete4 at strategic Watkas
hi sUteast Nebraska,
Grocer Carl 6onebriht
example, ia fcw mr astronaut cramer.tcd poa .the attitude
proinam is pro2rc.siac. : the commca:ty conceraiBj
"Sciiti diwe to the Atlas,
the missile site coastructioa:
"At first we were somewhat
the enemy the poles, bat
it's barker fr them to teach
s la the Midwest becawse er
eoaatry Is d spread V
Ma). Rehle said.
All of this baildap of mili
tary potential to refine and
Other evidences of this huge; maintain the deterreat pos-
" It s easier tor s to reach ? a e jr uV missile
ewemv vr the soles, bat ! ! erey e enure eny t ; . t.
fltfense set-ip in the Midhxst,
inchide a concentratjBa f
B-47, B-52 and B-S8 et bomb
ers, A!r Defense Command
tare of the armed forces
thmghcmt the nation with
concentration on the Midwest
has ocrarred since the emd of
Tactical
Command 1 World War 11,
T w lT "At
. t?
Moscew, has made pede
mrk more aware of interna-
tioaal problems,"
The missile and defense
boildp ia the Miidwest has
affected not only indwittals
but entire communities.
Peaceful httle towns have be
come boo-mtowns with the a
vent of missile site cnstrac
tioa crews.
Take the little hamlet of
and the out-f-towner$ coining
in, but we have accepted them
ia a cordial way and in turn
they have become part of us,"
He cwataaued, saying, "This
sudden expansion in the town
has affected the school pro
gram. The school was at full
capacity prior to their com
ing and now appw&imately SS
or 4ft additional students have
esirolled. That oJd brick school
Cortland-near Lincoln, Neb,'! holding is laterally bulg$nj at
ib aa AJlfc site is bemi
constructed. This town has be
come a beehive of activity.
Effect Lessens
!k.t like all boomtowms, the 1
Strange face are entering ! musnroom eisect lessens as
the em almost daily, search- ; the work Jhmindles, And the
ing for places to live. Base- village of Cortland is no de
merits that stared canned fruit '. fercnt from any other place,
and vegetables, now house, Sometime this yar, jaany
workers that hav come from
as far as Canada and the
northern part of Maine,
BoomTawa
Cortland has felt the shock
phases of the missile sites w
be complete. Some of the
-"hard hats'" WTfll be palling
at while other people wear
ing the colors of the I nilea
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TTTAX MISSILE
that many towns experieaced ; States Air Force mil be raw-
in the famnos gold rash of
lt"s populatidn has in
creased over SO per cent with
in the past few months.
Carloads of rock, cement,
steel brackets and tanks have
been streaming in by rail
daily, ante a small rail yard
that once had been imsed only
for an occasional load of grain
or coal. j
Vermin Fetersoa, tfekn Pa-;
effk- railway agent sail be
baniDel five cart of real and;
Wg ICS,
But hke in the gold rush
days, evidence will remain for
out east of town, a vast hole
SS f wt ide and 1S5 deep will
house a deadly weapon, the
Atlas missile, to be fired only
in case of war.
After the crew move east,
Cortland wS3 be again a
peacefd village, " andianged,
exeeft for oe (thing. It w3
LOHRT IS THE
types of Titan 3CBMvs, he
Hound Dog nd
sQes.
Atlas missiles wfll Ibe housed
Dear Francis E. Warren AFB,
Chej'enne., Wyo.? Forbes AFB,
Topeka, Kn.J Lincoln AFB,
Lincoln, Nefcr,; Offatt AFB,
Omaha, Netor and Schilling
AFB, Salina, Kan. ,
TJtan bases wiH be Ens
worth, AFB, Eapid City,
Lwitt AFB, Denver, Colo.,!
and McConneH AFB, Wkhtta,
Kan.
Minot AFB, Minot, NU, an
Yight-Fatterson AFB, Day
ton, 5iave been "designated
for Hound Dogs and Qual De
coys, !
Missfie Train 1
In addition, railroads k the
midwestem ((also far western):
United States are the testing
grounds for a mew national
defense ooncept he indbfle
missile train. !
Strategic Air Command, co
operating with other military
agencies nd major civilian
rail lines, is operating the test
train designated to show how
wen future fleet of actual
missile trains . oould perate
ever existing tracks.
In Sew years, SAC plan
ners believe, several trains
carrying Minoteman solid fuel
ICBM'a, wfil be moving a3
roiost eomstanGy over the na
tion's rail networks.
Atlas 1CEM oomplexes are
already under construction In
the Midwest. Now that one
type of Titan has become op-
'! bases, tin addition to SAC
bases.
Backing up all of this wtea
a protective screen wf radar
Is die North American De
fense Command KNORAD) at
Colorado Springs, Colo.
According to Maj. Raehle,
NOSAD can be oaled the
piflse I the defense bnild-p
in mot only the Midwest but
Ingrid Leailer Krans was
graduated from hf Drdver
sity last January wih na
jjors in journalism and polit
ical science. She is married
to another J-scnool gradu
ate, Carroll Krans, and is
now Irving at Fort Benning,
Georgia, where Carroll
stationed la the Army . While
on the campus, Ingrid was
active 8n many organiza
tions. She was a oohmunst
for the DaSy Nebraslua,
tkins and president of BuM
rs, and a member of Tbeta
Sigma Phi and Mortar
Board bonorartet. She was
also a reporter for the Lin
coln Journal and the recipi
ent of a journalism scholarship.
also in the United States. With
its warning systems, NORAD
will flash to SAC, ADC nd
Army bases, notification of
hostile action tin the form of
aircraft or missiles penetrat
ing the (United States. 1
In war., the hunter is also
the hunted the best defensive
Prior to that time the Mid
westerners seemed to heed
tnore the advice of an isola
tionism given by George
Washington than people on the
coasts, for example.
Isolation Belt
Before World War H, Con
gressmen referred to the
bread basket of the nation as
the isolation bel Senator
George Norris from Nebrasta
voted against entrance into
World War L
Also, according to Dr.
James Olson, chairman of the
history department at the Uni
versity of Nebrasta, pressure
which Ssept the VS. oat of the
League of Nations was espe
cially ;great the Midwest.
Also, la the past, Midwest
ern ers have been somewhat
casual la their Interest in in
ternational affairs.
Marvin Batcher, formerly
on the public information staff
at Lincoln Air Force Bast, be
lieves that the tremendous
build-up of defense power in
the Midwest, has changed the
former isolationist outlook of
its inhabitants.
In ius talks explaining the
missile program to persons
living near missile sites, Hat
cher has exchanged opinions
with "hundreds of people.
World Affairs
He noted that the farmer,
watching a missile silo being
built on his field or following
the path of a B-7 from his
backyard, as becoming iin-
Eoolcs cn spec
end
missiles that you
can afford to own
Paperback editions of
"LM, INFINITY" anow
"Nuclear Weapons and Our Foreign Policy'
Kissinger
avcUshiQ now ct your
created in ths
Hebrcska Unisn
mew harbor a secret one that issg to Maj. Ruckle, Ss to be
may someday deiher a tfead-! p r e p a r e d for an attack
ry blow to the enemies of this i flhrooaiih civl defense,
country, jj w Although people m the
The school that once was Midwest have becoroe
bmUging at the seams, wSH be :: cmscious of Mcraatsana!
using mew historv boois that ! problems, thev stall do not
a iksng time that tlere has i encompass the story off the ; reatoe the importa'ace of a
been boomtowm activity. For, Space A, "faltoat shelser and other pre-
With this tieJdoifls de- cautwsnary roeasares which
lease power in the Midwest i will insure their survival in
and the chance of this seg-:' an atomic war,'"' Maj. Ruehle
snent becoming a prtroary tar- saad,
pet an the event of war, the j He CMscladed
Miidwesteraers have a definale j ""As long as people remain
responsibihty, IjiRer an atoamic war to crawl
Chd IVfenses joint off their shelters, the ene-
Th'is responsiMHly, accord-! ary cannot dairai a vjctorv.
Antln'opoligists' Modern Took
Uncover Ancient Arikaran Cultiu'e
By Rod Hansen
Modern day machines are being tosed to wncover rem
nants of an age-old culture this summer, according to Dr,
Prestos Holder, University of Nebraska Anthropology in-;
Strurtar,
Last summer Holder and 15 amhropology ima.iors began
the excavatifin of an Arikara Indian village in the vicinity
of Mobridge, South Dakota msing only shovels and other
hand tools.
This summer the work wis continse; this time wlA
the aid f road patrols, dirt scrapers, ditching machines
and other large, power driven tools.
"Since the entire area will soon be covered by the
waters of the Oahe Elver, we have to speed tup the diggings
with machines,'" said Holder,
The entire village, which once was inhabited by abouft
2,009 people, is expected to be completely excavated by
the end of next summer.
College Credit
Holder, ccompanied by bis wife, also an anthropolo
gist, and 10 to 15 students will spend eight weeks at the
village site. They win live in tents close tte the excavation.
The students earn tup to nine coQefce erred! hours far ttiheir
work.
""We are interested mainly wttfa the outline and nature
of the approximately 540 houses is the vfHagft," said Bol
der. These and their related storage pits can tell sis some
thing of the manufactured foods of the culture.''
"Ttarhtg last summer's work we found tsasy interest
ing artifacts among the rubble and random carnage areas
f the vUlagp, This summer we hope to Jit these together
to tell s more of a story,'
"The houses are either very large or very small,'" said
Btolder, "'We want to see if this as an iadicalicin of the
social structure of the cm!Re,'w
""From what we found last jar it appears that the
' smaXte'Tbetfees may ha bm the raff-raff of the village.'"
We were ttoabte to find fortresses which were to have
sujaonnded the village, said Holder, Msne detailed nearches
will be made for these this snmrner.
Excavation in the village site wiffl be done bv the
"skinning'''' or Reeling'"' technique which icmcvcs smcces
,j;ye, hratiaonta iayers tanta the desirahle 3eptth its reached.
" Road patrols are arsel to remove (he ton layers croft
the corner posts and other supporting strwtares of the
booses are reached.
When the walls are reached they are careMty exposed
and Mtoa-efl.. cflirro to their fMundatwins, lisang tractor
drawa flirt craper$ the earth is mnoved from wticn the
walls,
Artifadts
The storage cellars aie small holes, about two feet an
diameter, w&h a botOtsneck leading don about six Seel te
the anaon storage space. The dirt narjsp&s lioe pen the
top of the cellar and the anthropologist has access to the
artifacts.
A ditdhing machine wii! be msed to make profile views
of the area. Trenches will be cut into the earth, the sides
of which will show the different layers and special fea
tures in the earth.
Photographs win be taken and maps mia be made of
everything that is found. After the remnants have been
mieevered tbey will be brought back to Sbe Unhershy
where tbey w2B be studied and reconstrncted in more do
tal. ""We'Tfl be busy al next school year trying to jget ewerv
thing classified and labeled so that we can jgo back far the
last time next summer,'" Holder said.
Coacliin School Hosts Lecturers Mlleum Displays
3 Rocket 3Iodels
Two guest lecturers, Walter
Eackett, chief assistant, and
i Chuck Purivs, coach of of
fense at Baylor OnjversityJ
will conduct the ff ootbal clin
ic at the .Nebraska Coaching
School, August 17-18.
Hcyt Brawner, basketball
coach and assistant athletic
director at Denver University, i
win conduct the basketball
classes, and Louis WeweU
f ootbal coach at Bergan High
School in Fremont, will Head
three sessions in eight-man
footbal.
Climax of the school win be
the Shrine footbal game, Aug. i
19. Registration for the ses
sion is $5 and rooms will be
available in SeOeck Quad
rangle, according to Husker
coach Elfl Jennings. j
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Three Xatianal Aero Space
Agency rocket models have
been given to the Dnwersity
State Museum for permanent
disjilay, according to museum
director Dr. C. Bertrand
Schultz. -
The gifts were made bv
the General Dsnamics Astro
nautics and wil be mlaced
in a special case far viewinE
by the general pdahc, Schultz
said.
The models include the Atlas-Mercury
with the man-
shot capsule, the Centaur and
the Agena. Al three rockets
are being msed by the govern
ment for scientific space
probes.
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