Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) 4A 'JUUUUUUUUUL Weired & Co ' ! - Gen Keirn Is Helping Us Beat Russia to Atomic Plane Tight-Lippe- d Despite assurances that he In his quiet way he had already wouldn’t be expected to answer built quite a reputation in the £ie‘d of ra(t power development! th'e d His assignment To study Eng Keirn has turned down all re land’s progress in jet develop- quests for interviews and build this county’s “I have a responsibility to hold J® propelled aircraft the to a minimum publicity relating to the programs which are in my ®eU charge” he wrote in reply to a Crowned With Success By ROGER D GREENE WASHINIGTON ( AP) —The man behind the atomic plane is a man almost nobody knows He’d like to keep ft that way For more than two years in all the fanfare of noisy Washington Brig Gen Donald J Keirn has set something of a record for anonymity in guiding one of the close-mouthe- mosMmportant ventures in- mod- - cut version of a British guards timoc 1 d man mustache’ the He has testified alwIvsTe- - Keirn is the Air Force counter onCaoitol Hill hind closed doors What he said Part of the Navy’s Rear Adm n George Rickover father R secret of the atomic submarine He has never given But whereas the outspoken view His name has n“e “f i J- ured in the headlines The only Rickover used Publicity as a item under Donald John Keirn weapon in defeating hard shell in local newspaper files is a three- - admirals who scoffed at the idea an atomic sub Keirn goes paragraph announcement of the about his momentous job behind marriage of his daughter two a curtain ot silence years ago of the Atomic At sueheadquarters Yet Keirn is a man whose cess or failure could determine Energy Commission where Keirn whether the United States or operates officials recently found Russia will gain the upper hand to their surprise that they lacked in a grim dollar ay biographical data whatso- ever about him struggle for arms supremacy 5°-year- ’° we wiu Aaovnrou 5 up 8§ TO RIFRIGIRA10 ON YOUR OID g orU Brand No standpoint but from a manage- ment standpoint as well it is es- sential that I discourage publi- I y relating to personalities hope you will understand Martha with dark-eye- d ing “probably within 25 years Five months later AssisUnt Secretary of Defense Robert Le Baron spoke of nuclear powered airplanes within 10 years “or A-pla- Hes says his slender fly- - gooner By then the Atomic Energy Commission had erected four t steel towers P-fooThed? above skies the at into Oak plane Ridge Tenn and the California’s Mojave desert crown- - hush-hus- h agency finally ex- ing his task with success Keirn plained that the towers were permitted himself a rare display designed to cradle the embryo of an of excitement for simulated flight Even before the plane touched tests earth he clipped the propeller More Optimistic from his Air Force collar insignia a mh of even Early a more statements came optimistic the way veil fly from from t -- Since these programs are sen- sitive not only from a technical a Quiet Man “My husband is a quiet powered aircraft would be man” Jts wife j Guilty of Treason a little smile at reports of her husband’s aloofness Mrs Keirn said: “He’s very serious and he’s We try to working very hard avoid parties: People understand tn® that he can’t talk about his work and of course we never discuss ' A U S Army court martial In Berlin found Pvt William Marchuk (above) of Norristown Pa guilty of betraying a craft in the skies within five American secrets to the Rusyears soldier The i "f AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss sians rnf a of the had been prisoner noted for his caution reported Soviets was six for but years “substantial progress” in th projfreed several months ago ect :ial title would scarcely rate n he served as llaison officer traces his to Pennsyh more complex job in developing And Dr Willard F Libby an a second glance: Chief of the Of- - for the ' Manhattan Engineer Dis- - vania Dutchancestry an atomic airplane and earlier AEC English member testified that prosfice for Aircraft Nuclear Pro- - trict the original proj- - descent He’s a pipe smoker In- - Couldn’t be Done? for an atomic plane had pects S U Air Force pulsion ect and iater became special as- timates call him by his initials When preliminary research be- - "considerably brightened” in re- Boy-and-G- irl - cent months sistant t0the direorof tJh? five some engigan ago years tiio ELGIN 111' (UP)— Mrs Rutl neers said it couldn’t be done “There is good reason to be- snSkDlug of ’thisountrvs effort EC’S milltary aPPllcatlon dlvl He Loved Flying S10n' lieve technical progress will cen- Payne gave birth to her thirt They estimated an scooted model As a to Russia irthe race Weat set of twins in twe hav® to fnto a "ould Point Career ?bout "j1’ tirl"e at an accelerated pace” he consecutive the Colorado skies to devefop an atomic powered airplanes a and half years saidtons Keirn in summing up his four- - and has always loved flying He b°n pounds airplane Like other two sets th the ® ly Awarded Contracts The stakes are enormous Sci- - year career as a West Point cadet was born at Elbert Colo near Iead a were twins boy and a girl Tht shielding required to proentists say that with atomic air- - used exactly four words: “Fish- - Denver Feb 24 1905 So far has Air the Force also have three oldei tect crew from Paynes the the deadly awarded six contracts Friends say that behind the ing club rifle marksman craft: for the children and radiation terrific heat generThat was in the 1929 “How- - quiet exterior Keirn has a Military picket planes could program The latest on atomic ated fission by S U of hook the itzer” mendous —ADVERTISEMENT- -year They driving power virtually endless vguard in the By comparison knowl-craf- t huge where Keirn his for intense thirst say the skies watching for enemy air- Military Academy intercontinental weighs th ?’d ww Pile Pain Won't lot U without landing to refuel graduated 100th from the top in edge held him back in the ranks 350000 pounds —bomber 175 tons of military promotion while some Atomic bombers powered by a a class of 300 cadets dunn Send for this The said would u?'hM xvf r Jennics they as Keirn book The hailed of his West classmates Point uranium-23year of about single lump honest” and were winning early Eagles and be so heavy it would never get k£CTAHGCXON3C the size of a walnut could fly “straightforward contracts have been FREE off the WSfASfS commented: on Stars their shoulders made with Boeing Consolidated- an estimated two million miles Lick a Problem? BOOK to Weight his has career been help “Always willing Vultee and Lockheed for develor 80 times around the world Certainly at speeds of 2500 miles per friend to congratulate in time far from meteoric He was still Today scientists think they opment of a suitable airframe Then you’ll know whr ointmentj of triumph to condole without a captain in 1941 nearly 12 have just about licked the weight and with Pratt & Whitney and — salves —“home remedies etc hour in moments of years after graduating front West problem condescension One suggestion is to General Electric for development so seldom give Could Hover Indefinitely realj or lastinj he furnishes Point and commissioned as desPair load by dividing the of an atomic aircraft engine the the by being lighten colon and And atnmiV nnworod fistula for help piles force of his Personality the in- - a second lieutenant in the field lead shield into two segments: Som experts say that if an ex- - rectal troubles Find out wha! VilW’ a He won his star as a One around the atomic engine isting plane such as the J sPiration that has aided many a artillery you really should do how 7500 difficlassmate bomber or a against besetting brigadier general Dec 22 1950 another around the crew ytLfffi?nes transport others have been helped undei culties” There is also talk of a weird- - were used an atomic engine could clinic plan that carries an actual 12 Years in School Close-uneck plane with probably be developed and m- - written guarantee looking Photos But in the span be- - he atomicgoose engine slung in the stalled within two or three years A close-uWrite today for FREE Book photo of Keirn tween his graduation from h i g h and crew the As for Gen Keirns the quiet- stationed far h°dy in his cadet uni- school in Denver in 1922 and his “RECTAL AND COLON DISEASES' on y?e outstretched goose s est man In Washington isn t form shows a handsome blonde rise to a general officer Keirn Thornton Minor Hospital Suite 1T73 well away from lethal gam- - mg what he thinks head 811 E Lin wood Kansas City 9 Mo with piercing eyes under spent no less than 12 years in ma of atomic the reactor rays a nose school brows long high arched raPld speed-uis reflected chin wide The list includes a year at Den- stubborn recently as ver University two at Colorado ?y forehead and thin lower lip inelr85 ii ?? Jai3leJs “Don Keirn w'as a fine cadet School of Mines four at the U S and has always been a fine offi- - Military Academy and one each 1 1I?I?y r?°o11 e who led the (It's gone) i10 inf1T cer — he’s just quiet as a church- - at the Air Corps Flying School ragalst Ja a DANDRUFF mouse that’s all” says Maj Gen Air Corps Technical School Air fan dung Ten' atom tured that “e prediction Uniof Air Hall E William chief the Corps Engineering School WHY DON'T PROBLEM Force Reserve who was a class- - versity of Michigan and National mate at West Point War College liked him He OEarly in World War II he wras “Everybody PHFFT? own his business and tapped by the late Gen Henry minded just aaa5g H (Hap) Arnold chief of U S Buy it at Your Favorite Drug Army Air Forces for the first of a long series of secret missions Department or Grocery Store- Keirn was then an engine expert at Wright Field Dayton Ohio 1955 multi-billio- n eilK ii ld Has Third Twins A-bo- ngotor All “D” ioanri m-SysmUoi- 195 Genius Is Shy Shuns Publicity AJUUUUUUUUU - g SUNDAY MORNING MAY 22 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R A-pla- “ - j tre-stan- NEVER AGAIN will your d A-pla- B-3- 6 old refrigerator be worth am much aa it is today Trade it now on thia fully automatic 10 H cu- - ft Philco a refrigerator that’s Air Conditioned to keep foods fresher plus a big 17 cu ft zero degree freezer £2" A-pla- ne ntw' 5 mT I ‘ Many other trade-i- n specials Let us make you a deal Save now ! 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