Show V"- pr OGDEN 9B OGDEN UTAH STANDARD-EXAMINE- are capable of withstanding almost R SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 9 1961 ATLAS AT THE READY ligpiniini© s tfew Pioneer By Charles D Carver tion at war” Moreover the utmost care is takOgden Standard-Examine- r en to prevent an accidental launchOver in Cheyenne Wyo near ing For once released the Atlas where old cavalry regiments once missile poised near Cheyenne will stirred the dust and answered the be gone for good There is no intent to recover or bugle a new kind of military strikthese ICBMs Like untamed destroy force is Managing Editor ing rapidly taking shape to safeguard America’s security and help preserve the peace Here in a gently rolling desert broken only by an occasional farmhouse the missile age has made its presence felt in a way that no enemy can comfortably forget Here the deadly Atlas missile has been introduced into the nation's defense ‘arsenal altering the landscape and revolutionizing the whole concept of modem warfare These are some of the things a ” contingent from Northern Utah learned this past week during - an overnight visit to Warren Air Force Base for a tour of that sprawling facility once a cavalry base and now more than ever a “Sentinel of the Nation” It was a trip reassuring in every respect and made even more meaningful by the Minuteman program in which Northern Utah has such a large stake ' Covering several thousand acres Warren AFB has helped pioneer the missile program much as it helped pioneer the West almost a century ago It was the nation’s first inland facility with actual missile launch capability Although there are presently only 15 stations at Warren from which a three-stag- e Atlas can be sent hurtling skyward 9 more will be ready soon for a total of 24 base on the Pacific Coast is similarly armed for war 27-m- an animals the missiles fired from Warren AFB can never be recalled nor destroyed nor swerved from their predetermined course NO It is worth noting here too that no effort will be made to the pads Once the bird has flown the mission has been fulfilled Although an early entry in the nation’s newest system of weaponre-ar- m liquid-fuele- d the three-stag- e Atlas is an unbelievably complex “beast”— the military term— capable of an incredible performance Yet in the end its function is as remarkably simple as the bullet it ry resembles: strangely enemy oj the kill Its known range is 5500 miles almost twice that has been hinted at It is capable of speeds up to 16000 miles an hour Rising on pillars of flame spewing from three large engines and two smaller ones the vehicle of destruction vanishes quickly in the sky hurtling in a matter of minutes out of and back into the earth’s atmosphere The first stage separates and falls to earth soon after the Atlas is stabilized on course The second burns up on into the atdeliverthird the mosphere only blow to the its ing assigned target Intricate mechanisms the Ogden group was told prevent the warhead from firing until it is well over enemy territory No Atlas has ever actually been launched from any of the several although re-ent- ry suing Ssf Tuesday In S Ogden d pe l3 city-crushi- - N 4 tp L K 5 4 sn 12-ho- ur Ol ive and Mark KLENKE FLORAL 2955 Washinqun for Russell Lowell Bothwell husband of Myrtle Brown will be conducted Bothwell Monday at in Lindquist and Sons Colonial 3 pm Funeral Chapel under the direction of the B of LE division No 55 Friends may call at the mortuary Sunday from 7 to 9 pm and Monday prior to services! Interment in the Ogden City Cemetery HARBERTSON— Funeral services for John W A Harbertson husband of Edith Jr Stevens Harbertson of 35th St will be conducted Monday at I pm in the Aulto-reChaoel of Flowers with Bishop Boyd H Jeppson of the 37th Ward officiating Friends may call at the Chapel of Flowers Sunday from 7 to 9 pm and until time of services Monday in the Entombment Aultorest Mausoleum REYNOLDS— Funeral services for Leonard J husband of Mary Senn ReyReynolds nolds will be held Tuesday at 1 p m in the Larkin Chapel with Bishop William N Covey of the 19th Ward conducting Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening from 7 to 9 and Tuesday until the Interment will bfe in the Ogden services City Cemetery directed by the Larkin Mo FREE Phone PARKING IN EX REAR Ogden City Floral SERVING FOR 2219 Wasn OGDEN AND VICINH OVER 50 YEARS 4 Blvd EX 93 st 'A Men Who Know insurance ic T?' Wlitfmbf at services for Beth Ann Mr and Mrs Jerry M Snowball of 325 Jackson will be conducted Monday at 3 pm in the Ogden City Cemetery Friends may call at the Myers Mortuary 845 Wash Blvd one hour prior to fhe services on Monday CONDII-Fune- ral services for Mrs Georgina Toone Condie widow of Charles E Con-di- e will be held Monday af 11 am in the Larkin Chapel with Bishop Warren N Shurtleff of the 31st Ward conducting Friends may call at the Funeral Home SNOWBALL — Graveside Snowball infant daughter of BLACKBURN-JONG- S CO 31924th SI Dial £ L Modern as Tomorrow I FOR AIL VISUAL NEEDS s ' - for j " CONTACT LENSES eliminate the need strong unsightly glasses t HAVE THE BEST FITTED BY SPECIALISTS Or Paul K NasfeS Cradit Available for Appointment Coll 1X2-863- 3 2466 Washington Blvd Le-lan- Stephens depot commander for the 706th Strategic Missile Wing expressed tt “No missile will ever be fired from Warren except in anger and only after the President of the United States has declared this na rn an Atlas D missile looms menacingly against an overcast Cheyenne sky Lifted from its concrete coffin in a demonstration for a Northern Utah delegation the deadly ICBM can deliver its warhead on an enemy target in minutes should the need arise ARMED AND AIMED kuw UM 1 - ' AT AND THE FLOWERS ARE FURNISHED BY services BOTHWEll-Fune- ral ’ capable of spanning a continent within half an hour to deliver a nuclear warhead on target with deadly' accuracy and force This performance is made more awesome still by the certain knowledge that the 15 missiles at Warren AFB lie in their concrete coffins already equipped with warheads and capable of getting off the pad in a matter of minutes—20 at most ' Nor could a sneak attack ever hope Jo catch the base off guard Carefully selected thoroughly trained and daily drilled prime launch crews man their stations around the clock working in shifts and waiting at the for a launch order none hopes ready will ever come Allen W 1 flCRISB in Lindquist and Sons Colonial Funeral Chapel with the Rev H Preston Childress of the First Methodist Church officiating Friends may call at the mortuary Sunday from 7 to 9 pm and Monday prior to services Interment in Washington Heights Memorial Park A SPAN CONTINENT A missile of 55000-mil- e range (perhaps more) the Atlas ICBM is Col Del-m- ar services- - tor Bernard W husband of Shirley Adamson Garrett will be conducted Monday at II am Garrett I Van-denbe- rg 1 - i CARRETT— Funeral 27-m- an -- For as OBITUARIES anything but a direct hit Launching has been simplified too Briefing officers at Warren acquainted the Ogden area group E Neal Crowther with the Atlas missile program MALAD— E Neal Crowther 42 Malad died during a tour that began in the Friday in the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake a cerebral hemorrhage assembly and maintenance shop CityMr ofCrowther was born Oct 20 1918 in son of Edward N and Estella then led through the liquid oxygen Malad Evans Crowther He married Lila Mae John plant and the Wing Command Post son on June 12 1947 in the Salt Lake Warren AFB complexes yet six —nerve center of the whol Temple operaHe was a graduate of Malad High School ICBMs could have been sent thun- tion — State University concluding at the 565th’s andHe Utah was by Crowther Brothers dering on retaliatory missions as launch complex 25 miles east of Milling Co employed He was active in the LDS Church and served a mission in the West early as last August when the 564th CheyenneCentral States from 1941 to 1943 He served Strategic Missile Squadron became in the Army during World War II Here at sites carefully spaced Surviving are his widow three sons and operational one daughter Darwin Nolan Jared and Milthree Atlas missiles lie silent in dred Crowther ell of Malad his parents of RAISED TO 15 their low concrete shelters await- Malad two brothers and five sisters Gor15' to This number was raised don and Berthel Crowther Malad Mrs Richwhen the second squadron the ing in a state of maximum readi- ard (Margaret) Harris Elwood Utah Mrs Eyre (Valene) Turner Logan Mrs Reid (Lu565th was declared operational last ness a signal that can only mean cille) Utah Haws Gunnison Mrs Richard month Before 1961 has faded into the United States is already at (Leanore) Bassett Shatter Calif Mrs Meridian Idaho (Sharon) Buchanan history still a third squadron the war Funeral services will be conducted Tues549th will be nearing the compleday at pm in the Malad First Ward Under the searching eye of Col Chapel by Bishop Howard Neal Friends may tion of its construction cycle at nine Allen W Stephens squadron com- call at the Benson Funeral Home Monday additional launch sites from evening and at the family home 394 400 N Tuesday after 10 am Burial In military parlance the 15 exist- mander the crew on duty at the W control center repeated their daily in Malad City Cemetery “soft sites” are launch stations ing Which is to say that the launch drill for demonstration purposes in every detail an actual pads are above ground and vulner- simulating countdown s near-misable to a during attack A few minutes later-ana short However no two could be destroyed distance removed from the almost missile by a single enemy The remaining nine now under surgically clean control room with array of lights panels and butconstruction will be “hardened” its tons the Northern Utah delegation sites These underground silo-tywatched while huge overhead doors shielding the Atlas parted and the gleaming bird was hoisted by a huge mechanical arm into an upright flight position It was a convincing demonstration of the concept of massive deSOUTH OGDEN-B- ids on the terrence and of the Strategic Air of South Ogden’s portion major Command’s instant readiness to storm sewer and culinary water imstrike by missile as well as manned provement program will be opened bombers if the word is passed Tuesday at 10 am in the Municiple The included 11 group Building 7 northern Utah area mayors and A bond issue to finance the needother governmental leaders ed improvements has been approvThey were LeRoy B Young Og- ed in an election by South Ogden n den mayor A Sid Weese Ogden taxpayers 4 City councilman George T Frost Actual awarding of the contract Weber County commissioner Le- will take place at a regular Count Roy Hadley Weber County Sher-if- f cil meeting April 13 Golden Jensen Ogden chief of Up for bidding this week will be ' police Louis J Hoggan South Og- all of the culinary water improveden mayor Stanley W Poulsen ments including new mains to Washington Terrace mayor some areas and two reservoirs and Michiel F Burson Sunset mayor most of the storm sewer system Milton Hodge Clearfield mayor growth of the community Rapid Wendell T Snow Layton mayor in recent has made the enand Wayne Winegar Davis County largement years of both systems necescommissioner sary according to Mayor Louis J otiier business and civic leaders Hoggan m the group included Dr Drew M Les Froerer has been Petersen Ogden Chamber of Com- by the Council to act as employed appraiser " merce president Bemie R Dia- and- in 'obtaining title negotiator mond Ogden Chamber of Com- to some parcels of land needed merce secretary-manage- r Don A and easements and rights of way Carlson 4285 Jefferson Fred A others needed for conBaker 3135 Tyler Norman B Bing- through struction of the reservoirs and the ham 1530 Maule Drive water supply and storm sewer Norman E Anda 2744 Fillmore mains He delivered a lengthy reJohn F Baker 1650 Capitol Rob- port on progress of his work to the ert L Becker 573 Ogden Canyon Council at its regular meeting John B Goddard 2778 Buchanan Councilmen voted approval for S J Linford 2735 Buchanan R a number of recomII Wagner 2528 Brinker Robert L mended by Mr purchases Froerer and ponWangsgard 2784 Jefferson W Kim- dered the possibility of putting ball Ward 1319 29th V H Bryce those for which prices appeared Wilhite Brigham City and d too high into a “package” for handling Swaner Salt Lake 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