Show The Herald JowimI— 11 Magnesium Contract Is Compiled - Gov NEW YORK (UPI) Calvin L Rampton said today that a state contract with the National Lead Co for production of magnesium from the Great Salt Lake is nearly completed Rampton after meeting with company officials to discuss the $ 70 million development in Tooele County said the contract “should be signed within two weeks" The Utah State Land Board must give final approval to three of the 22 provisions which have been under discussion the governor said The remaining issues have already been agreed upon Negotiations have been bogged down by the question of royalities to be paid to Utah for the production of magnesium choloride “There is no market value at the present time for mag- nesium choloride” Rampton said "so we have had to work out a conversion formula to arrive at a value of because our royalities are based on the market value of the product” The firm plans to build a 170 million plant on the shore of the lake in Tooele County This investment figure was recently raised from $52 million after management officials decided to expand its industrial facilities Rocketeers Aim For the Stars Sometimes Hit Grand Bahama POCATELLO (UPI) Four guest lecturers will contribute to Idaho State University's workshop in articulation disorders June according to Dr Robert 0 Grange chairman of the ISU department of speech pathology and audiology The three-credworkshop is sponsored by the department and the Idaho State Department of Education 7 evalua-tionalan- WASHINGTON in speech By “Grand Bullseye" Its TOM TIEDE NEA Staff Correspondent FREEPORT Grand Bahama— (NEA)— Yoy might say space age has hit this tiny British Commonwealth' island with a bang — or at least a ‘number of thuds clunks splats splashes and even “boiiings!” The sounds are those made by aerospace missiles which for the past decade have been breaking up in flight and landing in local fields Residents discover missile parts in back yards on roofs and littered across beaches Some fishermen swear they have found bits and pieces of old rockets inside the gullets of their daily catch As a result this island located 1M miles from Cape Kennedy’s launch facilities has bees called by some By STEVE GERSTEL WASHINGTON (UPI) Is scion of Harry Flood Byrd Virginia's old and traditional political dynasty ready to shed his party heritage and become a Republican? It's a possibility although the odds are long Once again ai they do from time to time reports have surfaced that the old senator might turn his back on the Democrats and pledge hia allegiance to the GOP ami stra- tegic location puts it directly In the path of almost every-thin- g shot from Florida— which since 1953 has Included mere than 1759 articles of war and peace On the average about one of every 12 of the missile shots has gone astray or at least partially aborted And a good number of them have required detonation while flying over or very near Grand Bullseye The defamations are meant to keep erring missiles from falling intact into Freeport or other population centers But nothing keeps the shell fragments from coming down So they do Regularly As it happens Grand Bahama Island isn’t the only land mass off Florida subject to missile sprinkling And there is nothing uncommon about rocket fragments a reasonable comment: “I do not comment on But would this be the comment of a politician who never has considered switching parties or a senator who has been wooed by the opposition its and rejected outright blandishments? environment Activities will include lectures discussions and demonstrations related to language articulation acquisition pathology and problem remediation Registration fee is $45 Students desiring additional information may contact Dr Grange at IEU Fifteen students have been granted stipends to attend the workshop Those from ISU are Mrs Alton L Falter Pocatello graduate in elercntary education Sharon L Silberg Boise senior in speech Judith pathology Harms Boise graduate in elementary education Other stipendiaries attending are Fred T Miller Louise Mingo Betty Moore and Patricia Jones all of Pocatello Gary L Adams Caldwell James Anderson Lewiston Julie Beecher Rexburg Ruth Johnston Twin Falls Arva Lovell Black foot Patricia Parks Idaho Falls and Colleen Beli Hailey Pope’s Visit By Gill Fox SIDEGLANCES hearing therapy the workshop's primary aim is to assist students in becoming well versed in disorders of articulation Ideas will be presented on the organization and treatment of misarticulation and other speech problems in the school GENEVA --Sen (UPI) William Proxmire is vowed today to continue to press fqr cuts in the Pentagon budget aaroite what he termed an altempTby President Nixon to intimidate of opponents military spending "Luxury military budgets weaken this country" Proxmire said “Freedom is stilled or rockets themselves ing land- somewhere they 811001(111 Officials especially re- member the early days of missile testing as times of One techunpredictability nician who was around then remembers: “The things used to'come down in some of the dpmdest places” " Once a shot veered off course headed south and hit a cow iii Cuba Florida itself was peppered with particles of numerous launch aborts Windows were broken houses damaged — and people scared out of their skins “In the old days” says Stan Monfette a missile tracking veteran on Grand Bahama “they used both sides of this island as splashdown areas It was quite a sight — especially at night We’d see a big ball of orange flame come up out of Kennedy — heading right for us They never hit here as far as I know but many of the fragments did’ Then there were the days of the Snark — a primitive air breathing Model-- of a T missile which was lannched by sled Every time it was oldsters remember the world ducked It would somp ersault dip dive and proceed very indirectly toward Grand Bullseye “That particular missile was not very accurate” Monfette says understating it “Everyone used to joke about the Snark-infeste- d loop-the-loo- waters” But the good old bad days of missile testing are gone forever — or so Monfette and other aerospace veterans believe They say rocket science has complete ly minimized missile error and civilian danger US government records indicate that foreign-fallinrocket fragments have beeii diminishing since 1960 The records say nothing has hit the US mainland since then And worry in foreign capitals — once rather prevalent —has fallen off to a few isolated and unsupported complaints Furthermore officials add even the straying missiles have had a good safety record They have never killed or seriously injured anyone A dozen or more deaths have resulted from spaceport experiments the figures show (including three astronauts last year)— but no fatalities have been directly attributed to abortive or straying launchings The only serious US in g Virginia's current gubernatorial primary campaign Byrd considered vulnerable in his bid for The latest poll shows him running very strong among the state's Democrats Virginia Republicans una- admit they have wocod Byrd and the feeling is that a coalition of ?? Byrd machine and the GOP could rule Virginia for two decades Byrd likes to think of himself bashedly but his as an independent record refutes it Like his late father he is philosophically more attuned to the Republliberal not icans Republicans either He is a Virgin a Democrat out certainly on the right bank of the mainstream of the national Democratic Party be readily Byrd would accepted by the Republicans and would risk losing little Bf within the Senate hierarchy He ranks last among Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee and last on the Committee which his father headed before retiring Byrd has stressed to reporters he will make his decision on the 1970 race when the calendar reaches 1970 It could be an Interesting New Year's Day in the Old Dominion jury tied to an actual missile straight" In a statement at ‘he third firing occurred several years of hearings by the Senate-Hous- e Kea-nedday y ago At the time a Cape economy in government was employe watching a launch from the top of a subcommittee which he heads building he lost his balance on military spending Proxmire fell off and broke a leg deplored “unfortunately strong Still the experts admit language” by Nixon in his anything can happen and speech Wednesday at the Air probably will Launchings ’ Force Academy are still exploding in flight Nixon told Air Force Acadeor during take-of- f (the last my graduates “it is open was in February) and even season on the armed forces" flawless flights continue to and added that continued US ! drop residue military strength is the world’s So the Grand Bullseye best guarantee of peace nickname sticks here ApProxmire said the President's plied mostly in jest and af- speech “has been interpreted as fection it remains complete- an attack on the patriotism of ly apt those who are questioning the As one of the natives puts basic need of this nation for a it: “Mon some day they force as large and gonna start for the moon and military burdensome as we now have" wind up here Then we’ll all be famous — if we ain’t all dead" Service starved? Cited — Safety There's a STANDARD’ li answer rrtf SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-T- he National Automobile Club reports statistics show auto travel on the interstate highway system is safer than other It’s free and plentiful with any product in our full line of fuels and lubricants 5S roads In 1967 289 people died for each 100 milliop vehicle miles of travel on interstate highways while other roads had a rate of 566 deaths CAU YOUR STANDARD OH MAN IN 10SAN JMX MURRAY SUndird OH -- 7521216 Company ol California you had some cereal d therapeutic skill of professionals 1969 when we ignore human needs Let us get our priorities Would it for instance be the reply of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield? Or Sen Willium B Snong also of Virginia? Not likely Aside from Byrd's refusal to Guest lecturers are Dr One report even indicated an statement Katherine Snow Egan a former announcement was imminent make a Sherman-lik- e faculty member of ISU now at Other rumors link a defection renouncing any ambitions to Central Washington State Cocross the aisle and take up with Byrd's 1970 residence with the Republicans Dr llege Ellensburg Wash campaign what other consideration go James Carrell University of into the speculation about the Washington Seattle Nick QuarThe one person who could kill senator's plana? to director speech and faring or kindle all the rumors refuses services Muskegon Mich and Until a very recent poll to do either Byrd takes astute Mrs Margaret Palmer formerin connection taken like with sounds behind what refuge ly at Washington State College and Cheney it S Proxmire Plugs For Cuts Workshop Is Harry Byrd In a Mood To Turn Into A Republican ? 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