European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 24, 19$9 the stars and stripes Page 7 space vehicle getting alight push an artist s Conception shows a space vehicle at right being propelled through outer space by Low density Low thrust beam of 16ns, slightly Moro than a beam of Light. Power is supplied by atomic reactor at left separated from vehicle by a mile to protect passengers against radiation. Because of Lack of Gravity in outer space Little Power will ,. Be needed to propel a rocket once it is lifted outa f Tolje Earth s Gravity. Such Power can be supplied by a there beam of ions or even Light   Canada systems in constant change missile warning costs climbing Washington a the vast network designed to warn of approaching enemy planes or missiles is nearing $4 billion in construction costs to the . The total will go higher. This is just to put together the intricate radar and communications system operated by the air Force on the North american continent. This outlay accounts for the alarm system and Only for a Frac Tion of the total Cost of the Whol Continental air defense Complex which has been expanded for a decade As the soviet threat in creases and changes technologically. As an example the defense department will have invested in Only two fiscal years the one that ended june 30 and the one that started july 1 about $8.9 billion for warning system construction missiles planes and ships deployed for use if the alarm is sounded plus associated equipment. Merely to operate the Continental $33,000 stolen from Man 70 Cleveland a Libraro Ribado a 70-year-old widower told police $33,000 had been stolen from his Home Here. He said he discovered the loss when he decided to count the Money which represented life time savings. He kept the Money in a fishing tackle Box under his bed because he did t Trust Banks he said. The thief who took the Money left $1,000 for Ribado police said. Ribado said he did not know of anyone who knew where he kept the Money. 21/2-mile target Cable Falls in Florida City Panama City Fla. Up a bs7 target plane from Tyndall air Force base accidentally dropped a 2ja-Miie-Long steel Cable Over the Northern business Section of Panama City. The Cable dropped from an Altitude of 1,800 feet s t r u c k numerous High voltage Power lines disrupting electric service to a major portion of the City for about an hour. There were no injuries. L defense system costs More than$600 million a year. Spent obligated or planned for expenditure for four of the major warning systems comes to a total of about $3,885,000,000, figures provided by the defense department and other records show. This includes $600 million for the Distant Early warning line Dew line in the Canadian Arctic $285 million for the . Share of build ing the pin tree system along the area of the .-Canadiari border$2. Billion for the semiautomatic ground environment system Sage which receives and automatically coordinates data from outer zones As Well As closer in systems $1 billion for the ballistic missiles Early warning system me Snow . Except for mews the other systems work Only against manned bombers and would be useless against ballistic missiles. Midas to come still to come is the missile de sense alarm system Midas based on the use of satellites carry ing infrared radiation detectors to spot the firing of ballistic missiles within seconds of  and when it  res Midas May be far Superior to the ground based mews system and perhaps less costly. Defense scientists estimate that Between four and six Midas satellites might be adequate forthe detection Mission could stay aloft and working for up to three years. In current congressional consideration of the proposed $40 billion appropriation for the defense department in the current fiscal year questions have been raised about the amount of warning and the Type of warning provided in the $4 billion program some senators say that much of the Continental air defense system has been Ren dered obsolete both by what they consider a diminishing threat of at tack of manned bombers and by the swiftly rising menace of mis Sile attack. The Pentagon looks upon the in vestment in manned aircraft warn ing systems As insurance now against one form of attack while preparing for another a a form of insurance compelled by Circum stances. But some influential senator contend that times Are changing rapidly that major emphasis should be directed toward defense against Ocean spanning missiles searing thermonuclear warheads. Similar to the manned bomber warning system the mews radar net for missiles May prove to be Only an interim method to be superseded by Midas. The latter could provide up 16 15 minutes More warning time against mis Siles the Best expected for mews is about 30 minutes. Neighbouring Canada has made heavy investment also in the manned bomber warning nets about $170 million for her mid Canada line about $142 million As her share of the pin tree line construction. All of the Money invested by the two nations to Date for detection of intercontinental ballistic mis Siles or. Ocean spanning bombers will have Little use against the newest product of weapon technology. The submarine launched ballistic missile. Polio cases on Rise worst year since vaccine Start seen Washington a the . May be going through its worst polio year since the Salk vaccine was introduced in 1955.cases of polio Are increasing each week. The number of paralytic cases is almost double the total for the same period last year. A spokesman for the Public health service released figures that showed the mounting incidence of polio since the beginning of july. There were 174 cases 105 of them paralytic in the week ending july 4 179 cases 111 paralytic in the week ending july 11. The spokesman said reports com no in from the states indicate Patent Given for heavy water secret new York a Jerome s. Spevack got his Patent and does thave to worry any More about the government giving away his secret for making heavy water. It was a big secret guarded for almost 10 years by the top Security treatment. Locked safes red warning Stamps armed officers Fri clearance and the rest now it is out and a More color less Batch of technical papers would be hard to find. Unless you were an atomic Energy expert you d probably toss it in the near est wastebasket. But Spevack a 41-year-old new Rochelle a y., chemical Engineer waged a Complex Legal fight and went twice to the supreme court to prevent anyone from seeing those papers until he gave the word. The atomic Energy commission said Spevack was interfering with . Foreign policy by holding up release of the formulas and de vices the papers described. The atomic Energy conference at Geneva in 1958 wanted badly to know about them but was barred by a supreme court order. Spevack considers his secret forsaking cheaper heavy water one of the most important elements inthe dawning nuclear age. The litigation gave details of How the dec has been using Spevack s process since 1950, and built two huge plants costing More than a Quarter billion dollars just to produce heavy water by the Spevack system. Spevack figures he s saved the government a billion dollars. Helps girl recover loss rep. William h. Ayres it Ohio holds a letter in Washington from 8-year-old Patricia o. Vaughn of Akron who wrote Ayres that her Puppy chewed the covers on two books she had borrowed from a Library and that she is being charged for replacements. Instead of giving her the still usable books after she pays for them Patricia said the Library intends to destroy them. Patricia is working to earn $6.70 Shell need to pay for the books one of which Ayres i holding. Ayres having copies of the books sent to Patricia. Topi photo an even greater increase for the week ending july 18. From april 1, the Start of the polio disease year through july 11, Here have been 940 cases 604 of hem paralytic. This compares with 567 cases in the similar 1958 Span of which 282 were paralytic. For the year beginning Jan. 1, there have been 1,208 cases through july 11, with 791 of them paralytic compared with 754 cases 385 of them paralytic a year ago. Vaccination report details As to whether persons stricken with polio had received the full three recommended vac Cine inoculations come to the serv ice several weeks after the first report of cases. As of july 1, evaluation of 408 cases of paralytic polio in 1959 showed that Only 55 of the persons involved had received the three vaccine shots. The worst outbreak this year has been in the Des Moines area. Iowa had 105 cases up to july 11, com pared with nine in the first 27weeks of 1958. It had 58 paralytic cases compared with four a Yea earlier. There have been considerable in creases in polio in new York Ohio Indiana Michigan Minnesota mis Souri Nebraska Kansas Virginia South Carolina Tennessee Ala Bama Mississippi Arkansas Louisi Ana Oklahoma Texas Arizona Washington and California.  income groups studies in Des Moines and Kansas City show the larger pro portion of those stricken Are in the lower socioeconomic groups. Surgeon general Leroy e. Bur Ney has repeatedly urged intensive campaigns to vaccinate everybody under 40. He says present indications Are that this will be by far the worst polio year since introduction of the vaccine. Youth saved from pit trap Nashville Tenn. A a Young Cave explorer who tumbled 70 feet into a subterranean pit was rescued seriously Hurt and delirious after being trapped More than two hours. Of my god of my god cried Tom Wainman 16, of Nashville As he was hoisted from the pit by Jerry Allen 17, a Friend who joined scores of Rescue workers at the scene. Wainman lapsed into unconsciousness before arriving at a Hospital in an ambulance. Attendants said he suffered a brain concussion broken leg and cuts and bruises. But his condition was termed satisfactory. Rescuers lowered Allen on a rope Sling. He tied Wainman to a Stretcher. The injured youth was then hoisted by ropes up the Cliff inside the Cave and lowered Down a sheer Bluff outside the Cave tothe waiting ambulance. I was the Only one Down there and he fought me Allen said. I could t get him tied on the Stretcher. He was out of his head fighting. He would t stay Down where i could tie