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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, April 20, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 20, the stars and stapes so Ijuro. Its first Squadron off. Titan  Fco Ranat ref try and said total Mike Force will Fie e a its intercontinental Force will triple again. Their web de . Oppatt including nine an As combat ready that Day. " in  compose now operational ? the nation s most pow aus missiles which since 1958,minuteman goes into service this Altai i Squadron was.  strategic air the air5 Force systems Evio Eit the a Rafle s 1st Titan so in Colo. At Lowry air Force base near  nine launcher Squadron is broken into groups of three mis Siles each and buried deep under ground for Protection against Nuar blasts. The nearest launcher is about 25miles from the Colorado statehouse Here. And each Complex of three is spread Over six acres beneath  Plains East of Denver the Titan missile is a liquid fuel giant with a first stage developing300,000 pounds of thrust and a Sec Ond Ataee with 80000  110 tons at launch the missile stands 97 feet High. It Range is nominally stated by the air Force to be More than ?,325miles, Bat both it and the Atlas Nave demonstrated ability to fly9,000 Miles. The two Titan a Hadrons Here second Squadron of nine wid be operational in a mutter of weeks Cost $400 million. York cad the Stock. Again thursday was so in Advance of weekend the Market Good Juday. We mixed at the Start ahead  to. A stub Obstet woj to into the final half 4, Market Welt ahead on average. Most Gams ranged from fractions to around two Points a  and poor s Soo Stock in Dex Rose 32 to 68j59, indicating the addition of about $2-2 billion to the quoted value of All Stock listed on the new Yorito Toufe Exchange. The s end p 425 Industrial were ahead ,36 to 72 33. Dow Jones preliminary closing averages 30 industrials ?9125 up 3m 20 rat 14354 off 0.47 15utilities Laass Tyty 038, an4 65 stocks 23&s5 up 0.71. Fly. Stock Exchange prices Wip.  Cut a few of fac 2s7wr or Tafft. Wet . A 4u ski Titt Nunu to a s a �111% it Ratu m sift in rat my Tom. -.  p. Coh Pray Cui h Mca Sims a Ctm. Jul b7% he 4jftjl a a it. A i 4tt 3% it 81 w an so cd Hiram a am St few of fruit 28% it ital 0% to no fib 38% film to of two pm i4ff torn a Vertol i a Pierce. Fenner $ Smith Frankfurt iffy Timi funds prices him 1f.lt titans Abe ready Helgi  inspect misses the first Titan 4aadran to  Ever to the strategic air cd for duty fat a ceremony neat Deaver Colo. Asso Fauad Frew photo xl5 passes test Points for 47-mile-Ffigh flight Edwards air Force base Calif. Up Pilot Joe Walker flew the rocket hip x3s through successful test of a new secondary control system thursday in preparation for a 47-Mlie-High flight in about two weeks. Walker streaked the x15 to a Altitude of 150,000 feet29 Miles at a Speed of about 4,000 Miles a boo in his third attempt in three Days. The flight was postpone wednesday because of poor nato crewmen launch Jupiter Cape canaveral. Pla. Up a nato Crew of missile men successfully fired an american built Jupiter intermediate Range missile out Over the Atlantic. The 59-foot rocket carrying minimum amount of testing gear shot from its launching pad in billowing Cloud of smoke and flame within about 15 minutes the Jupiter s nose Cone and its Dummy warhead plunged into a planned target area in the Atlantic about 1,500 Miles Southeast of the launch site weather and the Day before by technical difficulty. Another x15, fitted with Minneapolis Honeywell automatic adaptive flight control system was scheduled to be flown Friday to a height of 205,000 feet at a Speed of about 3,640 Miles an hour Fey Neil Armstrong. It Wal be the fourth of six scheduled tests for the system Armstrong tested it test  purpose of thursday s Hight the 50th since the x15 pro Gram began three years ago and Walker s 10th at the controls Wasto Check out the alternative stability augmentation syst Eib the system is a Back up Pilot control system should the main system fail prior of re entry int Earth s atmosphere. Secondary pure one was to study re entry characteristics of the x15 at higher angles of attack. This flight and Armstrong s were to be warmups for a 250.000-foot flight hear no evil Washington up  Roosevelt told a Senate investigation of Neur Fng Aid prices that financier Bernard Baruch uses his Aid very selectively. When he in t interested she said returns it  migs Down Light plane in East zone Hannover Germany a . Trade Mission to to or rare tit Berlin Friday to help spar get Man american cd Yuneice. It will bring 260 proposals fro american companies for joint Busi Ness ventures licensing agreements and exchanges of goods and Terr aces members of the its Tao in specialists in automatic controls tar data processing machinery and pcs Stu mentation. The Mission is accompanied by Bernard k. Haffner of the  div apartment of Commerce. German businessmen wishing appointments with the Trade Mission a of Tab Day May make them through Fie economic Section of the a Berli Mission. The Trade Mission wifi tie in Ber Lin through monday. It a Flat Chen Fly to Frankfurt where Huff Verwill address an american chamber of commence luncheon tuesday at the Frankfurter hot hotel stars & stripes Marks 20th birthday. -i.1. F continued Frt i Fose f newspaper Back to the civil War. He said in editors have Calwa Esdone their urn Cost to keep the paper objective and impartial and will continue to do so Art entertainment highlight was Kwh Jed when a1c Anthony j Lom Bardo. A concert pianist from the i acrid tactical fighter Wing Lethe 40 members of the Darmstadt cite orchestra in the stars an Snipes  l Onui Ual combo was i grandly Fay the a tent eds of cans and germans it the hangar.-. A Orch extra under tee a pee cos Imd a meds or of Folk songs Courtesy of 0% tit Darmstadt lombards later in the evening offered selections from Chopin and Beethoven and played with the  the 17th air Force dance band. The. Band is directed by two Nicholas azi Clina the rousing tunes of the Garryowen pipe and dry str corps from the eth Cav to Samberg Ted by 3gt drum major Richard Kirk Lanful. Brought repeated rounds of  floor show featured Rex Roper and im111 be kid. � cow boy rope Tekl War and he Ima shop team Kuusik Ivet Mart Jane Dick and the Danea am of Gtna " and Brout a Gra of theol mod Ern Tonkih to m traditional Isnow Biz routine. They Are Muring to end in and have appeared Over in Abr tenets. Miss Zotck or control to pigs set tall series of classiest Tendi Uona be Summe Flim won Ovat Foa front the audience. Clinti inf Gentral team that has be ii dancing together Fot 10 Yeara Drew upon Sll their Bettev National exit Rioce to present program that was sculptor i Tion. Gifts and c0ngratulathib presented to to tuft of. The City at to Flejter " com ii. The network  
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