European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 196s novy acts on 30 recommendations by investigators Thresher tragedy brings new safety measures Washington a t h e i Standard and hat the shipyard Navy hns disclosed acted not Teil the More than 20 safety recommendations de signed to prevent another trag Edy like the loss of the atomic submarine sink uni of the Thresher with 121 men aboard on april mulled in in immediate and new direction and urgency be ing applied to the entire nuclear submarine program to prevent the recurrence of a similar Navy Secretary Paul nit no Effort has been or will be spared in the correction of any areas of operating materials or ship construction that arc he the statement summarizing the navys corrective Steps was put out two Days after the sen Gatehouse atomic Energy com Mitlee declared that conditions and standards existing at the time were Short of those required to insure sate operation of the recommendations seem the actions were taken in response to to recommendations made by a Navy court of in these Many highly have been kept secret since the court ended its probe in two months after the Thresher was lost in feet of water off the new England some of the recommendations were designed to strengthen the piping system of Thresher class other the Navy court suggested that the loss of the Thresher might have occurred from the failure of piping in one of the sub marines Salt water Cooling sys probably in the engine admitting the Ocean into her Hare inspect sons other Steps the Navy reported included increased inspection by ultrasonic Means of the greater use of additional joints in the seawater various actions Are being taken to improve the readiness of submarine Crews to Deal with in this four diving trainers at new and Pearl Harbor Are being re modelled to provide greater capability to simulate ship reaction to flooding at deep four additional diving trainers to be installed this year also will be so the Navy report to the con Gressional committee showed thut it hns suspended the Shock testing of submarines while the entire program is being re viewed in this connection to de Termine Shock resistance of parts and the adequacy of instrumentation that would insure the finding of All damages shortly after the Shock these tests involve detonating depth charges at various Depths and distances from the submarine being the Navy Suid 1u Bureau of ships intends to Weld All critical piping system joints in future design All submarines under construction now and in the it said will require ultrasonic test ing inspection of All Silver braced joints a half Inch and larger in what arc called Hazard Ous piping the congressional committee had called for a drastic change in the present military technical management it had urged that Navy officers be As signed to technical responsibility an Long As necessary to do a thorough Job without harming their promotion on these Points the Navy at capt William commander m the told a news of pipe joints welding Ralh i than a somewhat controversial system called Silver and Hydraulic operation of sea valves to do away with band the Navy said it is new transport twist this b the Marsh amphibian Bat runs on rotating its being tested it the Poblo Oas Are filled Wlla spiral much like the common Wood worn Ibe irn one 11 Ibe other Way and u goes backward Over fresh a or Salt Sand or rare strew cu1 k varies from i to Minneapolis Man j Damone declared sought in slaying but of Secretary Washington a a Man age and an auxiliary system for ing ballast tanks is being in stalled to provide a significantly increased capability to recover from a flooding in the Navy is return ing to the sort of redundant sys tem which was used in world War Al in other the Navy Laid it is improving the Quality control and monitoring of work done in All submarine construction and overhaul the congressional committee received testimony that when the Thresher was at the ports Mouth naval shipyard in new Hampshire where it was built underwent its final overhaul per cent of 15s joints inspected were found to to below apartment and a nightclub was sought for questioning in her he was identified As Waller in a Federal warrant charging first degree murder which wits issued by com missioner Sam sexually molested the nude body of miss a Secretary at the state de was found in an Alley in Northwest Washington Early police said she had been sexually molested and police said Parman recently rented an apartment in washing and has a wife in min Neap they said they understood tie and come Here expecting to get a not in contempt Santa a a judge called Vic Dumones re Moval of his son from new York to California impulsive and hut the court refused the plea of italian actress pier Angell that the her be held in miss and Are buttling in court Over Damones suit to modify custody of their Damone brought the boy Here from new York last while miss Angell was Al Home in miss Angel contended this constituted contempt of a him court order granting her custody and Damone the right la visit the boy on Superior judge Laurence Roll Len band said in his How that he had grave doubt that Damone violated the Cus Tody order by bringing California to visit Perry to beautician killed by knife attacker in building new York killer plunged a knife into the neck of i int no Nimrod several years an attractive 25yearold woman As she a Ifni Ched a self service committee last weekend in Uncle stifled Mim elevator in the big apartment of test Lenny taken in its House where she Mary h beautician and who used the name was struck Down in the 144famlly barring on apartments in she was the second woman slain with a knife in the City in three police found no immediate link Between the slaying of miss her Nan and hut of Gertrude in the Washington Heights Section last residents of masons thigh boyhood have called for the is abolishment of a civilian patrol to protect women in the area detectives whether miss sought to s Hernan dinner Date with a girl Friend to determine had kept xg142a takes off shifts to Fly Dallas Temco Doughls vertical Takeoff the xc142a made what the company pulled a flawless first transition flight the worlds largest ver tical Takeoff and Landing took off like a then towered its tillable wings to Speed Forward like a Uonjol then it eased Down to a vertical the history making con ducted at the Lui Temco Loughl Ltd was do scribed As u near perfect As you can get flawless by com1 both John Konrad chief test Pany test Ltd is prime Pilot and Ltd director of flight contractor for the i and Stuart is engines and Propri Eccl tent described the pointed the big i night us transport Rose vertically about is feet off the it then cased us Wing picked up momentum rapidly and was speeding along in conventional flight before it had flown Over fee of after circling the it re versed the halting in the air about 15 feet above the runway and easing Down vertically to a very soft 1 dont see How it could pos Sibly have gone any Konrad the air plane was through n probe Hout under perfect control to and we Exir lanced no problem it handled u though it had been performing vertical night and transition for years in Stead of doing it for the first the xcl24as first transition flight came Only a few nights after it had accomplished aircraft die xch3a its initial hover night on 2 a remarkable performance in View of the Radical departure n aircraft d Ltd officials is the nations first Verlica Short Takeoff and Landing plane built for operation Al eve Juaton rather than exp Tri mental capable of oper Sailim vertically and yet Fly intact More than 430 Miles an Sou n level the transport win carry j2 operate Shl Pya Ference it was poor to discontinue electric tests an pipe fittings of the a member of the Navy Board of inquiry which to Vastl gated the said 14 i per cent of the fillings failed to meet the High standards of the experimental ultrasonic inspection but he sold the electric tests were experimental and the Thresher was found fit by regu Lar inspection standards before to went to he said the standards for the ultrasonic inspection were higher than those set for other testing methods by the Navy Bureau of ships in All regularly specified tests were done and certified u hushing said hushing cull Ril a news con Ference in respond to the con Gressional rom Miller Pilot program asked he said the Bureau of ships had asked he Portsmouth not then under his to i conduct n Plant non cram on the ultrasonic h was not then n Nurt of the navys regular testing though it is a Standard test he the electronic should have been hush of when n number of fittings in pipes currying sea water Wen found the initial decision would have been int of the superintendent of the work on the with the Iii male responsibility resting with the shipyard com hushing Suid the report of the joint  atomic Energy rom Mallee does not main accusations hut states individuals estimates of a situation affects All Yards hushing said the classified n port contained about 20 recon Mendini tons for chem gang opera Lions at All Navy we already have taken Steps to change Many he hush in culled entirely reports that ships had been re leased Early from the j Mouth Yard to meet delivery i do not know of any instance ulily heed for he hushing said the shipyard com Mander and the Atlantic Fleet submarine commander share the responsibility for determining ready the shipyard commander Laid defense department Plain to the Yard Over 10year period have no connection with loss of he emphasized that no one exactly what happened to e submarine to link b dive 330 Miles East of Cape the Navy holds the theory that a nope in the engine room gave flooded the area and caused 1 of electric Power in ships the vessel then Sank swiftly to depth where the pressure of Teni of Uio Sands of pounds per Square Inch crushed her Hull the committee report brought s Rora state and local