European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes saturday september 30, 1967 most . Missiles will be Shotgun Type from Page 1 How Many warheads would form the deadly spearpoint of . Rockets but he told con Gress a new missile math is in order. Numbers of individual mis Siles he said in january Are no longer the proper Way to Meas ure strategic strength. Without publicly detailing their capabilities Mcnamara ordered into production the air Force minuteman Iii which will be sunk in Concrete hard ened firing silos and the Navy s Poseidon successor to the Polaris which can be launched by submarine beneath the sea. Sources have told the associated press the minuteman Iii a 6,300-mile-Range missile will carry three nuclear warheads while the Poseidon will haul More than 10. The latest air Force missile May eventually comprise 60 per cent of the land icbms of the Navy s 41 Polaris subs Are being converted to Poseidon which requires a larger launching tube. These numbers make possible an adequate if unofficial projection of what the . Strate Gic missile Force of the Early 1970s will be. Sources say this Isa fair picture air Force minuteman Iii 600 missiles three warheads each plus special packages of Decoy warheads and Penetra Tion aids. Total 1,800 warheads. Air Force minuteman ii 400 missiles one warhead each with decoys and to Tal 400 warheads. Navy Poseidon 31 submarines with 16 2,500-mile Range Poseidon each at least 10 War Heads per missile. Total 4,960 Polaris 10 subs with 16 single bomb missiles. Total160 warheads. Grand total of land based and submarine launched War Heads 7,320.sources regard this figure As conservative. According to this tabulation More than 5,000 warheads willbe Navy weapons. The present . Missile Force includes 1,000 minuteman i and ii 656 Polaris missiles aboard41 submarines and 54 aging liquid fuelled Titan is which willbe phased out in the next five s last official Esti mate of soviet missiles listed340 land based icbms plus 130 submarine carried weapons. The soviet subs must surface before launching which makes them More susceptible to detection. 100 reds die in scattered if a a i Viet righting Saigon a while re shells whistled sporadically Fri Day into rain soaked . Marine outposts in the Battle of con Thien other troops reported killing 100 of the enemy in scattered fights across 1st corps area sectors in the rear of the . Army s recently formed americal division said it killed 72 of the enemy at a Cost of one Man dead and 19wounded in skirmishes near coastal Tarn by 140 mile Southeast of con Thien and across the country near the lao Tian Frontier. " South vietnamese troops said they accounted for 28. Scattered action there was scattered action elsewhere across South Viet Nam. Guerrillas ambushed and destroyed one of the . Navy s 30-foot patrol boats in the me Kong Delta. A rocket from a so Viet designed launcher set the vessel afire killed two of its four crewmen and blew the other two into the water. A second patrol boat rescued the swim mers and a helicopter shot up the guerrilla the air War a Hanoi Broad cast said . Planes Raide Haiphong again Friday and two planes were shot was no immediate com ment from american authorities. Reds claim the North vietnamese had claimed destruction of two planes in raids thursday on that major port. No such losses were reported by . Spokesmen. Despite marginal weather,. Air Force Navy and Marine jets flew 150 combat mis Sions Over North Vietnam planes from the Carrier intrepid flashed Over Haiphong to blast 16 missile and antiaircraft Sites. Then others from the Carrier Coral sea bombed a railway Highway Bridge in the southwestern Section of the port for the seventh time. Nato studies a mine defense Ankara up seven Mem Bers of Nuto decided Friday to consider a plan for helping to defend Western Europe by sowing nuclear mines along it frontiers. The seven members of the organization s nuclear planning group discussed the plan in de Tail at the recommendation of joint communique issued at the end of the two Day Confer ence said defense ministers of the United states Britain West Germany Italy Canada Turkey and the Netherlands gave directions for development of the nuclear mine idea. This sources explained was tantamount to acceptance of Turkey s suggestion that nuclear mines be strewn along its sparsely populated mountainous400-mile Border with the soviet Union. But a final decision on the deployment of mines in Turkey will not be taken until after consideration of a detailed plan which nato s seven nuclear planning members instructed military commanders to prepare the sources mine idea came As some what of a Surprise after All their conference concern with the recent . Decision to deploy a thin line of anti ballistic mis Siles across the United nato members wanted a similar system for Europe but the United states was known to look with Disfavour on this.. Secretary of defense Rob Ert Mcnamara outlined his government s Case against an abm system for Europe sources said and pointed out that it was impractical on political and practical grounds. No decision was reached Dur ing the two Day nato meeting about deploying Abms i Europe to guard against possible soviet of a British study of the possibilities of deploying them in Europe presented Dur ing the meeting gave no Indica Tion such a system could be successfully applied to Europe sources said. Boy 7, killed his brother in hit run car Houston a a car sped away after hitting a Small boy and one of its occupants did learn until later that the dead victim was his younger said Elmer Harold Wil son jr., 17, told them thursday he turned to the Driver and told him you hit a said Wilson quoted Leon Boyd Brister or. 19, As replying i know it. I did t even see him. I hit a Little disclosed the details As they charged Brister with negligent homicide and took a signed statement from complaint was lodged against Wilson or a 16 year old named a another passenger in the car. David Wilson 7, was struck and killed wednesday night while Riding the bicycle of his sister Sheila near his Home. Boeing 727, truck collide on runway Mcguire fab . Up a Boeing 727 collided with a food service truck on a run a Friday while the aircraft was taxiing to a parking spot. No one was injured. An air Force spokesman said the plane leased to the military by Braniff International airlines had just landed after a flight from Goose Bay Labrador. Wealthy businessman s wife stabbed in no. Continued from Page i her to a neighbouring Home to Call 25 state troopers joined local police in searching the Woods where the Slayer was last seen. Police said he was thin and was wearing dark glasses and a dark jacket. Palmer once one of the nation s Young est insurance company presidents married his College sweetheart Dorothy Beck of Battle Creek mich., five Days after graduation from the University of Michigan in the depression of the 1930s. The moved to California where he he offers to make superhuman try Palm Springs Calif. Up a retired business executive has offered to help out mayor Howard Wiefels with his social obligations for which he receives no pay. It is not fair of we citizens to encumber our mayor with superhuman efforts said Ronald c. Ellis at a rotary club meeting. Therefore i hereby offer to share his office. The mayor would continue to function from Sunrise to Sunset and preside at All official meetings Day or night. But i would assume the nightly social duties of the Wile senator paper helped Marine finally lands Honolulu a the mixed up vacation of Lance Cpl. Michael l. Harvold and his wife planned for August finally started delay says Harvold was caused by a clerical error of his unit in Vietnam. It was Over come by a . Senator a news paper and a persistent wife. Instead of orders to Honolulu where Crish Harvold was wait ing in August the 21-year-old Marine went to Formosa on his rest and recreation leave. His wife was furious. After two trips to the Honolulu air port she flew Home to Duvall Wash and told her plight to Svein Wikje military affairs re Porter for the Seattle times. Then sen. Henry m. Jackson,d-wash., started working on a second a and a s buddies donated $300 so his wife could make the second trip to Honolulu. The Money paid for her flight and hotel the first a and a flight came in thursday har Vold was t on that one either. His disheartened wife went Backoo her hotel. But on the second flight at the very end there hews. He looks handsomer than Ever Crish Harvold said hold ing her husband s hand. Finally landed a Job As an insurance Salesman. He Rose to become president of Mutual Benefit life insurance co. Of Newark the coun try s fourth oldest life insurance firm in 1953. He resigned that Job in july 1962 to become president of the National Indus trial conference Board a non profit institution for business and Industrial fact finding through scientific palmers have lived for Many years in this area. The have two married daughters. Stock Market closes mixed new York a the Stock Market closed mixed in moderate trading Friday. Advances and declines Amon individual stocks were almost even after gainers held a margin of about 200 issues in Early Trad ing. The averages were pushed Down by losses of More than 2 Points by Dupont and almost 2points by Eastman Kodak. Changes of most key Issue were fractional with a few run Ning to a Point or , aircraft and drugs were mostly lower. Airlines an tobaccos were generally higher. The Market failed to respond to analysts comments that news developments support an optimistic attitude toward stocks. They mentioned the Price rises for sulphuric acid and Nickel bearing Copper and brass As inflationary influences. The Commerce department is sued a report about midday that new factory orders slipped 0.8per cent in August to $45,559, 000,000 from $45,921,000,000 injury. The Dow Jones average of 30industrials declined 2.72 to 926.66. Volume slipped to 9.72 million shares from 10.47 million thurs the third successive Day a phenol corp. Was the mos Active Stock up 24 at 37% on 255,500 shares. Most of Moon believed Rock of Earth Type Washington a chemical analysis of lunar sur face measurements taken bythe Surveyor 5 spacecraft indicate that a Large part of the Moon surface May consist of Earth like Basaltic Rock life National aeronautics and space administration disclosed Fri Day. Leading scientists on the Surveyor project reported preliminary results from the spacecraft s two weeks of data gathering on the lunar sur face during the Moon s Daylight reports showed that the lunar surface measured contains in atomic composition 58 per cent of oxygen As do Rockson the Earth and 18.5 per cent of Silicon which also is the Sec Ond most common element on the Earth particles a Magnet aboard the space Craft also was found to have attracted Iron particles in the Loose material thrown up by the spacecraft s . Donald Gault of the Ames research Center Moffett Field,Calif., said the Surveyor chem ical analysis represented on of the greatest scientific achievements of the civilization of he said the persons associated with the project deserve a tremendous amount of congratulations. Sylvie Vartan Singer in Hospital Paris up Sylvie Vartan the French pop Singer was in seclusion Here after being rushed to the or chides clinic in suburban Montmorency suffering froma nervous breakdown tuesday. Miss Vartan married to pop idol Johnny Halliday is expected to stay in the clinic for three weeks. She will not be allowed visitors for 10 , who was in London flew Back to Paris to be near his wife
