European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 19, 1�6t the stars and stripes equal to 10,000 Telephone channels powerful commo satellite planned Andrews fab my. Special the air Force systems come s space and missile systems organization Sam solos Angeles is managing the design and construction of the free world s largest experimental communications satellite which is designed to provide testing for tactical communications Between military units in the Field ships at sea and aircraft. It is As tall As a two Story building and possessing a communications capacity comparable to 10,000 Tele phone channels. Scheduled for delivery late this year the satellite will be the free world s most powerful Ever devel oped according to col. Walter w. Sanders director of the communications satellite systems program of fice at Samso. The experimental communication satellite will be equipped with a club Ter of antennas that will radiate Sig nals capable of being picked up by All types of terminals including an Tennas As Small As one foot in Diame Ter. This will enable Small army units in the Field to communicate with each other and with their head quarters. According to col. Sanders Al though this is an experimental Satel Lite other such satellites placed in orbit above the Equator could possibly provide enough channels to link military commands throughout the world by various types of communications. The satellite weighing approximately 1,600 pounds will be launched from Cape Kennedy by the air. � of a a _. A. Re.-, %. F for ml6 is tested Force s powerful Titan hic Booster and placed in a synchronous orbit 22,300 Miles above the Equator. It will be equipped with three Antenna systems consisting of five helical uhf antennas two Micro wave horns for a band communications and a b i c o n i c a 1 Horn for telemetry and command. During tests of the satellite in orbit two frequency bands will be used. One is the Standard military uhf band used for air ground communications and the other is the super High frequency portion of the a band set aside for military Satel Lite communications. Samso commanded by it.  w. O Neill is the primary department of defense Agency responsible for present and future military space and ballistic missile systems. It. Benning a. Special a Blank Cartridge and a Blank firing attachment for the5.56mm m16a1 Rifle Are being tested by the army infantry Board Here. The Cartridge and its firing attachment have been developed to provide a More realistic training atmosphere that will be Safe in simulated close combat., the Blank firing attachment is a tube containing a tapered vent which is inserted into the muzzle of the Rifle and attache with flanges. It should prevent injuries that might result from powder and Flash Burns or being struck by wadding in close com Bat training. Orlando fab Fla. Spe Cial after 13 years and More than 12,000 students the. Military Airlift come no Academy Here has closed its oth i psf graduation of m. Sgt. William a Vargas a Par Rescue flight examiner with the aerospace Rescue an recovery service at Orlando was Honor graduate of the Las class Here. The Academy will 6 Calif progression the latest in . Satellites stands above its predecessors front it. 6-a\ Ynck to Gary bjr7fteiserthru a january colonels will be re posts or air attache Pinnt Terestea officers s h o a Sass their local Hunters of Gold tarred Santa be . Up As legend tells it Gok Bullion Worth $22 million is waiting forthe lifting inside a Barren Moun Tain called it. Victoria in new Mexico. But it lies within the White Sands missile Range and the army in t encouraging Gold seekers. The army did permit a min ing company to have a try at the Cache five years ago but in Aso Day period allowed for the Hunt the firm was unable to find the supposedly Gold filled  then the army has kept out treasure Hunters As being nuisance. Found by Accident the Story of the treasure Gresback to Milton e. Doc Noss a half Breed Indian who. Claimed he found a Cave filled with Span ish treasure while he was Hunt ing on the slopes of it. Victoria. Bars of Gold part of them As Sert edly removed by Noss after his discovery in 1937, were the most valuable part of the trea sure. But according to Noss the ache also included Early parch ments swords religious relics and skeletons buried deep in the  lost the treasure he said when he attempted to dynamite larger Entrance to the Cave and a resulting Cave in buried it. Story Sticks Noss was shot and killed in1949 while allegedly trying to sell some of the Gold bars he said he found. But his Story outlived him and was convincing enough to prompt the Gaddis mining co. Of Denver and the new Mexico museum in Santa be to go to it. Victoria where the treasure reportedly had been hidden away 400 years before by Span ish monks. Or. Alfred e. Dittert. Anthropologist from the museum said the company discovered several underground caverns inside the Mountain. But none contained treasure. Noss Story received More acceptance in 1959 when Thomas c. Vertlett and Leonard v Fieg found a Gold bar in the Mountain area. It was thought the Gold bar could have been among those Noss said he took from the Cav and hid around the Countryside. No treasure has been found since. But the Story lingers to excite those who dream of someday finding hidden riches. Army changes plans for port Calls Washington is the army Hopes to improve its in Ert Heater Transfer processing or enlisted men in grades Al through e8 by issuing them wit port Calls in their Basic Transfer orders at the time they leave their Home stations. This new procedure is for Al unaccompanied men who must pass through army overseas re placement stations in route to new overseas assignments. Stateside service scene army testing idea to improve Supply Washington special testing of a concept aimed at improving Supply service to Fiel troops and reducing equipment deadlines has been announced by Gen. Fran pc a Besson jr., army Materiel come cd under the concept the com Mand will assume accountability at depot level for selected High Dollar value secondary items on a worldwide basis. In the Pas teach overseas theater has been accountable for All Supply item sin the theater. Secondary items Are components and repair parts used in the Assembly and maintenance of major items such As tanks air Craft or weapons systems. This logistics management idea represents a major expansion of the original Mission of the Materiel come the largest and most Complex new element created by the 1962 reorganization of the army