European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 23. 1936 the stars and stripes Page 7 Sac chief wants More rail Mobile my missiles new York a the head of the strategic air command was 50 More ions Range my missiles to be built and put on Rains thai could travel around the country during limes or tension the new York times reported monday. Gen. John t. Chain or. Said in an interview at Sac Headquarters in Omaha neb., thai the missiles could not be detected from space or the ground while in motion the times reported. He added that they could be tired accurately and deployed mostly on existing trains and tracks. Chain s personal View had not been conveyed to the department of defense or the Reagan administration for approval he told the newspaper. The funds for 50 my missiles called peacemakers by the Reagan administration have been approved by Congress and they Are in refurbished missile silos. I do need More missiles to do what i be been asked to do. And that is to hold the soviet target base at risk. If i can do that i can then he Able to continue to Chain said. The general said the soviet Union has two new Long Range missiles that Are Mobile the ss-24, which travels by rail and the ss-25. Which moves by Road. To me that makes eminent sense for us to be in a rail Mobile Mode he said. Ii won t be very expensive compared with other however he did not provide the times with Cost estimates. Chain said he had tallied to officials at Union Pacific Railroad which hat a Large operating division in Omaha and they said such a program is possible. The program could be operated by having perhaps two missiles to each train which would be kept on military bases. Al times of increased tension and on orders from the National command authority t can taxi my train out he said. In a couple of minutes i can be outside of that ground Zero and in a couple of hours can be spread All Over the United slates. Give me 12 hours and i defy you to pick hat out from anything actor Forrest Tucker 67, Dies of lung cancer los Angeles a actor Forrest Tucker who played the heavy in Doz ens of movies then turned to comedy and became Best known As inc scheming sol. P Rourke on television s of troop has died of lung cancer Al 67. Tucker died saturday at i he motion picture country Home and Hospital in nearby Woodland Hills. He was last seen in Public aug. 21 at the unveiling of his Star on the Holly Wood walk of Fame. He collapsed moments before the ceremony and was taken to a Hospital. Born feb. 12, 1919, in Plainfield ind., Tucker starred As Morgan o Rourke in television s of troop from 1965 10. I knew Forrest for 30 years. He was a hell of a Guy said comedian Milton Berle who also appeared As a guess on of he was really a Fine dra Matic actor also he was an excellent comedian in drama. Berle said he always played the heavy hut ii always wore a Tucker a skilled golfer with a one stroke Handicap was a member of the Lakeside Golf club and played there frequently with club members Bob Hope Bing Crosby and buddy Rogers. He was always a gentleman on she Golf course and he was very generous Forrest Tucler poses with a life sized bust of Hora Selfon a 1966 photograph. Said Caddy mastered Gannon. I re member one time when the wife of a member s Friend died and he did t have enough Money for inc funeral. Or. Tucker wrote a Check to cover it. He was very Tucker a member since 1938, lived across the Street from the 11 in Green. Among his More than 50 movie cred its Are the 1940 s the Westerner with Gary Cooper and Waller Brennan. And keeper of the flame with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The 6-foom Tucker also co starred in the Sands of iwo Jima and Chisum with John Wayne another close Friend in Bier years he concentrated mainly on comedy starring in such films As the night they raided Minsky a with Elliott Gould in 1968, cancel my reservation in 1972 and the wackiest Wagon train in the West in 1976. His first entertainment Job was with i he Gayety burlesque theatre in Washington d.c., but he was forced to leave when the theater found out he was under age. So Tucker lied about his age and joined the army. After iwo years in the service he resumed to work at the Gayety theater he later served in inc army during world War ii enlisting As a private Ana emerging As a second lieutenant. Custer s Wool shirt brings $32,000 in Little Bighorn sole Wethersfield Conn. Up a shirt worn by Gen. George Armstrong Custer was sold for $32,000 at an auction along with other Little Bighorn artefacts that included arrows taken from bodies of soldiers at the famous Battle a gallery spokesman said sunday. The Price paid for a Wool shirt found in Custer s supplies after his famous us stand on the Little big Horn River in Eastern Montana was considered a bar main said Alexander Acevedo owner of Alexander s gallery in new York City who purchased the shirt at the auction saturday. The shirt in Good condition except for souvenir clippings from the tails was appraised Al $40,000 to s60qoo by he rib Mobley gallery of Glastonbury sponsors of the auction. Al least 300 people spent More than s 100,000 for items from the Battle of the Little Bighorn the largest Riba Mobley auction 10 Date said Noel Tomas spokesman for the Nailer. The gallery was pleased with the Overall Sale Tomai said. Total sales at the auction grossed More than 1500,000.two Sioux Indian a Jows Uken from the bodies of soldiers at the june 2i,4
