The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-06

~ iAlliN III lAL houl t5NOiA w iNi az
forms me that the Public Health
Service has approved the Gov
ernments sharing the cost of the
Deer's Head State Hospital at Sal
isbury, Maryland. The total esti-
mated cost of the hospital is $685.
500, half of which will be paid by
the Federal government. The APP
proval clears the way for the de-
velopment of plans and specifi-
cations.
Deputy Veterans Administrator
Bradford Morse tells me that the
Administrations tuberculosis Hos
pital, Baltimore, is to be CONSOLE
dated with tie General Medical
and Surgical Hospital, Fort How
ard, Maryland. The two will be To-
Gated in Baltimore under single
management, and will be known as
Veterans Administration Hospital.
DR.. Horace d. Smith, presently
manager of the General Medical
and Surgical Hospital of Pitts
burgh, will become the new man.
ager
Colonel Stanley Johnson, of the
u. S. Army Engineers, has notified
my office that the Maryland State
for an extension of time in which
to construct a dual-lane draw
bridge across the Wicomico River
at Salisbury. The work was to have
been completed August %, 1853.
The Roads Commission proposes
to start the work Immediately.
To See the Universe Better
Government space mappers have
received funds for two ambitious
projects. One is to put into orbit
an atomic clock designed to test
the Einstein theory of relatively.
The other is to put 50-inch tele-
scope into orbit, in order to get a
better look at the universe.
Astronomers hope to overcome
one of sciences ancient handicaps,
the obscuring effect of the earth's
atmosphere. Recently, when a ~
inch telescope was sent aloft in a
balloon, to a height of around 81
coo feet, we obtained the clearest,
sharpest pictures of the suns face
ever taken. With the larger tele-
scope and at the much greater
height, it will be possible to CLOSE
~" study objects other than the
sun which have previously been
deep mysteries, such as the more
distant planets of the solar sys-
tenn and galaxies of stars.
Playing With a Rattler?-There
are plans for swapping Informal
ton and scientists with Russia.
{ Under Government sponsorship, Al
scientists from each country are
scheduled to visit laboratories and
research projects of the other,
some to observe, some to lecture,
and some to do actual research
work. Il hope our people who
planned this know what they're
doing)
Nixon's TV debate with Khrush-
chev-The thing that impressed
me most about the televised de-
bate between Vice President Nix
on and Khruschev was the Russian
Premier's apparent ignorance of
the United States. He kept insist
ing that the American people be
permitted to hear his part of the
debate translated into English, as
though he did not know that we
censor no news, good or bad. His
deputies who have visited this
country have failed to straighten
him out. Khruschev's ignorance
| frightens me. He does not want
war, but his lack of knowledge of
the United States might cause him
to blunder into war.
S. A. c. Is Ready "a Hours A Day
1t is SO minutes past 10 P. M. in
Moscow, 1853 in London, and 1:53
| in Nebraska, where the early af-
ternoon sun stares holly at sau-
Ger of land. Report has just been
received of an unidentified aircraft
flying at 210 knots, 5000 feet above
the north Pacific off Alaska. You
are sitting at desk marked
CINCSAC. You are looking
through a gigantic glass window
at room 140 feet long, 80 feet
wide, and 81 feet high. Lining the
wall facing you are giant panels
holding world maps, 16 feet across,
weather maps In the next room, a
clacking, blinking electronic COM
puter digests and sorts out COM
pick strategies. Skilled Air Force
technicians feed it questions, and
get answers. Below and behind
you, at the floor level of the map
room, is the control center. A con-
troll panel lazily winks its tiny
signal lights. Graded near one
corner of the panel is bright red