The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 314, Ed. 2 Tuesday, April 27, 1954 Page: 15 of 24
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The Abilene Reporter -Sets
PAGE ONE
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, ISM
SECTION B
DEFICIENCY IS SLIGHT
11 Schools Exceed
35-Pupil Maximum
CARAVAN DUE THURSDAY
30 Massachusetts Students
To See Rodeo, Oil Refinery
WELL-DRESSED POLICEMEN — This photo shows what the smartly-attired Abilene
policemen will wear after Tuesday night. To be presented to them at 7 p.m. in City
Court room are the new badges, shoulder pads, the sleeve stars and stripes and metal let-
ters and numerals for their collars. Each star represents five years’ service and each
stripe stands for two years. Dr. James P. Bridges, police surgeon, purchased these ac-
cessories. Left to right: Patrolman C. H. Boyd, Patrolman J. A. Stanford and Capt. C. A.
Veteto. (Police photo by Lt Grover Chronister)
ECONOMY VS. SECURITY
SAC Bases rose Tempting
Targets, Magazine Asserts
Pupils per -teacher loed in 11
out of Abilene’s 15 elementary
schools to higher than desirable,
Supt. A. E. Wells said Tuesday
He explained that some rooms
enroll more than the maximum 35
sociation Of Secondary Schools.
Those instances are in only cer-
tain grades.
The situation, taking the Abi-
lene schools as a whole, to ac-
ceptable to the Association, an ac-
crediting agency, Wells said.
Average daily attendance (as
distinguished from enrollment) is
25 pupils per teacher for the entire
school system, ft figures 26 in the
elementary schools. 25 in junior
highs and 24 in high school.
That average for attendance to
acceptable also to Texas Educa-
tion Agency, Wells reported.
Places where the enrollment per
teacher in elementary schools ex-
ceeds the 35 maximum recom-
mended by the Association are:
(1) Alta Vista School-77 pupils
divided between two teachers in
the fourth grade.
(2) Bonham—72 pupils and two
teachers in the second grade; 72
pupils and two teachers in the
third grade.
(2) Bowie — 76 pupils, two
teachers, in the sixth grade.
(4) Lamar-17 pupils for one
teacher in the second grade.
(S) North Part - 114 pupils,
three teachers, in the first; SI
pupils, two teachers in the third.
(6) Travis—72 pupils for two
teachers in ths sixth.
(7) Fair Park—36 pupils tor one
teacher in the sixth.
(8) Fannin — 109 pupils, three
teachers in the second; 111, three
teachers, in the third; 106, three
teachers, in the fourth.
(9) Houston—74 tor two teach
ers in the first.
(10) Valley View—39, one teach-
er, in the second; 43, one teach-
er, in the third; 40, one teacher,
in the fourth, and 40, one teach-
er, in the sixth.
(11) Woodson Elementary-49
for one teacher in the fourth, and
45 tor one in the fifth.
The above report was made up
as of March, 1954. It does not in-
clude seventh grade sections re-
tained in elementary schools,
since those actually belong in the
junior highs.
There’ll be a real Texas wel-
come here Thursday for M Massa-
chusetts youngsters.
Abilene High School students will
be saying “howdy” to the North
Adams, Mass., pupils they visited
last fall on an exchange program.
A busload of the Drury High
School students is due in Abilene
around 9 am. Thursday. The bus
will be met — probably in Clyde
—a caravan of AHS well-wishers.
Plans for the visitors include a
ranch picnic, a rodeo, and a tour
of a refinery company.
The Massachusetts people are
paying back the Abilenians’ fall
trip. They left from North Adams
Sunday and planned to stop in
Niagara Falls, Canada, Chicago,
Tulsa, and Oklahoma City
After the car caravan guides
the bus to AHS Thursday, a wel-
coming committee made up of the
band and student council to to
greet the North Adams folk.
Before they left Massachusetts,
the pupils were given different sub-
jects to study during the tour.
Upon their return to school, they
are to write a report on each topic.
Between working on the report
and attending classes at AHS each
day, the visitors will find their
schedule full.
Ernest Sublett and Mrs. Kath-
AHS pupils to North Adams, have
planned a crammed slate.
Thursday afternoon the pupils
will attend Baird’s rodeo parade.
That night they'll see the rodeo.
On Friday there will be a wel-
coming assembly School Supt. A.
E. Wells, Principal Charles Ro-
mine, and possibly Mayor C. E.
Gatlin are to greet the New Eng-
landers.
During the assembly, the North
Adorns group will present a skit
it gave last Friday at home
Also on the program will be:
Friday night: Senior class bon
supper.
Saturday afternoon: Ranch par-
ty on the Matthews ranch near
Albany, sponsored by the National
Honor Society.
Sunday: open. Students will
spend the day with families they
are visiting.
Monday noon: Lunch hosted by
the Lone Star Gas Co.
Monday afternoon: Tour of the
Onyx Refinery Co.
Ex-City Policeman,
Sam Smith, Visits
Sam Smith of Los Alamos, N. M.,
former Abilene policeman, visited
here during the week end. He to
now with the Los Alamos city po-
lice. assigned to the A-bomb proj-
leen Parker, who sponsored the ect
a glimpse inside mom’s locket of wishes...
(EDITOR’S NOTE — Abi-
lene Air Force Base is a part
of the Strategic Air Command.
Two wings are scheduled to be
based here.)
NEW YORK, April 27. — The
airfields of the Strategic Air Com-
mand now present a tempting ar-
ray of well - known targets, and
must be made less vulnerable,
Fortune magazine will urge in a
copyrighted article to be published
tomorrow.
Fortune describes three immedi-
ate problems that concern SAC,
the vehicle of this nation’s "mas-
sive retaliatory power." These
problems, confronting the Penta-
gon businessmen whose task to to
achieve national security at rea-
sonable cost, include:
(1) SAC’s risky surface bases
(especially the two - wing bases,
which save overhead, but double
the dangerous crowding of parked
aircraft).
(2) SAC’s high personnel turn-
over, now about 20 per cent an-
nually, owing to failures to re-
enlist.
(3) The most pressing immedi-
ate decision concerning SAC’s fu-
ture: What kind of force should be
planned for the new all-jet era? A
force of intercontinental, subsonic
heavy bombers? A mixed force, in-
cluding such big bombers as well
as supersonic medium bombers?
In a comprehensive study of
SAC, Fortune treats the problem
of the "massive retaliatory pow-
er** as one of economy (bow to
maximize combat capability for a
given amount of money, or how to
minimize the cost of a given capa-
bility required for national secur-
ity).
“SAC’s use of surface bases is
a calculated risk. Like wild ducks
in a pond, SAC wings are at their
most vulnerable on the ground. As
it stands today, in the open on a
limited number of well - known
airfields. SAC to a well - defined
target system, tempting to both
sabotage and air attack. It must be
made less vulnerable.
“A further risk is the two-wing
base, bringing a 20 per cent saving
in overhead - and doubly danger
ous crowding of parked aircraft
Concentration of parked aircraft
simplifies guarding against sabo-
tage. but increases the vulnerabil-
ity to a direct bomb hit
"But if SAC were to go in for
the construction of enormously ex-
pensive underground hangars, it
would have less money for planes
and for widely scattered bases. "
Fortune says of SAC, "Ths best
assurance that we shall not have
to use it, is the certainty that we
are not going to lose it.” In the
event of a crisis, "could either side
afford to leave the other’s strate
gic force undisturbed.
SAC’s "worst management prob
lem” is its 20 per cent annual turn
ever of personnel. As of this year,
only about 15 per cent of SAC’s
airmen have continuous experience
with the command antedating 1962
As of last December, ‘‘required
strength” called for a ratio of low
est-skill to higher - skill bombing
and navigation maintenance men
of less than one to twenty: actual-
ly the ratio was little better than
one-to-one.
••SAC’s surveys show that the
cause of separation is not so much
low pay or hard work as the transi-
ence of SAC. The men are away
from their home base three to sb
months a year on temporary duty,
and the special reimbursements
never seem quite adequate to cov
er the extra expenses incurred
And constant moving from base to
base prevents the family from tak
Ing root in a community.
The third problem (choosing air-
craft) implies decisions on such
matters as how much emphasis
should be placed on the subsonic
heavy B-52, which could be consid-
ered a 1956 bomber, and how much
on the supersonic medium B - 99
(the ’-Hustler”), which is due lat-
er. (Both bombers, like today’s
medium jet B-47, are ‘interconti-
nental" with refueling. All three
types of jet bombers can carry the
H-bomb.)
SAC now represents upwards of
*10 billion investment, with a com-
ing investment that could go as
high as $40 billion (the estimated
cost of a SAC fleet made up en-
tirely of B-52's). Its obsolescence
point will be reached ‘sometime in
the 1960’s with the arrival of the
supersonic ballistic missile with
nuclear warhead, and the nuclear-
propelled airplane with unlimited
range.
1954 ABILENE
TRAFFIC SCORE
Consecutive deathless days ..139
Fatalities in 1954 ..............0
Accidents Monday .
Accidents is 1954 ..
Injured Monday ....
Injured in 1954 .....
335
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Tuesday afternoon: Tour of a
Tuesday night: “Pot luck" sup-
per at ths school cafeteria with
their Abilene hosts.
Wednesday assn: Lunch with ths
Kiwanis Club.
Abilene firms will preesat serv-
ices and gifts to the delegation.
A complete list of the gifts won’t
be available until later, however.
Thursday morning the North Ad-
ams group to slated to leave. En
route to their home, they will stop
in Dallas, Texarkana, Hot Springs,
Ark.; Asheville, N. C., Luray, Va.,
Washington, D. C., and Baltimore,
Md.
They’ll be back in North Adams
May 10.
The 19 visiters will be: Jack
Burdick, Bernard Anderson, Bar-
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