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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
ABERDEEN NEWS
By ANN J. McNEILL
Cardinal Book Club
Mrs. Jay Greer was hostess to
mernbers of the Cardinal Book
Club in her home in Colonial
Heights here last Thursday eve
ning.
An interesting feature of the
evening was the “Make A Hat
Contest.” Members had been re
quested to arrive in original hats
and this they did.
Mrs. Lynwood Moon, president,
presided over the business ses
sion. Plans were made for a bar
becue supper to be held at the
Legion Hut on Saturday, October
17.
Mrs. Greer introduced Mrs.
James H. Bishop, who gave an
interesting and informative talk
on “Gardening,” with, special
stress on ideas for faU planting.
Srawberry ice cream and pound
cake were enjoyed during the
social hour by the members and
guests present. Miss Pauline Rad
ford, of Augusta, Ga., sister of the
speaker, was a guest.
Methodist Rally
A number of persons from Ab
erdeen journeyed to Raleigh Mon
day to attend the long planned
Evangelistic Rally sponsored by
the North Carolina Methodist
Conference and held in the giant
Coliseum on the State College
campus.
A highlight of the morning ses
sion and of particular interest to
the Aberdeen delegation was the
consecration service for the Rev.
and Mrs. Rene Bideaux who will
go as missionaries to Costa Rica.
Mrs. Bideaux is the former Re
becca Edge, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Edge of Aberdeen.
Among those attending were
Mrs. Dwight Troutman, Mrs. F.
A. Cummings, Mrs. Ray Burns,
Mrs. Mack Wallace, Mr. and Mrs.
Patt Satterwhite of McCain, Mrs.
Bob Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Troutman and children, Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Edge, and the Rev.
Brooks Patten. Mrs. Patten • and
children accompanied Mr. Patten
to Raleigh and visited relatives
there. ^
Baptist Group Meets
The T. E. I#Ladies’ Class of
the First Baptist Church met in
the Ladies Parlor of the church
on Monday evening, October 5.
Fifteen members attended and
elected the following officers:
Miss Hazel Thompson, president;
Mrs. J. H. Mofield, vice-president;
Mrs. J. H. Robertson, secretary;
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, assoc
iate secretary; Mrs. Bob Kyle,
treasurer; and Mrs. Gladys Par
rish, Mrs. Jake Ivey and Mrs.
Dallas Clark, group captains.
Mrs, E. H. Poole is teacher of the
class.
Refreshments were enjoyed at
the conclusion of the meeting.
Lions Enlerlain Teachers
The faculty of the Aberdeen
Elementary and High Schools
were guests of the Lions Club at
their meeting on Monday evening,
October 5, at the Legion Hut.
Lion Floyd Dunn, president, pre
sided and welcomed the guests.
Speaker of the evening was La
ment Brown of Southern Pines
who spoke on “Procedure In Our
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Briefs
Mrs. Russell Coble and daugh
ter, Myra 6f North Augusta, S.
C. , are spending this week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
McLean, while Mr. Coble attends
a training session in Chicago.
Misses Iris and Faye Matthews
of Durham spent the weekend
with their mother, Mrs. Knox
Mathews.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Kellis were Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Dennis and daughter of
Thomasville.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff l^ilson and
children of Savannah, Ga., will
spend this weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Greer.
Mrs. J. G. Whittington of Kan
napolis was guest of her daugh
ter, Mrs. E. H. Poole, and family
here last week. The Pooles took
Mrs. Whittington home on Friday,
returning that evening to Aber
deen.
Mrs. H. J. Edge spent several
.days last week visiting her daugh
ter and son-in-law, Lt. and Mrs.
W. D. Edge, and son, Michael, in
Savannah, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Austin and
children of Raleigh spent the
weekend here with relatives.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
D. B. Herring and Miss Jane Her
ring were Dr. Charles Phillips
of Raleigh and the D. B. Herrings
Jr., of Fayetteville.
Mrs. Vann Clark spent Friday
night and Saturday with Mr.‘and
Mrs. Dougald Clark in Asheboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Faucette of
Mebane visited the Rev. and Mrs.
R. D, Spear, Jr., and family on
Monday. Sunday visitors of the
Spears were Mr. and Mrs. I. B.
Shive and son, Dan, of Mt. Gil
ead.
Mrs. John D. McLeod, Miss
Martha McLeod, and Mr. Sandy
McLeod were among those from
Aberdeen who attended the
Homecoming at Union Church
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs.' Laverne Keister
of Columbia. S. C., spent the
weekend with relatives here.
monthly to aviod radiation over
dosing. However records show
that in a year’s duty men' will av
erage less than the Atomic Ener
gy Commission’s allowable radia
tion dosage for one wreek.
Passing down New London’s
Thames River we exchanged sal
utes with USS Triton, a 415-foot
radar picket submarine now on
sea trials before becoming our
biggest, world-roving early at
tack warning station.
Also floating in the Thames at
Electric Boat Company’s Groton
yard we saw USS George Wash
ington and USS Patrick Henry,
both being rushed to completion
on a night-and-day crash bas's.
These are bur first atomic missile
subs, each outfitted to launch 16
Polaris missiles from underwater
toward targets within l,500-'i''ile
range.
Skipjack is an attack subma
rine, designed to kill ships. In 36
seconds we fired a dummy salvo
of six 19-foot-long torpedoes
loaded with enough high-grade
dynamite to sink a flotilla. Tor
pedoes don’t carry nuclear war
heads, their range is so close
that attacker would be blown up
with victim.
Every Few Minutes
A World War II submariner
wouldn’t recognize today’s tor
pedo room. Now a versatile hy
draulic crane loads “fish” re
gardless of ship’s attitude and
salvos can be fired every few
minutes.
Torpedoes have also received
deadly refinements. Electronic
computers load attack data into
the “brain” of the 3,000-pound
missile so that it will track
down the enemy regardless of
the direction of its launching.
Other torpedoes listen to their
victim with sonar “ears” and
propel themselves into his path.
Still others are “wire guided”
from their mother submarine,
trailing until shortly before ex
plosion a control cable that cor-
Submarine
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Our 38-year-old captain, Cdr.
William W. Behrens, Jr., orders,
Skipjack levelled from her fish
like gyrations, just as it seems a
loop-the-loop is the only rpaneu-
ver left to perform.
Below 400 Feet
“You can only print that we
have descended below 400 feet
and exceeded 20 knots,” he told
our party of press and officials.
“I just wish we could take off
the wraps and tell every Ameri
can all that Skipjack can do.”
Listening to the captain’s ex
tremely conservative figures, I
recalled a trip during World
War II aboard a crack sub that
could descend to just 400 feet,
then cruise submerged at nine
knots for only one hour. The rev
olutionary Skipjack can cruise
submerged for. three months,
without slowing to 20 knots.
On this trip from the Naval
Submarine Base at New London,
Conn., we are running between
Long Island and Block Island at
a leisurely 20 knots on the sur
face, watching from our misty
perch high in the ‘'‘sail” (conning
tower) the beauty of Skipjack’s
football-shaped, 252-foot hull
knifing green seas.
At the 30-fathom curve, bells
clang, hatches clank, tanks flood
and Skipjack’s incredibly power
ful nuclear energy plant slides us
noiselessly under the great lanes
of North Atlantic shipping. The
control room jungle of instru
ments throbs. Listening devices
zero on passing ships, sonar
soundings blueprint ocean floor,
radar scans shorelines.
One giant 15-foot propeller is
churning us past Montank Point
at incredible ' speed. Only the
prop whoosh and dancing dials
suggest motion—^the nuclear re
actor noiselessly transfers its
fierce heat to the steam turbine
power plant. “Run silent, run
deep” was a slogan meant for tbs
nuclear sub service.
Deadly Rays
I^adiation from the ship’s reac
tor is confined by shields of lead,
water, iron and polyethlene, yet
we carry pocket dosimeters to
measure our exposure to deadly
gamma rays. Crewmen wear film
i “badges” which are developed
rects their speed and direction.
Defensive techniques are
equally updated,'but are mostly
secret. Skipjack’s ability to dive
deeper, maneuver more nimbly
and run faster than any subma
rine in history is its greatest de
fense. It can lie still on the ocean
bottom for three months if nec
essary, its remarkable air condi
tioning and water purification
system keeping men entirely
comfortable.
In murky depths Skipjack can
defy detection by shutting off all
machinery. She can creep silent
ly by switching from steam tur
bines to quiet electric propulsion.
She can circumnavigate the globe
without surfacing, not once but
many times. And her first fuel
ling stop won’t fall due until well
into the 1960s.
Pride and Amazement
Last year in the Antarctic I saw
Navy pride in well done polar
exploration, hazardous work with
rewarding discoveries. But with
the Navy men of Skipjack I find
unusual esprit de corps, pride
coupled with amazement at the
extraordinary capability of their
ship.
The crew’s affection for Skip
jack seems rooted in the Navy’s
decision to assign Cdr. Behrens
and key personnel to Skipjack
two years before her commission
ing. They began at a nuclear
training school, then “grew up”
with their ship on the ways at
Groton, watching its progress day
by day, wondering about its abil
ities, then personally “checking
out” its reactor plant.
■When at last the $45-million
Skipjack went to sr.-a last March
8, Cdr. Behrens had a tighter
lump in his throat than when any
of his four children had arrived.
Proudly he showed Admiral
Rickover and othe rs that she
could far exceed expectations.
Recently Skipjack sailed to Eng
land, Italy and Gibraltar—sub
merged all the way. Great crowds
queued to view her. She became
the first nuclear ship to operate
in the historic Mediterranean.
Her 9 officers and 75 men were
received as heroes.
Two interesting supernumer
aries accompanied our Skipjack
cruise. Cdr. B. F. P. Samborne,
RN, is in training aboard Skip
jack preparatory to taking com
mand 'of Britain’s first nuclear
ship, HMS Dreadnaught.
Cdr. James F. Calvert, now
commander of Submarine Divi
sion 102, ma-de recent history oy
twice skippering USS Skate to
the North Pole. Last March 17 he
gingerly brought Skate up
through the polar ice crust and
performed the sentimental mis
sion of scattering the ashes of the
late Sir Hubert Wilkins at the
top of the world.
'Blow and Go'
Cdr. Calvert, now a television
personality as a result of his po
lar exploits, told me about the
“Blow and Go” escape technique
now used by submariners. From
disabled subs as deep as 200 feet,
men shoot out an escape “trunk”,
wearing only an inflated life
jacket, exhaling air continually
until they bob to the surface.
“You keep exhaling as you
rise,” he explained, “since water
pressure keeps expanding the air
remaining in your lungs. This
simple system eliminates elabo
rate equipment and avoids in
jury.”
But tragedy at sea doesn’t seem
to occur to Skipjack’s men. “Our
batting average is good,” one
said, “it’s Air Force boys who
take the chances.”
Skipjack quarters are ultra
modern. Chow is excellent—$1.10
per day, including steak and ice
cream for lunch, complete with
background music. Movies night
ly. “Just no sex,” sighed one
sailor.
The world is watching Skip
jack, first of a new generation of
fighting ships. Behind her on the
ways at Groton, New York City,
Portsmouth, Newport News, Pas
cagoula and Mare Island is com
ing a flood of nuclear relatives—
Scamp, Scorpion, Sculpin, Shark
and dozens more. They represent
America’s best bid for control of
the seas in the atomic age.
School Cafeterias ^
MENUS FOR WEEK
October 12-16
East Southern Pines
Monday—Beef potato cheese
casserole, green beans, cole slaw,
bread, butter, cookie, milk.
Tuesday—Creamed turkey on
rice, English peas, rolls, butter,
orange half, milk.
Wednesday — Toasted cheese
sandwich, beef vegetable soup,
crackers, butter, peach cobbler,
milk.
Thursday — Vienna sausage,
baked beans, tossed green salad,
homemade rolls, butter, apple
sauce, milk.
Friday — Tuna fish salad,
French fries, cole slaw, home
made rolls, butter, fruited jello,
m.ilk. ' .
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Largest loss of life in a single
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winds claimed 1,152 lives. The
fire occurred on the same day
that the Great Chicago Fire start
ed—Oct. 8, 1871—in which 250
lives were lost.
Within the next few weeks,
color now adorning higher sec
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Nantahala National Forests and
the Parkway will brighten and
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