The Albuquerque Tribune from Albuquerque, New Mexico • 24

m0 i rm it i i'mmi tK March 4 1955 The Albuquerque Tribune Page Twenty-Four took ths money from his pock- Mailmen to Meet ets and fled with toa crutches Braining wu arrested in a tavern nearby CARLSBAD March 4 Carlsbad will be host to Long Costly Feud Over Navigation System for Planes Near Showdown and then atbla his crutches to pawn them Police said Harold reining 46 armed with two pocket knives accoited Hobart Dorsey to his apartment yesterday and demanded money When Dorsey rgusted police said Brelning best him over the head six or even times with a hammer Man Robs Cripple Steals His Crutches ROCHESTER March 4 Police today held a man who they said struck 54-year-old cripple over the head with hammer robbed him of $30 toe joint convention of New Mexico Post Office Clerks and Carriers and their respective auxiliaries on Many 6-8 Approximately 300 delegates are expected guested a compromise since veloping die common VOR-DME Beacon Hill section Is so named because in early days a beacon wu maintained on toe bill to be lighted as a warning of approaching danger PHONI 7-1431 Shop today 11:30 to 9 PM High Fashion PRINTS Hunter's Choice Deer Kill to Be Studied ARTESIA March 4 Overall effects of last choice" deer kill in the Guadalupe Mountains will be surveyed next week by Game and Fish Commission personnel Director Homer Pickens said last night Beginning Monday morning survey teams will move into the! ares to determine toe number of deer to the region and the1 type and availability of forage know from last season's total kill in the state tost there re many carryover deer from previous fawn crops" Fred Patton public relations director for the commission said numbers in the state are estimated 200000 with a 25 per cent fswn crop making 40000 new deer available for shooting eachj year" adopted by the Defense Department and for the Commerce Department by Mr Murray The decision: DME will be discontinued ki the near future VOR will fade away gradually probably being replaced completely by Tacan to 1965 Mr Murray resigned The private plane owners' groups are bitterly attacking the government for the American people vast sums of wasted money involving a total expenditure of more than a half-billion dollars They call Tacan a speculative ays tern" Before the fighting ends congressional inveettgaitioa may result in Washable FREE $100 Cowboy Outfit Br ALBERT COLEGROVE fcHuMwM SUM Witter A long-alm-mering secret feud between aviation experts in two- government departments finally has come to a showdown The argument involves virtual' every plane in the United States One side charges the bickering already has cost taxpayers many millions of dollars end has delayed our national defense buildup Battlers are: Experts in the Commerce Department seconded by some 800000 private fliers Experts in the Defense Department backed by most of hte nation's 42 airlines The fight is over what type of navigation-by -radio system should be ins tail led over the country to help militsry and know where they ere at all times Secrecy Waste Charged Ihe story is filled with charges that stubbornness secrecy wastefulness and arrogance led to a deadlock periling national security It still cannot be told fully becausfc the Defense Department maintains much of it is Already an assistant secretary of commerce has resigned after stating: That the Commerce and Defense Departments agreed to a single nationwide radio-navigation system that bofti could use That while the Commerce Department spent millions of dollars and years of time building the network the Defense Department secretly worked on plans for an entirely different system and then demanded it be adopted Here are the known facts: In 1948 at direction civilian and military government brandies agreed on a tingle navigation system called he wrote By 195 he continued the Defense Department did admit and was generally acknowledged" that militsry short-range navigation system called Tacan existed" Also by 1952 he pointed out Commerce and Defense were heavily committed on their respective systems Every month's delay in resolving this conflict was extremely ex pensive lii dollars time national defense and the eventual resolution of a truly common system" Committee Appointed With the argument still kept secret from the public a special committee was named to resolve the issue Its representatives were from the Departments of Commerce Army Navy Air Force and from the Air Transport Ass'n (commercial air lines) Aircraft Owners and Pilots (private fliers) and National Business Aircraft (company-owned planes) In months of investigating the committee weighed these facts and arguments: 1 The nation can't have both VOR-DME and too costly and too many technical problems 2 The Defense Department insists on Tacan saying it's more accurate and thus vital to militsry plans 3 The Commerce Department's Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) says experiments have shown VOR-DME properly installed has of the same order as tost anticipated with Tacan" 4 Private plane owners say the Defense Department is highhandedly pushing an untried system that (A) still has (B) is not proved more accurate! 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