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'WWWW WV WW WW yyryyy yrrrT SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1966 SECTION 20 PAGES TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, FINANCIAL, AND COMICS rmyV Dreamers' Work on Weapons of the Future If Usable, It's Obsolete to Ft. Knox Armor Agency www tr wv 5fc in-the-ranks will get the General Sheridan. He'll have a new, ultra modern weapon. "It's just at this point that we lose interest in the whole project," Greene said. "By that time we should be thinking about something to replace it." "With us, it's always the Army of the future." for 350 miles before refueling and be dropped from an airplane.

The tank is being service-tested at Ft. Knox by the Armor Board. Finally the Armor Agency will draft a book to instruct tankers on using the Sheridan most effectively. Sometime in the near future the man- I jj I'" By JAMES S. TUN NELL The three yellow, slightly shabby Army buildings look ordinary enough, but armed guards seal them off from the rest of Ft.

Knox. Visitors are allowed, both civilian and military, but only after they have been registered and tagged. The occupants work on a base commanded by a major general, but they report, through their own commander, directly to the U.S. Army's chief of staff. They are friendly enough, but they don't talk about their work.

It's virtually all classified information. They are the 65 officers, enlisted men and civilians who study and plan the armored army of the future. "They're the Army's dreamers," a colonel in the armor branch said. Their official name is Combat Developments Command, Armor Agency. New Helicopters Planned Though Armor Agency officers are tight-lipped about their programs, they acknowledge two current projects.

"We're working on a much more highly sophisticated version of the helicopter," Col. Lawrence E. Greene, the agency's commander, said recently in an interview. "Viet Nam has put us in the air cavalry business. But in this particular case a solution is right around the corner." (The Armor Agency is in charge of developing reconnaissance vehicles.

Since helicopters are used by the air cavalry for reconnaissance, the Armor Agency formulates helicopter design and doctrine.) The agency is also in charge of developing a new main battle tank for the U.S. forces of the 1970s the M-70. Greene said specific information on the M-70 or on any other projects is classified. The Combat Developments Command has been operating, behind its veil of secrecy, since 1962, when it was made a semiautonomous branch of the Army. But his recent duties have taken him from the field.

He served four years on the Army's General Staff, three years with the National Security Council. And then he was assigned to the Combat Developments Command. Greene said he is not permitted to describe how the agency works. But a recent project the development of the Army's General Sheridan tank shows the agency's methods. Studies Are Elaborate Some years ago the agency made elaborate studies of just what problems the future armored army unit might face in combat.

It then studied which one of a vast number of vehicle types and vehicle-weapons combination would best solve those problems. Using computers, it arrived at its decision. The army of the future, it concluded, would need a tank-like vehicle that would do the following: Destroy an enemy tank or pillbox at a certain range within a certain number of shots. Be carried and dropped from an airplane. Fire either a surface-to-surface missile or a gun.

Ford or "swim" inland waterways. Provide its crew with armored protection. Travel a certain distance at a certain speed, and climb a slope of specified steepness. The Army high command approved the agency's conclusions and turned over the actual design to the Army's Material Command. The result: The Army's new Sheridan tank a 16.8-ton vehicle that can "swim," fire a 155-mm gun or a Shillelagh missile, travel up to 42 miles an hour, cruise SHERIDAN TANK, once only a "dream" in the minds of Army specialists, is now very much a reality.

This "tank of the future," shown undergoing a test at Ft. Knox, can cross a river, fire a missile, travel at 42 miles an hour, cruise for 350 miles before refueling and be dropped from an airplane. DREAMS OF TANKS TO COME Ten years ago an Army officer drew this prediction of the tank force of the 1970s and 1980s. Today, this is the kind of dreaming encouraged at the Armor Agency, an elite planning command based at Ft. Knox.

Behind a veil of secrecy, the agency plans for the Army of the future. ON THE SCENE 5-Day Strike Ended At Appliance Park 'i 4, Army Photo of tank that would blow up half its own infantry every time it fired. This way a thing like that doesn't even get to the design stage." Heading the agency is Greene himself, a burly, soft-spoken soldier whose father commanded one of the Army's first tank battalions. After graduating from West Point, Greene was assigned in 1941 to the Army's first armored division. He fought with armor throughout the war.

Damages Sought On Traffic Death A Jefferson Circuit Court suit filed yesterday asks $41,610 damages for the traffic death on Nov. 13 of Miss Evelyn Jean Waddles, 18, of 2730 Portland. Miss Waddles, a waitress at the Taylor drugstore at Fourth and Oak, was fatally injured when her car struck a stopped truck in the 100 block of West Main. The administrator of her estate sued Complete Auto Transit, St. Louis, listed as owner of the truck, and its driver, James F.

Campbell. In the same suit, Miss Gloria Ann Lloyd, 18, of 1101 Dixie Highway, asked $6,500 for injuries. She was a passenger in Miss Waddles' car. Vote Sought given 73 boxes, each containing 100 envelopes and pieces of writing paper. "These kits ought to go into every shop," said Hobby.

"The senators should get a letter from every man at every union meeting. There is no more important task than to see that the word is given to our rank and file." Morton's office in Washington yesterday said he has received mail on 14b constantly since last fall. "There has been a little more union mail lately," an aide said. "Most mail has been against it (repeal)." steel and aluminum detectors and analysts with highly intricate instruments, plastic tubes and glass containers. The instruments are continuously making red and black lines and spots on recording paper.

nS In Louisville Drivers Faulted in Overloading Overloaded trucks are the fault of the Motor Transportation against 14 truck drivers, not the owners, Jefferson Quar- owners. He continued to Feb. 4 the case terly Judge George J. Long ruled yester- TT day. He filed away overloading charges of Byd Mason Howe who 1S both owner brought by the State Department of and driver.

Trial Attorneys Elect Haddad Its men are usually senior officers, men with wide Army experience. Many of them are required to have at least a master's degree in design engineering or in a subject such as aeronautical science. Armor Agency men are predominantly from the armor branch, but Greene's staff includes experts from infantry, artillery, chemical warfare and other branches. "If we didn't have that kind of check," Greene said, "we might design some kind to build up a parts inventory for the assembly line to use Monday. The strike began Monday when 135 members of Local 761 failed to show up for work.

Eventually, more than 2,300 workers were idled. Only the home laundry department was shut down by the strike. Some 13,000 are employed at the Jefferson County GE complex. The strike was called over a grievance involving piecework rates. Citizens for Democracy, which has as its slogan: "Make Democracy Work; Debate then Vote." The group is sponsored by the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, but is seeking to attract support from outside the labor movement.

Jerry Thompson, an officer of the state AFL-CIO and chairman of Citizens for Democracy, announced yesterday that George Stiles of Howardstown, president of the Kentucky National Farm Organization, will be cochairman. The labor leaders at the meeting were A five-day strike which closed down the home laundry department at General Electric's Appliance Park in Louisville ended yesterday with acceptance by members of the International Union of Electrical Workers of a company offer, the company said. Union spokesmen were not available for comment, and no details of the settlement were given. Normal production is expected to resume Monday, a GE spokesman said. One shift began work late last night president, Daniel Garrett; secretary, Laurence E.

Higgins, and treasurer, Phillip Deeb. All the officers are from Louisville except Garrett, who lives at Glasgow. and There division of the Treasury Department in Louisville. He received a superior-per- formanee award, the second ever given to an agent in the Louisville office. Six men will be honored at 3 p.m.

Sunday for having been members of the St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society for 50 years. They are William A. Link, warH Timmpl William A HartlaPo' and to attend a college-day program from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

today. of eight church-related colleges will attend the meeting at South Louisville Christian Church, 3845 Southern Park way. Attorney Anthony K. llellmann, State AFL-CIO Launches Drive Senate 'Right-To-Work' Frank E. Haddad former president of the Louisville Bar Association, was elected president of the Kentucky Association of Trial Attorneys yesterday.

Other new officers are first vice president, Freeman B. Blackwell; second vice Notes From Here Dr. Harvey St. Clair will address the Kentucky Mensa at 8:30 p.m. today at Stouffer's Louisville Inn.

Dr. St. Clair's topic will be "The Third Psychiatric Revolution." Mensa is an international organization of people with high IQ rat- ings. The meeting is open to the public, Howard Priddy, maintenance super- fhairman tha Mntnr Trans. 1 Cafe Ordered Not To Bar Negro Dancers The public accommodations division of the Louisville Human Relations Commission yesterday ordered the Crosstown Cafe to stop barring Negroes from the dancing area of the cafe.

Jack M. Lowery, attorney for the cafe, 422 W. Oak, said the cafe's segregation policy was "not motivated by racial discrimination, but by a sincere desire to run a peaceful place and to stay in, business." Lowery said the dancing area was integrated for about a year after the city's public accommodations ordinance went into effect. But the operator, N. M.

Bennewitz, had so much trouble "fights, near riots, and other disorders" 4hat he was compelled to go back to segregation, the attorney said. The bar and eating section of the cafe serves both Negroes and whites, and there has been little or no trouble there, Bennewitz said. He said he either had to go out of business or do something to curb disorders in the dancing area. "All I want is peace in business," he added. James A.

Crumlin, chairman of the DUbliC accommodations division, Said the thonty to say you must compiy up io a certain point," but not past it, he ex plained. Panel members also said that letting the cafe continue partial segregation because of the reasons given would set the acuon against Jim ummy ncstduix uu Bar. 404 E. Oak, because the place now apparently is complying with the law. The Rev.

Lawrence Carter, who filed the complaint, said he recently was served at the restaurant. The Human ReLlions Commission on in the firm, warning that the pay phone is being tampered with. Southern Bell officials said the firms should then notify police and try to obtain the license number of any "getaway" cars. Between last Dec. 9 and Jan.

10, Southern Bell reported 45 pay-phone burglaries in the city and county higher than usual, the officials said, because of "Christmas-season thieves." Vandalism, ranging from breaking glass in phone booths to destroying the phones themselves, occurs about 100 times a month, the officials said. The majority of these crimes, they added, are committed by teen-agers. Why do they do it? "If we could answer that, we'd put the psychiatrists out of business," one official said. port Association Maintenance Supervisors Joseph Bosler. The meeting will be at hearing panel's sole function was to de-Council.

Other officers are Elmer Bauer, 2823 Frankfort Ave. Junior and termine whether the cafe was practicing vice chairman, and Woodrow Willis, senior high school students are invited discrimination. "We don't have the au- 2527 Gardiner Lane, has been reelected stage for other places to adopt similar governor of the Kentucky State Bar Asso- policies, whether valid or not. ciation for the appellate district com- Bennewitz can appeal the panel deci-prising Jefferson County. The YMCA sion to the Human Relations Commission, at Third and Broadway will have an In another racial -discrimination corn-open house from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m to- plaint, the hearing took no enforcement 1 i T- 1..

Tl 1 i- 1 Air's Impurities Tracked Down morrow. There will be athletic demon- strations and tours of the building. The YMCA of Louisville and Jefferson County starts a drive tomorrow for 10,000 members and $111,500. William M. Harvin heads the drive which ends Feb.

20. Bridge, oil painting, chil- By VINCENT CROWDUS "Detectives" are at work night and day in a back room on the second floor of the Sinking Fund Building in downtown Louisville. They are not police detectives, but dren's art, swimming and driver training staff was directed to notify the restaurant will be offered at the Highland YMCA, operator that the place would be re-2201 Hawthorne, beginning next week. checked to be sure it is not segregated. i y.

v. yivyyiil By LAWRENCE PRYOR The Kentucky AFL-CIO yesterday launched a grassroots campaign for a U.S. Senate vote on Section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act the section that permits state "right-to-work" laws. A Johnson administration bill, which would nullify state laws banning the union shop, was blocked by Sen. Everett M.

Dirksen's filibuster last October. Dirksen has said he will filibuster again when the bill is reintroduced in the Senate next week. The main goal of the AFL-CIO campaign will be to deluge the state's two Republican senators, particularly Sen. Thruston B. Morton, with letters and petitions from constituents who want the bill to come to a vote.

Locals Convey Appeal A direct appeal to Kentucky's 135,000 AFL-CIO members has gone out through the 374 affiliated locals to "write, wire or phone" the senators to block the filibuster, said Sam Ezelle, executive secretary of the state AFL-CIO. Last fall, Morton voted against cutting off Dirksen's debate. Sen. John Sherman Cooper voted for cloture. At a Louisville meeting yesterday of about 70 labor leaders from across the state, Wilbur E.

Hobby, AFL-CIO political-education district director, said the bill's sponsors were six votes short of the two-thirds required to shut off Senate debate. "If we can convince Sen. Morton of voting for cloture, there is a possibility that three or four others would swing to cloture," said Hobby. "They wouldn't vote for repeal of 14b, and we wouldn't expect them to," he said. "But we would be satisfied if this bill comes to a vote." The statewide letter-writing campaign is being directed by a group called Station Employe Held After Reporting Robbery An attendant at a downtown Louisville service station was arrested yesterday afternoon, about 90 minutes after he had told police that two men robbed him at gunpoint at the Gulf Service Station, 200 W.

Main. Police arrested Edward S. McAtee, 32. of 830 S. 12th, at 2:30 p.m.

and charged him with conversion and giving police a false report. Police said that $136 cash and $42 84 in checks were reported missing from the station. They charged McAtee, who had worked at the station about seven years, with taking the money and then making the false report. sj iiWM'MUmM asJy-yfM fcf SSIiflf secretary. Robert E.

Miller. New Albany, was honored at a dinner at Hasenour's Restaurant last night. He recently retired after 27 years as a special agent with the intelligence It is their job to find out how much undesirable matter is in the air around the Sinking Fund Building in the City Hall complex at Sixth and Jefferson. The instruments constitute an air-testing center set up by the Louisville and Jefferson County Air Pollution Commission with a $21,000 federal grant and $7,000 of city funds. The center is just beginning to get into full operation.

Ralph W. Bourne, chief engineer for the commission, hopes to have enough data for a valid study of air pollutants within three or four months. It will take a year (completion of the four-seasons cycle), however, to get a true picture of the air's makeup, he said. The laboratory will measure the amount of hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, ozone, and oxides of nitrogen in the air. The testing should give some indication of what effect fumes from motor vehicles have on purity of the air downtown.

Generators Produce Ozone Hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides come mainly from motor vehicles and heating plants. Ozone comes from electrical generators and trans- formers and from lightning and thunderstorms. The testing center also has some old equipment to measure the amount of sulphur dioxide in the air. This equipment is similar to that now in operation at 35th and Broadway. The downtown testing center has a large glass channel that extends through the wall and pulls the air into the building.

The equipment is portable. Bourne plans to move it to other areas of the city after the downtown test period, Lights Alert Police Alarm Systems Combat Phone-Booth Burglars Two alarm systems are being used to help catch pay-telephone burglars and vandals in the Jefferson County area. Snnthprn Bell Telephone Telegraph Co. spokesmen said yesterday that the number of pay-phone burlgaries was above average last month. But they added that warning ae ices and other security measures had cut down the number of thefts from coin phones last year.

One alarm system used by Southern Bell is linked directly to Louisville Police Headquarters. When a thief tries to open a pay-phone coin box, a light flashes on near the central complaint desk. The lights are number-coded to indicate the location of the phone booth. Police can be dispatched immediately. The light also will come on if vandals attempt to mangle the phone itself.

The other alarm system is connected to nearby business firms. A light comes Staff Photo AIR POLLUTION LABORATORY Louisville Mayor Kenneth A. Schmied, left, gets a look at new instruments set up in the Sinking Fund Building to measure certain materials in the air. With him are, from left, Ralph W. Bourne, chief engineer for the Louisville-Jefferson County Air Pollution Control Commission, and technicians Clydes Hawkins and Everett Hall..