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MISSILE LAND, U. S. A. West Coast Laboratory Dedicated To Learning More About Universe By WILLIAM HINES ■Ur Bcltnc* Writer • LA JOLLA, Calif —ln an In dustry so hectic that Its leaders frequently complain that “prac tice has outrun theory,” it is refreshing to find a place dedi cated to helping theory catch up Such an establishment is the John Jay Hopkins Laboratory of Pure and Applied Science, also known as the General Atomic Division of the General Dynamic# Corp. An out-of this-world sort of place atop a sun-drenched mesa in one of the pleasantest parts of the globe, Hopkins Lab is dedicated to learning more about the universe man is already begin ning to explore and exploit. Supervised benignly by a roly-poly young genius named Frederic de Vloffmann, about 300 scientists and 250 helpers search for truth in every state of nature man can reproduce in the lab. They heat thin gases to a million degrees and ac celerate shock waves up to 100 times the speed of sound. They chill materials down to within a few degrees of absolute zero and then bombard them with radiation. Why? To see what will happen; to learn more about the nature of things. Research Expensive That this kind of scientific doodling costs money can hardly be doubted. General Atomic officials concede they haven’t made any money yet and probably will operate in the red for another five or six years. But they point out that you can push basic re searchers only so hard, and they are content to wait for something to turn up. “Something” in the missile area already has turned up, in the form of a $1 million (first year) contract from the Pen tagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency. The only pub lic knowledge about this "feasi bility study” contract is that it “is related to the possible development of a new concept of propulsion of controlled nuclear explosions.” Beyond this, the Pentagon has muzzled GA so thoroughly that its officials decline even to discuss the scientific theory be hind controlled explosions—-de spite the fact that theories are non-secret. This is not GA’s first in- 1.629- | Polar Area Is Explored ! By the Associated Press ? A party of American and: J New Zealand scientists has just completed a dangerous 109-day, j 1.629- traverse of previ-J’ ously unexplored territory in i the Antarctic. They traveled by tractor and afoot. Telling of this yesterday, of ficials of the American Inter- : national Geophysical Year! Committee said findings of the i trip are potentially of great import to science. The trip itself suggests it might be sea-! sible to resupply the United States South Polar station by tractor train. The party was led by Albert P. Crary, deputy chief scientist of the United States-IGY Ant arctic program. It included four other Americans and one New Zealander. They left Little America October 15, 1958, and traveled over the Ross Ice Shelf, up Skelton Glacier to a height of 9,000 feet, then west several hundred miles to Victoria Land Plateau and finally into the Naval air facility at McMurdo Sound. They completed the trek January 31, but their dis patch announcing completion of "a major.scientific journey’’ was delayed. LOST BOXERS (2). male and soayed female; strayed from vie. Andrews Feld. Re ward. RE H-IKWB. RE. ft-7454. COCKER SPANIEL, buff, maie; vie Kensington parkway; children* pet. Reward. LO. 5-SQR7. COCKER SPANIEL, small, brown fe male; "Tessie"; vie. Rockville-Twin hi )«'k. Re\eard. GA. 4-!»:GK after 6.1 DACHSHUND, black and tan. female; answers name “Delight”: vicinity Montgomery Hills. S 8 JU. 6-U9Btt. DACHSHUND, reddish brown femaif. yrs. old; license D. C.. H-” taiooed in one ear; answers to name of "Ounsie" vie. Barnaby and Worth ington Reward. WO. R-4M04. DIAMOND RING. >/a carat solitaire; \ic Shorehan Hotel or Arl., Va. Re ward. OT 4-9375 DOG. German Shepherd, male, black and tan; Fri.. vie. Seat Pleasant; 1 yr. old. RE. 6-6354. DOG. female, mixed breed, short hair, fawn color. 4 white stockings, white chest, long white tipped tail, sturdy long-legged body, terrier face, red collar; “Pixie", telephone no. on plate. >ls reward. DE 2-8894. EARRING, diamond and pea: ity Constitution Hall, or in cab be tween hall and Dorchester House, Jan 29; reward OI *>-.M*;ui. EYEGLASSES: Constitution Hall, Sun., Feb. 1. Reward. KE 7-0833. GERMAN SHEPHERD, pure bred. gray, black and beige; answers to name of “Fairfax"; lost in vie. of Kensington. Reward. OL. 7-3036. MANILA FILE, contains personal pa pers; left in phone booth. Pa ave. and 13th st. n w Reward. Return address noted in file. • Pekingese brown and white male: vicinitv Woodlawn and Landover Hills area. Ans to “Skippy * AP. 7 -7.; 1 . *ITPY, pug. tan with white markings tip of tall and feet. 2 mos. old. female, wearing new tan leather collar an swers to name of “Happy ’; vie. of Pinewood ave.; little girl desolate JU. 9-0946, tOOLS. tile setter s; near Twinbrook shopping area. JO 3-6360. • §25 REWARD for contents of brief case, lost from car on Bth st. n.w., between Eve and K. about spm Monday. OL. 2-8387. FOUND 4aT, white and gray female vie Ma comb st and Wis. ave. EM. 3-0478 eves. DOG. collie type. tan. vie 2700 blk. 28th st. n.e Call WASHINGTON ANIM * t j RESCUE LEAGUE. NO. 7- 3730. I>OG. red, male, cocker spaniel; Chil lum. Md . aya. Call HA. 2-7523. f>OG. at W§ and Mass. aves. n.w. area; block, small collie tvpe. male ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE. NO 7- 6730. ENGLISH POINTERS (2>. ma>: vicin ity of Baileys Cross Roads. Va JE 4-1664 *IXG or KITS. OB 11th It n». »t K •t. Call J. P. SCHAEFER. NA. S-SSOO. Aj^BiHtv WHERE THEORY IS KING—The John Jay Hopkins Laboratory of Pure and Applied Science sprawls across a sun-drenched mesa in Southern California. Research into many areas of science is conducted in the laboratory where theory stays ahead of practical application. cursion into the missile field, 1 though the company has no production contracts. It is, however, looking into the be havior of materials under the sort of radiation conditions that might be encountered in space. Finds Limitations “It’s getting to the point where electric circuits can't stand as much total radiation as a man can stand,” Dr. Vic tor Van Lint observed. Dr. Van Lint, a lanky Indonesia-born, Netherlands -raised physicist who speaks with only the wisp of a Dutch accent, is a GA spe cialist in solid-state physics.] One of his chief projects is in vestigating how transistors,! iiodes and other semiconductors behave in the presence of ra- Youth Indicted In House Thefts A Washington youth who al legedly left his fingerprints as a consistent giveaway was in-; dieted for housebreaking here yesterday by a District grand, jury. The indictment charged him with breaking into eight homes in Northwest and Northeast Washington between July 30 and September 23 of last year 1 The boy is Reginald B. Brooks, 17, of the 4600 block of Easy place S.E. Assistant United States At | torney John C. Conliff said the youngster, whose case was waived before District Court action by Juvenile Court here, broke into the homes by cut i ting window screens. The pros ecutor said the youth left fin gerprints in seven of the eight : homes. Mr. Conliff said the youth was arrested in New York on December 14 on information supplied to the New York police by District police. \*SUPER?S^f^ ) FUELOIL ml / COSTS NO MORE! | I %1413 NEW YORK AVENAV ME. 8-4840 M Today’s Forecast! CLOUDY fTAUNUS • GERMAN FORD • Incredible Economy Gallon • Smart, Compact Yet Roomy as low as j $20283° Rain or Shine its ol- | . a time to Dc\ in cc\ out —«e con L~ .ftIBgSSIHM . gve i"u t-e best oil- - s i ;- v ’S ’• * - round buv cn c revs cor —and we’ll prove it! * ■tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmMMiMMmmMmmm O'BRIEN - ROH ALL 1311 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Vo. JAckson 5-8900 Edsel, Mercury, German Ford (Taunus) Ask About Our exclusive "Hidden Value“ Deal! diation at temperatures around 200 degrees below zero Centi grade. They don’t behave well. “I’ve made it a rule that there are to be no transistorized compo nents in our electronic measur ing devices when we run these radiation tests,” Dr. Van Lint said. In his work, Dr. Van Lint— like the other scientists here has access to some of the finest equipment available. One of the features of the laboratory is* a powerful linear accelerator, a kind of a “straight cyclotron ” that kicks subatomic particles up to speeds near that of light v The laboratory was a dream of the late John Jay Hopkins who created General Dynamics out of a series of mergers of smaller companies. GD is now headed by Frank Pace, a former Secretary of the Army. L'nusual Plant A striking thing about the Hopkins Lab is the physical lay out. The chief feature is a cir* cular building surrounded by two larger arc-shaped buildings SPANISH Classes Starting Toe*, or Frl.» 7:36 to 0:30 p.m. Wed.. 5:30 to 7:36 p.m. Sat.. 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. These classes being lim ited to 5 students, register early. Open 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. BERLITZ The Language denter ol Wathington 1701 K St. (at Cann. Ave.). STerling 3-0010 M —rather as the orbits of elec trons circle the nucleus of an atom in the classic atomic con ceptions. The buildings are extreme in their architecture, apparently “hanging” from ex posed steel girders. The effect, while avant-garde, is pleasant, as are the care fully tended gardens, the build ing fountains, the splashing reflecting pools and the trees. Next year there will be a swim ming pool. As might be expected, worker turnover is low, notably among the scientists. “I’m here to stay,” said Dr. Van Lint. “This is the finest compromise I can imagine be tween academic research and industrial compensations.” Which seems to mean they pay him well and leave him alone —and who could ask more of a boss? l/i Tc’om"Satisfied! \jljer /3,Z00 Customers; | CAN'T BE WRONG! \ 'jO 1 * • BETTER SERVICE • GREATER VALUES • BETTER TRADES • BETTER USED CARS | \ M PAGE-HUGHES BUICK j 1621 ARLINGTON BLVD. gr o OTAA> ■FALLS CHURCH, VA. 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In fact, Mr. Hoffa apparently plans to minimize the uproar by con centrating on signing' up public employes other than police men. When the drlvf begins, the Teamsters probably will work gradually through local af filiates instead of launching a blits co-ordinated at the na tional level. Planned Big Drive Mr. Hoffa told reporters in January the union would undertake a major national campaign to organize 10 mil lion State, county and mu nicipal workers. He planned to hold a meeting to co-ordinate the drive. This is the technique he has used in several big organiz ing efforts, including the cur rent campaign with employes of Sears Roebuck & Co. When a national organizing cam paign works, it achieves much faster and more spectacular results than local drives. Now Mr. Hoffa has post poned the national co-ordinat ing meeting indefinitely. In the meantime, local organizing will plug along as usual. The Teamsters for some time have had members in the ranks of j such public employes as trash truck drivers. The national union probably will increase counseling and financing aid, without full-scale co-ordination by headquarters. Mr. Hoffa apparently fears that announcement of a big organizing campaign any time soon would revive last month’s furor over unionizing of police. Threat Backfired The police drive obviously got out of hand. Henry Feinstein of New York convinced the Teamsters’ executive board that public employes are a fertile field for unionization. Police were supposed to be only one segment—and not an especially important one—of the cam paign approved by the board. Senators Probe Attack On Teamster Monitors The Senate Rackets Com mittee tries today to find out who la inspiring a aeries of attacks on the Teamsters Union board of monitors. Interrogation of John Cun ningham, a Teamlter from Flushing, N. Y., is expected to concentrate on evidence that some of his expenses have been paid by the home local of James R. Hoffa, the union’s president. Mr, Cunningham currently is pressing a court action to block an order by District Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who is prepared to compel com pliance with cleanup directives Issued by the board of mon itors he appointed last year. Edward Bennett Williams, the Teamsters’ general counsel, has said he opposes Mr. Cun ningham's move. Mr. Williams apparently wants Judge Letts to issue his order so the union can press an appeal. Nevertheless, the Rackets Committee and the monitors suspect a tie-in between Mr. Cunningham and the Hoffa regime. Martin F. O’Donoghue has produced evidence indicat ing Mr. Hoffa’s Local 299 in Detroit paid Woodner Hotel bills last August and Septem But then Mr. Feinstein be came militant and threatened to picket police installations in New York starting January 12. Cries of outrage by the public and by New York’s Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner forced Mr. Fein stein and Mr. Hoffa to tone down. Then the police drive collapsed when Mr. Feinstein dropped his organizing efforts i under threat of losing his city job. The whole affair convinced Mr. Hoffa he must walk softly, at least until his notoriety dies down. He still is the prime target of investigations by the Senate Rackets Committee, and iis engaged in a crucial court battle. H ... especially mar ried ladies whose husbands have slipped into the TV and sports, ‘V°^er with-the-boys” rou tine of romance. Now that you’ve strained your back on the reducing ma chine and fractured your budget with the latest Parisian copies, he’s still end ing up “in the kitch en with the boys” every time you go out . . . Why not give the “real way to his heart” a chance? Remember dancing? You loved it . . . and he did, too, when love was new. Well, it’s still working its magic with men from 18 to 80. If you’ll trap that Gallahad of yours into meeting you downtown, we’ll give you a free lesson together at ARTHUR MUR RAY ... the Adult School of Dancing ... and if, together, we can re-kindle his interest, we’ll give the old boy a deal he can’t turn down. We’ll give you $35 off on any AR THUR MURRAY course—This offer will expire soon— Don’t miss this op portunity to find the real way to his heart. Call AR THUR MURRAY —Executive 3-4100 for an appointment ber for Mr. Cunningham and an associate, Moss Herman. Mr. Herman also is scheduled to testify at today's hearing. ‘ Mr. Cunningham was chair man of the committee of rebel Teamsters who sued to keep Mr. Hoffa from taking over as president of the 1.6-million member union. He later broke with the insurgents. Mr. Cunningham was cnair he wants to get rid of the moni tors only so that the union membership can express its will in an election. 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