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IX-No. 15 WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1963 EIGHT PAGES A New Sound '' arr1er• II Is Broken . by WSMR British Mystery Begun In Queen 1·· Officers Victoria's Time Solved By Here Scientists Here Yesterday Two British officers have joined A mystery connected with the manned by scientists of the U.S. sound travels before it js reftected the ranks of the U. S. Army mis funeral of Queen Victoria span Army Electronics Research and back to earth. The length of these Development Activity who have sile team at White Sands Mis· ned more than half a century and tunnels depends on atmospheric been charting temperatures and sHe Range, N. M. most of the world this week to conditions. 1 wind speeds of the high sky for They are Maj. John A. Al· a solution over the desert of ,,;....,...·. borough and Warrant Officer lhe use of space vehicle design On the day of Queen 'Victo· ,.. /..-/2y Maurice Murtagh, both from the southern New Mexico. ers. ria's funeral in England air con ~·"· ·. ll: School of Electronic Engineering, A blast of 5,000 pounds of high The 5,000 pound charges of ex ditions of temperature and wind Royal Electrical and Mechanical explosive shook the pre-dawn sky plosive were detonated by Don factors caused a sound duct and Engineers at Berkshire, England. at this national test center to Slade and personnel of the War consequent zone of silence on ~.;.,N,,.~,, ·''""'-'·~~ Major Alborough was com· answer questions scientists first heads Branch of the Army Mis earth 90 miles long. This week mander of the Radar Engineering c;sked at the funernl of a queen sile Test and Evaluation organi in New Mexico the sound travel COLONEL WILLIAM F. KAI· Department and Mr. Murtagh was in LondQr_ in 1901. zation in the sort of cooperative ed 200 miles through the atmos· SER, new Chief of Staff here at a radar instructor. The ceremonial cannon that venture marking the spirit of pheric duct it bounced back to WSMR. Alborough, a veteran of 17 years boomec;l. to mark the end of an research rat this desert testing earth at Albuquerque. • center. service, was assigned in Egypt, era or!. that day 62 yeads ago For the technically minded: Eden and Australia from 1955 were heard in London. They were And the data gathered by Mar The sound that reached the Al nntil 1960. Born in London, he ::ieard 90 miles away. But in the vin Diamond, Senior Scientist of buquerque station was in the New Chief attended Salesian College there area between those points no the Environmental Department of range of one to five cycles per anct Bradford Technical College BRITISH OFFICERS-Lt. Col. Kenneth G. cers Maj. John A. Alborough, center, and War• sound of the cannon was heard on the Electronics R&D Activity and second in the infrasonic frequen· at Bradford, Yorkshire, where he Wilstead, left, British Liaison Officer at White earth. his group is providing confirma cies. It traveled at the rate of one studied electrical engineeringJ He rant Officer Maurice Murtagh upon their ar· tion of the research pioneered Sands Missile Range, N, M., greets fellow offi· rival at WSMR. (U.S. Army photo) Scientists have puzzled over mile every five seconds to reach Of Staff is an associate member of the here to measure temperatures of the recortling microphones 20 this "zone of silence" since that British Institution of Electrical time. the upper atmosphere. minutes after the explosion here. Engineers. This week tape recorders hum Proven, too, is an atmospheric The formula to determine atmos· In the July Army Informa· He is married to the former Tickets for med at a small laboratory just phenomenon only suspected by pheric temperatures is based on AtWSMR Miss Pamela M. Tate of Surrey, tion Digest, General Earle G. Tests of northwest of Albuquerque to re science at the time of Queen Vic· a computer calculation of speed England. They are living with Wheeler, Chief of Staff com· toria's death, of sound, standard atmosphere Army officials here at White rnenting on the need for qual· "Fantastic ks" cord data from sensitive micro their dJughter, Elizabeth Anne, at phones tuned in on the explosions Evaluation of the data confirms variable profiles, wind speeds, Sands Missile Range have an· 206 Goddard, WSMR. 1ty soldiers. wrote: "Every of· set off here. the existence in the sky of "ducts" and recorded intervals and azi· Murtagh enlisted in the Bri· Nike-X ficer should seek fluency in at nounced the assignment of Col. Available Now The recording station was or sound tunnels through which muths of blast propagation. tish Army in 1943 and attended 1east one foreign language; William F. Kaiser as the missile ;imilarly, every staff sergeant Tickets for WSMR's summer ;range's new Chief of Sta!f. the Army Apprentice School at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, until (ES) and higher should culti· musical, "The Fantasticks", to be Coming to White Sands from 194G. He later attended the N. W. At Sands vate a language skill to the performed at the Entertainment Korea where he was commander Kent. College of Technology. He The Army continued testing oi point where he can, if need be. Center the 19th through the 23rd of the Army Ordnance Depot, conduct his routine duly in of August, are available to all Major Gen. Sutherland Colonel Ki\,iser succeeds CoL is a grac'uate member of the Bri- components of its new Nike "X" th;h Institute of Radio Enginners. anti-missile mfs ile syst~m with t a fareigi:i. tongue." a o cost and may be obtained Martin Cunningham who retired from any of the Special Services .from the Army in July, He served in Korea_ and Singa· a f'inn · g o ! the N'k1 e z eus M'1ss1 ·1 e I'========-======== pore f rom 1953 56 r Wh't S d M' ·1 R activities, A native of La!ayette, Ind., He is married ·to the former .rom 1 e an s issi e ange, E · t• I The busy rehearsal schedule Colonel Kaiser's military career Miss June Voss of Chepstow. N. M., it was announced last xam1na ion s has everyone involved with the To · Visit White Sands • has been chiefly in Ordnance They have two daughters, Mau- week. f jA d f production on their toes and the llllOUllCe OT w.ith several years in missile re· reen and Patricia. The family is A new high per ormance c· . performances should prove to be Major General James W. Suth~ Jn the 6th Armored Infantry Re· V.irginia. For the next three lated work. living at 104 Aerobee, WSMR. booster propellant was used _to lVIl Service Post show stoppers. erland, commanding g·<!neral of giment and on 1 July 1941 was years he served as a staff offi He was commissioned a second propel the missile from ltS announ• The "Fantasticks,'' is a parable the U. S. Army Test and Eval- commissioned a second lieutenant cer in the section responsible !or launcher-. Examination has been supervision of development ot lieutenant, Field Artillery (Re 1ced by the Board of U. S. Civil of love and is to be played in the uation Command at Aberdeen in the Regular Army, He remain serve) on completion of ROTC The test was successful and Se;rvice Examiners, White Sands three-quarter round with a mini- proving ground, Maryland will ed with the 6th Armored Infan· tanks, tank weapons, automotive training at Purdue University SI as h Seen £iring objectives were met. Missile Range, New Mexico, for mum of set-space. The set itself, visit the missile range next week. try, 1st .Al:mored Division for the equipment and special purpos_e where he received a bachelor's It was the secona such test filling positions for Electronic designed by the talented R. General Sutherland, Jr. was next three years, and participated vehicles. degree in electrical engineering. For Income using the new booster propellant Technician, Grades GS-12 at Schwartz, is simple in structure born in B-entonville, Arkansas, in combat action in Algeria, Tu· In June 1950 he was selected to He is also a graduate of the Arm- for the 48-foot-long Zeus missile. $5540.00 to $9475.00 per annum. and consists of a series of bare February 8, 1918, and was raised nisia and Italy. He was pro attend the Command and Gener al Staff College, Fort Leaven· 1?.d Forces Staff College an Nor- During the flight the missile Positions that are filled from this wooden platforms, leaving much in Rogers, Arkansas. He attended rooted to the grade of lieutenant to the imagination of the actors the University of ..<\rkansas from colonel on May 17, 1944 and, worth, Kansas and, upon grad 1olk, Va., and receiv!;!d a masters Taxes Soon was put 1through a series of examination will be located at in business administration from maneuvers by ground - based White Sands Missile Range, New and to you, the audience.