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How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, all of us daily read and hear over the radio and see on television about what's happening at Cape Canaveral. It's one of the modern miracles of this age I'm delighted to have is my guest at this particular time, the commanding officer of Kid Canaveral, General Yates.

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General, I want you to know that we're proud of having the base in Florida, and we're particularly proud of the fine work that you're doing there. May I ask you this question to start? How long now Have you been at Cape Canaveral? He'll be five years, first of August.

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And how has that particular operation grown during the time that you've been there? Well, it's growth has been fantastic. Actually, during the last five years, we've gone from two or three people up to a total of about 18 now, and I think we probably have added about $350 million to the investment, bringing the total up to about a half a billion right now, half a billion in the state.

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How do you have any estimation as to how large it will grow with it? Stay about as its present size or will it even grow greater? Well, I think it will grow a little bit larger. However, with the advent of the ballistic missile program, we had to sort of change our type of instrumentation.

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And now, in Ireland, sufficient to have most of the intercontinental ballistic missile programs and also the space programs, I think we probably grow another two or 3000. It's hard to guess, but we're reaching a near level of a general is would you tell us just briefly the missiles which have been tested there and as far as you can?

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I know some of it is restricted as far as you can see, how they're doing, how they're developing, how they're shaping up. Well, we have graduated, Let's say the Matador and the Redstone, those missiles are both overseas now, the only Matadors we fire those that are done for training purposes.

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We just recently completed the a model of the Bow Marc missile, and it is now under training, firing over at Eglin the bow. Marc B is just undergoing test. We have completed the preliminary tests on the shore and the Jupiter Tactical Intermediate Range ballistic missiles, both of those are either in operation or going into operation shortly.

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The Atlas missile is just getting ready for operational use, and the Titan is just starting its development test. The Pershing and the Minuteman are coming up in the very near future, and I think I've left out one the Snark Intercontinental aerodynamic type missile, which is going into operation up in the North.

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And their future has graduated. This minute, man is that's sort of the freshman class of Cape Canaveral. In other words, that's one of the few solid fuel propellant missiles that you people have thus far worked on. Is that correct? Well, the first one, another one that I omitted the Polaris.

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The Navy Polaris program is the first tactical solid propellant missile that we will have tested that we have test The Pershing will follow the Polaris. That's the Army missile, solid propellant. And then following that, the intercontinental ballistic missile solid propellant, the Minuteman General, All of us were greatly interested in reading about these monkeys that went off.

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Did you get to see those monkeys before they left their Cape Canaveral and they unique trip Now I'm sorry, I didn't They were they were inserted in that capsule a couple of days ahead, put on top of the missile and went through that period evening and under air conditioned comfort, I guess, until they were shot off, Will these young men, these astronauts, they call him who will be shot into space as somewhat.

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I guess a similar trip to that which the monkeys took. Will they take off from Cape Canaveral? Yes, they were. Let me ask you this. We read a great deal and troubles us all. A good deal about the strikes that seem to occur with too much regularity down there is that these strikes, uh, slow down the work on the missile program.

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Well, I think that I can say, honestly, that no strike to date has slowed down the missile firing schedule. But the strikes have slowed down our construction of new facilities. Do the lead. The fact that these strikes possibly are interfering with our defense program. Yes, and I think that they're cooperating right now.

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The it's the small, wild cast that caused the trouble. I think that we if they used the systems of negotiating negotiations are set up. We will have no trouble Thank you very much, General Yates. And thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for looking here. And I hope you look in again next week at the same time.