Dignitaries

The caption reads: Some of the nation's leading scientific, educational and military figures are in Panama City today as the Naval Research Advisory Committee inspects the U.S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory facilities. In the above photo (left to right) are Dr. J.A. Stratton, provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.G. Nelson, chairman of the Panama City Chamber of Commerce's military affairs committee; Dr. M.J. Kelly, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City; and Capt. J. Myers, commander of the Mine Defense Laboratory here. In the photo below are Col. Fred Gray, commander, Tyndall Air Force Base; Rear Adm. A.M. Morgan, assistant chief of the Bureau of Ships for Ship Design and Research; Issac Byrd, president, Panama City Chamber of Commerce; and Rear Adm. F.R. Furth, chief of Naval Research