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ZUGENE RZGISTEK-GCABD. Sunday. April 7, IMS Tm IX Satellite Experiment Puts Life at 10 Years , ' ' ' Molds on Food Artificial Radiation Belt to Remain By FRANK E. CARET I th. ASSOCIATED PRESS BEDFORD, Mass. A se cret Air Force space ven ture has dug up additional evidence that the artificial radiation belt created by last summer's American high-altitude nuclear ahot will last up to ten years. This was reported Satur day by the Air Force's top research command giving new flavor to a controversy , that raged for months be-' twecn the government and James Van Allen, disceveror of the natural radiation belts that bear his name. A scientist of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL) dis closed that a satellite launched late last October by the Defense Department on an undescribed mission was actually loaded with scien tific gear designed to probe the new radiation belt creat ed by the July 9 American nuclear blast some 250 miles above Johnston island in the Pacific. As things turned out, the satellite described in only the. vaguest terms at the time of launching on Oct. 26 not only probed the American-made belt, but was launched In time to get prime information on the series of three Soviet high-altitude nu clear blasts touched off be tween Oct. 22 and Nov. 1. Ludwig Katz disclosed the American venture to news men making i tour of the key Air Force space research laboratories some IS miles from Boston. And top military officials at the facility at Hanscom Air Force Base indicated that the reason the satellite's mission was not disclosed at the time was that it was tied up, merely by emergency, with a hush-hush Air Force program of military space re search in other fields. Air Force spokesmen told a reporter that emergency plans to have radiation sleuthing gear ride on a military-type satellite were conceived when the 'nuclear shot unexpectedly caused several previous satellites to lose at least some of their efficiency. "We had things ready in about six weeks after we got approval for the study," said one spokesman. Meanwhile, before the Air Force satellite was launched, the government had decided largely on the basis of findings by the Telstar com munications satellite that the artificial radiation belt would persist much longer than had originally been ex pected, possibly for "many years." This view was steadfasted ly opposed for months by Van Allen, who forecast that the artificial belt would dis appear within a year. Only recently. Van Allen sharply reversed his stand, saying that various Ameri can satellites had produced evidence that now convinced him the man-made belt would persist for about a decade. Van Allen was not very specific on which satellites had produced the evidence. Air Force spokesmen said Saturday they felt the evi dence dug up by their satel lite figured largely in Van Allen's change-of-mind. - Katz, without making such claims, said the satellite known only as "1962 Beta Kappa 1" had found that: - "Since the latter part of October, 1962, there has been little decrease in the inten sity of trapped radiation . . . (created by) . . . the July 9 nuclear detonation In the Pacific." "The decay of the belt is so small," he told newsmen, "that a lifetime of five to ten years would not suprise me." He said "Beta Kappa" and other air force satellites launched before and after the Russian high altitude shots helped determine that the Russian shots in con trast to the American one produced an artificial belt that lasted only a short time. This was because the Russian shots were detonated at a -higher latitude than the American blast. In another report on Air Force space research, John Salisbury, chief of the labora tories' lunar planetary ex ploration branch, said the moon offered possibilities for a "refueling station" for interplanetary exploration by manned spacecraft. Salisbury said various types of evidence suggest the moon has rich quantities of water locked beneath its sur face either in the form of subsurface ice or in "hy drated" minerals and this conceivably could be tapped and processed to furnish ad ditional fuel for rockets reaching the moon from the Earth. Saying that atomic reac tors, for example, might be used to exploit this hidden fuel-resource on the moon, " the scientist said such pos sibilities as these would be opened up: Manned rockets to the moon could carry heavier cargoes than otherwise, be cause they could replenish their fuel supply on the moon for the home trip. This would speed the establish ment of bases on the. moon. Manned missions to Mars and other planets would not have to await favorable approaches of those planets, because the lunar "filling stations" would allow flexi bility of flight times. The scientist also reported that experiments in this laboratory tend to rule out suggestions that astronauts reaching the moon might sink in pumice-like dust on the moon's surface. He said laboratory tests on materials which conceivably might cover the moon's sur face indicate that, under the cosmic radiation to which the moon is always subjected, the dust particles would cling to gether in a relatively firm surface. Thus, he said, properly de signed mobile equipment and walking men should have no trouble traversing the lunar surface. 3$ t , .v ' '. i - ' : . ' ! Ik '.1 b (AP Wlrepholo) SECOND TIME Chester Bowles, U.S. Ambassador to India from 1951-53, was named Saturday to the same post by Presi dent Kennedy. He has been a special adviser to the President on foreign affairs. Fungus a Suspect In Cancer Study By ALTON BLAKESLEE , Ol tt IiikUUI rrtu Nehru Explains Visit NEW DELHI tin Prime Min ister Nehru has told Parliament a visit by American Secretary of State Dean Rusk, starting May 2, has nothing to do with India's air defense require ments. He said Rusk would be passing through and had agreed to stop two days for talks in old familiar haunts. Rusk was a China-Burma-India staff colo nel here in World War II while Nehru was serving his last Brit ish jail time. LA JOLLA, Calif. Cancer detectives are trailing a strange new suspect the lowly fungus as a possible cause of some cancers. Fungi, or molds, might con taminate some foods we eat, or even exist in some drugs, Dr. Michael B. Shimkin of the Na tional Cancer Institute, Beth esda, Md., said Friday night. Fungi are one of the lowest forms of life. Some are familiar as the molds on food, including green mold on bread, but that particular mold has not been implicated. ReDortine to an American Cancer Society seminar for sci ence writers. Dr. Shimkin told of evidence involving moldy peanuts and moldy corn. In 1980. he said. 100,000 tur- keys died in England from dis ease "X." traced to weir iooq, The killer turned out to be a poison, named anatoxin, pro duced by a mold or fungus con taminating peanuts in part oi their food. When rats were fed large amounts of this same fungus poison, they got liver cancers In Africa, investigators no ticed, many natives have a high rate of liver cancer. They eat and like moldy corn. So the mol dy corn Is being investigated as a possible cause of liver cancer. One chemical isolated from moldy peanuU and corn is found to be a very powerful cancer-producing agent. It is 50 to 100 times mora powerful in stimulating liver cancer in rata than are aio dyes, long known as a cancer agent. Or, Shimkin said. So researchers are wondering what effects there may be from fungus products consumed by humans in foods or even in cer tain antibiotics, such as the ac- tinomycins, he said. Ha emphasized these are all suspicions, and that there is no reason for people to avoid antibiotics essential in combat ting disease. ; i 1 , Japanese Commune With Cherry Blossoms TOKYO or More than 200. 000 fun-loving Japanese, loaded with wine and song, thronged Tokyo's Ueno Park Saturday night to commune with the cherry blossoms. Police reported the crowd was orderly but the park was transformed Into a carpet of rub bish empty wine and beer bot tles, newspapers, straw mats, empty cellophane , food containers. SE Musicians Rated High in Contest South Eugene gained superior ratings Saturday with their girls' glee club and orchestra at the Western Oregon district music contest held in Corvallis. The schools entered were judged in choir, girls' glee, or chestra and bands. They were given ratings in performance and sight reading in which they were given a strange piece of music and expected to play or sing the selection three minutes later. Grades given out were 1 for superior, 2 for excellent, and 3 average and, in some cases, a plus or minus was added to the rating. Results, with the performance rating first, then the sight read- Miss City of Roses PORTLAND (UTD Karen Shenfield, 19, Portland, was named Miss City of Roses Fri day night. mg: CHOIR North Eugene, 1. 3 plus; Corvallis, 1, 3; Lebanon, 2, 2; North Salem, 1, 1. GIRLS' GLEE South Eu gene, 1, 1; North Salem, 1, 1 plus; Corvallis, 1, 3. ORCHESTRA North Eugene, z, 2; South Eugene, 1, 1; Cor vallis, 1, minus; 1. BANDS South Eugene, . 2 plus, 1; North Eugene, 2, 2; Corvallis, 1, 1; South Salem, 2 minus, 2; Junction City, 3, 3; Sweet Home, 2, 2. iC 4 i sWr 7 COCOA Introducing fashion's newest pet, Round the Clock's fresh new shade, V Cocoa Creme. 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