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By Eegene Imm
Ranger-Naturalist
Now that we are entering the
of space ships, a trip to our
, doeest heavenly neighbor, the
moon may not be too far off.
' Cave for a dry run to see what's
On th average, the trip is
239,000 miles. Once you get
there, our earth will look four
times m large because the moon
is only 2,163 miles in diameter
a shade more than a quarter
of our earth.
Yet because the moon's den
sity is much less than our earth's
it would take the materials con
tained in 81 moons to form our
globe.
Because of the difference in
size and density, there is a dif
ference in gravity. In fact, the
- same exertion it would take to
lift 100 pounds here on earth,
will lift 600 pounds up there,
Likewise, because of the les-
" sened pull; a falling body there
: during the first second will drop
only two feet and eight inches
as compared to 16 feet down
here.
. As far as we know there is
.no air on the moon. But should
. .there be a trace, its pressure
would not exceed l750th that
of our earth s surface, probably
- much less. That means all moon
trotters will have to carry their
own supply of oxygen.
Now, since the moon has no
atmosphere, there can be no
' wind.
As well, there can be no mois
ture in the air, hence no clouds,
no showers, no rainbows. If any
water exists at all, it will be
frozen at the bottom of deep
craters.
With the lack of atmosphere,
.of course, sounds are impossible.
A cannon might be fired along
side you and never be heard.
On our earth the sky is blue,
thanks to the scattering of the
sun's rays in our atmosphere.
' Up there, it would be pitch
fblack.
In that blackness, stars would
not twinkle but they would be
' sharp points of light 20 times as
'bright as down here and we'd
see a hundred times as many
-stars.-'
Sunshine Brighter
With no atmosphere to filter
the 'sun's rays, the sunshine
there is at least ten times as
"bright as on earth and prob
ably mixed with deadly short-
. waves. And certainly, without
heavy dark glasses, a human
would be instantly blinded.
; As with our earth, the moon
possesses no light of its own
it reflects what it receives from
the sun. (At full moon, the moon
sends to us about l600,000th
'part of that given off by our
midday sun.)
i. The days will be long. The
.moon makes one revolution in
27 days, seven hours, and 43
-minutes around the earth
.-keeping the same face to us. So,
- a day on the moon is equivalent
to almost a month with approx
imately two weeks of constant
daylight and two weeks of in
tense darkness.
' Because of the long sunshine
' ' for two weeks and the absence
'of the sun for the following two
weeks, immense variations of
temperature must exist.
At the hottest, the tempera
ture perhaps never rises about
the freezing point of water. At
- the coldest, something like 200
degrees below zero. Brrrr! Be-
' cause there is no circulating air
to moderate the temperature,
the shade must be unbearably
cold during bright daylight. In
fact, the side of a bare hand
exposed to the sun's light would
be seared in a short time while
the other side which was . in
shadow would be frozen.
Don't Take Camera
Such extremes would shatter
most delicate instruments
so don't plan on taking your
movie camera.
Looking at the terrain, there
wiix De large plains some ex
tending 650 miles across. But
mostly there will be craters
From our earth, where we can
see 59 per cent of the moon's
face, over 30,000 have been
counted, many overlapping.
borne have diameters ranging
from a half mile to 100 miles
with walls sometimes exceeding
20,000 feet!
With this preview, wouldn't
it be well to save enough for
the return trip? In such a dreary,
lifeless, conversationless, bleak
orb there's a good chance you'd
want to come back if only to
complain about the overcast, the
fog, or the rain.
(Copyright. 1954,
by Eugene Burns)
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Portland (U.R) It was
especially Merry Christmas
a United States Army corporal
and his mother in Portland.
Cpl. Oley Adamson arrived
home yesterday from his. army
post in Europe. But he had quite
a time making it.
The 22-year-old soldier was
one of the survivors of the crash
of a DC-3 plane Wednesday night
in the Monongahela river near
Pittsburgh, Penn. Ten of the 23
servicemen aboard the plane
were drowned.
But his experience was all
but forgotten Saturday in his
happy Christmas reunion with
his mother, Mrs. Lydia Adam
son, at her modest apartment in
Portland.
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L. Lutje, also a survivor of the
ill-fated liner, arrived home Fri
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with his wife and one-year-old
baby. He and the co-pilot were.
the last ones off the plane, swim
ming asnore tnrougn tne icy
waters.
Cpl. Aage Tostemark, also of
Eugene, was released from
Dravosburg, Penn., hospital' and
was on his way home Saturday
night from Fort Lewis, Wash
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Paris 'War Pads'
Berlin (U.R) The East
Berlin city administrator said
Saturday in a Christmas message
that West Berlin "must not be
included in the Paris war pacts"
providing for German rearma
ment. "That would lead to an ag
gravation of the situation in
Berlin, and could have dan
gerous results on more than
2,000,000 West Berlin residents,"
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ed in the Communist press.
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threat against West Berlin in
many months. The hint at a re
newal of the Berlin blockade
was implied but not expressed.
West Berlin is not legally a
part of West Germany, and
would not be remilitarized under
the Paris agreements. West Ber-
liners would not be drafted into
the West German army, and
West German troops would not
be stationed here.
Christmas Eye Crash
Kills 3, Injures 6
Sacramento y.R) A three
car Christmas eve accident
claimed three lives Friday night
and caused injury to six others
south of here.
The dead were Albert James
Massey, Stockton: Pearl Ed
wards, Stockton, and Benjamin
Schmidt, Lodi.
The injured were Martha
Schmidt, wife of Benjamin;
Barbara, 15, their , daughter;
Arthuer Ackerman, 17, Elaine
Ackerman, 12, his sister: and
Charlene Mettler, 17, all of Lodi;
and Foley E. Hutchinson, Stock
The California highway patrol
reported Hutchinson crossed the
center lane of a two-lane road
and ran head-on into a vehicle
driven by Schmidt. Hutchinson's
car then bounced into one driven
by Charles C. Quigley, Auburn,
Calif., the patrol said. Quigley,
a private at Ft. Lewis, Wash.,
was not injured. .
The accident occurred on U.S
99 between Sacramento and
Lodi.
Young Man Drowns
In Freak Accident
Levittown, N. Y. (U.R) A
young husband was trapped and
drowned in an automobile Sat
urday when his wife was hurled
from the driver's seat in a freak
chain reaction accident. '
The Christmas tragedy oc
curred when Rover Repp, 22,
ran into the rear of a car driven
by Richard McCabe, 49, at an
intersection traffic light.
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ment Joseph Fannon, 29, and his
wife, Muriel, arrived at the in
tersection just as the explosion
occurred. The blast threw Mrs,
Fannon from her car and sent
the vehicle careening through a
wire fence, down an embank
ment and into water about five
feet deep in a rain catcb basin
Fannon was trapped in the
car. By the time .help arrived,
he was dead. .
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Killed by Train'
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neral services were pending here
Saturday for Lonnie Winters, 52,
who was'killed when a train hit
him after he stepped from his
car on a fog-bound railroad
crossing to look for a street
sign. -
The victim's wife, Mrs-Esther
Winters, and Margaret Oehlin
leaped to safety Friday night
when they heard the tram approaching.
Earlier in the day, John Beau-
champ, 33, of Santa Ana, was
killed when his car went out of
control on Laguna Canyon road
and hit a tree.
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Daughter of Policeman
Miami U.R) The two-year-
daughter of a policeman shot
and killed herself Saturday with
his .38 caliber pistol while he
was inside a grocery store wish
ing a friend a Merry Christmas.
The father, Arthur Locke, said
he and a companion, Roy E.
Smith Jr., left the officer's car
only a few minutes. He said his
daughter, Sherry Ann Locke
who would have been three
years old Jan. 6, apparently
found the pistol which was kept
under the right side of the front
seat of the car.
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San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Sen.
William Jenner (R-Ind.) will sit
as a one-man committee here
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from retired Adm. C. Turner
Joy, of La Jolia, chief delegate
for the United Nations during
the Korean truce talks.
Jenner represents the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
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MONKEYS ISS CRAZY
Koss the Chimp goes in for
a little horseplay (or is it
chimp play?) as he plays the
Sart of Santa Claus. He is
ept busy on the phone mak
ing np gift list for all the
animals in Philadelphia Zoo.
Barriers Lowered
In Holy Land
Bethlehem, ' Jordan (U.R)
Barriers to travel through the
Holy Land between Israel and
Jordan were lowered Saturday
on the day of peace for Chris
tian pilgrims from many lands.
Arab Jordan, at peace with
Israel only by grade of a shaky
armistice, opened its frontiers
to the pilgrims dedicating the
day set aside for celebrating
Jesus' birthday to visiting the
holiest shrines in Christendom.
. The pilgrims passed through
gaps in the barbed wire mark
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representatives traveled the road
the Three Wise Men used when
they followed the star long ago.
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route led through the Mandel-
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the Garden of Gethsemane, near
which the Arabs now maintain a
frontier post.
Christmas day dawned bright
and clear, adding zest to the pil
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Train Makes Unslated
Stop to Give Gift of
Money to Poor Family
Saugus, Calif. (U.R) The
Owl, Southern Pacific's speedy
train between Los Angeles
and San Francisco, turned into
Santa Claus Saturday to make
an unscheduled stop here.
Chagrined passengers, all in
a hurry to get to Los Angeles
for Christmas dinner, smiled
when they saw engineer H.
H. Bock jump from the train
and deliver a welcome Christ
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who range in age from 8 to
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gineer returned and the Owl
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Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Tony 20 months, and Johnny 5 months.
Russo celebrated his best Christ
mas ever Saturday.
The 33-year-old father of four
children has regained his sight.
Russo who has been blind in
one or both eyes since he was
14, had his first day of normal
vision Friday following a third
corneal transplant.
Could Not Work
His sight went bad in 1936 and
from 1942 to 1953 he was classi
fied as "industrially blind,"
which meant he could not hold
a job that required vision and
could get around only with a
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Then in May, 1953, Russo's
eyes failed completely.
A year later he underwent a
successful corneal transplant on
his right eye, but the same opera
tion on his left eye failed. Three
weeks ago a second transplant
was tried on the still bad left
eye. The bandages were removed
Friday.
Russo could see.
With his "new" eyes Russo
happily , spent . Christmas . with
his wife, Naomi, and four chil
dren, Janice, 13; Shelley, 3; Toni
The corneas were given Russo
by the San Francisco eye bank
and the operations performed at
Stanford University Hospital.
And Russo, hoping he can
sometime give new life and sight
to someone else, has willed his
new corneas to the bank when
he dies.
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