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Plan to Launch Satellites Based On Years of Military Research By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press Correspondent Washington OJ.R) The Unit ed States decision to launch earth satellites has called atten tion to large and -previously se cret strides in the military field. The White House described Be project as "entirely scientif ic," emphasizing the quest for new knowledge of the universe for everyone's benefit. But thd venture into "regions tOyond the earth's atmosphere" is based on years of military re-that may be 25 to 30 years away search, conducted in deadly com petition with ussia. nd purely military devices ? previously undisclosed power 'ill be used to thrust the unman ' ned vehicles into -e fringes of outer space, 200 to 300 miles from earth. Until Friday announcement, nly those privy to top national secrets knew that the Defense Department now can launch multi-ton rockets with the gig'antic thrust needed to reach a speed of 18,000 miles an hour. That is of rockets used so far in upper atmosphere research. Nor was it understood before that science now can devise ma-ter:-'-? able to withstand tempera tures of several thousand de grees such as will be encountered on the trip in and out of space. Just as science will expand its knowledge, so will the military services garner vital data needed for intercontinental ballistic mis siles of the immediate future and manned space ships of a period Such ships will travel 2o.000 miles an hour, free of earthly gravity. Authorities said the purely military importance of earth satellites and more advanced vehicias can be gauged by imagining this - nation's position if Russia gt them first. Nip-And-Tuck Race That a nip-and-tuck race is on was emphasized anew Friday night when a Moscow dispatch reported Russia also is planning to launch satellites similar to four times or more the top speed America s. Military research has been headed that way since World War II ended and both America and Russia learned 'of advanced German space ship projects, in cluding one that would focus the sun's heat on enemy coun tries and serve as a weapon launching platform. Significantly, 100 of Ger many's brightest rocket scien tists, including Hermann Oberth and Wernher van Braun, are working now at the Army's Red stone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Van Braun predicts that 1985 will see a space station circling the earth 1,075 miles away. Other German scientists are sprinkled through other military services and industry. And many are in Russia. The nation that first ventured into space, authorities said, would achieve a tremendous psychological advantage over any hostile nation. The space sta tions that ultimately would fol low could serve as observation platforms for ceaseless global reconnaissance. SATELLITE. FREED OF ROCKET, ORBITS SOME 200 MILES ABOVE EARTH AT 18.000 M.P.H., CIRCLES EARTH EVERY 90 MINUTES FOR DAYS OR WEEKS. T FINALLY SUCCUMBING TO GRAVITY, SATELLITE GLIDES INTO ATMOSPHERE AND IS DESTROYED. V J IZ 1 WjfeHMMZ SATELLITE - CAR-1 UNITED tYING tOCKET TO il SHOT STATES gP ; yt FROM U.S. J M J&: W' m .:.:-..-v.v.:;v SATELLITE'S ROUTE Artist's sketch shows how basketball-size satellite will reach its earth-girdling rsute in the upper atmosphere with successive boosts from a three-stage rocket. Pennsylvania Woman Plans To Drive 1902 Automobile Up Alcan Road to Alaska ... . S cellus Diehl, made the tnp a long Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) A housewife w!aip& piloted a 1902 horseless carriage here from Pennsylvania "just to keep up family tradition" said today fhe may drive the old two cylinder job to Alaska. 1 Sure," said Mrs. Kitty Ruth Partridge, 41. "right up the Al can Highway. And she is sure she can make it even though it took 26 davs to get her from York, Pa., driving throughihe tail end of a tornado, seven days of rain, Tex as sandstorms and three wheel breakdowns. Husbands Tag Along The trip began June 2. Her companion was Mrs. Margaret Wanebaugh of Compton, Calif. Besides the elements they, had to contend with the ijpes of their husbands who rode comfortably behind in a late iode$) car tow ing a trai&r. a "Our speed wa 26 miles an hour," Mrs. Partridge said, "and believe me, it was all out to make that except when we were going 0o-n4till. Then sometimes we hit J" The journey is a family tradi tion. It started at her father's ome in York. It is up to me this time," Jie said. "My dad made the trip time ago. Every generation tries it." It was (Uncle Marcellus who bought the car in 1902 "right out of a Sears Roebuck catalogue." The chain-driven vehicle has eight horsepower. The engine is by Autocar Co. and the body by Murray Carriage. Offered $50,000 "Why once when we were driv ing near St. Louis." Mrs. Part ridge said, "a fellow came up anf" ran right off the road when he saw us. We stopped and he of fered $50,000 for the car.A "A policeman came -ife told us th man could a!5rd tr e price that it was T.p, - jore. Then he arrested him for urur.k en driving." Vir. Her husband is a tel :y:rs''n re pairman. He was askect he though of her driving 'the oid car to Alaska. "It's ier buggy," he smiled. PROBABLY HUNGRY Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Police Arrested Howard D. Quinn, 61, an ypfiolsterer, in a supermarket and charged him with trying to steal two steaks, two pounds of grapes, a bottle of punch arid a jar of tartar sauce., lhey said he naa i.ie in 1948 and my great uncle, Mar-1 loot tucked inside bis shirt. Buster Brown Shoe Store WILL BE CLOSED All Day Tuesday, Aug. 2 in preparation for our semi-annual 8 of nationally advertised shoes Watch for 5a Ad tomorrow in this paper Buster Brown Shoe Store 15 So. Central Fluhrer Bldg. Monday, August 1, 1955 MEDFORD. COREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Congress Expected To Willingly Tell Satellite Secrets Washington (U.R) Director Alan T. Waterman of the Na tional Science Foundation pre dicted today that members ol Congress, when they know "the facts," will back administration t-.'ans to let Russia in on secrets unlocked bj the proposed earth satellite. -e- "So mucS of the project is purely scientific, . everyone will be gainers, including us," Wat erman said in commenting on congressional criticism that worldwide dissemination of such data would, disclose vital U.S. defense secrets. The lawmakers dbjecied most vigorously to Rus sia taking part in the proposed experiment. Little Military Value But Waterman said any data fom the earth-encircling sphere would have little if any direct military value. The United States announced Friday that sometime in 1957 or 1958 it will shoot the object into space where it will make an orbit around this planet. Tne satellite will be5 about the size of a basketball. Waterman said that since f&is country has "this much lead" in getting a satellite launched, "we shouldn't be afraid about tha competence of our scientists in staying ahead." But he emphasized that cur rent plans do not call for dis closure of how the satellite is built or how it will bg, launched ? ay rocKet to an altitude of 200 to 300 miles before it Tjegins traveling around the earth once every hour and a half and at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour. fei announcing the plan, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the experiment will be "entirely for . scientific purposes" and all data will be made available to all nations. Upon learning this. Sen. Rich ard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chair man of the Senate Armed Ser vices Committee,' said he had "grave . doubts" about giving; j 'friend and foe". the 'benefit of! expenditures and effort that have gone into this develop- i ment." 9 Rep. Carl T. Durham (D-NC), ! vice-chairman of the Joint Con gressional Atonic Energy Com mittee, said he is 'not in favor of swapping information with the Russians on anything." Other influential members of Congress expressed similar con cern and some suggested Con gress may act to put the project under wraps. If work done by diesel loco motives on American railroads in 1954 had been performed by steam locomotives, it would have cost the railroads more than 5500,000,000 in additional fuel and maintenance costs alone. Record Released by U.S. Ag Department The U. S. Department,, of Ag riculture has released an out standing proven sire record on T Royal Duke the 23rd, eight-year-old bull of Richard Lee Biles, Rogue River'. The record was recently received by Earl Jossy, county agricultural agejit. The Rogue River shorthorn has sired eight daughters who produced 8,008 pounds of milk and 329 pounds of butter fat in 305 days, milking twice a day. 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