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.
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FINALLY SUCCUMBING TO
GRAVITY, SATELLITE GLIDES
INTO ATMOSPHERE AND IS DESTROYED.
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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
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Watch for 5a Ad tomorrow in this paper
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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.
This was 1014 pounds of miik
and 14 bounds of butterfat more
than their dams.
Biles has shown prize winning
milking shorthorn stock in sev
eral 4-H fairs.
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SPACE PLATFORM This "moon" which
appeared in the Mechanix Illustrated Maga
zine is an artists's conception of the form a
man-made satellite might make. Professor
Marcel Nicolet, a geophysicist with the Inter
national Geophysical Year, announced in
Washington that the United State will Bunch
a small earth-satellite in 1957. The satellite,
which will be sent into the stratosphere, pre
sumably would serve as a space platform
from which further experiments would be
conducted.
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