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o G TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, December 22, 1955 Chance of Earth Satellite Hitting Pea-Sized Meteorite Said Slim By H. QUIGG Uniled Press Correspondent New York (U.R) If America's man-made basketball size baby moon, going 18,000 miles an hour, should meet a meteorite the size of a pea, moving in from outer space at 90,000 miles an hour, what would happen? Simple, said the expert. The meteorite would go right through tne satellite. And if the baby moon were pressurized? Poof! There goes pressurization. The expert was Dr. Homer E Newell of the Naval Research Laboratory, which will have a to do with making and using, the first space frontier vehicles which this country hopes to set orbiting the Earth some time be fore the end of 1959. At a press conference at the Hayden Planetarium, on the oc casion of the unveiling of a mod el of an artificial satellite built by Popular Science Monthly, Dr. Newell was asked: "How big a meteorite can the satellite anticipate meeting?" "It probobly would not collide with any large one," Dr. Newell said. "There probably will be plenty of space dust microme teorites, they're called: they won't penetrate but might erode its skin." Some Possibilities Dr. Newell said if a shooting pea from space de-pressurized a satellite, "its equipment would start to malfunction." However, if the satellite were not pressur ized inside, It could be that pel let would zip through without PRIVATE STOCK at No Extra Cost! "4$jjS?& HOBBY I .jSt" jttst DCUnvt! TUTf I.iRBT. and you have a beauti ful, permanent decant er with the word Rye, Scotch, Bourbon, Canadian or Gin inscribed in gold ff S 8 2 S Collect a complete set of 5 pnze Gold Mark Decanters . . for home bar, forbujj:t or for welcome gifts. Pi' GW-134 M05 45 QT $0 60 Z. PINT PRIVATE STOCK STRAIGHT BOURBON V'.HIShEY 55 PROOF. 5 VE4RS OLD G00DERHM& WORTS, UO.. PEORIA, ILL m 1 materially disturbing the moon's innards. "What's the probability of its meeting a pea-size meteorite?" "It's very, very low," the sci entist answered. "Less than the probability of having an auto accident between here and New Haven?" "Much less," said Dr. Newell. He disclosed that at least one of the 'satellites we send up will have a plastic shell "a very hard one, shock and heat resist ant. He said "It appears we can keep the temperature (inside the sphere) in a reasonable range from somewhat below freezing to 150 degrees, Fahrenheit." Dr. Newell -said the model at the planetarium; with a skin of transparent plastic and interior writhing with circuits, tubes and electronic gismos, "is a reason able facsimile of what might be done" by the government experts in building one of the real satel lites. The Gadgets The builder of the model, Her bert F. Pfister, associate editor of Popular Science, explained that the pedestal on which the ball was mounted was meant to simulate the nose of the third stage rocket which will give it its final boost and aim it. Just at the nose was a spring Youngster Kills Sister With Gun Denver, Colo. (U.R) Eleven-year-old Rover William Cook was so badly panicked after he shot his two-year-old sister ac cidentally in her crib that he picked her up and put her under a Christmas tree, where she died while he ran for help. Police found the body of Don na Mary Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cook, at the foot of the tree when they arrived at the Cook residence yesterday. Her brother had on a Davy Crockett shirt, to which he had pinned a junior police badge, when he shot Donna. The Cooks were Christmas shopping when Rover took his father's small caliber pistol from a drawer while alone in the house with his baby sister. He said he didn't know it was load ed as he handled it near her crib. After the gun went off, Rover said he lifted the dying baby from the crib, put her under the Christmas tree and ran to the home of an aunt. "Come quick! Donna is bleed ing to death," the hysterical boy screamed at the aunt, Mrs. E. A. Stone. She rushed to the Cook house, found Donna's body, and called authorities. Police said the little girl's death was "an unfortunate acci dent" and that Rover was left in his parents' custody. to separate satellite and rocket after the last boost. Dr. Newell pointed out that since a gentle nudge will part them, there actu ally will be two satellites or biting "an instrumental and noninstrumented one. " A prominent part of the model's interior is blue cylinder with the impressive name of "proton procession magnetomet er," a device to evaluate the high altitude magnetic fields that circle the Earth. Asked what it contained Pfis ter said: "It's a plastic jar of plain old water, "with a coil im mersed in it." to'" - TO APPEAR HERE Alvadean and Sandy Coker and the Coker bapd will appear at Rogue Val ley ballroom Saturday and Sun day, Dec. 24vand 25. The band will furnish dance music be tween 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. Satur day night, and following a stage show, which starts at 8 p.m. Sun day. The show will include sev eral local people. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY Hollywood (U.R) Christmas shows on television, like old car ols and last year's tree decora tions, are be oming repeats of well - worn favorites. Many TV producers can win. them selves a few days vacation by dusting off last y e a r's Aline Mosby show for an other performance. Audiences, according to the fan mail, get sentimental and like to watch the programs again. Jack Webb, hero of "Dragnet," appears tonight for the third Christmas in a filmed story about the theft of a statue from a church. Viewers Wanted It "People asked for it again so we used it," Webb explained. "We think the story is appropri ate for a Christmas police show. There's no definite crime, but it has the 'Dragnet' flavor." Webb is also proud of the fact that the 1953 airing of the show marked the first time color film was seen on coast-to-coast televi sion. That first year the faces came out green and the scenery red, but by now the color trans mission has improved. "We make a new color print of the film every year to keep up with new developments in col or TV transmission," Webb adds. For the second Christmas, "Medic" used its startling pro gram that condemns the Ameri can institution, the office party. Sponsor and fans asked for a repeat. Last year, says producer Frank Latourette, reaction among view ers was "terrific." The program was cited by the National Safety Council for pointing out dangers of driving home after an office soiree. . The Uninvited The reaction this year has been disheartening to the "Medic" staff. "American National Studio where the series is filmed is having a big Christmas office party Saturday and they didn't invite us," the producer sighed. CBS repeated Dickens' "Christmas Carol" last week. The show starring Frederic March and Basil Rathbone, was filmed a year ago. Flutterv Spring Byington used a 1954 film on "December Bride." a story about how she hauled snow from the mountains so her daugh ter could have a white Christ mas. "Babes in Toyland," a color spectacular with Wally Cox on Dennis Day, will be repeated on Christmas Eve. Christmas night, another live show, "Amahl and the Night. Visitors," the Menotti opera, will, be staged for the sixth year. Commission To Vole On Recreation Site Portland (U.R) Portland's ex position - recreation commission will vote on a site for the city's 58,000,000 sports center on Jan. 4 if all commissioners are present. . Commissioners, deciding on the vote yesterday, said "they felt they owed it to the public to vote on the project site very soon. Chairman Carvel Linden said that the presence of all five members was not a legal re quirement but that commission ers have not taken any vital action in the past without every one present. The two newest members of the commission, Thaddius Bruno and Gale Livingston, plan to go to Spokane, Wash., to view that city's ' coliseum before the Jan, 4 vote. Oregon has 31 mountain peaks niore than 6000 feet in height. The highest of them is Mt. Hood which has an elevation of about 11,245 feet. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday-, 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 530 previous day. USING WIND TUNNEL at Langley Field, Va., U. S. Navy evolves new, fatter shape for submarines, giving them greater speed. This is one-fifth scale model of Albacore, world's fastest submarine. Henceforth all U. S. submarines will have this shape. (International) Agriculture Board Elects Troutdale Man YULE TREE STOLEN Bridgeport, Conn (U,R) A thief entered a Bridgeport hos pital early Wednesday and car ried off a Christmas tree com plete with lights and ornaments, police reported. Serve the famous noodle that won't slide off the fork! rjf Easy to prepare... I economical... I nourishing! Sale;n (U.R) The State Board of Agriculture yesterday elected S. B. Hall, Troutdale, chairman to replace E. Riddell Lage of Hood River, who was absent. Lee Holiday, Klamath Falls, was named vice-chairman. Agriculture Director James Short reported on his first year in office. He said crop damage to nurseries and berry farms in the Willamette valley will result in losses for the next two or three years. Extent of damage to cherries will not be fully known until next spring, he said. Center of the damage was in Multnomah county,. SOUVENIR RETURNED Tallahassee, Fla. (U.R) The State Road Department said to day John W. 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