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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
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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."
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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.
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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. Jakway, of Lam
berton, Minn., has returned a
state road marker he took as
a souvenir 13 years ago. Jakway
explained he recently became
a Christian and wants to "make
every restitution possible for
every sin of my past life."
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday
Northwest Plane Sets
Honolulu-Portland Mark
Portland (U.R) A North
west Airlines DC-6B landed at
Portland early yesterday some
7 hours and 14 minutes after
taking off from Honolulu to
establish a new speed record
for the route.
The plane, carrying 22 passen
gers, landed at Portland Inter
national Airport at 3:57 a.m.,
helped along .by tail winds as
high as 132 miles per hour.
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