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Science Gives Explorers True Seven League Boots Washington Exploration of earth's wildest reaches is a changing craft, far different in method and goal from any pre vious age of adventure. Great resources arid technical wizardry alter not just the art but the very nature of explor ing. Man has donned science's seven league boots, and his stride has become a giant's. In the next three years a large part of Antarctica will be seen, crossed, and mapped for the first time in a scientific assault on the last unknown continent. It will be done as part of a world-wide research effort the Internation al Geophysical Year and in ways that Amundsen .and Scott, struggling toward the South Pole 44 years ago, could not even have dreamed. Antarctic Crossroads Across the Antarctic's icefields which drainei, the strength of sled parties, a British expedition plans to drive in motorized snow vehicles, refueled by air drops, towing sled trains behind them. At the South Pole, if all goes as planned, the British will find an American scientific base and perhaps an airfield. A New Zea land party coming from the other side of Antartica will lay down supply dumps. Radio will link bases of half a dozen nations. Men will move to and from the southern continent by both sea and air. Robert E. Peary took 11 years and three expeditions to cross the 396 miles from Greely's far thest north to' the North Pole. Today, near the same Greenland Eskimo village from which Peary drew sled dogs and driv ers, stands the giant Thule air base. Planes fly to the Pole al most daily. The airplane itself, perhaps the greatest tool ever given to ex plorers, has entered new hori zons. Richard E. Byrd made hist ory when he flew to both poles. Today a commercial airline flies a regular oute .across the Arctic Sea: Los Angeles to Copenhagen, via Thule, in 22 hours. With modern aerial cameras, radar, long-range radio naviga tion (loran), and planes of tre mendous range, regions that might never be completely ex plored on land can be systemati cally photographed and mapped by air, and even prospected for underground minerals or fuels by electronics. Exploration by Rocket Automatic cameras sent aloft in high-altitude pockets scan areas hundreds of miles across on the face of a curved earth. Telemetering devices .record temperatures, winds, and elec- readings back to the ground. -. Beneath the seas, new sonic exploring devices and even manned diving chambers cap- i able potentially of reaching the bottom of the deepest known ocean area extend man's ability to explore his world. The depths of the seas represent a modern frontier still scarcely crossed. Astronomers stand among to day's explorers. This year the most extensive mapping project in history, covering three-quarters of the .entire visible uni verse, is being completed with the wide-angle Big Schmidt tele scope in the seven-year National Geographic Society-Palomar Ob servatory Sky Survey. Nearer home that . is, only 35,000,000 miles away the So ciety and Lowell Observatory are employing the methods of astronomy to explore the. planet Mars. Recently, they found a new green Martian area almost the size of Texas. Margaret Truman's Story May Be Made Into Movie Hollywood (U.R) Margaret Truman's serialized life story running currently in a magazine may be the basis for a motion picture with the former Presi dent's daughter playing herself in the film. MGM and 20th Century Fox spokesmen said they were read ing advance copies of the story, "Souvenir." One studio spokes man said Miss Truman may be asked to test for the lead in the picture if a decision is made to produce the movie. "But it would be highly pre mature to say we will ask Mr. Truman to play the piano," the spokesman said. Medford V. Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956 Pages 1 to 8 Keck Contribution To Iks Committee Eyed Knitting, Crocheting Said Form of Relaxing Orono, Me. (U.R) Knit or crochet if you want really to relax. That's the , advice of Harry Smith, 76-year-old retired farm er, who has been knitting for 70 years. ' Smith believes that knitting and crocheting offer relaxation to both mind and body and are beneficial to health. Lately Smith knitted sweaters as Christmas presents for his five great-grandchildren. Prison Sentence Meted For Falsifying Accounts Portland (U.R) Mrs. Nel lie J. Hollenbeck, 55, now of San Diego, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after she pleaded guilty of falsifying ac counts of a lumber firm. Partners in the Standley Bro thers Logging Co.-,. Powers,. Ore. 4 have pleaded innocent to fed eral , income tax charges and will stand trial . in March or April ' in Medford. ! t Atomic Energy Heating System Passes Big Test Richland, Wash. (U.R) The atomic energy heating system at the Hanford Atomic Works has passed its first real test in a warm breeze. Scientists said recent pro longed cold weather gave the system a "real challenge," but that it kept buildings comfort ably heated throughout the per iod to mark an important mile stone in the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy. They estimated, the system will save $59,000 a year in fuel costs at the sprawling plutonium plant. Initial investment in the system was $614,000, some $444, 000 more than a conventional heating plant would cost, but scientists said the savings in fuel costs would pay for the added initial expense in seven and a half years. The. system utilizes the tre mendous quantities of heat gen erated by the atomic reactors. The heat previously had been wasted. General' Electric Co. which operates Hanford for -the Atomic Energy Commission, said several buildings were being heated with, the new system and that the heat used would supply more than 1,000 average size homes. ' - . Scientists said England had de veloped an . atomic heating sys tem but not of the gigantic pro portion of the Hanford heater. The Hanford system works like this: ... - ? Water from the Columbia riv er is pumped through Hanford's plutonium reactors. In cooling the reactors, the water absorbs immense amounts of heat and picks up some radioactivity. The reactor-cooling water is pumped to a heat exchanger where , it transmits the heat to. an ethylene glycol water solution which transmits the heat to air condi tioning systems. Portland (U.R) The Oregon National Guard gained 1034 new recruits during its Operation Muster" recruiting drive, Maj. Gen. Thomas E. 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V2 Beef . lb. 33c U.S. Grade "Good" V2 Beef lb. 35c U.S. Grade "Choice" ... . . 2 Beef lb. 37c , Even at 'this LOW PRICE - We Cut, Wrap and Freeze FREE! GIVING TONSILS A WORKOUT, Striker Lou Tempura tells off police as they move him to neutral territory during violent outbreak at Republic. Aviation Corp. plant, Farmingdale, N. Y. Machinists are striking in pay dispute. . (International) Police Follow Glue of Manhattan Bomber New : York 4J.R) Police to day followed up "what may be their best clue yet to the identity of the Mad Bomber of Manhat tan who . exploded his latest bomb yesterday in a Pennsyl vania Station men's room, injur ing an elderly attendant. . Detectives who have searched in vain for the bomber since 1940 rounded up a number of suspects hoping to find two men who were in the washroom yes terday when the bomb exploded in a toilet bowl. Parts of the bomb were identi cal to those of exploded and un exploded bombs found, in Penn sylvania Station and other pub lic places since 1940, police said. Detectives said there was no doubt it was the work of the Mad Bomber. Similar bombs have been found in Grand Central Term inal, the Public Library and. sev eral Broadway area movie the aters. Some have exploded, some have not. Wilmington, Calif. U.R) Lumber was unloaded from a ship in. Los Angeles Harbor to day .for the first time since a strike tied up 10 coastal lum ber schooners 20 weeks ago. Wasnington (U.R) The special Senate committee inves tigating the Case incident was und2rstood today .to be check ing into a report that oil man Howard B. Keck really made a contribution , to the National Citizens for Eisenhower commit tee. A spokesman for the commit tee in New York denied any knowledge of such a ' contribu tion. He said a check of com mittee files, listing contributions of more than $100, showed no record ot ; a contribution from Keck. The committee worked for President Eisenhower's elec tion ir. the 1952 campaign and was re-constituted in January. Keck is president of the Su perior Oil Company of Calif ornia. His campaign contribu tions have been under scrutiny by a special Senate committee investigating a $2500 contribu-, tion that was offered to, and re jected by, Sen. Francis Case (R SD) during Senate debate on the r.atural ' gas bill. . . McMinnville (U.R) Increase in tuition ra.es of $10 per semes ter at Linfield college here has been announced by the college board of trustees. BONNIE 111 Dog-E-Stu ri 4 - f . - EUflDHEDS O? I HLES F. ifAm TEZm AMD-lEaE3;.jfflEaD Here's taste to set your tongue a-tingle freshness and richness you've never known in margarine before. 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