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O o O - - m mm . imf llnT l r i-t NUCLEAR POWER President Eisenhower displayed this sketch when he announced the awarding of a $20,908,00 contract to the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Cam den, N.J. for the building of the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press FulJ Leased Wre 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 Pages 1-8 Travelers Won't Find Much That's Not Known of Moon, Smith Says Bv DELOS SMITH once noured from them. United Press Science Editor I ' By DELOS SMITH New York ilPij To avoid dis appointment, prospective travel ers to the moon ought to under stand they won't find a great deal there which isn't know al ready. For example, a scientist has just figured out a plausible explanation of why the moon's "seas" are quite flat although they are not seas of water but seas of rock and rubble. Dr. John J. Gilvarry of Mil waukee reasoned that the moon is periodically shaken by moon quakes, as the earth is shaken by earthquakes and the effect is something like that produced by shaking flour through a sieve. Moonquakes, he reasoned, break up the roclls in high moon places and shake the rubble into the low places, forming moon "seas." Meteors Create Craters He proceeded from the theory that the moon's craters were made by the impacts of meteors, and the "seas" merely are bigger craters which have been filled with rubble. A rival theory is that the craters are cones of ex! tinct volcanoes and the "seas" are vast beds of the lava which once poured from them. The meteor-collision theory supposes that some sort of ero sion process is going on in the moon's mountains which breaks up the rocky peaks, and reduces those big pieces into small chunks and dust. But it would have to be a different kind of erosion from the common earth one, and there would have to be a "transport system" more effective than simple gravity to get the rubble down into the "seas." Gilvarry, who is well known in science for his previous cal culations on the nature of the moon's surface, cited the evi dence that the moon was formed "cold," that is, it was never a molten mass of matter as the earth was once. Therefore, the moon would have had no vol canoes but would have structural faults which because they violate the physical laws of balance, would cause violent quakes peri odically. Having been a molten ball once upon a time the earth has an interior balance which the moon, if it were formed "cold," could not have. Nevertheless the earth has, in addition to vol canoes, faults which produce some 10 million quakes annually most of them extremely minor, fortunately. Calculating with earth equa tions and putting gravity accel erations into the balance, the moon's gravitational acceleration is one-sixth that of earth, his mathematics- produced an ap proximation of the energy need ed for a succession of moon quakes to have broken up rocks in the moon mountains and to have shaken the rubble and dust down into the "seas." Violent quakes shake the earth every few centuries. Gilvarry figured that one such quake every million years on the moon could have filled huge holes with rubble and dust and pro duced the appearance of the moon seas as any of us may see them with even a low-power telescope. Portland (IPI Pan American World Airways said Thursday it would start direct service from Portland to Europe via the new Polar route on Dec. 2. Blind Newsdealer Only One With Shack Designed by An Architect BY DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York Oil Dick O'Con nor, a blind newsdealer who has peddled papers and maga zines on the same corner for 21 years, says he may not be the richest newsy in the world but he's the only one whose shack was planned and designed by an architect. This wasn't any old architect. The firm that blueprinted O'Connor's three-by-six - foot newsstand happens also to be the one that designed the United Nations buildings and helped with the Rockefeller Center complex. In addition, he works on a sidewalk which in cold weather is radiantly heated, an under foot condition to be appreciated by a man who works outdoors nine hours a day. Gala Opening Day ' The day Dick opened his new stand was like, opening day in a new office building. Two lady customers sent baskets of flow ers, and they made a fine show among the stacks of papers. 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TRYIT TODAY SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED BUICK DEALER ssss director of planning for the U.N. bulidings. Architect T. De Felice, who worked on the U.N. project, designed a newsstand of special waterproof plywood with three sliding glass-and-al-uminum windows and a built-in, fluorescent - lighted magazine stand on one end. More Trouble Than U.N. "Just between you and me," O'Connor said today, "I don't think they had as much trouble designing the U.N. as they did this stand. They never had de signed a newsstand before. They had to go to the city to find out the building ordinance on news stands and then ask me and oth ers for ideas." The finished work has such features as an aluminum pull out extension roof to protect papers from rain, short leveling device legs, and a built-in fold ing seat. "That inside seat is only for use if I want it," O'Connor ual4. "But I don't, except for coldest weather. I'm strictly an outdoor boy." 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