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rOPBTtEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Government Agency Working on , 'alaa Jubilantly predict moon ! rockets In a few years, a United State government agency is giv ing more than theoretical con sideration to a flight that would British Suggest That Eisenhower Retire London W The British pras suggested today President Eiwnhorwer should quit the WMU House and let Vice Presi drtt Richard M. Nixon take . Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Ex $tvap printed a long report from It Washington correspondent Xde4 "A personal plea to Ike food friend I say it is b atood down." Tfl Iilf Mirror in an edi torial aid "Klion: Well he's yoin&j enough to learn." But tht Daily Telegraph asked "Should Mr. Eisenhower stay on?" The conteniue ' that the President should retire. THREE I SCHEDULES o on SOUTH o onvenfenrr Safo Jifwf Ceurfeout ; o f : nkhu finfift at 1 II III I If IVX ii; hisraaiBa w 11 f errnlnal a4 Caf o 34$ H. f fonf S MftSS p I Sfif II mc i CLOTHES The Westingheas BatH-ia Dryer lt aiera than dry. It flvffs, fVegiew mmi prefects yeur clothes. It fct ye Vaei ia an Weather. That aeatya a! lever ekafes! Only the Weatingeawifc Clatftov Dryer hm e Di rect Air HW 9jmm. ! Wr srir tfirotfCT iate tasalliftf c. It i the iryer HI Umtj lssM halia Bar. alav Daiia taWiaaj eeasy. Tep at e Drf a if f ilafe tjk a ferf rfa.ee f RICSS START AS iPW AS i IrorMdgc btric Ion Motor take men to Mars and other planets. And a well known ex pert thinks that a 730-pound rocket could reach Mars in 400 days, according to the magazine "Electronics." The agency recently unveiled a toy-like model of a rocketship which is propelled by small elec trified particles called ions. High Efficiency Ion motors, which would con vert electrical energy into thrust, are considered a key to space flight. Experimental devices in dicate an efficiency of 98 per cent. A big version of the rocket model could travel 25,000 miles per hour, enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull. It is believed that an ion rock et, with electricity provided by a stripped down nuclear reactor, can be built and flown using to day's technology. Chemical rock ets would have to place it in a satellite orbit where it could pick up speed for its journey. The military has already be gun switching rocket science to ionic propulsion. Applications may range from systems using slightly ionized high density gases to those using streams of ions. The first would be used in atmospheric flight and the latter in "extra-satellite heights." For over a year, a group of West Coast rocket experts has sought funds to build an un manned Martian reconnaissance rocket powered by twin ion mo tors and a nuclear reactor. The rocket, nicknamed Snooper, would weigh 3,300 pounds and carry a 1,500 pound electronics payload. The weight, the scien tists believe, can be lofted into an orbit by an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. 4-H Club Hews Livasxack club The Rogue River and Gold Hill livestock club met Nov. 20 for their first meeting of the year at the home of Mr. and Mra. Norman Gail. Mrs. Gail was elected leader of the club. Terry Gail, president; larl Bow es, vie president; Marie Jones, eecretary; Terry Robertson, trea surer; Billy Jones, historian; Lanny Parsons, song leader. Plans were mada for a Christ mas party to be held at Jimmy Smith's home in Rogue River. Dovuj Robertson, reporter Cud Caai The Central Point Cud Chew ers met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ashors for their No vember meeting. The following mw officers of the club were in stalled; Sue Higenbotham, presi dent; Donna Colpitts, vice presi dent; Carol Tccta, secretary; ! Daniel Jocta, reporter; Gail Grujg, mas leader and Todd CasUr, treasurer. Safety pic tures were shown and a discus sion on safety on the farm was held. The next meeting: will be the first Monday in December at the Ticlner horns. Dave Jcota, reporter wis CUh Tha Central Point SwinedClub mft t tk Renfrow home on Sunnyvale lfn Ifov. 23. A film on swine raising wis shown and discutsion followed. Several members er tbsent due to ill-nsts- Refreshment were en joy td. Cfrol Poote, Reporter Slimmer I Htrt Throughout tht With Wostmghouco Electric DRYER 0 W ft flpa Qoapany SITTING in witness chair, Dr. Edward Teller, father of H-bomb, testifies as first witness in Senate missile satellite probe. (International) Researcher Says Load Limit Signs May Be Misleading Tuscaloosa, Ala. (IP) Those "load limit" signs on bridges are misleading. Actually, they are probably just as safe when the limit has been passed to a con siderable degree. According to studies under way at the University of Alaba ma, many structural materials are much stronger than they seem to be due principally to their inelastic 'properties. Dr. W. D. Jordan, who is di recting the research project for the National Science Founda tion, said that some materials can carry a much greater load after they have passed their so called "elastic limit. He said there has been consid erable research done on the elas ticity factor but little is known about inelastic properties. Safely in Design "What is called the factor of safety in design," he said, "is sometimes really a 'factor of ignorance.' The more knowledge we can obtain the lower we can reduce the level of the 'ignor ance' portion of the factor of safety. This will lead to lighter structures, still safe, at a lower cost in material and manpower." Jordan said the elastic stage of matter is that in which the material will deform and return to its original shape. Once it passes that limit, it is in the in elastic stage. "We are trying to determine a practical way to utilize this in elastic strength," he said. We know the material has it. What we want to know is how to go about designing a structure to take1 advantage of it." Jordan emphasized, however, that considerable study would be required due in part, to the different properties in different materials, the ability of some materials to carry greater stress than others, and the fact that the way in which a load is ap plied will affect the action of the material. ' . . . Year! C 0 Grant Is Cut to Mere 10,000 Acres Raton, N.M. (IP The Max well Land Grant, once the most famous piece of real estate in the West, has been whittled down to a mere 10,000 acres of mining property in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. At one time, the grant em braced 1,714,765 acres, an area three times the size of Rhode Is land. A Dutch company that ac quired the grant late in the 19th century has been selling off par cels of it over the years. Within the past year, more than 100,000 acres were sold, and the com pany plans to retain only a 10,-000-acre tract. The Maxwell originated as a Mexican grant in 1841, when a vast Mexican grant in 1841, when a vast area of northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado was assigned to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Mi randa, two residents of Taos, N.M., who were on friendly terms with the governor. By 1865, the tract had become the property of Lucien B. Max well, an American trapper and trader who had married the daughter of Beaubien. Maxwell built an elaborate home in the frontier town of Cimarron and became famous as an extrava gant host for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. The validity of the original Mexican grant came under dis pute after the American annexa tion of New Mexico but it was finally confirmed by the U.S. government. In 1871, Maxwell sold his "ranch" to a group of fi nanciers of $650,000, and they in turn sold it to an English syndi cate for $1,350,000. The modern city of Raton stands within the former boun daries of the grant, along with dozens of other towns on either side of the Colorado-New Mex ico line. While ranching and mining operations are still conducted on the land, now split up among thousands of owners, it is prob ably best known today for its recreational attractions. It in cludes the New Mexico resort areas of Red River, Eagle Nest and Ute Park, and the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. The Dutch owners are hang ing onto a 10,000-acre site near Ute Park on which is located the old Aztec gold mine. This mine flourished in the 1860's and gave rse to the settlement of Eliza- bethtown, which is. now a ghost town. The gold is gone, but engi neers believe there may be other valuable minerals on the property. Nehru Appeals for New Summit Meeting New Delhi, India (IP) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has appealed to the United States and the Soviet Union to meet soon in a new summit conference, informed sources said today. Diplomatic sources said Nehru has urged both East and West to try to settle world peace by means of peaceful coexistence. Nehru told a news conference today in a review of world af fairs that "America and Russia can mould this world and either raise it to undreamed of heights or hurl it to th pit of disaster." L D-110 Matching Laundromats Available Farmer Translates Poem Of Dante's Into German By ERNEST SAKLER United Press Correspondent Bolzano (Bozen), Italy OP) The villagers of Ulten . (Ultimo) shook their heads' when they heard that Blasius Narsoner had rented his farm and withdrawn to an isolated little house. The headshaking gave way to gasps when they learned why he had done it. He was translating Dante's "The Divine Comedy" into Ger man. "He's crazy," was their ver dict. And certainly no one else in that remote Alpine village had ever tried his hand at poetry, far less abandoned his farm to do so. But the self-taught, 30-year-old farmer-poet said he had nev er acted more wisely. And his friend, Franz Steiner, said Nar soner's translation is a success ful attempt to make Dante ' ac cessible to a wide German speaking public. "I would have been crazy if I had not rented my farm," said Narsoner. "I have only my mo ther and don't intend to marry. But the farm requires a large family to take care of it. I have found that family and have rent ed the farm to them. That's good for them, for the farm and for me too, for I get what little I need for my living and can de vote myself to the great passion of my life, poetry." Marsoner has a rare combin ation of love for both Italian and German culture in this bor der province of Alto Adige (South Tyrol) where the rival Italian and German-speaking groups tend to stick strictly each to its own cultural tradition. His love for poetry started at the age of 16 when he first read a German translation of select ed pieces of Latin poets. The pea sant boy, who had gone no far ther than primary school, was so entranced that he decided to study Latin to" be able to read the poems in their original lang uage. Three years later he knew enough Latin to try his hand at translating some verses of Vir gil and Catullus. It was some time before Mar soner got to know Dante. It was love at first sight, and he plung ed into study of "The Divine Comedy" and of Italian and Ger man commentaries. Marsoner read translations of Dante into German, including one by Streckfuss which won the praise of Wolfgang Goethe, and another written by King John of Saxony under the pen name of Philaletes. Little by little, the young pea sant decided5 that he could do better than the scholars and the king. He set to work on a trans lation of his own. By now, he has translated all of the "Inferno" and more than NO PURCHASE NECESSARY! although we have OODLES OF SPECIAL BUYS THROUGHOUT THE , STORE! As a Customer Service, OK Market Will Have Your Dull Kitchen Knives, Carving Knives and Scissors Restored to Original Sharpness AT NO COST! And Don't Forget Silver Dollar Stamps The Only Stamp You Can Put in the Bank! half the "Purgatory ."'The few privileged persons who saw parts of the translation said they were quite impressive. One of the big problems Mar soner faced and solved was one that has plagued all translators of Dante whether to stick to Dante's verse form, sometimes sacrificing the content or change the verse form for the sake of faithfulness to the text and spir it? The problem, confronting the translators of any poem, is made more serious in the case of the "Divine Comedy" by the fact that Dante used the terza rima, a continuous series of tercets in which the second line of a tercet rhymes with the first and third line of the following, and so on. This makes any translator the prisoner of the first rhymes he has chosen and virtually forces him to be unfaithful to the text in order to keep going. Marsoner made a drastic deci sion. He dropped the terza rima completely and translated Dante into iambic couplets, a verse form used in the past by such German poets as Wolfram Van Eschenbach and Uhland. Marsoner, who refuses even to consider prose, is reported also to be writing poems of his own which friends say might one day prove a "big surprise." Postman Arrives in Time at County Jail Pomeroy, Ohion (IP) The postman arrived just in time at the county jail here. Sheriff Robert D. Hartenbach had just released a prisoner and sat down to read his mail. One letter was from the FBI, stating that the prisoner was wanted in Michigan for investigation of car theft. The sheriff jumped from his chair and returned the prisoner to his cell. ' ' Mrs. Daws Winner Of Encyclopedia airs. Alice Daws, 524 North Grape st., has been selected the winner of a 30 volume Encyclo pedia Americana for the week of Nov. 17 to 23 by Eugene Burns, producer of "Is That So!" Mrs. Daws described an ex perience with a mink. She told how she had coaxed a mink up to the log. where she was fish ing by making chirping sounds. Mrs. Daws said this is highly unusual because mink are shy animals. The feature Is carried in the Mail Tribune and is distributed by the McClure Newspaper syndicate. Orange, Lemon Tree Grown at University Riverside, Calif (IP) A University of California re searcher says that when you taste an orange, you're really smelling it. In fact, the some goes for any fruit. Biocnemist Robert L. Clem ents says the characteristic fla vor is really due to volatile ma terials given off by the fruit. These materials stimulate "odor receptors" in the nose while the fruit is being eaten. In other respects all fruits are rather similar in taste, Clements says. They are sweet, sour, salty or bitter to various degrees. Dr. Clements' research on the flavor chemistry of citrus fruits has shown him the need for labo ratory techniques to duplicate the nose as a detector of flavor qualities. Scientiests are trying to see whether flavor can be used as an index of fruit quality. All of the blood in the human body passes through the heart about every two and one-half minutes. Singh rolls or 4-roll "See-Thru" ptcktgt j AND 1 SHOP OK MARKET Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. OK- MARKET Home of SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS OPEN 8:00 A.M. UNTIL MIDNIGHT 7 DAYS EASY PARKING EASY SHOPPING 1202 N. RIVERSIDE" AVE. Closed All Day Services Scheduled For Comedy Actor Escondido, Calif. 'IP) Fu neral services will be held Sat urday for veteran comedy and character actor Biljy Bevan who died Tuesday at his home here. He was 70. He had lived in Escondido 33 years but retired from films only in 1952. Bevan began his film career as one of the famed Keystone Kops in 1912 and played in the series until 1922. He raised avocados on his Escondido ranch which was lo cated on Rees Road, named for his wife, former Ziegfield bal lerina Betty Rees. In addition to his widow, Bev an is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Everett Pratt, Vista, Calif., and Mrs. Frances Oaks, San Diego. Use Mart Tribune Classified Ada The Low Cost Way to Sell 1 Per STEM Laboratory-tested. ..so yottr$ always sure it's soft, safe, and strong. Your choice of pink, yellow, green, or white. Reg, U.S. Pit. Off. x . A WEEK Thanksgiving
