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"Should Mr. Eisenhower stay
on?" The conteniue ' that the
President should retire.
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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
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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.
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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. '
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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urday for veteran comedy and
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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
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Mrs. Everett Pratt, Vista, Calif.,
and Mrs. Frances Oaks, San
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