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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, January 1, 1958
Many Nuggets of Information Accumulated by I GY Scientists
I among
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
United Presi Correspondent and West who are working to
Washington TP The earth j gether in IGY. That is the
is cracked. I word of Hugh Odishaw. execu-
Under the tidal influence of j tive directc of the U.S. Na
the moon, its skin crawls andtional Comn ittee for the In
heaves. ternational Geophysical Year.
It is pelted without surcease From the ' start, Odishaw
by particles billions of times told the United Press, '"there
scientists of the East ! perhaps four times as dense
more energetic than a split
ting uranium atom.
Intense electric currents
periodically ring it.
It and all the other spin
ning planets wheel on their
courses within an envelope of
thin hot gas flung into space
by the sun.
These are a few nuggets of
information gleaned from an
immense store of information
accumulated in the first six
months of the greatest scien
tific venture ever undertaken
by man.
This venture, designed to
Icarn everything possible
about the mysterious earth
and the even stranger space
in which it moves, is the In
ternational Geophysical Year
(IGY;. It started last July 1
and comes to an end next Dec.
31. No formal official pro
gress report has yet been
made, but one is being pre
pared and will be released
here in the next few weeks.
Satellites Biggest Sersation
The most sensational
achievements of the IGYs
first months were the launch
ing of the Soviet satellites on
Oct. 4 and Nov. 3. They
stirred the world and in
tensified the Cold War be
tween politicians of the East
and West because of the im
plications they contained of
Soviet power in the field of
military rocketry.
But any public dismay over
the Russian moons has not
"impaired the relations"
as previously thought.
A continuous 45,000-mile
rift exists in the earth's un
dersea crust. It averages 20
miles wide and IV2 miles
deep. It coincides with te
world-wide chain of earth
quake zones.
New pictures of the sun
disclosed never before - seen
features, including swirling
gas storms 200 to 600 miles
across.
The greatest ocean depth
ever found was reported by a
Russian oceenographic ship in
i the Pacific Marianas trench.
The depth was 35,948 feet, or
about 6Vi miles.
Cosmic rays, charged
"messengers from space,"
achieve energies of several
billion billion electronic volts.
By comparison a splitting
atom in an A-bomb releases
only 200 million electron volts
of energy.
Huge eruptions of the
sun, spewing gas and atomic
particles hundreds of thous
ands of miles into space at
speeds of 500 miles a second,
energy as could be packed
into a billion big H-bombs.
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Savings bonds will be avail- tutional groups such as uni
able to investors in amounts ons, fraternal, civic, service,
up to 810,000 starting Jan. 1, patriotic and veteran groups
according to George W. Mim- was the main reason for the
naugh, state director. change in policy, he added.
He said the treasury depart- j Investors of this type will
ment made the move to fill be limited to SI 0.000 per year
a gap in tne savinss bonds in each series, ho said. In.
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EX-MAYOR DIES
Yonkers, N.Y. OR Mrs.
Edith P. Welty, 76, former
mayor of Yonkers and a lead
er in the drive for city-manager
government for some
communities, died Tuesday.
Mrs. Welty had served on the
Yonkers Common council be
fore becoming mayor briefly
on the resignation of Curtis
have been amicable and co
operative relations among all
IGY nations, and these rela-
tions continue."
IGY Stations Coyer Earth j
Participating nations now i
number 67, including the !
United States and the USSR, i
More than 2.500 scientific sta- j
tions have been set up from i
pole to pole, ocean to ocean, j
hemisphere to hemisphere. J
Space itself has been assault
ed. The Russians have not as
yet turned over to IGY any
of the scientific information ;
they may have received from :
their satellites. But U.S. scien-I
tists confidently expect that
they will. j
The Russians and other IGY j
nations as well already have ;
started sending information to
"world data centers" in this j
country, the USSR, Western
Europe, and the Pacific.
Data Due in January
Odishaw and his colleagues
refused to divulge any of the
information already in the
IGY pool, pending its formal
release some time, in Janu
ary. But enough announce
ments have been made by IGY
scientists independently in va
rious parts of the world to pro
vide a large bits-and-pieces
sample of discoveries to d.te.
For example:
The behavior of the So
viet satellites indicates the at
mosphere a few hundred miles
up, though extremely thin, is
when Series J and K bonds ; through local banks but the!"
were discontinued last year, j nearest Federal Reserve bank I will issue the bonds.
CENTRAL POINT
Family Holds Social Hour
BY DORIS HUGHES
Central Point Sunday
evening, after Vesper serv
ices at their church, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Wyatt of 615
Alder st. held a social hour in
their home. Refreshments
were served during the even
ing. Guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Johnson of Medford,
Mrs. Marjorie Snyder and
children of Medford, Mrs. Ray
Wyatt of Table Rock, Mr. and
Mrs.' Darrel Linker of Med
ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Britton of Central Point.
Miss Margaret Greenman
of Los Angeles returned home
Saturday after visiting here
for a week at the home of
her brother. Royal Greenman
Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Down
ing were Christmas guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chet
A family dinner was held
Christmas day at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Faber
cf Freeman rd. in Central
Point. Guests were Faber's
mother, Mrs. E. C. Faber, his
son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Don Faber, and his son-in-law
and daughter and family, the
Richard Strattons.
The A. D. Van Horn family
and the D. R. Hendricksons
of Central Point were dinner
guests Christmas day at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Hendrickson of Gold Hill,
Guests, also, for dinner were
Mr. and Mrs. J. B- Tilley of
Gold Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harper
of Central Point were guests
Christmas eve at the home of
Harper's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Harper, of Med
ford. Guests also were the
Harper's other two sons and
their families, Mr. and Mrs.
Dwane Harper and Mr. and
Mrs. Don Harper.
Mr. and Mrs. George Johns
spent Christmas in Grants
Pass at the home of Mrs.
Johns' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Utz. Dr. and Mrs. Hues
tis of Roseburg were also
guests. Mrs. Huestis and Mrs.
Johns are sisters. .
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tray
lor spent the holidays visit
ing brothers and sisters in
the Los Angeles area. They
also took a trip to Marine
Land where Traylor took
some movies.
Mr. and Mrs. Burl C. John
son of Eureka. Calif, are
spending the holidays visiting
relatives and friends in the
Central Point area. The John
sons are former residents of
Central Point.
hall of the Community Bible j
church in Central Foint. Hon
ored guests were the Rev.
Donald Collins and Mrs. Col
lins of Eastend, Saskatche
wan, Canada, and the Rev.
Billy Mallon and Mrs. Mal
lan, missionaries who will be
leaving in March for New
Guinea. The men are former
residents, of Central Point,
both having attended Crater i
High school before studying j
for the ministry. !
Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Linker
left Christmas night for Sea
ttle, where they are visiting
relatives.
Guests Christmas day at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal
Greenman Sr. were Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Taylor of Ashland,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gordy of
Prineville, Mrs. Irvin Taylor
of Ashland, Miss Margaret
Greenman of Los Angeles,
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Vance of
Midway rd., ' Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Greenman and children
of Talent, Miss Joyce Pestka
of Central Point, Larry Pirk
ey of Table Rock and Miss
Joan Morris of Gold Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jones
and daughter, Janice, former
Central Point residents now
living in Rogue River, were
were in Central Point Mon
day on business and visiting
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold R.
Hughes and sons,' Gary and
Pat. spent Christmas visiting
at the home of Mrs. Hughes
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Olson of Forest Grove and
Mr. Hughes' mother, Mrs. Roy
Cannady of Hillsboro.
The Rev. Billy Mallon and
Mrs. Mallon were dinner
guests Monday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Leonacd of Snowy Butte rd.
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A double shower was held
Friday evening in Fellowship
FACING life imprisonment,
Larry Miller, 15, is await
ing sentence in slaying of
Laura Helen Wetzel, 22, of
Long Beach, Calif., a neigh
bor. (International)
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May the New Year
Bring Good Luck, Good
Health and Hapcines
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