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space travel today through
television and radio observa
tion of airman Donald G. Far
rell, now in his third day of
a "trip to the moon" in an
earth-bound space chamber.
Farrell was sealed into a
three by five foot "space
ship" at 9:35 a.m. Sunday for
a seven-day ordeal of lonely
confinement to test man's
ability to meet the rigors of
travel into space.
Doctors at Randolph Field
said today they are "very
happy with the way things
are progressing."
The Bronx, N.Y., airman
looks well and appears alert,
they said. He's doing very
well in the tests flashed to
him to determine how mental
ability is affected by the dis
orientation of life in a closed
chamber, the doctors said.
Farrell ate a light meal late
Monday night and then dozed
for several hours.
Col. George H. Steinkamp,
chief of the Department of
Space .medicine of the Air
Force School of Aviation
Medicine, said Farrell is
"holding up beyond our ex
pectations." Farrell cannot see out of
the chamber, but doctors can
watch him on a closed televi
sion circuit or, if desired,
through a one-way vision
panel in the chamber.
He receives instructions
from the outside by flashing
lights. The periods in which
he is instructed to work or
take tests, or is free to eat,
read or sleep, are varied from
day to day as a part of the
testing.
Dr. Hubertus Strughold, re
search adviser, said the pur
pose of the variation is to "see
just how 'much a space flyer
has to sleep and work."
He said preliminary re
search showed that a man can
work well in "days" as short
as 18 hours or as long as. 26
hours. He said he believes an
18-hours "day" would permit
a man to do better work than
a 24-hour, day in space flight
and would also make it pos
sible to operate with fewer
men, an important considera
tion in cramped nus"'"
Farrell can send radio mes
sages from his seaiea ....
er, but he has been deliverate
ly deceived about their recep-
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tion. He was told they would
be recorded and played back
later for the scientific obser
vers. Actually they are heard
directly by the scientists as
he sends them. The deception
was planned to increase his
sense of isolation.
Bandit Escapes
With $5,000 at
Las Vegas Hotel.
Las Vegas TO A welt
dressed bandit lifted a guard's
gun and $5,000 from a swanky
hotel's gaming room, kid
naped two women and escaped
in broad daylight Monday, po
lice reported.
The women, whose car was
commandeered for the get
away, said the bandit directed
them to a busy intersection a
few blocks from the hotel,
hopped out and disappeared in
the crowd.
Police said the hold-up was
the first on record from the
"strip" of luxury hotels on the
outskirts of Las Vegas.
Cashier Gets Note
The bandit entered the ca
sino of the ( Riviera Hotel
shortly after 2 p.m. and hand
ed cashier Bob Valentine a
note which read: "Have gun
in bag. Get money from cash
er's cage."
Larry E. Jaegg, a guard
from the neighboring Sahara
Hotel was standing at the
counter cashing chips. The
bandit reached for his gun.
Jaegg said he thought the
man was drunk and acting
playful. Jaegg pushed him
away, only to discover he had
been successfully disarmed.
The bandit then scooped up
the $5,000 before the startled
eyes of gamblers at dice
tables and slot machines, held
Jaegg's gun and his own on
the cashier and guard and
walked to the door.
Outside, Mrs. Mildred Le
vin, a San Francisco attorney
and wife of Manuel Levin, a
prominent theater owner, was
iust drving up to the hotel.
With her was Mrs. James B.
Lima, of San Jose, Calif., also
the wife of a theatre man.
Ordered To Drive
The bandit jumped into the
car and ordered Mrs. Lavin to
keep driving.
She told police she asked
him over and over: "Where do
you want to get out? Where
do you want to get out?
"I wasn't about to drive
out on the desert with that
guy," she said. But the bandit
didn't stay with them long. A
few blocks from the hotel he
directed .her to stop and
jumped from the car.
Mrs. Levin said she had
planned to feign hysteria if
ordered to drive much further.
Multnomah Land
For Industrial Use
Portland (IP) Multnomah
county transferred 295 acres
in Mocks Bottom to the Port
of Portland Monday for de
velopment of a new indus
trial district.
At a transfer ceremony at
tended by Gov. Robert D.
Holmes, Port Commission
President Frank M. Warren
Jr. said the acquisition pro
vided needed area for indus
trial and warehousing expan
sion in an "ideal, "close-in lo
cation." The first area to be put on
the market will be the up
stream end of Swan island,
an area of about 40 acres
known as tract A. Prime land
is valued at $25,000 per acre.
Warren said none of the land
will be sold but that individ
ual plots will be made avail
able on lease to private enter
prises. Officers to Be Named
For Male Chorus Group
Ashland With election of
officers scheduled today in
Churchill hall at Southern
Oregon college, the Southern
Oregon Male chorus will as
sume the status of a perma
nent organization, according
to Louis O. Clayton, instructor
of voice at the college and
director of the group.
"Though response from cur--
rent and prospective members
has been most encouraging,"
Clason said, "we need more
singers in all sections."
7 7 French Miners Die
In Plunge Down Shaft
Lens, France (IP) Eleven
coal miners were reported
killed instantly at a nearby
coal mine today when the
elevator cable snapped and
they, plunged 200 feet to the
I bottom of the mine shaft. .
54 Deaths Blamed
On Cold; South
Gets Ice Storms
By UNITED PRESS
Blizzard- battered sections
of New York State braced to
day for up to 18 inches of
new snow and winter's worst
cold wave touched off a haz
ardous ice storm from Texas
to Alabama and Mississippi.
The death-dealing cold
wave ranged from the Rock
ies to the Atlantic Coast with
no relief in sight.
A United Press survey
showed at least 54 deaths
blamed on the cold, snow,
icy roads and fires since last
Thursday night when the
wintry weather invaded the
nation.
At least 17 persons died in
the New York blizzard that
dumped 38 inches of snow at
Syracuse and choked high
ways with six-foot drifts.
Eleven victims were reported
in New England, 8 in Texas, 7
in Oklahoma, 5 in Pennsyl
vania, 2 in Ohio and 1 each
in Illinois, South Dakota,
Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Cold Moves South
The sub-zero cold in the
North whipped into Dixie,
triggering ice storms Monday
that coated highways from
the Texas Panhandle into Ok
lahoma, Louisiana and Missis
sippi. Weathermen warned the
freezing rain will be follow
ed up by a cold rain in Lou
isiana today and ice storms in
central and southern Ala
bama and Mississippi. More
freezing drizzle was expected
in northern Texas and the
Texas Panhandle.
Near zero weather followed
up a- two-day blizzard in
western New York and wea
thermen predicted 7 to 18
inches of new snow today for
some parts of the region.- '
Near Baldwinsville, in cen
tral New York, searchers
tramping across towering
drifts Monday heard a car
horn blowing beneath their
feet. They dug out the buried
car and found Henry Allen,
46, dead and his wife Blanche,
44, suffering from frozen legs.
Mrs. Allen said they had
been marooned in "'the drift
since Saturday.
Keep Thruway Open
Highway crews battled
drifts throughout the area,
and managed to keep the New
York State Thruway open al
though speeds were reduced
to 35 miles per hour in blow
ing snow. Squalls forced the
Buffalo, N.Y., airport to close
down for a time Monday aft
ernoon and trains and buses
reached the city as much as
90 minutes late.
Over night temperatures
again plunged below zero
from North Dakota east
through Minnesota and most
of the northern Great Lakes.
Readings of about . 10 degrees
above were common along the
Ohio river and the - temper
atures dropped to the 30s
in most of the Southland.
Sufficient Vaccine
For Each in Oregon
Portland (IP) About 1,
966,00 cubic centimeters of
Salk vaccine have been
shipped to Oregon since the
polio preventive measure was
approved for trial use in
1954, the State Board of
Health said today.
On the basis of Oregon's
latest population estimate of
1,769,000, the shipments
equal 1.11 shots per person
This is below the national
average of 1.23 shots per per
son, the department said.
Both Washington and Idaho
are slightly ahead of Oregon
with identical ratios. of 1.14
shots per capita, and Califor
nia lags with a ratio of 1.07.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state
health officer, said more than
one million cc's of Oregon's
supply went to commercial
outlets, 707,781 to public
agencies, and 98,376 to the
National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis.
Earl L. Lawson, M.D.
Duane I. Gillum,M.D.
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Gigantic Display of Northern
Lights Visible Across Nation
Br UNITED PRESS
The most brililant display
of the Aurora Borealis or
Northern Lights in many
years flashed across northern
skies Monday night and early
today in a spectacular elec
tronic fireworks show that
was seen as far south as
Florida.
Intense atmospheric elec
trical disturbances that ac
companied the lights disrupt
ed network television and
long distance telephone cir
cuits.. Worldwide radio com
munications also were upset.
Bright Red Glow
The display featured a
bright red glow that gave the
appearance of a forest fire on
the horizon. Thousands of
persons called their local po
lice stations, newspapers and
weather bureaus to inquire
about the strange lights.
From some places the
Aurora appeared to be a
steady, bright glow, cherry
or fire red. At others, streaks
of green and white light were
visible also.
"It was the most spectacu
lar Aurora Borealis I have
ever seen in 20 years as an
astronomer," reported Gerald
P. Kuiper, director of the
University of Chicago Yerks
observatory at Williams Bay,
Wis.
James S. Pickering, assist
ant astronomer of the Hayden
planetarium in New York,
said he had "never seen such
complete redness" in the
Northern Lights.
The - Weather bureau said
the lights were seen over
most of the U.S., and as far
south as Vero Beach, Fla.
Normally the Aurora is sight
ed only in northern latitudes,
but scientists said cold weath
er and dry clear air made it
visible over unusually wide
areas.
Television Interrupted
The- American Telephone
and Telegraph company said
in Salt Lake City that the
electrical disturbance gener
ated up to 130 volts in its low
voltage long distance circuits,
causing widespread service
disruption. Three network
television lines, NBC, CBS
and Mutual, were reported
knocked out at least seven
times between 7 p.m. and
midnight (m.c.t).
Some TV viewers received
Speech Contest
Won by Arant
Neal Arant, Equitable In
surance company representa
tive, with his speech "Y o u
Are a Lion," won the final
berth in the Jackson Toast
masters speech contest, it was
announced.
Next Monday, Arant will
compete with George Tro
bough, Robert Harland, Ross
Gilkison, Wilbur Fish, and
Larry Horton to determine
three finalists for the Med
f ord contest.
The three top speakers will
compete with three from the
Medford Toastmasters Satur
day, Feb. 22, to determine an
entry from each club for the
area contest in Medford in
March. The area contest will
include speakers from Ash
land, Yreka, Grants Pass, Kla
math Falls and Medford.
Other contestants in the
contest were Wayne Vene
kamp, with his speech "Throw
Away the Crutch," and Art
Lusk with his "Hands Up"
speech.
Toastmaster of the morning
was Robert Harland and news
item topics were presented
by Curt Butterfield.
Guests at the meeting were
Howard Hopkins, Gus Witty,
Bruce Nelson, and Mac Mc
Calley. Washington (IP) City
Commissioner Stanley W.
Earl, of Portland, Ore., filed
a $500,000 libel suit against
columnist Drew Pearson in
Federal Court here Monday.
He charged that Pearson
libeled him in articles last
March 2 and 15.
channels other than those
they had tuned in in Boston.
Telephone officials also re
ported phone troubles in New
England.
Over Barstow, Calif., the
lights "had beautiful stream
ers of pink, green, purple and
yellow threading through
them," a United Press report
er said.
At El Centra, Calif., radio
announcer Mike Russell of
Station KXO reported the
"lights seemed to move about
like search lights for a while,
then settled down to a steady
bright glow, almost cherry
red."
Another Display Possible
Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, an
astronomer at New Mexico
A&M college in Southern
New Mexico, said the lights
were a rare type and might
be followed by an even more
vivid display.
The Weather Bureau said
the Northern Lights occur in
the ionosphere, a layer of
thin air 50 to 500 miles
above the earth's surface,
with most displays originat
ing 55 to 80 miles up. They
often follow a period of in
tense sunspot activity such as
was reported last 'week end.
Scientists believe the Aur
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electrical particles emitted by
the sun which penetrate the
atmosphere, causing it to
glow. The displays are con
centrated in bands around
the north and south poles be
cause the particles art be
lieved to be deflected by the
earth's magnetism.
At 4:30 a.m. (EST) red and
white lights still were visible
above midtown New York,
where a red glow appeared
to the southwest, a streaked
white halo was directly over
head and another red area
hung in the northeast. The
display began about 9 pjn.
Monday.
Portland (IP) Residents
in dozens of Oregon commun
ities Monday night saw the
reddish hues of the Northern
lights and flooded switch
boards at radio stations and
newspapers reporting the
phenomenon.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
in Portland said it was a
"very fine display" of the
Aurora Borealis.
Some thought it might be
the glow from a gigantic fire.
In Corvallis, residents report
ed the lights had a reddish
blue cast, "almost rose color."
Greenland's icecap, a great
flat dome crevassed on the
edges, covers 700,000 square
miles. In some places the ice
is more than 10,000 feet thick.
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