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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Tuesday, August 5, 1958 Boy Designer of Rocket Plan Finds Scholarships Difficult New York 1TD The , for Johnny's college somehow trouble wth being a 12-year-old scientist even if you do design a manned satellite so similar to top secret Pentagon plans that you have to under go a security check is that it just doesn't pay enough. Thafs the complaint of Jona than "Johnny Orovitz, boy space expert. Squirming restlessy on a divan in the comfortably-furnished living room of his fam ily's three-bedroom house in Kew Garden Hills, the pudgy, brown-haired lad admitted . readily in an interview that he had enjoyed all the public acclaim accorded him. But he said so far none of it had brought him any closer to acquiring the funds needed to attend the California Insti tute of Technology, where he hopes to become a real "space engineer." "It isn't that we're any more mercenary than anybody else," his short, plump, black haired mother, Mrs. Beatrice Orovitz, 43, said. "It's just that it takes every cent we earn in our little women's wear shop to get along. We'll find the money when the time comes, but we were disappointed when all the fanfare about him pro duced not even a single scholarship offer." Jonathan, who acquired the "space bug" last November when Russia sent its dog carrying Sputnik II aloft, got an idea early in June and promptly drew a three-foot-long, cardboard-mounted plan for a satellite rocket capable of taking a man into space for two weeks and then re turning him safely to earth. Then he typed out a letter and sent the whole works to Roy W. Johnson, director of the Advanced Research Proj ects Agency, the Pentagon's new space coordinating organ ization. A few days later he got the first reaction in an entirely unexpected form. A govern ment gentleman from Wash ington came to call on him and spent several hours asking searching questions. "There must be a thousand different ways to ask 'who helped you with this' and he used every one of them," Mrs. Orvoitz recalled. "He finally A w. Announcing. . . NEW LOCATIO 922 Boardman at Kennel KENNEDY FUEL OIL Agent for Spark Oil Heaters became convinced that the whole business came right out of Johnny's skull and went back to Washington." Twe weeks later, Jonathan got a' letter from Johnson praising his design and con taining a paragraph that solved, so far as Mrs. Orovitz is concerned, the mystery sur rounding the visitor from Washington. "Your design has all the elements of a workable sys tem and, in fact is not very different from one of a num ber of systems that have been under consideration," Johnson wrote. "I didn't have a college ed ucation and I don't know what Johnny is talking about half the time," said Mrs. Orovitz, "but I caught on to this all right. They thought somebody in the Pentagon had leaked some information which even tually got to Johnny. Can you imagine that?" Johnson also wrote that he had turned Jonathan's design over to the National Science Foundation and that's where the build-up to a big let-down began. Passes out Scholarships The entire Orvoitz family including Jonathan's father, Louis, 51, a pommercial artist turned storekeeper, and anoth er son, David, 9, who can't decide between big league baseball or singing like Elvis Presley gathered around a brand new encyclopedia. They discovered that the National Science Foundation, established in 1950, not only gives cash grants to scientifc undertakings, but also passes out scientific scholarships. All of them jumped to the con clusion that a scholarship was what Johnny would get. Disillusionment came fast when they contacted the foundation. The organization, it seems, has money for scholarships for post-graduate work, beginning at the pre- The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on Droblems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. S. Our daughter up with a wild Harvey has taken crowd. Ethel S They aren't bad as people say. as Harvey S. My wife and I are heartbroken. Our 20-year-old daughter, a clever, pretty girl, has taken up with a terrible crowd of friends. These young girls and boys are well known in our com munity for drinking, reckless driving and wild parties. We can't understand why a well brought up girl should turn against everything she had been taught.. If she were 16, we would say she is just a crazy kid and we'd be able to put the lid on her. But she is old enough to know better. If we try to con trol her, she threatens to leave home. doctorate level, but nothing for a boy still in junior high school. The parents thought fleet ingly about settling Johnny on a television quiz show, but Mrs. Orovitz put her foot foot down. "I simply won't stand for it," she said. "To begin with I have no way of knowing just how thorough Johnny's knowledge is, and I do know he's a tempermental child. Suppose he missed the very first .question, which he very well might. Can you imagine what this would do to him after this fame?" In the meantime, Jonathan is much too busy to worry about where his college tui tion and expenses will come from. There are his studies when school opens again, sum mer day camp now, studying everything about space flight that he can lay his hands on, designing of a larger and more advanced satellite and trying to wheedle a new bicycle from his mother. 1930 25 TON MILES PER GALLON 1958 43 TON MILES PER GALLON Today's gasoline has far more value. An accurate way to measure this value is by "ton-miles". . . the number of miles a gallon of gasoline will move a ton of car. Average performance in 1930 Was 25 ton miles per gallon. Today it's 43 or 70 more work per gallon. Can you think of any liquid that costs less than gasoline . . . except water? . Quart for quart, gallon for gallon, almost any liquid you buy costs more than gasoline . . . and gasoline performance today costs less than it did in 1930. PER TON MILE Fuel cost per ton-mile Is down 18 since 1930. To move a ton of car a mile took s,'i: worth of fuel. Modern gasolines move today's heavier cars a ton-mile for about J20. When you remember you are buying performace, gasoline costs less today than in 1930. PER TON MILE In spite of higher operating costs in the oil industry, gasoline prices have been held down through research and intense competition. Since 1930 the price of gasoline (excluding taxes) rose only 23. During the same period the general cost of living went up 70. The taxes on a tankful of gasoline would buy between four and five extra "tax-free" gallons. Combined state and federal taxes, which help pay for better roads, add about 90 to the price of every gallon ." . , nearly 30 of your gasoline dollar buys no gasoline at all. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plans ahead to serve you better We are very much afraid of what influence all this will have on our four younger children, and we sometimes almost wish she would leave home and not bring disgrace on us all. Yet we are afraid of what will happen if she goes away now. , Ethel S. My parents say they are just worried about my welfare, yet they have said more than once they would be relieved if I got out of the way and didn't become a bad influence on their little darlings. It just happens that the crowd I have been going out with is the first group I have really felt happy with. I was always the shy type and did not make friends easily, but this group took me in from the first. It is true that this crowd has a bad reputation in our community yet they aren't as bad as people say. I haven't seen half of the awful things I have heard about from others. For myself, I haven't done anything seriously wrong and I don't intend to. I just want to have some fun while I'm young enough to enjoy it. My parents : are too strait-laced and only care about the Joneses. The Council There is very little parents can do to control the conduct of a 20-year-old woman or man. We suspect that Ethel would like to have her parents control her a bit, but this isn't pos sible and. she should recognize that she must accept full re sponsibility for her own actions. Individuals like Ethel who seek the company of social outcasts or undesirables are usually plagued by a deep seated sense of inferiority. Ethel's statement that she never made friends easily and she is happy with this group because they took her in from the first is a dead giveaway of her sense of fail ure and frustration in accept able sqpiety. Why should a girl from a good home feel like an out cast in acceptable 'society? Well, she could be suffering from a kind of hangover of the childish feeling .that she was rejected by her ' parents when they brought other chil dren into the home. ' Such an individual often seeks acceptance in a group that represents some kind of rebellion against authority. Ethel should try to under stand her own motives a little better before she gets so deep ly involved with this unac ceptable group that she can no longer, find the friends she really wants to be with. She shows that her stand ards for herself are high and she should recognize that with such standards and her good upbringing, she can never have much fun with the group she describes. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) Council on Aged Calls For Session A meeting of the executive board of the Rogue Valley Council on the Aging has been called for 3 p.m., Thursday, according to Frank Glonning, council chairman. . On the agenda will be a report on a survey of commu nities in this area as to what they are 'doing for older peo ple. This includes employ ment, specialized placement service, counseling on person al retirment problems, recre ation facilities, special educa tion and health services. Plans will be made also for a special meeting the last week in August. Howard C. Heylauff of the Federal Hous ing administration is expec ted to be in Medford. He will discuss plans with the coun cil on authorization of a low cost housing project for sen ior citizens of this county. The state council will have an exhibit at the state fair in Salem showing all the ac tivities for the aging, it was reported. i Alabama was named for the Alibamas, an Indian tribe. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport MISSILE LIFT from Denver. The Air Force loads a shrouded second stage part of the giant Titan ICBM.into transport plane for shipment to Cape Canaveral, Fla., for stati tests. It was the first such airlift, was reported a complete success by Air Force. NEW TACKLE REPORTS Salem, Ore. (UPD J. T. Frankenberger, a 245-pound tackle obtained by the New York Giants from the Wash ington Redskins in an off season trade, reported to his new club Monday and took his first workout. He recent ly was discharged from the' Army. Pewter- is an alloy of tin plus brass or lead. 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