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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, Deetmbar 29, 1958 Space Mouse for Men 500 Miles From Earth Said Possible Within 10 Years By DELOS SMITH Washington- 1TD -We're on the verge of learning all we need to know in order to build a nouse for men in space 500 miles from the earth, so lefs get started on the building i right away, xr r miccilo 1 scientists told AW1 T.f xne annual Deios smith meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to day. It would be a prefabricated house, shot into space in pieces by rockets. Space tug boats would be shot after the pieces and three man crews would corral the pieces and bolt them together. That done, 10 men would be put into the house and live and work in it. All would be scientists and their jobs would be to find out what space is like. The tough problems grow mg oui 01 ine iact mat no one really knows what it is like were worked out simply. The space men would take the earth's atmosphere and tem peratures with them they would be sealed into their tugs and house and get from one to the other by way of air locks. This eliminated the need for space suits and the Air Traffic Confrol Equipment Bought Washington, D. C. - Pur chase of 39 basic scan con version systems" to provide "daylight" displays of long range radar information for air traffic control was an nounced today "by James T. Pyle, civil aeronautics admin istrator. It marked the first procure ment of scan conversion equipment to be manufactur ed according to CAA specifi cations. The new equipment, slated for installation in CAA air route traffic control centers, will have the advantage of be ing expandable in order to in crease its flexibility for use as an air traffic control tool. It will feature a memory tube that will have the capa bility of retaining radar tar gets on the display for up to 30 minutes and showing a trailing blip on the screen in dicating previous positions on the radar target. , Pope John Holds Lion Cub on Lap Vatican City-fl-TI-Pope John XXIII held a frisky lion cub named Dolly on his lap today when the circus came to call. About 200 lion tamers, tra peze artists, clowns, roust abouts and members of their families were received by the pontiff in a mass audience for the Orfei circus. A tamer placed Dolly, a 45 dav old lion cub born in a circus cage on Pope John's lap. The cubs was playful and the Pope obviously was ner vous. "Easy, easy," he laughed, "I'm accustomed to the lions of Venice-which don't move." The symbol of the city of Venice, where Pope John was patriarch, before becoming pontiff, is a winged lion. He includes the symbol on his pontifical coat of arms. One young circus artist, Graziella Venturi, brought out two white doves for the Pope to admire. Trie lights of the glittering consistorial hall went down and a spotlight came on The doves performed for the pontiff, fluttering around their trainer to the accompa niment of violin and accor dion music from two circus musicians. Pope John applauded with delight. Portuguese Laborer Becomes Wealthy Man Porto, Portueal-dTD-Carlos Lima Garcia, 25 a poor labor er, came home from Canada for Christmas and quickly became a rich man. Garcia, who barely scraped enough money together to emigrate to Canada and con sidered himself lucky to save enough for a trip home, bought a state lottery ticket when he arrived. The ticket won and paid back his money. He reinvested the fund in the final draw of the year and won siBD.uuu during t n e week end. The most popular purebred dog in the United States today is the beagle. bp A mmm WORLD WATER SPEED KING Donald Campbell, 37, and Belgian -born Tonia Bern, SO, arrive at London's Caxton Hall Register Office for their wedding. She's TV and cabaret singer and became Campbell's third wife. Television Discharges A Squall of Colloquy On Sunday Programs A7 By WILLIAM EWALD New York -(LTD The charge that television is destroying the art of good talk has al ways struck me as a rather cockeyed complaint. It's a mel ancholy truth i that the halls of c o n v e rse are tenanted by a limited MUJ number of William EaW practitioners anyway. Most of what passes for conversation in our time is usually only a halting ex change of good-natured insult. Be that as it may, TV - a medium which recently has gone on a talk binge - really discharged a squall of collo quy Sunday. I counted five and one-half network hours of verbal trafic, all of it de voted to either 1958 in retro spect or 1959 in prospect. Reasonably Communicative The longest of these was the afternoon CBS-TV, The Year Gone By, a two hour dip into the arts and sciences in 1958. The antiquarians who exhum ed businesss, books, movies, TV and such included James Conant, Russell Lynes, Clif ton Fadiman and Louis Kron enberger, some of them not quite studio-broken, but all of them reasonably communica tive. All of this was accomplish ed with a minimum of visual crutches and while the brief survey by each expert seemed a trifle sketchy, the show as a whole was a breezy and fairly informative appraisal of its several fields. I liked particu larly Lynes who assessed such things as empire fashions and hula hoops with grace and wit, CBS-TV's Corraling of a Decade, Years of Crisis: 1948 1958, provided a suitable gar nish to the evening - well or ganized and moderately crackly. One further note on one other talk show Ed Mur row's CBS-TV Small World. It had Vivien Leigh, Kenneth Tynan and Sam Goldwyn on board and it was a fine half hour. I will say though that Goldwyn seemed in over his head - he is a man enormous ly enamoured of cliches. The Channel Swim: A one hour Western, Rawhide, is the hottest contender to replace the Jackie Gleason Show and Trackdown on CBS-TV Jan. 9. Rawhide stars Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. Track down probably will be shifted by CBS-TV to another spot, possibly Wednesday night where the drama show, Pur suit, is shaky. possible 'embarrassments to men of being weightless in "airless" space. Conquest of Space Some of these ideas have been bruited about in science fiction and in theoretical dis cussions. Today, they were parts of a tightly engineered plan which was presented as a practical project for begin ning man's conquest of space. The plan came out of the Missiles Devision of the Lock heed Corporation, a prime government rocketry contract or, and was presented by two Lockheed scientists, Saunders B. Kramer "and Richard A. Byers, to the American Astro nautical Society, a constituent of the AAAs. The presentation made it clear that the plan was deep into the blueprint stage. In fact, it can be achieved within 10 years, they said. Most of the know-how exists right now. A 500-mile orbit would be easy for present day rockets. America's monkey and Russia's dog have showed that living creatures can be transported in space without being harmed by the trans port. The problem of "re-entry," that is, getting them safely back to earth, is about to be solved, along with lesser tech nical matters. The scientists emphasized the module type of construction perfected in prefabricated earth houses. The space prefab would be in the shape of a wheel con nected to several hubs by spokes. Assembled in Week Rim and spokes would be made of cylinders 10 feet in diameter and 20 feet long. The manned "astro tugs" shot after them into the same orbit would be equipped with me chanical grapples which their crews could operate from the inside. The scientists said that all the cylinders could be put into one orbit and assembled in less than a week. Once assembled, the wheel would be set to spinning to maintain itself above the outermost edges of earth's gravity charged atmosphere. They envisaged "re-entry" vehicles which would take scientists and tug crews back and forth between the house and earth. The house would contain complete scientific equipment to study the chem istry, physics, and electronics of space, along with its effects on the physiology of both men and plants. The scientific resi dents would be specialists in those fields. They'd probably live there for six months or so at a time but with a ready "re-entry" available, the time could be shorter. The scientists pointed out machines could be made and techniques perfected to take space men to the moon and the planets beyond. Indeed, additions could be put onto the space house in definitely, as additions are put onto an earth house. And this enlarged and reinforced struc ture could then become the launching pad for manned rockets outward-bound. local Fire Department Has Quiet Week End Medford fire department helped a feline in distress Sunday and also helped a woman to unlock her front door. At 9:47 a.m. Sunday the fire department was asfced by Roy D. Wiltse, 4 Myers court, to remove cat from a tree near his residence. At 7:40 p.m. Sunday Lois V. Williams, 1020 West Fourth st. asked the fire de partment to unlock the door to her house. She had evident ly forgotten her key, fire men said. . . ij firm IT OKRflAftK Resolution for '59 This is The SPACE AGE and we, at OK MARKET, resolve to utilize all the space in our store to stock the merchandise that YOU want and need. 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