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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedW, Or.
Tuesday, Juna 2, 1959
Drinking Parakeet
Embarrasses Finders
Sheffield, England (UPD
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Collins
are teetotalers and the para
keet they found perched 'on
their doorstep is embarras
ing them. It drinks.
"I'm a boozer." the para
keet announced on introduc
tion. "My name is Mickey
B arson. Fill 'em up
George."
Mr. Collins, who is giv
ing the parakeet water only
till his owner is found, said.
"He must have com from
a pub 1
City Firemen Inspect
1,816 Medford Homes
City firemen made 1,336
recommendations for correc
tion of fire, hazards during
their annual home inspection
program last month.
No hazards were noted in
835 dwellings, they said.
were checked. Occupants Gf
235 other homes refused the
offer 'of inspection. Firemen
stopped at 3,770 houses but
found no one home at 1,619.
Inspections were made on
Medford's north and south
streets between May 4 and 29.
Scientists Optimises liver
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This advertisement published
the public interest by
. By JOSEPH L. MYLER
UPI Correspondent
Washington -UPD- Scientists
have voiced optimism that the
successful missile flight .of
monkeys Able and Baker
shows that human beings, too,
can safely venture into space.
One warned, however, that
"it is dangerous to extrapo
late from monkeys to men."
By that he meant that .what
might be easy for a monkey
might be harder on a man.
But Able and Baker have
established that small mon
keys, at least, can withstand
fantastically abrupt changes
-including multiplication of
their weight 38 times-with no
yet discernible ill effects.
"One can reasonably hope,"
said. Col. Robert Holmes of
the Army research ad devel
opment command, that the
same thing will apply to hu
mans. We can be optimistic.
We have to be cautious."
Holmes and 20 other offi
cials and scientists of the
Army, Navy and the National
Aeronautics and Space admin
istration shared the klieg
lights at a news conference in
which Able and Baker were
the top attractions.
Ordeal Worse
100 reporters and photogra
phers were told, the news con
ference ordeal was considera
bly worse than the 15-minute
ride they took early Thurs
day aboard the nose cone of a
Jupiter intermediate range
ballistic missile fired from
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
For one thing, they were
alone to all intents and pur
poses during their 300-mile-high,
1,700-mile-long flight.
Although side by side, they
were housed in different cap
sules and neitherknew of the
other's nearnessO
For another, they made
their 10,000-mile-an-hour trip
in a comfortable temperature
of only 84 degro Fahrenheit.
On the platfornTat the NASA
conference room, with the
lights beating down, the tem
perature was abo;g) 100 degrees.
On Thursday they becairig)
foe jorld s first ballistic mis
sile astronauts. Not evQi th
Russians claim to havfTMired
animals on a space flight Qiat
subjected them tH3) perils
of re-entry into the atmos
phere like those braved and
survived by AblQand Jer.
FacQ Discl
For the first timg) since
tSey Cere fished out of the
Atlantic north oAntigua
land before dawn on Thurs
day some of the facts about
their reactions were disclosed.
These facts were reported
by radio from surgicajly
pianted QecQodes which eg-
lsierea sucn tnings as neart
beat and breathing. ,
Capt. Ashton Gryabiel ofj
the Navy Aviation Sxhool oil
Medicine, Pensacola,vla., re
ported, what th) radio waves
said about thjjmonkeys phys
iological reactions on the way
up, during. th6) nine minuses
of "zero gravity," or weight
lessness, and th immensely
greater ordeal of re-entry into
the atmosphere and impact
into the ocean. 1 .
The physiological changes
throughout the flight were ex
traordmarUyrcmall," he. said.
For Able.The seven-pound
rhesus monkey, the heart rate
is normally 130 to 180 beats
per minute. On Thursday,,
during blaHoff and burnout
of the Jupi5r's roqket, when
the force ofgravity .reached a
peak of 15 times normal,
Abie's heart rate rose from
140 to 175 beats per-minute.
ai ine peas ox tne rocKet s utk
ward thrust, his apparem
weight jumped from the nor
mal seven pounds to 105.
Rale Increases
At zero gravity during
weightlessness Abie's heart
rate fell back to 134. Then
when the nose cone, with its
special heat-absorbing coat,
plunged back into the heavy
atmosnhere and wasjhnmtw
braked by air friivm, ttffif
rate leaped to 222. .
This was the most dra
matic change," Graybiel said.
Abie's breathing rate rose
from 20 to 30 a minute dur
ing the lifting period, fel
back to 20 during weightless
ness, and jumped briefly to
66 on impact.
It was expiated that the
gravity peak, when Abie's
seven-pound ypight was mul
tiplied 38 timerto 266 pounds,
lasted only a fraction of a
second. Part of the shock was
absorbed by the fiber-glass
coucM padded with two inch
es ofrfoam rubber, on hich
she was held in Q $fcu-jprone
position.
Throughout the (grief fljpht,
the carefully conditioned cap
sules in which the monkevs
rode varied almost noWt all
in temperature $nd pressure.
The scientists appeared to
consider this almost impor
tant as the fact that the mon
keys' reactions, werej within
safe limits. O
E.ria Environment
The engjQeers, wording una
vironment" for Able and
Baker.
Colonel Holmes said that
while it is dangerous to com
pare animals with man (al
though human beings and
monkeys are both classified
as "primates"), it neverthe
less "is encouraging to think
that an animal can be exposed
to space conditions without
undue changes in basal physi
ology." . But as Walter T. Bonney of
the NASA pointed out, "we
have a great deal still to
learn" before sending men
along the same trail that Able
and Baker successfully nego
tiated. The NASA hopes by some
time in 1961 to put its so
called "Mercury astronauts,"
seven test pilots now under
going preliminary training,
into a satellite orbiting the
earth. But at this stage, there
is "still too much risk" involv
ed to think of putting a man
in a Jupiter nose cone and
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fYancisco industrialist, has offered the city donation C r
otkwo fiillion dollars to help rebuild the San Francisco
Pae of Fine Arts (shown in background). The recon
struction will entail ripping away the frame and plaster
of the original building and replacing it with steel and
concrete. ACi&mlar amount of money is Inspected to come
f?om(iie state.
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firing him toward Antigua.
It is, however, NASA's plan
to launch its Mercury pilots
on ballistic flights of a few
hundred miles before"putting
one of them in orbit.
The Thursday project in
cluded a host of other experi
ments, on the cellular level,
on the effect of "space stress
es" and cosmic radiation. It
will he days, weeks, or
month!? before the results of
most of these are known.
Not a Stunt
NASA Director T. Keith
Glennan promised that "when
these results become availa
ble, they will be made avail
able" for publication. Glen
nan said that the Able-Baker
flight was "in no way a
stunt" but rather "a serious
scientific activity."
No one could say whether
more advanced experiments
were in the works. Bonney
said this one was made possi
ble because the Army had
"space available" on one of
its Jupiter nose cone tests.
One of theQpamples sent
aloft on Thursday was 25 cu
bic centimeters of human
blood. With some reluctance
the NASA put the finger on
the man who supplied the
blood.
Jre was Capt. William Sin
clair Augerson, a 32-year-old,
six-foot native of Ellenviile,
N. Y., who has been ' loaned.
by the Army Medical Cor
to the JNAbA. The scientists
want to know what happens
to the red cells of blood and
to its ability to coagulate un
der the peculiar conditions
encountered in space.
Augerson, who appeared
more upset than Able or Bak
er over disclosure of his role,
expostulated that the impor
tant thing about a space blood
sample is "where it's going,
not where it came from." He
remarked that "I used to sell
it when I was medical stu-
aeni. it is type u, tii nega-
ve.
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"MOON MOUSE" A technician at Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., carefully weighs one of the mice
slated for traveling into space aboard the Discoverer III
missile. The Air FArce intends to try to recover the nose
cone containing the mice after it has orbited the earth.
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Washington-(DPD-A congres
sional committee has charged
Red (TShina with horrible
atrocities " including the tor
ed to surrender their faith to
- ...... .
The Communists murdereeV
30 million people behind Vie
Bamboo Curtain djii the
past 10 years, accord jng (
previously secret testunonjOJand legs and went au
recently made- public
The witnesses, . five Chris
tian misafionaries who Ded
from the Reds, detailed to the
House Committee on Un
American Activities alleged
atrocities rivaling those of the
Nazis. '
'Self-Confessing' Cssg)
The Rev. Tsin-Tsai Liu, now
pastor of a Baptist church in
Taipei, Formosa, said Chinese
Christians are sent to "self
confessing" classes lo be "re
educated" by the Comneunists.
If the classes are not suc
cessful, he said, "physical
force is used
"They stouthe noses of the
Deople andvitbur wa4Vr into
theiOmouths," Liu said, "Ev
ery tLQ the person breathes,
he swallows water.
Another, witness, the RevJ
Samuel W. S. Cheng, now W
church mission leader on For
mosa, said "at best" the CQri
munists preach "modernism"
in Christianity.
"They take awsy the divin
ity of Christ anOTJoint out he
was a good carpenter,' a good
example for the working peo
ple to follow," heQid. ,
SulMUu) Lenin
"At the worst," he said,
"they substitute Lnin the Fa
ther, Stalin the Son and Mao
Tse-Tung the Holy Ghost" for
C Jens said the sister-in-lawi
tuifi)of G&bistians who refusfT)0f a member of the Chinesfi)
Nationalist) House of Kepre-4.
sentatives was tied to fivef.
horses by the Reds.
One horsp was tied to her
neck," fie said, "and the other
horses were tied to her arms
directions. O
"ThObiggest ho ran and
it just tore her body jgto
pieces. The blood streamed all
over the public square and
the people shut their eyes and
cried. They could not stand to
see it."
Grim Piciurff)
The testimony painted a
grim picture of life in 'the
conunes, where family units
(8re completely broken up,
i . . i i i
separaxmg wives, nusuaiius
The missionaries told thef
comaaittee the Chinese people
are Resisting Ute
system by destroying Uvea
stock,, burning crops and
fighting from the mountains
as guerrillas.
Sisft6MersTouT
Hail Tribyn&rlaat
Members of the Central
Point sixth grarg) class visit
ethe Mail Tribune (Sfonday
orning. Accompanying the
group were Mrs. Viola Laird,
their teacher; and Stanford
vD Students touring the nefifc-
paper plant included Darlene
Thompson, Wallace Skyrman,
Nancy Inman, Jody Van Horn,
Tommy Marshall, Joe Meade,
Elaine Wright, Frank Arm
strong, Suzanne Flynn, Linda
Vincent. Kathleen Frederick.
Robert Snook, Ruth uch-
holtz, Jaqft Peak) Emmons
uurns.
Also Frai Roberts, Carol
Norris, Nancy Cavin, Pamela
Martin, Bob Bray, Cheryl
Hammill. Dean M c C a 1 v v:
Sheryl Marshall, John YoakQ
ley, Patty Callender, Ross
Ganger, Miajfe Charley, Bar
bara Wheeler, Randall Cavin
and Nognaan Henney.
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Central Point - PermitsQfor
burning) trash or rubbish will
be required starting) Saturday,
June 6, in the Central Point
rural fire protection Strict,
-Mre Chief L. C. Lisenbee an
nounced today.
Residents of tb district
may get permission to burn
by telephoning n NOrmandy
4-24. This mustTSe done each
time burning is planned. Per
mits will be required until
further notice, Lisenbee said.
Rural firemen extinguished,
a one-acre grass fire Sunday
afternoon on Ross lane.
the medical people, had
sought to create "gu-thn-
The U.S. -Navy s first air
plane flight from a ship was
in January, 1911, from the
der specifications supplied bu battleship USS Pennsylvania
stationed
harbor.
in San Francisco
Slf LING scream, Hi,
Richard Uronsonn her sfee
was named winner in Ia3
Angeles ansa of national Mrs
merica contest.
HIiJt-9IVIS 9tT0Ut8
Dahlonca, Ga.-(DPB-Th 50-
mile-an hour "death slidt" t
the U.S. Army's ancer
School her is designt)$, thfi
Army says, to separt the
men from the boys. What it
separated SFC Charles N.
NatkiEC from Sunday hi)
false teeth, lost in mid-yell.
Lotteries were permitted in
some of the stateQ durirw) triS
Sed China May
BplrJ Afefh Bomb
Geneva - (UPD - Diplomatic
sources rj9 id Monday Com
munist China is believed to
have amassed enough raw
material and technical know
ledge to h!3H a primitive
atomic bomb.O
One report circulating in
official circles said Peinine
communertay te lining) a test ex
plosion this tail.
The report was entirely un
confirmed, but it spurred
Russian, (tlmerican and Brit
ish nflfjDtiators he to speed
up their search for a way to
outlaw nuclear weapon tests.
A Chinese Communisf-Wi-clear
explosion ou1bP shake
the present world balance of
power between East and West
and expand the "nuclear club"
to four - five Fiance also
were to set df an explosion.
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Bscofit Graduate if
Employed in Seattle
Dennis O'Tollft son of iflr.
and Mrs. A. C. O'Tolle, 319
Laurel St., (Kedford, iceived
his bachelor of science degree
in industrial administration
from the University of Port
land Sundav. O'Toole. arad-
nat nf St Marv's iah school 0
is employed by Boeiinj Air
craft company, Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Tolle trav-
to attend the graduation ex-
ercisell Returning home they '
visited friends in McMinn-Tf
ville.
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East Germany had offered to
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