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16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mt4forf, Or.' A Unity, August 2, 1 959 Moon Seismograph Plans Are Disclosed Washington -flJPD- The Fed eral Space Agency Friday dis closed plans to send a seismo graph to th moon In five or six years to see what it is Conviction, Death Sentence of Negro Being Appealed Montgomery, Ala. (CPU Attorneys for a young Negro Friday were handling an ap peal to the state Supreme Court of his conviction and death sentence for raping a socially-p romintnt white woman. Dewey Aaron, 23-year-old Negro truck driver and father of three, was found guilty Thursday night by an all white Jury. The jurors took two hours and seven minutes to find Aaron guilty of rape, a capital crime in Alabama. The jury recommended the death sentence. The rape victim, Mrs. Mau rine Peacock, 31, a registered nurse and member of a so cially prominent family, identified Aaron Wednesday by his clothes and voice as her assailant. Expressionless Aaron was expressionless as Judge Eugene Carter read the verdict and sentenced him to death in the electric chair. The case under Alabama law is automatically appealed to the state Supreme Court. Solicitor William F. Thet- f ord told the jury in a closing argument: "This is the roughest, mean - est, nastiest, most horrible rape case I've, seen in nine years ' I have been here.' The victim testified for an hour and a half without show ing emotion, but she was near collapse when she left the witness stand. Aaron was " convicted of entering the woman's fashion able home, hiding in her closet, beating her during 20 minutes of a violent struggle and raping her on the floor . of her bedroom while her year-old child lay crying nearby. made of and how its crust is behaving. The agency also is order ing other rocket-borne instru ments to check lunar radio activity and measure the den sity of charged gas particles in the neighborhood of the moon. These projects were dis closed in a list of contracts, totaling nearly 16 million dol lars, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (ANSAS) in June. One of the contracts, for 390 million dollars, went to General Electric company for study of a new engine idea which may hasten the day of rockets with millions of pounds of thrust. Another will finance a system for us ing plants to provide oxygen for space travelers. -Joint Development The lunar seismograph will be .jointly developed by Co lumbia University and the California Institute of Tech nology. Each received a $130,' 000 contract for the first year's work. The total cost may run around a million dollars. By means of reverse rock ets, the seismograph would be gently deposited on the moon in a so-called soft landing which NASA said it may at tempt, if everything goes as planned, "within five to six years." The seismograph is expect ed to be a rugged instrument weighing 10 to 20 pounds. What it learns about the struc ture of the moon and its quake activity, if any, will be reported to earth by radio. Seismographs are instru ments for detecting and re cording shock waves kicked off by such things as quakes or explosions. Analysis of these .waves throws light on the nature of the material through which they move. METERING RADIATION Cleveland, Ohio-flJPD-Atom-ic energy workers in radia tion hazard areas now wear small meters . the size of a fountain pen to warn them against over-exposure. The tiny devices are called dosi meters, short for dosage me ters, and are manufactured by the Victoreen Instrument company here. TheyTTDo It Every Time BE HERE EARLY! STARTS . . - MON. 9:30 a.m. ZZZIIZZZ By Jimmy Hatlo I I j " B" HEPEPTEP I WANT TO SEE EVEPy -j 1 1 l i INVOICE BEFORE IT GOES OUT.' NO J rn "S. II V IGDOMES LATEST order is to be pilled unless , fr , -i A I j jf DIRECTIVE WAS f ZS3MY INITIALS AQB ON FT.'.' rZ I f . I 11 111 IT TE- CLEAR TyL-r I LJH A ll I II J II A 1 fVI DO EVERYTHING AROUND I II Wl Wl l I I j W JT MERE? CANT ANY OP M3U TAKE I II " C " I 00000 ' I f A 1 g'CSa I1 1 , iSlM. King Fotiua Sradaaa. lac, Woftriihtti , , , , , rTTYf I f C N I I 1 I 1 V 11 II II .11 .. v 47 A llWU Grange News Enterprise Grange Summer activities of the En terprise Grange have includ ed two affairs to which the public has been invited. The Centennial pot luck supper honoring the pioneer families of Evans Valley drew one of the largest crowds the grange has entertained for a long time, over 100 guests being present. A display of pioneer pic tures of early settlers, and in dustrial pictures showing old time methods and machines used in farming, logging, gold mining and railroading was viewed by the crowd. Treasured keepsakes were loaned to the Grange for dis play by Miss, Loretta Owens, Mrs. Jane Williams, Mrs. Car rie Wiede, Mrs. Susie Even sizer, Mrs. Rudy Hiller, Mrs. Betty Weide, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hillis, Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Owings, John and Mark Nea thamer, C. M. McCoy, and Al Boulter. ' Probably the most popular item to the younger genera tion was the old type grapha phohe with cylinder records still in playing condition which was in the collection belonging to the Hillis family. A potluck supper preceded the informal program which included an introduction of the pioneers, a reading by Mrs. William White of Rogue Ri ver, a square dance by Con nie and Richard Weide, Sanda Jurriery Cheryl Martin, Her Smith, Rex Austin, and Kim Badcock. The evening was concluded with an old fash ioned community sing led by Mrs. Gladys Boulter with Mrs. Gil Sagen a the piano. The second meeting to which the public was invited was held to give the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hargitt an oppor tunity to see te slides taken On their recent tour of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Hargitt were members of Enterprise Grange for many years and Hargitt served as rural mail carrier on this route for over 20 years. He took the pictures with a camera, which the community had presented t j him in appre ciation of his many years of service. - ' Two picnic tables have been placed on the grange grounds by the Evans Valley Garden club. Earlier in the year they placed shrubs as a background planting at the front of the Grange hall. At the meeting on Tuesday the names of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hurley, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Temple, and Miss Lor etta Owens were presented for membership. Mr. Hurley is serving as secretary of the Rogue Soil Conservation asso ciation and Mrs. Hurley is a nurse at Camp White. Mr. and Mrs. Temple have recently purchased the Fritz Nelson property on West Evans Creek. They were Grange members in the state of Wash ington. Miss Owens is a mem ber of a pioneer family here. Several members have beep reported on the sick list. Ralph Badcock and Robert Wales have just returned to work after a stay in the hospital. Mrs. Grace Hitson is entering the hospital and Mr. and Mrs. George Barrie are both ill with the flu. Marion Scadding,a past mas ter of Enterprise grange, has sold her property on West Evans and is moving to San Diego, Calif. On Wednesday, Aug. 5, the Home Economics club will meet at the home of the chair man, Mrs. Gladys Boulter at 1 p.m. Plans will be discussed for the -annual Grange carni val which has been scheduled for Sept. 19. A recent survey by the American Music Conference indicted that 450,000 Ameri cans now play the harmonica. n Mmo ... YOU'D BETTER HURRY! Lots of Summer Still Ahead! 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