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Medford 54th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960 I Pages 1-6 1960 May Be a Lean Year For Space Achievements TESTS PROTESTED Mrs. Sally Ceteras tends to her daugh ter, Sarah,, in froni of a placard protesting nuclear weapons tests. Sarah's perambulator is also well adorned with signs against the tests. The Ceteras were among some 3,000 per sons who joined in a "peace walk" sopnsored by the Uni tarian Fellowship for Social Justice to advocate halting of nuclear weapons testing. (UPI Telephoto) When a Body Hits a Body Just Prank Storm Lake, la. - An excit ed motorist told police he al most ran over a blood-covered body on a road near a wrecked bicycle but couldn't stop because his wife fainted. At the scene police found a dummy smeared with ket chup. Some children nearby ad mitted they staged a prank to see how motorists would react. LIVE A LITTLE! 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"It would be twice as quiet." The typical independent grocer in the U. S. spends 80 per cent of his advertising budget in newspapers. Eighty- two per cent of all people (12 years and over) read these newspapers on an average day. Washington TOPD The year 1960 may be a lean one for misile and space achievements in the United States, despite a full schedule of major pro grams being carried out by the military services and the civilian space agency. The space agency recently cancelled its "Vega project which was to have produced a rocket considerably more powerful than the interconti nental ballistic missile, and which was the only major program slated to come to fruition in 1960. The Navy may get its sub marine - launched, 1,500-mile Polaris missile into operation late in 1960, but the more probable date is 1961. However, the cancellation of Vega is said to have freed for other purposes a number of Atlas ICBM's. One or more ot these might be used in lunar probes, such as the so far unsuccessful attempt to put a satellite in orbit around the moon. Major Programs The major announced pro grams and their current status by services are as follows: Army - The Army has com pleted and turned over to the Air Force its 1,500-mile Jupi ter missile. The Army's major effort now is the huge, solid- fueled Nike Zeus anti-missile missile, but the Pentagon has refused to ask for money from Congress to produce this weapon in 1960. The Army is also, in the early stages of de veloping a large, communica tion-relay satellite system. Navy - The Navy's big ef fort is the Polaris program, which is expected to become a major part of the country's military system because of its ability to hurl H-bomb war heads from underwater to al most any part of the globe. At least six nuclear-powered Polaris subs, built to carry 16 missiles each, are to be ready by the end of 1960, and the Navy hopes eventually to de ploy 40 of them. The Navy is also working on a navigation satellite. Thor Deployed Air. Force - The Air Force has deployed the 1,500-mile Thor and some units of the 5,500-mile Atlas. Tests of the Titan ICBM may be completed in 1960. The Air Force is also working on early-warning and reconnaissance satellites, de tails of which are secret, and is in the study stage of devel oping the "Dyna-Soar," which would be a rocket-powered plane capable of orbiting the earth. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Can cellation of the Vega leaves NASA with its "Centaur" project, slated to produce a rocket about twice as power ful as the ICBM in 1961, as the major program with the ear liest fruition date. Next would be the "Saturn," with four times the power of the ICBM, to be ready in late 1962 or early 1963, and the "Nova," four times more powerful than the Saturn, to be tested in 1965. NASA also has vari ous communications, weather and research satellites plan ned, and has pilots in training for "Project Mercury," which may put a man in orbit in 1961. Man's Chances Of Survival Rated High Washington -(Science Serv ice) - Man will probably do better than the dinosaurs when it comes to survival. In a changing and largely self-made environment, man no longer relies on natural selection, the undoing of the dinosaurs, two scientists point out in a report by the Smith sonian Institution here. Dire predictions that man kind is on the way downhill, perhaps even on the road to extinction, probably are un justified, say Drs. Theodosius Dobzhansky of Columbia uni versity and Gordon Allen of the New York Psychiatric in stitute. While man is defin itely losing some of the quali ties, both physical and mental, which enabled him to survive in earlier times, these losses do not necessarily mean his extinction as some scientists have suggested. Great Error The great error in assessing man's future is to evaluate his h e r e d i tary characteristics without fully considering en vironment, the two geneticists report. The idea that the human species would do fine if all obstructions to natural selec tion were removed does not stand critical examination, Drs. Dobzhansky and T "Alien ; conclude. "Natural selection cannot maintain the adaptiveness of human populations to environ-. ments which no longer exist, nor can it pre-adapt them to environments of the future. Extinction is Fate "After all," the scientists say, extinction nas Deen xne fate of countless biological species which lived in the state of nature and which were at all times subject to natural selection." 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Rosenthal and George Brown, Whittier, Calif., were guests at Kutzkey's Lodge on the Klamath river. With Kutzkey guiding them, the two men went to the Salmon river area where Kutzky had spotted bear tracks ten days earlier. ! ' Brown took several reels of movies of the entire, pro cedure, and it is planned to show these at , sportsmen's meetings in the Stockton and Los Angeles area. Brown left last Monday for his home. . After a busy fall season, I the Kutzkeys are haying a few days relaxation, but their usual activities will be re-' sumed in a few days. . I ; An intensive five - davs course at the Sir John Cass college in London gives ships' masters experience in learn ing the tricks and quirks of radar and teaches them, in the words of cynical skippers, how to avoid "radar-aided" crashes. ' All the pupil - captains al ready have commands of their own" and all are well versed in radar . technique. Each week six captains meet for this style of training. Captains Paired Off ? The captains are paired off, one acting as captain of the simulated ship and the second as his chief officer. The basis Lightning Plays Short Order Cook .1 Nebraska City, Neb.-Sweet potatoes were cooked in . a hurry on. the electric range in the Louis T. Knopf home. Lightning struck the pan of potatoes and cooked them to a crisp. V Hunter Gets Deer The Easy Way . . Kingston, N.Y.: - Of nine men who went hunting deer in Vermont, only Jason Gert sey . brought ' back ' a ' buck which, during his return trip, darted in front of his car near home and was' killed. ' of their training is a series of voyages across the two radar screens of a comprehensive simulator unit. The simulator is adjusted to give responses closely equivalent to the top speed, stopping time and turn ing circle of each ship. Five other vessels on dif ferent courses are shown to be in the neighborhood and, in a theoretical thick fog, the captains must pick their way through in safety. Imaginary Coastline To complicate the voyage, an imaginary and intricate coastline is also fed on to the radar screens - a particular favorite is the Straits of Gibraltar. According to Capt. M. W. M. Weekes, the instructor in charge of the course, only one collision has occurred so far, although the simulator has no physical reaction no clang ing bells or ships' sirens blow ing - if a mistake is made. Nor is there a simulated crash if a collision does occur. "Af ter all, the men taking these courses are all skilled marin ers and know what they are about. They are not playing at navigating a ship." Fisherman Pulls Man From Runaway Auto Augusta, Me. An automo bile rolled down a slope into the rain-swollen waters of a stream near here, taking the 21-year-old driver with it. Noah Stuart, who saw the accident, stopped his car and reached for his fishing tackle. With one cast Stuart snagged the driver's sweater and dragged him to safety. 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