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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960
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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.
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Silence Record
Hot Hit Disc
Washington IUPD - A gift
shop owner with a gift for
zany ideas doubts if his latest
output - a record offering
three minutes of silence-will
involve him in the payola
scandals.
The record's composer (or
uncomposer) is Spencer How
ell. He admits it is not a high-
rated hit disc. But Howell
said he has sold 7,500 of the
silent records at $1 apiece
since he put it out lastryear
under the Vacuum record la
bel.
The record, ffering live si
lence, plays at any speed, "hi-
fi, low-fi or no-fi," Howell
said.
He concludes he could have
missed some of the market by
failing to offer it in what has
become the real rage-stereo
phonic.
"That's what we need now,
stereophonic," Howell mused.
"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."
Culture is man's novel
method of adapting to his en
vironment - a method by
which he has reached a "soli
tary pinnacle of evolutionary
success, the scientists con
clude.
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Captains Attending Navigation School
London -(Science Service)-
Sea captains can now. go to
school so that they can recog
nize in advance the conditions
which created the situation
that led to the disastrous col
lision between the Stockholm
and the Andrea Doria! Both
those liners were being steer
ed by radar and the inquiry
after the collision revealed
that both ships could see each
other on the radar sets.
Stockton, Whittier
Men Take Home Bear
By KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Hornbrook - A nice-sized
bear was the trophy taken
home last week by Max Ros
enthal, Stockton, Calif.
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.
The average American con
sumes approximately four
pounds of food per day. Re
tail grocery stores spent an
estimated $249 million in
newspaper advertising in 1958
to help sell their products.
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