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Big Game Hunting Once Flourished In America Washington (Science Serv ice) - Big-game hunting once flourished in America. But that era was more than 10, 000 years ago. Evidence of where ancient Americans pursued giant, now-extinct ice-age mammals uch as mammoth, mastodon, camel and, later, buffalos, is reported by Prof. Gordon R. Willey of Pea body museum, Harvard university, Cam bridge, Mass., in the current issue of Science. The day of the American big-game hunter ended, Prof. Willey reports, after 7,000 B.C. It was not due to loss of interest on the part of the hunters but to change of cli mate that wiped out the game. After America became warm er and drier, big-game hunt ing still persisted in the cen tral zones of old contenental grasslands. Men still followed buffalo on the North Amer ican plains and guanaco on the Argentine pampas. Finds of projectile points shaped by pressure-flaking, accompanied by a variety of skin-scraping tools, showed that big-game hunters may have lived in Sandia Cave, N.M., before 15.000 B.C. Finds of big-game hunting weapons showed that the sport, or means of making a living, spread over the east ern woodlands of North America, central and north eastern Mexico, Venezuela, the Andes and southern South America and even as far south as the Straits of Magellan. 4 Pages Medford 3rd SECTION Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960 Admiral Nimitz Recalls Low Point During World War II By PETER J. MAYES Uniied Press International Berkeley, Calif.- (UPD -The old man with the white hair and ice-blue eyes gazed out his kitchen window. A drizzly rain and steely overcast shrouded a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay and he remarked, "it was a day like this." The day was Christmas, 1941, and Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz recalled today that for him it was the . lowest point of World War II. A flying boat had just brought Nimitz to Pearl Har bor where he had been or dered to take command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet shattered by the Japanese attack 13 days before. The T e x a s-bom admiral stepped out of the plane into a small boat. "A half inch of oil coated Scientists Discover Oyster Parasites Gloucester, Point, Va. -(Science Service) - A micro organism never known before in oysters from Virginia wa ters has been found by scien tists at the Virginia Fisher ies laboratory here. Possibly a member of a group of para sitic one-celled animals known as sporozoans, the organism was discovered in Delaware bay less than two years ago, and is believed to be the pri mary cause of extensive loss es of oysters in Delaware bay ior the past three years. i s ' BIRTHDAY NEAR - Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, who will be 75 years old soon, browses through historical Navy papers from World War II in the study of his home in Ber keley, Calif. 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Milk 8 c,l FANCY CRISP CELERY HEARTS ea J I6 U.S. No. 1 . . : KLAMATH POTATOES m 10 lb. bag 1 J Prices Good thru Sunday Limit Rights Reserved the water," Nimitz recalled. "You couldn't sit down be cause it had slopped into the boat." Tragic Sight The admiral noticed scores of boats criss-crossing the har bor and asked we officer who had met him what they were doing. "He called one of them over to us. It was filled with the bodies of dead sailors. They were still faking them from the ships to a collection area ashore." From this ebb-point Nimitz began assembling the might iest naval force ever amassed by one nation. He directed the historic island-jumping campaign across the Pacific by a thousand ships and two million men and saw it climaxed in Tokyo Bay Sept. 1, 1945, aboard the battleship Missouri when he signed for the United States as the Japanese formally sur rendered. Next Feb. 24 Nimitz will be 75 years old. Committees are hard at work planning a huge birthday dinner which the old submarine officer purports to dread. "Am I looking forward to this celebration I'm looking forward to the end of it," he said in- an interview with United Press International. Nimitz has not retired. He is listed as special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and has an office in the fed eral office building in San Francisco, although he has no set duties. He and his wife, Catherine, live in their memento-filled home high in the Berkeley hills. A third member of the household is a small, long haired dog of indeterminate parentage named Dyna-short for dynamo or dynamite. The Nimitz's four children are scattered across the coun try. Catherine Vance is mar ried to Navy Capt. James T. Lay, Arlington, Va.; Chester W. Jr., is a retired Navy rear admiral living in Houston, Tex.; and Anne Elizabeth works with Rand Corpora tion, Santa Monica,. Calif. - Nimitz, an erect six-footer, notes that his weight today, 175 pounds, is just about what it was in 19l04 when he stroked the Naval Academy crew. He keeps fit by trying to "be moderate in input of food and drink." His principal ex ercise is horseshoes "as high ly standardized as golf" and walking "but it's hard to find people to walk with any more." Views on Today's Navy The admiral has definite ideas on today's Navy: Missiles-"When it comes to missiles I'm somewhat in the geographical center of Mis souri. You still have to find a carrier to hit it with a mis sile. Two miles from the tar get of a fast moving carrier is not good enough. But as long as the Russians are building them we must also." Russian submarine fleet "It is a serious threat with 450-500 subs all around the world. The Germans had less than 20 at the start of World War I and about 57 at the start of World War II." American subs-"We have a very fine nucleus for a sub- ! marine fleet and I think we got the jump on the Russians on nuclear-powered subs. We also have a large number of World War II subs in moth balls. And we have the men to man them." Carriers - "Bombers trying to attack carriers will be duck soup for the carrier's fighters." Centralized military service-"! would oppose a central service and I don't think there ever will be one. It would make a too-unwieldy force to handle and would destroy the esprit de corps of. the various services. I be lieve in' the Joint' Chiefs of Staff system." . Nimitz differs from many top-ranking World War II commanders in one respect He does not plan to write his memoirs. U.S. Plans for Observing Moon Planets Reported Cleveland -(Science Serv ice)- U.S. plans for observing the moon, planets, sun and the entire universe beyond the solar system from earth-circling satellites were reported here recently. Dr. Nancy G. Roman of the National Aeronautics and Space administration, Wash ington, said a "major under taking" will be the launching, within a few years, of a 2-ton satellite with an optical tele scope 36 inches in diameter, capable of tracking stars very accurately. In the relatively near future, she told the American Astronomical soci ety meeting nere, U.S. space scientists plan to obtain a good lunar map. The director of Princeton university observatory, Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr., outlined the problems of operating a large telescope in a satellite orbit. He said the problems of launching, communication and remote control are com mon tp all satellites. Pinpoint Accuracy A large astronomical tele scope in a satellite, however, must also be capable of being set with pinpoint accuracy at any desired region of the sky, despite sharp temperature changes produced when the satellite enters the earth's shadow and then re-emerges into full sunlight. Dr. Spitzer also pointed out that an unmanned observatory should operate for at least a year before equipment fail ures. He said the equipment being studied by the Prince ton group includes a quartz telescope mirror 24 inches in diameter to-be used for an alyzing the ultraviolet star light that does not penetrate through the earth's atmo sphere. Temperature Control For temperature control, a 2-chamber satellite is planned. The telescope would be ro t a t e d by electromagnetic forces acting on an "inertial sphere," a hollow aluminum ball 16 inches in diameter sus pended by a magnetic field and rotating without any fric tion. By the principle of reac tion, he explained, when the sphere is rotated one way, the telescope rotates the other way. The general direction in which the telescope points would be determined by measurements of the light from the sun and of the earth's heat radiation. To POPULATION FIGURE Alaska's population is near ing the 200,000 mark. obtain the required accuracy in aiming the telescope, tele vision pictures of the sky, re layed to ground observers could be used. Dr. Herbert Friedman of the U.S. Naval Research la boratory, Washington, said past rocket and satellite in formation indicate it will be "extremely important" in fu ture astronomical experi ments to introduce some way of eliminating the effects on instrument of particles in the earth's natural radiation belts, which are believed a hazard to future space travelers. Builder's Class Plans Mexican Dinner The Builder's class of. East wood Baptist church is serv ing an all - church Mexican dinner on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. Tamale pie will be served. The church's young people will have a part in the pro gram. Robert Balk will show pictures taken during . a re cent visit to Mexico City. Each church member who attends the dinner is asked to make a contribution to the Youth Mexico trip fund. 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