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.
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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.
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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. The Nimitz household, and particularly the
study, is full of mementos of the Admiral's long career.
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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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