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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 12, I960 r ;; IS) - i j PANTS WORK, TOO A thick pair of pants works just as well as a pair of ice skates for this group of youngsters as they froliced on the ice at Minneapolis, Minn. With the mer- Layman Rightfully Wonders Why Space Gadgets Ever Work By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press International Washington - IUPU - A lay man trying to understand space gadgetry might well - wonder not why it sometimes fail but why it ever works. Take the Mercury-Redstone. This is a sealed spacecraft, te Mercury capsule, "mated" to a Redstone missle. The marriage was licensed by the National Aeronautics and Space administration to make possible automatic flight tests of the capsule which -if all goes well - will carry Mercury Astronauts into space some time next year. It was an intricate ceremo ny. A one-ton spacecraft had to be fixed securely to the top of a rocket, the Redstone, powerful enough to hurl it 120 miles into space and 200 miles down range from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Ends in Divorce A. perfect electrical accord had to be established between the two so that a signal from one would trigger appropri ate responses by the other. The odd thing about this mating, as NASA calls it, is that its success is contingent upon the ease, simplicity, and certainty with which - if all goes well - it. ends in divorce. Contributing to success (or failure) are a multiplicity of sensing devices, switches ac tuated by such things as at mospheric pressure, the tug of gravity or the passage of time; tiny explosive charges, and electrical relays alert enough to act on impulses lasting only a few thousandths of a second. So marvelous are these de vices that NASA technicians, in discussine them, use the same terms they might em- nlov in talkine about human beings entrusted with vital duties. These lifeless things "tell," "understand," "inter, pret," "assume." Enaine Told To Cut Off Consider what is supposed to haDDen - if all goes well- in a Redstone-boosted flight test of the Mercury capsule. At an altitude of 39.10 statute miles, a timer tells the Red stone engine to cut off. This in turn tells the cap sule to start a sequence of ac- . tions which culminates, some 16 minutes later, in the trans mission of signals from a ra fi To Lighten the Burden in Time of Sorrow Our understanding counsel and quiet com petence are a source of deep comfort to the family, who can leave every detail of the funeral service to us with full confidence. K5 - -.' aj I eury hovering near the zero mark, the solid, slick ice has drawn many of the younger set to the fun of sliding and slipping on the many lakes in the Minneapolis area. (UPI Telephoto) dio beacon which tells recov ery craft where the space craft has splashed into the sea. In the meantime, a lot of things - including divorce of capsule and Redstone - have happened: The rocket-powered escape system, no longer needed, has been jettisoned; the clamp ring which held the capsule to the Redstone boost er has been blown open; "pos igrade" rockets have been fir ed to drive the capsule clear from the booster; "retrorock ets" have braked the capsul's descent into the atmosphere; a stabilizing parachute has opened at 42,000 feet and the reefed main chute at 10,000; and sundry devices have (A) unreefed the main chute, (B) disengaged it from the cap sule upon "splash," and (C) tossed aside a reserve para chute which - if all has gone well - is not needed. Different Set of Orders If all has not gone well, if something has gone wrong in the booster before launch or just after, the sensing devices have transmitted a slightly different set of orders' which Try and By BENNETT CERF !a WINDY POLITICIAN recently startled an audience of ;.rai.iitv students bv introducing Carl Sandburg as "the poet lariat of Chicago." The same aisunguisnea genu man concluded a cam paign address with a ringing, "What we have got to do for our fair city is to restore to our fair city all those wonderful things it never had." To show you what state hood has meant to Alaska, John Straley reports that the chain stores up there are now featuring unfrozen foods and that, although the Eskimos still drive dog sleds, they no longer re quire the services of dogs. They just hitch up eight Volkswagens. Near the end of a gruelling college football game, the coach called to a burly gorilla-at the end of the bench and hollered, "Go in there and get ferocious." "Sure Chief," grunted the gorilla. "What's hi. number?" i . 0 1M0. 7 Btnnutt Crt DUtrlbuMd Klin FMttiru SyadlcW PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT I in turn have activated the escape system. When this happens, the es cape rocKet, mounted on a tower atop the capsule, pulls the cabin free of the booster and then, following the nor mal recovery sequence, "low ers it by chute to a safe land ing. An attempt to launch a Mercury-Redstone flight test Nov. 21 failed when the Red stone engine cut off prema turely. All of the sequential devices in the Mercury cap sule preformed precisely as they were supposed to upon reaching an altitude of 39.10 miles. " The only trouble was that the Redstone never got off the pad, and so the capsule, for tunately for it, never got off the Redstone. But this contretemps wasn't really the Redstone's or the capsule's fault. An unwanted stray impulse from a ground current had introduced some false assumptions and trig gered events too soon Steps have been taken, NASA said, to see that this can't happen again. Stop Me St. Peter's To Hear Missionary The Rev. Harold Ottemoel- ler, missionary to Ghana, West Africa, will give an illustrat ed lecture on African mission work of the Luthern Church- Missouri Synod at St. Peter's Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st.. Wednesday evening, Dec. 14. The public is invited to attend. A freewill offering will be taken. Missionary Ottemoeller, ; native of Grand Island, Neb has completed his third three vear tour of duty in Africa. He began his foreign service as missionary in Nigeria and became his denomination pioneer missionary to Ghana The Ottemoeller's w 1 1 their 4 children have been visiting relatives in the North west, making their headquart ers in the Forest Grove area, where the older children have been attending school. They plan to return to Ghana In the near future. Thursday, Dec. 15, Mrs. Edna Tarns,, teacher ot St. Peter's kindergarten, will pre sent her pupils in a Christmas Quotes From by united press international New York Playboy Tommy Manville, 66, announcing that his 11th wife was expected "I'm going to litrn how to Beverly Hills, Calif. Lady of John F. Kennedy's sister, politics: If I had been an American would hare voted for Mr. Nixon." Chicago Peter G. Peterson, Bell & Howell, describing his he witnessed at the North American Defense Command was an error and missiles were not about to fall on the United Sttates: "The only sensation I recall Los Angeles Hernando Plnerous Garcia, who broke two big windows in the Los Angeles courthouse in an attempt to get home to Colombia: The Immigration department says they cannot help me leave the country unlets I break the law." Diet Changes To Curb Heart Creates Controversy New York - (UPD-The Amer-1 lean Heart association has un leashed a controversy by sug gesting that the risk of heart attacks and strokes might be reduced if less meat, butter and cheese were served on some dinner tables. The association suggested that some persons might be healthier -if they consumed fish or vegetable oil products instead. In an oficlal report ap proved by the association's board of directors, 1 research committee said there is no final proof yet that dietary changes can prevent heart at tacks or strokes, but suggest ed that doctors might want to prescribe reduced animal fat consumption combined with "reasonable substitution" of .vegetable oils and other unsaturated" fats for some patients threatened with hardening of the arteries. Statements Released Simultaneously with the release of the Heart- Associa tion report, prepared state ments were made public by t'. e makers of vegetable oils and the National Dairy Coun cil. . William T. Brady, board chairman of Corn Products company, and E. A. Geoghe gan. president of Wesson, the nation's largest producer of polyunsaturated pure vegeta ble oil. welcomed the report, The Dairy Council warned against it. The council said that restricting animal fats in human diet could be danger ous. Cholesterol, a fatty sub stance in the human blood stream, is at the heart of the controversy. Cholesterol is both a normal constituent or. the blood and an essential one. If it were entirely re moved from the diet, the body would continue to manufac ture it. Question of Animal Fais There is no question in the minds of medical authorities that cholesterol is "associat ed" with hardening of the ar teries or that sufficiently hardened arteries can lead to heart attacks and strokes. The question here is wheth er animal fats stimulate the production of cholesterol in the blood. The central committee for medical and community pro gram of the Heart Association said its recommendations were "based on the best scientific information available at the present time." This information led tne committee, the highest medi cal and scientific body of the association, to make certain recommendations but to tem per them with advice that medical guidance be sought before individuals make spe cific changes in the fat con tent of their diet. Fat reduction probably is of the greatest potential ben efit to over lent persons, those who already have had heart attack or stroke and men whose personal and fam ily histories suggest that they may be susceptible to harden ing of the arteries, the report said. Should Avoid Faddism It also pointed out that hardening of the arteries could result from age, sex heredity or high blood pres sure as well as fat intake. Moderate fat consumption is necessary for good health, It said. "Fat is an economical, and in limited amounts, a whole some food," the report said "Food faddism of any sort should be avoided and signif icant changes in the diet should not be undertaken without medical advice." The report said that a though there is no definite proof that fat plays a role in the production of hardening the News to give birth to his first child: put on diapers. May Lawford, mother-in-law Pat Lawford, on her personal citisen during the election, I executive vice president of feelings when told an alert is enormous relief." Attacks of the arteries, evidence from other countries suggests a re lationship between fat con sumption, the amount of cho lesterol in the blood and the incidence of coronary artery disease. One way to reduce blood cholesterol is through a re duction of total caloric Intake by cutting the amount of or dinary fat in the diet, the re port said. The other is to con trol the amount and type of fat in the diet without alter ing caloric intake. 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They were in a holiday mood-it was Sunday and this was the windup of the 2,872.5 mile endurance race which is one of the major sporting events in Argentina. Before the day was over, 16 of them were dead and at least 30 others injured. They waved and cheered - and pushed onto the roadway as the drivers wrestled their racers around the circle and straightened out for the dash to the finish line 6 miles away. Then Juan Carlos Navone, at the wheel of a stock car named "Lucky Seven," roared into the circle. There were cheers for him too-but they dissolved into shrieks of pain when the racer failed to make the curve. It slammed into the crowd. Thirteen persons were kill ed and 20 critically injured. It was the worst single accident in the 38 years of the running of the Grand Prix. When Navone's car finally halted, leaving a path of crumpled bodies in its wake, whole milk, cream, butter, cheese and meat. They also include coconut oil and the fat in chocolate. The report said that poly unsaturated fats - vegetable oils, margarine and the like - appear to cause a decrease in the amount of cholesterol in the blood. 4 3i NO ROT SPOTS Race Leave Dead his assistant driver jumped out. But he jumped back in when Navone dazedly backed the car over some of the in jured and dead and headed for the finish line. As Navone sped off, with blood and bits of flesh and clothing plastered to the car, there were angry shouts of "criminal, murderer, stop.' The crowd then vented its an ger on following racers, hurl ing stones as they came around the circle. Two policemen blamed "public imprudence" for the tragedy, because the specta tors had edged onto the road One said the crowd stood its ground as the car bore stead ily down. Even while private cars were taking the injured to hospitals in the city, tragedy struck again about 1,500 yards from the circle. Two youths on a motorcycle were killed when their vehicle was struck by a racer driven by Plinio Rosetto. 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