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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.
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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.
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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
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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?"
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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
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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.
"In the usual diet eaten in
the United States," it said
"a large part of the fat is of
the saturated type . . . which
tends to increase cholesterol
in the blood.1
Saturated fats are largely
animal In origin, such as
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Argentine
Accidents
16 Persons
Buenos Aires - (UPD - Men,
women and children crowded
the curbs of the traffic circle
in suburban San Justo.
Good-naturedly they jostled
one another for a better van
tage point to watch the rac
ing cars whizzing by in the
final lap of the Argentine
Grand Prix.
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.
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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.
At least 10 persons were in
jured as a result of the auto
motorcycle collision.
Another pedestrian was
killed near the finish line
when knocked down by a car
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Navone brought his car
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