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RUSSIA JUMPS AHEAD The launching by Russia of a
1,415-pound space ship toward Venus, fired on command
irom a new orbiting Sputnik, put the Soviets at least 1V4
years ahead of the United States in another space race
vcnture-the start of unmanned exploration of other planets
In the solar system. The diagram Indicates (1) where the
piggyback rocket was blasted off toward Venus, hoping to
reach the vicinity of that planet (2) in late May. The latest
Russian Shot Regional Edition Page
At Venus Called MedfordlWTribune ,
'Remarkable'
rLondon (UPD Western
scientists today termed the
Soviet Union's piggy - back
rocket shot at Venus a re-
, markable achievement that
may help plumb the mysteries
of earth's cloud-covered sister
. planet.
"This venture demands 400
times as much precision as
their previous shot at the
moon," said Prof. Jan. H.
Observatory in Holland..
,"I am led to i believe that
the Russians must have de
, veloped a highly reliable sys
tem of guiding a rocket while
it is traveling through space."
French space expert Prof.
Alexandre Ananov said Soviet
scientists seemed to be trying
to' leap-frog space achieve-
ments by "firing big space
ships with room for two or
three ' men far out into the
solar system."
Would Be Remarkable
He said it appeared to him
that the Russians might leave
to the United States the task
of putting the first man in
pace close to earth.
Finnish astronomy Prof.
Gustaf Jaernefelt said the feat
would be "most remarkable"
if-the rocket ship were able
to take pictures to show what
kind of a surface Venus has.
Prof A. C. Bernard Lovell,
director of Britain's Jodrell
Bank radio telescope, describ
ed the shot as "fantastic."
Prof. Ananev said the Ve
nus project had tremendous
propaganda value for the Rus
sians. "If you demonstrate . y o u
have the technology to put a
satellite into orbit around the
earth and fire a rocket off
that satellite at the right mo
ment, with the right trajec
tory and the right velocity to
hit Venus, your ability to hit
any point on earth becomes
all the more Impressive," he
said.
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Norfolk, England -(UPI)-The
Young Men's Friendly society
today invited young women
to be friendly and join the
club "to attract more men."
Membership of the club has
sunk to ten.
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Congressmen Tell
Impatience
Delay in Progress
Washington -fllfll- "Some of
us, frankly, are getting a bit
impatient." That was how
Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (D-
N.Y.) viewed the progress -
or lack of It-in the first six
weeks of the 87th Congress,
Consideration of President
Kennedy's "New Frontier'
legislative program was Just
about to get underway as
Congress entered its seventh
week today.
But this probably won't be
the day action starts, because
congressional leaders were
planning to wait a few more
days to allow Republican
members to return Irom
across the country, w n e r e
they have been making Lin
coln Day speeches.
Can We Afford It?
Stratton, voicing his impa
tience in a letter to constitu
ents, said "Indeed, I wonder
if the country itself can really
afford such a leisurely pace."
And he wasn't the only one
to complain aloud to the
homefolks about Inaction on
Calitol Hill. Rep. August E.
Capitol Hill. Rep. August E.
"The legislative lull in Con
gress continues. I . doubt
whether the first phase of the
actual lawmaking process will
begin In earnest for several
more weeks."
The Republican members
said the "no business" agree
ment during their absence
from the Senate and House
this week would delay little
If any. legislation, because
nothing was ready for floor
action.
Congress convened Jan. 3.
Then the House bogged down
in a long fight over the make'
up of its rules committee. The
Senate, after a brief battle
over procedural rules, had to
tackle confirmation of the
Kennedy Cabinet and other
top administration officials.
Other congressional news:
Russia: Ambassador to Mos
cow Llewellyn E. Thompson
was scheduled to brief the
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Russian feat more than balanced the heavenly score, which
shows that the U.S. has launched 33 satellites (solid line) to
Russia's 11 (broken line) and has two solar probes in orbit
to the USSR's one. One Russian lunar probe struck the
moon head-on. It will not be until mid-1962 when the
Earth and Venus will again be in favorable position for
another attempt.
(UPI Telephoto)
Over
Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee on all aspects of U.S.
Russian relations. He was call
ed to a closed, afternoon ses
sion.
Snow: Sen.' Kenneth B
Keating (R-N.Y.) announced
he would ask the National
Aeronautics and Space admin
istration and the Weather bu
reau "whether we can't em
ploy the tools of modern sci
ence to break up some of
these terrible snow storms be
fore they hit."
Stock Market
Dips Moderately
New York - (UPI) - Stocks
dipped moderately today as
trading dropped off in re
sponse to observance of Lin
coln's birthday.
Alrcrafts and defense issues
picked up around a point on
average but must groups were
down small amounts.
General Electric opened 40
minutes late at 81 V4 off y on
a turn-over of 40,000 shares
while Westinghouse opened a
minute later at 41 Vi off on
13,000 shares, Both issues
have been weak In reaction
to unfavorable antitrust pub
licity. Combined with a loss of
around 1V4 In Eastman Ko
dak, the Issues depressed the
Dow-Jones industrial average
close to 2 points at mldmorn
lng. Steels, oils and motor
stocks were down small frac
tions. Safes of Cartridge
Pens on Increase
Fort Madison, Iowa - (UPD -Cartridge
fountain pen sales
currently account for better
than one-quarter of the entire
U.S. fountain pen market in
dollar volume, E. P. Reavey
Jr., marketing director of W.
A. Sheaffcr Pen Co., said.
The cartridge pen, intro
duced In 1954, has climbed
to 26.25 per cent of the total
fountain pen market for the
first eight months of 1960
with an estimated $12 million
volume predicted for 1961.
Entrance Forms Are
Checked by Computer
New York-IUPD-The first use
of a computer system with a
magnetic tape memory in the
processing of college entrance
examinations and other na
tion-wide testing programs has
been announced by Radio Cor
poration of America.
The RCA computer system,
working with an Educational
Testing Service electronic
scoring and transcribing ma
chine, has the capability of
processing 6.000 test papers
an hour.
LIGHT METAL
Pittsburgh - Magnesium Is
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mercial metals.
United States
Three Years
Away
From Venus Shot
Washington -(UPD- The Uni
ted States Is about three years
away from matching Russia's
feat of launching a spacecraft
toward Venus..
Scientists said It would take
this country that long to
achieve the necessary rocket
power to send a space probe
to Venus or other planets.
President Kennedy was in
formed Saturday night of the
Soviet launching, before it
was officially announced by
Moscow, and .the United
States has been tracking the
Russian craft.
However, White House
Press Secretary Pierre Salin
ger said Kennedy would have
no comment. This country
maintained a news blackout
on tracking information about
the Venus shot and the 7.1-ton
sputnik launched Feb. 4
The target year for sending
a U.S. rocket to the vicinity
of Venus or Mars is 1964. The
next ideal launching period
lor a shot to Venus will come
late in 1962 but the United
States apparently won't have
sufficient rocket power for
the attempt by then.
American hopes for firing a
reconnaissance rocket to Ve
nus rest with the Saturn "su
per-booster," a rocket with 1.5
million pounds of thrust. The
Saturn's first stage is sched
uled for a test flight later this
year.
WORKER ELECTROCUTED
Lafayette (UPI) a 26
year-old employee of a Yam
hill county municipal tele
phone company was electro
cuted here Friday.
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Subcommittee
Calls Civilian
Construction Men
Washington - (UPD - House
investigators began an inquiry
today into soaring costs and
lagging construction work on
launching pads lor U. S. inter
continental ballistic missiles.
A. House military appropria
tions subcommittee called civ
ilian construction officials and
Air Force and Army officers
behind closed doors to give
an explanation.
Concerned Over Costs
Subcommittee sources indi
cated the construction delay
on the elaborate steel and ce
ment missile shelters has been
at least partly made up. But
they said skyrocketing costs
deeply concerned subcommit
tee members.
Rep. George Mahon (D-Tex-
as) a leading Congressional
military expert, told a report
er the lag in getting missiles
on the firing line was "a very
serious element" in the edge
he said Russia now holds over
the United States in the ICBM
field.
"The missile lag," Mahon
said, "now appears to be most
ly in getting them in an ope
rational position."
Behind Timetable
Though exact Information
on the building lag was diffi
cult to pin down, some mili
tary experts believed con-
struction of operational
launching facilities for the At
las missile were about nine
months behind the original
timetable.
They said the United States
now has approximately 10
missiles ready to be fired in
case of war but pointed out
that under the original sched
ule these were supposed to
have been ready in January,
1960.
The Defense Department
has announced that 13 Atlas
squadrons -each equipped
with about 10 missiles and
costing about $200 million for
construction alone - are
planned for 10 Air Force bas
es throughout the United
States.
Man Charged With
Assault and Battery
Medford police early Sun
day took Jack Maurice Shoe
maker, 18, of 2070 Ridge Way,
into custody on a citizen's ar
rest charging him with assault
and battery.
In addition, police filed
their own charge against
Shoemaker charging-him with
disorderly conduct.
Shoemaker appeared in mu
nicipal court with his attor
ney this morning and request
ed additional time in which to
enter a plea. Municipal Judge
Ronald Ricketts gave him un
til next Friday. It .was indi
cated that he would plead in
nocent to both charges. He
has been released on $150
bail.
Doris Marie Bcnasco, a
waitress at Bateman's cafe,
2392 North Pacific highway,
signed the arrest complaint
against Shoemaker. She
charges that he slapped her
in the face and broke her
glasses during an argument
at the cafe about 12:30 a.m.
Sunday.
Police charged Shoemaker
with disorderly conduct after
he allegedly used profane lan
guage in front of a police officer.
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Venus,
Puzzle
By United Press International
Venus is a fog - shrouded
sphere of mystery spinning
through space in an orbit be
tween 160 million and 26 mil
lion miles from earth.
Named after the Roman
goddess of love, the planet has
almost completely defied
efforts of astronomers to probe
its surface.
The planet is considered of
great interest because scien
tists feel there is a possibility
it may either sustain human
life or be somewhat similar to
the earth. 4
The planet is slightly small
er than earth, with an esti
mated diameter of 7,700 miles.
It moves around the sun at
an average distance of 67 mil
lion miles in 225 days.
The planet, like the earth,
Is enveloped in an atmos
phere, but unlike the earth the
clouds appear to form a com
plete wrapping around its sur
face. Venus shines with a daz
zling light because of the great
intensity of the solar radiation
present. This radiation is al
most twice the amount of the
earth's surface.
The atmosphere of the plan
et appears to consist mainly of
carbon dioxide. For some time
it was believed it contained no
free oxygen or water vapor.
But in 1959 a telescope sent
to an altitude of about 100,000
feet indicated that both free
Heart Fund Drive
Appointments Made
James W. Warinner, 1211
East Main St., has been named
vice chairman of the current
Heart Fund drive, it was an
nounced by general chairman
Don K. Auxier.
In addition to assisting with
general plans, the vice chair
man will function as treasurer
and have charge of direct mail
solicitation.
Warinner Issued a call for
volunteers to help carry out
plans, pointing out that a
greater effort now can speed
up the major breakthroughs
expected by medical science in
the next decade. Interested
persons should contact him at
SPring 3-4531.
The Heart Drive official is
on the staff of the First Na
tional Bank of Oregon, Med
ford branch, and an active
member of the Medford Lions
club, Toastmasters club, and
the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce Greeters com
mittee.
Other appointments made
for the local drive are Mrs.
James J. Mullaney, 356 Lin
dero ave., special events chair
man, and Mrs, Paul H. Sparso,
341 Cerritos ave., publicity
chairman.
WORSHIPPER KILLED
Buenos Aires-IUPll-One per
son was killed and several in
jured Sunday when a jeep
ploughed into a procession of
some 2,000 Roman Catholic
worshippers. The hit-and-run
driver escaped. Catholic offi
cials said he apparently was
intoxicated.
NOW YOU KNOW
By United Press International
V California, which in
creased - its population by
5.1 million between 1950
and 1960, grew faster than
any state in the nation and
accounted for nearly one
fifth of the country's popu
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Mystery Sphere,
to Astronomers
oxygen and water vapor were
present, according to. Ameri
can scientists. This discovery
has not been completely con
firmed. Scientists estimate that with
free oxygen and water vapor
present, Venus, because of its
nearness to the sun, would be
a steaming jungle.
Previously it had been
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indicate that the planet does
have seasons. The current esti
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perature range from about 212
F., the boiling point of water,
on its sunny side, to about 10
degrees F. on its dark side.
Venus is the second planet
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