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PtiIZE WINNER Photographer James
al won the grand award in the White House
:," News Photographers Association's annual
photo' contest. This photo showing tormer
President Elsenhower waving a tiny Amer
ican flag at Chula Vista, Calif., on Oct. 21,
I960, during the eighth congress of , the
Inter-American Municipal Organization won
the award for Atherton. ; (UPI Telephoto)
Ufa Believed To Have Come
rom Space Grown on Earth
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) - Life believed to have
come from outer space Is be
ing grown in test tubes here
on earth,
Several generations of bac-
; terUl-like ' cells taken from
' sterilized meteorites falling to
earth's surface from an un
known source In space have
reproduced themselves,
.These bacteria-like cells,
found inside stony meteorites,
may be proof there is life 6ut-
it tha aaih Uawbvai. thav
could also be an earth form
of bacteria that has seeped
Into the meteorite with water
after It fell to the earth. Dr.
Frederick D. Sisler oHhe U.S.
Geological Survey has grown
these proto-bacterla in a ster
ile laboratory at the National
Institutes of Health, Bethes
di, Md. Dr. Walter Newton Is
bis collaborator.
He told Science , Service
t: t meteorites are easily
"contaminated" with organic
t ,tr on their surface, It is
-etore important to sterl
t them before - breaking
vtncn'to.iea It the lnte-
.- cu ulna any life forms
tint may . have originated
somewhere outside the earth,
Dens Meteor
. The stony meteorite used
by Dr. Sisler was the carbo
naceous chondrite that fell at
Murray, Ky., in 1950. It Is
very dense and would not be
easily contaminated. Some scl-
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entlsts ' have found organic
matter in meteorites more por
bus and. mere easily, invaded
by organisms.
Dr. Sisler sterilized the me
teorite In a solution and pul
verized small amounts of the
inside with sterile mortar and
pestle. He inoculated this ma.
terial into rats, chickens and
mice and also put it in a salt
water solution to see if it
would : grow as do bacteria
from the soil
He said the particles from
the meteorite grew and repro
duced themselves In the salt
water medium, consisting of
seuwaier, peptones niauu jrum
proteins . and polysaccharides
(sugars). However, tney am
not grow in the animals as
earth bacteria normally
would. '
The particles can therefore
not be called bacteria, Dr. Sis
ler said. They are not organ
isms but behave like organ
isms and are made of organic
matter. Dr. Sisler said if they
are earth contaminants, they
are of a very unusual type. :
Dr. sisler has worked witn
rocks millions of years old
and has found that microor
ganisms can seep into rocks
with water and stay there in
an Inactive stage. When this
happens the organisms - lose
some enzymes and some of
their Identity. - . '
It could be such organisms
that Dr, Staler has found. He
said his research with the me
teorites is intended to find
the origin of the living parti
cles in the meteorites.
To be positive the living par
ticles were in the meteor be
fore it hit the earth, satellites
might be sent out. into space
to "catch" them before they
became contaminated in the
earth's atmosphere or on the
ground. , .
Dr. Sisler said the Nation
al Aeronautics and Space
agency could help settle this
question by developing a satei-
lite that would be able to
catch a meteor some 50 miles
above the earth. Bacteria that
could contaminate the meteor
have been found as high as 20
to 30 miles, he said. The satel
lite would have to be equipped
to grab the meteor and bring
it back to earth in germ-free
condition so it could be exam
ined aseptically.
Study of Life Form
Meteorites could also be
gathered in Antarctica for
study of life forms, as they
would not be contaminated
throughout. Bacteria on their
surface would be in suspend
ed animation, since they can
not live actively in Antarctic
temperatures. - i' ; . 1
Dr. Sisler first examined
the Murray meteorite in 1959
with an Infrared spectrophoto
meter,' He discovered several
organic radicals found in liv
ing material such as anime,
nitroso, nltrile and some hy
drocarbon,' - ,
These findings were check
ed by Dr. Melvin Calvin at
the University of California
both by Infrared spectrophoto
meter and a gas , chromato-
graph and the same results
obtained. , ,
, Now Dr. sisler has snown
the material reacts like living
matter.
U.S. Air Fleet Larger
Than Any Civilian Line
Washington - (DPD - Uncle
Sam is now operating a civil
air fleet bigger than any sin
gle airline. ,
Federal civil agencies are
flying 431, aircraft, Including
the most modern jets. They
have requested funds for 52
additional planes. The biggest
U. S. airline, American, has a
fleet of about 250 planes.
The federal fleet does not
Include Air Force and Navy
planes nor three planes leased
by the Weather Bureau for
hurricane, tornado and other
severe storm research. The
taxpayers' bill for operating
and maintaining the federal
civilian aircraft exceeds $40
million annually.
What government agency
flies the most planes? it Is not,
as might be supposed, the Fed
eral Aviation Agency (FA A).
The largest single federal air
fleet belongs to the - U. S.
Coast Guard which operates
134 aircraft, mostly in pro
viding air search and rescue
aid plus air navigation facil
ities over ocean areas.
Scond Largest Fleet
FAA has the second largest
fleet 119 planes, including
converted jet bombers and
specially -equipped jetliners
Most ot FAA s aircraft are
used for checking air naviga
tion and traffic control facil
ities. A few are employed as
personnel transports, and a
number are assigned to FAA's
experimental center at Atlan
tic City, N.J., where new
Ideas In air traffic control are
tested.
Third in line is the Depart
ment of Agriculture which
has 63 aircraft. Ot these, 53
are ' assigned to the Forest
Service for tire detection and
fighting as well as Insect pest
control.
The Department of Interior
operates 50 planes and hell
copters.. They patrol power
lines and ' help enforce fish
and game laws. ; '
The Civil Aeronautics Board
(CAB) charged with regula
tion of the nation's airlines,
has the smallest air fleet. CAB
has only one plane which it
uses to transport officials to
the scenes of accidents.
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