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Ui.wwnJ MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OHEr.OM i.nuriaDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962 UNUbUAL. CAM - J.he three-wheeled bullet-shaped "Spirit of America. ' designed to travel 500 miles an hour is un veiled in Los Angeles. Powered with a J-47 jet engine, the unusual car with driver Craig Breedlove at the controls, i will attempt to break the world land speed record on Utah s Bonneville Salt Flats in August. The record of 394.196 miles per hour was set by the late John Cobb of England 15 years ago. (UPI) Genetic Risk Is Posed by Space, Claim by Experts By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington IUPU - One quali fication for astronauts of the future conceivably could be a willingness to stop having children. That possibility is suggest ed by recently published con gressional testimony on space radiation hazards. There seems at the moment to be no way for astronauts to avoid at least some addi tional radiation exposure dur ing long trips of more than a few hundred miles from earth. Scientists generally agree that any radiation dose, how ever slight, can do genetic damage which is passed on from generation to genera tion. Flew Too Low Astronauts John H. Glenn Jr. and Malcolm Scott Car penter, and cosmonauts Yuri A. Gagarin and Gherman S. Titov, flew too low in their orbital flights around the earth to encounter serious ra diation hazards. Had they gone hundreds of miles higher they would have entered the inner Van Allen radiation zone around the earth - a zone which its dis coverer. Dr. James A. Van Allen, describes as "uninhabi table by present-day space craft." A day in the most in tense part of this region mignt be fatal. Just shooting up through the Van Allen zones, without lingering in them, would sub ject astronauts to greater doses than are tolerated for workers in atomic industry on earth. Similar zones presumably exist around Mars and Venus. The greatest radiation danger in interplanetary space would come from heavy bombard ment by particles spewed from the sun during solar flares. But solar flares of the dangerous variety are rare. Will Be Exposed Nevertheless, it appears likely that astronauts leaving the earth on far-ranging voy ages of the future will get some radiation exposure in addition to what they normal ly receive on their home planet. Dr. Clarence P. Oliver of the University of Texas zo ology department told the liouse space committee that this extra exposure would pose "a genetic risk." To keep from tainting fu ture generations, he suggest ed it might be a good idea for people who go into space "for any extended period" to "re- The Memory Cell Dick West Spoils Neighbor's Day In Electronic Lawn mower Discussion By DICK WEST Washington-IUPII -A subur ban neighbor of mine sub scribes to a number of quasi- technical mag-azines-"Home Mech anics," "Popular Em balming" and that sort of thing. In the backyard the other day he was telling me about an article he had read on the prospects of de veloping electronic computers for household uses. "The article predicts that it will eventually be possible to buy computer attachments for power lawnmowers," he said. "That will be the millen ium we have all been search ing for." As he explained it, quoting from the magazine, you would hook the computer to your mower and cut your grass in the usual way. The computer would record the distance traversed, the di rections travelled and the angle of the turns, storing this information in its "mem ory cell." Then, the next time your lawn wanted trimming, you ' would simply fire up the mower and send it off on its own. Guided by the computer, it would duplicate the route you had previously covered, including the accidental de- Sergeant Looks Forward To 20-Year Retirement By SAMUEL KIM United Press International Seoul - IUPII - The oldest U.S. Army sergeant in Korea, and perhaps the world, is counting the days until his re tirement from the Army to find a new job. Sergeant First Class Ralph Smith, 75, is a bachelor be cause he could not marry "the girl of my dreams." He is a father, however. When he was 68 and serving in Korea, he adopted a nine-year-old Korean boy, who now attends school in Sierra Madre, Calif. "I took an interest in the lad from the first moment I saw him," -Smith said. "He was a refugee from North Korea and such a deserving boy that I wanted to do some thing for him." The boy, Jung Dong Oop, was renamed James R. Smith after he was adopted. He now lives at 427 West Highland ave., bierra Maare. Now on his third tour of duty in Korea, Smith is serv ing with the Seventh Loguv tical Command's 55th Quar termaster Depot at Ascom City, near Seoul, as the sup ply sergeant of the storage division. He first arrived in Korea in December, 1954. Retirement? "Not before I get my 20 fuse to have any more children." Authorities say the world s population will double in the next 40 years. In view of this 'population exposion. Oliver said, no harm would be done in any case "if a few of us quit having children." ' ITT 4 , V S years in, of course," Smith who, though 75, still needs three months to complete the required 20 years of active service before retirement ben efits. He was drafted into the Army shortly after the United States entered World War I and was discharged in 1919 after a year and a half service with the Quartermaster Corps at then Camp Meade, Md. Relumed to Army He returned to the service in 1942 after World War II broke out. During the 23 years be tween his first and second Army stints. Smith, a book keeper by vocation, worked in his native Maryland for a marine and rail supply firm, A. Smith and Sons, at Curtis bay. As to what prompted his return to the Army, Smith said: "Most of the items we dealt in were made of brass and bronze. The war effort caused a great shortage of these materials and to make a long story short, I decided to go where the brass was." Called "Young Fellow" by his fellow soldiers here, Smith said when he is discharged from the Army he will make his home in Los Angeles, Calif., with his adopted son and "will try to find a job with the Army Reserve." Asked why he never mar ried, he said: "The girl of my dreams lost a brother in a drowning acci dent in 1910. After that she decided to devote her life to teaching and I believe she is now a principal at one of the schools in Baltimore, Mary land. If I couldn't marry her, I didn't want anyone else, and I still feel the same about it." CARPET CARE Washington - (UPI) - You add life and beauty to your rugs and carpets if you follow three basic rules of cleaning, says the National Institute of Rug Cleaning (NIRC). They are: daily cleaning with a car pet sweeper, careful vacuum ing once or twice a week de pending on the traffic and soil, and thorough profession al cleaning once a year. irv vJiiit. ( Crescent BarB Cue Seasoning & on Hamburgers TOURS UN Laotian neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma puffs on his pipe as he tours the United Nations building i in New York. The Prince arrived from Washington, whore. . ... .. 1 -A- ...itV, hi tallc with Pr.irionl 1 !' ne said r.e was very pieou - iscnnedy ana oiner unnea amn-a uun-mu. Sprinkle on himhurger patties is they fry of broil lor addfd zest ir.d outdKrs flavor. Be sure it's Crescent the secret of its eitri lest is in our scecial aid secret tifxj ot quality spices includ ing a hmt ot real st favor. CRESCENT Spict Mcrcfconfi Snc 1BS3 tour into the flower bed to decapitate a couple of geran iums. While this was happening, the master of the house could retire to the hammock and read the latest issue of "Popu lar Embalming," and that isn't all. As foreseen by the maga zine, the more advanced mod els of the computer-mower would be housed in a tiny ga rage equipped with "electric eye" controls. The beam of the "eye" would be located about four inches above the ground, so that when the grass grew to that height it would break the circuit. This would cause the garage door to open. The mower would then emerge, cut the lawn as pre viously described, and return to the garage. Thus the home-1 owner would be assured of a neat lawn all summer, even ! while away on vacation. "Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?" my neighbor ex claimed. "I can hardly wait until they get it on the mar ket." I admitted it made the fu ture look rosy, but at the same time I was beset by certain misgivings. 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