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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,
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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.
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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.
"Suppose," I said "that the
grass happened to reach the
height of four inches at two
o'clock in the morning. What's
to keep your mower from
charging out and waking up
the whole neighborhood?"
I was sorry I said it, because
it ruined his entire day. Crest
fallen, he headed for the
house, presumably to cancel a
magazine subscription.
All is not lost, however, if
science can develop a comput
erized lawnmower, there's no
reason why it can't also pro
duce a type of grass that will
stop growing at midnight.
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