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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1962 109-Day Journey To Venus Would Be Lonely, Perilous for Astronaut Editor'! not: Each genera lion has been stirred by the exploiti of iti explorers-Co-lumbui' lonely voyage of dis covery; Livingstone's steamy irelc through Africa; Peary's ' bleak struggle to the North Pole. Now man has planted a tentative foot in space, with his eyes on the planets them selves. What dangers face him in that vacuum; what glories will he see? The following dis patch, based on the flight of the Venus exploration rocket Mariner II, provides some of ' the answers. By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington 1UPU For an astronaut, the 109-day journey to Venus on which Mariner II is so brilliantly embarked would be a terribly lonely and perilous venture. It also would be an intro duction to beauty and grand eur on a scale hardly imagin able. The Mariner astronaut would see the magnificent slow-motion dance o the sun's sky-filling c o r o n al streamers, the luminous and seemingly endless ocean of the zodiacal light, and a blind ing closeup of the great shin ing globe of Venus. Mariner II left Cape Canav eral, Fla., Aug. 27, 1962, on 8 180 2 million mile voyage to the outskirts of Venus, the "twin of earth" in the family of planets which wheels per petually around the sun. Climax of the flight will be a 30-minute period on Dec. 14 when Mariner passes across the sunlit face of Venus only 9,000 miles from the brightest and most mysterious of earth's near planetary neighbors. Most Gifter Spacecraft The 447-pound Mariner, re sembling a miniature oil der rick with flaps, is the most intricate and gifted spacecraft ever launched. It carries in struments which should tell us, on Dec. 14, whether life is possible on the cloud-masked planet whose surface has never been seen by man. Direct descendants of Mari ner II some time in the 1970s will carry even better instru ments the eyes and mind of a human pilot. But for this pioneering venture there was no room aboard for a man. Nevertheless, many an as tronaut would be glad to risk his life to see what Mariner Us eyeless instruments can only infer. Given a picture window looking out on solar space, what might a human observer see and feel on the way to Venus? If he looked sharp, he might have seen the blue horizons of earth described by astro nauts John H. Glenn Jr. and M. Scott Carpenter. A minute later he might have seen si multaneous auroral flashes in the northern and southern hemispheres. Pulling free of the earth's g r a v i t a tional domination, thousands of miles out into space, a backward glance would reveal a monster gray blue globe little resembling the green earth he had left. 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Many good things are in store for Capital Manor resi dentsfar too many to mention here. You are invited, without obligation, to write us for full information. CAPITAL M P. O. Box 2081 A N O R Salem, Oregon globular earth at that distance might resemble a giant tad pole with a tail of luminous gas streaming behind the plan et under the pressure of the solar wind like a comet s ten uous appendage. The big jolt would come moments later. With the mass of the earth and moon out of the way, he would abruptly become aware of the sun's corona and the zodiacal light. The sun, if he looked at it through eye-shielding glasses, would be a crisp, sharp disc, erupting into space all around would be the everchanging corona, a seething region of pearly white streamers shoot ing perhaps half-way from the sun to near planets such as earth. The streamer material surges into space al something like 500 miles per second. But from the Mariner astro naut's perspective they would seem to change in shape and size imperceptibly, like clouds. About half way between sun and earth he would see the streamers break up into blobs and patches, showing where the magnetic fields con taining the streamers had be gun to lose their control. Another Brilliance The corona owes its beau tiful diffuse light to the scat tering effect of electrons amongst the charged particles sDewed constantly from the dvnamic sun. In the so-called plane of the ecliptic, the great wheel in space within which are embedded the planets re volving around the sun, there is another brilliance, bright as the Milky Way. It is the zodiacal light, glowing sea created by the diffusing effect of cosmic dust on the sun's radiance. This dust may be. the residue of comets. Whatever it is, it appears to fill solar space, and wher ever Mariner II goes its imag inary pilot will see it as a gi gantic glow extending toward and away from the sun. These lights, coronal and zo dical, may merge and blend. They are thin. Distant stars and planets are visible through them. Far away from the earth's obscuring and dis torting atmosphere, the sky background is black, stars no longer twinkle, and the sun- becomes sharper and bright er. Few Physical Sensations On his way to Venus the astronaut would have few physical sensations, assuming he was appropriately shield ed against the sun's unob structed brilliance in space. At mid course correction on Sept. 4, when Mariner II responded to whispered radio instructions from earth with the promptness and grace of a cow pony, the astronaut might have thought the sky was revolving around him. Actually, the spacecraft was tumbling nearly 140 de grees to put its guidance rock et in the right position to fire. This pitching maneuver might have gone unnoticed by a human observer if it had not been for the fact that the vis ible stars and planets would appear to have swung loose from their moorings. When the course changing rocket fired, pushing the craft into a tighter orbit around the sun and pulling it there fore closer to the path of Ve nus, the astronaut might have felt a slight sensation com parable to the tug of gravity on earth. But it was soon over and the feeling of weightlessness, which had prevailed for more than a week, would return. In this condition, with motion counteracting the pull of the various competing heavenly bodies, the astronaut would feel lighter, in fact, than a feather. By the time it passes with in 9,000 miles of Venus, Mar iner II will have plunged one third of the distance from the earth to the sun. The sun then will be a far sharper and brighter and larger and grand er object that it was as seen from earth. Venus at 9,000 miles will be considerably more impres sive than the earth was at the same distance. Venus' dense clouds reflect twice as much sunlight as does the earth. They make the earth's moon seem pale by comparison. The moon is about 240,000 miles from the earth. At a distance of 9,000 miles, Venus would appear to be more than 100 times the size of the moon and brighter by far than any moon. Recreation Group To Meet Thursday Cal-Ore Recreation Devel opment association directors will meet Thursday in Klam ath Falls, according to Charles Collins, executive vice presi dent. Among agenda items will be discussion of developing three recreation areas in Klamath county, Collins said. They are Shoalwater bay, Eagle ridge area and Aspin lake on Wey- erhauser lane. An investigation is to be made of the Campbell reser voir area north of Bly to see if additional water can be obtained. A recreation site survey of Modoc county in California is under way, Collins said, and added that preliminary work is also being done on a water development survey for Doug las county. CORDA consists of Jackson, Klamath, Douglas and Jose phine counties in Oregon and Modoc county in California. 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In recent years she and her husband were educational directors of the Unity School of Christian ity, Lee's Summit, Mo. (Fred erick & Nelson photo) 30 Delegates Are Expected at Unity Conference Here About 30 delegates from throughout the northwest are expected in Medford today for the three-day Northwest Unity conference. Registration started this morning at the Unity Church of Medford, Haven and Holly sts. Events open to the public include the prayer medita tions today and Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. and several other activities. At 8 o'clock tonight, the Rev. L. E. Meyer, Kansas City, Mo., will speak on "Cre ative Word" at McLoughlin Junior High school. A recep tion at the church will follow the public talk for the guest speaker and conference mem bers. The Rev. Dorothy O'Con nor, minister and lecturer of the Unity Church of Truth, Seattle, will speak at a lunch eon Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 12:30 p.m. at the Rogue Val ley CouniTy club. Her sub ject will be "Words of Truth." The Rev. David Mc Clure, Vancouver, B.C., min ister, will give the invoca tion. Panel Discussion At 8 p.m. Wednesday, a panel discussion will be held at McLoughlin Junior High school. The Rev. Phillip M. Stovin, Spokane, Wash., will be mod erator. The topic will be "The Living Word" and each will give Unity's Interpretation of various aspects of the "Word." Other panel members will be the Rev. Ross Goodman, Portland; the Rev. Leslie D. Saunders, Yakima, Wash.; the Rev. Joseph K. Stiegler, Tacoma, Wash.; the Rev. Mr. McClure; the Rev. Daniel J. Perin, Belleview, Wash.; the Rev. Donald O'Connor, Seat tie; and the Rev. Joel Boehr, Seattle. The Rev. Helen Stiegler will give the invocation and Mrs. O'Connor the medita tion. Mrs. Genevieve McCor- kle will be at the piano and Mrs. Richard A. Schuchard will sing. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS iRtaittti end Tribune Syndicate 1962) These Gulls Nearly Paid With Lires While Helping The foursome, loaded down with bags and clubs approach ed the fifth green. The green was already occupied with several sea gulls walking sedately over the close-cropped grass. They flew away at the players' approach. The men putted, replaced the flag and moved on. y Other observers had noticed the presence of the birds, and without attempting to una out the reason, complained at the office. "Something should be done about it," they said. Gulls Convicted A closer examination of the greens revealed dozens of tiny Medford Residents Win Contest Prizes Two Medford residents have won prizes In a nation wide contest sponsored by Champion Spark Plug com pany. Named 10th place winners in the contest were Mrs. Jack Florey, 114 Portland ave., and Ed Simmons, 319 East Sixth st. Both won electric can open ers during Champion's recent "Vacation of a Lifetime" con-tcst-which offered motorists an opportunity to win a lux urious airliner for two weeks as a grand prize. Mrs. Florey qualified as a winner when she drove her car into Littrell Parts for a spark plug check, filled out an entry blank and complet ed the last line of a simple jingle. Due to a provision in the contest which made partici pating dealers oligible to win duplicates of all prizes won by consumers, her entry auto matically qualified Simmons a prize winner. British Columbia Resident Injured Nancv Kimbasket, 23, of the Okanogan Indian agency, Vernon, B.C., was seriously injured yesterday when she was thrown from a car In a one-car accident near Crater Lake National park, state po lice reported. Mrs. Kimbasket was report ed in fair condition at Sacred Heart hospital this morning. She is being treated for head and back injuries. A car driven by Gilbert Charles Kimbasket, 36, also of the Okanogan Indian agen cy, was traveling east on the highway near the west boun dary of Crater Late National park, police said. It entered a curve, Kimbasket applied the brakes, the car struck a bank, and swerved back on the roadway. holes in the ground. That did it. The gulls were making holes in the expensive greens, condemned by circumstantial evidence. The wrong conclu sion was that the gulls must be destroyed. Shooting the birds was out of the question, too many people around and human habitations much too close. As is usual on such mo mentous occasions, when mat ters of such tremendous im port are under consideration, there are many suggestions as to the proper course to follow. The overwhelming majority, however, of those consulted or listened to, claimed poison was the only efficient way, poison grain and scatter it widely all over the fairways and the greens. In the meantime, as too in frequently happens, one man used his head. He wondered just why the gulls suddenly gathered on the golf course. He figured there must be a very good reason. He exam ined every green, and search ed every fairway. Found Reason With binoculars he watched the gulls gathered on the greens, watched them as they patrolled back and forth on the soft green carpets. He noted that the birds picked something from the grass every few feet. The birds flew away as he hurried to the nearest green. He sat down on the soft grass, leaned over, his eyes but a few inches from the earth he saw them, dozens of mole- crickets, punching holes in the green, nibbling at the tender grass blades. By some wild reasoning the gulls knew the crickets were present in goodly numbers or otherwise had discovered them and they had moved in for what, to them was a wel come change from a fish diet. There have been many times that gulls, as well as other species of birds, have come to the rescue. 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