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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1962 Freeze-Dry Plant Helps To Reduce Shipping Costs New York -IUPD- What with today's emphasis on cost-cutting, said Jeno Paulucci, a step that would drastically trim shipping charges in the haul to market was worth con sidering. This was why he showed en thusiasm on a recent high speed visit here for his latest step toward making his home area around Duluth, Minn., a more efficiently productive source for the foodstuffs which he has found can be grown there by him for his own bus iness, and by others. Faulucuci disclosed today that ground will be broken shortly for a freeze-dry plant, similar to others now in use by such processors as Camp bell and Knorr for the mar keting of vegetables. Paulucci, who has in 15 years seen his operations grow from a $2, SOU start to one with sales in the millions, is head of the Chun King corporation of Duluth, with plants there, Ohio, and Cambridge, Md., packing facilities in Jackson, and drive-in restaurants. In building up a business specializing in canned and frozen American - Oriental foods, the energetic, 44-year-old Paulucci has pushed the growth of celery and mush rooms and bean sprouts in an area which for long was known chiefly to the rest of the nation as a source of iron ore. When the ore supplies declined, land lay idle. Paul ucci has sparked a campaign to make land productive, de spite a relatively short grow ing season. One of the problems in com petition from the area, he said, are freight rates; north east Minnesota is well re moved from most major met ropolitan markets. "This is one of the advan tages of the freeze-dry proc ess," he said. "The same bulk can be shipped with far less weight." Years and Miles Separate Astronauts and Their Heirs A 9 By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. Cape CanaveraMl'PH-Seven years and 240,000 miles separate America's sovereia'i seven Mercury astronauts and their nine newly crowned heirs apparent. The years are the differ ence in where they have been. The miles are the difference in where they are going. At first glance, the com parison seems drastic. On one hand there is the veteran band of U. S. spacemen who wear the title of "Superb Seven" like a glove. Experi ence tells in the confidence of their walk, the ability on I their pioneering flights and j the fame that hangs on their name. On the other hand, there are the nine fledglings. They too are calm, for they, like I the Mercury astronauts, are I veteran airplane test pilots. But their quiet manner seems more of a shyness born of their inexperience in space missions as well as their first exposure to fame's spotlight. But what they lack in ex perience, confidence, self-assurance and ability now, the newcomers will more than make up for the one advan tage they have - the seven years, the average difference between their ages and those of the Mercury spacemen. Have Youth This is the priceless com modity called "youth." With it, the nine space trainees will try to buy their passago scross the 240.000 miles to the No. 1 target in space, the moon. That some of them will make it this dec ade seems certain. From this knowledge of a goal and the scientific assur ance that they can make it has come to the rookies a pe culiar confidence that the Mercury astronauts cannot know. The age difference gave the initial seven the glamour of making the first U.S. manned space flights. But there had to be a price. It probably will be paid in the failure of any of them to reach the moon. 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Appear Younger The first impression is that all but one of the nine new comers are much younger than that 32.5 average. The exception is the youngest of Ihe lot. Thomas P. Stafford. His balding pate belies his 32 years. Perhaps Neil A. Armstrong, one of the two civilians on the new team, best typifies the "new generation" of astro nauts, lie looks more like a college junior than a 32-year-old veteran of the red-hot X15 rocket program. His personality seems a mixture of traits in two of the Mercury astronauts - the light-hearted wit of Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and the almost intense ability of Walter M. (Wally) Schirra to be refresh ingly and candidly human. Asked once to pontificate on the national effort in space, Armstrong commented simply: "If we knew what's up there, we wouldn't have to go." It's a point that couldn't be argued. Armstrong has a flair for fun but he sharply divides play and work. At the con trols of the X15, many of the older pilots occasionally crack jokes. Neil Armstrong is dead serious. Charles Conrad, on the oth er hand, is not quite like any of t n e Mercury astronau's There is an extra eagerness In this 32-year-old Navy test pilot. Conrad has a special admir ation for Schirra that comes to the fore easily. The two were old friends long before either had much more than dreams of becoming space men. When Schirra made it, Con rad knew what he wanted. "I made up my mind to volun teer for the program If the chance ever came," he says with a broad smile. Schirra and Conrad have something else in common -a daredevil ancestry. The fathers of both were old-time aeronauts. Conrad's close friend is a fellow neophyte astronaut, James A. Lovell, who has ai ingrained horror at being left behind, particularly on the most spectacular adventure of all time. Dead Serious Jim Lovell seems to smile constantly with his eyes. But he was dead serious six: months ago when he vowed he didn't want to be on thn sidelines while others wera doing what he thought hJ could do just as well. Lovell has confidence to complement his splendid physical and mental abilities. It all paid off in his selection to what he proudly calls tha "first team." They all brought something Into the program, many things they have in common the sophisticated daredevilry portrayed by Astronaut Elliot M. See Jr. in his trying engina test flights . . . the brash but delightful humor of Frank Bormar, who admitted on tha day of his formal introduction as an astronaut that he had just walked into the wing of an airplane and gashed his scalp . . . the "action speaks louder than words" attitude of Astronaut James A. McDivitt . . . the particular pride of Tom Stafford when he offi cially became an astronaut on his 32nd birthday . . . tha drive of Astronaut Edward H. White II to escape the "ad ministrative team on tho ground" and be on the first flight to the moon . . . and tho sparkling test pilot back, ground of Astronaut John W. Young Jr., who recently set a new world speed climb rec ord in a Navy F4H1 jet aii plane. They are raw recruits in the space pilot game. But in the hard, long months ahead, the pall of Inexperience will wear off to be replaced by a healthy look of confidence and ability . nd self assurance. Then they will walk in the footsteps of the Mercury as tronauts who too might have gone the 240,000 mile route across space but for the mat ter of seven short but mean ingful years in age. II I SQ. YD. PVO MONEY DOWN! I Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. STATISTICS ABE AN ANTI-SLUMP WEAPON "The average statistician is married to 1.73 wives who try their level best to drag him out of the house 2'4 nights a week with only 50 per cent success. "He has a sloping forehead with a 2 per cent grade (denoting great mental strength), of a bank account, and 3.06 children who drive him Vi crazy; 1.65 of the children are male. "Only .07 per cent of all statisticians are i awake at the breakfast table where they consume 1.68 cups of coffee the remaining .32 dribbling down their shirt fronts. On Sat urday nights, he engages VS of a baby sitter for his 3.06 kiddies, unless he happens to have ?a of a mother-in-law with him who will sit for Vx price." This sardonic quote from "The Average Statistician (641.07 words about pain in the neck)" was included in tha presidential address delivered by Dr. Philip M. Hauser of the University of Chicago at the 122nd annual meeting of the American Statistical association recently. It is not only amusingly sarcastic. It also is highly pertinent right now. for never have the lop policy-makeri In U. S. public and private life relied so heavily on sta tistics for cluet fo what is happening in our economy, where our economy is heading and how we should act to Improve the outlook for production, profits, jobs, pay checks. Rarely also have the statistics that influential economists study with intense care presented so mixed a picture, and this alone suggests the pace of the 1961-62 advance has slowed to the point where our economy is not doing much better than "sitting" on a very high plateau. And not for years has there been such open criticism of the validity of many of the statistics upon which public policies and business-labor decisions of greatest importance are bnsed. Even though I am acutely aware of how new most of our economic statistics are, I still find it hard to believe that nearly all the economic barometers we use have been developed only In the last 25 to 30 years. A reason the de pression of the early 1930s was so catastrophic was that we didn't know what was happening to us as it happened. Our leaders at that time knew unemployment was wide spread, but they didn't have reliable statistics to tell them j how many millions were out of jobs. They know prices wera in a tallspin, incomes were plunging, profits were disappear I ing, bankruptcies were skyrocketing but they didn't have ! the statistics to tell them to what extent all this was occurring. ! There was no compilation on gross national product to tell ! them that our economy's size was shrinking by the day. GNP compilations weren't started until 1941, quarterly csti j mates weren't begun until 1947. Now we do have a large mass of statistics io tell us ' I what is happening to us and what Is likely to happen and statistics on tha jobless rate, paychecks, consumer prices are debated In millions of average homes as wall at in the executive suites of management, labor, government. Even so, the gaps in our statistical machinery are still enormous. At the same ASA meeting, Dr. Arthur F. Burns, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, ticked off some of the statistical deficiencies which drama tize how primitive arc the tools for economic forecasting even in this most advanced economy on the globe. For Instance, we have practically no statistics on job vacancies. We use statistics on hourly earnings which do not Include fringe benefits a large and increasing part of labor compensation. Our profit figures are distressingly tardy. We do not have comparable monthly or quarterly figures on prices and unit costs of production in our major individual industries. We haven't even begun to create a system of in ternationally comparable price statistics, imperative in a world In which international trade plays so major a role. Our es'.imates of gross national product arc decidedly suspect. But, limited though our knowledge is and faulty though our tools are, we are doing the best with what we have and dedicated statisticians are laboring mightily to improve our machinery. Perhaps those who scoff might be more humble if they realized that our statistics alone have become a major weapon against depressions tor they warn us in advance that trouble is coming and, by warning us, alert us to take action to control It.
