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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD. OREGON MONDAY. DECEMBtH 10, 1962 Man May Have Big Question About Venus Answered Within Few Days Pasadena, Calif.-rtlPD-With-In a tew days, man may begin solving a big question which has haunted his imagination aince he first gazed with won der into the heavens: . Does life exist out in the Universe? A clue to this may be learn ed Friday, Dec. 14, when the United States expects to score a major space age triumph by giving man his first close look at a planet Venus. Although the Mariner 2 spacecraft will not determine whether life actually exists on the mysterious and cloud masked planet, it' can deter mine whether life as we know it is possible there. This can be revealed in data on Venusian tempera tures the' spacecraft sends back to Caltech's Jet Propul sion Laboratory here from across more than 36 million miles of space. "We can tell whether or not temperatures on Venus are Dennis the Menace SCWE7Me YA SAV YA COffT HEAR MB WX 'sO. Present Said Good Time To Consider Purchase of House New York- IUPD - Pondering whether or not this is the time to buy a house? In the opinion of Robert T. Furman, Jr., president of Previews Inc., international real estate marketing service, "There has seldom been a better time to buy a house than the present . ." Furman noted that many potential buyers are hesitant today because of the long and serious decline in the stock market and the Cuban crisis. Compelling fusions "But, in spite of the fact that next year's business and next year's international sit uation seem to be clouded with doubt," he said, "there are - to my mind at least -four compelling reasons to buy a house now." . First, he cited the current buyer's market. Sellers, he said, are likely to be more re ceptive to offers than they have been in the past or may be in. the future. Then, too, Furman said, "there's plenty of mortgage money and it is available at a lower cost than it has been for a long time. This means that the home buyer who needs a mortgage can expect his carrying charges to be mild enough to support life as we know it, or too hot," a JPL spokesman said. Sophisticated Probe Mariner 2, laden with sci entific experiments and the most sophisticated space probe yet launched, is sched uled to make a fly-by explora tion of the planet known as earth's twin, peering with an "electronic eye" beneath its perpetual shroud of strange clouds. If all goes as planned, and space agency officials expect no trouble, the probe should gather historic data during a key half-hour period while sweeping within about 21,000 miles of the interplanetary target after a 109-day, 180.2 mililon mile flight. The fly-by exploration also could herald a . tremendous feat of interplanetary guid ance and accuracy for this country. "A rifleman firing a bullet at a wrist watch a mile away would have to hit its second hand to achieve the accuracy of the Venus space probe now racing towards its planetary rendezvous," a JPL scientist said. The accurate guidance was performed when trajectory scientists, during the earlier part of Mariner's mission, cor rected its course by flashing direction changes to its "robot brain" to make its pass close to Venis. Two Spaci Firsli Mariner 2 has set two other space firsts, both in radio communication. It broke a dis tance record for transmitting scientific data when it got 17.7 million miles from earth. The previous record was set by the Pioneer S moon probe. Mariner' then broke Pioneer 5's distance record for trans mitting a position signal from 22.3 million miles. By the time it passes by Venus Mariner 1 will have plunged one-third of the dis tance from the earth to the sun. . The Russians now have a spacecraft headed for Mars, the closest planet to earth, but it is not due to make a fly-by Teen Tops 9289 TEEN' 10-1 lower than if he had bought a year or two ago." Many economists and busi nessmen, Furman feels, have begun to believe there isn't going to be a recession in 1963 but, instead, business will con tinue to be good and proba bly improve. "If this is the case, there's every reason to believe that more people will be in the market for houses next year than there are this year. It follows then that prices for homes will proba bly be higher, and mortgase money will be in greater de mand and hence more costly." More Inflation Seen There are indications that we are in for more inflation, Furman said, with the pos sibility of an unbalanced bud get and lower purchasing pow er for the dollar. "In periods of inflation," he said, "property prices have always gone up. In my opin ion, there are compelling rea sons to believe that they will do so again. 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Modoc Lumber Bids High on Two Sales Klamath Falls - The Modoc Lumber company was suc cessful bidder on the purchase of two timber sales offered by the Winema National for est Dec. 6. The Lost Creek sale on the Klamath Ranger district was purchased for a total price of $87,856. This represented a $35 raise from the $87,821 appraised price. A total of 9,700,000 board feet of na tional forest timber was in volved in the sale. The high bids submitted were $9.30 for pine species, $8.65 for Douglas fir, $6.70 for Shasta Red fir and $4.35 for white fir and other. El lingson Timber company was the only other qualified bid der on the sale. The Edgewood salvage sale on the Chiloquin district was purchased for a total price of $4,330. Appraised adver tised price was $4,070 for the 800,000 board feet of blow- down timber. The high bids were $7.85 for Ponderosa pine species and $4.60 ior white fir and other. Loveness company of Malin also bid on the Edgewood salvage sale, 10 YEAR 010 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY. K PROOF. 1962 SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CO.. LOUISVILLE. KY. fflMi 1 F J L u u !Z3 MitZ3 mZZ2 10 jiwJ BY THE m NO BOURBON CAN MATCH CHAMPION BOURBON MNTVCKT tTRAIOMT iOUMON WHISKY In all America, there isn't bourbon to match Champion in age, quality and smoothness . . . Champion it mellowed in the wood a long 10 full yeeri...for two and v times as long as most other bourbons ... yet Champion costs th same. It's today's best-tasting bourbon buy. Tasla and see! Beautifully gifl-wrapptd at no extra charge! J4 S fa fcA assays ' ;ui'n a III llFi I tioioid . la . J n i I photographic ) pass of that heavenly body until June. The 447-pound Mariner, re sembling a miniature oil der rick with flaps, is the most intricate and gifted spacecraft yet launched. What about Venus Itself? . It is the earth's brightest neighbor because its dense clouds reflect twice as much sunlight as docs the earth. Of the heavenly bodies, only the sun and moon exceed the sparkling planet in brilliance. Surface Merer Seen ' Yet telescopes on earth, gi ant instruments which have detected exploding stars tril lions of miles away, have nev er seen her surface because of the pervading mantle of clouds. The clouds have prevented scientists from even making a good guess at the length of the Venusian "day" the time the planet takes to make one revolution on its axis. Scientists have never found a break in the clouds under which Venus hides her mys teries. Is Venus a huge ocean, or is she a barren desert forever torn by raging winds and fierce heat? Is the surface marshy, or does it perhaps hold continents and bodies of water much like earth? Most speculation is that Venus is extremely hot, hav ing a surface temperature of up to 615 degrees Fahrenheit nearly three times hotter than boiling water. This is based on the theory that the cloud layer traps in heat. The surface of the planet is thought to be barren and its atmosphere is believed to be filled with carbon dioxide with little or no free oxygen or water vapor. Mariner Experiments Experiments of Mariner 2 include: Microwave radiometer: Will "sec" through the clouds to the previous unseen sur face. It will determine wheth er there is water in the at mosphere and what the 'sur face temperature is two of the most important factors in determining the possibility of life there. High-energy radiation: To measure radiation particles in deep space and around Venus considered perhaps the greatest hazard facing future spacemen. Solar plasma detector: To determine the flow and den sity of "hot" particles from the sun the so-called "solar winds" which fill our plan etary system. Cosmic dust detector: To measure dust particles in space another major haz ard to manned flights to the moon and particularly the planets. 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