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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
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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
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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. And I would in
clude not only the price of
houses, but many other types
of real estate, such as farms
and ranches, timber lands and
land for development.
"I feel that today, and the
near future, is a good time
to buy."
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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
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the Edgewood salvage sale,
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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.
After its mision is accom
plished, the Mariner 2 will
join America's Pioneer 5 in
an endless orbit around the
sun.
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