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2 g SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFOHP. OREGON City of Steel Coal Pointing to Nation's Space Age i t x t c n ;i Alinnin. 4 " nnA chairman nf iie Vira r By LAWRENCE R. WERNER United Proi International PitUburgh -HOT- "Lahore ad Astra" by effort to the (tars. This Latin motto appears on the official seal of Univer sity of Pittsburgh Chancellor Dr. Edward H. Litchfield. It is rather symbolic of how the energetic educator is pointing this city of steel and coal toward an important place in space age America Since becoming the 12th chancellor of Pitt six years ago, Litchfield overhauled its academic image and poten tially reshaped the face of Pittsburgh with ambitious building plans. Now, with his recent announcement of a pro posed $30 million space re search center, he hopes to align the institution and the whole of western Pennsyl vania with the aerospace' oriented future. Ploughed Through Red Tap During his brief tenure at Pitt, the soft-spoken but firm- handed administrator plough ed ahead through red tape and indifference to make the unl vcrsity what he calls "a total institution." In so doing, he won the confidence of ayen cies on the local, state and federal level which now are providing funds for the space center. Litchfield envisions' the space center as a research facility that will work "on every aspect that has anything to do with space, including the social and natural sci ences, legal considerations and Advertisement Arthritis, Rheumatism Vital Facts Explained FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOK As a public service to all read ers of (his paper, a new 36-page highly illustrated book on Arthri tis and Rheumatism will be mailed ABSOLUTELY FREE to all who write for it. No agent will call. This FREE BOOK fully ex plains the causes, ill-effects and danger in neglect of these painful and crippling conditions. It also describes a successfully proven method of treatment without drugs or surgery which has been applied In many thousands of cases. This book is yours WITHOUT COST or obligation. It may be the means of saving years of untold misery, uon t delay, iend tor your hKtt BOOK, today 1k lj - U I J..VY.' -J m . . "I. 4 I investment of about $250 mil lion beyond the facilities now existing, Litchfield said. Involve Preserving Tract The bold plan involves pre serving a 572-acre tract as a culture education complex. Streets will be abolished and businesses moved, among oth er things. The progress which up to now has resulted in the pro posed space center has been realized through a stimulating intellectual climate created at the University of Pittsburgh by Litchfield. The faculty payroll at the school has doubled under Litchfield. Me initiated the now widespread trimester plan which permits lengthen ing of the academic year, in stituted a faculty rating sys tem, quadrupled endowment funds, added some 3S0 new educators to the staff and increased on-campus housing. Litchfield has seen $107 mil lion spent on new buildings during his tenure at the 175-year-old school, with $48 mil lion more now being expend ed and a commitment to spend an additional $60 million. Served on Facultits Litchfield, 50, a bold ad ministrator who served on the faculties of the University of Michigan and Brown univer sity and as dean of Cornell graduate school of business and public administration, also played a leading role in the political reorganization of Western Germany after World War II. His blending of cultural and intellectual enterprises with business and industrial inter ests has a firm foundation in Litchfield's background as chairman of the board of Smith-Corona Marchant, Inc. (now SCM Corp.), a member of the board of directors of Avco Corp. and other industri al organizations. Litchfield, blazing I new trail in Pittsburgh's renais sance "by effort to the stars," is soaring comet-like toward a ranking as the most dynam ic chancellor in the history of the University of Pittsburgh. ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Liverpool, England - UPD -An appeal court reduced John Lawrie's four-year jail term to three years probation be cause of his environment. The judge said Lawrie, 29, had gone straight for nine years despite living in the tough Chinatown area and added "that is an achievement this court would not wish to minimize." The ONLY Time-Tested GLASS FIREPLACE SCREEN Enjoyed by Thousands in the Rogue River Valley KADUTCS MAXIMUM HEAT HIMINATES tOOM HEAT 1055, SAVES HIEl PtOTtCTS AGAINST FlYING if AM, ASHES. DIRT AND DRAFTS TWIN DOOIS OPEN WIDE FOI EASY LOADING Or fUEl CONTROl DRAFT WITH TWO SLID ING DOORS OR FAST OR SLOW FIRE SOLID IRASS CONSTRUCTION, BEAUTY UNHEARD OF. THOUSANDS IN USE WINTER AND SUMMER BURN WOOD, COAL OR GAS PHONE 772-7166 SMITH LUMBER CO. Corner 8th and Fir Sts. PROPOSED SPACE CENTER "Lahore ad Astra" by effort to the stars seal of Uni versity of Pittsburgh Chancellor Dr. Eward H. Litchfield, was more prophetic than he at first realized. Here Litchfield indicates on model of Pitt campus the area where a pro posed $30 million space center may be built. Center will be concerned with every aspect of space, from physical to legal and psychia tric problems. (UPI) psychological and psychiatric problems." He noted the uni versity already has space-con nectcd programs in natural and social sciences, engineer ing and health areas. Beside coordinating cxpan. sion of space-related research, the center will administer funds for interdisciplinary programs in such fields as upper atmosphere and plasma physics, properties of male- rils, astrohysics and space bi ology, Dr. Litchfield said. Pitt hopes to break ground for the space center on its campus within 12 to IB months. Architects are now at work on its design. Distinctive Feature One of the distinctive fea tures ot the space center will be a calculated effort tu cre ate a 'spin off a means of Betting discoveries and achievements into the stream of economic life," Dr. Litch field said. . He predicts the advent of Important space research in the Pittsburgh district will iv. Address I he . Ball Clinic . . . Dept. 3-2609 (enable it to compete lor de- Fl, Excelsior Springs, Mo. fense contracts it has not been able to get in the past. Econ omisls cite Pennsylvania's liv ability to compete with such states as California and Mas. sachusctts (Cal Tech and MIT) for defense contracts as a main reason for its slumping economy. Litchfield estimated the ef fect of the space research cen ter will be felt in the area's economy "within three years, massively in five years." Could Be Important Quoting a trustee of the university, the Pitt chancellor said, "The space center could be as important to western Pennsylvania as coal was in the past." The National Aeronautics and Space administration, one of the federal agencies pro viding funds for the universi ty's space - related research, has focused attention to the proposed center as a likely model for other such centers elsewhere. Vital to translating ideas into economic realities, Litch field believes, is the establish ment of "research parks" so that when ideas are "spun off," people can travel con veniently to and from labora tories concerned with the product development in that field. Park Now Emerging Willi Litchfield and Pitt as the spearhead, a research park is now emerging in Pitts burg's Oakland district which long has been the focal point of the city's educational and cultural activities. 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