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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOnD MAIL TR1BUMX. MEDfOftD, OMJGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1363 C 7 Plight of Sick Bird Puzzling Scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory By WILLIAM JOHNSTON IhhxIm. -... .I.-. .Li..,n,.j r ! . a ii- .u.i .. i I,-. u..;u;.. I ..;. r i. i: i . i. , r... r, ;.. ... .... By WILLIAM JOHNSTON Los Alamos, N.M. - IUPD -For six years, the plight of a sick bird has been puzzling scientists at the Atomic En ergy commission's laboratory here. The bird is frail and some thing of a diagnostician's nightmare; no can figure out where it hurts and why. No wonder. The bird's diet is hydrogen gas! The bird with the belly ache is Kiwi, an experimental nuclear reactor that is the heart of the United States' first nuclear rocket engine designed for space flight. May Be Worth Money Named for a flightless New Zealand bird, the prototype's intestinal spasms are taking a lot of time and costing mil lions of dollars. But the diag nosis and cure for the ailment may be worth every penny and every fretful moment. Looking beyond the project ed manned lunar journey called Project Apollo, the best minds in the American space program concede man cannot venture much farther than the moon without nu clear rocket power. Kiwi is a division of Rover, a project which within the next few years probably will cost considerably more than $1 billion. Scientists at the Los Alamos scientific labora tory have found from the be ginning that almost every thing is harder than in con ventional rocket - building They persist because the re wards for success will be al most incalculably great. Presses For Monty The present good prospect that Project Rover will suc ceed owes much to the little publicized but insistent case which Sen. Clinton P. Ander son (D-N.M.) has pressed for years to get more money and talent committed to it. An Albuquerque lawyer and insurance man with a genius lor comprencnaing ocyona me solar system. Project Kowr is hung up with ! space expedition in which a fifth to one-tenth the weight intricate subjects. Anderson j Anderson backed Rover technical troubles and any I nuclear - propelled vehicle I of a chemically nraiullrri ..... ......, . .w i ...., i,a i.wn "mi t,c nisi juviiiilj iu ; wuuiu ubvci iu an urou spacecrail nauues ana space Aominis- years aqo anci today, not the moon mignt nave utilized ; around Mars, land men for 40 clear tration (NAbA) mat Rover merely seeking more pork bar- nuclear power officially has been abandoned. had to have support. rel benefits for New Mexico As chairman of the joint Vv" "".I T V committee on atomic energv, clsew,herf wllh ,hf bc rc" he argued that chemical rock- sea!' d.onc Ucrc)- nc rc: ets like Apollo's Saturn C5. ,ljd- Congress is expected which will be as big as an ? P" "omcwhat more ocean - going vessel, simply than. s:uu .ml,l,? for -the cannot provide the power " Last April, the director of nautical and space scientists needed for journeys to the Science, however, is not so the space nuclear propulsion j that "a nuclear - propelled other planets and, perhaps. I easily persuaded to cooperate, office described a 400 - day I spacecraft would weigh one- ! Rover scientists at Los Ala in o s remain convinced, : though, that they will suc ceed - within this decade -in building and testing a workable nuclear rocket. . . without nu- PrODulsion Ui rin tint days of exploration, then re- believe this kind o mission cover and return them to would be possible." carth' I Dr. Glenn T. 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IT I CORNER JACKSONVILLE HI WAY AND LOZIER LANE of the proposed missions by NASA and others in space there appears to be no sub stitute for nuclear power be cause of the requirements for large amounts of energy in compact form. "Nuclear rockets will be re quired to carry out many dif ferent proposed missions . . . logistic supply for manned lunar stations (post Apollo) . . . observations of Venus and probes of mote distant planets . . . manned exploration of the near planets." Tougher Job Today, the project involved in building the nuclear rocket engine that would do this job is considered tougher than the construction of the first atomic bomb 20 years ago. The A-bomb, the scientists explain, was built by meeting and solving predictable, ex pected problems. Every devel opment in project Rover seems to create new prob lems. When one is solved, two more crop up in its place. Radiation plays havoc with Ranges and sensors have to be invented and new ways de vised lo shield sensitive in slruments. No one yet knows, for I certainty, that Project Rover will succeed. But the time table for the chemically -powered Apollo manned lunar ex pedition already is in doubt. And Apollo budget demands are meeting major resistance in Congress. The earliest NASA ever hoped for a manned moon shot was 1967. If that date should in reality be as late as 1970, and if Rover here after progresses without ma jor hitches, the first moon astronauts may -after all - enjoy the big boost of nuclear power. Large Proportion 01 Population Is From Out-of-Area Jackson county may boast that a comparatively large proportion of its population consists of people who gave up their residence in other areas of the country to settle there. A total of 42,075 people, representing 58.3 per cent of the county's American-born population, came from some other state. The influx, locally, was greater than that recorded in most localities. Elsewhere in the United States, by con trast, only 26.4 per cent have moved from other states to the ones In which they are now living. In the Pacific Slates 50.7 per cent have made such moves. Findings from Report The findings are from a re port just released by the De partment of Commerce, based on data gathered during the last census. The purpose of the study was to get some idea of the extent of internal migration in the United States. That the American people, as a whole, are constantly on the move is well known. What had not been established pre viously was just how great are the shifts and swings of population, from state to state and from community to com munity. Have Large Portion As a result of the study, it was learned that the Pacific States have, by far, the larg est proportion of residents who were born in other parts of the country. Among the nation's 101 large metropolitan areas, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., one is tops in that respect. No figures are given as to the other side of the coin -the number who leave a par ticular locality to take up residence somewhere else. I But doing so they are. The Census Bureau points out I that "what we are seeing, really, is a picture of mobility I and of people being able to go where they want to go I rather than going where the i mines are or where the farm I ins is good." I The same freedom of move ment has been apparent with in the communities them selves. People have taken ad vantage of their improved earnings in recent years to upgrade their standard of liv ing. They have been moving into newer and better houses. Jackson county has' been having its share of it. Accord ing to the findings, 39.456 local residents have picked up and moved to other quar- : ters within the county in a I period of five years.