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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
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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. Seaborg, chair
Coordinates Work man of the AEC. told the
Harold Finger, whose office same committee: "For many
coordinates AEC and NASA
work on Project Rover, told
Anderson's committee on aero-
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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.