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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1963 Man and Space Titan Rocket Vibrations May Cause Astronauts Difficulty By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. United Press International ; Cape Canaveral - The fed eral space agency is upset over the prospect that the upcoming Gemini flights into ' space could make human milk-shakes out of America's astronauts. As matters stand today, the " first Gemini pilots would go bouncing off into orbit at the rate of 660 bounces per min ute. That's enough to jar the teeth of a hippopotamus. The culprit in this particu lar potful of Gemini problems is the Titan-2 rocket that will boost the capsule and its two men. Technicians have dis covered the rocket is a sort of "flying accordion, vibrating up and down at the rate of 11 ' cycles per second. The National Aeronautics rand Space Administration (NASA) told United Press In ternational that "NASA con- siders the present level of os cillation as unsuitable for a manned vehicle." Intra-service memos on the subject are phrased consider ably stronger. Space agency officials said that if rocket, spacecraft and spacemen alike go around bouncing 11 times every sec ond there would be "potential degradation of the functional capabilities of the pilots." Translation: The astronauts would be shaken to the eye balls. It is admittedly a bit diffi cult to see anything clearly while one's head is going up ; and down 660 times per min- . ule (11 cycles per second times 60 seconds). "... The relative motion between the pilot's head and the instrument panel, which also would be vibrating, could make it difficult for pilots to read instruments accurately," as NASA says. Reactions Unpleasant Another space agency of ficial says tests in the 11- cycle-per-second area have turned up a long list of re actions by pilots, "most of them unpleasant." Scientists have concluded from their studies of Titan-2 military test shots at Cape Canaveral that the critical vi brations start a little more than one minute after blast off, and that they last for about 20 seconds or so. The problem and the re sponsibility for its solution has been dumped back into the lap of the Air Force, which had the Titans-problems and all-built to its speci fications in the first place. The difficulty has been duly accorded a name: "Pogo stick effect." It has been more or less pin-pointed: ". . . . Evidently originating as a pressure dis turbance in propellant pump ing and piping system which results in variations in engine thrust, which feeds back through the vehicle's struc ture, further amplifying the pressure disturbance . . ." A two-point general course of action has been proposed: 1. Stop the vibrations; 2. Fix up things in the place where they started; i.e., the fuel pumps and lines. Never Worries The Air Force has been fly ing Titan-2 missiles for going on two years, but never wor ried about the "pogo-stick ef fect" because the nuclear warheads the rocket was de signed to carry don't have eye balls to shake or teeth tc rat tle or stomachs to churn. NASA long ago selected Titan-2 as the Gemini capsule booster, and has had its scien tific fingers in the rocket's in nards for a year or more with out notable results. The prob lem is still there, on every Titan-2 that flies from Cape Canaveral. Asked whether the "pogo stick" cause - effect - solution would delay Gemini's sched ule, the space agency an- 1 swerea witn a tirm no . There is a fair amount of reason tor this indication of confidence. Project Gemini already is more than a year behind schedule, and it will be another 14 months-October, 1964-before the first pair of astronauts will board the capsule for a flight into space. That leaves a goodly slice of time for finding some way to take the spring out of the flying pogo-stick. Arizona Newspaper Resumes Publication After 7 Months A 5 Phoenix -IUP1U The Arizona Journal, morning offset daily newspaper, resumed publication Wednesday after a seven-month shutdown. The revived Journal's first edition of 24 pages began moving to carriers shortly after 8 a.m. The new Journal is pub lished by Central Arizona CAT REWARDED Reading, England - IUPD -William Butler, 73, left his cat, Tibber, $1,400 in his will because she served as a "watchdog" each night when he went out for a drink, it was disclosed Wednesday. Newspapers, Inc., headed by wealthy rancher James M. (Jim) Smith. In a statement of policy on the front page of today's Jour nal, Smith said the news paper's editorial policy would PLANS U.S. VISIT Washington - IUPH - Prime Minister Sean Lcmass of Ire land and his wife will visit the United States, beginning Oct. 15, as guests of President and Mrs. Kennedy. The White House said Wednesday the President extended the invi tation during his recent trip to Ireland. be dedicated to support of the Democratic party. "The Arizona Journal will be dedicated to printing an objective newspaper that will not slant or editorialize the news," Smith's statement said. "We do not intend to use the editorial page of the Ari zona Journal for purposes of destruction of either political party," he said. "It is our firm belief that without this great two-party system, democracy will wither and die. It is also our firm belief that in the state of Arizona, the two-party system is all but dead. This deplorable situation has come about by the fact that the major newspapers have wilfully gone about to destroy the two-party system." The old Journal, which had been published by Arizona Newspapers, Inc., headed by Robert Morrison, former state SERVICES SET Chelsea, Mass. - IUPII - Fu neral services were scheduled Monday at the Arlington Me morial cemetery outside Washington for Commodore John H. McGruder, who skip pered the presidential yacht Mayflower for President Cal vin Coolidge. McGruder, 74, died Tuesday at the U.S. naval hospital here. attorney general, was seized ho, is editorial director; Rob- by the Internal Revenue Serv ice and Morrison reached agreement on payment of the taxes, and the federal agency turned the plant back to Mor rison. Offset Press During the summer, the corporate structure of the newspaper was reorganized and a new offset press was leased. General manager of the newspaper is Milton L. Whit tenberger, who has more than 40 years experience in the publishing business. Ed Em erine, formerly of Boise, Ida- SYNTHESIZED MOLECULE A Ceylonese scientist working at Ames Research center at Moffett Field, Calif., has synthe sized a life-essential molecule in a way that might have happened naturally in the earth's primitive oceans four bil lion years ago. The experiment by Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma is the latest in a series, by him and other scientists, that aonear to demonstrate life could have arisen naturally with out the intervention of supernatural powers. Here the doctor ; nnints out the simple lab equipment with which he artilicialiy produced ATP, a source of energy for all forms of life. (UPI) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- UNFORTUNATE indeed is the citizen who does not or cannot pay his debts to the U. S. Treasury on time. But private businessmen, lacking the government's big stick. must resort to subtler methods to collect their bills. Possibly you have heard of one desperate creditor who enclosed a picture of his wife and 11 children with an overdue bill, noting thereon, "This is why I must have my '' money." Back came a 'letter from the delinquent with a picture of a ravish ing blonde, explaining, "This why I can't pay it." fW collection letter that has proven unusually effective begins, "If you will refer to the date of our original invoice, you will note that .0 havi. Hone more for you than your own mother: we have carried you for fourteen months." ! The Queen Elizabeth was about to pull up her gangplank and sail off one morning last month when a shiny Rolls Royce glided up to the dock and discharged a heavily furred London matron, followed by fourteen suitcases. 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