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Man and Space Project Apollo Means of Furthering Space Exploration ; Editor's note: Why should healthy sign of the vitality of America press for manned con- our enthusiasm. quest of the moon, and is it be '. iiig done at the expense of vital projects such as cancer re March? Cape Canaveral Bureau ; Manacer Alvin B. Webb Jr. re linquishes this week's column for an exclusive report on this t f s u e by Br. Wcrnhcr Von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Hunts- ville, Ala., and perhaps Ameri ca's most famous space scientist. on. By WERMIEIl VON BRAUN Written for UPI Cape Canaveral (UPI) While our nation's manned space (light effort is just get ting its second wind, some Americans are having second thoughts about the program. President Kennedy proposed a stepped - up program for the United States in 1961. The an nounced goals were approved by Congress, and hailed excit edly by a space-concious pub . lie. . Now the first summer blooms - of success are fanned from the eminently successful Mercury No Assurance I have been asked, for in stance, why we do not cancel project Apollo and use the money for cancer research. The fact is simply that can cellation of Apollo would not assure that the money would be used for finding a cancer cure, nor, if applied, that mon ey alone would speed the dis covery. This extremist viewpoint over simplifies the complex process undergone by Congress in appro priating funds to meet the num erous demands of our citizens for the varid services of the federal government. Such a rad ical shifting of funds would re quire crystallization of public and political opinion to the ef fect that project Apollo is all wrong and should be abandoned ; that cancer research is the es sence of survival and it should be expanded; that there is an either-or choice between the two; and that more money is the solution to a cure for cancer. The facts for developing such an opinion do not exist. The National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration's board ap- programs, and there is a lull in manned launchings while proj- i pr0ach to space exploration has ect Gemina develops. And in , ,een soundly conceived. Project unmanned exploration, each Apollo is an intergal element of manner prune ana eacn r,cuu, . tnat pian. Apollo is not an end Telstar relay, Syncom and Tiros satellite seems less miraculous as launches become more rou tine. The wedding of modern sci ence and technology with space is undergoing a period of ad justment experienced by every young married couple. It be gins when the carefree honey mooners settle own to building their air castles. Those first in itself, but a means of fur thering exploration, an epic by product of expanding techno logy, economy and position of world leadership. The need and desire for a cancer cure are great, and lots of money is already being spent on this worthy cause. In fact, some research scientists feel that a major breakthrough not more money is needed As is often the case in rapturous days of marriage ; here. gradually become tempered basic research, a genius with with logic as the young couple a little luck will probably dis works, pays bill and develops cover the , needed scientific 8 well-rounded pattern of living i link. based on their means. Einstein evolved his theory of ; Personally, I am delighted to j relativity with only a pencil See so many people talking j and no pad. He gave us a about space today. It is a scientific breakthrough that SECTION C PAGES 1 to 10 Medford MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 I LJk iJL. .... READY FOR FIGHT Mrs. Madeline Thompson restrains her two boys. Gregory, 8, who with clenched fists appears ready for a fight and Michael, 5, as she talks with men in front of a Mal verc, N.Y., school. Four Negro parents began a sit-in demonstra tion after school officials refused to register their children on grounds that the parents had no transfer cards from their regular school to the predominantly white one. (UPI) made many new things pos sible the atomic bomb, the nuclear submarine and, some day, travel to other plantes. To create a revelation costs no great sum of money. Funds for Technology Money is needed, however, to exploit a scientific breakthrough, to make worldwide, practical use of the revelation. NASA can spend only a frac tion of its budget for pioneering research. Most of the funds go into the engineering technology that is based on research, re sults of the past. This is costly in manpower as well as dollars. When the great space debate is resolved, I feel certain that the public will continue its sup port of a space exploration pro gram that does justice to our country's resources, capabilities and responsibility for world leadership. Wallace Apparently Determined To Force Federal Government By AL KUKTTNER UP! Correspondent By the time the steak, ahrimp and chicken were wheeled into the office of Gov. George Wal lace of Alabama Tuesday night at nine o'clock, he had once more propelled himself into the middle of a major confrontation over racial integration. Wallace and his top advisers had been in session all day and their meeting went on into the night. The issue was what to do about Birmingham schools which were scheduled to be opened on an integrated basis Wednesday. Wallace appeared determined to precipitate another show sown over the issue. He had done it and lost in the inte gration or the University of Ala bama in the early summer. He seemed ready and willing to do it again. What was the governor up to? Wallace, who still has three years to go as governor of Ala bama, seems determined to go down to the wire on every inte gration issue, forcing the fed eral government to use all its powers. On the Birmingham case, Wal lace also is confronting a local school board, one of the most powerful local bodies in the American system of community government. But President Kennedy is the governor's really sworn enemy. Wallace can be expected to make it just as hard as possible to put integration orders into accom plished fact as long as he is in office. Wallace, without expecting to get very far, undoubtedly will be a willing candidate in a Demo cratic presidential primary in Maryland next spring. It would cost him $290 as an entry fee but that would buy him the chance he wants to lambast the Kenne dy administration outside his own state in a campaign that would get national attention. Wallace is getting strong sup port in his battle with the Ken nady administration. But he also is getting strong opposition. Both Birmingham and Macon county (Tuskegcc) offi c i a 1 s asked the governor to allow lo cal authorities to handle t h e school crisis. Wallace up to now is absolute ly adamant on the racial issue. He told the Senate Commerce committee during its considera tion of the new civil rights bill that he would not enforce the public accommodations section if it became law. He also chided integrationist forces in the North, saying that segregation in Alabama is above board" while it is iust Ihc opposite in the North. Wallace is a tireless cam paigner, even when ha knnw. he is fighting a losing battle. Among his followers, he never admits defeat. He emerged un daunted from the University of Alabama integration incident with the attitude he had made his stand and proved his point. Employs Troopers He is backing ud his anti-Kn. nedy, anti - integration cam paign these days with a fast moving, tough band of state troopers headed by Maj. AI Lin go, chief of the statu nalrnl The troopers, with nakon hit. lies swinging at their sides, move with full riot equipment and a portable radio transmit ting station. 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