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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1963 MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEUFORO. OREGON ritish Scientist Favors U.S. an-On-AAoon Project MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKORD. OREGON THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. By ROBERT MUSEL United Press International MANCHESTER, Eng. (UPD Sir Bernard Lovell, Britain s best known space authority, wants to make one thing clear he is absolutely in favor of the American man-on-the-moon proj ect as one of the greatest enter prises humanity has ever faced. The 50-year-old scientist was a frankly worried man as he spoke to this reporter about his recent trip to Russia and the suggestion he brought back that Soviet sci entists were ready to abandon their own effort to land an astro naut on the moon in favor of some sort of international proj ect. Lovell said he was distressed because his remarks had been misinterpreted in the United States as opposition to the Amer ican venture and because his critical comments on certain as pects of the American space pro gram notably the rainbow bomb and the cloud of needles had led to charges he was a "pink." Not Anti-American "This has caused me a great deal of personal worry," he said. "It is absurd to call me anti American. Even the slightest criticism of anything the United States does in space draws this sort of attack despite the enor- h.tn ujo have alwavs given the Americans here at Jodrell BThe setting of the interview- the radio telescope ana reoiv... station founded and directed by Lovell was pure sciente-i"."" as Hollywood might imagine it in its glossiest style. Lovell, high-domed and intense, sat with his bacK 10 a F1Ll"lc,. ,j T which framed, in the field be hind him, one of the most excit ing human constructions on earth. Suspended between two towers 185 feet high was a vast saucer 250 feet across nearly the size of a football field. This is man kind's most acute ear, the giant radio telescope that has tracked the American and Russian satel lites and listened to the stupend ous collision of galaxies of stars hundreds of millions of light years distant in space. Tiny men with buckets of red paint crawled over it and its aerial pointed for the moment to the ground. But soon it would swing towards the heavens .,,; in hnuncind radar echoes off the planets, to its quest for the secrets of the origin of the liniuoi-PP. Lnwll's thoughts, however, were much closer to home AiMit lum months ago in MoS' cow, in the Bijou Palace that once was Catherine the Great s and now is the presidium ui u... Annmv nf Sciences, no neoiu n extraordinary admission from Mstislav Keldysh, who is president of the top Russian sci- cntilic ooay. . . Keldysh said Soviet scientists saw no solution in the present state of the art w me piuu.um of protecting an astronaut from fatal doses of radiation on his way to the moon, while he was there and on the return journey. Some new and as yet unknown form of shielding would have to be discovered first, the Russian told Lovell. , , Keldysh also said that al though the Rusians had hit the moon as far back as Sept, 3,1959 a feat tracked ana veruicu uj Jodrell Bank-they had not been able to produce a method ol Gamble Benedict Sought by Husband ZURICH, Switzerland (UPI) Andrei Porumbeanu, "shaken up" by the news his heiress wifo wants to dlvorco him, to day was reported seeking a meeting with her somewhere in Vitrniw Friends of the couple said tho 37-year-old Romanian-born playboy arrived in Zurich Wed nesday night to search for his 22-ycar-old wifo, the former Gamble Benedict. Ho flew in from New York. Gamblo Is one of the heirs to tho huge Remington typewriter fortune. She and her sons, Georghe, 2, and Grigore. 10 months, dropped out of sight a week ago. On Tuesday, Gamble's attor ney, Eugen Curti, announced that the former New York debu tante had filed for divorce from Porumbeanu on the grounds of misconduct. He also said she stripped Por umbeanu, 37, of his power of attorney to administer the in come from a $20 million trust fund set up for her. TO FAVOR PROJECT WASHINGTON (UPI) - In terior Secretary Stewart Udall will approve a report recom mending development of the $9 million Tualatin Reclamation project in Oregon, Sens. Maur ine Neuberger and Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Tuesday. getting the astronaut back from the moon, even assuming he landed there safely. Abandon Moon Project Therefore, he said, the Soviets were setting aside their man-on-the-moon project in favor of landing instruments on the moon. On his return from a trip which included the first visit by a westerner to the main Russian tracking station in the Crimea, Lovell wrote to James E. Webb, head of the National Aeronau tics and Space administration in the United States, embodying the gist of what he had been told by Keldysh. In effect this was that Russia would favor an international ef fort to put a man on the moon, if it were decided at an interna tional scientific congress that this feat was possible. Somehow, Lovell feels, his anxiety that the West should know Soviet thinking on the proj ect was garbled in its transmis sion to the United States and he found he was regarded as oppos ing a project he always has fa vored. He was delighted when I was able to inform him that Senator Clinton P. Anderson of the Senate Space committee agreed that his views had been misunderstood. Anderson made public the ex change of letters between Lovell and Webb who said that if the Russian academy was sincerely interested the matter might be further explored. Lovell told me his position was this: "I would like to see an inter national effort to land a man on the moon. But if Russia has really decided to abandon this phase of its program and one should exercise caution in trying to assess what Russia will actu ally do then I am in favor of the United States going ahead with its own plans." He went on to explain his rea sons for this after he had re turned again to the charges he was anti-American, which plain ly had upset him. "When I comment on any of the American space projects I do so as a scientist," he said. "To call me pink if my remarks are critical is as ridiculous as calling President Kennedy a leftist because he receives Pre mier Khrushchev." Opposes Needles In the past, Lovell has been vehemently opposed to the American idea for a "cloud" of needles around the earth intend ed to form a jam-proof radio bouncing board for high-speed messages in the event of war. These were fired into space by the United States last May the dale was not announced for security reasons and radio con tact was established by May 12. It was calculated that the 400 million needles would form a closed path (or "cloud") 40,000 miles long around the earth about the third week in June. Officials said the first contacts with the needles were highly successful. They estimated that in less than five years they would descend into the earth's atmosphere and be burned up. "All radio astronomers were concerned about this project," Lovell said. "We aren't partic ularly worried about the present test as it is temporary. But if an operational system comes out of it, it will be bigger, wider and more permanent and it will in contestably interfere with cer tain projects in astronomy." Lovell said radio astronomy was a new science without pow erful or unified support and it needed a protected radio band to carry out its main duty of ex ploring the universe. The needle plan had not taken this into ac count. "Provided we are given wave bands on which no one else is transmitting, one ot our main complaints about would be removed, this project ' he said. They know . . . PI w ms. 9 SOUR CREAM VSsjjgSff rf - 7 Jill tfwismviM" I r 1 SOVIET 'DREAM HOUSE'-This Soviet Union "dream house" will be displayed at the Okla homa State Fair in Oklahoma City, starting Sept. 21. It was built by Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. from plans that won a prize for vtmt ,4 the architect. It is worth 22.000 rubles, the equivalent of three years' average income in Russia. An American could buy a $20,000 house with three years' average income. (UPI) Rockhounds Object To 10-Pound Limit On Petrified Wood Bv A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington The big politi cal issue out West these davs WWW WliWIBB I f Subscribers To report Improper nr noiw dIivpry of lh Mull Tribune in Mcrt ford, phone 773-6141; An Innd v-kll at 41fl midi it , or plume 4R2-3003; YrrkH, phon Victory J.2ftrm before 4S p m. daily and 10 30 am. Sundav. If regular delivery arrtvea shortly after you tall pleae nntlfy office, thin eliminating pecinl meaaenfer torvtce. Your Money's Worth More at Safeway FOLGER'S Coffee fl Snow's- Flavor 3-lb. Can $1.45 2-lb. Can 97c S-ez. Piedmont for Prices effective Thursday, September 19 thru Sunday, September 22 at Safe way in Medford. Limit rights reserved- WE GIVE GOLD BOND STAMPS 3-lb. $1.39 2-lb. 93c IO-m. jar $1.49 6-oi. Clam Chowder i Snow's-Try a Clam Dip Minced Clams 7Vj.oi. 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The rockhounds are bombard- is neither the j ing Capitol Hill with postal pro tests over Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's proposal to lim it them to 10 pounds of petri fied wood per day. Unless Udall backs down, his order goes into effect next month. Rockhounding has become an extremely popular hobby In re cent years. Rock collectors, searching for unique specimens during the summer months and shaping them during the winter with inexpensive cutting and grinding tools, far outnumber the serious prospectors who hunt commercially valuable materials. Petrified wood has been found in most states but most of the interesting and valuable depos its are located in the western states, where the government has authority over extraction of minerals in public lands and forests. Erosion Threatened Until last year petrified wood was included under the mining laws but Congress, at Udall's request, excluded petrified wood to give the government greater control over its extraction. 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Generally, the rockhounds are rore at government interference in their hobby. They want Con gress to "stop this injustice," as one of them put it, before it spreads to agates and crystals. The rockhounds, in short, are fighting to keep the government from winding up on the rocks. Inches Fly By! Swift knit use iumhn noor). les, 2-strands knitting worsted for cable-trimmed jacket. Pat tern 7248: directions sizes 4-6, 8-10, 12-14 incl. The collar converts to a hood keeps child warm at play, or on way to school! THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern aJii 15 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing and special handling. Send to Alice Brooks, Medford Mail Tribune Needlecraft Dept., r.u. onx ittt, uia tnelsea Sta tion, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. 206 Handicraft hints in our big, big, new 1964 Needlecraft Catalog, out now! See toys, fashions, crewelwork. hier- looms, gifts, bazaar hits everything to crochet, knit, sew, weave, embroider, quilt, smock. Send 25c right now. House Showdown On Tax Cut Seen WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re publican opponents of President Kennedy's proposed $11 billion tax cut today began rounding up support for a major House showdown on an amendment to harness the measure to budget curbs. Under the GOP amendment, the tax cut could go into effect only if the President showed Congress next January he in tended to limit current spend ing to $97 billion, or $1 billion less than now predicted. For fiscal 1965, spending estimates could not exceed $98 billion. The new proposal was unveil ed by Rep. John W. Byrnes (Wis.) top ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means committee before the House Rules committee which cleared the bill for floor action, expect ed next Tuesday. The new amendment appear ed to have solid Republican support in the House. It could carry if it won the additional votes of 35 to 40 southern Demo crats, traditionally fiscal conservatives. Gangland Hearings To Begin Tuesday WASHINGTON (UPI) - Jo seph Valachi, the underworld's most celebrated stool pigeon, will appear before Senate inves tigators soon to tell what he knows of the so-called "Cosa Nostra" secret gangland em pire. Sen. John L. McClellan (D Ark.) chairman of the Senate investigations s u h c ommittce, said Wednesday that hearings on Cosa Nostra would begin Tuesday. McClellan said a committee alumnus, Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, would be the lead-off witness. Kennedy once served as chief counsel to the commit tee. But the senator refused to re veal just when Valachi would testify. Valachi, who has been under round-the-clock guard by federal agents since he "sang," fears gangland assassination. He was being kept at Ft. Mrm mouth, N.J., but at present la believed to be somewhere in the Washington area. t)