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8 D WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1903 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Ime club finally SETTLED ON A FALL 6Uy FOR THE NEXT WIN6DING Fall guy is rigwt-wwo mas to sell all the tickets? give a look-listen-. 7 MO OUR NEXT AFFAIR 77K K -f WILL BE A TESTIMONIAL 1 VEAM-' - npy jof.. X?2ii C wp' wSMttRA?PF"Y OL' fl ( IF YOU WANT j L HIT UP o?dEaPaJJE ) ( JOE' 1 YOUR PARTY y EVERYBODY ) NcORiAKl',wER"' VZ-lafcJ V T BE A l I KNOW- WJ JOE MILDEW A, CTfTf success- ) joe, you'll ) Lunar Crust To Be Tested By Rockets SUNNYVALE, Calif. (UPI) - U.S. space scientists, deep in plans lo put a man on the moon, still do not know whether the astronaut will land with a jolting crash or a kind of marshmallow squish. That's because they're not sure about the hardness or soft ness of the moon's surface. There are two theories about the lunar crust, according to sicontists at the National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion's (NASA) Ames Research Center here. One theory holds that the sur face of the moon is soft and fluffy and extends to an un known depth. The other is that the mattrcss-uke crust turns into a harder material about one-half inch from the surface To get a better idea about S- SHOWN IN COURT Tim Rooncy, HS-ycar-old son of actor Mickey Rooncy, is shown in court in Los Angeles Thursday with his mother, Mrs. Bctly Jane Kcsscl. Young Rooncy, in court for approval of a new contract with M-G-M Studios, revealed that he is beginning to look down on his father, Tim said he is 5 feel, 10'ii Inches tall, while his father is only 5 feet 2 Inches. (UPI) what the lunar surface is real ly like, the United States plans to launch two rockets from White Sands, N. M., next sum mer on a "dust collecting" mission. Donald E. Gault, head of the planetary sciences branch at the center, outlines the $7.5 mil lion project this way: About 100 miles from the earth, the nose cone of the first rocket will open up like a flow er, with three "leaves" extend ed, and collect space dust and debris raining down toward the moon. The collected material will be parachuted to earth for analysis. Several days later, after the shower of dust has collided with the moon, the second rock et will be launched to collect samples of the resulting debris. The two collections will be compared. If they differ, says Gault, "we can Infer that the composition from the second collection is similar to the lu nar surface." The dust also will be com pared with cosmic particles al ready collected, and scientists expect to make a full-scale analysis of more particles in l!iti5 when major meteor show ers are expected. NASA director James E. 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Grinli Pan 476-4143 Done on 2 Needles By DAVID BISIIAL United Press International ASWAN (UPI) - In eight months, just before the Nile River unleashes its next flood, Soviet and Egyptian engineers plan to wrench it from its nat ural bed and submit it to the control of man-made diversion canals. From that moment on, the age-old river will be at the mercy of man. Work on the six tunnels and the diversion canal the ma jor task in the first phase of constructing the High Dam is scheduled to be completed next May 15. At the same time, the rock-fill dam being erected just south of the High Dam site should also have been com pleted. The river, no longer able to pursue its normal course, will flow through the tunnels to feed an electric power station, and through the canal to nourish Egyptian soil. The tunnels now are almost completed. Dug at the base of a huge granite wall, they look like the headless necks of a mythical Hydra devouring men and machines and tons of forti fied cement. Each tunnel is nearly 150 feet wide and re quires 150,000 cubic feet of ce ment each month to pad its its walls. ' Work is progressing rapidly on the rock-fill dam which must be raised to 100 feet so it can block the Nile flow. Construc tion of the power station also must be completed before the deadline, although it won't yield electricity until after the sec ond phase of construction when the generators arrive from Rus sia. When all this work is done, water will begin to back up be hind the rock-fill dam, rising to about 360 feet and submerging nearly one-third of Nubia, all the way to the temples of Ka labsha 100 miles north of the Sudan border. The first phase will be com pleted around November, 10M, when the main body of the Dam will have reached 150 feet in height. The full height of the dam nearly 600 feet will not be reached until 1968. With the end of the first nhase, the most critical part of the construction scheme will have been accomplished. In May next year, 411 hydrouiicaiiy operated 370-ton steel gates con trolling the six tunnels will swing into operation. Shortly afterwards, work on tnc second phase becins. The entire Dam is scheduled for completion in liltill. The project already has de manded not only men, money and machines but the taming of the Nile itself. Three times Soviet equipment had to be re modeled so it could deal with the river's granite walls. Drills and shovels snapped like maicn slicks against the smooth but steel - hard granite. Dynamite I charges sometimes only shaved i off a few splinters of the black rock. Early in 12 the Soviels and Egyptians sat down to a month- long conference in Moscow and i re-shaped their entire equip ment. Finally the granite yielded and t h e Nile's defenses tumbled down. The tunnels were started and an endless stream of shovel trucks and barges began carry ing the debris to mid-stream for constructing the Dam's body. Work still proceeds around the c'.jck but nervousness has given way to confidence. "We're going to break our necks just keeping up with the schedule, but there is nothing that wor ries us any more," said one Egyptian engineer. He pointed at the mammoth pit leading the Nile to the tun nel openings nearly five times the size of the Yankee stadium's grid. "It's all taking shape now. At one point we thought we'd never make it. But we did and now we are rolling." Except that the second phase, too, might turn out to be quite a neaaacne. The problem is that Egypt lacks equipment and material needed to build the world's largest dam. Five old cement factories and four new ones are working at full speed only to supply the dam and Egypt has to import for other construction schemes. Road engineers are spread out all over the Alexandria-Aswan road testing and reinforcing every shoulder, curve and hair pin turn. Some brides have had to be rebuilt because some of the equipment coming in from Russia includes power genera- Hiking Is National Pastime in Holland By MURRAY J. BROWN NEW YORK (UPI) - Hol land is a land of dikes, hikes and bikes as well as canals, windmills, tulips and wooden shoes. Much of Holland lies below sea level and the giant dikes hold back the waters of the North Sea. No visit to Holland could be complete without view ing the man-made bulwarks which have withstood the test of time and tempest. Hiking is almost a national pastime and the tourist is more than welcome to match strides with the Dutch in annual walk ing events. Almost every coun try in the world is represented in treks lasting up to six days. The foreign observer also gets the impression that bikes are an integral part of Dutch life. Throughout the day, coun try lanes and city streets are crammed with bicyclists of all ages. The Dutch claim you can tell a lot about a cyclist by the kind of two-wheeler he rides and the hours he rides it. And since tourists might en joy trying to identify the Dutch by the bike system, the Neth erlands National Tourist Office (ANVV) gives some clues. During the morning hours, cyclists appear to the untrained eye to be practicing circus ac robats as they weave deftly in and out of four-wheeled traffic. These are clerks, office work ers and others on the way to their jobs. A good tip for American tour ists who intend to drive dur ing the early morning rush hour is . . . don't. Park the car and climb on a bike yourself. That way you'll not only get to your destination quicker, but you will confuse other American travelers who are trying to identify the cyclists by their riding habits. After the rush around the coffee hour or about 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning come a different horde of cyclists. These are deliverymen and er rand boys with specially - built bikes. Some have heavy duty luggage racks for packages and bundles. The extra long bikes accommodate the milkman's cans; the glaziers have a wood en rack on the back of the bikes to carry glass. Identifiable Cyclists Window cleaners are easily identifiable they are the ones with ladders draped around their necks. The cyclist who is black with soot and has a rope around his neck is not on the way to a lynching party he's a chimney sweep. At any time duing the day, the neat looking, rather con servatively dressed men with brief cases or little black bags are lawyers, doctors, business men and others who decided long ago to solve the parking problem by traveling on two rather than four wheels. Dutch women also ride bikes in the morning to the mar ket, in the afternoon possibly to a luncheon, in the evening lo the cinema or theater. It is not unusual to see a housewife or young woman in a chic dress, silk stockings and high-heeled shoes pumping along the street on the way to some engage ment. She may be accompanied by her husband or date, pedalling along on his own two-wheeler. The ANVV says statistics show that cyclists range in age from 5 to 80 in Amsterdam. There are 1 million inhabitants in that city and 600,000 bikes. That does not mean the other 4,00,000 residents have to walk or ride in cars because a max imum of three persons are al lowed on each bike for ex ample, a child in front, one in the rear and a parent in the middle at Uie pedals. tors weighing 150 tons each. Egypt also will have to erect two power lines from Aswan to Cairo, each with a 500,000 KWT capacity, to carry the electric power produced by the dam. Seven other lines will fan out carrying power almost every where in the country. In addition, 12 power stations must i be built to handle the distribu tion and 2,400 power towers i will be needed to carrv the lines. I All this needs technicians, ma terials and manpower and Egypt is tightening its belt to I provide them. 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