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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1957 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINR f Seneral Visits In Dunsmuir DUNSMUIR Maj. Gen. Harvey Fischer, commanding general o( the Southern European Task Force, 4 branch of NATO, with headquar ters at Verona, Italy, left Duns sjiuir Monday after a quiet 10-day Jay. General Fischer's arrival in unsmuir was occasioned by the forious illness of his mother, Mrs. Berman Fischer, 201, Wood Street. Irs. Fischer is in the Mount Shasta Hospital and is still criti cally ill. Her husband, Herman Fischer, a daughter, Mrs. Howard Woodside of Auburn, and a son. pidney Fischer of Dunsmuir, were among the immediate relatives at tier bedside this week. In discussing the United States jnihtary strength in Europe, Gen eral Fischer said he felt the Chris tian spirit and simple neihborli hess are a greater potential force hhan atomic weapons and inier ' continental missiles. These defen sive measures are not a long Jrange solution: learning to live to ijgether is, the general said. He jstates personnel in his command i are learning the Italian language, customs and background. In turn. (service men and their families are being encouraged to inviie their Italian neighbors to observe and participate in their activities. Un derstanding and confidence of the peoples of the world Is our best defense." General Fischer said. Fischer, who has spent most of the last two decades outside of the United States, finds himself a com Darative stranger in his own coun try. In asking directions or mak ing simple purchases, he says he finds courtesy and concern for an other's needs could be more wide ly practiced here. Fischer lelt his command on October 9 for a temporary assign ment at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is his first visit to his home town since Christmas, 1952. Weather Table By UNITED PRESS Temperatures and rainfall C3 1 Maria, iscxsl a Criiiuat b Foecunditahs 3 Proeellarum Neetarts it Vjporum d Tranquillttatis i MaJrium e SevnitMts j iumorum f Imbntim h Feigoris Craters I Clavius m T3ail!jf a Ttfcho o Copernicus fountain Paxges p Apennines q Hips r Voerfel s Zeibnitz t Altai Peaks U Plea vTUon. AP NwtfaturM Silent, Lifeless Moon Waits For First Visitor From Earth By TOM IIENSHAW Associated Press ! Newsfeaturcs Writer Sooner or later and there's a good chance it'll be sooner the first earthman is going to step out of his spaceship and onto the moon. Scientists, viewing the moon for centuries over a distance never closer than 216.420 miles, can make a pretty shrewd guess as to what the first lunar explorer will find. The moon is a dusty, lifeless. rugged, silent globe about a quar ter the size ot the earth. It will provide none of the earth's life giving necessities, not even air. ine tirst man who, milleniums ago. looked at the moon detected dark and light areas. He no doubt thought ot the dark patches as seas. ' Later they were given the name maria, or seas. Telescopic investigation, how ever, revealed them to be dry plains, possibly great stretches of lava from age-old geologic dis turbances. But, the areas are still known as maria. Some of the maria are of tre mendous size. The largest, Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) is about twice as large as the Mediterranean Sea. Mare Imbrium (Sea of Showers) covers some 340.000 square miles. The light areas on the moon are mountain ranges and plateaus. The Licbnitz and Dorfel ranges are higher than any mountains on primitive forms like bacteria or earth, more than 30.000 feet. lichens. Some astronomers think Unseen by tho naked eve but lncy ve detected plant-like changes easily among the most impressive I in clor on the earths natural sights through even a low-powered i satellite. . telescope are the craters of the The moon s gravitational pull is moon. They have been the object of considerable scientific contro versy. One school of thought holds that they were caused by the impacts of meteors long ago. The moon, with no protective shield of atmos phere, is easy prey to the space wanderers. Another theory is that the craters were formed by volcanic activity in the centuries before the moon cooled into a barren world. Still another theory has it they are deformations of the moon's outer crust which appeared as in ner layers cooled and contracted. The deepest crater is Newton, 29,000 feet. Bailly, 170 miles in di ameter, covers the largest area. Clavius is 17,000 feet deep and 145 miles in diameter. The most impressive crater Is Tycho (most are named for famed astronomers). It appears as huge light spot with light lines ra diating away from it. It is just possible that the moon does have an atmosphere, but one so thin as to be almost undetect able. Some scientists think it's made up of chemically inert gases like argon. It is also possible, but not likely, that life exists on the moon in one-sixth that of the earth. Thus, a 150-pound lunar explorer will find that he weighs but 25 pounds. He will be able to perform prodigious feats of agility. Some 20 years ago, the Ilaydcn Planetarium in New York, made up a fictional play-by-play account of a baseball game on a mile long, half mile-wide moon v dia mond. The first batter flied to an out fieldera quarter ot a mile away. The second batter hit a home run and rounded the bases in 12 strides at 30 feet per stride. , The third batter lined the ball over short and the shortstop leaped 30 feet in the air to grab it. The game was played in com plete silence no. cheering, no ar guments with the umpires. There is no sound on the airless moon. The moon also is subjected to great extremes of temperature. In the center of the light side, it Exclusively Siricken Family Selected To Lead Polio Fund Drive 24 hours ending at 4:30 a.m. High Low Rain Albuquerque M 38 .63 Atlanta 67 47 . .... Bakersfield 64 43 Boise 51 32 Boston 56. 49 .01 Brownsville 84 69 Chicago 52 40 T. Denver 37 33 .07 Detroit 50 41 El Centro 70 54 Fresno 64 49 T. Helena 37 19 ... Kansas City 45 41 Los Angeles 66 Miami 81 63 New Orleans 07 33 New York 57 49 Oakland 64 47 Oklahoma City 48 42 .12 Phoenix 66 47 Pittsburgh 48 42 .01 Bed. Bluffy, M . ..63 37 . San Diego 64 56 .28 San Francisco , 61 , 51 Seattle 52 33 ... Stockton 66 40 Thermal . 70 46 Tucson 67 46 Washington 60 43 California Weather By UNITED PRESS San Francisco Bay Region: Fair through Wednesday except patch es of morning high fog: little change in temperature; high to day 63-68; low tonight 50 in down town San Francisco and Oakland and 44 elsewhere; westerly winds 7-14 m.p.h. afternoons. . Northern California: Fair north portion and partly cloudy central : weakness. For the first time in the 20-year history of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a family, rather than a single child has been chosen to appear on its nationally distributed March of Dimes poster and coin collectors. A young Air Force officer's fam ily, the Joseph L. Solomons of War ner Robins, Georgia, has been for named 1958 March of Dimes pos- uu luuuiy, ii nus uuen uuiiuuiiLtru by Basil O'Connor, president of the national foundation. Their picture will appear on millions ol pieces of campaign literature and posters. During January they will make a coast to coast tour, ap pearing at polio fund events. Mrs. Helen Solomon and iier three children, Joe, now 9, and twins, Lindy and Sandy, now 6. all had polio during a single week in 1953, and they have been fight ing the effects of the criDpling dis ease ever since. The father of the family, Maj. Joseph L. Solomon, was away on temporary duty with the Air Force at the time. "As the Salk vaccine makes 'new' polio more and more invis ible, the Solomons are a living, visible reminder that the polio problem does not end with the wonderful headlines on declining polio incidence, O Connor says. "The Solomons were siricken with polio in the days when there was no Salk vaccine." he states. "Their groping toward a normal productive life will continue far into the future, perhaps at a time when there are not many new polio cases recorded during a summer. . Ever since July 4, 1933, the tragic aftermath of pclio has been a daily part of the Solomon house hold, according to attending physi cians at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, Joe and Sandy, who require daily physical therapy, will need operations when they are 12. Mrs. Solomon had a mild case of polio and was left with no muscle and rehabilitation techniques nec essary if Joe and Sandy are to live normal, productive lives. Since second attacks of polio are possible, all three children com pleted the full series of three Salk shots when the vaccine became available. "We have only one small com fort when we look at our kids to day," Major Solomon says, "and that is the knowledge that we had done everything possible to ward off polio when it struck our lamuy. in !9o3 there wasn t much we could do except keep them out of crowds, make them rest, ob serve strict standards of cleanli ness. If there had been a vaccine and we hadn't used it, I don't know how we could ever face the kids again. That's why we think last summer's headlines about even a few thousand polio cases were so heartbreaking, most of them could have been prevented. RED FACES CHICAGO (UP) lwan Ries 4 Co., once a major supplier of ci gar store wooden Indians, had to find and buy one for its lOOlh an niversary celebration. OSBURN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mrs. J. Erlr Jot Esrlj Jr Prontrf Thoroughly Modern Chas. J. Cizek TAILOR Suits Made To Order Perfect Fit Guaranteed 119 SOUTH 7th W-BFAlM vixtwwjvr reaches 214 degrees, about the boil ing point of water. Away from the sun, the temperature drops to 230 degrees below zero. To the lunar explorer, the heav ens will present a weird sight. The sky will be black. The stars will be unflickering pinpoints of light. The earth will dominate the sky, a great green-tinted ball about four times the size of the moon at it appears in the earth's sky. Victory Claimed By Nationalists TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) Chi nese Nationalist naval vessels sank six "large and small" Com munist Chinese gunboats In a be-fore-dawn engagement today south of Matsu Island, the National De fense Ministry announced. ' The announcement said the Red gunboats were intercepted a short distance from Matsu, the key northern offshore island only 10 miles - off the . Communist-held mainland. Tower Theater Bldg. P.O. Boi 596 Ph. TU 4-402S NOTICE ! OREGON WOOLEN STORE FOR MEN CLOSED Until 10 A.M. Friday SEE OUR AD THURSDAY HERALD & NEWS BRUIN BEATS A RETREAT GRAND MARAIS, Minn. Wl Bedtime bear stories: A loud crash woke Herman Hendrickson out of a deep sleep. He found himself face to face with a bear." Bruin, somewhat startled himself, went out where the door had been. Hen drickson found the door ripoed from its hinges. When Mrs. Rus sell Gunderson walked into her bedroom to retire for the night she found a bear silling on her bed. While Mrs. Gunderson raced to a neighbor for help, the bear left through a screened window, knocking over furniture enroute. area through Wednesday: few light showers in San Joaquin Val ley and snow flurries in Sierra south of Lake Tahoe: little change in temperature; coastal winds var iable 8-15 m.p.h. Sierra Nevada: Fair north por tion and scattered snow flurries south of Lake Tahoe through Wednesday: scattered light show ers below 5,000 feet south portion; little change in temperature. Sacramento Valley: Fair Ihrough Wednesday: little change in temperature: high both days 60 70: low tonight 36-46; gentle vari- able winds. , Northwestern California: Fair through Wednesday; little change in temperature; high today and low tonight Ukiah 68-36, Santa Rosa 66-34, Napa 66-37: coastal winds variable 8-15 m.p.h. Total March of Dimes aid to the family to date has been over $5,000 in addition to the substan tial sums the family has spent. Many more thousands of dollars will be needed for the operations Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purse Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite M. Ward and Soni 925 High TU 2-4404 Why Did She Do It? Geo. N. Taylor Cat-Fit lived in an old shack beside the brick-pond. her, tall and skinny, the icy winter wind driving ner old coat and calico dress against her thin self. Down the street she came, drawing a four-wheeled boy's cart and you know she has come for the family wash. Then one day word came that Cat-Fit was dead. She had hung herself by the neck in the old shack there by the brick pond.. Now give the Cat-Fit kind a little lift. It may testify as to what Christ has for such. For the Son of Man 's come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10 BIBLE. Adv. You can see James Lanca P.O. Box 163 Bend. Oregon Phone: EV 2-5296 your Equitable representative askit "HOW MUCH ARE YOU PAYING YOURSELF?" 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You get the only car that's new in every way from name plate to taillights. And every comparison proves il! Your shift buttons are where they belong in the center of the steering wheel. When you have exclusive Teletouch Drive, you shift without even lifting a hand from the wheel. Your big Edsel Engine is the newest V-8 in the world. You have never in your life had this kind of usable power before. Your Edsel brakes are more than big and safe they are self-adjusting. The instrument panel goes beyond being handsome it is based on the latest, most efficient aircraft de signs. And the seats are genuine contour seats. Only the Edsel offers you all these advances and more. Yet Edsel prices start just above the low-priced three. Visit your Edsel Dealer this week for sure. Try out 1958' s one really new car. 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