TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1957
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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niversary celebration.
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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.
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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
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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.
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1958
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a 1958 Edsel. 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
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Your big Edsel Engine is the newest V-8 in the
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Your Edsel brakes are more than big and safe
they are self-adjusting. The instrument
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based on the latest, most efficient aircraft de
signs. And the seats are genuine contour seats.
Only the Edsel offers you all these advances
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