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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1958)
SUNDAY-JUNE 1, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALI.S, OREGO PAGE 3-D LOOKING OVER a variety of new type planting on the Lower Klamath Andrieu Ranch are Sam W. Chernabaeff of Malin, left, and Walt Jendrzejewski of the Klamath County An.nf. Offics. Chernabaeff. who it clantinq for Oscar Denault of Klamath Falls, ex plains that the crew is setting in three lines of spud seed in each of the rows. Con trasted with most spud rows which are about 36 inches apart, the rows laid by Chern abaeff and his crew are 12 to 14 inches apart, with the seed placed at six and eight inch intervals. The new method planting is accomplished by having a single row nlantar movina ahead of the double row planter which lays in a row on each side of the single. The acreage is being planted for seed, with approximately 33 sacks going into .. . -ii l ..L i i iL .:! the acre. The compact rows will rigation type watering. be sub-irrigated as opposed to the single row cor- 'Zy I . i 'CSS I Rocket Ship Pilots May Be In Armor P0i0sJGO crmsuei; . ,hii,"i'iiii, .' Mitel - MRS. CURTIS GODSEY is right on the job to trim down any of the cut spud slices which the machine cutter, right, turns out a little too large. The machine, operated by the Martin Ramsby crew on the Andrieu Ranch on Lower Klamath, turns out about 31 sacks of cut seeding spuds per hour. When compared with manual cutting ,of the spuds, the machine and its four person crew just about cuts the spud slicing cost in half. The Ramsby operation is cutting all White Rose spuds for seed. Weed Book Of Northwest Issued ByOSC OREGON STATE COLLEGE Work on Oregon weeds that was started 50 years ago by an Ore gon State College botanist, Dr. Helen M. Gilkey, has produced a valuable new reference book, "Weeds ot the Pacific Northwest," that is the first comprehensive key to weeds of the region. The 440-page book contains de scriptions and drawings . of 235 weeds that have economic im- jportance or potential in the North west. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, western Montana, and agricultural areas of British Columbia and Alaska arc covered. Weeds are "world travelers," Dr. Gilkey notes in the preface. They are introduced from other areas and countries in commercial seed. from cars and trains and planes, in hair of animals and clothing of man. as deliberate plantings for erosion control, and as ornamen lal or crops plants that eventually escape from cultivation, she points out. New crops bring new weeds, she notes. Western cranberry grow ers are now fighting pests prev iously unknown here but common in the bogs from which cranberry stock was imported. Weeds, like people, have strange backgrounds and behaviors, Dr. Gilkey s book reports. The book, published by the ag ricultural experiment station and the college publications commit lee. is being sold through the Ore gon Stale College Cooperative Hook Store for $ a copy. RECORD TROUT Mrs. Marie Pepin triumphantly holds aloft the record breaking hybrid trout she landed in uk Sunapee near Newbury, N.H. Fish weighed 15', pounds and was 33 ', inches long and with a girth of 20 V, inches. Mrs. Pepin battled it for 35 minutes and intends to mount COVER BOX WHEN you get a spud planting operation under way you can't take time out to worry about how much dirt is blowing in your face. However, Sam Chernabaeff, left, and Oscar Denault did stop their lower Klamath planting rigs down long enough to let Photographer Don Kettler snap this picture of a couple of hard work ing guys. By JOHN A. BARBOUR Associated Press Science Reporter NEW YORK W Space knights in leaden armor may pilot tomor row's rocket exploration of the mysteries of space. Latest reports from our first tiny satellites Indicate the earth is hemmed in by a spherical blan ket of high energy rays rays that could eventually kill a space trave'er by destroying vital body cells. Lead armor suits weighing about 100 pounds could cut X-radiation some 90 per cent and enable space mlots to stay in the radiation area for some six months without too much danger.. The blanket of rays may reach as high as 10.000 miles above the earth and as low as 600 miles. Space travelers bound for the moon or other planets would pass through this radiation band so quickly that it would not be too much of a nazard. But they would probably wear protective armor anyway. The real danger would be to men who would work and live on an earth satellite orbiting through the radiation band. Without pro tection they might -die after a prolonged exposure to X-rays. This band ot radiation is jusi one of the dangers of space. Prob ably it can be overcome, but two other monstrous barriers will con tinue to stand between man and his search for new life on other worlds of the universe. ' Those barriers are his own short life span and the incredible dis tances of space. A man piloting a space ship that traveled 100,000 m.p.h. could fly for 30 years and still be barely out of his own dusty corner of space. . He would have traveled some 44 billion miles. The nearest star is 24 trillion miles away. He would have to travel some 30,000 years at 100.000 m.p.h. to reach it Look at it this way: If the earth were a mere bit of buck' shot, the sun would be a two-foot beach ball some 213 feet away The nearest star, another beach ball, would be 11.000 miles away Yet sooner or later man will want to look into the other solar systems of the universe.. Some astronomers believe there is life at least as advanced as ours on perhaps some 100 million other planets. The only answer to the prob lems of penetrating the universe seems to be more speed perhaps apprcachiiig the speed of light, 186.000 miles a second. If man can ever find away ot rocketing through space at even half that speed, he could reach the nearest star in about eight years as against the 30,000 years! it would take at 100,000 m.p.h. Might now, however, the barriers of distance seem insurmountable. Man may have to content him self with conquering his own solar system the eight planets that ac company the earth on the silent journey around the sun. These planets ore almost within reach. This year rocket flights are planned o the moon, only some 240,000 miles away. Someday perhaps in the next few years men will rocket to the moon in five hours. After the moon has been won. space scientists will shoot for the planets. Venus almost earthlike in size is the next planet on the sun- side of our orbit. 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