SUNDAY-JUNE 1, 1958
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALI.S, OREGO
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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
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the acre. The compact rows will
rigation type watering.
be sub-irrigated as opposed to the single row cor-
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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. We know little
about it because of the density
of its atmosphere and the heavy
clouds about it.
On the other side of our orbit
is little Mars. With its strange
looking canal-like markings and
its changing colors. Mars has been
given the best chance of having
some form of life, possibly vege
table. It is only halt the size of
earth.
Perhaps these two planets, it
they can support, life, may become
earth suburbs in space.
Beyond Mars the planets get
colder and colder with the greater
distance Irom the sun.
First the space traveler would
encounter the asteroid belt a wild
merry-go-round of spatial debris,
chunks of planets perhaps. This
ring of flying matter seems to
be strongly influenced by the pull
of Jupiter, the largest planet and
the next one out from Mars.
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