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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE 5 A OUTWARD TO THE STARS (4)Rocket Pioneers By Don Oakley and Ralph Lane Ex-NY Mayor Planning Film Dickens' "Oliver Twist" in Holly wood with English-speaking Mexi can actors, the newspaper La It said O'Dwyer also hoped to undertake additional production! in a joint venture with Mexican Aficion said Tuesday. 1 producers. MEXICO CITY (UPD-Former New York Cily Mayor William O'Dwyer plans to film Charles Im Iss ; m ft & Ml Ml$-v; (1) The story of space now turnj to rockets. Known to the Chinese possibly as early as the 7th century, by the 13th they were employing them as weapons. In Europe, however, rockets were mere. Jy used as fireworks until the late 18th century. Then the Englishman William Congreve developed an artillery rocket. During the Napoleonic Wars military rockets reached a high point, then fell Into disuse. The "rockets' red glare" seen by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Ft UcHenry in 1814 were Congreve rockets. (2) Space travel was an old dream, and the wisest men knew that rockets offered the only practical form of propulsion. But not until the 1890s was any serious mathematical work done, when the Russian Konstantin Ziolkovsky first ad vocated liquid-fueled rockets. He also studied the problems of keeping men alive in space. (3) In America, Prof. Robert H. Goddard built rockets to probe the upper atmosphere. He was the first to test rocket theories in the workshop. (4) Like Ziolkovsky, Goddard arrived at the conclusion that at that time liquid rockets were the best source of power. In 1926 he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Its two-foot-long motor burned for two and a half seconds. The rocket covered a distance of 184 feet at about 60 miles an hour. It has been likened to the Wright brothers' first airplane flight. In Germany about the same time, the Hungarian-born Hermann Oberth had also hit upon some of the same rocket ideas. His writings sparked the formation of amateur rocket clubs throughout Europe. From one of them, the German Society for Space Travel, was to come the builder of the famous V-2. . Next: The V-2. Space Travel Meeting Held PALO ALTO, Calif. AP The hardware to shoot a man to' the moon in a space ship may be in light. But a still unanswered question Is: Could a human pilot survive the rifling bombardment of cos mic rays outside the earth's at mosphere? "We really have no idea of how great the hazard may be," Cot David G. Simons, Air Force bal loon explorer, told a man-on-the-moon symposium at Stanford Uni versity last night. Simons reached 102.000 feet in a balloon flight last year and has two gray hairs on his forearm as a result. He said photoplate evi dence indicates a hit from a pri mary ray killed the pigment cells of the hairs. Relatively, Simons said, t h e heavy primary rays are like rifle bullets and nuclear radiation like shotgun pellets. Beyond 130.000 feet altitude, man would encounter primary rays ranging free and unchecked by atmospheric molecules. Simons said the University of Chicago is attempting to develop a device for a comprehensive check of the density of the explod ed, atom particles in space. We do have tenuous evidence Japanese Fails Suicide Leap OSHIMA ISLAND, Japan (UP1) A would-be suicide, his love un reduced, trudged to the too of Ja for assuming man could survive pMys favorite lover's leap vol in In 1A Una..... rJ ; r .... .... . up to 24 hours of cosmic radia tion," Simons told the closing symposium of the American As- tronautical Society s Western region. "RADIOACTIVE" TEA SAFE WASHINGTON (UPII-The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that radioactivity in a cargo of Japanese tea that arrived in New York last month was far below the dangerous level. It said the tea was safe for human consumption. canic Mt. Mihara and prompt ly jumped into the wrong crater, police reported today. Koichiro Wada, 25, a Tokyo merchant, plummeted all of 16 feet and wound up with a couple of scratches. He had expected to end his miseries with a 300-foot plunge into the active crater. Crewman Dies As Jet Falls FOLLETT, tex. (API A six engine jet bomber crashed near this Texas Panhandle town last night, killing the engineer. The three other crew members of the B47 from Biggs Air Force Rase, El Paso, Tex., bailed ,out. The navigator suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized in Shat tuck, Okla., according to Sheriff T. J. Tarbox. The' Air Force withheld the names of the dead and injured, and Norman E. Hermes, 23, El Paso. Amarillo, Tex., AFB said the ship was on an aerial refueling operation, but refused to comment further. Thunderstorms were reported in the area. ADLAI IN ITALY FLORENCE. 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