WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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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
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(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. Italy (UPD-Adlai
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