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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or. .Sunday, December 9, 1962 PAGE-J fii -I ; . ,7 7, ii 1 - g J - " ' i - ; mm s 10 years This week, a mechanical finger named Mariner 2 is reaching out 26 million miles lo lay a delicate electronic touch (or the first time on another planet, Venus. That small finger is part of a scientific hand that will try to lay firm grip on the myriad secrets up in peering a the skies for of the solar svstem from theiccnluiics. Mariner J equipped him blazing hot sun-surface of thejwith a new "sense" a longdis planet Mercury to the poisonous .tance touch to seek out the an- giant Jupiter with a few comets swers at last. thrown in for good measure by First Targets 1973. Far and away the most in- Long shqts into space have bcen'triguing members of the solar attempted in the past. But the 44 pound Mariner 2 is the world's first true emissary to another planet. It was dispatched Aug. 27 via U.S. rocket lo trv to peek through the perpetual clouds that hide the surface of Venus. In Gravity Field At this minute. Mariner 2 al ready is in the grip of the gravity field of Venus and will swing to within 21.000 miles of the surface Friday far closer than any man made object ever has come lo SAN FRANCISCO SUBWAY This cross-section cutaway is a photo-rendering of the Market Street subway planned for downtown San Francisco. Tha multi-level com. plex will be utilized by pedestrians and shops (upper underground level I, streetcars (center), and high-speed transit trains (lower). UPI Telephoto tired Bay City Commuters Approve New Transit Plan By JOHN BARNETT SAN FRANCISCO (UPI 'The commuters were upset. "When," they moaned, "are we going to get a decent night's sleep?" Members of the Citizens Com mittee for Rapid Transit could not help being a little smug. "Listen to us," they said, "and you won't have these problems." The problem of the moment was a storm, a full-blown gully washer which rained out the World Series for three days run ning, tore up streets and buildings in several cities and plugged up a tunnel which runs through the low mountains rimming the east ern edge oof communities on the inland side of San Francisco Bay. The commuters were the un. fortunate ones who lived on one side of the mountains and worked on the other. For more than a week after the storm, they lost two hours' sleep in the morning and got home two hours late for dinner because they had to drive I . i ' . tr f ' If tjv ' ' , ' I . ft . -,-.' i t ' r - " . 1 gr -.--1- ' ' tr ' "V X '" f : i ' - lit- ' V'Jt - .- is one of the baccara . SOCIETY GAMBLING This tables at the fashionable The Playboy, one of the recently . opened qambling clubs on the outskirts of London. UPI Telephoto Merry England Gripped By Big Gambling , LONDON il'PIi Back in 15-11 King Henry VIII had to pass a law against gambling because his archers were neglecting their( practice to play cards and dice In the absence of ordinance from her majesty. Queen Elizabeth II. Britain is going to the dogs today also to the horses, the bettor shops and the gambling clubs. This country is in the grip of On Jan. 1, 11, legal gambling casinos were permuted to open. The first of these, a luxurious London establishment named Le Cercle. revived ehemin de fer la similarikind of blackjack' which had been banned, in 1845 after a series of betting scandals and suicides. Abe Aronsohn of St. Paul, Minn., an American resident here, as sembled a syndicale which con verted one of the loveliest private over or around the mountains to get to work. Strikes Home The citizens committee's ad monitions apparently struck home. These commuters and thou sands of others in the bay area went to the polls Nov. 6 and put themselves $792 million in debt for a rapid transit system The margin of approval wasn't overwhelming only one per cent more than the two-thirds needed but it was enough to launch work on America's first entirely new rail transit system in nearly half a century. And, as a climax to more than 10 years of planning and studying and arguing, it made San Fran cisco a pace-setter in the world' wide struggle of metropolitan areas to unsnarl the traffic jams in which they are becoming more and more enmeshed, It will take nine more years of planning and building, but by the early 1970s the bay area will have a completely new 75-mile network of streamlined electric trains which will whisk travelers around a three-county area at speed of nearly a mile a minute including slops. Controls System At the heart of the system will be a computer that, like the model train hobbyist with his lay out. will operate every train in the svstem simultaneously. The suburban commuter will get perhaps another hour of sleep in the morning before walking, driving or riding a feeder bus to the nearest transit station. He won't have to worry about time tables; during rush hours a train will be available every 90 seconds and the rest of the time he won't have to wait more than 15 min utes. From the platform of his attrac tive neighborhood station, he will step aboard a sleek, streamlined railroad car of lightweight alumi num or steel, and stick a coded credit card into the slot of an electronic accounting gadget. I He will get his bill at the end of the month, the fare per trip ranging from 25 cents to a dollar.) Settled in a comfortable seat gazing out wide windows if he wishes, the commuter will zip along in air-conditioned case at speeds up to 70 miles an hour, There will be no crossroads: ex clusive right of way belongs to his train. In .TO minutes or so, pace Probe At Venus Meat's fe By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. raited Press International Is there a small area of com parative comfort on Mercury, de- Call man a dreamer, but never spite the boiling termperalures on call him unambitious. He fully its sun-side surface and the bitter expects to lay claim to half the, cold on its shady half.' planets m the solar system within I What are cornels, those mys terious and often regular visitors of tire in the sky, made of? And, perhaps most important, is there life at least, life as we know it on earth elsewhere in the solar system? The list of questions goes on and on. Man has dreamed them system are Venus and Mars, the only ones given a remote chance of possessing life of some kind and, conveniently, tlie two closest to earth. These are the first tar gets of U.S. interplanetary shots. America s Mariner 2 probe and the Soviet Union's one-ton shot fired toward Mars Nov. 1 lit should arrive there next June) were the last until 1964. Next year is "out" because the two will be out of range. Venus, whose orbit 26 million another piece of solar real estate 'miles away is the nearest to save the moon It is the first step in an awe some plan of space exploration that makes the man-inlo-orbit pro grams seem simple as a child's toy rocket. A hundred technical and politi cal reasons could be cited for spending billions of dollars to reach out at the planets. But it boils down to plain curiosity: What is under the clouds that hide the surface of Venus barren desert, or jungles, or even oil covered swamps? Is the planet Mars covered with networks of canals to chan nel water from its poles or are they an accident of nature? earth, will move back into range in spring of 1964, and the United States will train a pair of rockets on it immediately. These shots will be Manners similar to the "electronic eye" of the one now up there. Then the assault will begin in earnest. U.S. scientists already are designing and building six advanced-model Mariners, three times heavier than the earlier ones, tor shots at Venus and Mars starting in late 1964. Hunt For Microbes The early Mariners are sup posed to answer the question: Could life exist on other planets? The bigger ones will find out for lOMttl-aNHMrU Is HADrOMtU RtftHlKCf HOKW HMMMTUIU COKlKOt JHIltO SOU PUlkU Ot 1 f CIO UMHRMUftt COKTkOL 10UVUS r-MHICU flOX DCTtCTOR . uieul itut it k tutu l ' ' --v " 3 $irrv k. ..- N CtHMIC'Dll! COMMAND HIGH -CAIN ANTENNA (ON CHAMttlt UCONOARY SttM ttttSOK ft DtTtCl miMAur tim jthjohA- 10N0 RANGt AMM tNJ0A MARINER 2 SPACECRAFT VENUS SPACECRAFT This is picture of tha seal model of tha Mariner II spacecraft that is about to swing That will wind up the 1964-65 planetary hunting season. Venus will be out of range for 19 months and Mars for nearly two years thereafter. But by the time they roll back to within striking range in 1966-67, the United States hopes lo have heavier artillery and oven bigger and better mechanical ex plorers ready to go. May Orbit Planets A new family of interplanetary within 2 1 ,000 milai of the surface of Venui. UPI Telephoto sure, by sending a special cap sule to a landing with a mechan ical microbe hunter. This robot huntsman, weighing only about l'i pounds, sounds like something straight out of science fiction. It will shoot "sticky streams" over the surface and then reel them in. Equipment on board will determine whether any microbes are on the streamers. travelers known as Voyagers will be launched by America's bud ding new Saturn "super-rockets." Five years from now, these giant probes may be pulling into orbits around Venus and Mars to send long-life capsules with instruments in for landings. And lo Voyager may go the chance to solve another intriguing mystery: Are the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Dicmos, natu ral like earth's own-or are they. as some experts suggested, actu ally giant artificial satellites cre ated and launched by a Martian civilization long since dead? - ' Before the next 10 years are past, the United States plant to train its growing rofket guns on three other distant targets In the widespread solar family the planets Mercury and Jupiter, and the visiting comets. WORLD HORIZONS I r I 1 TM I Woman's Editor Discourses On Troubles Of Housewife (Mary Bass, for 1 years ex ecutive editor of the Ladies Home Journal, recently stopped hitting the typewriter keys to hit the lecture trail, disccoursing on topics of interest to women. In the following dispatch, Mrs. Bass reviews sme of her more memorable experiences, as an editor.) By PATRICIA McCORMACK I'nited Press International NEW YORK (UPI I All the world loves the punk housewife a combination of dumb Dora, but terfingers and ne'er-do-well. But the ultra-efficient housewife who clicks through her chores each day with computer speed draws the ire of all the world. Between the two types, there's the scrambled housewife not as punk as the punk housewife and not as efficient as t h e perfect type. All the world, apparently, reacts to the scrambled housewile with mixed feelings pity, disdain and disbelief The three types, each based on a true story published ui the Ladies Home Journal during the last quarter century, come to mind when the woman who was depending on whore he lives, the; executive editor of that magazine train will glide into a station in for 18 years looks back downtown San Francisco or Oak- .Mary Bass, the former editor land, and the commuter will go1 now embarked on a lecture tour cenlly, Mrs. Bass terminated an association begun in 1936. She did so well that by 1941 she was given a $5,000 raise. Moves Up Ladder By 1944 she was executive ed itor, developing and supervising such features as "What the Wom en of America Think," "How America Lives," and "How America Spends lis Money." During tne time she moved ahead in the editorial suite, the status of American women was undergoing big changes. Push-button appliances, instant and frozen foods, and wash 'n' wear fabrics freed them from much of the pre-World War II drudgery. Suddenly, the profes sional people-ualchcrs discovered (hat the hand that rocks the cradle is attached to shoulders that hold a head with a brain in it. Women, it was agreed, could think! While all of this was happening. the cost of living started Its spiral. Women in greater numbers went to work. Today, the image of the docile woman of 25 years ago has all but disappeared. The typical female is a wife, a mother, a homemakcr and career woman. She speaks up, goes out more, turns her hand at most every thing. "She's breaking her neck lo be everything and do everything," Mrs. Bass said. "Too much is be ing expected of her. Retreat From Role "Women don't value their own worth as women anymore. They apologize for their role in life and relrcat from ii. Their role should be to develop human beings as values. .Men don't have the time and if women don't do it, who will do it?" Mrs. Sass maintains that wom en don't realize their own poten tial. Sho claims many are too quick lo look for a book or outside advice when a problem in child raising, money management or marriage occurs. "Trust yourself," she said, "and don't depend too much on outside help. Doing it yourself, applying your own power to a problem Is the creative part of life." Mrs. Bass, a widow, has one son, Richardson, a prep scnooi sophomore. Like his mother, he leans to writing. Writing runs in the family. Her father, the late James S. Carson, was a newspaperman in Mexico City for many years. MtfB" '1.. V i' X. W AtfV. , ' f , n .ft the biggest gambling boom in its,h0mcs in London into a gambling history. The final figures for this salon. year are expected to show a total j As ,h. casinos prlifCratol and of about 1 billion sterling ($2 8 mymt Hi,n rM can Rct bet. Million i wagered on norscs. grey- (j liccnse-the famous resorts1 liounds. and on the gaming tables', Montc Carln and lnc f-rcnch -u(i .i' ii ihi mu i.ifi. -Riucra sent over scouts lo see This is a staggering amount lor ,h(1r wanHerinc nluncers Britain-more than 60 per cent of cre doln(, and t0 to inl0 the country's defence budect. It tomes to about 20 pounds sterling i$o6 per person in the land. Vnl1 A Rpllnr Brilnns have always been such i money coming Irom? bin bettors in the casinos of the' The National Union the local action Vse Groorrv Money Where is all this recalled the three types during an interview about her past and fu turein the world of women. Pity The llomemaker "The punk housewife's story to work. He won't even have lo find a parking place. Alternative Chans Without rapid transit, the ex perts sav. trainc on nav area slreets and highways would comeishe said, "was the greatest sue- to a honking halt by 1985. I cess. It brought more sympathy Right now there are nearly 4 and words ol encouragement than million persons in the area and they drive a million and a half cars. By 1985. the planners say. there will be 7.4 million residents and 3.4 million cars. Most of the people will settle in the suburbs but most of the new gambling job opportunities will develop In I the cities. of Small The implication of the bay any other storv. "By contrast, the greatest re sentment, judging from reader mail, was stirred by a report of a housew ife who did every thing pcrlectly. noting that 'I do my work in an hour.' Readers com plained and were disgusted, They didn't believe it. The punk housewife, on the other hand, complained that she never could seem to do anything right, on time or to the satisfac- the coM of lion of everyone. and rolling! "She was swamped," Mrs. Bass that made it possible for theselhardly miss it iwo years ago; slock, tne J.'JZ minion oona isucisani. ru.a num. m-i n'.u.-c p.riinr in W iheir monev mm-1 there were 10000. Now the licure'wilt mushroom into total bill of was a mess, the children seemed in3M i hnm i believed tn he about 20 0O0 jmore than S2 billion. lout of hand. in 'i.,v iwi the lirsl lrual Next vear. according to the or-i An average of 3.000 workers! "She asked what lo do to help belling shops opened and the ganizers of Ihe world s lirst "book- will spend most of Ihe next mnejand women everywhere sensed the -iii7en (oimH it at eav m.iker and Bellina Shrun Eouid- vears on the svslcm. and at discouragement ana wtous worm nia.-o Kot a m tuiv n iui it mcnt Exhibition." which closedllimes their number will swell to ol encouragement " t ,areiies Nov. 2.1 it will he 30.000 18(100 I When she left the Journal re- Conlincnt tliat obervers wondered Shopkeepers says some of it isiareajs rapid transit plan are im how they ever got the reputation, obviously coming out of the gro-lmcnse, both locally and to metro- of being "staid and conservative." eery bill. poiitan areas everywnere Two and a half years ago the' The housewife doesn't have lo With interest and Macmillan government took steps look (or the belting shop she can associated projects iv ' ; . -. , - - aS r i " ' f I r ' A J -Is i l -r ' ' , "- .I-' -' i ' ' ' ? ' -if, rf;Vi I , - ' ' 1 k'S Sif n yi !; -4 lVP! t, , 'I , -- J ., iiiW...- ,Vl I I.M BIG JOB AHEAD When Francis Keppel, above, wet recruited recently to head the U.S. Office Of Education, it was not a new situation to the Harvard dean. Fourteen years ago James Conent had recruited him to revive Harvard University School of Education. UPI Telephoto Harvard Dean Recruited To Head U.S. Education HITS LECTURE TRAIL Mary Bass, for 18 years, executive editor of the Ladies Home Journal, recently stopped hitting the typewriter keys to hit the lecture trail, discoursing on how America lives. She if shown et home here with her son, Richard ,on. UPI Telephoto CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) i President Jamei Bryant Conanl of Harvard was looking for a dean to revive the university's School of Education 14 years ago, young man named Francis Keppel was helping him. Ironically, Keppel got the job, President John F. Kennedy was looking last month for a man to1 breathe new life into the U.S. Office of Education. Dean Keppel was helping in the search. Once more. Keppel the recruit er was recruited. 'It's like one of those myslery stores where the character who seems to be helping the detective turns out to be the culprit, re marked one Harvard associate of the 46-ycar-old dean. The hope in Washington is that history will go on repeating itself and the U.S. Office of Education will make the same progress that Harvard's School of Education made under Keppel's imaginative leadership. The school was a barren Island on the Harvard landscape 14 years ago. Today it Is a fertile source of teachers, administrators and guidance people. It also Is a fnuntainhead of ideas and teach ing programs with nationwide acclaim. Keppel is silent about the con ditions, If any. under which he accepted the job of heading the poorly regarded Otlice ol Educa tion. But the understanding U that he will be given some free dom to recruit brains. He recruited students and facul ty members at Harvard with startling success and moulded the whole into a new institution. In Washington, it will be a matter of recruiting "super- grade" men end women who will lend character and strength to the administration's bogged-down education program. Keppel's Influence went far be yond Harvard to dozens of other universities and teachers collegos, to such International efforts as the Ashby Commission which drew up a blueprint for educa tion In Nigeria. He has worked closely with the Physical Sciences Study Commit tee, a brainchild of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which Is revolutionizing science teaching methods. He has been chairman of the Harvard Committee on Program Instruction which fostered B.. F." Skinner's famous teaching ma chinethe device that keeps pu pils Intelligently occupied while. teacher is working with problem children. He raised $2.75 million to build a new School of Education. In Washington he faces new problems. The greatest one Is in the bitter conflict that has long existed between competing educa tional groups and which prevents all teachers from forming a unit-, ed front.
