THE WIZARDS OF SPACE
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By Don Oakley and John Lane
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon
Monday, June 24, 1963
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Next to manned flight, the most exciting ex
ploits of the early space age have been the
first attempts to send instruments beyond the
earth to the moon and into interplanetary space.
Responsible for America's efforts in this area
is National Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
JPL, located in Pasadena, Calif., differs from
NASA s other centers in that it is operated un
der contract by California Institute of Tech
nology. It has a staff of 3,800. Its spending in
fiscal 1964 may reach as high as $400 million.
JPL's major spacecraft programs are: Ranger
(hard moon landing), Surveyor (soft moon land
ing), Mariner (interplanetary explorer) and
Voyager (advanced planetary explorer).
NASA has spent over J10O million on the
Ranger program so far. There have been five
flights and five failures and the program is
behind schedule. Mariner has been delayed
because the Centaur rocket, designed to power
it into interplanetary orbit, has experienced
constant trouble. Voyager awaits the power
ful Saturn booster, now under development.
Between now and 1967, NASA plans to send
about 14 Rangers and 17 Surveyors to the
moon to prepare the way for the first astro
nauts. The 750-pound Surveyor, shown in first
panel, will land a complete "laboratory. Color
stereo television cameras will examine the
lunar landscape; other instruments will analyze
lunar soil and radio the findings back to earth.
Half a dozen Mariners will be sent to Venus
and Mars in 1964 and 1965. Toward the end
of the decade and into the next, JPL. will
launch even more spectacular deep-space
probes. One will arc through the tail of a
comet in 1967, when a number of comets are
due to appear. Probes are being considered
for the smallest and largest planets, Mercury
(1967) and Jupiter (early 1970s).
Another probe will be launched around the
sun out of the plane of the ecliptic; that is, at
an angle to the plane in which the planets
orbit. Finally, a probe will be sent as close to
the sun as 10 million miles to study its corona
and spectacular solar flares.
NEXT: Rover, RIFT, SNAP and Kiw!
Drink Excessively - You Die Early
NEW YORK HW - It now
has been demonstrated with hard
figures that those who drink ex
cessively and habitually pay for
it by dying sooner than they
would have otherwise.
Many people have always be
lieved it but usually they're not
alcoholic. Heretofore mathematic
al proof or disproof has been
lacking. Vital statistics do not
say whether their subjects were
alcoholic or non-alcoholic.
Michiko Tashiro, a statistician,
and Dr. Wendell R. Lipscomb
had the makings for such a
unique set of figures in the rec
ords of the California State Al
coholic Rehabilitation Organiza
tion. They are members of its
scientific staff.
Living and Dead
To its four alcoholism treat
ment centers 1.692 men and wom
en were admitted in a three
year period beginning in 1954.
Tashiro and Lipscomb checked
back on them all and separated
the presently, living from the
dead.
This gave them two sets of
statistics, a survival table and a
mortality table. These they com
pared to the same tables for the
California population as a whole,
making proper statistical and ad
justments for age. sex and race
in order to get mathematically
precise comparisons.
For the five year period under
consideration, the heavy drinkers
survived only 91 per cent as well
as their opposite numbers in the
general population, demonstrating,
the scientists said, that "alcohol-
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Death Rates Cpmpared
To verify this, they compared
mortality tables. The average an
nual death rate of the alcoholics
figured out to 26 per 1.000. In
the general population the rate
was It per 1.000. Thus, the death
rate among alcoholics was almost
2 1-2 to 1.
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In easa after case, while gently
relieving pain, actual reduction
(shrinkage) took place.
Most amaxing of all-results war
to thorough that sufferers made
astonishing statements lika "Piles
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The secret is a new healing sub
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This substance ii now available
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Russians Beating United States In Manned Space Conquest
CAPE CANAVERAL UPI -The
Russians are beating the
United States in manned conquest
of space but it's a safe bet they
aren't having half as much fun
at it.
America's No. 1 spaceport at
Cape Canaveral is tension laced
with tomfoolery a strange place
where strange Ihings might be
expected to happen. They do.
Like the time a Mercury astro-
Effort To Find Nuclear
Sub To Be Extended
ABOARD THE L'SS FORT
SNELLING AT SEA HlPIi-An
all-out effort by the Navy to lo
cate the missing nuclear subma
rine" Thresher will be made Mon
day, weather permitting, when
the two-man bathyscaph Trieste
plunges 8.400 feet to the floor of
the Atlantic.
Trieste, under low from Boston
hy the salvage ship Preserver at
a speed ranging from 2 to 4
knots, was expected to arrive at
Ihe site of the Thresher sinking,
220 miles east of Cape Cod. Sun
day night.
The MS million Thresher. 112
Navy ofticers and men and 17
civilian technicians aboard,
plunged to depths beyond her op
erating rapacity April 10. In
these depths, more than a mile
and a lialf beneath tlie surface of
the sea. the tremendous pressure
nf about two tons per square
inch was believed to have
cru.shed the hull of the vessel.
Since then Ihe Navy has been
using oceanographic research
vessels in an operation which ex
perts admit is an entirely new
field for the Navy: That of find
ing a sunken object of major
proportions at great depths.
Trieste, an oddly shaped un
derwater research device, is ac
tually two units. The top is a
huge, balloon-shaped float. 58
feet long and 11 feet in diameter.
Beneath it is the steel gondola
in which the "pilot" and observ
er ride.
When Trieste makes her dive
Monday she will check out an
area where previous tests with
special gear indicate the hulk of
Thresher might lie.
Naval experts point out there
is a difference of opinion as to
what might be expected to be
found.
naut spiced up an otherwise bor
ing "dry run" by suddenly clutch
ing at a gantry elevator and
yelling: "No! I don't want to
go!" The nation's press was on
hand for that one.
Or the evening the U.S. Navy
managed to lose a boatload of
newsmen at sea for an hour. when
four officers were unable to find
the port from five miles offshore.
But none of it quite matched
the recent evening when tne Fen-
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$3 Million
PORTLAND IL'PII - The Lip-
man-Wolfe & Co. today announced
purchase of the building it has
leased for the past 50 years.
The price for the 10-story down
town structure was reported as
in excess of $3 million.
Clarence Miller, store manager,
said the building was bought from
Henry A. Kuckerberg and the
O' Donald and O'Shea estates.
William Roberts, president ol
Lipman-Wolfe announced the pur
chase. The Roberts' company also
operates stores in Salem, Corval-
lis and Eastport Plaza in Portland.
wick Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration iFASAi came to
tow, recruited virtually everyone
from U.S. astronaut L. Cooper
Cooper Jr. on down, and laid
claims to beating both Russia
and America to the moon.
The slightly touched-up "docu
mentary evidence" was a movie,
Mouse on the Moon." which re
lated the story of how the tiny.
mythical Duchy of Grand Fen
wick started out to seek U.S. fi
nancial aid for plumbing arid
ended up by landing the first as
tronauts on the moon.
Grand Fenwick may also be
remembered as tlie 24 - square
mile country that, in an earlier
movie, decided that tlie best way
to get U.S. foreign aid was to go
to war with and get beaten by
America.
The movie may never win an
Academy Award. But from Coop
er on down, those spaeeporlers
whose lives are WTapped in and
around missiles, rockets and
space travel found it a delightful
spoof of their daily headaches
and heartaches.
It was perhaps the type of fun
that "outsiders" might find hard
lo comprehend, especially amid
the scientific fame and fortune
that is Cape Canaveral. !
But the Cape isn't a place you
would want to live just for fun.
After tlie initial glamour wears
off and it invariably does it
takes a high degree of dedication
to keep a top-grade scientist or
technician or missile worker here
to put men and machines into
space.
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