Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 37, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 October 1981 — Page 3

Groggy sixth-graders end 50-hour bid for world's longest class ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Heads drooped, hands rubbed tired eyes and yawns became infectious as sixth graders at Anderson's Lindbergh School wound up the world’s longest class, a 50-hour marathon. “I’m really tired,” confessed Amy Watson, "but I think we’ve accomplished something I can look forward to and share with my family in the future.” For Amy, there was more than just the excitement of an extended slumber party with her classmates. “All the national publicity was neat, and I’ve already been on the television news," she said. "My sister was excited but also a little jealous. " Besides all the media attention, the class received telegrams from Indiana Congressmen Elwood Hillis and Phil Sharp and a letter from a 1931 graduate of Lindbergh who now lives in California. About 250 parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters came to watch the end of the class’ bid to be listed in the Guiness Book of World Records. As the children counted down the last seconds to 10:10 a.m. Saturday, their relatives rang bells, honked horns and cheered. Becky Swager came to watch her daughter Shelly finish. ‘‘l feel like I’ve been up for 50 hours also," Mrs. Swager said. "Most of the parents have been here off and on doing some cheerleading. Shelly looks like she’s still very wide awake this morning, but she’ll probably collapse as soon as I get her home.” Greg Talkington said the hardest time for him was between 2 am. and 4 am. Saturday. "I had a tough time keeping my eyes open,” he said. Teachers Bill Beatty and Jayne Samples had a variety of diversions for the youngsters from the start of the marathon at 8:10 a.m. Thursday. Friday night was spent talking on a ham radio to points around the world. The children got excited when a ham radio operator in New Zealand said he had heard about their project. Anderson police staged a mock arrest at the classroom. Four children were taken down to the police station, booked, fingerprinted and had their mugshots taken. Then police returned them to the school, where the youngsters told their classmates what it was like. "Last night, as we approached our goal, it finally hit me what was happening." said Beatty. “This isn’t the normal event happening in Anderson Hopefully, the kids won’t forget about this for the rest of their lives.”

Climate warning New evidence cites 'greenhouse' effect of carbon dioxide buildup

C.TSBI N.Y. Times WASHINGTON - Strong new evidence that carbon dioxide pollution is causing a potentially dangerous warming of the earth’s climate has been detected by scientists at Columbia University. Although the new findings cannot be linked directly to the long-theorized “carbon dioxide effect,” the scientists say the data are compelling because the warming they detected occurred at the very places on the globe where the theory says the effect should be most pronounced.. The carbon dioxide theory holds that the buildup of the odorless, colorless gas in the atmosphere caused by the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels, which began in the late

Unemployed offered free want ads

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) Unemployed persons who missed one giveaway have been given a second chance to seek a job by placing a free advertisement in a northern Indiana newspaper. On Oct . 11, the Hammond Times newspaper ran a half page of free want ads for 223 out-of-work northwestern Indiana residents. In announcing plans for a “We Want the Calumet Region Working” section the newspaper said it had been deluged with calls from people who want to place an ad but had failed to prepare one for the Oct. 11 edition. The newspaper plans to run the special section next Sunday. Coupons for the free advertisements appeared in the newspaper’s Sunday editions and were scheduled to run again in today’s paper. In order to be listed in the free section, the coupons must be returned to the newspaper by Wednesday.

Memorial to Vietnam veterans called 'part of healing process'

BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) - There probably will be more pomp and glitter sometime next year when anational memorial is dedicated to the 57,692 men and women who died in Vietnam. But it will provide no more satisfaction for Gary May than did the ceremony Saturday during which an 11-foot polished aluminum obelisk bearing the simple inscription, “Dedicated to All Vietnam Veterans 1981,” was unveiled. To May, the monument on the Warrick County Courthouse lawn, and dozens of monuments in sfnall towas across the country, signal the beginning of the

19th century with the Industrial Revolution, should convert the earth into a kind of greenhouse. This is because the gas captures heat reflected from the earth’s atmosphere, preventing it from dissipating into space, and the presumption is that this action warms the earth’s surface. The report comes on the heels bf another study, using different techniques, by scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who found an overall global warming since 1880. A continuation of this trend, they said, could ultimately lead to flooding of lowlands throughout the world and to other climate-related disruptions. But it has been hard to find any practical evidence of this

end of the war which divided the nation and, on a personal basis, robbed him of his legs. “This is the sort of acknowledgment we need from John end Jane Citizen that we did the right thing,” May told a gathering of less than a hundred people. “In some small way, this shows an appreciation for what we did. It’s late, but it is part of the healing process.” The monument was a project of the Boonville Jayceees, who, during the two years it took to raise the $2,000 necessary, found that not all of the wounds from the war have healed. “We got a lot of bad comments about it,” said Tom

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Americans, Swede share

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Two Americans and a Swede won the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for their development of two types of spectroscopes vital in nuclear studies. Professor Kai Siegbahn of Uppsala University got one half

“greenhouse” effect. Indeed, average surface air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have dropped in the last few decades. The matter is complicated by the fact that industrial and volcanic aerosols, other pollutants and dust in the upper atmosphere have an opposite, that is, cooling, effect on the globe. The new study was performed by Dr. George J. Kukla and his research assistant, Joyce E Gavin, at Columbia’s LamontDoherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. A full report on the work, supported by the National Science Foundation, is to appear in the Oct. 30 issue of the journal Science. Because of natural variability of climatic conditions and

Newspaper officials say they won’t take telephone orders for the special ads. But anyone who doesn’t have a coupon can obtain one by coming to the newspaper office. Besides the people who want to have their “want to work” ads run, the Times reports it is getting inquiries from Sunbelt companies who are looking for workers. Cooper Manufacturing Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., contacted the newspaper to say it’s interested in receiving applications from unemployed, experienced people in the Calumet Region. “We especially need draftsmen and engineers,” said Steven Karey, supervisor of Cooper’s personnel services. “But we also have jobs in the heavy manufacturing areas for inexperienced people.” The newspaper said Cooper Manufacturing is the third Tulsa business to contact it. The firms say there is a shortage of skilled workers in their area.

Miller, who headed the project. “A lot of older vets didn’t like it because it is for Vietnam veterans only.” One local veterans organization offered to donate the money for a monument honoring soldiers and sailors from the three wars prior to Vietnam in this century, Miller said. “But (Vietnam veterans) are the only ones who got screwed out of what was rightly theirs,” Miller said. Jim Gorman, who served two tours in Southeast Asia and is still in the Naval Reserve, served in the honor guard.

of the SIBO,OOO award, the other half was shared by professors Nicolaas Bloembergen of Harvard and Arthur Schawlow of California’s Stanford University. Bloembergen, the third Harvard professor to receive a

because of such confounding factors as industrial pollution, Kukla reasoned that any incipient signs of the carbon dioxide effect, or “signals,” might be disguised if only overall measures of global temperatures were studied. Therefore, he focused on regions where previous studies had suggested that the effect would be amplified, and therefore easier to detect. These regions were in high latitudes where the continental snow pack and sea ice melts in the summer. Once snow begins to melt and its highly reflective surface is broken, the surface absorbs more heat. The warm moist air that rises in turn causes the snow to melt still more, a phenomenon scientists call

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Nobel Prize this year, and Schawlow were cited by the Swedish Academy of Sciences for their contribution to “the development of laser spectroscopy.” Siegbahn was cited “for his contribution to the development

“feedback.” In addition, industrial contaminants are not as prevalent at these latitudes, particularly near Antarctica. To measure possible changes around the Antarctic ice pack, where ground stations are sparse, the Columbia team compared recent satellite photographs of the extent of the ice pack with old Soviet and American atlases and with whaling ship reports between 1929 and 1934. They found that the typical summer ice pack had decreased about 35 percent, by 2.5 million square kilometers, or about 1 million square miles from 1973 to 1980. The Antarctic ice cover was also found to be considerably lighter than shown in atlases published in 1957 and 1966 and in the ship reports from the 19305. This was taken as an indirect measure of higher temperatures. In the Northern Hemisphere, more direct measurements were available from American, Canadian, Soviet and other weather stations. While there had been no shrinking of the Arctic ice pack, or any overall temperature increase, the scientists did find that average summer surface temperatures in the melt area from 1974 to 1978 were 0.9 of a degree centigrade higher than from 1934 to 1938, which was the warmest period in the Northern Hemisphere in this century.

Nobel Prize for Physics

of high-resolution electron spectroscopy.” The laser spectroscope, developed by Bloembergen and Shawlow, is used to study atoms with laser light beams. The electron spectroscopy system, largely developed by

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October 19,1981, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

Sen. Jackson rates A WACS a toss-up

(c) 1981 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO—The Reagan administration “has a fairly good possibility of winning” its effort to sell Awacs planes to Saudi Arabia, Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) said Sunday. Jackson, a Senate member for three decades, made that prediction despite his own opposition to U.S. sale of the sophisticated aerial surveillance planes to the Saudis. Jackson, advocate of a strong military establishment and a longtime friend of Israel, devoted the major portion of a speech to his opposition to the Awacs sale. He addressed a $l5O-a-plate fund-raising dinner of the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago. Jackson hammered away at Saudi ownership and control of the advanced planes, contending that they might let “America’s highest technology” slip into the hands of others. “Even our NATO allies understand that the Supreme Allied commander (an American) commands and controls Awacs there,” Jackson said. “They (the Saudis) can’t tell us they are above our

Siegbahn, is for the study of electrons expelled from atomic systems by different processes. The awards underlined a continued American dominance in the Nobel science categories. Bloembergen, born in Holland in 1920 and graduated

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closest allies in NATO.” The veteran senator said he would favor “Saudi usage” of the planes if they remained under U.S. command, were part of a Mideast regional security system and were owned by the United States. The Saudis have rejected U.S. command of the planes. Jackson, talking to reporters prior to his speech, said an impending Senate vote on the sale—expected the week after next—is “too close to call.” But he gave the Reagan ad ministration a shot at winning approval, unless, he said, the president “manages to over-do it with arm-twisting.” The administration, which lost its approval bid in the U.S. House 3-to-l, reportedly is making a major effort to win in the Senate, with lots of personal contact. Jackson said a major problem Reagan has to overcome is having proposed the sale to the Congress without first conferring with its members. Both the House and the Senate must veto the sale by Oct. 31 or it will go through. Jackson said if Reagan does win in the Senate it will be by one or two votes.

with a doctorate from Leiden University there, has been an American citizen since 1958. Shawlow, 60, was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., received his doctorate at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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