Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1955 — Page 4
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Top Scientists Work On Conquering Space
(Editor's note: This is the last of four articles on the practical possibilities and problems of a space travel by a science writer who visited U. S. rocket and guided missile bases and talked to the world's foremost space scientists.) By EDWIN DIAMOND WHITE SANDS, N. M. (INS) — locket and guided missile experts lave a routine answer to a question that has become routine since Get Unbelievably Fast Relief from Paia of • RHEUMATISM •ARTHRITIS •COLDS NRJRALGIA*HEADACHES y St DUTTtrEO TOr trigger action... work twice a* hi ft at aspirin! Bottle of IS, KBS e* ONLY i<EO C j Tj?exatfjf SMITH DRUG CO.
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i the U. S. announced plans to launch a space aatelite. The question: When will man fly to the moon and the planets? The answer: After spending a few billion dollars. Dr. Ernest A. Steihhoff. 45, expects to see a "trip to the moon within my lifetime.” Dr. Steinhoff, a veteran rocket scientist, is a key figure in the research laboratories centering at White Sands proving ground in the New Mexico desert. Dr. Steinhoff is one of the original group of German space enthusiasts who organized rocket in pre-Hitler Germany. Steinhoff, with other rocket society graduates like Wernher Von Braun, Hermann Oberth and karl Dornberger, were drawn together at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea WEEK-END SPECIALS LARD ib. 10c BEEF CHOPSIb. 49c CHUCK ROAST lb. 36c BEEF LIVER — lb. 19c GROUND BEEF, Ib. 29c MINUTE STEAK, Ib. 59c PORK PATTIES-, Ib. 59c VEAL PATTIES-, lb. 59c FRESH SAUSAGE Ib. 29c SUDDUTH’S MEAT MKT. So. 13th St. Phone 3-2706
coast. There HJtler'o vengeance xreapons —• V-l apd V-2 — were developed. In the closing days of World War 11, with Russian troops rushing in from the east and American British spearheads moving |k from the west. Von Braun. Steinhoff and some 200 other German rocket technicians elected to flee weet and surrender. They also helped the Allies seise over 100 unused V-2s; in late 1845 the Germans and the V-2s were brought to the southern New Mexico desert. Dr. Steinhoff, now a U. S. citizen and active In the American rocket society, says: "Space flight is feasible, but there are many things we still don't know about apace phenomena.” Space travel. Steinhoff emphasizes, is not the primary mission of any of the military research centers. He said: "Rockets and guided missiles for national defense are the goals of all research supported by the department of defense.” Dr. Steinhoff believes that the first trip to the moon, logically following the successful satellite program, will be accomplished by an unmanned rocket. He said: "We could send a rocket out to circle close to the moon's surface and take pictures and movies and record temperature and other data. “Perhaps the entire trip could be televised. Then on the basis of this information we can go about planning to send an expedition to the moon. Maybe animals would precede men. After that would come the other planets in our solar system, Mars being first,” Most space enthusiasts and theorists begin their interplanetary flight plans with the launching of a space platform or satellite to serve as a “stepping stone" to further celestial bodies. This is considered the real significance of th» small spaceball the United States will launch wlth‘in two years. The first research , satellite will be a temporary, un-
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manned “mopn” which will circle back Into the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate within a few days. ' Next step, suggests Dr. Stephen J. Fraenkel of Armour research' foundation, Illinois institute of technology, is "the establishment of a apace station of substantial size which might carry additional instruments and a virtual observation platform in th< sky.” Some 20 years after this was accomplished, Fraenkel believes, a manned satellite “to explore space beyond the 'vicinity' of the earth" could be launched. Rocket experts Willy Ley, Wernher Von Braun and astronomer Fred L. Whipple have worked out a detailed campaign (or the conquest of the moon. Key to success is a space platform 1090 miles up beyond the earth's air ocean in empty space. The platform, "Big Brother" to the proposed American research satellite, would be used as a space assembly point. Moonship parts would be ferried up to it in three stage rockets and put together by space suited workers. Von Braun also has a “Mars project" to negotiate the 50 million miles to the "Red Planet” in nine months. Prof. Hermann Oberth, a pioneer rocket theorist, recently predicted a project similar to Von Braun's could take men to the moon within “10 to 15 years.” Oberth places the round trip cost at “roughly $300,000,000.” Oberth said the Russians also have plans to reach the moon and added: "We will have to keep busy to beat them.” Some six months ago, Russian scientists announced that “creating an artificial satellite is feasible.” Shortly afterward, they formed a special “Commission for Interplanetary Communication.” One official of the American rocket society, who asked not to be quoted by name, said: "There has been widespread comment that the White House satellite announcement Was a has-
tily called conference. The meeting was assembled eo fast that our society wasn't even notified. "We think the reason for that haste can be found in the IAF . meeting in Copenhagen. We think the announcement was made to beat the Russians to the draw." The race to conquer and control the outer space frontier is on. (END OF SERIES) Girl Kills Brother To End Suffering West Virginia Girl Is Held For Killing CLARKSBURG. W. Va. (INS)Clarksburg police said today that they are holding a 19-year-old girl who says that she shot her brother with a rifle to end his suffering from cancer. Police said that the story told by Ella May Beavers after she calmly approached a patrolman on his beat led to the discovery of the body of her brother, Louis. 23, at their home in Kasson, about 25 miles east of Clarksburg. Patrolman Tom Lopez said that Miss Beavers approached him Wednesday and said she had fired several shots at her brother, but did not know whether she had killed him. Investigators said Miss Beavers told them her brother had been suffering from cancer and had begged her several times to kill him. She reportedly told officers that after the shooting she got a ride to nearby Grafton, then traveled to Clarksburg by taxi. State police said that a patrol car from Company “C" at Elkins went to the Beaver home and discovered the brother's body. New York — The subway system here includes about 200 miles on its various routes. Trade in a Good Town — Decatm
Offer Lower Grade Cotton For Export To Sell More U. S. Products Overseas • WASHINGTON (INS) — The Eisenhower administration has taken what might be called its first firm slap in a vigorous new program aimed at disposing of more V. S. farm commodities overseas. in hie recent tour of Europe, agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson served notice on all and sundry that this country intends to compete fairly and squarely for its share of foreign markets. The agriculture department, following up his pronouncements, now says flatly and definitely that it Intends to offer up to one million bales of lower grade cotton for export sale after the first of the year. Previously such plans were only tentative. Sales under the program will be on a competitive bid basis bo-that prices probably will be under the minimums which normally apply when the Commodity Credit Coup., the price supporting agency, disposes of its holdings on the domestic market. «. " Benson, on top of this, has announced that he will return to Europe during November for further talks with farm officials on the problems involved in mutual expansion of trade. One of the secretary's top problems is to convince officials in other producing countries that the U. S. definitely is not bent upon getting rid of its surplus at the expense of undercutting world markets—in other words, “dump--1 ing." , For that reason, the new cotfon export program is carefully hedged with restrictions. It must be handled with great care so as not to prod other friendly powers like India, Pakistan. Egypt, Turkey and Brazil into retaliatory actions. Teller Accused Os SI,OOO Embezzlement HAMMOND, Ind (INS) —A 30-year-old father of two small children was fiee on bond today on a charge of embezzling sl-000 from the Calumet National Bank of Hammond. Warren E. Kraus, of Griffith, the discharged teller,' was accused of taking the money over a two-year period. He was released Tuesday on SI,OOO bond and arraignment set tentatively for Oct, 14.
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Democrats Attend Marion Conference Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble> Sayeria„ Schurger. locgl attorney, ana Mrs. Therou Fenstermaker, Geneva, were among Adams county Democrats who attended a central Indiana conference at Marlon Wednesday. A luncheon was hold at noon and it was announced that Adams county women had sold the largest number of conference luncheon tickets, with the exception of the host county of Grant. Democrats from 15 central Indiana counties attended. Court News Answers Demanded In the complaints on contract filed by the Commercial Credit Corporation of Fort Wayne against Floyd Thornton and Carl Hamilton, the defendants have been ruled to answer within 10 days. Marion E. Sipe, defendant in complaints on promissory note and on contract filed by the same corporation, has also been ruled to answer within 10 days. Motion Filed In the complaint for damages files by Ollie J. Henderson against
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