The Independent-News, Volume 98, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 April 1972 — Page 9

'Right To Read' Project Federally Funded To PLJ The P-L-J School Corporation is one of the thirty-three Indiana school districts selected to receive a grant from title II ESEA, a federally funded '‘Right to Read - ’ project. The $6120 grant will be used to initiate a "Three Phase Multi-media Learning Center’’ at the Tyner Elementary School. The learning center will contain three libraries in one. One section will have a "I Want to Know’” center. Pupils will use this area as a discovery of “how and why” center. They can find answers to questions pertaining to school work, puzzling problems or explore people from various cultures. Section two will contain a “Study skill" center. This area will include materials on dictionary skills, phonics excercises, developmental language skills and exercises to build stronger verbal power. Section three will contain a “Reading for Fun” center. Here pupils will find materials of high intrest level that will develop and extend a desire to read. This will be a place for pupils to seek materials of an entertaining nature. A multi-media approach will be used in all phases of the learning center. Film strips, film hoops, records, cassettes, study prints and books will be corrolated and geared for pupil use. Selections are based on high interest and student appeal with ease of students use being a primary concern. Safety first does make sense! Gas and heartburn? <• Di-Gel contains a unique antigas ingredient, Simethicone. •This unique discovery breaks up and removes painfa! gas-bubbles. Your relief is more corpplete because Di-Gel takes the acid and ' the gas out of acid indigestion. Get Di-Gel tablets or liquid today. Product of Plough, Inc. * Sani-Flush wipes out germs. C 3 Sani Flush* Toilet Bow! ft Cleaner wipes out common household germs in 15 seconds. Disinfects. cleam 9 deodorizes, CXJ soothing antiseptic relief for CHAPPED LIPS WIND OR SUNBURNED LIPS — FEVER BLISTERS, COLD SORES. Arthritis Sufferers: WAKE UP WITHOUT ALL THAT STIFFNESS! New formula for arthritis minor pam is so strong you can take it less often and still wake up in the morning without all the pam’s stiffness. Yet so gentle you can take this tablet on an empty stomach. It's called Arthritis Pain Formula. Get hours of relief. Ask for Arthritis Pain Formula, by the makers of Anacin* analgesic tablets.

SENIOR FELLOWSHIP MEETING The Senior Fellowship group met at 6:30 in the social room of the Methodist Church for their regular carry-in dinner and program. There were 35 present which included Rev. and Mrs. Wake, and four guest, Mr. and Mrs. George Pfeiffer and Miss Catherine Keefe and Miss Jane Keefe. After the dinner Mr. Fox and Mrs. Kovis from the Arthritis Foundation of St. Joseph County presented the program. He stressed the facilities available thru the Foundation and distributed literature on the age-old illness which in the past was referred to as rheumatism. On May 23rd at Bethel College a Forum will be held Sponsored by the Arthritis' Foundation. Admission is free and the lectures will be given by renouned physician. It should be very intresting and it is suggested that all those who can attend try to hear this beneficial program. In this talk Mr. Fox stressed the fact that ordinary aspirin is the one thing recommended to allevicate the pain

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) This article was adapted from a speech delivered by Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Horth American Rockwell, before the Society of Industrial Realtors in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. THE RETURNS FROM <j THE MOON. * Never before has man proved his value in space so well as in the voyage of Apollo 15 that culminated in the fourth landing on the moon, July 30,1971. That voyage has been cited as one of the most valuable and most comprehensive a c i e n t i sic missions ever accomplished. It’s a predecessor to the final moon explorations by Apollo 16 and 17 later this year, , AH three of these moon' explorations will be the bridge into the greatest of all accomplishments — the utilization of the space shuttle and the space laboratories to fashion a new life for man on earth. Apollo 15 may some day sank in history as does the voyage of Magellan here on Earth. Two special cameras, part of the package, took.more than five thousand photo-, graphs of the lunar surface. Today those photos are being studied by scientists around the world. In addition, highly sensitive spectrometers were extended on long booms to sample molecules of gas spewed from cracks in the moon’s crust, measuring alpha rays, X-rays and gamma radiation. That experiment alone was the most comprehensive geochemistry survey of the moon ever undertaken. REMARKABLE RESULTS And the results were remarkable. The largest single Instrument in the spacecraft bay was the panoramic camera Which took photographs four and one half inches wide, and forty-seven and one half inches long. There were 1700 of those panoramic pictures taken. One film covers a surface area 28 miles wide and 186 miles long. According to Dr. Fred Doyle of the U.S. Geological Survey, Chairman of the Apollo Photographic team, one of these pictures contains 15 trillion bits of information. More than 12 percent of the moon's 14 million square miles of surface was mapped — six times more than on all previous expeditions. That means the panoramic camera was the most comprehensive dala-galhermg instrument

and discomfort caused by Arthritis that certain procedures have been suggested over the years hopefully to help but there is no cure, only help to keep it under control and learn to live with it. Again on May 23rd at 7:30 the program sponsored by the Arthrites Foundation will be at Bethel College. NATIONAL FHA WEEK OBSERVED March 19 throught the 25 was designated National FHA week. Members of the John Glenn High School Chapter of Future Homemakers of America voted on activies to highlight the week. Monday, the girls decorated a bulletin board showing what would be happening throughout the week. Tuesday, the members of FHA I brightened up the teachers' day • by tucking an apple and a chewy brownie in their mail boxes, with a flag saying brownie points for FHA. Wednesday all members wore i red and white which are the

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ever flown into deep space. One of the experiment* sot up on the lunar surface was a laser reflector, a sophisticated light reflecting device not unlike those reflectors which cause street signs to shine at night. This was the third such reflecting device set on the moon. And it was much larger than those emplaced on the prior expeditions. Using laser beams aimed at these reflectors, scientists have been able to measure the, distance between the earth and the moon within an accuracy of six inches. Remember, we're talking about constantly shifting distances of approximately a quarter of a million miles. OUR “FLOATING” JL P CONTINENTS Those measurements are going to play a role in an even more significant activity, the ability to measure the movements of the widespread continents floating on the surface of the Earth. I say "floating” advisedly. Scientists are on the verge of understanding, for the first time, the socalled “Continental Drift.” They’re advancing from speculation to near-certitude as to that perplexing question — were Africa and South America once a contiguous land mass? With the aid of studies generated by the infinitesimal accuracy of these new measurements, scientists are also going to have a better understanding of why the earth “wobbles” as it orbits the sun. TheyV haw a better understanding of tidal effect. A treasure of other knowledge is becoming available as a result of these laser beam reflectors. The 170 pounds of samples returned to Earth from the moon are yielding surprises the full moaning of which will not be understood for some time. For example, plants grown on lunar soil are exhibiting a growth rate four times faster than when grown iu earth soil. Why is this? As yet the scientists don't know. But

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FHA's National colors. Thursday the girls and boys both had an enjoyable day. The girls each choose a boy to help I for the day. Lockers were clean- 1 ed, books were carried and new ‘ friends were made. * On Friday, the girls cheered 1 everyone up by saying “Smile ; its FHA Week”. By saying it 1 to the right person Richard Eby won a free ticket to the dance. Friday evening was the best part of the week. FHA members worked hard for weeks to sponsor a dance for the John Glenn students. Entertainment was provided by "Just Before Dark” who pleased everyone with their fine music. FHA is an ambitious Club who is trying to improve conditions at school and in the community. Helgi., of fnotation: the hlpp’e who du’*»ovei«d ne was going baia. Miniskirls make it possible > for a girl to run faster—and may > make it necessary

eventually the secret will be unlocked. And, while boosting life • processes to these plants, the effect of lunar material on other living organisms works in a different, but equally baffling way. For example, the scientists at the medical facility in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in NASA’s Houston headquarters found that some earth bacteria died when exposed to a mixture of core tube materials taken during the Apollo 16 voyage. These staph organisms didn’t die when exposed to other material. They died only when exposed to the cow samples. Again, the reason isn’t known, bat the long range impact could be profound. Dave Scott and Jim Irwin obtained core samples, two of which were double drive cores which measure about thirty inches deep, and the third a single core measuring fifteen inches deep. The fourth, by contrast, measured eight and a half feet in length. Biomedical evaluation of these core samples b now underway in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. In the meantime, Apollo 15 lunar samples are being made available to 200 scientists. With their staffs this will actually total about 700 scientists who are studying the moon material. Fortyeight scientific institutions in sixteen foreign countries are receiving samples for scientific evaluation. From the voyage of Apollo 15 a lifetime of new scientific studies will be emerging in a steady stream. For example there were experiments left on the moon to measure temperature, solar winds, magnetic fields and lunar atmosphere. For some scientist, somewhere in the world, one series of these measurements may be a key to a new world of discovery. Scientists from Rice University have disclosed that instruments placed in earlier Apollo landings detected water vapor spewing from the surface pf the muon like a geyser.

NOTICE The Evening Star Rebekah Lodge 465, Walkerton, will hold a Bake and Rummage Sale on Saturday, April 8 beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the new hall on Roosevelt Road. All members are urged to donate and help at least one hour on set date. Middle age—wneti a man's dreams about women are re-runs. Women Past 21 WITH BIADDER IRRITATION Suffer Many Troubles After 21, common Kidney or Bladder Irritations affect twice as many women as men and may make you tense and nervous from too frequent, burning or itching urination both day and night. Secondarily, you may lose sleep and suffer from Headaches, Backache and feci old, tired, depressed. In such irritation, CYSTEX usually brings fast, relaxing comfort by curbing irritating germs in strong, acid urine and by analgesic pain relief. Get CYSTEX at druggists. See how fast it can help you.

None of this would have been possible without the voyage of Apollo 15 and the other probes into deep space. As Dr. Wemher von Braun said recently, "We’re learning of the -relationship between the earth and the sun and their effects on our lives which could be learned in no other way save by means of the rocket and spacecraft." Fortunately as we near the end of lunar exploration, we’re entering a new era of space activity. Once again, well have front row seats in watching the deployment of the space shuttle — which Senator Howard Cannon, member of the Senate Committee on Aeronautics and Space Sciences, has cited as one of the most important undertakings of the 1970’s if we hope to have a strong and prosperous America. The space shuttle is the key development of a new era Where well have men in space working for men on earth. Actually the shuttle will be a highly versatile “vehicle,” one that will go back and forth on repeated economical missions between the earth and space laboratories. That shuttle and the new space laboratories will make possible two and a half billion dollar savings annually because of improved weather forecasting and observation. They’ll mean tremendous savings in areas of crop and forest disease control where we’re row losing as much as $7 billion annually. They’ll mean great strides in uncovering the world’s mineral resources, in advancing the world’s commercial fisheries to new high levels of production, in managing timber and water resources. They’ll bring entirely new concepts in flood control, irrigation, and power production management programs. The real potential, the benefit to man on earth, of our national space program has barely been touched. We're fortunate that we have already seen, and that we’ll continue to see, tins new world unfolding. .

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