Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 147, Ed. 1 Monday, April 4, 1960 Page: 3 of 10
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BROWNWOOD BULLETIN Monday, April 4, 1960---1
Story of the Pony Express (6)
By Don Oakley and Ralph Lane
2 Voters
Political Show
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ANYBODY OUT THERE—PART I
know they can't hold an audience move out, the Dodgers move in to
continue the 1960 baseball season.
Earthlings Seeking Spacemen
TVEiERINARY
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2:25 a.m.
Be Represented!!
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Vote For Fifth Councilman
From Woodland Heights Addition
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In Tuesday's City Election.
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Vote FOR the councilman for Brownwood's newest addition.
(This Message paid for by residents for a progressive Brownwood)
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To Election Day!
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first time they are turning the
earth’s ear to try to catch sounds
at faraway life. In this first i a
Floral design.
Back adjusts to
three comfortable
answered
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d a space
i one-sided
■trolling a
ts have a
Rivkin said he had no concern
about filling the cavernous sta-
dium. Fifteen thousand will be
moving over from the convention.
signalman
returned
Caribheah
Wren, se-
ll. Hallum
er of the
Electronics
Extra earning power! Put your money to
work for you at Southern Savings and oan
EDITOR’S NOTE—Is there Ufe
on other planets? Some astron-
omers think so, and today for the
he Soviet
iny agree-
space ve-
ed States
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In a democracy everyone should have a voice in the government.
As the city grows, so should grow the stature of our city government.
lion-miles away.
A radio signal would take 11
ister, Mrs
forth, and
phews.
Plunge into worm weather . . . plunge into comfort. Come in end see our most complete selectien
in years. Comfortable, easy to take care of end designed for many years of pleasure.
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By bob Thomas
AP Movie-TV Writer
enough to give pause even to a | with too long a speech."
teen-ager on the telephone., woun
mean decades before much intel-
ligent knowledge could be ex
. AH this, plus entertatnment at
convention imism in the Sports
changed.
To be recognizable despite lan-
guage difficulties, the first signal
might only state the value of pi,
or the atomic weight of uranium,
or some other mathematical or
physical fact which intelligent Ufe
on any planet utlimately would
have learned. Dr. Drake theo-
rises.
Despite all difficulties, the
Among the more noted from work
names Marion Brando. Myrna The only persons eligible to vote
Loy. Robert Ryan, Frank Sinatra, were residents of the Galveston
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — The Arena next door to the Cnitosiim. |
greatest political show on earth- is being planned by the Party s
test'swhat tee show his wing of Committee for the Arts Eater-
promises tainment chairman is film pro-
for the national convention in Loe ducerdirector-writer George Sea-
Angeles this July. ton. But since he wi be filming
in addition, "Golden Circle" tick-
ets will be sold to party faithful
who want a seat up front.
"We should be able to fill the
rest of the seats with the public."
the Democratic party
Prescription Laboratory
Rivkin said. "People will want to; 200 E. Lee Phone MI 5-2488
Shortly before the start at the Civi War, the quarters and relieved him at his post This quick telegraph terminals daily became shorter. Officially,
Pony Express delivered perhaps the most important action possibly saved California for the Union, the Pony Express ended on October 26, 1861.
message of its career. Johnston later made his way back to the South and During its 16 months of operation, it made 306
Newspaperman James MeClatchey, founder at was killed at the battle at Shiloh. runs each way for a total of 616,000 miles—equal
the Sacramento Bee, had learned that Gen. Albert There were other famous messaes: secession, to 24 times around the earth. It carried neariz
Sidney Johnston, in charge of the Department of Lincoln's inaugural address, carried in the record 35,000 pieces of mail and lost only one mochila. It
the Pacific, was prepared to turn the army stores time of 7 days, 17 hours—the fall of Fort Sumter— was always a private endeavor, receiving uttle
and munitions over to the South. MeClatchey sent the North’s defeat at Bull Run—. government encouragement
the information by Pony Express to Sen. RD. But the days of the Pony Express were num- Financially, the Pony Express was a complete
Bakr, who placed it in the hands of the President bered. The nation was slowly being spanned by the fiasco, costing its backers some 5500,000. But in all
~ Abraham Lincoln ordered General Edwin Sumner lightning of the telegraph, and although ride* con- other terms, it was a glorious and heroic episode in
to California immediately tinued to carry the mall between St Joseph and the story of the American West
Sumner arrived quietly, went to Johnston’s bead- Sacramento, the distance between east and west THE END
MEAN DECADES
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three-part series. AP science writ-
' er Alton Blakeslee explains the
quest of Project Ozma.
"We could quickly beam back names and all of them will per- see the climax to the Arrow they
an acknowledgement, but it would form, not just take bows have watched on TV.”
--- . . "The entertainment will begin Supposing the convention dead-
until 1971—for them to receive it about 5:30. Around 7:15, the can- locks and doesn't have a presi-
and know we had replied. And didates will arrive for their intro- dential nominee by the July 13
until 1982 for us to get me roes- ductions and acceptances. It closing time.
didates these days are hep; they Rivkin. When the Democrats
"Is there intelligent Ufe elsewhere
than on earth??
Many hours every day for a
month the radio telescope will
hunt for coded signals along fre-
quencies which life elsew here
might be beaming right now at us.
After a month, if no word comes,
this first vigil will end and the
radio telescope will resume doing
other astronomical research.
NO DOUBT
But the quest will be resumed la-
ter. probably with more powerful
receivers, “for there is no doubt
in the minds of many or most of
astronomers that some day suc-
cess will be achieved—now or 100
years from now, but some day,”
Dr. Drake declares.
The handsome, gray-eyed as
tronomer with graying-brown hair
mainly conceived and is directing
this search named Project Ozma,
after the queen of fictional Oz, "a
place very far away, difficult to
reach, and populated by strange
and exotic beings.”
The initial targeta are two stars,
Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani,
each barely visible to the naked'
eye, in our southern skies.
Each is about the sze of our'
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Climax of the five-day spectac- a picture to Germany this nun two persons eligible to vote in a
alar may be the biggest rally of mer. screen writer Allen Rivkin milin-dollar bond iterti— both
American politics The two candi- has shouldered most at tee bur- voted ter the memirr
dates will make their acceptance dew.
kins
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l, were to
iy at Wil-
pel with
tery.
It 3 p.m.
pital. She
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own sun or star and each is about Sammy Davis Jr. Mercedes Me- County Drainage Diet. 4 — tea
11 light years away. A light year Cambridge. Jan Sterting, Claire Mendozas. The marshy area that
to tee distance light travels in one Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Lauren comprises the district will be
year at its speed of 186,400 miles Bacall. drained with the funds approved
per second That means each star "Our big job is to produce the in the election. Other persons
to about 06 thousand billion-66 tnl- closing night show," Rivkin re- owning land in the district plan
ported. " win be a tremendous to build up to 300 homes as soon
program with top outdoor acts *’ water can be diverted and the
years to reach us too. since radio such as appear at state fairs. We low areas filled
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speeches following e lavish show Rivkin, as national director of barber. aad his wife, a secretary,
at the Memorial Coliseum, cape- the arts committee, has scores of The couple voted to their home
city 102,000-plus. Present plan to entertainment figures tai bis Saturday when Mendoza got home
to put chairs on the field and zroup.
raise the total to 116.060.
In the blessed Home of the Free and the Land of the
Brave, it is stll our privilege to vote for the man
or woman of our choice. No machine guns. No threats.
No techniques of terror. This is your own United States.
On Election Day It is your patriotic duty to get out and
vote! Whatever your political affiliations or favorites, give
your support to the nominees you think will serve our
our community best. Consider their qualifications, their
trustworthiness, their past records. Then put X‘s after
their names and thus show your convictions. Rain or shine,
be a Voter. It's the American thing to do!
stars, and probably billions af
other planets.
GIANT EAR
Seeking contact, young astrono-
men here first are pointing the
giant ear of a radio telescope at
two fairly nearby stars which may
have planets, and perhaps intelli-
gent Ufe.
Just conceivably, those planets
may be beaming "Is anyone
there?” Signals at earth, explains
Dr. Frank D. Drake, 29-year-old
associate astronomer of the Na-
tional Radio Astronomy Observa-
tory perched in this mountainous
hamlet of only 100 souls.
Or perhaps new and sensitive
equipment here can pick up com-
mands they are sending to their
own space probes, as we are send-
ing signals out to our recent
Venus probe.
POINTS TO SPACE
Today Dr. Drake and associates
are installing the special equip-
ment in the 85-4loot radio telescope
pointing a shiny, cup-shaped ear
out into space.
Tonight or Tuesday K all goes
well, they will actually begin list-
ening for the first time on earth
for messages from far out there.
Success on Mito first venture to
scarcely to be hoped for, astrono-
mers concede.
Yet there to a faint chance man
wil suddenly receive the electrify-
ing answer to one at his questions:
search has begun to seek word
from life beyond this earth.
Tomorrow: Man may not be
A That puts a NEW Light on Carefree Living
® T ...1960 STYLE
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer
GREEN BANK, W. Va. (AP-
Earthling today begin a search to
hear signals from intelligent life
somewhere else in our universe.
Many scientists are convinced
somebody is out there, somewhere
among billton times Miltons of
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Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 147, Ed. 1 Monday, April 4, 1960, newspaper, April 4, 1960; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1482802/m1/3/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.