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BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS, BRENHAM, TEXAS
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America In Space
Goal For This Decade
team to the moon. NASA Admin-
cently by Edgar M. Cortright,
Webb thinks deputy director of NASA's Office
pact on American life. That im-
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which long have puzzled him:
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Some Funds Remain For Conservation
their 1962 cotton allotment should
three-man Spaceship which will
1961 Wool and Unshorn Lamb ap-
space official was asked by
con-
meet th? assumed Soviet goal of
Washington County is 16.737 acres
release and reapportionment) of
them alive at least for brief per-
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Both Russian and American or-
bital flights have proved that hu-
man beings can be thrown into
space with enough velocity to turn
ing jaunt of Feb. 20 to hear earth
missions lasting up to two weeks.
Glenn enjoyed his few hours of
weightlessness. But Soviet Cosmo-
naut Gherman S. Titov, who flew
17 times around the earth last
Aug. 6-7, complained of something
akin to
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Next year it will be followed by
Gemini, in which two astronauts
will ride side by side on flights
up to a week, Gemini, it is hoped,
will give some conclusive answers
route add wl try to learn some-
thing’ about, the planet's surface
temperatures.'
tion of space 4epcemmunieatiens,
navigation, and weather forecast-
ing. It has been said that weather
and' communication satellites will
more than repay all the billions
invested in space.
What other motives impel, man
centive Payments. There were 148
applications filed earning $3450.04
incentive payments for both wool
and unshorn lambs.------------
Hear this report on the recent tour of Europe by
Tom S. Whitehead, “The Spectator” Columnist be-
ginning tonight. ’
tremors for the seismic appara-
tus to analyze.
This will give clues to the lu-
nar structure.
The first Ranger television pic-
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By Earl W. Derrick
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"We want to unlock the secrets
of nature: to search for extrater-
restrial life, to determine the na-
ture and origin of the solar sys-
tem, to understand our sun, and
to probe the mysteries of the uni-
verse ...•
“We want to excell in science
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-Can human beings survive
and work in the strange environ-
ment of space, far, from -the plan-
et in which their species evolved?
—Do any of the other planets
in the. sun’s family harbor life?
Is it similar to or wildly differ-
ent from, the life of earth?:
—What does the moon look like
close up? What is it made of?
The U.S. lunar exploration pro-
gram alone is expected to cost
“There never is any rest and quiet around here,” his wife
told him. “Your interruptions were just par for the course.”
That's true, of course. A home today is nobody’s castle—not
so long as there i a telephone and a door bell for anybody
to ring.
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Punching the doorbell was a small boy selling tickets to- a
school carnival, a door-to-door salesman insisting on showing
his wares, and a-woman collecting money for a charity drive..
Even though the man had his house to himself, and had
counted on a few hours of peace and quiet, there wasn't any
rest.
system between earth, and mgon
for transporting the supplies. and
equipment that will be needed to
establish a lunar base.
The first men on the moon will
have to leave quickly — or dig
in — to avoid death by severe
FAILURE TO PLANT
OF COTrOF"SLDTTMENr
Farms using less than 75%
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Immortality is something like
one of the government's tempor-
cry tax laws.
21,233 acres. The original allotment
for the county was 26,126 acres.
Listed below is a five year rec-
ord of the original cotton allotment,
the number of farms with an al-
lotment, the number of farms plant-
ing cotton, and the planted acres
for each year. NOTE: In 1958, 7500
acres were put in the Soil Bank
Program,
• l ) — County Allotment
(2) — Number of Farms With
Allotment
lems of our day . .
Men On The Moon
Space -officials' have said that
the project to land men -on the
moon, with equipment to rocket
them safely home, is perhaps the
nest difficult undertaking in his-
tory.
In the past yean, NASA contrac-
tors have begun to design ' the
of an automobile Later ones will
pick out features only 18ulaches
in diameter. . •
In 1964 Project Surveyor will
get under way to'land more deli-
cate instruments gently on the
moon. A Surveyor drill will bring
ip moon matter from a depth of
18 inches. This material will be
chamically analysed under . the
eye of television cameras.
By 1965 scientists plan to have
.contact the local ASCS Office to file
an application in writting pot later
than SEPTEMBER 15, 1962, show-
ing that failure to plant was due to
excessive rain, flood, hail, drough
of illness of the. farm operator or
producers on the farm.
COUNTY PLANTS LESS THAN
17,000 ACRES COTTON -
The final planted cotton acres for
takeoff rockets will weigh about
150,000 pounds, nearly 30 times as
much as Gemini.
Apollo will have to carry the
means of supplying its three as-
tronauts with food, water and ox-
ygen for moon missions of a week
or longer. To boost it directly to
the moon from earth would- take
a rocket such as Nova with a first
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om the moon, and bring them
safely back, before. 1970.
At about the same time a high
D.EntyASes
nearly $20 billion by' 1970. It may
. well cost $40 billion. The bill for
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wcated m'the Lacina Shopping Cen-
nausea after his fourth
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The giant rockets are reasona-
bly well along. .The launch facili-
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navigation, and communication
satellites; and military inspection
of possibly hostite spacecraft.
First flight tests of the three-
man Apollo mooncraft will get un-
der way in 1964. Orbital flights
up to two weeks will be followed
by a trip arovod the moon and
back, perhaps in 1966.
For the long earth orbit flights
it may be possible to squeeze six
men into the craft to. speed' up
astronaut training.
The lunar landing and return
could come in 1968, experts say,
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Ruth" Millett
1) ^oWha^ an idea
that "it's time for
a change" in your
forms or literature
‘ get our ideas on
the subject!
an answer given re-
are NO setbacks
The three-compartment Apollo
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1958 — 25,927
• 1959 — 21,679
1960 — 23,231
of 1961 — 26,331
three-orbit trips
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No Rest for the Weary
In Today's Busy Homes
RUTH MILLETT
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
-How do yores ■ rever
get anything done?” a husband asked his
wife after he tried vainly to get ah after-
noon nap on a day he happened to be at
home with no one else around to catch the
telephone or answer the door bell.
In the course of the two hours that he .
spent trying to get a little rest he was
interrupted by four strangers on the
telephone and three at the front door.
Nova, weighing about 5,000 tons Late this year and next Ranger
would be 50 feet across at t h e spacecraft will take television
base and. tower nearly 28 stories closeups of the moon, check its
high. NASA .is going ahead with radiation and drop insruments to
the design of Nova; it will needrepbrt moonquakes and meteor
tue big rocket for manned m i s- impacts. A couple of small bombs
sions beyond the moon and for in-'will be exploded to provide moon
questions- and technology as a nation. We do longer flights up to 18 orbits in
: 'his by tackling the toughest prob-
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About 1,000 persons are killed
each year in farm tractor acci-
dents. One-third of these occur on
the public roads. Upsets and col-
lisions lead the list. Nonfatal ac-
cidents involving tractors are esti-
mated at 45,000 a year-.Daring or
sporting liberties should never be •
taken With tractors in the field, on
the farm or on the highway.
Let us all support the objective
“Family Safety •— At Work and
Play” throughout the year.
Earl W. Derrick,
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nuclear rockets will come along plicants have received ther 1961 In-
quickly enoutgh to provid? a ferry “
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Jan. Feb. March April May June
July August Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
to the bombardment of atomic like John H. Glenn Jr.’s
projectiles and .meeoritic bul- .---------------.--------
1962 — 26,126 1850 1096 16,737
From the above figures you can
see that the county will lose some
of its cotton history acres - each
year unless growers plant more
of the alloted acres.
NATIONAL FARM
SAFETY WEEK
July 22 to 28, 1962
National Farm Safety Week has
been proclaimed by President John.
be used in the Apollo lunar land-- and certainly will be required for
flights beyond the moon and for
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men on the moon by the 40th an-
niversary of the Red revolution
in 1967. He. replied:
______“I personally think it may, he
possibe.".
. This official probably would say
. that today. It may take a year
or two longer. But all responsible
officials’ of the National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration
(NASA) still believe it is possible
to. put Americans on the moon in
th- time period suggested by Ken-
—nedy.---------'
So, with the blessings and ap-
propriations of Congress, this
country is bunching" its muscles
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Washington County is 16.737 acres F. Kennedy as the week beginning
out of an effective allotment (after July 22, 1962.
with, its -assortment ofsuppli.
guideneeseeipment;randbra-
course-connection, and lunar
of space conquest swept upon us
tht few persons realize its im- istrator James E.
The IDEAL SYSTEM
Bookkeeping and
Tax Record Book _____
No bookkeeping experience peeded.
Meets Federal and State Tex laws. All in
one loose-leaf book. Include* pages of
sample entries to show you how.rte
Approved for all kinds of farms . eEA \ '
=und-farches.Aslow as $3 50
fellow s'against the radiation reefs
of the planets and subject them from 412-hour,
Many space hazards, including
the—radiation- zone around the
earth, have been studied,' B u t
much more remains to be found
out about it and other dangers —
suchas high speed particles
sprayed from the sun during
flares and the effect of meteoritic
pact is here now. Examples: Heat,get there before the Russians.
In the meantime, the United
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
Unit'd Press International,
WASHINGTON (UPT) -A little
over a year ago President Kenne-
dy told Congress it would cost
America much toil and treasure
to sail, in the'great ocean of
space.
But, he said, “I believe we
should go." He said the U n ited
States ought to try- to land men
terplanetary space stations in the I
1970s. I
But for the lunar landing it is
putting its chips for the time be- 1
ing on the rendezvous technique
— coupling of craft ang rocket in
orbit — using the less monstrous
advanced. Saturn.
The advanced Saturn, develop-
ing 7.5 million pounds of-booster
thrust, will be 33 feet in diameter]
it the base and stand 275 feet
high. A nuclear powered third
Ua" - now ’expected in 1969.
would * make it possible for ’ tms
rocket to throw men on the moon
directly. without rendezvousing.
In any case, it is hoped that
So before committing men to
to fire his instruments and h i s the moon, this country plans to
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1962 Marketing Sales of Wool and
Unshorn Lambs may now be ac-
cepted by executing an application
at the ASCS office. A signed sales
receipt inust be filed with the ap-
plication.
Agricultural Conservation
. Practices
There is a limited amount of ACP
practice funds available in the
May-August budget period for such
permanent practices as construct-
ing livestock ponds, clearing brush
on pasture or range land, shaping
waterways and constructing ter-
races. "Summer, time is a good
time to do this type of work”. File
a written request for consideration
( 3 ) — Number, af Eesms Plon---
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( 4 ) — Acres Planted
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Mercury, America’s
=mnme= -mpim-iz—
Why orbit all that money and
effort into an airless, waterless,
foodless, ray-filled environment
which is so obviously hostile?
There are . the obvious and oft-
en-stated - reasons of national
pride, prestige and security. The
moon is what the old-time artil-
States is stepping up its un-
manned exploration of space, not
merely between earth and moon
but beyond to Mars and Venus.
It appears highly probable that in
the next five years man will have
them into arf cial satellites un-
der circumstances that will keep if there
weightlessness , an accompani-
ment of orbital flight, or whether
he can survive in the absence of
such subtle influences as those ex-
cercised on his body at home by
the rotation of the earth. J
project are finding uses on Moth-
-er Earth. ’ ' ioas,
Ecihimdi.* — r00
|| practical rewards of theexprnca-man-
And beyand the moon will, not bejties are, being, built.. Alternative
eoumry coute • (flight plans have been pre-
Soviet eoal of pared,, and the major require-
Why Explore Space? • ments specified.
On the telephone a woman's voice asked if the famly was
ready to make a Christmas card selection. (The month was 1
May.A Htte Iftlt-rwoolherttflkDown votee called to see if the---
family's house was air-conditioned. . . <
Still later the ringing telephone awakened him so that a
voice on the other-end of the line could tell him that he was
the lucky one who had just won a free dancing lesson. The
last unbusinesslike business call was from someone wanting te
put a new roof on the house.
providing indestructible home
toasteys. The biggest population
trend going is spawned by space
development, which is literally
building new cities. Satellites have
replaced U2‛s as first line of de-
fense ' .
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] Todayis
Berlin.
base. Scientists think it would'be
far more valuable as a space la-
boratory and observatory.
Also, a multitude of gadgets,
electronic and mechanical.
brought into being by the space
there is a good chance we can
about man's ability to adjust
to weightlessness.
It also will give American as-
tronauts training in space rendez-
vous, a technique which may be
needed to land men on the moon
around the moon mapping the la
nar landscape.
In Prospector,- scheduled for
1966 or 1967, automatic moon
jeeps will waddle, crawi, or
roll over the lunar surface collect-
ino information to be relayed to
earth.
A solar observatory already has
been put in orbit around the earth
and others will follow. Satellites
to study the earth’s shape go up
next _____________
leryists call high ground. It wotfld dust grains traveling at 25,000
they say,- make a fine military miles ‘an hour.
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.IU-felds.fer.TNecommittei
particles anil* charged gases .en
such operations as:
Establishing orbiting scientific
observatories and space depots;
rescue of crews from damaged
spaceships; repair missions to or-
biting observatories or weather,
gressmen if this
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no lunar atmospheric shield.
NASA also is projecting un-
manned exploration projects To
assist the manned flight program
by amassing more and more in-
formation about the moon and
planets.
Unmanned Exploratlon
This summer NASA hopes to
send two 450-pound pavloads whiz-
ing spaceward within 25,000
miles or less of Venus. Atlas-
Agena B rokets will boost the
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