The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 137, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1962 Page: 3 of 6
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U. S. Faces Most Excitin
Challenge In Its History
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•<«« m .EDITOR’S NOTE:. Dr.
Wernher von Braun, dire-
ctor ol tho George C. Mar-
•*»!• Space Flight Center
and one of the world's lead-
ing rocket experts, has
...written a special dispatch
, for United Press Internat-
ional on “The Future of
Humanity.” He states that
the United States has the
capacity to be the first on
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By Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Copyright, 1962, *
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (CPI)—
The United States, working in
awperation with and on behalf
I. Of the other nations of the
Western world has one of the
most important and exciting
challenges in history,'The ex-
ploration of the universe,
Few accomplishments have
had such profound effect on the
fqture of humanity than will
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the results of thii iptrtten?e and
facinatlng endeavor.", 1. ;
Achievements in the explor-
ation of space are directly link-
ed to overall technological ad-
vancement and in our age such
advancement is indicative of
the relative position of nations.
We Americans have already
felt the sting of being second
in a race which we should, and
could, have been first.
Any remaining doubts that
we are really in a space race
with the Soviet Union were dis-
pelled by the decision last
spring of U. S. President John
F.Kennedy to launch an am-
bitious program for manned lu-
nar exploration.
We have the capacity to be
first to the moon; therefore,
we must be first;
Unmanned artificial satellites
are being launched with in-
creasing frequency to perform
a wide variety of services for
mankind. Our Tiros meteorol-
ogical satellites have proven
their worth by permitting met-
eorologists to predice more ac-
curately the weather and de-
tect disastrous storms. The
military has developed warn-
ing and reconnaissance satel-
lites to help us maintain our
military posture.
Earth-circling and navigat-
ional and : geodetic satellites
are proving themselves daily.
We are also developing such
scientific satellites as orbiting
solar observatories and the
orbiting geeophysieal observa-
tories. The first solar observ-
atory was suecessfuly launched
last month. It is now reporting
back to earfh.rjiow the sun af-
fects the weijftffer and any thr-
eats it may pose for space tra-
velers. But perhaps of most
Immediate and practical in-
terest is the communications
satellite which will help put the
man in the street in closer
touch with his felkw humans
around the world.
We at the George C. Marshall
Space Flight Center are resp-
onsible to our parent organi-
ze tior-the U. S. National Aero-
nautics and Space Administa-
ELECT
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Your State Representative
District 41 — DeWltt,
Counties
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Dan Is The Man
A progressive Democrat
A local business man
A Lions Club president and key member
A past and present Chamber of Commerce
president
A civic worker
A family man with wife and tour daughters
A home owner and taxpayer
An active Methodist Layman
Against the present sales tax add wW work to
* have it repealed
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Against price fixing, loan sharks and gambling
racketeers
Against deficit spending
Against the ever Increasing tax situation
In favor of tax on gas for out of state
In favor of increasing oil allowable tor Texas
thereby creating new fobs and getting mere
tax from our natural resources
In favor of rural development programs
In favor oi water conservation any place In the
district
Will work for fax relief for district 47
IViU work for an effective Lobby control l«w
r.*l!l Mipport Gonzales Rehabilitation Center and
'■'0-tv for stale aid to help keep that grew! ‘M,
institution open
Oil work for the people of district 41.
I cur vote and support will he appreciated.
jPclfiiel Adv,. paid for by Dai Aufrey) . . jjjj
tion-for the development of the
space vehicle that wilJ orbit
satellites, send scientific pay-
loads to distant planets and
launch manned lunar expedi-
tions. *
The sub-orbital flights of ast-
ronuts Alan Shepard and Virgil
Grissom, and the more receent
orbital flight of John Glenn,
were carried out under Project
Mercury, the first of three man-
in-space programs being dir-
ected b y NASA’S Manned
Spacecraft Center at Houston,
Texas.
Project Mercury will be suc-
ceeded by the Gemini manned
spacecraft project, which calls
for the orbiting of a two-man
spacecraft. Geminin will be
used to test the’torbital rend-
ezvous" technique by which an
orbital launch vehicle and a
manned spacecraft will
be joined while in earth orbit
and "relaunched’’ toward the
moon.
Experience gained in this
method of landing astronauts
on tiw surface of the moon
will be -under Project Apollo. A
three-man spacecraft/ Apollo,
will follow Gomini. It will ef-
fect eireumlunar and lunar
landing missions scheduled be-
fore the end of this decade.
The two elements of this
lunar rocket will be launched
into orbit by 7.5 million-pound
thrust advanced Saturn veh-
icles currently being designed
ah the Marshall Centsr at Hunt-
sville. We recently requested
proposals from industry for a
detailed systems definition and
preliminary design of the Nova
launch vehicle, which will he
a logical follow-on to the ad-
vance Saturan.
Nova, to be capable of plac-
ing more than 200 tons in earth
orbit or sending more than 75
tons on an earth-escape traject-
ory, will be able to perform
manned lunar landings with
Apollo-type spacecraft in direct
flight from earth.
Following the first tentative
steps into space with Project
Apollo, man will pull on his
seven leauge boots and take
giant strides across space to the
nearer planets of the solar sy-
stems. For Mars, anjl, perhaps
Venus, direct surface landings
should be possible this century
if the state of the art of astro-'
nautlcs continues to advance
rtpldly. *
However, landing o n frozen
Jupiter, Saturan, Uranus and
Neptune may never be feasible,
limiting m a n to landings on
their natural moons. The prob-
lems of direct landings on the
giant worldside are extremely
complex and pose demands up-
on the design of manned space-
ships that are far beyond our
present capabilities. To illustra-
te the magnitude of the problem
we need only consider the dif-
ficulty of trying to decelerate
sch a craft in the tremendous
gravltltional field of Jupiter and
then attempting to take off ag-
ain through an amazingly thick,
turbulent atmosphere.
I have discussed briefly some
of our present projects to show
the tremendous task ahead in
order for America and the free
world to gain and keep the pos-
ition it deserves in space explor-
ations. We are now working fe-
rvently towar that end; the mat*
sive launch facilities are being
built, the rockets are being des-
igned.
What happens when we get in
space? The envirorrtent will be
hostile to man. He will be thre-
atened by rrietorids, radiation,
temperature extremes, lack of
atmosphere and lack of pres-
sure. But if he understands and
obeys its laws, SjAcU will treat
him well.
When we built Our first out-
posts on the moon, or when we
build <?ur first orbiting space
stations, our engineers will be
called on for construction proj-
ects using strange materials in
circumstances never before en-
countered.
On the moon, for instance, we
will have to have roadways,
living quarters and laborator-
ies.. We will have to use ma-
terials available there, for the
most part, and we will have no
precedent for building even
the most crude structure in
such an environment.
True, this goal to explore the
program. But to me, it is mat-!
erial thing to do—to find out
just what is out there and how
we can use our new-found
knowledge to better our way!
of life.
Daddy Gets Blamed
WASHINGTON - Scientist Li-
nus C. Pauling, who had been
picketing in favor df the ban-
the-bomb movement, relating a
remark Mis. Jacqueline Ken-
nedy made to him at Sunday
night's White House dinner;
"Do you think it’s right to
picket out there where Caroline
can see yen?’’ the First Lady
asked. "She asked me what has
daddy done wrong now.”
A RABIES SCARE in
**• fathers to decree a special
the neighborhood. Several society
assistance. One of them
looked up brightly when
Rare-Book-Expert Dave
Randall led in his pedi-
greed boxer, Lord James
Boswell. She opened her
record book and inquired,
“Name, please?" Randall
answered, “Lord James
Boswell." Visibly im-
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etwrimieri, “And the dogV
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A guerrilla lieutenant
fighting the enemy in tin
mountains sent word to his
chief: “Rush food. We’re starving out here.”
Tighten belts.”
• * * * *
A publisher remarked at a literary oooktafi party, *T want
over to the Frankfurt Fair on the "United State* and came back
on the ‘Queen Elizabeth’.” From the rear came the audible
whisper, “Boat dropper!"
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$69,000,000
Every industry, every farm, every household has a stake
in this huge expenditure for new freight cars, locomotives
and highway vehicles. This investment in the most mod-
em equipment will help us hold down costs, and help
shippers hold down their transportation costs, too.
Our growing fleet of wide-door box cars permits faster
loading at lees cost: With these and other high-capacity
cars, shippers can take advantage of “incentive” rate
reductions for volume loading of many commodities.
Shippers will have more specially equipped cars, too, for
their fragile products. More highway and Piggyback
equipment will also enable us to expand these flexible
services.
This $69 million is only part of S.Fs 1962 investment
in greater efficiency. We also will spend $24 million for
more electronic installations, such as Centralized Traffic
Control, plus new freight handling, car and locomotive
maintenance facilities, communications and other im-
provements. We are making these large expenditures to
meet the ever-changing needs of a growing economy with
the most modem, diversified and efficient transportation
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The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 137, Ed. 1 Monday, April 30, 1962, newspaper, April 30, 1962; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth696822/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.