U.S. Physicists to
Research Mysteries
Of Aurora Borealis
PAiLO AiLTO, Calif. —
Physicists here are preparing a
direct assault on the mysteries of
the Aurora Borealis, hoping to
discover just what forces draw
the colorful curtains of the North
ern Lights across the Arctic skies.
The work is being done at Lock
heed Missiles & Space Co. Labor
atories under a contract from the
Office of Naval (Research.
The physicists are building in
struments which will be carried
by Polar-orbiting satellites.
Those instruments will record
the Aurora Borealis from above.
Air Force planes and ground sta
tions of the University of Alaska,
under the orbit path of the satel
lites, will look at the Aurora from
below.
The stations also will receive
and record satellite observations.
The Aurorae are known to be
huge veils of luminosity, occur
ring mainly between 60 and 90
miles above the earth with
streamers of red, green and blue
light, often going as high as 250
miles.
They are from 200 yards to
two miles thick and sometimes
move as fast as 3,600 miles per
hour—a mile a second.
The scientists will try to learn
just what the Aurora Borealis is
composed of and what creates its
shimmering, gorgeous glow.
Many theories exist but few
large-scale, coordinated observa
tions have been made.
Dr. John Evans, physcist in
charge of the Aurora project, says
“we hope to find the direction
and source of the bombarding
particles.
“This could tell us more about
the arrival of particles from space,
some things about the sun, and
(how much energy we get from the
sun in forms other than light.
“It could tell us about the solar
wind and streams of hig-energy
particles ejected by explosions on
the sun.”
A BIT CONTUSED . . .
ROANOKE, Va. — You
couldn’t blame delegates to the
Virginia Farm Equipment Assn.
Convention if they left Monday’s
session a bit confused.
One speaker issued a call for
“new dedication to old-fashioned
thinking and salesmanship.”
The very next speaker advised
the delegates not to use “the same
methods of selling as in the day
of one-room schoolhouse.”
The next speaker’s topic was
“today’s problems.”
Ash Craft, genial, courteous,
accommodating Weather Bureau
director says all indications point
to good weather. Harry Johnsen
will have the streets cleared and
polished so you can wear your
best, and the Baby Sitter's Union
will be ready and on call for those
who need them. So, there's no
excuse. You Just can't afford to
miss it. Saturday night at 8, Feb.
10, at the National Guard Armory.
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Assassination Attempts
On Premier Khrushchev
Are Branded False
MOSCOW UPi — The Soviet
Foreign Office press spokesman
yesterday branded as a “provo
cative rumor without any founda
tion at all,” a story current in
Moscow that an attempt had been
made to assassinate Premier
Khrushchev.
“It is an invention and com
pletely false,” the spokesman
added.
The rumors had been investi
gated by correspondents and dip
lomats for several days. No one
could find any substance to them.
. The first report was that
Khrushchev had been shot in the
lung during a public meeting in
Minsk, In White Russia, in mid
January.
On Jan. 30 Mrs. Khrushchev
told "guests at a meeting com
memorating the brithday of
Franklin D. Roosevelt that her
husband was in Gagra, in the
Caucasus.
A rumor then sprang up over
the weekend that he had ibeen
stabbed Saturday in Gagra.
The Foreign Office said this
was false. s.
The spokesman declined to say
where Khrushchev is now.
Would Repeal Incentive Act
JUNEAU OR — A bill which
would repeal the Alaska Indus
trial Incentive Act of 1057 was
introduced in the House yesterday
by Rep. Harold Hansen of Cor
dova.
AMOS ALONZO STAGG
WANTS TO GO HOME
STOCKTON, Calif, iffi — Amos
Alonzo Stagg wants to go home.
But his doctor says the grand old
man of football has to stay in
Dameron Hospital for another
week.
Stagg, 99, has been in the hos
pital since Saturday because of
an ailing right knee.
‘Tie’s doing fine,” said the doc
tor. “He’s out of bed, sitting in
a chair and anxious to get out of
the hospital. But we’ll keep him in
the hospital for about a week.”
Stagg retired in 1960 after 70
years as a football coach. He will
be 100 years old in August.
Would Equalize State Salaries
JUNEAU UR — A bill which
would require that all heads of
principle state departments be
paid $17,000 annually was intro
duced in the Senate today by Sen.
A1 Owen.
At the present time, department
heads are on several different
salary schedules, ranging from
$12,000 to $17,000.
Course In Spanish
MIAMI, Fla. UR — A U.S. of
ficial will conduct a course in
Spanish for Cuban refugees who
chose life in democracy rather
than the dictatorship under Prime
Minister Fidel Castro. The sub
ject: U.S. Income Tax Laws.
America makes and uses 40 per
cent of the world’s leather shoe
output, nearly four pairs yearly
for every man, woman and child.
Socialism ,NC0ME
gives the
Wage Earner
more
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$360 / MO.
Wages are lower and
taxes are increased
pay for the so-called
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socialism and
the welfare state.
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Soviets Pump Up Fish by
Hose from Ocean Depths
OTTAWA {fft — Soviet fisher
men have developed a method of
pumping up fish by hose from the
ocean depths, a Canadian fisher
ies official reported today.
Dr. J. L. Kask, chairman of the
Canadian Fisheries Research
Board told in an interview of a
night-fishing expedition he went
on during a visit to Russia last
fall.
On the Caspian Sea, Kask was
aboard a research vessel which lo
cated huge schools of Kilna—an
anchovy type of fish—at a depth
of 170 feet with an electro-sonic
detector.
Four powerful electric lights i
attached to an eight-inch rubber j
hose reinforced with wire mesh
were lowered into the water. The
hose was attached to a pump
aboard the vessel.
“Fish attracted by the lights
to the mouth of the hose were
pumped into the boat at a rate of
one ton an hour,” Kask said. “The
catch for the night was 10 tons.”
He said methods of this type
have helped make Russia the
world’s second largest fish pro
ducer behind Japan. He said the
techniques were not unknown to
Canada or other nations, but were
not being used elsewhere chiefly
because they were too costly.
Kask also said the Russians
have been successful in using a
submarine to study commercial
fish in the Barents Sea and the
North Atlantic. He was shown
film taken from the submarine of
herring schools and concentrations
of cod. He was told that if further
work with the submarine proves
fruitful orders will be issued for
several specially-ibuilt submarines
for marine research.
It was Helen Rowland who ob
served, “A good woman is known
for what she does; a good man by
what he doesn’t.”
Air Force Reports No
Spacecraft from Planets
WASHINGTON UP) _ They
might have been birds, balloons,
hoaxes or unusual sky lights —
but not spacecraft from other
planets.
That is the word from the Air
Force today after 15 years of in
vestigating flying saucer reports.
It said there was no evidence that
any of the 7,369 unidentified fly
ing objects checked on were
spaceships swooping in from dis
tant planets.
To date, no unidentified flying
object —UFO — has given any in
dication of threat to the national
security, the Air Force concluded
in summing up its investigations
from 1947 through last year.
It said its “Project Blue Book”
has turned up no evidence that
any of the unidentified sightings
represented techno logical ad
vances “beyond the range of our
present day scientific knowledge,”
or that any of the UFO’s were
“extraterrestrial vehicles under
intelligent controls.”
During 1961, the Air Force’s Of
fice of Aerial Phenomena probed
into 488 UFO reports — 26 fewer
than the year before.
At year’s end, only 19 of the
1961 sightings still were classified /
as unidentified. Most of the rest
were traced to aircraft, balloons,
satellites, astronomical pheno
mena, birds, lights, hoaxes and
other causes.
Penalty Would Be Assessed
For Evasion of State Income Tax
JUNEAU UP) — Persons who at
tempt to evade or fail to pay the
state income tax would be as
sessed a penalty equal to the
amount of the tax evaded, in addi
Ition to other penalties provided
by law, under the terms of a bill
introduced in the Senate yesterday
by the Rules Committee at the re
quest of Gov. Wm. Egan.
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