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SCHOOL BELLS AGAIN
’’Wj'VERYONE’S VIEW OF SUMMER is different, depending on
his responsibilities, opportunities and place in life. Many
mothers look forward with relief that the children will be in
another’s care part of the day and welcome the starting of school.
.Millions of children, on the other hand, wonder where the sum
mer has gone so fast.
The sounds and smells and experiences of summer vacation
are an important part of growing up. But there are many changes.
The old fishing hole may be the same as dad’s, but now the chil
dren must have a Honda instead of a bike. Schools have changed
too, as the frontiers of man’s knowledge have been pushed back
so rapidly in recent years. The amount of knowledge that must
be packed into the heads of children in grade school and high
school has vastly increased.
As the school bells ring again, let’s salute our young people
and those who guide them through ever more complicated fields
©f learning. In the great affairs of nations, in science, and in the
complicated business of leading a good and worthwhile life, our
need has never been greater for concerned, intelligent educated
men and women.
A NEW DIMENSION
■DY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, National Aviation Day
will be observed today. The very' name turns the mind back to
that most daring and romantic of modern eras, when the Wrights
and their intrepid successors were proving to a skeptical world
that manned flight was possible. It turns, too, to the fabled
“'circuses” of the First World War, when a gallantry in combat
that has since gone out of the world was shown.
It moves on, to the amazing planes of the present, that w'ill
•whisk around the world in a matter of hours, almost confound
ing the sun itself. Then it looks to a future the scientists blue
print for us, in which passenger flights will move at thousands
of miles an hour and the cities of Europe and Asia and South
America will be, in point of time, as close as the next town.
The aircraft has added a new dimension to life. May that
dimension, in all the years to come, be one of peace and service
to the human race.
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Scientists Admit
"(irendins* Cause
Satellite Foulups
By HOWARD BENEDICT
BLACKSBURG. Va. (tf* — Are
there Gremlins in space who tam
per with satellites and then put
them back in working order
I again?
That’s the only explanation two
scientists have for the mysterious
blackout and sudden rejuvenation
of equipment on four U.S. satel
lites in the last year.
The mystery was underlined last
week when, within three days, it
was announced that two of the
satellites — the Anna Geodetic
Sphere and the Telstar 2 commu
nications package—had come back
to life.
Scientists closely connected
with each program, here for a
satellite conference, were asked
their opinion of the celestial
goings-on.
Richard B. Kirshner of the Ap
plied Physics Laboratory, Johns
Hopkins University, which devel
oped Anna, reported that after
two months of inactivity, Anna’s
four flashing lights inexplicably
resumed flashing.
"We have no explanation for the
lights coming back on,” Kershner
said. "We don’t like to believe in
space gremlins, but we’ve reached
the point where that’s as good an
explanation as any. They’re work
ing beautifully now, and we’re
thankful.”
Gremlins, imaginary creatures
dreamed up by the servicemen of
World War II, were blamed for
anything that went wrong for an
unexplained reason.
Kershner said trouble with the
blinking beacons on the “Firefly”
satellite began about two months
after it was launched last October.
“The space gremlins got into the
satellite and started worrying the
device which causes the lights to
flash,” he reported. "The power
and frequency of the flashes de
generated until they finally stop
ped altogether.”
He said the Air Force, which
had been photographing the lights
against the stars to gather infor
mation about the shape of the
earth, packed up its tracking
equipment.
“The lights came back on and
now the Air Force is scrambling
to reactivate the equipment,”
Kershner said.
“It looks like we’ve got Grem
lins, too,” remarked Doren Mit
chell of Bell Telephone Labora
tories in commenting on last Mon
day’s reactivation of Telstar 2.
Bell built the satellite, which was
launched May 7 and lost its trans
mitting voice July 16.
“There’s no indication of what
caused the failure, although a col
lision with a meteorite has not
been ruled out,” Mitchell said.
“The meteorite might have knock
ed out a piece of equipment, which
somehow fixed itself.”
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Loan In Alaska
ANCHORAGE (tf — Final dis- i
position of an initial $9 million
Alaska State Development Corp.
bond issue is being watched care
fully by state officials as the key
to reception of a second similar
issue planned next year.
The state-formed corporation —
organized to provide long - term
loans to new industry—has sold its
first bond issue to underwriters
and has the funds in hand to start
its loan program.
However, the underwriters have
been experiencing difficulties in
resale of the bonds.
This doesn t affect us as such,
David C. Davenport, executive di
rector of th ASDC, says here.
“We sold them to the under
writing syndicate and have the
funds to work with,” Davenport
said. “But it could make things
more difficult for later use.”
The corporation is authorized to
issue $18 million in bonds. The
second issue tentatively is planned
for next February or March, al
though Davenport said no hard
and fast decision has been made
yet on the exact issue date. The
first issue was marketed this past
June.
A seasoned group of underwrit
ers, headed by A. P. Goodbody and
Co., Northrop and White, Inc., and
Kormendi and Co. purchased the
bonds for resale.
This past week the syndicate
split up with some $3 million of
the bonds as yet unsold.
New York financial circle gave
several reasons for the difficulties
experienced by the initial issue:
— The newness of the “name” of
both the state-formed corporation
and the state itself.
— An “igloo image” of Alaska
among some east coast financiers.
-- Perhaps most important, a
general glut of the market in tax
exempt bond issues.
Alaska's bonds weren't the only
ones experiencing slow sales.
Davenport said the state’s fin
ancial advisers believe the bond
market is now starting to improve
and the improvement should be
reflected in the sale of the re
mainder of the ASDC issue.
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Khrushchev Said Planning
Fall Visit To Cuba Seeking
Aid In Conflict with China
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON — Soviet
Premier Khrushchev is reported
planning to visit Cuba in the fall
to strengthen his position in the
conflict with Red China over lead
ership of Communist movements,
throughout the world.
U. S. officials, who firmly ex
pect Khrushchev to make the trip
to Havana in the next two or three
months, discount the possibility
that he will attend the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly session in New
York opening Sept. 18. But they
say some new development in the
China-Soviet dispute might induce
him to go.
Khrushchev is going to Yugo
slavia next week. Cuba may be his
next big trip.
Khrushchev probably will try to
serve two major purposes by call
ing on his Western Hemisphere
comrade and recent guest, Prime
Minister Fidel Castro.
One purpose would be to re
mind the world anew that Castro’s
control over Cuba makes it the
first Communist country in the
Western Hemisphere, a triumph
for Khrushchev’s general policy of
peaceful coexistence.
Khrushchev’s assumed second
purpose is on the surface some
what in conflict with his first and
may therefore limit the amount of
boasting he can engage in. For it
is thought here that he would like
to find some basis for easing ten
sions between Cuba and the U.S.
and reducing the dangers of war.
Keeping Castro’s enocomy going
is costing Russia an estimated $1
million a day. If Khrushchev
could begin to break down U. S.
trade barriers built up around
Cuba he could hope to reduce the
cost.
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