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, September 17, 1S33 Page 4 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Grow A New Arm $250,000 Gadget esearch In Genetics Coming:: Ome New up en en i I R May Make ' S S JUJI m tvts ytns From the Raleigh Times CHAPEL HILL It's like buying a car with all the ex tras: power brakes, power , steering, sterophonid back . ground music. That was the way Donald A. Hall, assistant manager of the Moreheajd Planetarium de scribed their recent purchase of a quarter of a million dol lars worth of instruments. The planetarium has placed an order with the firm of Carl Zeiss, West Germany, for the first in a new Model VI series of a highly improved Planetarium Instrument. Funds for the purchase have been granted by the Morehead Foundation trustees. "We're getting the standard model plus," Hall ' said. Nearly $20 thousand of modern accessory instruments will be installed simultaneously. According to Hall, several factors entered into the deci sion to purchase the instru ment with age heading the list. BUILT IN 1930 1 The present instrument was built in 1930. It had three oth ;er homes, all in Stockholm, ! before being purchased by Mr. Morehead, Planetarium ben- (factor, and moved to Chapel (Hill. j "We can't really say the J old instrument was wearing 'out as th? company will sim jply take it back, rework it land resell it. All other big though, had newer instruments (than us and all had replaced jtheirs," Hall.pointed out. The new instrument is be iing built now at the Zeiss fac tory in Oberkochen and will fie delivered to Chapel Hill in jthe summer of 1968. Planetar ium Director A. F. Jenzano !was in . Germany in June to ;look over the Mark VI proto type. "Ours will be the first of ,the production model," said ft: Hall, "and hopefully bugfree. i "Th2 new instrument sim- f ply will do everything better than the present one . . plus. i IThe basic design for our in- g strument was finalized in: the 1920s. In fact all Zeiss "instru- jnents through the Mark V re- : Jied on the same basic design. ?The Mark VI is the first basic L TOUCHY SUBJECT Brian Bedford attempts to get his date, Julie Sommars, to share his strong feeling for classical rausic while she is a guest in his Venice, Calif., pad in Ross Hunter's Universal picture, "The Pad," currently playing at the Rialto Theater in Durham. , . . y uuvkiUilLauaw iyiiLaLLaLJ lilt U..UU..yUtSJAtiLt 0h I SEE UOIIAQHtS AT I mr-3y j ? -jV Pine Room . ? JiSVWfil I Lenoir Hall m-- I. Vr Monogram Dining Room Vf Hl'"ci; 1 f METROCOLOR Y L, -;zj ;!' j' ty Sp f J21 1 1 I I y-; ( -1 T,",. change the company has made since the model was finalized," he noted Hall reported one of the most exciting changes for them will be those pertaining to the stars. The new instrument will project small, blue-white and much more brilliant stars, while stars projected by the old one were large and yellow ish. PROJECTION "Almost all of the stars in the new machine will be pro jected from the star sphere. Only those that change in brightness, I believe there are 10 of them, ' will be projected from the ruff (collar at base of the star ball). Formerly, we projected all 42 of the bright stars from the ruff. "Also, the new projector will have a tremendous new birght arc light source which ac counts for the new blue - white realistic look of the stars. The company, to compenstate for the tremndous brightness, re duced the size of the holes, thus rducing the size of the stars projected on the dome," he said. With the new instrument, according to Hall, they will be able to demonstrate tne proper motion of six stars for the first time something no Zeiss has ever done before. "We're so far away from the stars that standing in our back yard we wouldn't notice any motion, unless we stood there for 50,000 years. We now with out present equipment have to confine oursleves in time to 20-28,000 years. It's not often in public programs that we go, back even that far, but we. do in our classes," he pointed out. Another deluxe feature of Slight Goof ST. LOUIS (UPI) - The St. Louis Jewis Light, pub lished every two weeks, us ed a one paragraph correc tion on the making of sour cream coffee cake wn yuu ...... tSjector, thevt Ml be ..able to inc.- correciea version x: said 'it should havemclu- ""r"..""5 tUF w ped nuts." :w.v. 'fry m ..Y.sSSS.-.i ,;K PM TEE x the new Zeiss product is a zoom ratio on Jupiter and Sa turn. When discussing Saturn, for example, demonstrators will be able to project the plan et and, then enlarge it nine times to show such surfac features as the ring structure. Hall reports that also they will be able for the first time to show seven different kinds of lunar eclipses and 10 dif ferent kinds of solar eclipses, both automatically. Now eclipses are done by special effects proectors and the planetarium instrument is shut off. The new planetarium, in addition, will show the change of brightness in plan ets that occur in nature. VARIABLE SPEED MOTORS The astronauts will also de rive some benfits from the new instrument. According to Hall, the new instrument will" use just three variable speed mo tors, rather than the seven fix ed speed elctric motors now useti. "This variable speed will be a big help to us when we are simiulating orbital runs for the astronauts. For example, now when we want to simu late a day we can do it in either 10 minutes and 30 seconds or m three minutes. With the new instrument, we will be abl to do anything between 36 minu- tes and say a minute," said Hall. Extras that the planetarium have ordered also with the new instrument include a comet projector, a solar system projector and a special pro jector mounted on the console. "With the console projector, the narrator will be able to do a variety of things.- If he is talking about a constellation for instance he will be able to put on the (dome an outline of it. A seris of 300 slides go with the projector and can be used to demonstrate all kinds of astronomical principles," sa$d Hall, who teaches a pub he astronomy course. 4 With the solar systems pro- show planets: as .the v.. SPW, Fft a comet movine aeainst a star background changing its size, shape and brightness as it moves. During the three months in which the planetarium is clos ed, slated for 1968, the old in strument will be kept', in place, according to Hall, as long . as possible just in case any as tronauts want to come. Some Lucky Stud III Win In conjunction with the area opening of Ross Hunter's new comedy, "The Pad and How To Use It," the Rialto Theatre and contributing businesses in Chapel Hill and Durham are conducting a contest eli gible only to enrolled students at Duke, UNC and North Carolina College. Top prize will be a furnish ed "Pad" for one week, at a Durham hotel. Other prizes include a new Mustang car it if -v NOW PLAYING THE UNCONQUERABLE W t.d w . .. SOUTHERN SURFING Now that winter is coining on, the scene above serves only to bring back happy memories of summer sun and water. Actress Joi Lansing takes a break from her night club act in Columbia, S.C., MathE Thanks To Pinball PITTSBURGH (UPI) Mo-( dified versions of pinball ma: chines could be a strong force in teaching the five and six year - olds the beginnings, of mathematics. "The idea for such ..came ,0" fMrs. Rosalvrr Switzenr a Netr vf". icsearcn organ- ization, National Communica tions Laboratories, as she sat r in a bus station here. y Grounded by the recent air-' lines strike and misplaced: baggage, she watched chil-' dren in the station playing pinball machines and a ma chine with a puppet which, for a dime, will let children try to coordinate the legs of A 'Pad for use over the weekend, flowers, dinners at local res taurants, gifts, books, rec ords, party food, gasoline, car wash, Barn Theatre dinner and play, books from the Intimate Book shop, a sub scription to the New Durham Coffee House, cases of Coke and Falstaff, a subscription to , the New York Times, Durham herald and Sun and Time and a three months pass to the Rialto and its movies. Universal Pkttires, distri butor of "The Pad," willingly went along with the Rialto's idea of a contest as a welcome to returning and new college students in the area -,.and by hiring a Duke graduate student, Aden Field, to assist in the contest planning and promotion. The contest marks the first joint venture of Durham businesses to extend such a welcome to university and college students. Two area radio stations, WCHL in Chapel Hill and WSSB in Durham, are also cooperating in the contest. The winning name will be drawn at the Rialto on Thurs day nite, Sept. 22, at 9 p.m. Rdio Station WSSB will br oadcast the drawing from the theater. Any student, under-' graduate or graduate, may enter the Pad contest by simp ly writing his name, campus addres and telephone number on a card and mailing it to the Rialto Theatre, Box 604 Durham, N. C. rf to asier For Kids the puppet with the music. PAY TO LEARN "They were paying for the privilege of learning coordina tion," Mrs. Switzen said. A pinball machine, modified so that the score is not total ed so rapidly "a 'child cannot see , the process, will help a child learn that one plus one equals two or 1,000 plus 1,000 equals 2,000, she said. "If the fact that one and one equals two is not used, it is lost," Mrs. Switzen said. The machine, which for an adult is only recreation, is a teach er for the child although he may not know it. He is hav ing fun. Other ideas advanced by Mrs. Switzen: Giving all children from the age of two an allowance to guarantee "that by the age of five they will have no trouble with addition and subtrac tion." Labeling playground equip ment with the names of the pieces so children can add such words as swing, slide and sandbox to their vocabu laries. This plan is in opera tion at P. S. 176 in Harlem where Mrs. Switzen taught last year. NO TEACHER This labeling is actually ap plying an "automated princi pal on the playground," Mrs. Switzen said. "No teacher need be present." DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Nominative or objective 5. Do the butterfly 9. More ra tional 10: Rabbits 12. Across 13. Stoic philosopher 14. Dry 15. Bound 16. Mongol 17. Vouch safe 19. Aron, for one 20. Uttered 22. Capital of Yemen 23. Tardier 21. Twig 25. Views 26. Posture 27. Printers' measures 28- Task 29. Norse god 30. Kind of opera 31. Bleak . 31. Entangle 35. Plunge - 37. Summer ermine 38. Like some chicken 39. Belong ing to a sun god 40. Ova DpYVN 13. Token 1. Something 15. Row for a spe- 18. Pieces lunker out 2. Speaker's 19. Reap tales ing 3. India weight 20. Often 4. Conver- cuffed, sational or sound turned 5. Gloss up 6. Scepter 21. Fees 7. Anger 22. Mast' 8. Garage 24. Quit employee 26. Persian 9. Distress potentate call 28. Charges 11. Baloney 30. Cachet p .4 jS u p 9 10 a ; , ZZj. ; 12. 20 z yp zz r-r : . Ziu , to enjoy the beach at Fripp Island, S. C. The blonde bikinied. beauty says she enjoys the South Carolina beach much more than those on the west coast near her native California. "Size, color and position are actual teachers," she said. "Madison Avenue has known this a long time." "Commercials help educate the illiterate, adults and chil dren. Nobody asked them (ad-: vertisers) to become teachers. They are and they cannot help it. "Children are reading 'king size cigarette' before they read 'Dick and Jane.' There is no reason to teach children to read before the age of seven ... no reason in the world ... but it is part of the culture . . . you cannot turn off the box (television)." KEY WORDS Key words in Mrs. Switzen's lectures on education are mot ivation and re - enforcement. Playing; store with a penny allowance motivates a child to count as would a game of jacks if it could be modified so a two - year - old with less than perfect coordination could play, she said. The card game, casino, constitutes a learning experience for the se ven - year - old but not the 14 - year - old for him it is only recreation. Mrs. Switzen, a 52 - year -old grandmother with almost boundless energy, calls such games "automated play - lear ning" and it is part of the "to tal systems approach" in which the playground and classroom both have vital roles in the learning process. Yesterday's Answer 32. Birds 33. Marry 35. Low 36. Beagle 38. Exist PSII AMri3ATSg 5E"r!veLJa B A TE E G O tr.""l5R Ek'R V CjO NJ F lolu N DTj ATE" t" "1 1 eve NqN "TuT T UIRIR EmUGjA Til" A 5 1 aMoB I N EjT BU LH-DDM viAN A RE lj5A T clT-Zl 5 I pF.Q M E NprEp CO ML E EIZZjO R A olurr E RflL e Mpki PsieieIsUaIlIeIsc: By RALPH DIGHTON AP Science Writer Would you like to be able To grow a new heart, brain, kidney, arm or leg whenever you need it? To grow gills and live in the ocean or wings and fly with the birds? To explore other planets in a strange new body adapted and made impervious to the most hostile environment? Those are some of the more exciting possibilities scientists believe have been opened for the human race through re cent advances in genetics. There is a grim side, too. The same advances conceiv ably could be used to turn men into a race of salves whose thoughts and emotions are pre determined through genetic tinkering.. Eminent scientists men such as Dr. Melvin Calvin of the Lawrence Radiation Labo of California and Dr. Ray Owen, chairman of the Biolo gy Dvision of the' California Institute of Technology al ready foresee a need for deci sions arising from this new trend in research. OPPOSITION CERTAIN Genetic' tinkering is almost certain to generate opposition from environmentalists who believe the way to improve man is to improve his envir onment, not his heredity; from religious leaders who' be lieve the human form exists to day as it was created original ly by God and should not be altered. Genetics is the science of heredity. It deals with genes from a Greek world meaning "to give birth" and how they control growth, using patterns handed down from generation to generation. Although incredibly tiny every human body cell has an estimated 150,000 of them in its nucleus genes are the most powerful living force yet found. Genes control the manufac ture of protein molecules, the building blocks of life. And now science has learned that genes themselves can be. con trolled. 7 Thus ; man eventually: :may be faced with deciding wheth er he wants to go on looking and thinking like his ances tors or whether he wants to be something completely dif frnt. BIG BREAKTHROUGH Th first big breakthrough in genetics discovery that heredity and growth are in fluenced' by a chemical sub stance called DNA came in the 1940s, almost simultane ously with another great sci entific discovery: The unleash ing of the forces of the atom. "Atomic" has become a household word. "Genetic" is destined to become one. There are many scientists who belive that cracking the genetic code, learning the lan guage of life, is at least as vital to mankind as cracking the atom; perhaps more so Please don't zlupf Sprite. It makes plenty of noise all by itself. Sprite, you recall, is the soft drink that's so tart and tingling, we just couldn't keep it quiet. Flip its lid and it really flips. Bubbling, fizzing, gurgling, hissing and carrying on all over the place. An almost exces sively lively drink. Hence, to zlupf is to err. What is zlupfing? - , V HS Cf ' l n I MAUI tfc, lit! N the promised ability to control what we are made of could lead to a race of men invulner able to radioactive fallout. WHEN? When will this brave new "genetic age" come to pass? Authoritative estimates va ry from a generation to a cen tury. Elementary efforts at ge netic . tinkering, altering the genes of lower life forms, have already succeeded. Heat, X -rays and drugs have changed the offspring of bacteria and even insects so that they are hardly recognizable. In the past 10 years, biolog ists have begun to understand why they are able to cause these changes, or mutations. Ahead lies the task of under standing how to control the changes, to make sure that mutations which occur are de sirable. Tinkering with tenes can bring great peril as well as great benefit. THOUGHT CONTROLLED Scientists are confident that not only the shape but the very thoughts of men can be con trolled genetically, by pred termining the structure and function of the organs that generate emotions. What if, in the not too dis tant future, some nation set out to breed a race of. war moving supermen while the United State was breeding peaceful intellectuals? Such a situation probably is several generations d i s -tant; and man may have im proved himself enough geneti cally to meet it with wisdom. But there are other crises closer at hand. The recently learned skill of transplanting kidneys and im planting artificial hearts has created a small furor over the question. Should ability to pay be the primary factory in de termining who gets this chance at extended life? Geneticists believe they some day will be able to re lieve the current shortage of human "spare parts." They would take a bit of healthy tissue from a failing heart, for instance, and direct its genes to grow a ( whole new heart -r easily transplantable Jaack in-; to .the patient because the pa-' tient's body would not reject its own flesh and blood. SPARE PARTS But even if enough spare parts were available for all who needed them, the trans planting would reauire consid erable skill and effort. Serious questions of ethics arise. Wht kinds of people will be worth this trouble? Scientists? Politicians? Clergymen? Phy sicians? White collar work ers? Laborers? Who shall decide which are worthy? . And who shall pick those who decide? Loaded with questions like these, the coming genetic ex plosion could rip society wid er apart than a hydrogen Zlupfing is to drinking what smacking one's lips is to eating. Itf5? t10 ct -a 1 , -vuvatu ouzz you when draining the last few ; ' - wiue witn a straw. Zzzzzlllupf! It's completely uncalled for Frowned upon in polite society' And not appreciated on campus ' either. But. If zlupfing Sprite is absolutely essential to your enjoyment; if a good healthy zlupf isyour idea of heaven, well... all right. But have a heart. With a drink as noisy as Sprite, a ziupr goes a long, long SPRITE, SO TART AMD TINGLINft, WE .TI1ST COULDN'T KEEP TT QHtfT 1 I ! f." r
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