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1948 APRIL 2, " rftl . . icc Feel iney Shoot Rocket to U As The Moon THE WAYNESVILLE MOtlNtAttJEEa PAGE THREE geedtft Section? 1 !L MVtr.R t("ff "correspondent L ap, Rocket misile as far tficial of the Na i.miit tor L OH""1'" ',h!nk or any good ting to 'lu ... lntt-ri'S""B. ...... ,t a, mid cost put " take a lot of hgur- a lut ut Ulllf '"" .Ml control. J" ...i.,tinnal pull. "have ,o hit 25.000 kkI Needed icket six'1" 11 is 3,500 miles an ured German a) While allium, Jiles almost straight 1 back to earth. An i jf ii missed the wp un,il il j,v ih,. gravitational iher planet. iloril.v wasn't quite I it entirely free of l, ii would become " iiessly following an faruuiid tins planet. loon, a rocket using ov available would jjoraething like five i(ul punches. ,f fuel chambers, one jlelv after another, fciably could achieve acceleration neces- I to the moon if the dropped off after (tie Uft p left ut I be roeKCi weight of fuel and ,Vuld he very little. :' gross weight to pay U ,,A. ... 1 If lUa 1,01111 pounds at the weigh only one id of its journey, pal design ealls for Jtet weighing about in initial thrust of is. The 14-ton V-2 Mtial thrust of only 30 pounds. lulties are, if any- than power prob- moiui, the nickel's 'e to intersect the rds," tht. NACA d shoot Hie rocket and let the moon : I BUS SERVICE 1st we will run t hospital at vislt the convenience of Waynesvllle. d Aliens Creek tville in front f . 3:4(1. 6:40, 7:40. 'of Courthouse at 5. 7:45. jl at 1:55. 3:55, I April 1st. I am Bus back on that hued during the 1H leave Waynes I 8 and after the 4Allens Creek and eaves end of pave rs Creek at 7:30, inlete schedule on 01 fit into your blll bus driver for t the Twin City n below the Le ILEE Daily Chores Continue As House Is Moved WAREHAM. Mass. (UP) Ern est W. Briggs, bouse mover, is one of those practical New Englahders who Deneves noining snouiu inter rupt daily chores. . So when the John W. Todd fam ily asked him to move their house in n hew. location. Brless decided to maintain their dally regime during the moving operation. The Droblem wasn't simple. Though the house actually would be relocated only 90 feet from its original position, a 500-f6ot trip was involved because the new site was on a higher level. Finally Briggs hitched up a long hle and a hose that solved the primary problems of electricity and water. When moving day came, Mrs. Todd was able to use her various electrical appliances, including a washing machine, and finish ner household duties in time to wave from the kitchen window to neigh bors as the house moved slowly down the street. , TIME TO RETIRE CARLISLE, Pa. (UP) When iht Armv moved its equipment lab oratory from Carlisle Barracks t6 Fort Totten, N. V., William Sham baugh, blacksmith, thought it over carefully and decided he wouldn't go along. Shambaugh, now 73, had been a smith at the barracks for the last 41 years and he fig ured it was about time to retire, anyway. SHORT SHORT STORY ST. LOUIS (UP) Maxie Born stein, 36 years old and 36 inches tall, reputedly the nation's small est taxi driver, will have to look up to his bride. She's the former Miss Hilda Schruckman, 32, who tops him by four Inches. DRAFTED HANOVER, N. H As their del egate to the state's constitutional convention, Republicans here have elected Herbert W. Hill, chairman of the Democratic state committee. catch up with it." That wnuiH take some fancy cal culating and a)ming. T6 control the rocket s course u wouia ue nec essary 1o trace it with i'adar and to energize its steering mechanism via radio. Problems Unsolved Army signal corps engineers have bounced radar pulses off the moon, so it is known that ultra high frequency microwaves can be projected far into space. But the manifold problems of navigation, instrumentation, and control are a long way from being solved. There are other difficulties, too. Such as the fact arrived at mathematiaclly that rocket noses would tend to melt off at the speeds required. Much has been written about missiles of the future that will fly continuously around the earth until told via radio to descend on their target and of rocket ships plying lnter-planetary space. Government rocket men here are inclined to compare such talk with the kind they heard during the "atomic silly season" just after the bombing of Hiroshima. They remember the stories they heard about driving airplanes With bits of uranium the size of aspirin tablets. Advertise with Want Ads. It pays. QWEST PRICES HEST QUALITY DS FERTILIZERS IMPLEMENTS RTIFIED CHICKS VE MONEY AT FARMERS FEDERATION MORE ABOUT Biography (Continued From Page One) of peace. General Marshall was promi nently mentioned in speculation as a possible Democratic candidate for the Presidency in the 1948 election. He took cognizance of this speculation and announced firmly that he couldn't even be "drafted" for a political office. (In the absence of a Vice Presi dent thai office was left vacant whe-h Mr, Truman moved up to the Presidency upon the death of Mr. Roosevelt the Secretary of State was next in line of succes sion to the Presidency.) His Stand Applauded Just prior to bis taking the oath of office as Secretary of State, General Marshall said: "I will never become involved in political matters. 1 never could be drafted." It was evident that he felt such problems as relations with Rus sia, the future of Germany, atomic energy and world peace could best be tackled if he did not have to face Congress as a possible con tender for the Presidency. Demo crats and Republicans alike in Congress applauded the seldom equalled forthrightness of his state ment. After being sworn in at a White House ceremony, General Marshall conferred privately with Mr. Tru man and upon leaving told report ers: "There is a great deal I must do and not a great deal of time in which to do it." Almost immediately he set about making plans to attend the Conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow a few weeks later. Some of General Marshall's inti mates said that after the war his main desire was to retire to his Vir ginia home and spend the rest of his days riding saddle horses. His acceptance of the mission to China and of the ofTice of Secretary of State, these sources stated, was strictly from a sense of obligation to his country's welfare. Found Task 'Challenging' General Marshall himself said that he would "prefer to live my own life" to anything else, but added that in some respects he considered the Secretaryship of State "more challenging" than his wartime duties of Chief of Staff. "You see, I was a soldier," he explained. "Now I am entering a new field. The war was difficult. But that was my business my profession. I had worked at it all my life." He had always wanted to be a soldier, a desire that crystallized while he was a cadet at the Vir ginia Military Institute, where an elder brother and a number of cousins had preceded him. The General himself said that the moment he knew beyond fur ther question that the career he wanted was in the Army was when, home on vacation from V.M.I, he watched the 10th Penn sylvania Regiment, back from the war with Spain, parade trium phantly up the red-white-and-blue painted Main street of his home city, Uniontown, Pa,, where he was bori Dec, 31, 1880. Of Distinguished Ancestry Marshall was a descendant of the Rev. William Marshall, an uncle of the great Chief Justice John Marshall. His father was an operator of coal and coke indus tris in Southwest Pennsylvania. Though he was commissioned in the regular Army several months before his graduation from V.M.I, in 1901, Marshall had to wait sev eral months, after graduation until after his 21st birthday to accept the commission. He spent the intervening period as com mandant of cadets at Danville Military Academy, a Virginia pre paratory school, and took up his commission in February, 1902. That same month he was mar ried to Lily Carter Coles, She died in 1927 and three years later Mar shall was married a second time, to Mrs. Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown of Baltimore, daughter of the Rev. Allen Tupper of New York. There were no children by either marriage. General Marshall was a mem ber of the Episcopal Church. Capital Letters Urges Quick Military Expansion Art " V T- 4 r f 4 TESTIFYING before the Senate armed services committee in Washington, is Dr. Karl T. Compton, chairman of the Commission on Universal Military Training. He told the senators that world events seem to be heading toward a "war for our very survival." Rambling 'Round (Continued lrom Page Two) white patches to be found scat tered on the mountains. He ex plained that they were tobacco beds covered with white material to prevent atmospheric ill effects. He very aptly compared the moun tainsides with their tobacco beds to a giant who had been in a ter rific, fight and was covered with bandages and plasters. Here's desperation at its peak. This clipping was taken from an Atlanta paper and certainly should melt the hearts of any landlords who placard their premises with the "No Chil dren" sign: WANTED TO RENT We are undesirable, have two children, a doc; no car to trade; can't buy furniture or offer a bonus. Can't pay over f SO mo. Is anyone impractical enough to rent to us a place? Call M . , . You would have thought the new car was our own personel posses sion . , . and that went for all the rest of the staff. We went Into ecstasies over it: lovingly patted its gleaming sides: tried out the radio, listened to the soft purr of the motor and rejoiced with the owner . . . one of our bosses . . . who certainly deserves the best. And now It's April no foolin'! and The carbon filament incandes cent lamp was perfected by Thomas Edison in 1879. Moon Makes Its Debut Oh Television Show PHILADELPHIA (UP The first of a series of television-telescope pictures of the moon has been broadcast from Franklin In stitute. Believed to be th first attempt to televise celestial bodies, the in stitute reborted that a 100-power enlargement of the moon was broadcast over the National Broad casting System's television net work for 30 seconds. The broadcast was performed by attaching an ordinary television camera to the Institute's huge tele scope. The enlargement was con fined to 100-power so that the en tire moon would appear in the pic ture. Detailed pictures of portions of the moon will be televised in later broadcasts, the Institute said. BETTER GRAPES SOUGHT- DAVIS, Calir. (UP) Dr. H. P. Olrao, University of California College of Agriculture grape spe cialist, has left on a trip to the Near East to collect seeds and scions of fruits, nuts and grapes to improve California varieties. Olnio 'expects to find varieties on his 20,-000-mile trip which have never been used in any kind of breeding program. BLACKOUT INDIANAPOLIS (UP) Sut ter's Grill blacked out when a fuse failed. Bea Sutter, the owner, scurried and replaced the fuse. When the lights came on she dis covered that her one customer and $20 from the cash register were missing. (Continued from Page Two) is lower than the national average also pay less than the federal share. Senator Russell has spent so much of his life in public service that one of his secretaries says he's "never had time to do any courting." Born 50 years ago in Winder, Ga., he is one of 13 children and the eldest son of the late chief jus tice of Georgia. He was 15 years in the Georgia senate, speaker of the state house of representatives four years and Governor of the state from June 1931 to January 1933. He was elected to the U. S. Senate Nov. 8, 1932, to AH the vacancy . caused by the death of Sen. William J. Harris. He took his seat Jan. 12, 1933. after the expiration of his term as governor. During 1943 he was appointed chairman of a congressional com mittee to visit World War It bat tlefronts. The trip took nine Weeks and covered some 47,000 miles. Currently he is leading south ern Democrats in the fight against President Truman's civil rights proposal. Charming, gentle and full of humor, he is much liked by chil dren, especially by his 32 nieces and nephews. In Washington he divides his tinie between his hotel apartment and the home of a married sister. Though he is in demand for many social functions, he avoids big dinner parties. He'd settle for a meal of grits and scrambled eggs. (Continued from Page Two) the association ... As it happens the head man of the whole she bang is another Scott . . . who is j advising on the legal angles of it in North Carolina is Frank Simms i of Charlotte, who happens to be head of the liquor stores in Char lotte . . . strange bedfellows . . . Simms, by the way, is husband of Marion Simms, the writer . . . The Senator W. B. Umstead-J M. Broughton fight is quiet now, but plenty of dirt, most of it doc umented and authentic, is being prepared . . . and should start spreading within the next three weeks . . . It's said to be quite terrific. DOUBLES IN CANVAS PROVIDENCE, R. I. (UP) Deputy Sheriff Alevander Carcierl, 64, who doubles as a portrait paint er, claims his canvases of Rhode Island politicians are the most Vtewed paintings in the state. As a labor of love he draws and paints leading Rhode Islanders for sound trucks during political cam paigns. '" tJse Want ads tor quick Sales. We're Spending OneThousand Million Dollars... to meet your growing needs for oil The job ahead is a big job, calling for big plans and big performance. Right now Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and its affiliates are modernizing and expanding pro duction and facilities at the greatest rate in their his tory. Expenditures for 1947 and 1948 alone come to one billion dollars. That's a thousand million dollars! It is reported that the oil industry as a whole will spend 13 billion dollars over the next few years to do this job. . Why? What's going on? Last year, this country used more oil than the whole world did in 1939-before World War II. You're getting 61 more oil products now than pre-war. You're getting 12 more than even the biggest war-time output. 3 million more cars on the road than pre-WW buges and trucks up 25 and 30,! And the average car is using 50 more gallons of gasoline a year, than pre-war! 1,500,000 more homes are oil-heated than in 1939 1 Farmers have doubled their use of time-saving, work-saving tractors, trucks, and other equipment since pre-war! And this is all to the good. It spells progress. It's part of America's better and better living standards. It's part of the amazing fact that oil has supplied 62 of this country's whole vast increase in use of fuel over the past 20 years for industry, agriculture, homes, and transportation? But it also means close figuring between present needs and present capacity. Even today's record out put doesn't give the extra reserve of available supply we've always had in the American oil business. This will be true until the full effect of the new, expanded facilities is felt. But the big new supply for your new need is on its way right now. Wells being drilled. Refineries, pipe lines, storage tanks built. Billions of dollars working as fast and as hard as skill and resourcefulness and experience can make them work. The better you live the more oil you need. And the oil for your needs is on the way! STANDARD OIL COMPANY (NEW JERSEY) Ssso ti I
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