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Tile BIUE THUMB
BY G. Macl., QD RQSS
'! Nothing should be allowed to
Subtract' _. from the astounding
• performance of the team which
built and operated Apollo 8, yet
a pictorial' representation to --
scale. of the distances of the
planets from Earth cannot but
place the achievement in its true
perspective. Suppose you .decide
to draw out, to a rough scale,
.the relative positions 01 some of
these outer planets,; just to fix
their relationship more vividly
than is possible when expressed
..in numbers of miles. _What is the
result? Starting out on the left
hand side of your paper, you
make a dot and label it Earth.
"Then from Earth to Moon make
a second dot .0125 inches below
DegrAnn_Landers
Needs help-- no" longer laughing
he moon and after
Earth. To- Venus, a dot .015
inches to the left of Earth. Marrs,
1.75 inches to the right. Jupiter;
20 inches. Saturn, 40 inches.
Uranus, 85 inches and Neptune,
135 inches — all to the right.
You now have a pictorial
introduction to the immensity
of the space containing. the
Uniuerse and your recent
knowledge of the hours it took
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
I' used to read your column
for laughs_ I'm not laughing any
more. I neer help. •
My boss • is- dearly loved by
everyone who knows him.
Everyone but his wife, that is.
She belittles him at every"
opportunity. When 1 take
dictation, I can hear her yelling
at him over the telephone. It's
frightfully embarrassing.
I am no home wrecker; Ann,
and my boss hasn't, a clue that
I've 'fallen hopelessly in love
with him. I think about him
constantly. One of . these days
• he's going to v walk out on his
wife. Should I stick around and
pick up the pieces or resign and
take a hike? — NO CLOUD
NINE
DEAR CLOUD: -
Turn•to the classified section
of this paper and find another
job.. Feeling as you do, you
should not be on tete premises
when (and if) the boss' marriage
collapses.
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
In response to your question,
"Where is the National Safety
. Council?" I'd like to say, "We
are on'the job trying to prevent
motor vehicle accidents and'
ir>ove on a startling statistic —
700' bicycle -fatalities in 1967"..
K.E.B.- who wrote about a
delivery boy hovering between
life and death after ' a bike
accident might be interested to
know that only one third of the
,•4,231, children interviewed by
the. National Safety Council rode
their bikes after dark. Only five
per cent of the fatal
accidents
occurred at night. +
Our study also revealed, that
some children on bikes play
games, such as "Demolition",
"Murder Bike" and "Kill the Old •
Lady". Sometimes the "winner",
ends up in a morgue.
Bicycling would be much
safer, if we had uniform laws
patterned after the. Model
Traffic Ordinanceand wide
readership of the Council's
pamphlet entitled "Fun On A
Bike". Enclosed find _copy. —:
- II.FrH. OF -"H -E -NATIE}NAL
SAFETY ^COUNCIL
DEAR H.E.H.:
I hope you have thousands of
k\
\\
pamphlets on hand because I'm
asking every parent whose child
rides a bike to send for one'. I
read "Fun On A Bike" and it is
excellent. Address your request,
please to Mr. H. E. Heldreth,
National Safety' Council, 425
North Michigan Avenue ,
Chicago, Illinois 60614..
DEAR ANN LAIIDERS:
Our family • enjoys Sunday
evening services. It is the one
time we can all be together in
tranquil surroundings. Services
begin at 6:00 p.m.
What should we do when
unexpected company drops in
Sunday afternoon and sits and
sits? Should my wife excuse
herself and start cooking supper?
•
Should we visit with the guests
and skip supper? Should we say
nothing and skip supper and
church?
Advise us please. — DEACON
DEAR DEACON:
I've said it at least 50 times
but I'll say it again. Uninvited
guests deserve no special
consideration. AVou owe them
nothing. Especially do you not
owe them your Sunday worship
time. Your wife should excuse
herself to prepare supper. - She
could say, "I'm sorry, but we
nrst be at church by, 6:00 p.m.
Next time let us know you are
coming and we'll prepare for
you — and perhaps you would
like to go to church with us".
i Every reader of this column
will be "on stage" during the
week of March 2-8. The reason'?
This week has been declared
Consumer Week in Canada and is
being sponsored"by Consumers'
Association of Canada to
emphasize dramatically that
everyone— but everyone — is
indeed a consumer.
In explaining the reason for
undertaking -such a huge project,
.CAC president, Glenora
Slimmon said: "It's simply that
our biggest' task is to get people
to realize that they are, in fact,.
consumers and as such have
certain rights in today's
complicated marketplace. We
thought a week highlighting
consumers would achieve this".
Slogan for the week is
"Consumers Count!"
During' Consumer Week in
Canada, Canadians across -the
country will be a introduced to
the Association's new crest or
logotype. The. design shows a
classic balance scale, made from
the initials, CAC. It depicts the
Association's guiding principle
pf weighing matters carefully las
a --prelude to. -useful action. At
the same time, the Association's
belief in justice and fairness for
consumers is depicted by the
to reach the Mbon, completes
your
„understanding.
•r.•_ - Apollo. 9...1Q,•.11... ,
But let us return to. the
Moon, for it is our immediate
target for tomorrow. What are
the tentative plans?
Apollo 9. Reading. from the
ground. pp,, we have `first, the
service module (a) which - will
put thewhole into moon orbit.
Next comes the -, command.
module (b) and finally the
two-part lunarrexcursion module
Cc and d).
Apollo 10 and 11 will consist
of these same components.
Apollo 9 will practice the
detachment and docking -of the
components a, b, c, and d, but
will remain in earth orbit to
accomplish all these manoeuvres.
Apollo 10 will set off sometime
in May, 1969. From an earth
orbit, modules c and d will be
detached to go' into moon orbit
and will actually 'descend to
within 50,000 feet of the
moon's surface. They will not
land, but return -to lunar orbit to
join up with modules a and b,
the service and command
modules, which have spent the
wait orbiting the moon. Once all
have joined up, they will blast
off into earth orbit and splash
down.
If all has gone well, Apollo 11
will attempt the actual moon
landing- in August,, 1969. This
means that two ,of a crew of
three will crawl through -from
module b to c, the lunar module,
traditionalbalance of
judgement. -
Consumer Week activities -will
vary from meat -rutting
demonstrations to pollution
displays to informati.9naL
"sit-ins".
Coincidental with Consumer
Week, the national executive of
^ the Association has announced 'a.
policy whereby the benefit of •
Consumers' Association of
Canada can be extended into •
communities where no formal
branch of the Association exists
at present. '
The new . policy allows the
setting up of consumer action •
committees without an extensive
, organizational structure. All that 4
is needed is for a responsible
group of two or three persons to
communicate with the national
office and a consumer action
committee kit will be sent out.
From :this beginning, consumer
information can be moved into
communities of any size
whatsoever.
For further information
about the value of CAC to -
i•ndividuals, to groups and tQ the
community, . ..write:.- -National
Office, Consumers' Association
of Canada, ,.109 Gloucester St.,
Ottawa 4.
while the whole is in lunar orbit.
Next c and d will detach from a
and b and descend to the moon
and land. The two ,men will
spend 36 hours on the moon's
surface, practising walking in
one sixth of the earth's gravity,
collecting samples and tracking
the -command module, 'Which
continues in lunar orbit. These
two tnen will, abandon module d
on the moon and press the
button in module e• to regain
lunar orbit and to dock with a
and b modules, then returning to
' earth. SQ much for Stage 9ife,
STAGE TWO
Stage 2 i more ambitious and
will attempt to place a modified
module c in permanent orbit
about the. earth, which can be
used as a shelter; a lab, or an
unmanned space struck by
-providing vehicles for astronauts
on the moon: These vehicles can
be joined together to form a
train when on the moon, so that
astronauts whose stays will now
be' weeks rather than hours, can
run a thousandmiles over the
moon's surface, depositing
instruments, or caches of food at
spots to which other manned
landings -may. be made. ,
'Phis Applications Program -me
will therefore have as ,its main
'goal a permanently orbiting
staging point for' long journeys
into space;'supplied and manned
by a situ the service from earth.
There will also be . an orbital
workshop: to which no less than
five Apollo type modules can
`dod'1c:-Stays in , this workshop
will gradually be increased from
four weeks to eight weeks. -
T.hIE PLANETS
- Even enthusiasts do not see.
any attempt. to reach the planets
for another 20 "A, years.,'
But
unmanned probes in the early
seunties are likely, dropping
`"'°intrunient packages on the
surface.
But in 19 77 /78 a
once -in -a -century ' opportunity
will present itself, when the
outer . planets Jupiter, Saturn,
l,)ranus and Neptune will all be
,aligned, in such a way, that a
space craft could .exploit their
gravitational fields to make a
grand tour without needing
extra -powerful boosters. -
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.
While present projects may be
termed "prestige," future
programmes will seek some more
practical benefits from the huge
investment. There are ideas on
how to reduce the cost of
putting a given load into space
by a factor of ten or more.
Orbital factories could exploit
weightlessness and vacuum to
turn out perfectly spherical ball.
bearings, simply by allowing a
drop of metal to' solidify. There
could be orbital hospitals too,
where patients , could rest
rheumatic limbs and weak
°hearts.• If hospitals, then why
not hotels? It should be
comparatively simple to finance
the Lunar Hilton. What ideas to
put into Dr. Dymond's head!
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