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HOMEMADE TORNADO — Prof. bred C. Batee of Kansas Unls
vessity peers at o little tornado ae made in a box, A vacuum
is created with a 12-h,p, motor which sucks air out of the box,
Vapor from a pan of dry ice moves upward in the funnel of
air and the baby tornado Is born. Bates Is looking forward to
bigger things — a model with a 100,.h.p. engine which Would
stir things up wait 200em,p,h. Winds, the minimum speed of
real tornado,
Ship
Taking A Pais t1ng
Apart With Scrapers
:Not long age a friend of mule.,
who owns a restaurant rang my
telephone and said he wanted to
show me something he,,thoocht
I'd find interesting. 1 thus went,,
as his guest to a meeting ef the
Maine Restaurant Owners Mee.,
elation, which did prove to be as.
Much fun as anything I've done
In a long time, The Great Ameel.
Oen Custom is to mot-to-vet,
end I had 'the unusual chance to
sit down and eat with floe os‘ -
ple who feed the met of us
When we Wither lor our confer-
criers and convention. Here
were the specialists,
This friend, with me, seldom
talks shop. He operates one of
our better restaurant.; in lelaine,
and is forever putting on die.
elm for the typical gatherings.
Americans have this penchant
for coming together be trades
and professions, getting off by
themselves with special inter-
ests, and whether it is the cos-
metologists, the lawyers, Or the
people who put on home-mar-
keting parties, there is always
the dinner.
Indeed we even have ie, our
society certain well-employed,
people who go to conventions
professionally. That is their job,
so thoroughly has the "meeting"
become a part of our affairs.
Take a big paper mill, Toe in-
stance, which, series to culti-
vate all the possibilities, and
11 will have somebody in the
organization who is gone most
of the time. He goes to career.
day conferences; printing and
publishing meetings; sales on-
e. e nt i o n meetings; legislative
etategy gatherings; safety con-
ferences; pollution control hear-
ings and all his own trade con-
ventions — and whatever it is
he sits down first and eats a
dinner with his associates.
So now I was to vesit with
the special group who make all
ehese other meetings poaetble.
'When the restaurant people hold
their own 'convention, they ga-
ther with one of their own mem-
bers, who is at once put, under
a great strain and desire to
Make an Impressioe with a meal
nerved to servers of meals? You
must strive for the unusual, but
you must pique their profession-
al attitudes,
1 found, of course, that res-
taurant people don't look upon
food as you and I do. On this
occasion some rare Syrian des-
sert was Served, and I approaeh-
ed it with curiosity and found it
Interesting and delicious. But to
the assembled restaurant men it
was brokee down into man-
hours, portions to a baking, and
tenet costs, We/tad it sell if put
epn 'the menu, and with What
ineals should it be served? It
,seemed to me like taking a
panting of a beautiful sunset
:etpant with a scraper to find
.1.11, what pigments had been the
tart
The most amusing part of the
eeting was strictly for me, the
tsider. The host, having
remelt everybody to his plate
t a beautifully-laid-out Imm-
une made a little speech of
elcome, told how he had tried
o arrange a menu to provoke ,
eir professional admiration
, ild etirtheity, as well as their I
innertime needs, and he Wiah-
d themgood appebitee. Then
they all began beating each
'Other,
A .restaurant owner, it yen.
pause 'to remember, Vends a
good part of his time holding a
khan. foe a intstOmete C greed.
You pleasantly, making small,
talk according to :the eireeM.
stances, and as you seat your,
sett, lac pushes your chair for..
ward ,a little bit for You. Here,
then, wee a gathering Of peo-
ple, WhO Matte a business of
pushing chairs forward, and
each of them Was trying to do
It for all the others, Being a
guest, I was promptly seated
and es 1 spreucl my napkin
watehed about as amusing a
chair iihieffle as you can imagine.
It seen broke up, aid the res-
taurant Members then sat down
without anybody's holding any,
body's chair.
The same sort of thing hap-
pened about water glasses, l'he
hoet had provided excellent
waitectesee, and naturally kept
his proles,iional eye on them to
see that they ,made no errors.
flat these restaurant Owners all
had a water-glass consciousness,
cad every time a glass became
half empty one of them WoUld
jump up, bring a pitcher, and
fill glasses, it was a habit.
This was a bountiful and meg-
nifieent dinner, to which re-
acted with non-professional glee,
But I was the only one so re-
acting. The steak Was just right,
hut speculation ran on how long
it had been "hung," the teen-
perature of the "box,d and if
there had been tenderizing, The
mashed potatoes were supreme,
but the restaurant men asked
what brand of "flakes" were
used, if they were mixed with
hot milk, if colouring and Me,
evident flavouring had been
added, and 'how long they could
be Safely held in a steam table,
Breads were broken apart and
felt, olives were discussed by
grade and count, pickles were
matched with each other,
The host eagerly visited up
and down the taibles. What they
were doing to him he would
In turn, be doing at the next
meeting in another's restaurant,
He kept an eye on the wai-
tresses, he himself filled water
glasses. He apologized for the
tomatoes in his salad, explaining
that his Wholesaler had failed
hdm at a crucial moment. And
he was also in and out of the
party room during the meal —
Tor he had to pay attention to
his public dining room down-
stairs, and to a convention of
deputy sheriffs in the adjacent
banquet hall.
I decided that those who put
on convention dinners for the
rest of us'put on the beet 'one
of all for themselves — but en-
joy it the least. They have all
the perfectionist scrutiny of the
gourmet, but it doesn't derive
from the taste buds. It is the
cold, analytical stare of the pies-
fessional, unemotional, and basic.
There isn't any beautiful paint-
ing until colours are mixed and
talent applies them.- — By John
Ceettld in the Christian Science ,
Monitor.
ONLY LAWYERS WON
You've heard of road-hogs.
Here is a ease of a d'Oad-soes.
Driving along Sag. Harbor Turn-
pike, near Mineola, New York,
Vincent Alloto Jr. elaitned that
a 300-pound pregnant sow struck
his automobile, causing $211 in
damages and $100 for temporary
loss of its use, Farmer "%realm
Denitiuk, owner of the sow,
°tainted the car hit the sow, and
Wed for $300, Judge H. T,
Hogan said both ears and pigs
have a right to toads.
Trying To Save The
American Eagle
"I saw the eaglet" called my
sister as she came in from work.
This was good news indeed for
it was early fall and it meant
that the pair of bald eagles who
maintained a nest in the tallest
pine tree not far from our house
had once more returned safely
from their summer migration in
the north. We hoped that this
year this devoted pair would be
able to hatch and rear a pair of
offspring.
But now It Is winter and it
looks as though once again both
the eagles and ourselves are due
for a disappointent. And the rea-
sons for this disappointment here
in Manatee County, Florida, mir-,
ror the problems that the Ameri-
can eagle is up against in all of
the United States today.
When our eagles returned to
their nest this fall they found
that Hurricane bonne had taken
their nest with her as she roared
northward last summer, An eagle
returns to the same nest year
after year and every year adds
something to it. This sometimes
produces nests of enormous size
and one 20 feet deep was known
years.
Our
the Gulf Coast for many
Our eagles found that only
about a foot or so of their former
nest was left. Surveying the
situation, they departed for a
pine woods about a mile distant
and began to build a new nest,
All went -well until the nest was
about four feet deep. Then some
boys from the neighborhood
began shooting at the leIrde and
so disturbed them that they re-
turned to their former home and
began to build another new nest
in a tree about 50 yards dis-
tant from the one destroyed by
the hurricane.
And so all fall and winter
they have had to be building
:tests. Such continual activity
Will probably end up leaving the
pair no time to incubate. And
since an eagle lays only two
eggs or at most three a year
this means a further decrease in
an already decreasing eagle
population. This is the third
year this nest will have pto-
&teed no eaglets, Three years
ago almest all the nests in
Manatee County were sterile.
Last year only one young eagle
was known to have hatched in
the county. This year the cen-
sus is still unknown for Decem-
ber through February are the
incubation Months.
In spedulating on this distress-
lag situation local Audubon
Society members point out that
he the 1051-58 season Manatee
County was intensively sprayed
With chemical insecticides after
an outbreak of Mediterranean
fruit fly. It was known that der-
lag this period many species of
birds bedanie Sterile. This may
also have happened to the
eaglet.
Our county here on the Florida
'West coast has the greatest coil.
eentration of eagle nests for the
area involved that is known in
the 'United States, This great
bird that was Once abundant
over the eatire country has now
made Florida and Alesitd its lest
stands On the contirieht, This
county up till hew has been per=
feet eagle country,. Eagles live
largely oil fish and the. Manatee
River runs the full length Of the
conaty opening alto e broad
Mouth Ae it flows into Tampa
nay. Alto right off the coast
are a series of bays and keys
-Which provide the ehallear
W a t ere and beaches where
eagles fish.
III An Audubon count last
yeat wilitdh sur'vey'ed a six
Mile equate area G tieste Were
observed and reported to the
Ittatiottal Society. Along the river
It Was discovered there tees a
nest about every mile, It was
deemed at that time impossible
to ettiteen the baled County elite
'trait Otidtli to still *ittioitt
roads and it is almost impossible
to walk through the tangled
bush and palmetto, writes Mar-
ian Sorenson in The Christian
Science Monitor.
But the road situation is slow-
ly being changed and as more
land is cleared the eagle is be-
ing literally pushed right off the
map. An. illustration of this is
a new suburb recently built
hear the county seat and high-
ly touted throughout the na-
tion for its "gracious Florida
living," This area was known
for years as one of the finest
wildlife areas found. It also con-
tained three fine eagle nests,
When the bulldozers came they
indiscrlitinately tore down
every tree In eight, Houses
were built, people moved in,
and subsequently the local Au-
dubon Society Was asked out to
see whet could be done about
attracting back the birds which
had deserted the place.
Here is a typical case that
makes conservationists tear their
hair. For with just a little intel-
ligent planning and tare the
public can many times have its
Oahe and eat it too, It can have
its material progress demanded
by a growing population and yet
conserve those natural values
without which the material pro-
gress becomes a pretty bare pro-
position. The eagle nests in this
area could have been saved by
the simple expedient of not cut-
ting down the pine trees they
were in.
For far from scorning human
companionship, the eagle seems
simply to' ignore it, From his
eighty or ninety foot perch he
seems to look clown with coin-
peete indifference on the world
beneath him. The nest I Observe
is directly behind a new and
extremely busy shopping bantte.
As I stand Staring up at the busy
eagles with my field glasses,
directly behind nth huge and.
noisy 'trucks are unloading at the
backdoor of. a eupermarket,
Trying to get people to take
an interest in conserving the
national en'vblem is often a heart-
breaking proposition, When a
young eaglet was shot by two
juveniles several yens' ago local
Ate:10)01i officials could get no
laSer enfercement dram any level
although the bird is federally
protected and a year In jail and
a heavy fine is the punishment
for killing one.
Now, however, there appears
to be a ray of hope in this dark-
ening Nature, At the beginning
of this year the National Audur.
fen Society approPetated $50,000
for a five-year study of this
magilident bird, Despite the fact
that the eagle ie the national
emblem and was once so abtin-
dant, vety little is itetualler
known about its habits or rnigta-
times. It is hoped that this study
will produce the information
Which can reenat in a practical
program to mire the eagle from
extinction, In lug such a way
the roseate spoonbill, California
condor, and whooping deities) have
been saved. Manatee Counter
Audubon members Will as-
operate fully With the program,
especially Sinde the national do.
clew lids 'stated that the location
be tile Veteette eagle nests will
be kept strictly ittificleietial,
Elton) bitter experience the lode'
society has found that as soon as
a nest bet einet publicized it often
becelties abehdened as poachera t
hunterg et' MiSchief makers be.,
gin bothering the birds,
Many dispute the right of the
eagle to be our national enibleiri,
Its bravery is not ell that it has
bents vaunted to be and it will
often stoop to eating carrion
With vultures, One of its favorite
Welts is to sweep screaming at
ati osprey Or gull and rob it of
Its catch of fish. nut mime ob.
serving those birds At close
range cannot help bat fedi that
Its fierce profile And dis->
dale gives it a visual forte tiha
eqttalled by any other Attletitati
bled. surer it is Worthy of 1$6.,
hit saved,
They leek The Chimp
POI' :Quit* A Ride
That, wad quite a tide efem, else
sestro-ehimp, took into: outer
tame. 'retie, it was only :for live
M11111441 -- but Whet a five mine
Ws!
And Ham is quite :a -.chimpeen
lee. They had him wired and
filmed to be sure they knew his
every action and reaction.
Ho heti been trained to move
p. lever and turn off ft light that
automatically produced a shock
le his foot, And he did it success-
fully each titne• the light flashed
ie his capsule.
This v, a; ale tee:reeled on film.
And only twice did the film show
Ham exhibiting any tension or
pain, once. for a second at the
neetnent of geeale t acceleration
on the taice-off; and the other for
e second as he reentered the
_earth's •Atmosphere.
in both :ewe he gritted his
teeth and looked a little "shook
;4,1' :brit only for a second. On the
bake-off the instruments record-
ed 10 Q's, and on reentry 12 G's,
which is within the limits of
stress's that the ,astronauts are
trained to sustain, There had
been some concern about zero G,
-where Ham would be weightless
in spate. But Apparently it didn't
dfaze" hits, : bit. He showed no
sign of concern or trouble while
hurtling weighless through space
at .5,000 nines per hour!
Actually the 'fact that Ham
overshot his target by 130 nellee
turned out to be .a good thing.
The Navy spotted the capsule and
fished Ham out of the water
within two hours after his land-
ing, none the worse foe the trip
or the delay in pick-up. It show-
ed the Mercury project was de.
veloping a good, fast, and effi-
cient team.
There were some, minor reale
funetionings on Ham's
but nothing that an estronaut (as
opposed to an astrochimp) could
but nothing that en astronaut (as
ample, an astronaut could have
escaped froth the nose cone in a
rough sea and floated around
in a rubber beat and signaled for
How to
By RAY CROW LEY
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON — You pro-
bably have been worried about
what you would do if you were
on a space craft and you bad to
abandon ship.
Well, even if you haven't
scientists have.
So two research men at Gene-
ral Electric in Philadelphia have
worked out a space life jacket,
a space life raft and a space life-
boat. In the boat,. they claim, you
Would 'be "as safe as in mother's
arms."
Researchers Harold L. Bloom
and John H. Quillinan admit
their space life jacket 'would
be more risky. If the. space
traveler made sortie erroneous
estimates, he might end up as
a perManent satellite hie-nett
But a future Model would come
fully equipped with a computer
to eliminate such embarrassing
errors.
The first space life jacket
would be "Ample," something a
space traveler might, wear all
he time. The first tleent-Quil.
linan design 1st Celled MOOSE
ore for "Mast Out of Space
)Easiest."
- The MOOSE-wearing "ships-
'reeked" spade traveler first
ottid get hifeeele safely awat
rent hie disabled Otte craft,
en he would 41/1Stiallyt oriole
Himself to the tektite' Heed
Measure his altitude and the
direction he was headed , with a
tight mounted on the rocket
hooked to his life jacket.
'Using the altitude internee,-
Von and precakulated range
tables mounted it the rocket,
would aim and fire the rail- t e
et Meter" in a direction ealcu-
ted to put hiss iii it Nee des-
help. Also he would have known
jot what switch to pull or turn
had a leak developed.
The Hem flight suggests there
is no real threat, or unsuspected
effects, to a man taint; a five-
minute ride into space. The twat
step is to see what a once,
aeound,theaworld trip of 90 min-
utes would produce, or e three,
times-around flight thee weuld
take some four and a half hours.
Actually space travel of a few
hours is not expected to affect
those taking such jaunts any
more than rides for a just a few
minutes. The difference comes
when a lraut must live in space
for weeks and months, with un-
known reactions both physical
and psychological, writes Neal
Stanford in the Christian Science
Monitor.
The Soviets' score on failures
is not much different from that
of the United States. The United
States has a good record of its
25 Discoverer shots, because if
one shot the same thing enough
tiznes, eliminating bugs each
time, the success percentage is
bound to mown.
This fact explains the Soviet
success record. They have one
basic booster, their ICBM booe-
ter With 800,000 pounds of thrust.
When they developed that they
were not thinking of space shots
but intercontinental missiles. But
they Adapted it to epee() and so
took a lead in space just as they
had la the big missile field.
But what .Americans do not
always realize is that the Ruse
cent and at a safe speed for
entering the atmosphere and
landing on earth.
He Would then fellow through
by firing glean jets to set his
body at the right angle for hit,
ting the earth's atmosphere —
A6 as net to burn up.
The astronaut — now headed
in the right direction — would
turn a levet. His life jacket
would blow out like a ceCoon.
Foaming plastic would fill the
space between his body and the
plastic covering',
A dense plastic foam would
form a shield "in front" as he
circled down. This heavy front
shield — by melting away —
would absorb the intense frice
ttoli heat caused by his hitting
the atnieephere at high speed.
A medium-light foam wetild
form All outer 'shield over the
rest of his body. An extremely
light inner foam Would sur-
round the man and be a sort
of shOck absorber shield be-
tsveen the astronaut and the
outer layer of plastic.
He would thus be protected
against the strong shock of hit-
rig the earth's Atmosphere At
teigh speed by this light inner
tayer, which Would crush sloWs
fr, and in ertishilig tbabrb the
Thiel astronaut apparently
eenulid earner a lot Of ettnpliee
lit hie life *kid, Ife'd fire it
Very bright flare just Mere he
hit the earth's atmosphere. An-
other bright flare would go off
4,4 Ito dropped to A loveet level.
Then) Would be other gadgets to
tiOtify rescuers.
At about 30,000 feet above
etround, a Pereiehute wateld open.
If he landed In water, the
MOOSE life jacket would be=
tonic a raft,
.0440, program in space le a neen
vow nee. with a single vehicle
and few shots The United Steno.
has a Wider program, several vee
Melee, and lute acquired a, much
wider range of space infermatiore
America's Pioneer V actually did
the same things as the Soviet
Venus shot in reporting en radio
:ation, magnetic inforrnation, oto,
When -22,500,001I miles out to.
space it was Still in oontact,
Bat it took 17 menthe. to plan
end put up Pioneer V. Actually'
the united etetes :talked serious-
1S' in '59 ef a Venus shot, But it
watt agreed that eight month*
wasteo Meier to plea and execute
such a sire. se the 'project was
eiremiened and. turned into
neer V which now orbits between
the earth and Venus
Moeceteee biggest ..eare-shot
frhilurn is supposed t have 00.,
curved during Xbrushehev's tripe
to the United States, which he
initiated with Lunik, The story
is that he was going to climax the
trip with a man in space, and,
while on the. West Coast, 'Soviet
recovery ships dotted the Pacific,
They scouted around until they'
ran out of fuel, and Mr. X. said.
nothing. If Moscow did try to
e 1 i ana x ch0,v' s 'United
States trip with a man in spacer
its effort apparently got lost in
space — or didn't. survive re-
entry
The most galling problem
harassing a suburbanite was to
keep dogs from tearing up hie
patiently-cultivated lawn, His
prominent "Jeep Off the Grass°
sign wasn't taken seriously by'
any of the dog owaers. Seeking
a fresh approach, he erected a
small sign on a newly-seeded,
area, It read. "Protect your doe
Lawn specially treated with poi-
son," Not a dog touched a blade.
Progress? Further achieve-
ment in making the television,
viewer immobile la aothd with
the invention, by a CalifOrnianc,
of a new device making it pee.
able to set a television receives
for an entire evening of varied
programs.
in Space
MOOSE would contain a sur-
vival kit calculated to enable
the astronaut to get along any
place he happened to land on,
earth. It also would have an
oxygen pack so he could breathe
coming down.
Later versions would be more
complicated — a better rocket
motor, a computer to do the
astronaut's thinking for him, 10
pounds of food and water, la
hours of oxygen, infrared sight-
ing equipment. These would be
the de luxe models. They would
be heavier and more expensive.
The projected space life raft
would be mounted in the watt
of a Satellite or spaceship. It
would be made of aluminum
honeycomb-cored glass fiber and
a nylon-reinforced plastic fron-
tal shield. The entrance hatch
would be open to the living
quarters in the tatellite. An air-
tight seal and clamps Would hold
it in position.
At "abandon ship," the astro-
naut would climb into the lila
raft, secure the hatch and loosen
the explosive or magnetic clamps
holding it to the mother ship,.
Springs would eject the life raft.
After seating, himself in the
litlieminure frame seat, the astro-
naut would secure his harness
and use the periscope to deter-
mine the direction he should
head the craft for deorbiting.
Gas jets would orient the life
raft, Retto rockets would slow
it down, The device would Afloat.
But there also would be a rub-
ber life raft iiithe survival kit,
A hand-powered "Gibson 010"
radio transmitter would also be
aboard,
The Satellite lifeboat would
hold three men. It would be able
to maneuver bOLI miles to one
side or another, give a much bet-
ter chalice of landing the astro-
nauts where they 'wanted to be.
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