The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 60

FAGE 60 -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- SCIENCE IX THE NURSERY Grounded Fliers Angry At Philip Unexplained Ball Of Ice Falls From Georgia Sky Neiv Toys Include Safe Rocket, Microscope, Clock That Works Chicago (UPO Science education will begin in the nursery if the toy manufacturers have anything to say about it. crunched into the and dug through a foot of topsoil. LECROYS SON brought a flashlight and neighbors who heard the sound and the impact hurried to the scene in Lecroy's garden at Martin, eight miles south of here. The ice fell at dusk Monday. The Weather Bureau at Atlanta said it could not cx- They've come up with an air-powered missile, a rocket launcher, a microscope with real specimens and dissecting tools, and a toy clock that works.

London (AP) Prince Philip, the high flying husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has ruffled the feathers of some private birdmen. They say they were grounded because the prince went flying last Saturday. And so they missed out on their favorite week-end sport. "A COMPLAINT will almost certainly be made to Buckingham Palace," said Victor Nightscale, secretary of the Reading Flying Club. He gave this unhappy account: Members of the club showed up at their base, Woodley The youngsters had more fun.

They wound up a jumbo clock designed to keep fairly accurate time for 14 hours with all its inner parts visible. The clock not only works, but comes apart and can be put back together again. For parents who have been warned of the danger of letting their children launch miniature rockets, there's now a safe one that shoots up 350 feet, charged only by compressed air. The two-stage rocket comes with its own bicycle-type pump and has a place in its nose cone for a noisy giant cap. judges ranged in age from 4 to 16 years old.

Many of the younger judges couldn't even be persuaded to look over all the toys up for judging. If they found something they really liked, they just stuck by it THE SENIOR judges watched their junior counterparts and rated toys on how many youngsters they attracted and how long they occupied the attention of the youngsters. Of course, the safety, durability and educational value of a toy were also considered. plain the phenomenon. The ice was photographed and samples were removed to be tested.

CHEMISTS who analyzed the muddy-colored water said it was pure, soft and untreated, unchlorinated water such as rain. It was not manu-mactured ice, they said. The sky was clear and the ground temperature well above freezing at the time. There was snow in the North mountains over the week end, but no snow occurred in north Georgia. Reports from the village of Acacia, Italy, said a 66-pound chunk of ice fell mysteriously from the sky there on Monday and could not be explained.

Toccoa. Ga. (UPD A Georgia farmer said yesterday he was "almost clobbered" by a strange, 49-pound chunk of 'ice that whooshed out of a clear sky and hit in his garden. "I was no more than. 12 feet away when it hit, and it almost scared me to death." the farmer, Claude J.

Lecroy, said. "I had been out in the garden and was walking toward the house when I heard this whoosh, a tremendous rushing of air like a jet, getting louder and louder. It became a tremendous roar in a few seconds and then it hit." The big ball of ice, whitish and hard frozen, was pitted and scored like a meteorite. Pieces it shattered as it THESE were among the toys selected as the top 10 scientific and mechanical ones by Science and Mechanics Magazine and previewed in Chicago this week. Kail Hales KaNc.l Belgrade (AP) The Yugo-slav government this week decided to raise tariffs for goods transported on the country's state-owned railways by 15 per cent to meet increased railway costs.

PRINCE PHILIP, the order explained, was going to try out a new plane in the area where the Reading birdmen fly their individual planes for fun. "Many of our members are working men who enjoy a few hours flying on Saturday mornings," the secretary told a reporter. "It's the only time they have to practice a sport they love." Lt. Cmdr. Robert Towers-ley, a club member, said: "I drove 35 miles from my home only to be told I couldn't take off.

Everyone's fed up about this." ANOTHER member, David Withers, commented: "We feel very strongly about this. The prince can pick and choose his flying time we can't." The secretary said that in lodging a complaint, his club will suggest that in the future officials give the club three days' notice whenever the prince plans to fly. A BUCKINGHAM Palace spokesman said "Due warning of Prince Philip's intention to fly was given." A sizable proportion of the Airfield on Saturday morning just as they do every Saturday when the weather is good. As they were getting ready to take off, an order came from London to ground them. 31 S.

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5 Today's Pictures ''f i I 7 V-t-' FIRST ANNIVERSARY AS POPE A year ago yesterday Pope John XXIII was elected supreme ruler of the Roman Cath- olic Church. He's shown chatting at the Vatican with Achille Micheletti of Sotto 11 Monte, the Italian village where the Pontiff was born. Micheletti was a school mate of the 77-year-old Pope. Between them is Msgr. Mario Bosio, also of the village.

The Pope received 162 villagers, including 25 of his relatives. He told them he hopes to see Sotto II Monte again before he dies. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Rome) YD IfrLl 14 IT) ft) 23 PAIR ENJOVS CONFUSION IN NAMES Linda Marie Stevens and Linda Marie Stevens, both 11 years old, are neighbors and friends. They're in the same grade at the same school in Pomona, in the same class in Sunday school and in the same junior church choir. They enjoy the confusion of neighbors, friends and school officials.

The girls are not related. (AP Wirephoto) FOUR-MOTOR FLYING PLATFORM Curtiss-Wright's "flying jeep" undergoing formal tests yesterday for military observers at Santa Barbara (Cal.) Airport, near the Santa Barbara Division installation. The "flying jeep" is making its bid for an Army contract in competition with two models tested previously by two other firms Chrysler and Piasecki Aircraft Corporation. (AP Wirephoto) rwR. lmt FNwgJ-V fill I It I if jEt'I I fi Er i A 1 Jvl Ci tfm X- 1 -iyttr -rL I I Jf WVa II Mm ill II SMMllv.

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(AP Wirephoto via radio from London) DURABLE DOVE SURVIVES SHOT AND CHILL This dove lived despite a shot by a hunter and four days in a refrigerator in a Mobile (Ala.) home. Now he's the pet of Gale Castle, seven years old, and her two-year-old brother, Robby. They have named him Frosty. Their father, R. B.

Castle, put a bag of doves in a refrigerator, meaning to clean them later. Four days later, he opened the bag and Frosty hobbled put. (AP. Wirephote) STEP'S STEAM EQUALS CAULDRON'S Here's the dead heat in the first race at Aqueduct, New York, yesterday, as Step, Pete Anderson up, and Cauldron, ridden RALEIGH STATUE UNVEILED John Hay Whitney (left, foreground), United States ambassador to London, unveiling the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh in hall, London, yesterday in a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, England'! with Paul Bailey In the saddle. Step returned $11.30 and Cauldron $6.40 in the I six and one-half furlong race for two- year-old colts and geldings.

(AP Wire- photo) by Larry Adams, hit the finish line to gether. The third horse is Colonel Neil, i 1.