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il.iljfijHliil 'OjuiilVhi- Houses, Houses, Houses! Astronauts Could Have Part Sunday, February 3, 1963 1 COMa- Success Comes Out Of Failure ft September will be a busy month. Birthdays galore for some of the nation's nine new astronauts. Don't know what it might prove, but Ed White was born Sept. 14. 1930; Tom Stafford on Sept.

17, 3930. and John W. Young on Sept. 24, 1930. Nobody knew it at the time, but it wa3 a great 10-day period for American space efforts back in mid-September of 1930.

March has the most astronaut birthdays. Frank Borman, March 14, 1928; Jim Lovell, March 5. 1928; Roy Cooper, March 6, 1927; Wally Schirra, March 12, 1923, and Deke Slaytcn, March 1, 1924, make that a rather illustrious month. Rounding out the 16 are Jim Mc-Divitt, June 10, 1929; Charles Conrad, June 2, 1930; Elliott See, July 23, 1927; John Glenn. July 18, 1921; G-JS Grissom.

yril 3. 1926; Neil Armstrong, Aug. 5, 1930; Scott Carpenter, May 1, 1925, and Alan Shepard, Nov. 18, 1923. Bug' Begins To Take Shape will be about 10 feet in diameter and will stand 10 feet high.

The spindly landing gear will be left behind when the astronauts blast off from the moon. At this launch the capsule will actually weigh only four "Earth-tons" because of the lack of atmosphere and the moon's weak gravitational pull. Grumman plans to build 11 of the craft, perhaps more if the unmanned test program is expanded. The first will be completed by late 1965 or early 1966. Pure Food Fight Progress Reported in the upper half of his class scholastically.

The assumption is that many potentially superior students may fail to attain the highest grades because their economic status forces them to divide their attention between studies and necessary outside activities. Therefore, scholarship attainments, leadership potential and citizenship are all considered in a point system to determine eligibility for assistance. Application for aid is made through the student's high school principal. A feature of the Citizens Scholarship plan is the revolving fund into which each recipient of aid is invited to repay all or a part of the assistance he received, if he is able to do so after he has completed his college education. There is no requirement that this be done but consideration of the scholarship fund as an interest-free loan enables the fund to do a great deal more good with its limited resources.

0 0 0 LOCALLY THE plan has the endorsement of the county school system, Brevard Junior College and others. The idea has been lauded by our last two presidents and leading figures in higher education. The plan is particularly marked by the fact that 97 to 99 pet. of total funds are actually awarded in scholarships. Brevardians will have the opportunity to meet the founder when Dr.

Fradkin comes to Cocoa Wednesday. He will be honored by members of the Citizens Scholarship Fund of Central Brevard and others at a dinner at the Brevard Hotel. This would be a good opportunity to hear the details of this real grass roots scholarship plan from the man who conceived it. The public is invited to participate in honoring a worthy citizen, Dr. Irving Fradkin.

The Fun Of It Markett brushed aside anxious questions about when the choir would be presented to the public. "We'll sing when we're really ready," he said. In the meantime 'there's a lot of work to be done. One of the principal features of the new choral group is that literally everyone is welcome to join. There are no auditions and the fact that your ability does not match your enthusiasm will never be noticed.

It's a chorus for Brevard folks who love to sing. 0 0 0 ACTUALLY, IT'S a real opportunity for frustrated Carusos and Melbas to sing under the baton of a fine director. Markett has previously headed such productions as Cocoa High's 1962 presentation of Oklahoma and a fine performance of the Faure Requiem. Rehearsals will be each Tuesday evening at 7:30 in Thursby Hall at St. Marks in Cocoa.

If you really enjoy singing, this is a great opportunity to have a lot of fun. And if the interest and energy displayed Tuesday night continues at that level, Brevard has seen the birth of an organization that will bring many hours of pleasure to participants and listeners alike. j51 "THE CENTRAL Brevard area is participating in a college scholarship plan that has received very little notice. The Citizens Scholarship Fund is patterned after the so-called "Fall River plan." And this plan really came about quite by accident. Dr.

Irving Fradkin was a candidate for the school board in Fall River Mass. in 1957 but failed to attain the post, and that was one of the most fortunate things that could have happened for many youngsters who wish to go to college but haven't the means. OOO DR. FRADKIN, an optometrist with strong interest in education, took his defeat at the polls as a personal challenge to do something about the hundreds of fine young people who needed a college education but could not qualify for aid under existing scholarship plans. The Citizens Scholarship Funds, here in Brevard and in many other places, are the result.

that the founder saw crowds of people his mind was obsessed with the thought that if everyone within range of his sight Should contribute just $1, there would be enough money to help a deserving student through college. That was the start of the plan. In Brevard, as elsewhere, the foundation of the plan is the grass roots support of plain wage-earning people at $1 per year for membership. Commercial and organizational membership at $100 are also welcomed but the whole idea is. broad participation by people who could not afford to take part.

in; the usual type of scholarship fund. 0 0 0 ASSISTANCE FROM the local fund is available to any Brevard high school senior in the upper half of his class who would be unable to continue his or her education without financial assistance. You will note that the eligibility requires only that the applicant be They Sing For LOT to sing about in Bj-evard these days and a group in: process of organizing intends to' lift its collective voice just for the fun of it. The Brevard Civic Chorus is the brain child of Ray Markett, well-known Central Brevard musician and choral director. Ray has observed community choruses in many other places and feels that Brevard is entitled to the best.

A group of some 50 enthusiasts met at St. Marks Church in Cocoa Tuesday night, discussed the matter a while and then blended their voices in a session of song. It was noticeable that the level of excitement was even higher at the end of the meeting than it was at the beginning. WAY OF temporary organization the original group selected LOys Jordan, organist and choirmaster of Cocoa Presbyterian Church to be president. Mrs.

Leonard Spielvogel is secretary and Kenneth Malone librarian. Both volunteered to serve until the group becomes better organized. Bonnie Dugan of Cocoa High offered to handle publicity. it Thank You Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the fine editorial which appeared recently giving information to the public concerning certain questions that had arisen in connection with the bond issue. Many people mentioned to me that they had read it and I am sure it a great deal to increasing understanding and a favorable reaction to the issue.

WOODROW J. DARDEN Supt. Public Instruction (We give the facts. The people will speak on Tuesday. Editor.) v1 APWPoSfrfTiNei.

Man's 'Moon By FRANK MACOMBER BETHPAGE, Long Island, N. Y. One can sense pride and determination among the men of the "Space Engineering Center" at the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. here. These men are working on a craft that they are certain will carry the first men to the moon.

There is an air of excitement about the place. 0 0 0 E. CLINTON Towl, 57, Grumman-president, declines to accept congratulations on winning the $350 million contract for the lunar vehicle. "Come and see me in five or six years, after we've got those astronauts to the moon and back safely," says Towl. "Then I'll be glad to shake hands." The craft Grumman has been assigned to build by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin, is officially called a "lunar excursion module." Engineers here have shortened that to "LEM," or the "bug." The latter is perhaps the most appropriate.

Artists' conceptions of the craft show it to be a beetle-like shape with portholes that look like eyes, a radar nose that resembles a snout and a spindly five-legged landing gear. If NASA's moon program proceeds on one of the LEM craft will be secured to an Apollo space ship in 1967 or 1968. The assembly will be mounted atop a giant Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral and launched Into space. Three men will be inside the mothership. The apollo will be placed In orbit around the moon.

Two of the three astronauts aboard will move into the LEM capsule. The capsule will separate from the mother-ship and descend to the surface of the moon. 0 0 0 ONCE ON the moon, the two astronauts will carry out a planned exploration, collecting samples for study on Earth. Their life-support equipment will be designed to give them up to four days on the moon. While these two men are exploring, the third astronaut will remain in the Apollo mothership, piloting it on its orbit of the moon.

When ready, the two explorers will return to LEM and blast off with thrust rockets for a rendezvous with Apollo. They will maneuver their craft into union with the mothership, transfer the samples to her, then set off for the return trip to Earth. LEM will never return to Earth. On the voyage from the moon to Earth, the Apollo crew will jettison the now-empty "bug" and another section of their craft called the propulsion system. They will pilot Apollo into Earth orbit, then steer their way gently back into the atmosphere, cushioning the last few miles with a series of parachutes and retro-rockets.

It sounds almost simple? It won't be. It will be the greatest adventure man has ever undertaken. And the people here at Grumman know it. TOWL CREDITS the enthusiasm of his 16,000 employes as a major factor in the company's assignment to the LEM project. He points out that the average Grumman employe has been with the company for 15 years a figure Walt Robshaw Bud Clarke, manager of the Delta Airlines ticket office in" the City of Cape Canaveral, says FEC rail strike hasn't made -any appreciable difference in his Msi-ness.

Only thing he has noticed is that it tends to make auto drivers a little careless about crossing railroad tracks. Bud says he sees a lot of people blindly plowing across unguarded crossings, content in the knowledge no trains are running. Problem is, they might get so much in the habit they'll try the same stunt on other lines, or continue to do so after FEC trains start rolling again. Then, blooey. That's all she wrote, Nellie.

-T Sounds as though you can rent almost anything with a roof or it these days. Workers in the Rock-ledge Branch Courthouse zonirtg'of-fice are chuckling about the "late-afternoon caller who requested a rental home inspection after working hours. He was told it was too late and the inspection would, be made the following "That may be too late," the.call-er moaned. "The building's not too sturdy and may be blown away by morning." ROBSHAW of pesticide residues. Seventy-four of the samples, or 3.6 contained residues higher the legal limit.

This' represented "a slight '1m-provement" over the samplings for 1961. A similar procedure was followed with alfalfa hay. OOO "IN 1962," Hillis said, "1,204 enforcement samples were analyzed and 75 had excessive residue, almost all of it the result of application of DDT." This means that 6.2 pet. otihe samples had illegal amounts. The preceding year the percentage was 11.

Improvement was' also reported in the milk field. R. L. Van Buren, area supervisor of the bureaipof dairy service, said in Sacramento that a survey had just shown that 11 dairies, of California's 9,000 or so, had been suspended during the first nine months, of 1962 for having pesticide residue In milk. The year's total probably would figure out to 16 or 18, he said a figure comparing with 28 in 1961.

"We are very encouraged," Van Buren asserted. It was emphasized that the figures did not cover random samplings of food products. Only those selected by inspectors as being suspicious were analyzed. Department officials said that the excessive contamination figures' weald thus have been lower had sampTes chosen at random been checked in the laboratories. 0 0 0 INSPECTORS work out of Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco and Sacramento.

From the San Francisco office of Alden May-hood, the district inspector here, it is customary for L. B. Bartell, an inspector, to pay early mbrn-ing visits to San Francisco 1'aod Oakland wholesale fruit and vegetable markets. He visually inspects commcii-ties, picks up samples and, if ddor or appearance makes him suspicious, he turns the samples over to a laboratory for analysis. WAITING WEAPONS -Parti Their orders reach them FDrtkJ tub Ufnni fe i MOST POWERFUL 4 RADIO TDAkiUiTTrn i OH THE US.

EAST COAST, WATT signals i PENETRATE, FOR THE FIRST TIMS SFNFATM THE oceans! far beyond the aerospace industry average. In preparing for the shift from aircraft to space vehicles, Grumman built a space center that cost $5 million. It is the 15th in a string of Grumman plants spread over Long Island. The company set its sights on the man-to-the-moon project and spent $2 million in private studies. It bid for the prime Apollo mother-ship contract, but that went to the Space Systems Division of North American Aviation Corp.

at Downey, Calif. Grumman then concentrated on LEM, beginning design studies even before NASA had decided on the lunar orbit technique. The gamble paid off. The final shape of LEM will be decided after exhaustive tests, but engineers are almost certain that it will come close to current artists' conceptions. "It'll look like a fat helicopter," joked one engineer.

0 0 0 THREE SETS 6f jets will lower the craft to the moon's surface and then lift it off again. Television cameras will relay pictures of the moon back to the orbiting mothership. One of the major problems will be to separate LEM from the mothership and position it in space for the descent to the moon. Large windows will provide maximum visibility for the two astronauts as they maneuver LEM toward the moon. The craft will weigh about 12 tons and the cabin Father, pacing floor with wailing baby as wife lies snug in bed: "Nobody ever asks me how I manage to combine marriage and a career!" My wife is just like Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.

Everywhere she goes she yells "charge." Chatter. "I'm Mr. Reed's wife," said the brunette, as she introduced herself to a lovely blonde at the party "I'm his secretary," the blonde replied. "Oh," said the brunette, "were you?" Sign Them, Please Letters for the Public Thought column of The Brevard Sentinel should be signed with the author's name. Names will be withheld from publication on request.

Letters should be mailed or brought to our bureaus at Cocoa, Melbourne or Titusville. Please Be Brief FgONTOS OF SCIXNCS Im the acc or eewrr vubmm ONt DEFENCE 15 THE THREAT Of OVERWHELMING RETALIATION FROM WEAPONS OUT OP REACH OF ATTACK THE INVISIBLE DETERRENT. Science has given ths us. a fan tastic NEW ARMORY BEGINNING WITH THE POLARIS SUBMARINES, EACH CARRYING 16 ROCKETS WHOSE COMBINED POWER IS GREATER THAN ALL THE KOMQS DROPPED BY BOTH SIDES IM WORID WAR It. Nftu "tfork JTtmrfl Dispatch to the Brevard Sentinel Star SAN FRANCISCO California appears to be making progress in a battle to reduce pesticide contamination of foods.

Tests in State Department of Agricultural laboratories' during 1962 showed that excessive contamination of field and orchard crops and milk had been less than it was in the preceding year. 0 0 0 DESPITE WHAT was termed an encouraging report by department officials. Gov. Edmund G. Brown is asking the legislature in his 1963-64 budget this week to appropriate funds for increasing present inspection safeguards' by adding laboratory equipment and hiring additional chemists.

"We feel that, to allay any fears on the part of consumers, there should be a broader sampling and analysis of fruits and vegetables," said John Hillis, program supervisor for spray residue and agricultural pest control. "We would like to include nuts and root crops and increase the program we have going for other products." California uses record amounts of pesticides in producing its record agricultural yields, which for several years have been worth more than $3 billion annually. Last year 2,025 samples of fruits and vegetables, collected by inspectors of the department of agriculture, were submitted to the department's six laboratories devoted exclusively to the analysis THS The nuclear POWERED POLARIS SUBS CAN Around the world WITHOUT SURFACING OR I tin tUTt J-kkl FOR A MONTH, WAITING "AN Gov. E. G.

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