European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday August 5, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 cars banned from heart of Toledo in test Toledo up the automobile has been ostracized from the heart of downtown Toledo for the Star of a 45-Day Experiment. Cars were banished from a four Block area and walking became the Only permitted Mode of transportation. The parking meters and Street signs were gone and traffic lights ignored. Workmen had outlines on the streets where gardens and patios could be built if Toledo accepted the idea. Downtown businessmen Hope the malls would serve As the inner City s answer to the convenience of shopping centers on the out skirts. Like Many metropolitan areas Toledo a City of nearly a third of a million people fount its downtown area choked by traffic. Shoppers were becoming More and More reluctant to go downtown. Boost Public transport City officials Hope the Public will return to Public transportation which will drop shoppers off at the malls eight archway entrances. The idea of creating malls where pedestrians could roam at will was backed by downtown Toledo associates the City s merchant group. The idea was suggested to Amer ican cities two years ago when the International Congress of local authorities at the Hague was told either the motor car will drive us All out. Of our cities or the cities will have to drive out the motor taxiing plane goes it alone Macon a a runaway plane taxied around an Airport Here for an hour with the Pilot Riding the Tail and fire department and air port officials alternately chasing and being chased by the Light Craft. The Pilot finally fell off. The plane s broken mooring line be came tangled in a Hose and the aircraft lurched into a fire Engin and stopped. Howard Thurston 38, of Griffin escaped with minor cuts an bruises and torn clothing. The plane s propeller was broken an the fire truck dented. I Don t want to talk about it said thurs ton. Fred Baker 39, an employee of the Macon air sex vice gave this account Thurston cranked the propeller to Start the plane with the throttle set nearly wide open. The Vibra Tion loosened chocks holding the plane in place the mooring Lin broke and the Craft roared away. The Pilot ducked out of the Way of the propeller and grabbed the Tail Section As it swished past. The plane began rolling along about 35 Mph too fast for Thurston to crawl into the cockpit or drop off. Baker called firemen. Efforts to slow the plane by squirting water in the air scoop failed. At last the broken mooring line wrapped itself around the firehouse. Thurston fell off and the plane ran to the end of tie Hose lurched around and hit the firetruck. \ ride less test of astronaut capsule slated Washington a the first Man carry ing Type of space capsule is scheduled for launching unoccupied next month. It will be sent up from Cape canaveral,fla., by a vehicle called big Joe essentially a modified Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. The conventional Atlas climbs to altitudes of several Hundred Miles and delivers its War head at speeds of More than 15,000 Rupli Overa Range of up to 6,300 Miles. Big Joe by contrast will Rise vertically to about 120 Miles then1 tilt to the right an slightly downward. With its mighty engine still putting out full Power it will Thunder Down a slanted course through the Earth s thickening Atmos phere. The purpose a maximum test of the ablation or heat erosion of the outer surface of capsule s nose. The space capsule atop the Atlas in Bigjoe has been built by the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa at its Lewis laboratories Cleveland is a faithful copy of the 12 Mercury space capsules being produced for Nasa by Mcdonnell aircraft corp., St. Louis to. It is the same weight2,100 to 2,200 pounds and will have the same instrumentation an pressurized compartment As the Mcdonnell capsule but will not have the environmental equipment required to keep a Man alive. Nasa had planned to fire big Joe about aug. 1, but failures in the Atlas icbms test ing program made it impossible to meet that Date. The launching is now planned for mid september. It May be preceded by Little Joe rocket launching from Wallops Island va., or from Cape canaveral. Little Joe is composed of a Cluster of four 30-fool-Long sergeant rockets with smaller rockets attached to the sides to provide the exact initial acceleration required. Little Joe will launch experimental capsules to measure acceleration and to test the prob lems associated with discharging the capsule from the nose Cone and recovering it by Para Chute or other Means. Rhesus monkeys and a Chimpanzee Are to ride in some of these capsules to test the effects of acceleration weightlessness an deceleration upon living bodies. The Little Joe series will be followed next Spring by the first rocket launching of me into Short flights in space capsules in preparation for eventual Orbital flight late in 1961 Orin 1962. Artist s sketch of the first space chamber Ca Pable of taking a human to a simulated Altitude of 150 Miles. The chamber will be built into the Republic aviation corp s astronautics research Center at farming Dale . Space suits men and new Bill would recruit cadets for space corps Washington up con Gress is being urged to set up a space Cadet corps to recruit youth for the nation s space projects. Rep. Victor l. Anfuso d-.a member of the House science and astronautics committee has pro posed a Bill to create and incorporate a space Cadet corps. Anfuso s at d the organization would encourage and help the Young people of the country to taken Active part now and eventually to find careers in the space sciences and practical in order to meet the challenges too portable Montpelier it. Up radio station ski reported of a Brand new portable to set. Of the space age we need the full est and earliest possible participation in space activities by our youth Anfuso said. The corps would be run by a corporation to be located in washing Tori and directed by prominent per sons from the Fields of education aviation astronautics and relate activities Anfuso said the purposes of the corps would be to encourage the development of rocketry and related sciences. Promote education and practical experience in astronomy rocketry astronautics and similar personnel for the Obser vation and study of satellites another heavenly bodies. Help obtain fellowships an scholarships for members. Material will be tested in the chamber under space flight conditions. Men at right Are safety monitors. Space suited men Are undergoing test set up by the Engineer at the outer control panel. The chamber will Cost $500,000. Up photo Boeing unveils spaceship Model for planet trips Washington up the Boe ing air plane co. Has unveiled Amodel of a space vehicle which it claims would be capable of carry ing Man to other planets Walter Hiltner a Boeing official said the actual vehicle would rebuilt at a storage depot in orbit around the Earth by technicians working without space suits. They would construct the 207-by-74-Footvehicle within a Large plastic bub ble he said. Hiltner said the vehicle Wouldhave Levels separated by Nylon nets rather than flooring for control storage hangar deck Crew quarters rest and recreation Anubio physiological stores. Spare the Gas and spoil the frustration Amarillo Tex. Up police Hope that next time Sandra.,Dulaney gets mad at her Boyfriend she won t take it out on the traffic Laws. Sandra 18, wont on a rampage that left two police cars damaged almost killed her and a Girlfriend and took a riot gun to end. Police first spotted Sandra driving through a red.,Light with a 15-year-old companion. When they tried to Stop her she stepped on the Gas. The girl raced out of Amarillo at 110 Mph on a expressway leading to Canyon Tex. Two police cruisers collided and received minor damage in . Miss Dulaney raced into Canyon and ran another red Light ,. Deputy sheriff Bob Gravestock fired a riot gun and blew put three tires on her car. It careened off the Road arid crashed but both Sandra and her companion escaped injury. When Sandra stepped from the wreckage her Only explanation Wajs i was so mad and frustrated because of my Boyfriend that i just kept did t Tell them what her lovers spat was about. They charged her with 34 traffic violations and released her on Bond. Too Bountiful Bossy a losing proposition Ithaca . Up when a cow produces More than .11,000 pounds of milk a year she starts costing her owner Money Accord ing to a study of 464 new York state Dairy farms. The Survey conducted by the state College of agriculture at Cor Nell University shows that when Bossy goes Over that Figue she tends to Cost More for labor than the extra milk is. Worth. Economists says the Best yield is be tween 7,000 and 11,000 pounds per year. Tranquili Zers seen cutting mental cases Washington up new Tranquili ing and antidepressant drugs brought a steady reduction in patients in slate mental hospitals the past three years despite record High new admission rates it Lias been disclosed. The National committee against mental illness .inc., said that if present rates continue even More new treatments must be found or one out of every. 10 americans will spend part of his life in mental Hospital. Calling Cor More local and fed eral funds for research and train ing the committee noted that americans Are spending More than 230 times As much on alcoholic beverages As they Are on mental illness research. The committee said the nation spends an average of $61.22 a year on alcoholic beverages for each Man woman and child compared with 26 cents for research against mental illness. Reduction since 1955the report said that at the end of 1958 there were 545,465 patients in state mental hospitals a reduction of More than 13,000 since 1955. The drop occurred it said de spite a record increase in admissions averaging 10,000 new patients annually. The committee noted that 98per cent of All mental patients Are in Public hospitals. It said that while mental illness costs the nation More than $3.7 billion a year the annual research investment is Only $44.5 million about 1 per cent of the custodial Bill. It said that results already ob-., trained with new techniques and intensive therapies demonstrate that additional expenditures will produce the Means for reducing the number of people developing serious mental clams a la new Burgh Lead Pearl to Mecca Newburgh . A Joseph g. Mecca s wife is getting a new Pearl one that Mecca said lie found in a Clam. Mecca was preparing clams in his restaurant in nearby Salisbury Mills. In one Shell he said lie found a Pearl three eighths of an Inch in diameter a Weweler con firmed the find was a Pearl. Baby shoes in the car better be on the baby iia Krisburg a. A you can got n traffic ticket in Penn Sylvania i or baby slices if they re hanging from Tho rear View Mirror of your car. Gov. David l. Lawrence has signed into la a a Bill which pro Hibits placing or hanging any object in such a Way that i obstructs a Driver s vision. _ _
