European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse May y1962 the stars and stripes -1 ----.-.-. Dirig space lab May become reality Page 3 uis a space lab. Unfolding altar nto orbit Rhea been advanced to the problem at Large object can be put of North american predicted at a National a Mann apace flight space station which be life sustaining fat fuse soon can. Become. Weigh about 150,000after eth folding in space it consist of Hub with Dock Jung facilities for three spacecraft b would not endanger the spokes and a hexagonal shaped outer package would be put into orbit with the Saturn c5 in the Booster that flu be used for the three Man Apoll spacecraft. The spokes would serve As passageways Between rim and Hub. The station would be separated into 10 compartments each inde pendent of the to one Section of the station the puncture of one Sid of the Hexagon by a meteoroid if one fails the others wont Weber said in describing the compartments at the meeting cosponsored by Nasa and the Institute of aerospace sciences. For sceptics who say this won t hold up for launch we have de signed and built rough models and we have proof this. Is pos sible he said. Co author of the paper Weber read which had formerly been classified As confidential was Rene Berglund of Nasa s Langley va.,research Center. He is the Man who designed Echo to the satellite which was launched aug. 12, 1960. The space lab would be fired into orbit with three astronauts Inan Apollo space capsule mounted atop it. The other astronaut would arrive at the station later. Astronauts would be Able to live inside the station without pressure suits. The station s outer skin would be of aluminium and urethane foam which would serve As a meteoroid bumper. The inflatable spokes would be lined with a meteoroid resistant material Ison Bohlen Fate pension loss Aid for experts on Russ state will ask Congress in to permit several senior service officers to work maj 31 without losing Albonus special legislation is de primarily to protect the in of abase Dor Llewellyn apronuj3, envoy in Moscow Charles e. Bohlen one of the Aenus top soviet affairs sex who is a special assistant to of f the Dean Rusk. Jer the present Law which sex a Eastern i ploys gel hike of Washington to Topi two a dental emergency boards a recommended wage increases Jutes Between the flight in Union and trans world Eastern airlines. Emergency Board announced increases totalling 133 per Over a three year period from1961 to january 1964 for i engineers employed by trans airlines Twa. The Board needed rejection of a Union for reduced work hours. Two periods recommendations in the Tern air lines Case were into two periods. Fete pres May 31, foreign service of fleets who have qualified for retirement could retire with a 12 per cent Bonus on their , Law is designed to encourage senior officers to retire and make Way for younger men. More than 200 have retired in the last year about 50 of them to take advantage of the Bonus. Rusk and president Kennedy have asked Thorn poor and Boh Lento continue on Active duty How Ever and they have agreed. The special legislation would avoid penalizing them for agreeing to re main. Bohlen and Thompson Are 57 years old eight years Short of the mandatory retirement age. They have however accumulated the 30years service which qualifies a professional Diplomat for retirement regardless of age. Both Are top bracket foreign serv ice officers with a base pay of $20,000 a year. In ambassadorial posts they draw the pay of the Post Thompson s in Moscow is$27,500 a year so that both have salary credits for pension purpose sin excess of $20,000 & year. State department officials Esti mated that Thompson s retirement income will be about s19.000 a year without Bonus and Bohlen s retire ment income about $18,000 without onus. The 12 per cent Bonus is provided by two Laws one authorizing a 10 per cent Premium for retire ment before May 31, and the other 2 per cent the state department plan is to ask Congress to extend the 10 per cent Premium for a year from next june 30 in special cases designated by Rusk. Not More than10 would qualify. A retroactive period of from 1,1s60. When the old contract through March 31, 1962, Board recommended a total adjustment of 10.82 per cent a period of from april 1 Thistl Tif to the same Date in 1964, the re the discoverer of the Allen radiation belts says a big nuclear explosion at High Altitude probably would rupture part of the Belt but i expect that it would be healed or repaired in a matter of a few or. James Allen of the stat University of Iowa said he had no information that one of the cur rent nuclear tests to be conducted Over Johnston Island would be at an Altitude or have the explosive yield to produce the effect. But he indicated in an interview that an explosion of several Mega tons at an Altitude that would in de or come reasonable close to the lower Belt would do the trick. The lower limits of the Belt have been estimated at about 400 mile above the path. The atomic Energy commission has said that one of its tests Over Johnston Island in mine or july will involve a megaton Range de vice detonated at hundreds of a Kilometre is Ftp eighths of a Mil. A megaton la nuclear blast terms is equivalent to the Force of a million tons of font. Directed Down Allen said a burst of several Megatons within proper Range of the Belt probably would affect the Earth s magnetic Field in such a Way that Proton particles within the sector of the Belt affected by the explosion would be directed Down into the atmosphere instead of spiralling Back and Forth within the Belt As they now do. The Allen belts Are believed to be formed by electrified particles originating from the Sun and far outer space which Are trapped bythe Earth s magnetic Field. But Allen said such released particles from to lower Belt would not harm anyone and that More Over the sector of the Belt affected would constitute Only a Small per cent of the Belt which extends around the Earth except for open Ings Over the poles. Banana shaped tube he said the area affected would be a banana shaped tube a few Hundred Miles in diameter and a few thousands Miles Long. The total depth of the lower radiation Belt is about 4.000 Miles. " some scientists recently were represented As believing that & megaton Range explosion at 500 Miles Altitude might cause such dumping of particles from the lower Belt As to virtual empty it and that it might take a Century to replenish it with particles fro space. But Allen told a reporter he feels that within a few weeks i expect we would not be Able Tot -11 it Ever alien was interviewed while attending an International meeting of space scientists Here. A or Gargan takes Caneer Hole new York a Veteran actor William Gargan is playing a new role the real life role of help ing people to learn to speak when their Larynx or voice Box has Bee removed. Gargan is Well qualified for the part. His Larynx was removed More than a year ago because of cancer. By a strange coincidence he Learned he had cancer while appearing in the Best Man a play in which he portrayed a past presi Dent of the United states who Dies of cancer. Gargan demonstrated his newly acquired method of speaking Here during a 10-minute address soothers who have lost their voice boxes and during a Long interview with newsmen. He spoke in a deep quiet tone which was perfectly understand Able. At the end he showed no vis Ible Strain. A spokesman for the american cancer society said the method produces a voice by taking swat a wed air to a Point in the Sopha Gus and forcing it to vibrate the it is called an esophageal voice. Gargan appeared before a group of persons learning the method at the National Hospital for speech disorders in Manhattan. He said his 35 Yean of theatrical experience helped Alto to the substitute form of speech. He said he plans to continue theater work but As a producer or it Recto of motion picture or he travel try he said bespeak with operation such know How Low i
