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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Dec. 14. 1962
Satellite to Relay Christmas Pageant
CAPE, CANAVERAL — (UPI) — America's new radio-television "Relav" satellite, built to pick up where Telstar left cft, sped around earth in a nearly perfect orbit toward a crucial mid-morning test today.
Scientists at four ground stations in North America and Europe stood by to bombard the 172-pound moonlet with a barrage of test signals between 7:55 a.m. and 3 p.m. today—and hopefully to clear the way for one of the most spectacular Christmas television shows ever planned.
Relay vaulted into orbit aboard a Douglas Delta rocket last night. Early today, the satellite whizzed around the globe at a top speed of more than 15,000 miles per hour, from 800 miles to 4,500 miles up.
THE SATELLITE, built by the Radio Corp. of America, was designed to re-establish a "live" television link between North America and Europe, and to tie South America into the space communications network for the first time with radio, teletve, telephone and facsimile.
After spending the first four of its three-hour orbits taking on sunlight as fuel for its storage batteries, Relay was to face its first critical test when it was due to swing within range of a ground station at Nutley, N.J.
Technicians at Nutley were ready to beam engineering test signals at the eight-sided moonlet to see if it could do the job—receive transmissions, amplify them and relay them back to earth.
On Relay's sixth orbit, starting at 11:33 p.m. today, scientists planned to beam television test patterns across the Atlantic between Andover, Me., Gooonhilly Downs, England and Pleumeur-Bodou, France.
THE NUTLEY STATION was to make more tests on the seventh orbit, starting around 2:30 p.m.
If all goes well, Relay's first big public "splash" will come around 7:40 p.m. next Wednesday, when an elaborate 11-nation Christmas pageant is scheduled to be beamed into millions of American and European homes via "live" television.
Relay is supposed to follow in the tracks pioneered by the famed Telstar satellite—serve as a relay station in space to connect the two continents.
Via Relay, Europeans are expected to see the U.S. national Christmas tree in Washington, D.C., ice skaters in the Rockefeller Plaza rink and choirs performing at St. Patrick's Cathedral and Riverside Church in New York, and skiers on a mountain slope outside Montreal, Canada.
AMERICANS, in turn, will glimpse a woodsman at work cutting down a Christmas tree at Oberdorf, Austria, yule trees floating via barge to Amsterdam, Holland, glass blowers making tree ornaments in Michelstadt, West Germany, and Christmas shoppers in Trafalgar Square in London.
Involved in the elaborate program are the three U.S. television networks, the Canadian Broadcasting Co. and the European Broadcasting Union.
Army to Complete Marking Shelters
The marking of campus civil defense shelters will be completed tomorrow.
The U.S. Corp of Engineers this week has been marking campus buildings and dormitories, Keith Lawton, vice chancellor of University operations, said. He said the engineers will finish marking the dormitories tomorrow.
The yellow and black signs, recognizable by three triangles, are being placed at the nearest entrances to each of the 18 campus shelters. The capacity indicated on the markers was formulated from the number of square feet of floor space per person in the designated areas within each building.
Crutch Prints Foul Burglar
DALLAS - (UPI) - The only clue to several burglaries recently were crutch prints.
"Every time I looked around, I saw reports where crutch marks had been observed at the scene," said police capt. Walter Fannin.
Fannin said he found his man yesterday and charged one-legged James Ferman Swiger, 46, with Burglary.
KU is beginning to look a lot like Toyland, everywhere you go-University residence halls, the Kappa Sigma, the Delta Gamma and the Alpha Tau Omega houses, the International Club, and even the Dine-a-Mate restaurant.
A live band will be playing at the Dine-a-Mite Tuesday night, and the admission is one toy.
International Club members are bringing toys to their meeting tonight.
The unusual "admission charge" is part of the "Toys for Tots" campaign here, being handled by former KU track star Wes Santee downtown and Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, on the campus.
The Marine Corps sponsors the annual drive nationally.
Christmas Spirit Here; KU Resembles Toyland
Members of Alba Tau Omega
fraternity will exchange toys Monday night and give them to the "Toys for Tots" drive and Kappa Sigma fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority have already held similar parties.
Road Condition—White
ANGOLA, N. Y. — (UFI) — A service area near this town on a section of the New York state thruway that was closed because of snow and zero visibility, has posted this sign for motorists:
"Road conditions—impossible."
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Alpha Phi Omega has placed approximately 40 barrels for the toys in University residence halls and Greek houses. The barrels will be picked up Tuesday morning and the Marines will take them to the Hallmark plant, where the toys will be gift-wrapped.
Freshman Officers To Select Council
Eight members of the newly created freshman council will be chosen Saturday.
Thirty-two freshmen were interviewed last night in the Kansas Union by freshman class officers.
The officers will meet again Saturday to eliminate all but eight of the 32.
The freshman council, whose membership will include the freshman class officers, is the first attempt at freshman class government ever made here, the officers said.
Union Ballroom - Shows at 6:30 & 9:30
Admission: FREE
The time, place, and admission have been changed for this week only in order that everyone can see "Pepe." REMEMBER THE CHANGES!