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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1962
U.S. To Launch New Relay Station in Space
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) America plans to install a new radio relay station in space this week to replace its dead Telstar communications satellite.
Communication The new satellite is a 172-pound eight-sided package of assorted electronics named "Relay." It is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday evening.
IF ALL GOES WELL. Relay will restore the spectacular communications link torn down when Telstar died — the transmission of "live" television pictures between North America and Europe via earth satellite.
There are some new tricks in Relay's bag that Telstar didn't get to. This time, the South American continent will be brought into the network for instantaneous telephone service connecting it with the United States and Western Europe.
And sometime next year, Japan is expected to join up, extending satellite communications halfway around the world for the first time.
RELAY ESSENTIALLY will perform the same job as Telstar.
launched last July 10 to serve as a miniature station to pick up radio and television signals, amplify them and bounce them back to receiving stations thousands of miles away.
U. S. scientists will use a three-stage Delta rocket, which has run up a string of 13 successes, to send Relay on its way. The Delta also launched the Telstar.
If all goes according to plan, the Relay satellite will be placed into an orbit that will take it once around earth every three hours or so, at altitudes ranging from 800 miles to 4,500 miles above earth.
Scientists said the satellite would be at "maximum efficiency" for the first 30 days, and that it would be able to handle communications for up to a year.
TELSTAR LASTED for about three months before going dead. Its death was blamed partially on damage to its power supply by natural and man-made belts of radiation surrounding the earth.
Relay is equipped with sensing devices to measure the damaging effects of this radiation in detail.
$8,400 Gold Bed That Shook Socialist Ghanan On Way Out
LONDON — (UPI) — Mrs. Mary Eusesi's $8,400 golden bed is going back to Ghana, where it has already caused a minor government crisis.
The gold-plated bed hit the headlines last March when Mrs. Eudisei, 38, wife of Ghanaian Industries Minister Krobo Eudisei, spotted it in a London store and said, "I'll take it."
The news that she had paid $8,400 for somewhere to sleep got back to Ghana and threw her husband into a rage.
"I BELIEVE in socialism," Edusei told his wife in a widely publicized telephone spat between Acra and London. "A $8,400 bed is not socialism."
"I don't know anything about politics." Mrs. Edusei answered. "I am just a woman. I like the bed. Every wife will know how I feel."
Mrs. Edusei kept the bed. Her husband, already under attack in Ghana for alleged luxurious living, lost his job.
Time passed Mrs. Edusei—and her bed—stayed in London. Edusei recuped his political fortunes in Ghana and was re-instated as minister of agriculture.
The bed was forgotten until last weekend, when thieves broke into Mrs. Edusei's $220-a-month apart-
FIVE BURLY removal men showed up at the apartment yesterday to take the 1,650-pound bed away- for safe keeping," Mrs. Edusei said.
She refused to say where it was going, but her husband's nephew, Kofi Edusei, said he would take it back to Ghana with him when he goes home early next year.
"But Mrs. Edusei is staying in London." he said.
Did that mean she was parting forever from her beloved bed? The nephew would not say.
Dry Texan Sets Record
ABILENE, TEX. — (UPI) A 19-year-old freshman student at Abilene Christian College claims a new record today in a budding college fad guaranteed to make the participant dry behind the ears.
William B. (Bill) Warner, of San Angelo, yesterday said he spun a dizzying total of 1,066 rounds in a coin-operated electric clothes dryer. Warner said the trip was not expensive. He went round-and-round for 25 minutes for a total outlay of 25 cents.
The spin was done with the dryer's heat control on low and the door open, Warner said. Seven students witnessed.
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Warner, none the worse for the wear, said the only ill effect was a slight, lingering dizziness.
The previous record, Warner said, was 73 rounds by a student at Vanderbilt.
Reporter McCoy To Speak at Forum
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter will discuss Kansas politics at 12:25 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Union.
Alvin McCoy, Kansas City Star political writer, will discuss "Kansas Politics and the Coming Legislative Year."
McCoy, a KU graduate, won his Pulitzer award in 1953 after he uncovered a $10,000 insurance fraud on a state-owned building in Missouri. The story touched off a national political furor and in the subsequent investigation McCoy's story proved accurate.
As a war correspondent for The Star in the Pacific, he was on board when Japanese bombs hit the aircraft carrier Franklin, killing 900 crew members. His story of the bombing and efforts to bring the crippled Franklin to port brought him early recognition.
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Sunflower Basketball Doubleheader
7:30 p.m.—K-State vs.Arizona State 9:30 p.m.—KU vs.CINCINNATI
SATURDAY, DEC. 15
Make your plans now to attend this exciting non-conference game between the Jayhawkers and the Bearcats. The Frosh Inter-squad scrimmage will start at 6:00 p.m., so come early for an evening of basketball thrills. I.D. cards with fee receipts will admit students to this game and all remaining home games $ \star $ .
'Flies' to be Reviewed At SUA Book Forum
— IMPORTANT NOTICE —
Very Important Student Ticket Information For the Sunflower Doubleheader December 15: Students will be admitted to this great doubleheader (K-State vs. Arizona State at 7:30 P.M. & Kansas vs. defending NCAA Champion Cincinnati at 9:30 P.M.) the same as any other game, by presenting your I.D. card and Fee Receipt when you arrive at the game. THERE WILL NOT BE A NEED FOR STUDENTS TO MAKE RESERVATIONS IN ADVANCE FOR THIS GAME AS THEY HAVE DONE IN PAST YEARS.
"Lord of the Flies," a book by William Golding, will be reviewed tomorrow by a KU English professor.
Franklyn Nellick, associate professor of English, will review the book at a SUA Modern Book Forum at 4:30 p.m. in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Law Students Give Unusual Present
Seven KU law students presented a 17-year-old Lawrence High School youth with a special Christmas present recently.
THE YOUTH, driving a borrowed car, was involved in an automobile accident in Lawrence several weeks ago. Brought into city traffic court on charges of following too closely, he was fined $15.
For the boy and his parents, who are on welfare relief, the fine was more than they could manage. The youth faced seven and a half days in jail.
ONE OF THE law students heard of the boy's predicament. Aided by the other six students, he raised money to pay the fine.
"Our only reward was in getting the kid out of jail," one of them said. "The less made of this the better."
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