University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 2.1972
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NASA Research Shifting Down to Earth
By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
A growing public interest in solving domestic problems led directly to the "era of earth resource management." James Duncan, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Friday.
Fletcher, speaking to more than 100,000 teachers at the Technology Center predeedation luncheon held at the Kansas Union Ballroom, said, "The time was right."
learned in the space program to other areas of growing national concern.
"Problems is the key word for our day—food problems, transportation problems, urban problems and pollution problems.
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"THEE IS this overriding concern for problems which have come about with rapid social and economic change. None of them, probably, can be solved by technology, because of them, however, will need a science and technology contribution to their solution."
Fletcher said the launching on Apollo 17, which NASA officials are hopeful will take place Dec. 6. The mission is end of the lunar exploration age.
"The '70s are going to be different from the '60s," Fletcher said.
Space research in the coming decade will be applied to problem on earth such as conformation of natural resources, he said.
FLETCHER LABELED the launch of the ERTS-A satellite
Harris once turned down the William Allen White Award because he didn't think he had anything that year to deserve it.
The ERTS satellite gathers data via remote sensing about farm crops, timber, water and minerals of metal ores and other materials.
Harris was the 75th person to be named to the Hall of Fame. The event was attended by about 240 persons.
John P. Harris, late editor and publisher of *The Chronicle* News and chairman of the Publishers Enterprise, Inc., was named director of Fame at the award Editors' Day Saturday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas University.
Among other NASA projects planned for the '70s is SKYLAB, the first experimental space
The Kansas Environmental Resource Study being carried on by the U.S. Geological Survey is one of the more than 300 experiments planned using ERS instruments.
July 23rd as a major milestone in space applications.
station, and the Space Shuttle, a vehicle that enters space as a rocket and returns as an airplane. Fletcher said the Space Shuttle would be the end of operational by the end of the decade.
The honor goes each year to a Kansas editor who has been dead at least three years.
Fletcher later commented that NASA morale was good, even though the space program has had "beautiful flaring" since the first Apollo flight.
John Harris of State Newspapers Is Named to Kansas Hall of Fame
"I like to think that Jack Harris would grouse somewhat about
being named today to the Hall of Fame, and having had his room where we faculty members drink coffee and where in residence the Harris Group, talk to our students about jobs," said Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, in his speech announcing
HARRI$ dick accept an award for distinguished journalism in 1963 from the University of Minnesota. In 1964 he was one of 22 alumni of the University of Minnesota in class of "23 to be honored
The Harris Group, a newspaper chain founded by Harris, owns papers in Kansas, Iowa and Texas. It also publishes newspapers in the Harris Group
include the Salina Journal, the
Chanute Tribune, the Ottawa
Herald and the Oathe Daily
as well as the Hutchinson
News.
In 1965, the Hutchinson News won the Pulitzer Prize for a campaign against malaposition of the Kansas Legislature.
Harris also owned six radio stations in four states and donated FM radio station KANU to KU.
Pickett said that feeling ran so high about this that one Hutchinson subscriber expressed herself by saying, "I have won a Nobel Prize. I have won a Hutchinson News has won a Pulitzer Prize. Watch out for Phyllis Diller this September in
the Miss America Pageant."
NASA WAS established in 1988 after the Soviet launch of Sputnik created a national fear that the Soviet Union would face the U.S. Fletcher said. In 1981 NASA was decided to expand their program.
OTHERS who spoke at Editors' Day were Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols, Student Body President David Dillon, Hutchinson senior, and Stanley McGrath. They are members of Newsday, Long Island N.Y.
Nichols welcomed the new position and had been a Kansas newspaper reporter. Nichols received both degrees in journalism. He has worked for the Larned Tiller and Toller and the Kansas City Journal.
Asimov spoke on "What Newspapers Don't Do Is Cover Their Own Communities."
"We had to look to the university community for assistance, not only in conducting research and developing ex-16 programs also in supplying people to work in the national space program.
"This situation led to the creation of the Sustaining University Program in 1962," he said.
"The program has three objectives: first, to train doctoral students in the aerospace sciences and engineering second, to build research laboratory facilities; and third, to develop an enterprise purpose research." Fletcher said.
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"The NASA support to universities has shown a steady
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increase—in 1973 it was over four per cent of our budget. That says a lot about our significant about our relationship: the universities to the space program has grown developing the university's engineering and the survival in space to space science, expansion of applications for the benefit of man.
Publisher Decries News Coverage
News columns filled with such bulk staples as news releases, police reports, and speech accusations. Alleged nationalism unpalatable, says Stanley Ansim, assistant publisher of his Long Island, N.Y., newspaper.
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Newspapers must find the news and digest it to tell readers what it means. Asimov said during the weekend here. He spoke to reporters on Friday, addressed newspapermatter at Editors' Day Saturday.
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"Papers are finding more and more that their existence will remain on depth reporting, telling the story that is happening." Asimov said.
circulation, was Asimov's example. Founded in 1940, Newday is one of the nation's most innovative newspapers.
Newday's approach, Asimov said, is to assign reporters to each school district, beats. Instead of assigning a reporter to a number of specific school districts, for example, he would assign him to education.
"The students and faculty members who will work in our new Space Technology Laboratories for the sake of science and the Nation's welfare opportunities—opportunities given abundantly than any other generation of students has ever known."
Newsday, a tabloid of 450,000
"If we miss some of that other garbage, who's hurt?" Asimov said.
The relationship is not accidental. Fletcher, said.
it's the result of NASA's firmly established policy for the maximum feasible participation in the space universities in the aerospace
Long Island, Asimov said, could be the 18th largest state. Its population is 2.5 million. Covering the routine actions of city schools and school board governing bodies would be impossible, he said.
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Election Talks To Be Given By Candidates
Elsworth Hall will sponsor a series of short, informal meetings of students from Lawrence who will be running for state and county elections.
Tonight's guests will be the Democratic and Republican candidates for Douglas County and the Ed Colliister. Speaking Wednesday night will be Richard Krause, the Democratic and Republican candidates for state representatives from the 46th District. Senator John Hal Kletz, Republican and Democratic candidates for state senator from the 2nd District, include Lawrence, will speak.
The meetings will be held at 7 tonight. Wednesday and Thursday in the main lobby of Elsworth. The candidates will be in the cafeteria for dinner at 5:30 p.m. each meeting to answer questions.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
will hold interviews to select a committee to work on an SUA concert, to be held Sat., Nov. 4,1972. The interviews will be held Wed., Oct. 4, starting at 6:00 p.m. Any students interested are to visit the SUA office and sign up for a specific interview time.