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University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Nov. 4, 1957
—(Daily Kansan pnoto)
A GENUINE SATELLITE—Dr. N. W. Storer views one of a series of photographs of the moon which he took recently in different phases. KU astronomers have also viewed Sputnik and its third stage rocket.
Lookouts Keep Tabs On Skies Atop Lindley
Whether it be Sputnik or the moon, the skywatchers of the KU observatory atop Lindley Hall keep up a busy program of investigating the heavens on clear nights.
Recently, N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, and Henry Horak, assistant professor of astronomy, viewed the third stage of the rocket circling the globe with Sputnik. With astronomers at Washburn University, Topeka, they will make calculations as to its speed and distance in outer space.
Sputnik Must Return
"Eventually the satellite will have to come down," said Dr. Storer. "The rate of the rocket is slowed by the density of the unper atmosphere and sooner or later it will come to earth."
At present, Dr. Storer is working on a set of photographs of the moon in its different phases. He is also photographing clusters of thousands of stars in small areas of the sky.
The KU observatory is occasionally open to the public for a visitor's night. Visitors are shown a planet, comet or the moon. Astronomy classes see objects such as the marking of mountain valleys on the surface of the moon.
Professor To Discuss Play
Equipment in the observatory was installed in 1945 although KU had a telescope before that, Dr. Storer said. Equipment includes a 6-inch refracting telescope, a 3-inch astronomical transit telescope to make precise determinations of time from stars and the 27-inch William Pitt reflecting telescope, named for a
Jack Brooking, professor of speech,
will speak on "Behind the Scenes
of King Henry IV" at the Theatre
Hour 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Music
and Browsing room of the Student
Union.
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man who donated optical work on the lens.
2 New Pieces of Equipment
Two new pieces of equipment are a photo-electric photometer and a spectrograph, both used in the study of physical characteristics of planets and stars.
There are no upperclass astronomy majors at the present time, but four freshmen have indicated that they will major in the field. Dr. Storer said.
Two recent astronomy majors are now on the staff of the United States Naval Observatory which provides accurate time to a fraction of a second for the entire nation, he said.
Canoe Race On Kaw River
Kansas State and KU chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will compete in a canoe race from Manhattan to Lawrence down the Kansas River Saturday.
The canoes will leave Manhattan about 5 a.m. Saturday and arrive at Lawrence in time for the KU-Kansas State football game that afternoon. It is about 97 miles from Manhattan to Lawrence by the river.
Each school will have two canoes with three men in each canoe. Try-cuts will be held next Wednesday or Thursday to determine the KU team, said Rex Parsons, Fredonia senior and president of the organization.
The teams plan to average about 15 m.p.h. The river flows about 3 m.p.h. and they plan to paddle about 12 m.p.h. The teams will have to make one portage at Topeka.
KUOK
Program Schedule
Monday, Nov. 4
6:00 Report One
6:05 Sincerely Yours
6:30 Niki's Notes
6:45 Spotlite Time
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 Wire News
8:05 KUOK Concert
8:30 UDK Sports
8:45 Final Scope
9:00 Starlight Time
9:00 The Folk Singer
10:00 Your Date With
Music
10:30 Lucky Strike Music
11:00 Cool Breeze
12:00 Sign Off
The expert is James A. Lee of Abilene, Tex., a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and a director of Inter-Planetary Space Patrol, a West Texas organization which investigates "flying saucers" and similar objects.
Mysterious Object May Have Been Space Craft
Coinciding with Russia's launching of its second earth satellite, the egg-shaped object was described as about 200 feet long and a brilliant-tred. It was glimpsed by at least five persons in the Levelland area.
New Fights On Border
James D. Long of Waco said he was driving on a farm-to-market road west of Levelland at 1:15 a.m.
LEVELLAND Tex. — (UP) — A man who has spent 20 years studying aerial phenomena said today he believes a mysterious object seen in West Texas and New Mexico "was a space craft from one of the neighboring planets." *
BV UNITED PRESS
Egypt's semi-official Middle East news agency (Mena) revived Turkish-Syrian friction today with reports of land and air incidents along the border between the two countries.
In two dispatches from Damascus, Mena reported that six Turkish "infiltrators" crossed the border and battled with Syrian guards and that four jet planes flew over the Syrian Mediterranean port of Latakia from the direction of Turkey. Syrian anti-aircraft guns opened fire on them, but no hits were reported.
The two new incidents came shortly after the Egyptian radio called Jordan's King Hussein a "traitor" and warned him he would pay dearly for his actions.
The blast against King Hussein followed reports in the Egyptian press that Jordan and Israel were negotiating a peace treaty, a report the Israeli foreign ministry called "complete nonsense."
Absolute Dictatorship Khrushchev's Goal
LONDON —(UP)— Nikkta S. Khrushchev is headed toward the infamous peak of absolute dictatorship but his trail will be a rocky one, western experts on Soviet affairs said today.
They said the timing of the Soviet Communist party chief's purge of Marshal Georgi Zhukov indicated Mr. Khrushchev himself was facing imminent danger of being overthrown. Otherwise he would not have timed it to throw a damper on recent Soviet scientific achievements and the forthcoming celebration Thursday of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The U. S. Army, founded in 1775, is actually older that the United States itself, and is the oldest military service, having fought in all of America's wars.
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He said it was oval-shaped, about 200 feet long and glowed like a neon sign. He got out of his car about 200 feet away to investigate, when the object suddenly took off with a roar straight up into the air. Mr. Long said his engine died and his headlights went out.
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Two other persons said they saw the object. They said the object passed over their cars with a roar like thunder. The engines of their cars died and the headlights went out, too.
Mr. Lee said machines inside the object "disturb the magnetic field of balance" and will cause car engines to stall.
ALL LAUGH CO-HIT
Doris Gaeddert of Chi Omega Wearing a Bulky Knit Sweater
from
COACH HOUSE
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The original Snow Hall faced north at the intersection of what is now Jayhawk Blvd. and Sunflower Road.
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