eaietien Final plans by Soviets to send man into space By MARK FRANK Pacific Tribune Correspondent MOSCOW—For the first. time Soviet scientists have revealed more fully than ever before their plans te send a man into space. Up to the time of the Aug. 24 press conference at the So- viet Academy of Sciences statements about sending man into space were either Speculative or treated general- ly: as something for the future. Some spokesmen, after launching of the first Ship, did say the Soviet Union ‘was in the final stages before the launching of a man into Space and that equipment for the purpose "was in prepara- tion. But not until the _ recent! meeting with Soviet and for- eign newsmen, where Belka and Strelka, some white mice and a rat — history’s first astronauts —- were on display, | have Soviet scientists spoken so frankly and fully, and with such confidence about their Sy, n in space.” Here is exactly ander Topchiev, ef the Academy of Sciences, an eminent organic chemist in this own right, told the press: *At present, cumulated experience, scientists and begun tions for manned space flight.” Another of Soviet engineers have series drawing on ac-} a “This _is our-aim-and -it will be attained.” | proof and ‘safe for the An indication that spacemen | are already being trained for | the first flight and equipment readied was revealed in Top- | chiev’s listing of three groups the | space | of faetors which taken into account to make possible flights of man space. These were: need to be} into | | But now the centre’ of atten- (1) Physical conditions. like- | ly to be met in space: low baro- | metric pressure, absence of |molecular oxygen, cosmic and }and the | fects, what Alex-} vice-president | | rest, making direct prepara-| | the experi- | mental launchings would take | place first; he said, but the idea of making a man a pas-| Senger in a space ship was a| the near prospect for future. | eorpuscular radiation of all kinds, mere low and high tem- perature conditions, danger from meteorites. (2) Physical conditions side the space ship cabin, such as: noise, vibration, accelera- wants to make the flights fool- man first. Hitherto: the chief concerns of space ‘workers here. were: the mechanics of cOsmic flights, safe return, operation of measuring instruments, ra- dio - and. television,-. whether animals could -survive .or not. tion ~has- turned -primarily -to manned flight. As the central committee of the Communist Party of the} Soviet Union and the council | of ministers ‘said’ last week “in| their message to the workers} | who put the second space ship | in- | tion during the original boost | descent, and those zero gravity. braking ef- resulting (3) The regime a man must follow .in .an hermetically- sealed cabin; atmospheric con- ditions for the man, of nutrition and feeding, proper balance of work and | the effects of complete isolation, the emotional strain, stimuli experienced on earth, problems of personal hygiene at | | accuracy. into orbit and brought it back, | the Aug. three targets: (1) The space ship’s guided flight and descent to earth to a specified point with great (2) Conditions for |normal functioning of living problems | a absence of all the normal | and work while encased inside | a special space suit. creatures in space flight. (3) Reliable radio and TV commu- nications with the space ship. Practical possibilities for |manned flight into space are now to hand. Topchiev termed | suggestion | as ridiculous the that the United States is ahead in space work, a _ statement credited .to President Eisen- hower. ‘The whole world sees that Soviet scientists can put a| the USSR is in the lead in this man _ into space today but ' field,” he said. Automated plywood plant in U.S. has huge production nearly. fully automated Par wood mill with force of 180 men and a month- ly production of Square feet | ing into production is Missou- a = | 10,060, 000 | trend in the plywood indus of plywood is go-! try, the mill — —— $$$. la, Montana. Representing a growing has machinery | AUTOMATION CORPN. “Sure they can produce the goods without me, but can they buy the goods if I'm on the dole?" where one man will operate the log-barker; cut’ off saw, and kickoff-sorter. These oper- tions in the past required as many as a dozen men. A new feature of the mill is that the bulk of the plywood will be made from western larch or tamarak, previously little used for processed lum- ber products. The mill is a joint venture of the Vancouver Plywood Co., Washington and the Ev- ans Products Co., of Plymouth Michigan, Plywood workers are view- ing with apprehension the growing automation in the in- dustry with no real program by their union to offset its harmful effects. 19 flight achieved | Gold Tavern — the real kind — are Ludmtls Moshina (and Galina Litvinitzeva. They work in one of the Sov iet Union’s largest, gold mining is highly mechanized. Ludmilla and Galina get equal pay same work as the men, a right guaranteed them by the Soviet constitution as well as by their union for doing the s agreement. enterprises. The enterprise Community paper hits “Province” McCarthyism The West Ender, a community paper circulated in Vancouver’s West End district last week took a healthy swipe at the Vancouver Prov “Candidates and a Fair Show. follows: | “‘The Vancouver Province | recently denned the shiny ar-| mor of self-righteousness and set itself up as a bold knight | guarding its readers from what | it terms “the local Commu-| nists’ clap-trap and destructive | nonsense,” by refusing to pub-| lish their election platform, the same way the programs of the other parties were publish- ed. “Surely this censorship could be construed as an insult | to the intelligence of their readers, inferring they are not| sufficiently equipped mentally to figure things out for them- selves, and that they may find points they like, such as “Ban nuclear tests’ and the fight | against radiation. “We are afraid the Province is guilty of rank discrimina- tion, which makes its support of, or rather anguished cry for, the. long - promised’ Bill - of Rights, seem rather hollow. ‘For our part, as long as Communists are accepted as legitimate candidates, and their name is printed on the ballots to be used on Septem- ber 12, we believe they have September 16, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2 |as much right to be heard and | candidate. |on the same subject. He said, ince in an editorial entitled ” Text of the editorial read as has any other political “In our office, an indignant gentleman denounced CBC-TV “How Khrushchev must be laughing at us giving his prop- agandists free time on TV and radio which is paid for by the taxpayers.’ Possibly Khrush- . chevy is laughing, but not at this show, of fair play, but at the constant stream of imprac- tical promises, and the jealous back-biting of the other par- ties. “We certainly are not Com- munists, but we do believe in fair play, and refuse to have any part in “McCarthyism” in Canada. We back our stand on the words of Voltaire, a smart man of long ago who said, ‘I may disapprove of what you say, but will defend your right > to say. it’.” ; The Provinee’s action has been typical of many of the so-called ‘free press.’ Norman Defoe on CBC - TV’s News Magazine admitted a week last Sunday that the B.C. press had blacked out the Communists.