New Discoveries •
Already Made by
Geophysical Year
By Allon L. Blakeslee
Associates Press Science Reporter
NEW YORK, (jP)—The Interna
tional Geophysical Year (IGY) is
already beginning to pay divi
dends of new or unexpected
knowledge about our earth, sci
entists said yesterday.
Some findings:
X rays from the sun’s radia
tions have been found to exist
only 40 miles or so above our
heads.
Northern and southern lights
or aurorae can blink on at the
same time.
High-flying rockets have cap
tured particles of energy believed
to cause these aurorae.
In Antarctica, temperatures can
vary 100 degrees over distances
no farther parat than New York
and Chicago, or* between San
Francisco and Seattle. This must
have profounds effects upon the
weather generated in that vast
frozen continent (about eight
times the size of Alaska).
The earth’s atmosphere seems
to reach up, in terribly thin from,
tq heights of one thousand to sev
eral thousand miles into space.
The IGY is a concerted, share
all-knowledge effort by scientists
of 64 nations to learn secrets of!
our home planet Earth, our sun, I
the atmosphere and oceans. West'
and east, north and south—all j
are members. IGY began two
months ago, last 16 months more. !
Leading IGY scientists described j
programs and prelimnary plans
for a symposium on earth, air and
space in reports at the Hayden
Planetarium of the American |
Museum of Natural History. It is j
one event in the national program
of the American Chemical Soci
ety.
IGY Group Wants |
10-Mile-Deep Hole
To Study Earth
TORONTO, l£> — The Interna
tional Union of Geodesy and Geo
physiks lIUGG) wants a hole
drilled 10 miles into the earth to I
see what’s under its skin.
More than 1,000 IUGG scien
tists were ending a two - week
session Saturday. They meet
every three years, to exchange
bits of information uncovered in
years of research. There are 52
member countries.
The scientists hope one of the
world’s governments will pick up
the-drilling plan and carry it out.
They figure the best spot to sink
a drill would be on an island in
the South Pacific, where the
earth’s crust is thinnest—about
7 to 10 miles. They say the proj
ect could provide as much -in
formation about the earth’s in
terior as. earth satellites will
about the outer atmosphere.
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80th BIRTHDAY FOR
LEONHARD SEPPALA,
DOG-MUSH KING
SEATTLE, UR—The man who
was known as the “King of the
Mushers” in Alaska dog-sled days
was 80 years old Saturday.
Leonhard Seppala, who made
world, headlines in 1925 for his
part in sledding serum to dip
theria - stricken Nome, lives in
quiet and satisfying retirement
at 10329 13th Ave. N.W.
Seppala still doesn’t consider
himself a hero for his part in the
emergency relay of serum from
Fairbanks to Nome. But he made
the longest and fastest run of the
relay.
He drove his 18-dog team more
than 340 miles. In one day he
covered 90 miles.
Seppala, trim, erect and alert,
has lived in Seattle ten years. He
and his wife, Constance, keep
busy in their yard. They were
married in Nome in 1909.
Plain Mr. Smith
For Canada’s New
Foreign Secretary
OTTAWA, UPl — Canada’s new
foreign secretary has 11 doctor
ate degrees but wants to be
known as plain Mr. Smith.
Sidney E. Smith announced to
day he has informed the protocol
people who concern themselves
with such things:
“I’m not going to trail these
degrees around with me. You
know professors are sometimes
looked at askance so I revert to
what I was bom with.”
Plain Mr. Smith, who resigned
as president of the University of
Toronto Thursday, was sworn
into his new job Friday.
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