Virginia Lofting of Huge New Test
Balloon Puts Whole E. Coast In Tizzy
WASHINGTON, UP) — The ;
United States has p spectacular
new entry in the space derby —
a balloon as big as a 10-storv
building that inflates 250 miles
above the earth.
The first space balloon launch
ing Wednesday at Wallops Island,
Va., was a smashing success. Not
only did tde balloon perform as
planned, it startled the dickens
out of hundreds of citizens all
over the Eastern Seaboard.
The balloon, 100 feet in diam
eter, was the biggest object any
one has ever sent up into the
fringes of space. But it weighed
only 130 pounds.
It was not meant to go into or
bit, and soon fell back into the
sea. It was visible for 10 minutes.
Later the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration hopes
to put some of these giant space
travelers into orbit around the
earth.
The balloon, fired at 5:40 p.m.,
caught the rays of the sun at the
top of its flight. As it unfolded
up there, its aluminized surface
caught the light at different
angles and sent forth myriad
flashes of reflected sunlight.
Many who saw it thought it
was a flare, surrounded by sparks.
The project was not nnounced
in advance and nobody knew
what it was.
Professor Robert Brown, -direc
tor of the Moorrwatch Station at
New Haven, Conn., said it looked
like “the craziest thing in the
world.”
Civil Defense officials checked
in with their headquarters within
minutes. Newspaper, police and
radio station telephone switch
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David O. Tyson of Mendham,
N. J., an Associated Press report
er, gave this description: “I looked
up and it appeared to me at first
i to be a blimp high in the sky.
| There was one bright central
light in the middle and around
this were dimly flickeding small
j er- lights. They loked almost like
| sparks. The smaller lights seemed
vaguely to form the outline of
a blimp with its running lights
blinking.
“■The object began to float
downward slowly, drifting off to
the southeast. But as it drifted
downward it looked more like a
I flare.”
The balloon was sent up in a
| two-stage rocket with a thrust
of 100,000 pounds.
The space agency said the whole
; huge balloon was folded into a
f container 26M> inches in diameter.
The sphere was made of plastic
: and coated with silvery aluminum
outside.
After the balloon was released
250 miles up, air trapped inside
it began to expand it. Then four
! pounds of water in two plastic
bags was released inside the bal
I loon. At that altitude the'water
| expanded into vapor and com
, pleted the blowing up of the
; balloon.
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Doctors Succeed in
Grafting Severed
Human Leg
HAYWARD, Calif., UPl — A
team of doctors has succeeded
for the first time in grafting back
the severed leg of a human.'
Surgeons said they could find
no parallel in medical history for
the operation performed in Eden
Hospital here, although such
things as severed finger tips and
ears have been grafted.
The operation, announced Wed
nesday, was kept secret for three
months, until doctors decided it
was successful.
The operating surgeons, whose
names will remain secret until
their work can be reported in
medical journals, described the
operation anonymously in the
Hayward Review.
Surgeons gave the story /in a
series of interviews with a re
porter for the daily newspaper.
The right leg of Billy L. Smith,
25, was crushed a few inches
above the knee by a crane while
he was debricking a furnace. Only
a two-inch strip of skin connected
the leg to‘the stump.
An orthopedic surgeon, who
corrects deformities, telephoned a
vascular surgeon, who specializes
in mending torn vessels, and
asked, “You want to try for a
miracle?”
The vascular surgeon agreed.
After blood vessels in the low
er leg were flushed with anti
clotting fluids, the vascular sur
geon said he “hooked up the sev
ered main artery and started the
blood flowing. The foot imme
diately turned pink.”
But\ shortly after he stitched
together the main veins, so arter
ial blood could return to the heart,
the foot turned white again and
there was no pulse in it.
The artery was reopened, a
clot removed, blood vessels were
flushed again and have functioned
perfectly since.
The orthopedist cut away
mangled tissue, leaving a two
inch gap between the flesh parts
of the leg sections and then
bridged the gap with two inches
from the upper leg bone.
All that remains now are skin
grafts and an operation within
a few months to link the main
hip nerve to the lower leg. where
at present there is no sensation.
W. German Troops Will
Prevent Red Celebrations
On Revolt Birthday
BONN, Germany, (jP — The
Western Allies were reported
agreed today that troops should
be used if necessary to prevent
display of the new Communist
East German flag in West Berlin
next week.
Allied officials said no special
alert has been ordered for their
Berlin garrisons yet. But they
indicated such an order was quite
probable when East Germany cel
ebrates the 42nd anniversary of
the Soviet.revolution November 7.
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! Nose Cone Fired at Cape
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP)
— An Atlas missile crowned
with a new tactical-type nose
cone thundered over the Atlantic
early yesterday on an intercon
tinental range flight.
This was the second test for the
new cone, which stood nearly 12
feet tall atop the 80-foot missile.
The first test earlier this month
was successful
The cone is designed for faster
■ re-entry, heavier payloads and
greater accuracy.
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Alaska Air Bases SJated
To Receive Funds For
Construction Programs
WASHINGTON — The Air
Force has released $5,730,000 in
construction funds for use in
building programs at 11 Alaska
Air Force stations, the office of
Representative Ralph Rivers an
nounced this week.
Elmendorf Air £orce Base will
receive $690,000 for airfield ap
proach lighting, a missile assem
bly shop and an ammunition
storage area.
The biggest project on the list
calls for construction of a $1,730,
000 composite operations builcL
ing and recreation facility at
Northeast Cape Air Force sta
tion on St. Lawrence Island in
the Bering Sea.
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