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Spring!
Signs of spring were all around today. At right
Jo Ann Todd and Mark Semich talk about
plants at the annual Lawn and Garden Show
being held this weekend at Spalding Square.
The show drew thousands of people who are
working on their home lawns and planning
spring gardens. Below Greg Cody of 1118
Hilltop avenue, enjoyed some good old
fashioned fishing at Placid Lake in the Third
Ward section. Cody is a student in Atlanta.
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Georgia Tech researcher wonders
if there are green people on Mars
ATLANTA (AP) - A researcher at
Georgia Tech is building a sample
portion of Mars in his laboratory to
determine if little green men, or any
life at all, inhabit the red planet.
Dr. Jerry Hubbard, by making the
closest possible copy of Martian sod
and landscape, is trying to find out if
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there is life on Mars or just unknown
chemical reactions.
To duplicate Martian soil for ex
perimental purposes, Hubbard used
information from tests conducted by
the Viking spacecraft which landed on
Mars.
Hubbard, a Tech biology professor,
developed one of three tests used by the
Viking lander.
He said he doesn’t believe there is life
on Mars and he is fairly sure that
results from the Viking mission were
caused by chemical reactions, not by
living organisms.
In the experiment he devised for the
Viking lander, small samples of
Martian soil were gathered, mixed with
radioactive carbon-14, and incubated
for five days.
Hubbard’s theory was that if carbon
based living microbes were living in the
soil, they would transform simple gas
molecules into complex organic
molecules, containing the radioactive
carbon, which could be detected by the
instruments in the spacecraft.
“The first tests were positive; we
found the organic molecules,” Hubbard
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said. However, the organic molecules
couldn’t be found in other tests.
Therefore, researchers are trying to
duplicate the soil for further tests on
chemical reactions that could have
produced the results found in the first
Viking test in which organic molecules
were found.
That is why Hubbard is trying to build
a model of Mars in his lab.
Ultraviolet light, to which Mars is
constantly exposed, is being beamed
down on mixtures similar to those
found in Martian soil.
“We would like to know if the soil on
Mars was chemically reactive before it
was ever brought aboard Viking,” he
explained.
But, there is a problem with the
earthbound experiment in that
researchers “can’t exactly duplicate
Martian soil. It may have taken
millions of years to create the unique
conditions that we find on Mars today.”
Although Hubbard said he doesn’t
believe life exists on Mars, he didn’t
rule out the possibility that life may
have existed there in the past.
Vol. 105 No. 72
People
...and tilings
Elderly apple trees blooming ever so
youthfully and daintily.
Small car tootling along with this
sassy sign on its rear, “I may be slow,
but I am ahead of you.”
Man hacking and coughing with
spring allergy.
Army rebels strike Thai
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Army
rebels seized the government radio
station and security headquarters,
reportedly killed a general and his aid
and declared a coup by a military junta
early today.
But the radio station later went off
the air and an army television station
said the five-month-old govemmentof
Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien was
still in control. Most of Bangkok was
quiet and pedestrians appeared to be
going about their business normally.
The army station said about 300
soldiers moved into Bangkok before
dawn from a base in Kachanaburi
province, 65 miles west of the capital,
Fishing report
Q The Department of Natural Resources’fishing forecast
for the week of March 27-April 2 includes:
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SINCLAIR: Full, dingy. Fair for all species.
Reunited sisters
want changes;
sue for damages
MIAMI (AP) — Four sisters who
were separated by F"- w « juvenile
authorities 41 years ago ana were
reunited only last fall are asking for a
change in the state’s adoption laws and
for $400,000 damages.
“The main thing we’re interested in
is in getting the law changed so it can’t
happen to anybody else,” said one of
the sisters, carolyn Mclntire of Miami.
The law authorizes adoptive parents
or adopted children 18 or over to obtain
a court order opening their records.
However, the names and addresses of
natural parents and brothers and
sisters are not necessarily included in
those documents.
Two state legislators said they will
introduce bills next week to require that
parental and sibling information be
part of the records that are made ac
cessible to adopted children when they
reach 18.
Mrs. Mclntire and her sisters, Agnes
Wagner of Winter Haven, Olier Mowery
of Lakeland and Dorothy Wiley of Ro
mulus, Mich., are suing the state for
SIOO,OOO each, said their attorney, Ellis
Rubin.
The girls and their then 9-year-old
brother, Gerald, were left on a sidewalk
in 1935 when their mother, Evie Melvin,
went to visit their stepfather, who was
in jail in another city.
Their mother was arrested, the
daughters said, because of gossip ac
cusing the couple of living together
though not married. However, a
marriage certificate shows they were
married in 1935.
The other was released after
spending about six weeks in jail and the
stepfather later finished his term. By
that time, the children had been placed
with adoptive parents.
The oldest daughter, Agnes, soon
and seized the Internal Security Oper
ations Command (ISOC) headquarters
and the government radio station.
The commander of the First Army
Division, Maj. Gen. Aroon Tavatasin,
and his assistant were killed when they
resisted an attempted takeover of
division headquarters, the television
said. It said the soldiers who stormed
the division headquarters surrendered
later.
Tanin was believed to be in the prime
minister’s office in the city, but he had
made no statement by midaftemoon.
Bangkok was quiet except for the
area around the rebel-held ISOC
building.
returned to her mother. Five years
later, when Olier was 16, she ran away
from her new home and rejoined her
mother and sister.
They continued to search for the
other two girls and their brother.
Gerald was found 11 years later. He
died in a 1947 car crash. Soon after, the
stepfather died in a boating accident.
Agnes and Olier promised their dying
mother in 1963 that they would continue
the search for their sisters.
Meanwhile, Carolyn was also looking
for her family, and in 1975 she con
vinced her adopted mother to tell her
about her adoption. She soon joined her
two sisters in the search for Dorothy,
the youngest.
That search ended last November
when Dorothy, a 48-year-old widow,
was found in Michigan through
newspaper stories. The sisters were
reunited shortly afterward in Orlando.
Few more
working
in county
Eighty-seven more people had jobs in
Spalding County in February than were
at work in January, according to the
report from the Griffin Labor
Department office.
The increase cut the unemployment
rate in Spalding to 7.5 percent, a tenth
of a percent lower than it was in
January.
A total of 18,618 people had jobs in
February, according to the latest
figures available from the labor office.
A total of 1,519 people were jobless in a
labor force of 20,137.
The Mclntosh Trail counties showed
a slight increase in unemployment
during February. The rate was 7.2
compared to 7 the previous month.
February unemployment for other
Trail counties were: Butts 9.4, Fayette
7.2, Henry 8.6, Lamar 6.7, Newton 6.1,
Pike 9.3 and Upson 5.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair and mild with a
low near 50 tonight. Partly cloudy
Sunday. Continued warm with a high in
the mid 70s.
