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Show Centrifugal force now balances the pull of the sun and keeps our earth in place. If our orbital motion mo-tion stopped, we would start falling fall-ing toward the sun immediately. The first second the earth would fall only one-ninth of a mile, hut when we finally struck the sun, we would be traveling 380 miles a second. Four Pass In Air Corps Test Out of 30 applicants who subjected sub-jected themselves to the Naval Resrve Air Corps test conducted in the physics department ot Krigham Young university Monday Mon-day afternoon only four were successful in passing the qualifying quali-fying standard. The examinations were conducted con-ducted by Captain R. C. Man-grun, Man-grun, Marine Corps Reserve, from the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Oakland, California; Commander Comman-der J. H. Korb, flight surgeon of the Navy's Medical corps, and Lieutenant Walter Schwartz, medical officer of the Salt Lake Navy recruiting office. Those who were successful in meeting the qualifications from B. Y. U. were: Russell Chadwick, Morgan, Utah; Reed Tuft, Heber, Utah; Leo Nielson, Shelley, Idaho; Ida-ho; and Vaughan Taylor of Salt Lake City. The officers will leave Provo Tuesday morning for Salt Lake, from where they will take their plans to Denver to conduct more examinations through Colorado schools |