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Show ! Junk Yards Fight 'Rate of Delay The great American tradition of junk yards is about to meet its demise, or at the least to be shoved behind high whitewashed fences. AS AMERICAN population pushes ; upward, highways become be-come freeways and freeways are made for tourists. In an effort to please the millions of well-heeled well-heeled travelers the current cry is to cover up these ugly junk heaps. This will be done by simple legislation. Much legislation concerning con-cerning this has been introduced or proposed. Mrs. LBJ recently was in Jackson Hole, Wyo., to promote this cause. AFTER IT is passed, Congress Con-gress will think the problem solved and forget about it. Now under the very noses of the 89th Congress another type of junk yard is springing up! This one is financed by the joint efforts of the U.S. and Russia. This of course is the junk yard in space, i.e. the burned out casings of boosters, fragments of rockets broken off during their decay. THIS ORBITING junk yard can already be seen from earth when the sun glints off these objects. ob-jects. Congress will probably blame it on Russia. It's a sure bet Russia will blame it on us. Our biggest hope is that our celestial trash heap will decay at a faster rate than we can chuck it skyward. IF THIS is the case we could use the sky for an all-purpose garbage disposal. Any computer worth its salt ought to be able to compute the decay rate vs. the rate we can get it into space. Who knows, if the junk will decay at a faster rate than we can make it maybe we can eliminate elim-inate junk yards altogether. |