Evening star. [volume], December 14, 1936, Page A-5, Image 5

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ROADHELD PERIL
Children’s Safety Alone Jus
tifies Improvements to Old
Georgetown Route.
a BtaB Correspondent of The Star.
BETHESDA. Md„ December 14 —
The safety of Montgomery County
school children alone Is sufficient to
warrant Immediate widening and re
surfacing of hazardous Old George
town road. Dr. W. C. Killinger of the
Rockville Pike Citizens' Association
declared today.
Dr. Killinger, who retired recently
aa president of that organization and
• now serves as an Executive Commit
baa member, asserted that his organ
isation “stands solidly behind the
movement to improve the road" and
will throw its full support behind the
campaign being staged by civic bodies
and citizens in this area.
"The road is too narrow to safely
accommodate ordinary bus and auto
mobile travel and It is particularly
dangerous for school children when
the busses tn which they travel to
"and from the Alta Vista School pass
trucks and regular traction busses
Which use the thoroughfare,” he said.
Will Demand Action.
Dr. Killinger stated he would confer
Immediately with George H. Lamar,
well-known Rockville attorney and
eivlc leader, who succeeded him as
president, and make plans for a dele
gation to represent their association
at the mass meeting to be held on
Wednesday night at the Bethesda
Women's Club.
The Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce, Old Georgetown Road Citi
zens’ Association, Bethesda Fire De
partment, Alta Vista School Parent
Teacher Association and scores of
citizens will attend the meeting and
demand State and county officials act
to correct the dangerous conditions
existing along the highway.
It was said by Dr. Killlnger that the
Rockville Pike Citizens' Association
passed a resolution deploring the
hazardous state of Old Georgetown
road more than a year ago, but It was
never given favorable consideration by
officials.
Also Urged New Road.
He declared, too. that the associa
tion adopted a co-related measure
urging officials to acquire the right
of-way used by the now defunct
Washington-Rockville electric line
and build a new road between Alta
Vista and Halpine.
Br. Killinger stated the new thor
oughfare w-ould take a great deal of
heavy traffic off both the Old George
town road and Rockville pike, and also
would open a new section of the
county to real estate development.
He said construction of the pro
posed thoroughfare would result in
the building of many new homes in
the area lying between Rockville pike
and Old Georgetown road, Alta Vista
and Halpine.
Members of the Board of Mont
gomery County Commissioners and
the county’s representatives in the
State Legislature will be asked to
attend Wednesday’s session to hear
the view of citizens who were spurred
.Into action a week ago, when two
men were killed in the bus-auto wreck
on Old Georgetown road.
The deaths of the two motorists
climaxed a series of mishaps in which,
one man was killed 14 months ago
and a number of people injured.
Many near-catastrophies also have
occurred because of the narrow and
treacherous conditions along the road.
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_ —Star Staff Photo.
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Mary Kennedy, 1505 Lamont street,
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Her father, George A. Kennedy, a
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ance the family budget by taking in
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family histories and drew coats of
arms. ‘If they can make money doing
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her own family’s coat of arms, made
a drawing of it and showed the result
to a friend.
“She liked it so well she asked me
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Raindrops of Radiation From
Luminous Clouds of
Stars Held Proof.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Pelting in earth's face of raindrops
of radiation from luminous clouds of
stars in the ultimate vastnesses of
Creation proves a third movement of
the planet in addition to the daily ro
tation on its axis and the yearly Jour
ney around the sun, it was revealed
yesterday in an annual report of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
The “raindrops” are cosmic rays,
shot out from the depths of space with
energies ranging from two billion to
more than nineteen billion volts.
Astronomers in the past have de
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the entire galaxy of 30,000,000,000-odd
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gravity, in a 200,000,000-year rotation.
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be applied from the earth Itself.
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shortest and most powerful compon
ents of the radiation spectrum orig
inated from some point outside this
galaxy, either in the space between
the galaxies or In the millions of
"Island universes" millions of light
years beyond the outermost bounds of
the Milky Way system.
Variation in Intensity.
So reasoned Dr. Arthur H. Comp
ton of the University of Chicago, Car
negie associate and Nobel prize winner
in physics, If the galaxy was moving
and the cosmic raindrops were coming
from outside it their greatest Intensity
would be In the direction of motion.
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on the face than on the back. If the
galaxy was rotating, earth must be
rotating with it, at a speed which as
tronomers already had calculated.
Dr. Compton and his collaborators
in this experiment report finding a
variation in cosmic ray Intensity,
changing with sidereal time, which is
very close to what would have been
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the movement of the earth In this great
rotation Is approximately 250 miles a
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ments in both the northern and
southern hemispheres. It is being
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with a cosmic ray meter which now is
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"The Implications,” says Dr. Comp
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The effect confirms the astronomers’
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rays that presumably causes the ef
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one.
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