Sunday, Feb. 21, 1965
Berry defeats Rockmart in Class A tilt, 52-43
ROCKMART – Berry Academy upheld their state rating Friday night, but not without a scare.
The Falcons delivered a “knock out” blow to Rockmart in the final period to garner a 52-43 victory and prevented a possible scratching of their high rated post.
Both Class A powers will be entering sub-region tournaments Tuesday seeking a berth in the state tourney. Berry is located in the northern portion of the region and Rockmart in the south.
The teams put on a fine defensive show for a partisan Rockmart crowd, but Berry held the upper hand in the final outcome due mostly to a flurry of points in the last three minutes of play.
Berry held the quarter stop leads throughout the game, but Rockmart knotted the score on numerous occasions. They could never muster enough steam to go ahead of the flying Falcons.
A smooth working offensive machine put Berry ahead in the first period, 11-7. They held onto the four point lead in the second half by matching Rockmart’s point output of 18 and led at halftime, 30-26.
Berry picked up 11 counters in the third period for a 41-33 third period lead. However, Rockmart came through in the final period to knot the score at 41-41 before Berry made their bid for the victory.
Rockmart’s Donnie Harris won scoring honors for the night with 15 to his credit while Riley Evans came in second with a total of 11 counters. Jack Childre was high for Berry with 10 points, while John Jordin, Millard Carlisle and Tommy Butler picked up nine tallies each.
In the JV contest, Rockmart took a 57-37 verdict to end their season.
The victory was Berry’s 27th of the season, while Rockmart has a 15-7 record.
Monday, Feb. 22, 1965
Advice to first moon visitors: walk softly, carry big stick
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – The first man on the moon should walk softly and carry a big stick.
So says the head of a scientific team studying more than 7,000 pictures beamed to earth early Saturday in the final 23 minutes before the Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed into the face of the moon.
Dr. Gerard P. Kulper, chief of the five-man analysis team, said the photographic bonanza indicates the lunar surface may be a froth of dust and fragile lava that might hide dangerous tunnels and caverns.
“This could be very tricky and treacherous stuff,” said Kulper, of the University of Arizona. “Many parts of the moon might be hard enough to support considerable weight, but an explorer could not assume that he would be safe everywhere.
“It may be that the first astronauts would be wise to carry long poles to probe the surface ahead of them to be sure it would hold their weight.”
As with the 4,316 photos relayed last July 31 by Ranger 7, the five men disagreed about what new, high-quality photos showed, but agreed that they were not surprised.
The insect-shaped Ranger 8’s six television cameras returned sharp close-ups of lunar mountains and plains in the final minutes of its death plunge into the flat, broad, dusty Sea of Tranquility, 15 miles from its original target. Its impact point was 1,000 miles east of where Ranger 7 crashed in the Mare Cognitum.
Kulper said he saw evidence that much of the moon’s surface is covered with three to six feet of loose, lava-like material, similar to tunnel-coursed, cavern-marked lava areas on Hawaii. He surmised that the material is volcanic overflow, a thin crust of solidified foam.
But Ewen A. Whitaker, Kulper’s associate at Arizona, said he felt the surface – which he also believes is foamy lava – would hold the weight of soft-landing manned spacecraft.
Dr. Harold Urey of the University of California at La Jolla said the lunar surface may be blanketed by 50 to 60 feet of dust. Several craters of that depth, he said, showed at their bottoms a “whitish button” which may be the moon’s solid core beneath the dust.
Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, another team member, said he doesn’t believe pictures can reveal the surface’s strength but added that the photos did show the surfaces of the seas where Rangers 7 and 8 crashed to be “substantially the same.”
The team will continue studying the giant photographic harvest for months – well beyond the scheduled launching of Ranger 9 in mid-March.
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1964
Cedartown High student finds rare bone fossil
CEDARTOWN, Ga. (UPI) – James Hogue, a Cedartown High School student, has found a bone fragment in Saltpeter Cave near Rome which may provide scientists with a clue to the kind of animals that roamed Northwest Georgia some 20,000 years ago.
Hogue found the fragment while crawling through a tunnel that branched off the main room of the cave.
On the advice of his science teacher, Mrs. Arthur Haavie, the high school junior showed the fragment to Philip F.C. Greear, head of the biology department at Shorter College.
Greear aid the bone definitely came from the leg of an animal that lived during the Pleistocene period. Scientists estimate that the Pleistocene age spanned a million years, ending about 11,000 to 15,000 years ago.
Greear was unable to positively identify the type of animal. He said the bone could have come from a horse, cow, bison or even a camel. He sent the bone to Dr. Clayton E. Ray at the National Museum in Washington, an expert on mammal fossils.
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1965
McClain named STAR teacher for fifth time
TRION – Being named a STAR teacher is getting to be a habit for Principal Sam McCain of Trion High School.
McCain was selected as the STAR teacher by Bill Hyden, who was chosen as START Student of the Trion school for this year. It was the fifth time McCain has been selected as a STAR teacher.
Under the program, the STAR teacher designates the teacher who has contributed most to the advancement of the STAR student.
McCain, former athletic director for a number of years, is serving his first year as principal at Trion. He also is a physics and mathematics instructor and holds both a teacher and principal’s six-year certificate.
A native of Bremen, McCain taught at Sandersville before coming to Trion 15 years ago.
