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Page 2 Thursday'. December 18,1969 __^ HOBOKEN PICTORIAL WE BELIEVE IN .. .. •First, we believe in FREEDOM OF THE PRESS and the FIGHTING OF 4- JOURNEY TO ANY LAWS WHICH WOULD HAMPER THE PRESS IN /TS RE- SP0NSIBIL1TY TO THE PUBLIC, gumiir, .vumMttJammmnmOM^E Mi*nHV itmmmftim- Thirdly, we believe in FREE ENTERPRISE. Lastly, we-believe the N. Y.-N. J. PORT AUTHORITY SHOULD PAY TAXES TO MUNICIPALITIES WHICH LOSE RATABLES TO THE EXPANDING Bf*STATE AGENCY. The recent probes of the There are still investigators planet Mars by Mariners 6 and 7 who think that microbes or still has not settled the question other primitive forms of life may \ of whether or not some kind of yet be found on the planet. In a life can exist on the planet. number of studies, biologists However, the evidence against have already shown that algae, any life being possible is plant seeds and even beetles can mounting. Yet, there is still a survive temperatures similar to shred of hope and the final proof those found on Mars. will only come when a manned "Considering the extreme mission lands on Mars. conditions that organisms When the first TV pictures tolerate here on Earth,** says were sent back to Earth from the Sanford Siegel, a physiologist Mariner vehicles it gave little from the University of Hawaii, hope that life could be found on "I would be very surprised our neighboring world. There indeed if we didn't find life on was no evidence of nitrogen, an other planets." Siegel's studies indispensable ingredient of life on low-temperature life have on Earth. Probing the upper been supported by NASA. regions of the atmosphere, there The one point everyone is Throughout the world, as well as in was no sign of the ozone shield agreed on is that no evidence of the United States, the peoples of two that protects our world's surface Martian canals has been turned great faiths are in this month of from the Sun's deadly rain of up. The "canals" are not distinct December celebrating an important date ultraviolet radiation. Surely, linear features laid out by scientists concluded, no life is on their religious calendars. To the intelligent beings, as once possible in such an environment. believed, but apparently rough, Christian, who on December 25, heralds Yet, there was that one faint uneven splotches that lose their the birth of Jesus of Nazareth as a due that indicated that there geometric-looking form on closer symbol of hope, Christmas has a very may yet be the discovery of examination. Far from being the special meaning. At each Christmastide, some kind of living organisms on outpost of an advanced their hope for the promised everlasting the planet. The clue was civilization, Mars more and more seems to be something of a peace is t newed. For those of the furnished by the infra-red spectrometer on board Mariner primordial version of the Earth Jewish faith who have just concluded 7, the second of the two vehicles as it might have been billions of their observance of Chanukah, the making the probe. What the years ago. One scientist says, Festival of Light, hope is also renewed at spectrometer detected was two We are looking at what could this time. The promised peace is long in gases - ammonia and methane. be baby pictures of the Earth." coming. Perhaps it will never come in Both are produced on Earth by A soft landing on Mars will biological decay. give us much more data. At least our time for the iife span of a man is but One of the experimenters, in such a probe we will have a minute parthal of eternity. Before the George C. Pimentel, a University scratched the surface." peoples of any nation, big or small, can of California chemist, said that However, no amount of establish and maintain peace there must he was unable to determine the instrumentation will achieve the be a better understanding of one amount of ammonia in the results of a manned probe. A Martian atmosphere, his best good case is the comparison of another. As long as there is internal estimate being about a few parts the instrumented soft-landing strife, there can be no peace • within or per million. The Earth's Surveyor probe of the Moon and without the boundaries of our land. atmosphere contains about 1.5 the manned landings of the parts per million. Pimental says Apollo program. The survey ors Therefore, at f/>& season of hope, let that among the terrestrial gave us much needed us here at home strive to mend the sources of methane are marsh gas information but they could not disunity that threatens to destroy the and bovine flatulence, both of compare with the results of the fabric from which this nation was made. which result from the gradual Apollo probes. If we would be missionaries of deterioration of vegetable A manned landing <y Mars matter. democracy, we must practice at home will be of much longer duration what we preach. Therefore, at the close Pimentel conceded that the than the earlier landings on the gases he detected might have Moon by the Apollo astronauts. of this year 1969, let us again say "Peace been produced on Mars by such Because such a voyage will take on Earth - Good Will to Men" and back non-biological processes as months to complete, a manned up that prayer with a determination to "outgassing" from Mars interior. expedition to Man will have to make It come to pass. But, he added, "One cannot have the capability of spending restrain the speculation that the many months away from Earth. gases might be of biological As a result the first probe of origin." If that is the case, he Man will see the scientist and theorized, they may have been astronauts spending many days produced by organisms that on the surface. When they return found shelter in a relatively to Earth they will bring back hospitable region near the edge most of the information that will of Mars' southern polar cap, answer the questions asked for where Mariner 7 concentrated its so many yean. cameras and instruments. There, he said, they might have drawn water from the polar ice and Beyond the possibility of protection from the Sun's doubt, American technicians top ultraviolet radiation under a the world in know-howness. A How To Get In Touch With Us cloud of carbon dioxide crew of them turned off Niagara particles. Falls in June and kept it turned DOROTHY SEXTOK A number of scientists have off until recently. PHOTOGRAPHERS refuted Pimentel's findings. • • • Hudson County Because of the small amount of "In Lawrence, Ktns., a goose OFFICES: data available this question Anthony Cangiano - UNion 9-7973 has fallen in love with a cannot be settled by a probe that Volkswagen."-News item. MITCHELL WARTH WEST NEW YQRK-6014 B«raanltiw gets no closer than two thousand What's unusual about that? 866-8560 NORTH BERGEN-7101 Jackson Street nates. Only a manned probe can • • • bring back conclusive evidence, It would seem that porpoises BERGENCOUNTY JERSEY CITY-3507 one way or another, about life are stouter than people, as they HO6OKEN.922 on Man. A.J. STRIPP. 943-9322 tre-- learning to understand or 945-5596 SECAUCUS-1279Ptan Even the question of the polar I>eop1fe tnguage faiter than caps is not definitely settled. icmmt BfRGEN COUNTY156 Brawl AmmM,Fairview people «re learning to D—«Hln« for UwrtllMi copy a Although most scientists are understand porpoise language. convinced that the polar caps an A. M. M • * • W. M. mostly frozen carbon dioxide, otherwise known at dry ice, you hMT t person there are arguments for the _ that the Christmas P0»tJfafltty Oat frozen wmter i»*t whtt it and to be, n ra rmy be certain that neither "existsmMM*. •<.-' W: .' tnr. £lg||:'q OJ /w: sill v«"o..t O) ''' HOBOKEN wrrnwiAi Thursday, December 18,1969 Page 3 comes to reassigning personnel Someone showed up with a and running the department the couple of workmen and started way he wants to. In simple sweeping it up but no one Guiseppe McNAMARA language, he can tell the bothered finding out if they politicians where to go rnd do were from the coffee plant or CREDIT DUE ROMANO what he wants, when he wants : the city. IN HOBOKEN and to whom he wants. Eventually, most of the junk life has become a little more lively for Hoboken bookies and the department because there When you have a politically was cleared away, but this didn't boys financing the numbers banks since the U.S. Attorney General certainly are some changes oriented police department such calm park users who have had a told America that New Jersey is number one in connection with needed. as Hoboken's and a chief with long feud going with the coffee organized crime. Some insiders are starting to his own ideas on how to run the producer even if they have been The message has everyone shook up to the point that they are call it the Finnerty Police department, it means there is on the losing side of the battle. seeing federal agents and state police in every doorway, behind every Department since they consider bound to be some screaming in They complain bitterly that no tree and under every rock. Crimmins to be the fair-haired the first few months as the chief one wants to go after Maxwell Whether their alarm is justified or not can't be forseen.