Distributior Today ** WDBANK * (8,725 tamemir with hlfk Mar N. 1 *>;' 4ajr fair and pleasant Sea Weather, paje 2. Dial SH I-00I0 VOL. 85, NO. 11 J tally, radij. Uoood Ciu» PMOI> RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1962 ItU at R*4 uutteui IUIUHI otutM. 7c PER COPV PACE ONE Makes $4 Million Phone Call By RUSSELL P. RAUCH Thus, my voice had to be carried over regular circuits HOLMDEL-I made a W million telephone call last night. to Andover before being beamed to Telstar. Telstar Triumphs The conversation was short — but it was still unique. Telstar did its job — received, amplified and transmitted The sound of my voice and that of the party on the other end of the line had to travel 3,500 miles into space and back my voice back down to Andover and Mrs. Penley. again. Yet the distance between us was only 350 miles. WEATHER QUESTIONS At the other end of the line a woman answered. The conversation went like this: She'was Mrs. Nelle Penley, a staff reporter for the Bangor Mrs. Penley: Hello, Is this Russ Rauch? Daily News. She was sitting in a tracking station in Andover, Mr. Rauch: Yes it is. How are you? Maine. In Space Mission Mrs. Penley: Just fine. This reporter was one of four newsmen at the tracking Mr. Rauch: How is the weather up there in Maine? station here on Crawford's Hill selected to talk to a like num- Mrs. Penley: Cool. NEW YORK (AP)-Telstar, by the Bell Telephone Lab- Ultimately, the instantaneous, signals beamed to it. Telstar ber of their counterparts in Maine. Mr. Rauch: It's a lovely night down here in New Jersey. America's chatterbox new satel- oratories. continuous circuits might be is an active repeater—its spe- MICROWAVE TRAFFIC How are the tests going up there? lite, zoomed through lonely Only for 12 to 15 minutes on provided by three satellites, or- cial antennae pick up faint sig- The calls were part of a demonstration to test the ability Mrs. Penley: Wonderful. Everthing seems to be going as space today on its pioneering some of- its orbits eaph day biting 23,500 miles high so they nals, its gear amplifies them mission to bring the world a of Telstar to relay telephone conversations from one point to expected, i '" will Telstar be in "line of sight" appear to remain stationary 10 billion times, and the signals new voice, ears and eyes. another. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. spent Mr. Rauch: Scientists here had some trouble tracking vision between Europe and 'over the same points on earth. are re-transmitted for the sen- In triumphant baptism last ft million to put the Telstar satellite into working orbit. Telstar but everything is running smoothly now. Maine to permit TV exchange. Telstar's task Is first to prove sitive antenna ears on the night, it sent television pictures But one plan calls for the capabilities, and help de- My conversation with Mrs. Penley was carried by regular Mrs. Penley: Isn't this a wonderful experience to be part ground to pick up and amplify spanning the Atlantic to France launching a series of 30 to 50 termine what problems still lie again. land lines to Andover. There it was beamed by a giant horn of this? and England, as well as into similar repeater satellites, so ahead Telstar, making its sixth or- 'antenna to Telstar whirling high in space. Mr. Rauch: It certainly is. U.S. homes. And it relayed a that one or more always would Forward Step bit of the earth after early, Because of its position in heavy microwave traffic corridor. A short and simple conversation — yet Mrs. Penley and I telephone call from Maine to be In position for relay of TV, Telstar Is a forward step from" morning launching from Cape the Holmdel station could not transmit directly to Telstar. both knew this was part of space history that was written last Vice President Lydon B. John- telephone calls, photo or story Echo, the shiny balloon satellite Canaveral by the National Aero- Such transmissions would disrupt the traffic. night by the government and private industry. son in Washington as loud and and message transmission. which simply reflected radio (See TELSTAR, Page 2) clear as the best of local calls. Then for an encore, the ver- satile Telstar—only a yard wide — simultaneously transmitted New Bridge news stories at a 1,000-word-a- minute clip, relayed photo- graphs perfectly, and supplied two-way telephone calla with perfect aplomb from a 3,000- In Operation mile height in space. Remarkable clear TV pictures GOOSENECK — Gooseneck Jersey which participated Were received in France, and Point has long been known as agent for the U.S. Bureau were to be relayed by tape into that \area of Oceanport washed Roads and its state aid plan for French homes today. by the uppermost waters of the improvement of secondary roads, Return Prograrl Shrewsbury River. were Lawrence C. Petersen, John French TV officials planned For more than half a century Frascella and John Fransen of to beam a return program to it had been symbolized by the the Highway Department. the United States late tonight timber Gooseneck drawbridge None of the experts present or early Thursday French time, and its once-impressive overhead were certain whether the old which is six hours ahead of steel superstructure. Gooseneck Bridge or its look- New York in Eastern Standard A $1,500,000 sleek, modern alike twin a mile and a half east Time. concrete bridge was opened yes- over another part of '.he Shrews- A Paris dispatch said this terday and the relic of river bury, the Pleasure Bay bridge, would include a song by Yves Crossing was shut down. was older. Certain on 2 Points Montand, r several views of Paris, and a message from (Sec Photos, Page J) County Engineer H. Leroy Mar- tin said both were built in the Jacques Marette, French com- same period, between 1880 and cunicatlons minister. Cars now arch over the quar- 1900, but that he didn't know In Britain, faint and fleeting ter mile long span between which went up first. Old timers pictures were picked up as Tel- Oceanport and Little Silver with on the scene couldn't resolve the star received, amplified and re- little strew. issue, either. radiated the program beamed And this explains the dateline: TV IN SPACE — This is a picture of a monitor In th*' press building at Crawford's Mr. Martin was certain on two into space from a powerful horn Gooseneck. Hill, Holmdel, showing the quality >of a television broadcast that was beaitied at the points, however: antenna in the little town of Freeholder Director Joseph C. The Pleasure Bay bridge is Andover, Maine. The first tele- Telstar Satellite from Andovar, Maine. On the screen are AT4T officials discussing Irwin, after reporting to about the only remaining swing-type cast via space opened with a 100 officials and other spectators the communications experiment. This TV picture also was clearly picked up at a drawbridge in operation in the view of the American flag rip- from the surrounding area that tracking station in Brittany, France. Tha broadcait was. part of a series *f dernon- county; and. the Pleasure Bay pling in the breeze. Monmouth County and the fed- bridge can't much longer keep T«ANSMI$SION—This pictura was sent British viewer* stayed up late strationt to test Telitar's ability at a "switchboard In fpa6»>" , an} government had split _the. going without major repairs.; for the great event of instan- costs 5040, said no geographic from*Am/oVerTWiaina, to the Holmdel tracking station There has been much discus- taneous TV-from abroad, with partiality was being shown in sion about a new Pleasure Bay 'last night through space. Using TaUtar, scientists beamed the brief reward coming after the ribbon-cutting exercise, span and the first step toward tafephoto lignalj at the satellite and 5n a matter of i a.m. v • Telstar's first feats were a ' Tha Wading line getting It underway was a final seconds the picture was baing reproduced in tha Holm- "We are right on the line be- agreement recently among Inter prodigious demonstration of del station. The pictura is a mock-up model of the com- tween tittle Silver and Ocean- ested officials that it should be things to come in a future port," he said. "We're nor-in onelocated on the same line as the munications satellite. worldwide satellite communica- or the other." So there, obvious- present one. tions system to meet mount- Played Vital Project Hole ly, is Gooseneck. One of the spectators, Ernest ing demands for telephone, Mr. Irwin paid tribute to Free- Cubberly. 40 South Fifth Ave., news, business, and TV orcuits HOLMDEL - The local track- A corps of newsmen watched last night's test gave him a ter- holder Abram Voorhees, director Long. Branch, remembered the spanning oceans and continents. ing station's part in last night's the local station's performance rific sense of adventure." of bridges, whose honor it be- dedication of another high-level School Board Eyes Joint Venture Praised Telstar project was termed a during the demonstrations from very poor picture at first and came ' to snip the red ribbon bridge in the county whjch .re- Praising this joint venture of "very great success" by Bell a press building, a short distance then became garbled. atretched across the 30-foot road- placed a then-rickety wooden private industry and govern- Labs scientists here.