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TRADER Serving Upper Westchester and Putnam County VOL, LVI — NO. 59 Thl» 1MD» to two Mctlan* Published Twice Weekly MT. KISCO, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1969 Entered >• lecond dtu mailer i t Mi. Kite*, N T . t7 per je *r | f\ CENTS IUA COPY Cavern playgrounds Kahn's lunar forecast . By PAULA BERNSTEIN • CHAPPAQUA - What's ahead for the moon by the year 2000 9 ' Herman Kahn, the celebrated thinker, says he'll be surprised if the special environmental con ditions there are not exploited. He foresees, for example, big, deep hotels in caverns, snug and protected against the moon's surface conditions, and controlled - atmosphere under ground playgrounds \You see low gravity gets to be fun,\ he says Mr Kahn Is the director of the Hudson Institute at Croton, a non - profit research center for national and international pro blems (informally dubbed a think tank ) \There are exercises you just couldn't do under any other cir cumstances. Exercises to take the strain off the heart. If you can ever get the trip to the moon Itself to be very easy, one can imagine all sorts of cardiac cases (going up). You can exercise in ways you can't exercise muscles on earth. In a lower - gravity environment it's much easier \ Mr. Kahn says that \one can easily imagine playgrounds on the moon. Enormous amounts of money will be spent on recreation anyway, and if the thing is combined with hospitalization it becomes less expensive. The cost of space travel will go down, too \ BUT THE MOON will be used for still more. Eventually it might be \an outpost, starting everything for a new world, if we find large reserves of oxygen and water. Even more fantastic, something that could be used as a fuel Now this is not as bard as it may seem.\ Also, the ease with which good vacuums can be obtained make it conceivable, he says, that certain industrial processes will be less expensive on the moon than on earth. Then, \there's no question there'll be telescopes, and you'll get a view of the earth as a whole . And the moon HERMAN KAHN is the natural stopping place for taking off for the other planets \ Mr Kahn had returned to his home at 19 Birch Lane here Pool's backwash kills fish BEDFORD HILLS - The underbellies of 1,300 to 1,500 small fish gleamed whitely on Lake Marie at the Bedford Hills Memorial Park this week. The sunfish, shiners, bullheads and • white perch bad begun to die on Sunday, the victims apparently of chlorinated back wash channeled into the lake during the cleaning out of UV park swimming pool. According to Edward Kurka of the New York State Conser vation Department, park em- ^plpyees had drained and refilled ' the toro woo) 'on Friday. During the fepUng.,of the pool, murky brown and green water was let in. This was backwashed into ,<the backwash tajk after being > given an extra dose o f chemicals, including chlorine. AFTER it was found that tor backwash tank also needed a cleaning, the water was channeled into Lake. Marie. Because the lake flows into the Muscoot Reservoir, the New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity has been notified of the pollution A spokesman for the departmen 1 said Tuesday that ordinary chemicals used for swimming pools would not be detrimental to the water supply. According to Mr. Kurka, there were a\fantastic number\ of fish in Lake Marie this year. The lake is often stocked, but this year it wasn't necessary. Mr. Kurka said a similar fish- kill occurred in Lake Marie last ON TUESDAY Mr. Kurka investigated another reported fish kill, this one in a large pond off Bouton Street between Route 35 and Post Office Road in South Salem. This one was reported by some neighborhood children. The answer in this case was immediately obvious to Mr Kurka- the fish had smotherec' to death. Many years ago the dam across the Waccabuc River which created the pond began to fall apart and, according to Mr Kurka, the then property owner on each side of the pond could not agree on reconstruc tion. As a result the stream is prevented from flowing freely, as it does above the pond, and yet the pond is no longer as deep as it should be. This means in turn that the water gets too warm, and when it gets into the 70s, the conservation officer said, fish cannot survive. Tuesday night from a Washing- Ion press conference launching the Hudson Institute's new book \Why ABM?\ a discussion of policy issues in the missile de fense controversy. Mr. Kahn, 47, one of 13 contributors to the book, is the author of five books and many magazine articles. Later Tuesday, relaxed in a light blue bathrobe after a swim in his indoor pool, sometimes frowning over his thick glasses, joking occasionally with his wife who strides in and out of the conversation as she rounds up the children for bed, Mr. Kahn leans across his elegantly modern dining room table blanketed with books and memos and comforting clutter' of the intellectual life, and discusses the moon: MR. KAHN would not call the moon walk \one giant leap for mankind'' as Astronaut Neil Armstrong did. \A medium step,\ yes. \The most important meaning was that nothing unexpected happened. That is, it turned out to be easy to walk on the moon. Everything was as expected and no problems seemed to arise. Now that's an enormous re duction in uncertainty. We jus* really didn't know up to this point. \As a scientist, I would say that if I were simply trying to get scientific progress, and I had $30 billion available, I would not spend it that way I would spend it on research which was more oriented toward undersea exploration, toward biology, toward mental health, and so on. \As a purely scientific Achievement, it is less exciting than the first satellite It's a step. As a scientific achieve ment it reassured us nothin unexpe^ted^-wouid happen, jhal —Photo, by LOT Claytor THIS PLAQUE, presented to Mayor Henry Kensing by Curtis Beusman, center, and Edward Marwell of Curtis Instruments, Inc., sets forth the village's contribution toward sending men from earth to moon. Vfhe warm 'w*ter , also en- & couW wa^arpund, 6 '>\S!L courages the growth of - algae and in this case, the pond was covered by a thick layer of algae and slime. The algae use up the oxygea in the water, and thus, literally, the fish had smothered. Many fish, dead for at least two weeks, were observable, including suckers, dace, sunfish. moon was reasonable, and that's very important.\ Mr. Kahn is more impressed by the moon landing as an en gineering and a social achieve ment than as a scientific one. WAS LANDING on the moon \a symbolic act of war,\ as historian Lewis M u m f o r d warns? \Mumford is bitter against the entire culture and therefore to him everything the culture produces is bad,\ Mr. Kahn answers. \There is enough truth in what he's saying that you can't disassociate it as sheer nonsense. . . \There are two kinds of truth here- one is that in a sense any kind of athletic competitor is preparing for war. Historically this has always been true. The moonshot in volves a kind of technology use ful for either war or peace The second kind of truth is (Continued on Page Four) Next step: humanoids visit earth BY BETSY BROWN NORTH SALEM — Sunday's moon landing didn't startle Emile Schunmacher or any of his fellow science fiction waters— they've dreamed about it and written about it all before. And Mr. Schunnacher-, who lives and writes on Dingle Ridge Road, takes a different view from-those who predict landings oh Mars or other planets. The next interplanetary visitors won't be men going to Mars, but \humanoids from other planets landing on earth,\ Mr Sohurtnacher said. \Be realistic,\ he told a reporter. \It's fun to talk about Mary Lindsay or Bess Myerson going to the moon in space suits, but it just isn't going to happen Think of the inconvenience What would they want to go there for?\ INSTEAD, he foresees scientists spending years assimilating data from the moon—somewhat comparable to the work of geologists in Grand Canyon — and mechanical, bu' not manned, probes into outer space Predictions that the earth will send men to Mars before the end of the century are \way off,\ he said. \We have taken just a small step into space,\ he said 'The (Continued on Page Four) What's Inside Summer's fruit Msgr. Boyle looks back 'Madwoman' review Plus: page page page 5 19 29 ERSTWHILE FISHERMEN Joseph Di Muro, 11, and Brian Voellmy, 10, look at the dead fish in Lake Marie at Bedford —Staff Pboto by Meyer Hills Memorial Park. Hundreds offish died apparently as the result of an error made in cleaning out the nearby park pool., Amusements 28-29 Women's news 10-11 Arts calendar 29 Bedford Hills 26 Classified 33-35 Katonah 18 Editorial 16 Pleasanrville _ 13 Horoscope 29 Lewisboro 20 Letters . _ 16-17 Mt. Kisco 8 Obituaries 2-3 North Castle 9 Sports 20-24, 30-31 Somers .. 12 Moon watchers eat up kilowatts MT. VERNON — People who usually turn off their TVs in the middle of the evening kept them on until about 1 30 am . Monday to watch the astronauts — and Con Ed has the figures to prove it. At 9 p.m, electrical consumption for the Con Ed area (Westchester, Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and parts of Queens) was the same as any ordinary Sun day evening. But at' midnight, while the astronauts were walking on the moon surface, the company registered usage of 3,100,000 kilowatts, or 200,000 more than the previous Sunday con sumption of 2,900,000. The amount is enough to power 475,000 color TVs, according to Con Edison. Despite the heavy rainstorm, no wires in upper Westchester were knocked down and no one was knocked out of service. \We would have heard about it if that had happened,\ a Con Ed spokesman said. Entry blanks ready for garden show BALDWIN PLACE— Non-commercial gard eners of all ages can find an entry blank for the Baldwin Place Shopping Center garden show on page 6 of this issue. With 88 different categories to choose from, area gardeners can display their green thumbs in entries that range from six varieties of flowers to a couple of cucumbers on a plate. There is no restric tion as to the number of categories one person may enter. The show, set for August 21, 22 and 23 at the air-conditioned mall of the shopping cen ter, is jointly sponsored by Patent Trader and General Industries, the owner of the center. All details and deadlines for entering can be found on the entry blank. There are no requirements for entrants to belong to any garden club, although clubs and their members are welcome to participate. The show has been designed to encourage en tries from backyard gardens as well as non commercial greenhouses, since the categories offer a broad spectrum of classes. Scout, 4-H and other youthful growers are also urged to participate Kisco moon By JOANNE DANN MT. KISCO — A tiny piece of Mt. Kisco was left on the moon this week, attached to the radar instruments associated with the descent of the lunar craft. Some 47 elapsed time meters ' manufactured by Curtis Instruments of Kisco Avenue were aboard the lunar landing module during its historic and successful moon landing. At least one of them remained after take off. To commemorate the event, and Mt. Kisco's part in it, Edward Marwell, president of Curtis, Monday night presented Mt. Kisco Mayor Henry V. Kensing with a plaque containing a duplicate of the time meter. \We were aware that the government wanted to use some type of elapsed time meter in conjunction with recording the hours of operation of various equipment,\ Mr. Marwell said Monday of his company's part in the moon shot. \We were convinced our meter was the most appropriate for the space craft because they have no moving parts and they are extremely light.\ \In addition they are 'fail safe' in that if anything should happen to the instrument itself, it would not cause any further problems within the space craft,\ Mr. Marwell added The elapsed time meter records the reliability factor of each of the functioning elements in the space craft and it establishes how many operating hours are left in a unit before failure-. The units are also used to make sore that no equipment leaves on a journey if it has expended more time than is safe. The meter was invented by a man who worked for United Nuclear, and was developed and manufactured under the impetus of Curt Beusman, vicepresident of Curtis Instruments. Also involved in the moon flight and provided by Curtis Instruments was the Curtis Ampere Hour Meter which was used in the auxiliary battery power carts in the Apollo launching. The Curtis meter provided information to the launch technicians as to the amount of energy remaining *i« the battery carts as thev re-\ 4 ^' the ship for its moon voyage VWonfesson school wins town permit By NANCY DAVIS POUND RIDGE — .the proposed Montessori school was unanimously approved Tuesday night by the Pound Ridge town board. A special permit to expire September l, 1971 was granted to Mr. and Mrs. Cabal Whelan Two more members of the water resource commission were appointed at the meeting! They are Mrs. Augusta Carfer' and Armand Benedek. The three people appointed at last weeks meeting were Dolph RotfekL who will be chairman of the (Continued on Page Four) ' Dichter predicts moon walk will inspire stand-on-head thinking By GEORGIA DULLEA CROTON — Time to think about wearing heated suits for winter, water-cooled dresses for summer — wearing an environment on your back^ like an astronaut. About driving kangaroo cars that hop the parking spaces. About putting away the dinner bell to snack from a permanent temperature- controlled buffet. • Why not, says the father of ^motivational research? Now that two men have walked the moon, perhaps others down here are ready for some \stand-on-youf- head thinking\ as Dr. Ernest v Dichter- puts it \How -more • and more, we are going to challenge -and question the stupidities that surround us.\ ' In many ways, Apollo 11 was the triumph of science \thinking upside down,\ says the master of applied psychology (\They said, if it won't work this way, maybe it will work the other way\). Millions viewed that triumph on the family TV set (\It was within the normal framework of experience. It was not weird\). This experience, seeing the extraordinary under ordinary conditions, will make people more receptive to new ideas and new products, Dr Dichter says. \It expands our world and frees us. It liberates us from many of the cobwebs of old-fashioned thinking . . . :We-are-^going to be less and less afraid of the 2lst century in the 2dth century.\ Blue sky thinking is a Dichter specialty. As founder and director of the Institute for Motivational Research which has branches in 15 countries, employs 25 trained psychologists, and more than 2,000 interviewers, Dr. Dichter tells his clients what motivates * us to buy soap, wear seat belts, vote for a particular political candidate. HE HAS YET to be seen standing on his head however, preferring the recesses of a leather chair in the dark, thickly-carpeted office of his castle overlooking the Hudson. From there he free associates in a Viennese accent, usually into a -tape recorder. \The moon flight might result in a more positive attitude towards new products, innovations, concepts. Now, we might look at the desk differently. Why can't furniture (be made to hang down from the ceiling instead of standing on the floor? Does a house really have to look like a bouse? Or could it be round — like a blown up bubble that's covered with concrete and looks more like an 'igloo? Maybe we'll have different shaped cars, cars that hop. Manufacturers, producers, scientists will start questioning existing designs and materials Does it make sense to paint the outside of a house continuously? Does it make sense to buy wood that has to be treated and painted?\ Take this newspaper,, one prodhct Dr. Dichter believes should • shape up to society's needs (\Unwieldy. Big pages you have, to .turn.\) He wonders if it could be printed on scrolls (\Push a button, roll it up, like toilet paper.\) And why not cut down on paper in his own office, he asks. \We use enormous amounts. Instead, could we have more photostatic devices, could we project memos from one desk to the other? Suppose I have here a lit up screen or glass panel. I write on it, push a button and the message appears on the glass panel of my associate. He reads it and takes action. I wipe it off and it disappears. Tons and tons of paper eliminated.\ Space age consumers are bound to be more \demanding\, Dr. Dichter predicts. \They will say we got to the moon. Now, why do we still have newspapers that are inconvenient to read and houses that are complicated to build and why can't we control weather better. \We seem to be capable,\ Dr. Dichter muses, \if we put our minds to it and spend $25 billion — of controlling our environment.\ And space age customers wil 1 be more likely to go into orbit when technology falls short. As a modern consumer, Dr. Dichter admits he \got mad\ at a new dictating machine \because it was stupidly constructed.\ \I just sent it back. You couldn't handle the button properly and you couldn't push the foot pedal down and I said, well, - somebody should have been \Qunking this thing through?* Of course, innovation will take time — \It took 20 years before somebody discovered that the car was no longer pulled by the horse and therefore did not have to be built like a carriage.*' Even now, he laughed, Americans still sleep in beds on legs \when it is no longer necessary to protect ourselves from wild animals.\ One effect of regular commercial flight to the moon: \That might permit us to do more tihings that have no immediate value, out of basic curiosity or as a fascinating experience in a person's life ... as an expansion of our consciousness.\ Right now, Dr. Dichter has no inclination to sign up for the moon, though. • Not until he has a business appointment up there or until the prices come down to earth.
