Unity High School - Monitor Yearbook (Unity, ME)

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THE MOIN ITOR Hrgh School They planned to return rn one vear or less rf possrble June 8th arrrved and a large crowd had gathered to see them of Roland and Wal ter after krssrng therr wrves Ollve and Polly clrmbed mto the shrp wrth two assrst ants and slrd the door rnto place whrch auto matcrally started the ventrlatmg system Flash' Boom' The nrght was splrt by a trerrendous roar that shook the earth for mrles around The rocket shot down the track wrth terrrflc acceleratron and off mto the nrght on rts way to the moon Walter and Roland sat down rn therr thrck cushroned eats and prepared for the starrt The wrngs were spread and the shrp could be controlled lrke an arrplane Walter was at the controls When all was ready the hy drogen compressed rn tanks was exploded rn oxygcn and the occupants were suddenly forced back mto therr especrally constructed seats In fifteen mrnutes Roland who was watch mg the clock and dorng some flgurrng wrth a slrde rule sard Its trme to pull rn the wrngs we re out of the earths atmosphere and dont need them protruded any longer Now that they wcre out of the pull of gravrty the crew floated around over the shrp by merelv crvmg themsclves a lrttle push The Frrefly was now travelmg at full speed There was no arr resrstance and the drstance between the earth and the moon was fast berng decreased It was qurte a Job to get thrngs to eat because rf they were not careful, the food would float away from therr mouths and they would have to chase rt there berng no pull of gravrty One day after dorng some calculatrons rn hrs notebook Walter rnformed them A thrs rate we wrll have to begrn slowrng down for the moon rn a few days In order to slow down some large gyro wheels drrven by electrrc motors whrch e cerved therr power from large storage bat terres had to be started The wheels worked on the prrncrple of creatmg an opposrte mo tron to that of the shrp therefore slowrng lt or turnmg rt rn any drrectron The shrp could not be controlled llke an arrplane, be cxusc there was no arr to offer resrstancc to a rudder or arleron I have started the wheels sard Ralph Xlrrd the nrechrnrc and they work pcr tectly We are rlready losrng some speed plred James 'lweedre thc assrstant prlot who was at thc controls It wrll bc twelve hours before we shall be close enouvh to look for a landrng' pl rce, rdded Roland They were plannrng to land on the sldc of the moon that the people on the earth never see What do you thrrrk we shall frnd on thrs srdc of the nroon' asked Walter It wrll probably be about the same as thc other srde replred Roland It wont be long before we shall bc thcre anyway We had bctter start gcttrng out our nroon surts They werc cqurpped wrth surts to be worn on the nroon The atmosphere there rs thrn that rt would be rmpossrble to breath wrthout oxygen tanks and so they had surts ent day That looks lrke a good place to land sud Roland lct s head toward rt Phe Frrefly w rs now only travelrng, about seventy frve krlorrretcrs pcr hour whrch was a safe landrng speed rnd thc shrp w rs nc rr ly to the landrng place 'Ihe Frrefly landed very lrghtly on account of there berng lrttle pull of gravrty on the 'roon and the shrp werghed only one fifth as much as on the earth Thrs srde of the nroon seems to be much the same as the other sard James There rs no vegetatron and rt rs very cold Yes but here we are shouted Walter who wrll be the first to walk on the nroon' Lcts all go out together for a few mm utes and stretch our legs answered Roland They were much surprrsed when thev stepped srx meters each step whereas on earth they could step only one The ground looks as rf rt contarned rad rum sard Walter through the telephone on hrs moon surt If rt does contarn radrum thrs wrll be a valuable drscovery for there rs very lrttlc left on earth and there 1s a great denrand for rt rn modern scrences Lcts take some 23 V ,N , V . - , , ' Vi V 1 V V V . ' V 1 V V K 'LV V , t ' , rr V - , ll V V V V V 'Y . ' , . . ., . ' r. . . 'V ff. V V -, l ' 1 - C v 4 r r V V V . ' ,I , ss s, . U ' V . V ' V 'Y V - - - - . - - V . 7 . . , re- , L V q - . V . . . V V - . , . r , ' Y H ' , .V V V I ' I . ,, V , . . V 1 . . . . V I ' 1 . s. x V . K . . vu ' ' ' 14 V' V V r A ' I 4 4 ' . V' 'V V ' U 7 V V - ' 1 ' I ' . V V , ,V V . , . V V V V V V 1 ' ' v ' , .. . , , I . V V K. V ,. V . A. H 1 4 an 4 s Y ' - i l . . I . 1 V , , ' ' LV ' 'V V . ! - . . Y V D ' ' v -,V 1 ' V s V ,- , - rr V, - - somethrng like the drxer s surts of the pres- . , , , - rn, V , Vs, . ' H . V ' . V V V rr r 11 r , ' ,, ' an r, , ' H .4 , X . V . V V V n 7 u I 5 1 ' 4 ' 7 ' V V . L . ,. L. , L. , - - V V 1 . D. Y 2 , K. V23 ,i ., ' ' V V . , , H , ,. I A V -77 .V ' V U V .1 . . .1 ' ,, l ' ' H V V V H V . V ' -v y - 1 ' rr Y - , V 4 rn , , nr xr V ' - ' , ' H V , t V V V . V H . V V . . . . ' ' 7 ' X . ,, D V -' ' ' - u ' ' ' . , T U - - ' ' 1 - ' H ' V 7 -'V - - . : . 3 ' , . ' ' - U . Q V ' V V Q . ' , , , V . . y L. , . y t - . ' ' V .V ' H , ri. ,

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THE MONITOR cf? At 6 01 A M Danlel Cobb arrlved at the llghthouse He dlscovered that Captarn Wll hams was mrssrng and started a party searching for hrm Some trme later Captarn Wrlllams became consclous of sharp parns chasrng each other through hrs head He could not lmagrne where he was He ralsed hlmself to a srt trng posltlon and peered around ln the dark ness As hrs eyes became accustomed to the dark he became aware that he had been ly mg down on the floor of the gasolme store room As soon as he had gamed str ngth enough to strr around Danlel Cobb the as sxstant heard the commotron and began to rmestrgate He found the Captaln and took hrm up to hrs rooms and called a doctor The captarn was not serlously 1nJured although he dxd not know who had struck hrm down When Vtalton heard that the captarn had been found he became overwhelmed wrth fear and after several days whrch were filled w1th anxrety he went to the captarn and confessed He told hrm of hrs rnventron how he had wrshed to machrnery knowledge that the gruE old fellow would thrnk hlm foolrsh In the engrne room he had accrdentally shut off' the foghorn and alarmed the lrght house keeper who rmmedrately came down to rnvestrgate Frrghtened dreadrng the de tectlon he had struck the captarn wrth one of the heavy tools whrch he supposed had krlled hrm Then horrrfied he had hrdden hrm below rn the gasolrne storeroom He also admltted rntendrng to run away to the navy and leave word where to find the captalns body Tlhe captaln because of hrs lrkrng for the young fellow and conslderrng the fact that he had not been serlously rngured forgave ll1I11 for hrs hasty actron Octavra Gordon 34 get some rdeas for rt from the rn the llghthouse wlthout the of the captarn because he feared A TRIP TO THE MOON In 1958 Roland Pelletrer and Walter Bra deen had Just finlshed therr rocket shrp, The Frreily rn whrch they hoped to make a trrp to the moon They had been working on their shrp for five years and at last It was llllllt to therr satrsfactron The shrp looked llke a large clgar It was srxty meters long and twenty meters rn drameter at the longest part lln 1958 the Engllsh system of measurements whrch we now use had passed out of exrstence and ewerythrng was measured rn meters and k1lo meters instead of feet and mrles The out sxde of the shrp was constructed of a new metalhc compound made from alumrnum mckel Iron and several other elements Thrs metal had been tested and found to be able to stand the hrghest temperature of any known metal It was also very strong The fact that the metal would stand '1 hrgh tem perature was very rmportant because at the t6ll1flC rate of speed at which the shrp would be Iorced to travel thru the an most metals would burn before reachrng the earth bc used rn thrs atmosphere could be pro truded On top was a small door where the passengers or pllots entered the shrp The rnsrde was well lnsulated wrth asbestos that rt would be possrble to l1ve when the outsrde temperature was very hrgh In addntron to the sleeprng quarters whlch were on the sldes of the shrp there were three large rooms The forward room was the control and chart room the next the krtchen and dlnrng room and the aft was the machlnery Everythrng IH the cabrn had to be attached to the floor for as soon as the shrp was out of the pull of the earths grav rty exerythrng would lose werght and float about over the shrp Tlhe shrp was stocked with supplles enough to last two years I the control room was a powerful radro wrth whlch they hoped to send and recerve mes sages from the earth after they arrrved on the moon The shrp had a new ventrlatlng system that kept the a1r 1n condrtron to be breathed and at the rrght temperature The rocket shrp was placed facmg the east on a track a mrle long A terrrfic charge of hydrogen exploded rn oxygen would start the Frrefly on rts perrlous Journey The plans for the trrp were complete and Ralph start after Roland and James had graduated from Umty Roland and Walter vsnth two assrstants Ward and James Tweedre were t June 8 1958 Just twenty five years 22 . R, -,,,,,,.,, , aff, K W as ,, W M, , K A . : . ' , , - . Y . 5 M I . . , . ' . 'e . ' . -- I ' H J 9 - ' I L . ' , .l . , . D . I V S C . H ' Y K I . ' . . V. 1 . 1 ' . . . L 7 5 ' ' 1 f ' ' 2 ' . V . ' . K , , , , , -' - ' 1 ' . On ' ' each side of the ship telescoping wings, to 1 I . 1 ' ' ' ' , - ' ' , 1 ' ' . I . . ' , 1 ' I . . I 4 . L Y A . . , , , ' 7 W 7 D K. L . , I y Y . . . . . I , . . , , . . , . . 7 . . , ' - L ' ,, 1 - I , ' . . Y I . . I - , . . 1 , , I ' ' ' ' ' . . n . , - , X . , . . y V . . . , ' - , . I . X , - . . , . . . . , , 0 I . , . . , , -

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