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SECTION OF
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TO
LIFT
?
i,
that lifts itself 200
power it generates
one of the bits of 20th
magic to be feted dur-
two weeks in a
salute to the Cen-
Water Project, The
electric gadget pic-
right is part of the
ing Plant which
generated by,the
River at Shasta
lift surplus Sacra-
river water 200 feet
to flow by gravity
orth to Men-
(Story Page 3.)
/
LOMAR and
By HAL MASSON
wants your money at Palomar. That is probably
difference between Palomar and the other
of California. There are many similarities. There
on top of that mountain something that needs no
oae of the most stupendous feats of engineering
and phshed
by man. There has
publicity in maga-
the daily press, in
and on the radio. A
has been built to the
magnificent moun-
through stands of
timber--the road it-
bull-whip frozen
*h against the moun.
a challenge to en.
gineers, to your ear, and to you:"
hunger for beauty.
But at the top is the differ-
ence. At the top nobody wants
your money. In truth, they don't,
really want you there at. all. You
are permitted to come, you are
treated politely and kept within
bounds, and that is the extent
of your welcome.
"But," you say, "it's a State
Greenville, California
Published Thursday, A,.--- -.,
CO. 1IIAx
YOU
Park'. It's marked in red on my
tourist map. And there'. a big
parking lot for visitors' cars'."
IT'S A COMPROM[SE
That's true. But it'. all a
compromise. The quiet men who
dreamed up Palomar were scien-
tists, not businessmen, and
scientists don't work well with
someone peeking over their
shoulders. They simply wanted
to take some -ather special pic-
tures. And to take those pic-
tures they needed a rather spec-
ial camera -- a camera that
weighs 530 tons, with a mirror
almost 18 feet across. They could
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