Navy's 'Viking' Rocket Runs
OutofFuel;Speedl775MPH
By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
(United Pr Staff Correspondents
White Sands Proving Grounds, N. M., Sept 12 (U.R) The navy's
$300,000 "Viking" rocket may be the forerunner or interp;nneiary
space ships even though it fizzled out only 33 miles above earth
on its second flight, a spokesman said today.
The navy revealed that the sleek pencil-shaped projectile burned
out its fuel prematurely during
Heads Viking Rocket Project M. W. Rosen, who is director
of the Navy's Viking Rocket project, stands alongside the tail
section of a rocket before it was fired at the White Sands, N.
M., proving grounds. Rosen and C. H. Smith drew up the pre
liminary set of specifications for the project. (AP Wirephoto)
Two Killed on
South Santiam
Two young people were killed
and a Scio woman injured in
Saturday accidents in the Salem
territory.
Dead are Cecil John Sanders,
Jr., 20, and Laurice Alba Dick
ey, 23, both of Albany. Mrs.
Minnie Hunter, 62, Scio, is hos
pitalized here. Several other
persons were injured.
The fatal accident occured on
the South Santiam highway
about four miles southwest of
Albany. The young people were
on a motorcycle and headed to
ward Lebanon when struck by
an automobile occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Webb, both of Leb
anon, who were taken there and
hospitalized.
The Sanders motorcycle glanc
ed off the rear of an automobile
driven by J. C. Canava, Leb
anon, whose car swerved into
the side of another driving by
Emily Manson, Bend, which
bounced back into the path of
the Webb vehicle. The bodies
were taken to Albany.
Mrs. Hunter was a passenger
in an automobile driven by her
son, Ray Hunter, also of Scio,
when their vehicle was involved
in a two-car collision on the Pa
cific highway six miles south of
Salem. She received a fractured
left leg and numerous cuts and
bruises. Her son was not
injured.
Driver of the other vehicle
was Harold Wesley Ransom, 785
N. Capitol, who was treated for
minor injuries but not hospi
talized. State police cited him
for district court here Monday
Both vehicles were nearly de
molished.
Ship Is Lost
San Francisco. Sprit 12 (7P
The British motorship Pacific
Enterprise will be left to the
mercy of the wind and sea
where it ran aground off Point
Arena, 100 miles north of here.
All hope to salvage the aban
doned vessel was given up yes
terday. Her holds, containing
one million dnllnrx worth nf
Canadian wheat, were flooded.
the vessel ran aground early
Friday in a fog.
an experimental firing. But even
so, it was traveling 1.775 miles
an hour when it hit its peak al
titude of 33 miles.
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On May 3, a similar Viking
launched in secrecy for the first
time by the navy's rocket re
search laboratory climbed 50
miles above the earth and reach
ed a speed of 3.450 feet-a-second,
it was disclosed.
Milton Rosen, head of the la
boratory said that in last week's
firing the rocket burned up its
alcohol and liquid fuel mixture
in 49 seconds instead of the ex
pected 70 seconds.
Rosen said the Viking was
Mill City Lodges
Resuming Meetings
Mill City Marilyn Chapter,
No. 145, O.E.S., will hold the
first rceular meeting of the fall
season, Monday night in the
lodge hall. Preceeding wl'l be
a covered dish supper served at
6:30 o'clock in the dining rooms
with Fern Shuey, worthy ma
tron. and Betty Von Tinny in
charge.
Santiam Rebekah Lodge No
166, Mill City, held the regular
meeting with Noble Grand
Dean Jackson presiding. Al
lura Chance was appointed to
represent the Rebekah lodge at
the Canvon Community Chest
meeting to be held this month.
Report was made by Ida Fleet
wood, dinner chairman, that $80
was cleared on the convention
dinner, funds to go into the
lodge treasury. During the re
freshment hour the birthday an
niversaries of Blanche Syver
son and Rachel Olmstead were
observed. Food committee ap
pointed for the next meeting
night, include Goldie Rambo
Ada Dart, Daisy Geddes, and
Margaret Liberty.
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lighter than the hulky German
V-2 bomb it was designed to re
place.
He said the entire rocket
program "leads toward the busi
ness of inter-planetary travel."
Observers crouched behind
concrete and earthen barricades
last week as the second Viking
was launched by remote control
from the proving ground's main
blockhouse.
Lifted by 20,000 pounds of gas
pressure, the 46-foot projectile
rose majestically. It moved fan
tastically slow at first, then pick
ed up speed until It disappeared
from sight. A huge steam cloud
boiled out of a water pit be
neath the launching site.
Elaborate electronic tracking
equipment followed the Viking's
flight through the atmosphere,
enabling observers to "watch"
it climb, make its "break-over"
and then fall back to earth.
Because of its abbreviated
flight, the rocket did not clear
the earth's atmosphere.
Nation-wide 1
Co-Op Proposed
Chicago, Sept. 12 Wj The Na
tional Farmers Union, represent
ing some 460,000 farmers, said
today it favors establishment of
a nation-wide cooperative farm
storage system.
The board of directors, meet
ing in semi-annual session, auth
orized President James G. Pat
ton of Denver to confer with
Secretary of Agriculture Charles
F. Brannan regarding a national
conference to discuss the pro
posal. Board members said they
favor a cooperative grain storage
setup modeled along the lines of
the rural electricfication admin
istration's power cooperative.
The proposed national confer
ence would have as its objective
the drafting of legislation and
the "practical initiation of a
loan program to further the con
struction of sub-terminal and
areal facilities owned and oper
ated by farmer cooperatives, the
statement said.
Such loans, it added, should be
at low interest rates over a long
period of years and should be
up to at least 90 per cent of the
cost of the facilities.
Des Moines, la., was selected
las the convention city for the
union's 1950 biennial convention
Big Bruin Slain
Near Drift Creek
Silverton. Sept. 12 Around
10 o'clock Sunday morning the
career of a huge sheep killer
came to an end in the Drift
Creek area near Victor Point,
and the dead bruin is believed
iUoufbon
r dfjuxc
Capital Jnurnai, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Sept. 12, 1949 3
o be one of the largest ever bag
ged in that district.
The bear weighed 377 pounds
dressed, with viewers of the car-
cas at the city locker familiar
with bear, stating that the ani
mal would easily have weighed
450 pounds on foot.
Many sheep had been killed
recently. Hunters and dogs had
been out for the bear for days
Several dogs treed the bear Sun
day morning, their noise bring
ing Theodore Fischer and Byron
McElhancy to the spot with their
rifles, the two men soon finish
ing the job.
Returning School Bus
Hubbard Marvin Barrett,
chairman of the school board,
left for Lima, Ohio, to take de
: livery on the new school bus for
the Hubbard grade school. Don
Mullins will be the bus driver
for the district.
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