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Hydrazine May Be Lending Power for Space Ship Use New York GJ.B Would-be space navigators soon will be able to fuel up with a chemical compound hydrazine which some scientists think may be a leading candidate to power space ships. This nitrogen compound, which was a laboratory curiosity until it was propelled out of ob scurity late in World War n by German rockets, now has gone into production in this country for the first time on a scale large enough to meet all military and chemical industry needs, plus a surplus for exploring new uses. John M. Olin, president of Ma tholin Corp., a new company formed Jointly by Mathieson Chemical Corp. and Olin Indus tries, Inc., to manufacture and do research on this chemical, saif"- "We regard hydrazine as one of the most exciting of the new commercial chemicals. It prom ises to be the starting point for an entirely new family of chemi cals called hydronitrogens." Versatile Chemical borne experts believe that a mixture of hydrazine and nitric acid is the most likely fuel for an interplanetary rocket, Hydrazine is one of the most versatile materials to spring from test tubes. It is a compound of great energy a six-atom mol ecule of two nitrogen atoms and four highly reactive hydrogen atoms. The latter are quick to Join with oxygen and other ele ments to make a large number of different chemical combina tions. It was discovered some 60 years ago by a German chemist, Emu Fischer. Thirty-two years later another German chemist, Friedrich Raschig, developed a way of producing the substance by oxidizing ammonia with so dium hypochlorite, the principal ingredient of ordinary laundry bleach. The big drawback was Reseniment Carved In Man's Tombstone Wellington. O. (U.PJ Otis i Pratt was bitter over treatment he had received as an artist and .sculptor, so he had his resent ment carved on his tombstone. The stone, standing over the grave of Pratt and his mother in Greenwood Cemetery here, at tracts many tourists. Pratt died in 1921 at the age of 76. The in scription reads: "Stranger, I lived in an age when corruption was in bur gov ernment and the ballot box was begged for. When martyred pres idents and riots echoed over our land. When law and respect clung to the rich and shunned the poor. When money and fash Ion had the brains and talent went over the water for want of free schools of art supported by our government. Such were the conditions which caused my landscape to decay with me as nature shows it. Farewell. Pratt himself spent a good deal of time in Europe studying art When he came back he earned a tiny income by sketch ing portraits of townspeople and selling them for a pittance. He painted murals on the in side of his house but just before he died he destroyed them all. the $50-a-pound cost This chemical compound re mained obscure until the final months of World War II, when the Germans were looking for high-energy-release fuels for their rocket program and cost was no object U. S. research teams went to Germany after the war to study the available data on hydrazine production, and Mathieson set up a pilot plant at Niagara Falls where it developed a method to cut the cost to $9 a pound. A Lake Charles, La., plant is ex pected to produce hydrazine at $2.50 a pound. Olin said more than 2,000 hy drazine compounds already have been reported and several score are under investigation in lab oratories throughout the coun try. Among the products developed thus far is maleic hydrazide, which retards the growth of plants without harmful effect. Experiments along the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut reduced the mowings of grass from 19 to two per season. Applied as a spray, the material also will keep buds on fruit trees from opening until danger of frost is past. Another interesting use has been in the development of su perior new fluxes which speed up the difficult job of soldering aluminum. ' MEDF0RD Doited PraM full Luwl Win 1VLA. XT ' TRIBUNE Umtad Pr full Leaied Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1953 Pages 1-6 f . t, - tdf'" -4- , , v 3 ".y f IP BATTLEGROUND Philadelphia Eagles center Ken Farragut (light jersey, center) and San Francisco 49er end Clay Matthews (right) exchange blows during free-for-all Cght midway in fourth period of game in San Francisco. On the left, unidentified Eagle player rushes in to assist Farragut with "helmet drawn, while other gridders battle it out in the background. There was no immediate explanation for the melee, in which 200 players, policemen and fans participated. The 49ers won, 31-2L Late Summer Declared Best Time for Planting New Lawn Waterbury, Conn. U.R) Now is the best time for making a new lawn, according to Charles Baskin, president of the Con necticut Golf Superintendents' Association, Late summer is the ideal time because it is after the growing season for most weeds and the grass can become well rooted and healthy by the following summer when hot, dry spells take their toll of thin and weak sod, he explained. The seeding should be timed to permit the grass to get rooted before the killing frosts. Hence, mid-September is the best time in the North, the deadline being delayed as one moves South. What lo Do Here are 10 steps recommend ed by Baskin, who is a consult ant of the Scovill Manufacturing Co.: 1. Turn over the ground to a depth of eight to ten inches. This is the depth of the normal spade. 2. Pulverize the soil well and, if .necessary, add new loam. 3. Smooth the surface with a wooden rake, and roll it. 4. Enrich the ground with a standard fertilizer, raking it in to a depth of about two inches. 5. Soak the ground to a depth of six to eight inches. For this purpose he recommends an auto matic sprinkler, as the auto matic device scientifically put the water down in an even force and pattern. Cut Grass 6. After a day, or whenever the moisture leaves the surface, re-rake to smooth out anv bumps; then roll and seed. 7. Set the seed in the ground by a very light raking and then rolling. 8. Keep the ground moist un til the grass comes up. This watering should be done once or twice daily, if there is no ram. Here the control provided by an automatic sprinkler is especially important to assure an even force and amount of water. Use of a hand nozzle leads to either over or under watering, the Scovill consultant points out as the individual too often be comes bored with the operation. 9. Continue daily watering for at least two weeks after the grass comes up. 10. When it is about Vi inches hieh. the erass should be cut and maintained thereafter at a heieht of approximately one inch. Trimming at this stage helps to strengthen the roots. After cutting, remove all grass clippings and leaves, as they will smother the new grass. DUSTER DANGER Jackson. Miss. U.R) A crop - dusting pilots Wayne Brown- of ..Stephenville, Tex, was released from a hospital here a week after his article, "I Fly With Death," appeared in a national magazine. Brown was treated for a broken leg. He also lost several teeth in the crash of his plane in a 40-acre Mississippi Delta cotton field MACHINE AGE PROGRESS t Rochester, N. Y. (U.PJ Chopped cabbage, formerly packed by hand,, can now be turned out at the rate of 120 cans a minute with a new ma chine developed by the Pfaudler Co. here. A machine generally used for cream soups and semi liquids has been converted to handle chopped cabbage. ITS WOW when you live in America "'"W Yes, if s -Lucky" for outdoor living and ' - 'TV "Lucky" for a smoother, mellower beer Lucky Lager " X age-dated beer! 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The discussions primarily were with negotiators for the AFL union but officer of the CIO group sat in oh the meetings. Stevenson Praises Selection of Warren Washington (U.PJ Adlai E. Stevenson today praised Presi dent Eisenhower's selection - of Republican Gov. Earl Warren of California to be Chief Justice of the United States. The 1952 Democratic presiden tial nominee said he . had -the "utmost respect and personal re gard" for Warren and termed his choice "an excellent appoint ment." Stevenson came here to report to President Eisenhower tomor row on his recent world tour. France To Gel Money For Indo-China Fighf w asnington w.rj rne unit- of the three associated states, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. ed States and France have an nounced the administration has agreed to give France another $385,000,000 to help "break and destroy" Communist forces in Indo-China. The joint announcement said the money would be provided some time before the end of $1954. 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