SIX MEDFORD (OREGON)
Arizona Offers More
Arguments for Title
To Colorado Water
San Francisco (U.R) John D.
Frank, attorney for the state of
Arizona, said today he is near-
Ing the "fat" part of his case in
the Colorado river water dis
pute with California.
It is Arizona's hope that Spe
cial Master Simon H. Rifkind
vill accept Arizona's definition
of the term and thus award that
state title to 3.800.000 annual
acre feet of Colorado river
water.
Arizona sued California in the
U.S. Supreme Court to estab
lish its title. California claims
it is entitled to withdraw 5,363.
000 acre feet. There is not
enoush water to satisfy both
claims.
The court ordered Rifkind to
hear the suit in San Francisco
and to recommend a verdict. It
will take from four to six
months to hear all the evidence.
Arizona's Progress
Since the trial opened, Ari
zona has been presenting a seriec
o experts to establish the his
torical and geological back
ground on which it will base its
claims.
One such witness, William
Gooken, engineer of the San
Carlos Irrigation District, testi
fied Tuesday about water in the
Gila river drainage system.
He said the Gila river drain
age system received 35 to 40
million acre feet of water a year
First Known Use of Rockets
Occurred in China in 1232
Washington Rockets, which
may enable man to burst out of
the sky and into space, have
been used for at least seven
centuries as weapons and for
fiery display.
The great rockets of today,
military missiles and high-altitude
research craft streaking to
iho imivr eH? nf the earth's
atmosphere, employ the only
kndwn motive power that can
operate as well in a vacuum
such as outer space as in air.
In fact, they work better in a
vacuum. They carry their own
oxygen, and need no air to
"push" against. Absence of air
cuts friction on the rocket, in
creasing its performance.
Invented by Chinese
First known use of rockets
was in China in 1232, when de
fenders of the city of Kaifent
shot self-propelled missiles at be
siegers. The Chinese later de
veloped a fireworks rocket.
Rockets became known in Eu
rope by 1250. For the next 500
years they were used occasional
ly for fighting, but were devel
oped "to a high and delightful
degree" as pyrotechnics ri i r e
works. War rockets began thrir first
period of great importance in
1790, when rocketeers of the
Prince of Mysore cut up attack
ing British forces with iron-tipped
missiles in the battle of
Seringapatum, India.
The Indian rocket inspired
further advances pioneered by
Sir William Congreve, who de
signed a 32-pound sheet-iron
weapon. In the War of 1812, sur
prise rocket barrages helped the
British capture the city of Wash
ington. During the night of September
13-14, 1814, the British fleet, in
cluding several rocket barges,
unsuccessfully .attacked Fort
McHenry in Baltimore harbor.
One watcher was Francis Scott
Key, hence "the rockets' red
glare" in "The Star Spangled
Banner."
Peaceful uses of the rocket
were also developed. By the
1830s rockets were carrying
lines to stricken ships, as they
still do. They have also been
used to deliver mail, to carry
cables across gorges as a first
step in bridge building, and to
lay telephone lines in difficult
terrain. Pointed downward, they
dig holes for telephone poles as
well as soldiers' foxholes.
Rockets Aim at Space
Improvements in artillery ren
dered war rockets seemingly
obsolete about the turn of. the
century. On Pearl Harbor day
the United States armed services
had no rockets in use. But by
the end of World War II, blan
kets of modern rockets were be
ing laid down from ships and
land launchers; rockets were be
ing fired from planes, and the
Germans had developed the
V-2.
Robert H. Goddard, a New
England inventor, experimented
'Yankee Doodle' Said
Written on Well Curb
Albany, N.Y. (U.R) Accord
ing to the booklet. "Houses of
History in New York State." is
sued by the state's commerce
department, the song, "Yankee
Doodle," was born at Fort Crailo
in Rensselaer. N.Y.
The booklet says that a Brit
ish army surgeon. Dr. Richard
Shuckburgh. wrote the words
while 'seated on the well curb
at the rear of the house. The
"fort," now a museum, is an old
brick house believed to have
been built about 1705.
MAIL TRIBUNE
in the form of rain, but he said
much of it was lost by evapora
tion and by the force of gravity
pulling it underground toward
the ocean.
By the time man diverts the
flow of the river itself, Gooken
said, there often is no water at
the river's measuring point at
Dome, Ariz. He said it was his
opinion that if it were not for
human interference, 3 per
cent of the annual rainfall
would flow down the Gila to its
mouth.
Testimony Narrowed
Frank said the testimony of
Gooken and other experts will
be narrowed down by other wit
nesses to arrive at a definition
of "beneficial consumptive use."
It appeared Arizona will claim
that in using water from the
Colorado and its tributaries,
credit should be given for sal
vage and evaporation, while
California opposes this view.
California won a victory Tues
day when Rifkind ordered .the
U.S. Department of the Interior
to make records of the Bureau
of Declamation available to Call
fornia attorneys.
California attorney Northcutt
Ely said the records were neces
sary so California could stab
lish a historic case for its defi
nition of the controversial term
The records in question cover
the years from 1902 to. 1944.
with liquid-fuel rockets in the
1920s and 30s. His ideas led
eventually to the recoilless ba
zooka rocket and the Wac Cor
poral, which in 1949, from the
nose of a V-2, blasted to the
present altitude record of 250
miles.
Sometime within the next
two years, the launching of the
first man-made artificial satel
lite may fulfill Goddard's
dreams of reaching the edge of
space.
Tomorrow's rockets, scientists
say, may be driven by new
forms of energy perhaps akin to
a stream of light generated by a
controlled nuclear reaction, and
will travel at speeds compara
ble to that of light itself.
Examinations Urged
For School Children
Portland The state board
of health has urged parents to
obtain complete physical and
dental examinations as soon as
possible for all children entering
school for the first time this fall.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state
officer, said Oregon school au
thorities ask parents for records
of such medical and dental ex
aminations at the time children
first register.
Examinations should be ob
tained early to allow time to
complete immunization sched
ules and any corrective work
which is indicated, Dr. Erickson
said.
He also reminded parents that
many school districts require
copies of birth certificates for
all new admissions. Copes may
be obtained by writing or visit
ing the state board of health,
room 979, Portland state office
building. One dollar should ac
company the request for each
copy.
Information should include the
full names of the child and the
parents, and the date and place
of birth, to enable staff members
to locate the records.
TEXAS FOUNTAIN ILLEGAL
Dallas. Tex. W.R) City offi
cials Tuesday ordered the water
fountain in front of the county
courthouse turned off. They de
cided that by leaving the foun
tain on they were breaking a
new city law limiting watering
to 'alternate days.
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TWINING FETED Meeting at a Soviet Aviation Day reception are (left to right):
Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev; Defense Minister Marshall Georgi Zhu
kov; General Nathan Twining, USAF Chief of Staff and Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky.
The reception was tendered by Marshal Zhukov after an hour-long Aviation air show
at Moscow's Tushino Airport.
BLM Timber in Coos
Coos Bay (U.R) A purchase
of 23,500,000 board feet of Bu
reau of Land Management tim
ber in eastern Coos county was
made this week by Georgia-Pa-
Wahl Granted More
Time at Grants Pass
Grants Pass (U.R) Circuit
Judge O. J. Millard has granted
additional time for Lloyd Eugene
Wahl's court appointed attorney
to enter a plea to the first de
gree murder charge brought
against the 18-year-old youth in
connection with the rape slaying
of his six-year-old cousin, Kath-
lene Sue Wahl.
Wahl had been scheduled to
enter a plea -to the indictment
Monday but the defense attorney
psychiatrists had not yet com
pleted their examinations of the
defendant.
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Sold To Only Bidder
cific corporation during a BLM
auction here.
Georgia was the only bidder
on the timber which it bought
in two tracts at the appraised
prices of $422,129 and $250,127.
Under current Bureau of Land
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options on Coos Bay Lumber
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Coos Bay Lumber company
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Multnomah Probe To
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. Portland (U.R) Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton said
yesterday that the Multnomah
county vice-probing grand jury
is moving into new fields of in
vestigation, but he declined to
identify what the jury was look
ing into.
Thornton said: "I sincerely
want this investigation to be
thorough and complete and I be
lieve the only way it will be
completely successful is to not
divulge exactly what the jury
is doing. When a grand jury's
every movement is public
knowledge, it permits pressures
to build up which militate
against full disclosure of the
facts by witnesses called before
the grand jury."
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