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Newspaper Page TextI G l) Hgl TRIIUNfc MtoVrrf, Oregon, Monday, July 14, 19S8 ists 'Preparing for -Man's First Flight Spina nto Oik ir Spa o o o o o o (Haste Essential To Beat Russia To Epochal Trip Editor! Be: Following Is th ttst of five articles written by JTarttn Caldin, tellinj of this country's preparations to send a man into space. In today's article, Caiden flls or scientific prepara tion for the flight. By MARTft CAIDEN (Wrglen far Uniled Prtit International. Copyright 1958 by UPI) Jim Randall sits tensely in the cockpit. The moment has come. In a matter of minutes he will be America's first tra veler in outer space. "How did I get hepe?" He thinks. "What m I doing? Will I ever see this earth again?" Jim Randall is a name picked at random. This Jim Randall doesn't exist and yet he does. He is a compo site, a true composite, of the sort of man who will be come, and very soon, Amer ica's first man in space. How did he get into that seat? What is he doing? Will he ever get back to earth The answers are all before us. We know we can put a man into space, into orbit. The only question Is when. It could be tomorrow. Will Be Right Man Thousands of scientists and engineers in the United States are at this moment preparing for "Jim Randall's" epochal flight. When his moment does come, he'll be the right man for the job. He'll be prepared. Before we sent our "Colum busOof space" on his historic journey, let's examine, brief ly, the challenges he and the brilliant men who paved the way for kis take-off face. There are two major enemies. One is the simple, basic danger of this first flight, the danger that in a split-second the efforts of years could be destroyed, and our first spaceman killed. The second enemy is time. It is the knowledge that Rus sian scientists are in a crash program to send a spaceman out of this world before we do. Harrowing Journey The initial thrust of man away from his home planet into space will be a harrow ing -tourney. From the first second of flight the pilot will ba subject at every moment to catastrophe. He will be pun ished by his rocket launching; from brutal high-gravity con ditions he will be thrust into total weightlessness. His fuel tanks may explode : to con sume him in fiery death: Once in orbit his controls may not function, and perhaps he will be marooned in vacuum, to ' Scio Man Killed , On Mf. Jefferson Salem (UPI) A moun tain climber fell to his death Sunday while climbing on Jefferson Park glacier on Mt Jeffefton about 65 miles east of here, state police said. Robert Trahan of Scio was struck on the head by a fall ing rock causing him to fall several hundred feet, accord ing to his companion, David Neitling, Stayton. , - Neitling told rangers he climbed down to Trahan's body and that his companion was dead. He then hiked about 10 miles to the ranger station where Marion County Sheriff Denver Young was notified. Young and the Santiam Mountain Rescue council planned to set out at dawn today to recover the body. College Receives Additional Bequest Ashland Southern Oregon college has received an addi tional bequest of $901.80 from the estate of the late Amelia "Britt, Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president, announced last week The amount represents the balance , of the bequest from the Britt Estate to South ern Oregon college. ' The college received a por tion of Miss Britt's estate un der provisions of the Britt will and J.he new Britt Student center on the-SOC campus honors the pioneer family of southern Oregon. ' .- Besides the bequest to SOC, Miss Britt created a $50,000 scholarship fund for Jackson ville High school students. In addition, $25,000 was given to the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children by the Jacksonville family. Dr. Stevenson pointed out that the additional money would be added to the present Britt scholarship fund for the use of worthy students dur- Ing the coming academic year. I die slowly from, lack of food, water and air. His ship may be struck by a hurtling me teor, and he may die horribly as air and body fluids ex plode outward. If his return to atmosphere is not perfect, he may be crushed by de celeration forces. Too swift a return may incinerate him from friction with the thick ening air. Many More Dangers These dangers, and many more, must be overcome by a single pilot. A man who is physically perfect, whose nerves are sound. This is the man I am calling Jim Ran dall. He was selected from the ranks of Air Force test pilots. He is about 28 or 29 years old, with thousands of hours flying experience in jets and rocket aircraft. He is a capable mathematician, an expert navigator. He is a vetr eran of many demanding flights with experimental, tricky airplanes. Most impor tant: he wants to make that flight, to accept all the dan gers. And if we are to be suc cessful in our critical war for outers pace, he must make that flight soon. Our second enemy is just as real. The race to put the first man in space is vital be cause of the stakes involved. The nation which first estab lishes a capability of manned space flight will have a tre mendous military advantage over the rest of the world. The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, is not the ultimate weapon." It has too many weaknesses; it is barely capable of modifying its course in flight. Defenses are being created to reduce its ef fectiveness. It is a powerful weapon, but it will never re place manned strategic weapons. Need Manned Ships We need manned spaceships manned satellites, manned space weapons. We nee,d them desperately if we are to con tinue our present superiority in strategic striking power over the Soviet Union. Rus sian scientists are determined to wrest from us the advan tages we now enjoy with our strategic range bombers. They can do this only with a suc cessful manned space pro gram. Actually, there's little prob lem in sending a man into space. "We can put a man into space any time we want to," one scientist told me. "There no problem with the rockets we have today in fir ing, a man into orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. The trick is to bring him back alive." The Air Force's MISS Proj ect (Man - In - Space-Soonest) calls for a pilot orbiting the earth in a capsule satellite by late 1959. This is an unrealis tic target date, many military leaders feel. By late 1959, they warn, Russia may well have launched several man ned spaceships. Alternate Programs Thus our top scientists and military planners are consid ering alternate programs de veloping equipment now available, modifying it for space flight, and moving up by many months their target date. The logical, choice for this program is the North American X-15, a rocket pow ered research airplane. De signed to fly faster than 4,000 MPH the X-15 can be mated to the giant Navaho rocket booster. T h i s combination could send the X-15 to more than 200 miles above the earth, into orbit at 18,000 MPH. More important, it can bring its pilot back safely ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) have given the Air Force the primary re sponsibility for the first manned flight into space. The Air Force needs desperately to accomplish this mission in the shortest time possible. It has several vital manned space projects under way. In their success lies the key to future military superiority. There is MISS, the beginning of manned space stations. There is DYNASOAR (for dy namic soaring) which calls for 16,000 MPH manned bombers which plunge from space to skip" across the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. -There are other, highly secret proj ects. But they all wait for the success of the most critical flight ever made the launch ing of the first man into space. (Next: Jim Randall Space man.) U.S. Consul Flies To Rebel Stronghold Havana (UPI) U. S. Consul Park Wollam flew back into the rebel-held hills of Oriente province Saturday presumably to answer insur gent demands for some sort of recognition from the United States. The rebel demands ap peared to be the qnly obstacle holding up the release of 29 kidnaped American sailors and marines. KILLER MANIAC CAPTURED Bearded prospector Nor man A. Foose who wantonly shot and killed two young sters in Cuba, N. M., lies on the ground 'after being wounded and captured by a posse near Llaves, N. M. Foose, once a patient in a mental hospital, was tracked down and captured after an all-night manhunt in the northern New Mexico mountains. ILLINOIS VALLEY Club Members Take Tour BY RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction Members of the Jerome Prairie Garden club visited the valley Thurs day, July 10, on a garden tour. The 12 members stopped first at the home of Mrs. Floyd Wells to inspect the beautiful garden Mrs. Wells developed from virtually nothing more than rocks. The tour advanced to the home of Mrs. Jack Villair where refreshments served on the patio. were Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Knight of Riverside, returning to their home from a vaca tion in Vancouver, stopped for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wells for the week end. The Walt Huntings, with their guest Mrs. Dewey Kille- brew, of San Diego and the Whistler visited the Oregon Caves Tuesday of this week, staying for the nightly bonfire entertainment following din ner in the Chateau dining room. The Illinois Valley Grange will hold their annual picnic at Grayback the last Sunday in July. The Don Holtens of Cres- Western Air Lines, Pilots in Request Los Angeles (UPI) Ap pointment of a third member of an arbitration commission to settle unresolved wage questions was sought today by West Air Lines and the Air Lines Pilots association. A joint request by the com pany and union for the com missioner was forwarded Sun day to the National Mediation board. Both sides have agreed to abide by the commission's decision, due in 30 days. Pilots of the airline went back to work in June after the longest complete shut down of a commercial airline in the nation's history. West ern was grounded for more than three months. Auto Contract Talks Resume Detroit (UPI) Auto con tract negotiations involving a half-million workers at Gen eral Motors, Ford and Chrys ler resumed today following a two-weeks recess. GM and United AutoWork- ers spokesmen told reporters when the recess at GM start ed July 2 that they had reached agreement on only five secondary "non-economic" issues since bargaining started March 25. . Major issues of wages, un employment benefits, pen sions and job transfer protec tion still remain to be settled. Lehi IV Again Tries To Float to Hawaii San Pedro (UPI) The Redeemer of Israel," a 35- foot fishing boat, made its way out into the Pacific today, towing the raft Lehi IV and its five-man crew. Skipper DeVere Baker's newest attempt to float to the Hawaiian Islands, foiled three times before by bad weather and various accidents, began Sunday, cent City and the Jim Londons of Kerby were dinner guests of Mrs. London s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Lester Mathes, in Central Point, Tuesday eve ning. Mrs. Kenneth Caldwell's cousin, Edward Hart, and his wife and daughter, Joan, and Joan s friend, Jo Ellen Rish, all of Williamston, Mich., were visitors at the Caldwells for three days this week. George McClure, acting as agent for several local people, is in eastern Oregon prospect ing for uranium. He expects to be gone about two months. .jay xennei oi tier by is home from Portland where he underwent surgery at the Vet erans' hospital. He will re turn for a second eye opera tion August 4. As a result of several work days, the Cave Junction Com munity church now has fence on top of the retaining wall along the north side of the church. Visitors at the Alton Sow- ells this past week were Mrs, Sowell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rossiter of Arcada. Calif., and sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ted McDoll and daughter, Darlene, of Eureka The Marion and Albert Ros siter families of Grants Pass joined the family gathering for the holiday week end. The Chod Hoovers and Ar- dene, Arlene and Charles; the Jim Londons and Danny and Roger; the Don Holtens and Mike Sowell camped and pic nicked at the falls on the Illi nois river above Kerby Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hagen of Riverside, Calif., life long friends of Floyd Wells, who Stopped for a few days with the Wells on their way to Alas ka,, sent word back that the trip", to Fairbanks by car took them 12 days. They were in Fairbanks on the day Alaska became a state and shared in the cele brations. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Glines of Oceanlake and Mrs. Glines' brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lewis, were in the valley for the holiday week end visiting Gilnes' daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Holmes. The Paul Glines were house guests of the Jack Villairs, oc cupying the Villairs' Eiffel Tower guest house. On Saturday evening of the week end the group were din ner guests of the Harry Hart wells. The Harry Hartwells have with them for a fortnight their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartwell, Gregory and Wayne from South Gate, Calif. The party had a barbecue picnic at Grayback parK Thursday evening and plan a fishing trip to Gold Beach for the week end. Chod Hoover, Jim and Pat London and Danny and Mrs. Hal Mohr of Grants Pass were on a two day camping trip to Baby Foot lake and Onion camp by horseback. The party stopped at Canyon peak look out where Mrs. Mohr's hus band is stationed for the sum mer, Trade Commission Checks Fur, Wool Garments for Labels By LOUIS CASSELS 'United Press International Washington (UPI) There is one thing worse than hav ing to buy your own vicuna coat. That's paying for vicuna and not getting it. The Federal Trade Commis sion has a staff of 25 full-time sleuths whose job is to see that you don't get gypped when you buy a fancy wool or fur garment. It was these FTC detectives who lodged mis-labeling com plaints against Bernard Gold- fine's mills, and sent Goldfine in search of his friend Sher man Adams. Policing the wool and fur trades is quite a task for 25 men. It involves keeping a beady eye on the quality, la beling, price and advertising practices of some 65,000 man ufacturers and 300,000 dis tributors. The FTC men have been un usually busy lately. During the 1958 fiscal year, which ended June 30, they tagged 77 firms with formal complaints for violating the fur products labeling act. They filed 36 2nd A' Canada Dry makes 10 delicious Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Light, dry, NOT sugary sweet. Will not upset meal time schedules. Gives a quick-energy lift. i formal complaints for decep tive label or pricing of wool. About 90 more cases are now pending. Issues Warnings Formal complaints are is sued only in serious cases. The FTC tries to handle minor or unintentional infractions by issuing an informal warning to the offender and obtaining his writte assurance that he'll toe the line hereafter. About 2,500 cases were handled this way during the past 12 months. Harvey H. Hannah, chief of the FTC's Wool and Fur Di vision, readily admits that his small staff can't catch all of the sharp operators in the far flung wool and fur trade. "This is a job in which we urgently need the public's co operation," said Hannah in an interview. "We are trying to educate consumers to help us enforce the laws Congress has passed for their protection." The first step in this educa tion program, Hannah said, is to make the public aware of what the laws require. The Wool Products Label Annual Canada Dry $50,000 Sweepstakes GRAND PRIZE nil wi In Canada Dry Fruit Flavors. All the favorites. True Fruit Orange, Cherry, Grape in King-Size Bottles much more for your money. PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Act of 1939 says that suits, blankets and other woolen goods must bear labels which accurately describe the "fiber content" of the product in plain English. For example: 60 per cent wool, 30 per cent rayon, 10 per cent cotton." Must Be Identified Re - used or re - processed wool must be clearly identi fied. When "specialty fibers" like vicuna, cashmere, mohair and alpaca are used in a gar ment, the precise percentage must be shown on the label. Exaggerating the amount of specialty fibers in a product is one of the commonest viola tions. Hannah said consumers should be suspicious anytime they are offered garments pur portedly containing expensive fibers like cashmere or vi cuna "at ridiculously low prices." Another common violation is failing to identify re-used wool. Hannah offered this tip to buyers: "The fabric of re claimed wool is very weak. If you put your fingers on either side of the material and work them back and forth you wm WW beverages; here Canada Dry Club Soda. Largest-selling Club Soda in all the world makes better highballs, that are better for you. Collapse of Bridge Corvallis (UPI) David F. Lister, 68, of Summit, was killed Sunday afternoon when a bridge collapsed while he was driving a trac tor and hay bailer across it. The accident occurred on a private wooden bridge about two miles north of Summit, a community located northwest of Corvallis. can put a hole right through it." When the traditional "Aug ust fur sales" get underway next month, Hannah said, you can be reasonably confident that no one will try to sell you a "mink" coat that really came from a muskrat. That kind of flagrant mis-labeling of fur has virtually disap peared since the labeling act took effect in 1952. Prior to that law", the pelt of the lowly rabbit was mar keted under 96 different fancy labels, including "Australian seal," "Baltic lion," and "Bel gian beaver." Today all furs must be labeled with the plain English name of the animals from which they come. Rab bit, deprived of its "elegant pseudonyms, has virtually dis appeared from fur shops. mm M .00 HO NO PUZZLES'. NOTHING TO BUY.! '..- "Enter as often as yu wish . . . one entry per envelope! All entries must comply with contest rules. 2" PRIZE: Afl the silver dollars you cuy shovel in 2 minutes! (guaranteed mini-, mum prize $6,000) 3rt PRIZE.' All the silver dollars you can, shovel in a minute! (guaranteed mini-' mum prize $3,000) PLUS 5080' OTHER PRIZES! 5 Sylvani Color Television Sets? list price $645.00j 75 Sylvania Transistor Portable Radios 9 list price $39.95 5000 Individual Silver Dollars! . ' ' GET YOUR FREE DETAILS AT NEIGHBORHOOD STORES ; All entry blanks most be postmarked by midnight, -August 30, 1958. Address, Sweepstakes Contest, P. O. Box 9, New York 46, N. Y. Selection of winners to be determined by an independent organization. Winners -will be flown to New York City via AMERICAN MUMS for shoveling contest. Sweepstakes not open to resi-1 dents of any state or locality where sweepstakes of (his kind may be prohibited or taxed. WOW.. .YOU'LL BE ON TV! Silver Dollar 'Shovel-Off will be Televised over the Dave Garroway NBC-TV Net work "today" show on Sept. 24th. are 3: of MEDFORD U1:I . if mi - Kills Summit Man The two machines plunged about 20 feet into Marys riv er when the structure gave way. , Lister ws pinned under the tractor in about four feet o water, Benton County Dep uty Sheriff Ed Reem re ported. Death was due to crushed chest, "Reem said. He said there would be a coroner's inquest, however. Body of Second Portland Girl Found Kelso, Wash. (UPI) Th body of the second of two Portland sisters who drowned in the Columbia river July 6 off Sauvies island at Port land was recovered Saturday in the river Vt miles north of Wotdland, the Cowlitz county coroner's office re ported. The victim was Connie Scroggins, 11. Connie and her older sister, Shelba Ann, 15, drowned when they slipped into a mud hole and were swept away by an un dertow. Shelba Ann's body was found a few days later. O I. JINGLES! ENTRY BLANK AND FULL 1)