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G o o X-1S Easily Jlieril To airy Man on First flight To MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfW, Oregon, Thursday, July 17, 195S 3A Current Middle East Situation Dafes Back To Refusal of Loan Br ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (UPI) There's as much water as there is oil in this Middle East im--broglio, O The current situation dates back to two years ago when the United States tamed drjshi malQAbdel TJasser's reauest for a big leai to fi nance construction of new Qnfpn Dam in tgypt to raise the level of the Nil for wider use of irrigation and offset the buildup of silt f the centuries, o When the loan was refused, Nasser became angry and re taliated. He tool over tne Suez CaOal and eventually blocked it with Sunken ships Then came a long o period when th U.S. supplied Eu rope with 9il to make up for .1 . i - i i j tne oil inai orcunariiy wuuiu have come through the canal Anrnow comes the coup in Iraq with a group favorable to Nasser in control. Iraq is the site of what was once the rifjfi county otMeso- potamia. It is no longer ncn because the canals built sev eral thousand years ago by the Sumerians were des troyed in later invasions by Mongols from the North. Oil-Water Mix When Mesopotamia was ir rigated it was a fertile area, It was the cradle of civiliza tion, according to the histori ans possibly the site of the Garden of Eden. Now it is mostly desert and the nation was planning to use some of itS vast oi monies to do some irrigating again, o Of course, what the world is thinking about mainly in the Middle East is oil and not water. Water might provide arrable land and 'make the nomadic tribes settle down and do some farming, but the oil is what keeps Europe's wleels spinning. Wall Street isn't too much Tgirried over the outcome of ine ou situation. L. O. Hooper, analyst for W. 9l Hutton & Co., points out that NSser is no Com munist and he adds the Com munists do not have a market for oil. - About the worst that might come could be a grab by the Middle East nations of mr oil profits which are now 50 50 between the governments and the oil companies. Many Oils Secure Hooper says it seems doubt ful wisdom to sell internation al oils at this time on the development. Standard Oil (N.J.) and So cony Mobil each have an in terest of ll'a per cent in the Iraqi oil. Three others hold interests of 23.75 per cent each Bri tish Petroleum, Royal Dutch and Compagnie Francaise. In Saudi Arabia, Jersey Standard, Standard of Cali fornia and Texas Co. each has 30 per cent of the oil and Socony Mobil 10 per cent. Gulf Oil has 50 per cent of Kuwait Oil and British Petro leum the other 50 per cent. In Iran British Petroleum has 40 per cent; Royal Dutch 14 per cent and Compagnie Francaise 6 per cent. Gulf, Jersy Standard, Standard of California, Texas Co. .and So cony Mobil each has seven per cent. In Qatar, British Petro leum, Royal Dutch and Com pagnie Francaise each has 23.75 per cent and Jersey Standard and Socony Mobil each 11 per cent. Getty Oil and American Independent each has 50 per centiof oil in the neutral zone. American Independent is owned by several companies, in&tjding Phillips, Ashland anL Crescent. . Jersey Standard brings out 7B;472 barrels a day, from Iraq and that's only 3.4 per cent of its daily output of 2,236;000 barrels and hence of little real consequence. Alaska Plebiscite Scheduled Aug. 26 , Juneau, Alaska (UPI) Alaskans will hold their plebiscite on -statehood Aug, 26, Territorial Gov. Mike Stepovich has announced. Alaska also will hold its first primary election that day with the general election being held Nov. 25, Stepovich said. The governor predicted the people of Alaska will approve the statehood bill by a 10-1 margin. It is expected that it will take until December for Alas ka actually to be admitted to the union. . Tha Suez Canal is a little more than 100 miles in length, about twice as long as the Panama Canal. ISP sfCm ' '1 SPREADING REVOLT Reportyeceived in Istanbul in dicate that the revolt which has overthrown the govern ment of Iraq is spreading westward into Jordan. Grave fear is felt for the safety of pro-Western King Feisal of Iraq and his cousin, King Hussein of Jordan. every taste o vTake, ibr instance, VS. auauner standby: sglad$ fr hearthful, O Jjhter edfcing. Name single kind that Tillamook doesn't make f&o& wolesojne and delicious! Tr Sharp Tillamook in savory strips aos vegetable salads.. or cuW Medium Tillaaaook for hicke o f sk. Curl Tftlamcrk s&sde glorify all fruit sa?ad r sltY4 grated Tillamtjok, molded Aaes. Its, just good sense (a&d good taste) to use Tillamook ...the naturalcheddar witk flavor tigt goes further 9 Part of Team To Make Rocket Possible Editor'! note: This is the fourth of five articles dealing with plans by the United States to he the first to send a man into outer space. In the preceding articles Martin Caid in said that haste is essential if the United States hopes to beat Russia. The first man to make the trip will be an excellent physical specimen, wiU he found in the ranks of test pilots, and will under go a physically demanding train ing schedule. Caidin wrote. By MARTIN CAIDIN (Wrilttn for United Press International. Copyright 1958 by UPI) Capt. James T. Randall, USAF, our composite of the man who will make America's first manned flight into space, is more than an engineering test pilot. He is a qualified aeronauti cal engineer and is assigned as the X-15 Project Officer. Thus from the early days of its inception, Randall has been a part of the closely-knit engineering and flight-team that made the rocket-powered X-15 possible. The giant research machine has actually been more than 10 years in design and con struction. The outgrowth of design philosophies of the Air Force, Navy, NACA, (Na tional Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and the North American Co., it was created specifically to solve problems of hypersonic flight, which is five times and great er the speed of sound. The X-15 was designed to fly in regions where friction with the atmosphere is so severe that the airplane at top speed will glow a rich red from heat. Strange shock waves batter at the machine, ham mering in steel-like blows at wings and controls. And in the fleeting moments so high above the earth, regular con trols are useless. Pilots use reaction controls jet nozzles to maneuver. Easily Modified Because it was designed to fly under space conditions, the X-15 was easily modified for Randall's flight. Long be fore Randall saw the com pleted X-15, he knew every inch of its cabin. He "flew" for hundreds of hours in an authentic reproduction of the cabin. While engineers fed varying flight conditions to him via his instruments, he was required to wrest the X- 15 from dangerous moments in his "space flights". The net result was that with his eyes closed, he knew every single control and knob, and could fly the X-15 without visual reference to his controls. He watched special ejection seat tests with an X-15 nose section on the rocket sled track at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Speeding down the track at more than 1,400 MPH, dummies of Ran dall's exact size and weight were blasted free of the nose section. These tests validated the design and flight stability of the special X-15 ejection seat, for bailing out at even 900 MPH in a normal seat would tear Randall to pieces. Randall, as he awaits the sig nal for takeoff into space, isn't thinking much about serious trouble in orbit, or at hypersonic speeds. If some thing goes wrong then the flight will simply be marked a failure. No one bails out of anything at thousands of miles per hour. There would n't be enough left to pick up the pieces with a blotter. Hat Tiny Wings The X-15 has tiny wings. Most of its 60-foot length are fuel tanks to hold the fuel and liquid-oxygen which pro vide the tremendous power to reach orbiting velocity. The 60,000 - pound thrust rocket gives little indication of. its fantastic power. At 18,000 MPH it will generate nearly three million horsepower. That's the same as fifteen thousand Cadillacs each 'with a 200 - horsepower engine, traveling at top speed! For his first exploratory flights Randall flew the X-15 through bomber drops. A B 52 jet bomber, with the X-15 slung beneath the fuselage and right wing, carried him to 40,000 feet. The rocket plane was dropped free, and Randall eased forward the throttle. In these test flights he reached speeds of 3,900 MPH and burtled to more than 100 miles above the earth. As amazing as this speed is, it is but a fraction of what he will need to orbit and, while he reached a great height, he remained there only for brief minutes before plummeting back to dense air. Tests Completed Finally all the tests were completed. The X-15 was ready, and Jim Randall had wrapped up all his flight tests. The rocket plane was flown within a giant C-133A turbo prop transport to cape Ca naveral, Florida. From the landing strip it was trucked to the Navaho launching site. There, a fabulous launching system rears into the sky. A control blockhouse sunk two stories above, straddles a million - pound, massive steel launcher. Beneath the cradle is a great flame pit, a curving blast tube to bend the roaring fire from the X-15's Navaho booster. ' The booster Is an enormous rocket nearly 90 feet long, thick and massive. It is filled with JP-4 fuel and liquid oxygen, and from its tail juts the barrels of three mighty rocket motors. Each is more than twice as powerful as the X-15's single XLR 99 power plant. When the command to fire is given, more than 400, 000 pounds of shrieking rock et thrust will start Jim Ran dall on his wild ride into space. It is difficult to con ceive of the truly fantastic energy that Randall will com mand. More than one engineer has described the flight as a "man on a volcano." Alone in Space Jim Randall will be alone in space when and if he orbits successfully. But he will never be, he knows, real ly out of touch-. Thousands of men lat Cape Canaveral and all through the 5,000 mile Missile Test Range, at control Outer Spa Central Oregon Potato Producers Get Lower Rates Portland (UPI) Cen tral Oregon potato producers will receive a substantial rail road freight rate reduction next month on potato ship ments to California points, Harold Turner of the Oregon Railroad Association has an nounced. Turner said he received word that the central Oregon potato producers' request for reduced rates are being pub- consoles, radar sites, optical stations, and data receiving stations, will be following his every move. Around the en tire globe, a ' technological army will watch closely as the first spaceman hurtles around the planet. Now, the preparations are complete. It is early morning, hours before dawn. Randall has climbed, into the- X-15 cabin. Technicians have ad justed his straps, assisted him into his helmet. The area has been cleared. The fueled Nav aho booster and the X-15 are in vertical launch position. The countdown for the firing is in progress. In seconds Captain James T. Randall, USAF, will reach his moment with destiny! (Next: Blast off!) lished by the. Pacific South Coast Freight Bureau, San Francisco, to be effective Aug. 20. Saves Large Sums "The new rates," Turner said, "will restore former rate relationships which were distributed when rate reduc tions were granted in other producing areas and will save Central Oregon produc ers large sums of money when they market their new crop." . , - By wayof illustration, the following rate comparisons were quoted: To Los Angeles from Mad ras, Metolius, Redmond Old rate 85 cents on 40,000 pounds minimum and 94 cents on 36, 000 pounds minimum: New rate 66 cents on 40,000 pounds minimum and 61 cents on 50, 000 minimum.. To San Fran- DON'T MEAN A THING Ithica, N. Y. (UPI) Prom. Robert C. 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