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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,
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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.
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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. Baker, a
Cornell University poultry sci
entist, says the thick, cord
like material found in the
whites of eggs doesn't mean
a thing. Known as chalazae
cords, they are inherited and
have nothing to do with egg
quality. "It's just like some
of us having big feet," he said.
cisco Old rate 57 cents on
36,000 pounds minimum;
New rate 51 cents on 40,000
pounds minimum and 46
cents on 50,000 pounds mini
mum. Similar reductions have
been made for all Central
Oregon shipping points, in
cluding Bend, Prineville and
other stations.
One of Six Umatilla
Jail Escapees Captured
Pendleton (UPI) One
of six prisoners who escaped
from the Umatilla county jail
Monday night was recaptured
at a railroad' station here
Tuesday night, police report
ed, The other five remained
at large.
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