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( 4 Wednesday, March 18, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORjytWTBIBraE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBi-HT W RTJHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing r-ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered at. second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sun Jay 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of" Medford Official Papei of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL v5 A53cfjTIN 7 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 18. 1949 (Friday) Ashland voters favor recall of three city councilmen by close margins at the noils. The east side of Roxy Ann is selected as a tentative site for Easter sunrise services. 20 YEARS AGO March 18, 1939 (Saturday) Airborne movie crews from California arrive looking for clouds as a backdrop for scenes of aerial maneuvers, but Medford's sunny skies drive them back to their lairs From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mead ow" larks are caroling on ru ral fence posts. They are something for farmers plow ing to listen to, pending the arrival of Portland politicians explaing the horrors of the Sales Tax, if and when, one is adopted in Oregon." 30 YEARS AGO March 18. 1929 (Monday) German tourists on a world tour visit Rogue valley. President Hoover orders prohibition aides to "cease dramatics" in making liquor raids and arrests. 40 YEARS AGO March 18. 1919 (Tuesday) The YWCA fund drive will start next week. Nick Young, supervisor of roads in the Eagle Point dis trict, reports rains have made the roads so wet he cannot work on them. 50 YEARS AGO March 18. 1909 (Thursday) Medford residents prepare for tomorrow's special elec tion on telephone company franchises. The Commercial club seeks terminal grounds and right of way for extending the rail road to the coal mines. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which State of the Union leads in the production of Ir ish potatoes? 2. Are finches fish, song birds, or insects? 3. The land borders of Ko rea touch China (Manchuria) and what other country? 4. During the War Be tween the States, what group was known as Copperheads? 5. Of which one of the French Kings was Marie An toinette the Queen? 6. Was New Hampshire one of the 13 original States? 7. Hair does, or "does not, grow on a body after death? 8. In what year did the Bos ton Tea Party occur? 9. A r e the Philippines nearer to Australia, Borneo or Hawaii? 10. Name Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila bay. Answers: 1. Maine. 2. Song birds. 3. Soviet Russia. 4. Northerners sympathetic to Ihe Confederacy. S. Louis XVI. 6. Yes. 7. It does not. 8. 1773. 9. Borneo. 10. Olym UVWSPAPER Versus Gosh, but there are a lot of poets well, versi fiers, anyway around these days. Our mail has contained a goodly grist of their offerings in recent days. This poses a problem for the editorial staff of this newspaper, for we are not, and don't want to be, judges of poetic merit at least as far as local publication is concerned. Our job is to report the news, to furnish a for um for public opinion, to bring inf ormation and, perhaps, a modicum of entertainment to the many publics we serve. TN THIS effort, we have always avoided attempt- ing to be literary critics. We reject fiction out-of-hand, although upon occasion w7e still receive manuscripts from hopeful authors. Now poetry (or verse) is a little different, for it is sometimes used as a medium of self-expression, usually in humorous vein, about valid topics of the day. This sort of thing we don't want to reject flatly, for it serves to leaven the loaf of news and comment. But on the other hand, neither do we wish to print serious, literary-type poetry, for that moves over from the area of topical comment into liter ature, and here we wish no critic's role. have, therefore, adopted a sort of uneasy ' compromise. We have used, and shall continue to, verse in one or another of our columns and features, but only when it makes no serious pretense of literary merit, and when it constitutes a commentary on some timely topic. This compromise might be summed up sort of as follows : ' No critic, we, of poetry; 'Tis role that we eschew. Yet verses slight, which do not blight, Our pages shall pursue. A touch of humor here and there We shall not call taboo, Nor ban all rhyme with timely flair When it says something new. E.A. Auto Regulations New parking restrictions for car-driving stu dents at Medford high school have resulted, ac cording to the Medford Hi-Times, in student re action ranging "from complete acceptance of the regulation to bitter resentment against what was regarded by some as a violation of teenage rights." ' ' The new regulation provides that students liv ing within a one-mile radius of the school will not be permitted to drive to school or use school park ing facilities except in special circumstances. Those who are permitted to drive must show good reason why their at noon before they may A NYONE who has observed the high school parking problem in recent months is aware of the need for some such restriction simply on a physical basis only, to say nothing of the other problems involved, which have been pointed' out here previously. ' While the Hi-Times ed in "the hottest controversy of the year," we fail to see anv reason for Automobiles are part And simply because there are so many of them, certain reasonable iles and regulations regard ing their use are inevitable. ' . ' The restrictions, as reported m the high school newspaper, sound reasonable to us. E. A. f Sonic Booms Some few years ago, the Mail Tribune printed a page one story about a "mystery explosion" in the valley, that rattled windows and startled peo ple over, wide area. No satisfactory explanation for the big noise was evev given although there were theories about unreported blasting, and so on. In the light of hindsight, it seems likely that the big bang actually was a sonic shock-wave gen erated by a plane breaking the sound barrier. It was m the early days of jets, and it is entirely possible that a diving fighter plane caused it. THE sonic boom is becoming a not-infrequent 1 phenomenon in and around areas where fast jet fighters are stationed. With the new air base at Klamath Falls, only a hop and a skip away as the jet flies, we can logically expect more such unexplained "explosions." So frequently are they heard in some' more crowded areas, "in fact, that the Air Force has taken to calling them "SOS" meaning "Sound of Security," or one of the inevitable small sacri fices one must make if the nation is to remain mil itarily prepared. . 'T'HE sonic boom, by the way, is no new phen 1 omenon. We -remember, as a boy, taking delight in cracking what we called a "bull whip." We could muster a pretty good "pop !" with it after some practice. Anyway, we had always assumed (along with most other people) that the noise was created by the leather tip of the whip snapping against itself. Not so, say phycisists in the-Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D. C. It was a shock wave caused when the tip of the whip exceeded the speed of sound. - That was in the days before anyone knew anything about the "sound-barrier' E.A. Verses cars should be operated be so used. says the ruling has result excitement. of our life, these days. Dennis the Pssst 1tj M. L- J Mf?. IVfLSON STILL LOOKIN'FOPME? Comm Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. ' More on Rogue Problem To the Editor: Reference letter to you by W. E. Davis, published Mar. 15. Perhaps it would be well to consider Water Resources Board's "Third Draft In the matter of formulating an in tegrated, coordinated program for the use and control of . the water resources of the Rogue River Basin." In B, on pages 28 and 29 it reads in part, "For the pur pose of maintaining a minim um perennial streamflow suf ficient to support aquatic life, no appropriations of water ex cept for domestic use shall be made for the waters of the Middle Rogue River or its tributaries above Grants Pass for the flows of the Middle Rogue River below 525 cubic feet per second ..." It follows that if industry were ajlowed to use waters of Rogue main stem that appro priations would be permitted until stream flow reached as low as 525 cis at Grants Pass. Fish biologists have noted for a number of years that steelhead and salmon that are migrating to . ocean below Grants Pass show signs of suf fering when the flow gets as low as 800 cfs. To let stream flow fall as low as 525 cfs for any appreciable length of time would result in the death of all' these valuable fish. This would be the end of the salm on and steelhead runs of the Rogue. It is because of this low minimum perennial stream flow selected by the Water Resources Board and poor rec ord of State Sanitary Auth ority on enforcement of pol lution laws that people of our state object to opening up waters of Rogue main stem to industry. Mr. Davies apparently is un aware of fact that a pulp mill cannot use bark, sawdust or resinous wood so there would still be a lot of waste material to be disposed of by burning. Further a sawmill that de sires to deliver chips to a pulp mill will have to install a de barker machine and a chipper machine. We have some mills so - equipped and they ship chips from this area now. As for waste, mills using circular saws instead of band saws waste 316 of an inch of wood on each cut and of course produce more sawdust. Paul H. Weiland 2431 East Main St. Medford License Research To the Editor: Sure there's need of research. Like we tried out. Wheeling down Crater-Lake highway at mod erate speed (which has to be as our venerable DeSoto starts shiverin' up front when 45 mph is exceeded), my wife warned, "There's a state po lice car following us." She slowed down as a hint for it to go by but got a couple discreet toots of its horn in stead. Filled with misgivings we pulled aside as the state car went by, stopping in front. "Now what have we done?" the. dear one inquired as the state highway patrol man came back. "It's what you haven't done lady," he replied. "You should have got"- your new license tags nine days ago." (Uh-h-h, groan, as my grey head sank floor boardward in regret shame.) Then, "Your driver's license please?" She hurriedly ex tended her billfold with the license partly out. "Hand me just the license card please," he asked. (Was this from briefing or hard experience as self protection from smart drivers on the make?) Jotting it all down with a question of birthplace he said, -This- will be a warn Menace Margaret ' t ing, this time. Next time it may be a fine, $2 or some thing of -the kind." We were so happy at not having to appear in court, we did not rightly hear all he said with a sort of grim friendliness. So the new tabs were got, pronto. So remembering Speaker of the House Duncan's sug gestion on research, we de cided to do something so this risky thing wouldn't happen again. But where to begin, like an architect figuring just where to place the first line of his drawing? Ours came into being at a gas station when my wife remarked to the operator what a customer getter and holder it would be for him to warn car drivers stopping there if their car license tabs were overdue or about to be. "Sold," the sta tion man shouted. "Cars get ting by here after this with tabs in chancery will be scarce as beans for breakfast." So this is our research con tribution, hoping other station operators will find the same incentive (if they chance to read this) as our riow-favorite station-operator did. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Report From SP To the Editor and Our Pa trons: It has been some time since we issued a report on what we have done and are doing to keep our lines ade quately supplied with freight cars. Knowing of your inter est, we ' thought you would like to know that: SP took delivery on 2,349 freight cars during 1958, rais ing our total freight car fleet to more than 81,000. Continuation of this pro gram brought delivery last month of the first of 1,450 specialized cars to be acquir ed in 1959 at a cost of about $22 million. We are paying particular attention to wide-door cars es pecially suitable for mechan ical loading of lumber and plywood. Today 26.7 per cent of our box cars are wide-door cars. This is more than 10 per cent of the wide-door box cars running on U.S. rail roads. Orders- placed this year include 1300 more. Southern Pacific owns approximately 7.2 per cent of all box cars in the United States. Our ratio of bad-order box cars continues to be one of the lowest in the nation, add ing materially to the number of cars we have available, for industry. During January, the SP ratio was 1.5 per cent -far below the national aver age. We don't quote these figur es to be boastful, but only to show you that we are doing the best job we can, with the money available, to keep pace wtih the transportation needs of the territory we serve. We will strive to continue these efforts and earnestly ask your cooperation. ' Bernal S. Quayle, Passenger Traffic and Public Relations Manager Southern Pacific Company 622 Pacific Bldg., Portland 4, Ore. Mid-East and Bible To the Editor: Events in the Middle East are not difficult to predict as William , S. White's friend believes. To one who understands the situ ation, and how any Arab will react to it, the Outcome is simple to call. The Communists want to dump . Nasser and take the Middle East while the West worries about Berlin. They planned this when they back ed Nasser in 1957 and got Egypt mortgaged to the USSR. If Russia refuses to take Egyptian cotton "and demand? unications Recent Developments Make Italy Strong And Solid Western Ally Aaainst Russia By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Rome, Italy -ffPD- A solid defensive Wall bars Soviet ex pansion in the Mediterranean. 'W'L-JWi As late as a month ago the same couldn't be said. ' opments were decisive. One was set lement of the Cyprus dis pute which itiu Newsom "au luruea Greece and Turkey against each other, thus threatening NATO's East Mediterranean defense line. The other was formation of a strong Italian government under Premier Antonio Segni. Unlike the two governments which preceded him, Segni rules with a solid majority expected to keep him in pow er as long as any politician here can foresee. As measur- payment for machinery and arms and Aswan dam equip ment, Egypt is broke. Nasser knows this. He wants to rule the Arab world. He is trying to get off the hook as he did in 1956 by seizing the Suez Canal when America cut him off. The Arabs are religious fa natics. They are Moslems. They claim to be God's chosen people descended from Abra ham through Ishmael. They claim the promise of Genesis 12:1-3 for themselves. Nasser, in speeches over Radio Cairo and Radio Damascus, is ap pealing to this idea to unify Arabs under him. Communism ' denies exist ence of God. No good Moslem will accept Red rule. This is why Nasser fights Commu nism and why he tried to take Iraq. King Kussein of Jordan is a Hashemite. The Hashemite family has no time for Egypt and vice versa. But the under privileged, uneducated mobs will listen to Nasser when he calls for revolt. They killed Faisal of. Iraq a cousin of Hussein, on "urging from Ra dio Cairo. That revolt back fired. All Arabs hate Israel. Israel claims to be the true seed of Abraham through Isaac, and therefore God's chosen peo ple. Israel also claims what now is part of Jordan from. Arab Jerusalem east to . the Jordan river If trouble starts in Jordan, Israel will move east to claim that land. This will unite the Arabs and Com munists to destroy Israel. It willTnean World War III. If the Bible is God's word, Israel is rights God will inter vene. The Messiah they re jected will return for His Church, then judge Israel and the world. Parker Bailey, 542 V2 A st., Ashland, Ore. America's Forests To the Editor: At the Med ford Methodist church Nov. 18, 1958, Mrs. Walter Lowder milk gave a most interesting account of people in a few of the 40 lands in which she has worked as a missionary. This lecture was mainly about thousands of Jewish people seeking refuge in Palestine. Mrs. Lowdermuk said "'the doctor studies the land, I the people." In closing she said a request had been made to read the doctor's Eleventh Com mandment, "and as he is here I'll let him attend to this." Dr. Lowdermilk, a soil con servationist, forestry engineer, hydrologist, of world - wide study and experience, engi neered rehabilitating parts of Palestine's deserts. (Read his book, Palestine, Land of Promise.) He mentioned a few of the desert lands he had seen America's included. He said, "The farther I went and the more I saw, the madder I got. . .1 wondered what Moses might have said had he stood with me atop Mt. Nebo in 1939 and have seen that ster ile, stony desert." Then Dr. Lowdermilk read his Elev enth Commandment: "Thou shalt inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shalt safe guard thy ferule fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from drying up, thy . forests from desolation, and protect thy hills from overgrazing by the herds, that thy descend ants may have abundance for ever. If any shall fail in this stewardship of the land, thy fruitful fields shall become sterile, stony ground or wast ing gullies, and thy descend ants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth." I thought of President Theo dore Roosevelt's May 13, 1908 warning to all the state gov ernors and five or six hun dred businessmen: "We are over the verge oi a timber famine in this country. It should be prohibitive for the nation or tiie states to cut any more timber except it be with a provision that the next gen eration shall see the timber increased " instead of dimm fillip Jt ed in United States terms, that may not be long. But he should have at least a year. Support For Firm Stand Meanwhile, the present Ber lin crisis, with its deadline of May 27-or June 27 or July 27, or whatever Nikita Khru shchev finally makes it - will have become history. There is solfc support here for a firm stand against Khrushchev's attempt to drive the Western Allies from Ber lin, although it is a source of injury to Italian pride that Italy is not consulted more often on major decisions. Italians point out that their 280,000-man army is the larg est currently in Western Eur ope. The French army is larg er, but most of it is in North Africa. They have consented to es tablishment of U. S. missile Wilson's 'Senator' Recalls aneuvering. Payoff, By LYLE C. WILSON . Washington-flJPE-Sen. Tim othy Tugbutton carefully tilt ed a splash of branch water into his jigger of sour mash bourbon. As the liquids c o m m i ngled he remarked that it was an interesting if minor factor in the current political situa te C. Wilson lion inai j,eon ard W. Hall is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Tugbotton downed the di luted bourbon and harumphed in throaty authority. "Son," said the senator to the old timer, "Jim Farley was an Elk. Still is, I reckon Jim, he joined mighty near everything and soon as he was m ne learned ail tneir iirst names and called 'em by 'em. Even learned all the first names in the Democratic Party." "Yeah, but. what about the Elks?" said the old timer. Disguised As An Elk "Son," the senator said, "I am comin' to that. It was in the disguise of an Elk back there in 1931 that Jim Farley ditorial Comment INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WILL APPROVE In the near future the legis lature will begin hearings on bills to increase the basic school support fund and the higher education budget. Two separate programs, of course, but both in the same field and both equally important to the present and future of our state. The basic' school hearings will center on increasing the present support fund from S105 to $120 per census child and the higher education hearings will include, besides research and buildings, the important matter of faculty salaries. Holding Line The present philosophy of the Democrats in the control of the legislature is to hold the line everywhere. They in tend, as far as we can deter mine, to institute no new tax es nor a broadening of the present tax base. Thus they also intend, indirectly, to let our education standards drop by default. There may be a TOKEN increase for faculty salaries, from reserve or oth er funds, but there is little sentiment for a proper ad justment in this field and there seems to be very little thought towards an increase in basic school support. The excess as far as the De mocratic leadership is con cerned, are that Governor Mark Hatfield was elected oh an economy platform and the people of Oregon will not stand for any increased tax ation. Only One Reason Actually, Hatfield's econ omy program was only one reason for his election and he had no intention of crip pling the education program of the state - he only advo cated getting more for the tax dollar and reducing non-essential expenditures. And it is ridiculous for thei Democrats to contend the people of Oregon will not al low any new t a x e s ' or a broadened tax base for the things they consider to be ne- ished." I wondered what Moses might have said had he been with Gifford Pinchot in 1947 when the plane flew over Texas and Arizona at more than 16,000 leet elevation be cause of blinding dust, the dust still boiling above them, caused by overgrazing by the sheep herds. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford. bases here. Strategically, Italy holds the defensive flank on the Adriatic. Without Italy, Rus sian submarines operating out of Albania would have a clear run into the' Mediterranean. These factors,. Italians be lieve, entitle them to a high place in Allied councils. Italy also is a strong and enthusiastic member of the European common market. After World War II, she re ceived some $3Y2 billion in U. S. aid. But she has received none since February, 1957. Her financial position is strong, with hundreds of mil lions of dollars in reserve. Her currency also is strong and suffered not the slightest tremble when the common market nations, along with Britain, declared their cur rencies convertible. went traveling 'cross country -18 states in 19 days-pledging local Democratic leaders to support Frank Roosevelt for the presidential nomina tion and to instruct their con vention delegates to knock out the prohibition amendment. "That was in' the .summer of 1931, a full year before the convention met. And when it did meet, the drys and Al Smith, Newton Baker and the other candidates never did knowwhat hit 'em. Jim Far ley did his pre-convention work sly and secret. He took off from New York City about mid-day on Monday, June 29, 1931, and by the middle of July he had secured the basic delegate vote which in 1932 nominated his candidate and reopened the old time saloon as a co-educational cocktail bar. "x "Jim set out." Tugbotton continued, with the an nouncement that he was go ing to attend the annual Elks' convention in Seattle. Now, I see in the papers that Len Hall will be manager of Vice President Nixon's presidential campaign. And, Len being an Elk, he'll, be taking off for the Elks' convention this year with a pocketfull of Nixon-for-president pledge cards. cessary. No one wants in creased taxes for non-essen-taials and waste, but educa tion is not only essential it is vital. We might point out to the legislature that the people of Corvallis have demonstrated taxpayers are willing to pay extra for what they believe to be important and essential. Within the last 30 days the people of this community have twice gone to the polls and voted by a four to one margin to bond themselves for a total of approximately three million dollars. The money was for a better water system and for school build ings, j Realize Important Things The people of this commun ity are conservative for thtt most part but they are also intelligent, well - informer! and enlightened. They doirt like taxes any more than any one else but they realize cerr tain things are important and if they are to have them they must sacrific to get them artd they are willing to vote that sacrifice on themselves. While we don't think a ma jority of people througheait the state are as intelligent as those who live here, there ire enough of them who agree that we must pay a li'ctle more to maintain and im prove our educational stand ards. If the legislators who control this session will real ize this and act accordingly, they, will undoubtedly gust a better reception at the 'polls in 1960. And what may be ev en more important, peiiiaps they will sleep better at night. Corvallis Gaieile Times. . PUBLIC SERVICE C. M. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller has served as lady assistant, organist and vocalist for many years without- added cost to our patrons. A substantial saving on every service: and is appreciated by the many who call us. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapei Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main' ASHLAND "t is better to know us and not need us. We Never Close than to need us and not know us." Which is not to say that Italy does not have her in ternal problsrms. She is a prosperous nation, but the south of Italy still is poor. Some sections of it, mis erably so. Taxes here are higher than in the Uniti'd States and fall heaviest on the low income groups. Motft taxes here are collected an purchases. In come taxes either are not col lected at afl or are slow. There also are peculiar quirks in the tax laws. For instance, the Italian air force pays the government 80 cents in tax on very dollar that it spends for gasoline. Another disturbing factor is the still strong Communist party. In case of trouble with Russia, Communist unions might paralyze communica tions, invading railroads, tele phone and telegraphs. in '31 "If history repeats itself, and it usually does," said the senator, "Len's trip will re quire esome money. And, if history repeats itself some more, some smart boys are laying out that money right now with the idea of cashing in if and when Dick Nixon moves into the White House." "Yom mean . . ." the old timer began. Big Pay-Off "I mean," Tugbutton an swerad, "that the longest shot in politics and the biggest, sweetest pay-off is to be had by putting up the dough for a politician's pre - convention camptugn. Like those three fellers who put up the dough for Sim Farley's trip back therr. in 1931." "What three fellers?" cU7hy, you know about, thena," the senator said. "They are all in that book called 'Jim. Farley's Story.' Three rich, men, Frank C. Walker, New York attorney, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to Tur key, William H. Woodin, ifi durstrialist. They each wrote Jirn a check for 5,000, and aay he went." The payoff: Walker didn't wtmt anything and got to be pustmaster general and na tional committee chairman. Wtoodin became Treasury sec rtftary as second choice when Garter Glass turned it down. The jackpot feU to Henry Morgenthau Jr. He got the Treasury when Woodin died. Ais FDR once said: "We've got bo do something for Henry." Three Satellites At Once To Be Goal Washington -4TD- Dr. John P. Hagen says the United States will try "very soon" to put three satellites into orbit simultaneously with one launching. Hagen heads the Vanguard division of the National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion. The new launching at Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be an ex periment to measure the earth's magnetic field at var ious altitudes and to gauge air drag in the rarefied atmos phere a few hundred miles up. Higen said Tuesday that the rocket was nearly ready and would be fired "within weeks." The satellites will in clude the 52-pound third stage the magnetometer satellite weighing 21 or 22 pounds and an inflatable 30-inch balloon weighing a pound and a half or two pounds. CULTURAL PACT London-(LTD -A Communist Chinese delegation is in Bagh dad to negotiate a cultural agreement with the Iraqi gov ernment, the Communist Pei ping Radio reported Tuesday night. Fire losses in the U. S. came to $1,023,190,000 in 1957, compared with $989,290,000 in 1956. Mrs. Litwiller IP
