Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 09, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Texto o o o o o medforjS mail tribune, medford, ore. THURSDAY. JUNE t, 1960 X15 Rocket Ship Blows Apart; Test Pilot Has Narrow Escape : Edwards AFB, Calif. - IUPD -Steely-nerved test pilot Scott Crossfield took in stride Wednesday night's narrow es cape when an X 15 experi mental rocket ship blew apart while he sat in the cockpit ground testing its new 60,000 pound thrust rocket engine. "You have to expect to take iisks In my profession," he said. ; The explosion ripped through the back part of the sleek 50-foot craft, tore the 30-foot front section out of its steel frame moorings and hurled it about 20 feet with Crossfield sitting helplessly inside. : The craft's volatile rocket fuel burst in flame and the 39-year-old pilot quickly scampered out of the way. firemen, who had been stand ing by with technicians in three concrete block houses, soon put out the fire. Trousers Got Wet : "I'm al right," shrugged Crossfield; "But the darn fire men ruined a pair of my trou sers by squirting me with water." It was the second close call for veteran test pilot Cross- field in an X15. Last Nov, he had to bring one of the three X15s in for an emer gency landing. The stubby- winged craft came down hard and bent like a banana, but Crossfield walked away un injured. North American Aviation employer of Crossfield and builder of the X15s, had just installed the big XLR90 rock et engine in the craft last Week and was conducting eround tests in an isolated area when the explosion occurred. Cause of the blast was un determined, but it seemed clear that one result would be a delay of possibly months in the $170 million program. The extensively damaged craft was the only one of the three X15s equipped with the powerful and unique 60,000 pound thrust engine. Unlike most rocket power plants, which burn full blast until their fuel is gone, it has a throttle which will allow a pilot to govern its speed. Salvage Considered The big engine and back 20 feet of the plane where it was located were destroyed. North American Aviation said, however, it would take a dotailed inspection to de termine whether the front section which included the wings could be salvaged. First test flight with the big engine was planned for some time this month pre paratory to a final assault on space late in the year. The X15 is designed to fly up to 100 miles high at speeds of 4,000 miles an hour. The two other crafts have been propelled by 16,000 pound thrust dual rocket en gines. But North America said a second X15 had been in the workshop for the past two weeks being refitted with a big engine, a job that will take at least several more months. Explosion in the big-engined X15 was the second setback for X15s yesterday. Earlier in the day a third attempt to fly one of the X15s with the small engines to a new world speed record had to be can celed because of a fuel leak. Nixon Builds Lead Of 100,000 Votes Over Gov. Brown San Francisco -IUPD- Nearly complete returns from Call. fornia's primary election showed Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon stumped the ex perts by outpolling Gov. Ed mund G. Brown. Nixon built up a lead ap Chilean Residents fee flood Itueat ' Valdtola, Che -Din- Ships, planes and helicopters had joined the race today to clear residents out of low lying areas of - this earthquake wrecked city before potential ly-disastrous floods strike, By nightfall Wednesday, an estimated 24,500 persons had left Valdivla to seek safety on higher ground, Hundreds more were preparing to leave, . The largest number of refu gees took the highway north, traveling in trucks, in carts or on foot. In the mountains engineer teams raced against time to provide a safe spillway for millions of tons of water backed up in the San Pedro river by landslides resulting from last month's quakes. Copco to Build Line to Reston A 23 mile power line from Dixonville, Ore., to the Bonne ville Power administration Reston substation should be completed by late summer, the California Oregon Power com pany reported today. Bonneville Power announc ed the award of a $50,428 contract to Lebunon Electric company for construction of 230,000 volt switchyard at the Reston site about 17 miles west of Roseburg. Copco is constructing a 230,000 volt line to Reston to increase the power transfer capacity between the two sys tems. C. C. Archibald, Copco construction superintend e n t, is in charge. The construction also will Include a large trans former to reduce Copco volt age to 120,000 volt lines from the 230,000 BPA line. rne new Copco line Is an addition to an older line ot lower voltage from Dixonville to Reston and "firms up the connection so more power can flow in both directions, Copco officials said. The BPA job is expected to start by June 15, with energization scheduled in Oc tober. Accident Reported On Highway 62 A two-car accident on High way 62 near Shady Cove was reported about 1 o'clock this morning, according to state police. Involved were cars oper ated by Robert Charles Sharp, 24, Shady Cove, and Donald L. Myers, 24, Elk Creek-Trail Officers said Myers attempt ed to pass the Sharp vehicle, while Sharp was attempting to turn left on to Williams Jane, Police said charges would be filed against Myers for passing at an intersection, Pathfinder Group To March in Parade Members of the Medford Pathfinder club will join the Pathfinders from all the Sev enth-day Adventist churches in Oregon to form a marching unit in the Junior Parade of Portland's Rose Festival Fri day, June 10, at 2 p.m. Forrest Bigger Is in charge of the Medford unit, and Prince Baker is director of the marching band from the local club. Following the parade, all the Oregon Pathfinders with their leaders will meet at Gladstone park for a Mission ary Volunteer Rally Friday The annual Pathfinder fair the park Sunday, A trophy Is awarded to the club winning the most honors. The Med ford club has won the trophy the past three years and gain ed permanent possession of it. Oral Tucker is the local club director.' . Audio-Visual Aids ourse Scheduled Ashland - An audio-visual aids course designed specifi cally to assist teachers in the use of instructional materials will be offered in a summer workshop at Southern Ore gon college June 13 to 24. Instructor Lawrence Butler, AVA director at the college, reported that the class will survey the development and use of visual and auditory aids in teaching and answer individual problems of the class members. This is a course, he said. planned primarily to discover and solve the AVA Droblems teachers confront in the field with the use of clnssroom films, slides, radio, electrical transcriptions, and other in structional aids. Three quarter hours of up per division college credit will be granted for successful completion of the workshop, which may be taken along with regular summer session classes or individually. Inquires concerning the spe cial summer session work shops may be sent to Dr. Bill Sampson, director of summer session, Southern Oregon col lege. proaching 100,000 votes, and it stayed there today through the counting of the last results from California's 28,783 vot ing precincts. Before the election Tues day, even the Brown forces admitted that Nixon had to do two things to beat the Demo cratic governor in the popular vote. He had to get a higher per centage of Republicans out to vote or gain an advantage through a stronger vote against Brown by the gov ernor's Democratic opponent, pension promoter George Mc-Lain. Nixon did both. McLain Shows Strength The need was obvious. There were 1,156,520 more registered Democrats than Re publicans in California, A higher percentage of He- publicans did turn out. Elec tion figures showed that Nix on tallied three Republican votes for every four Demo cratic ballots cast. Registra tion figures showed a margin of two GOP voters for every three Democratic. McLain, who attacked Brown on his old age pension accomplishments, polled un expectedly strong against Brown. McLain got close to Qne-third , of. . the Democratic votes. No Head-on Meeting Brown and Nixon did not meet head-on in the election. Nixon won the 70 Republican National Convention votes un opposed while Brown, though hurt by McLain, won control of the state's 81 Democratic National Convention votes. Returns from 24,533 of 28,- 783 precincts gave Nixon 1,- 155,309 votes, Brown 1,057.- 580, McLain 498,656. Although outpolling Brown, Nixon trailed the combined vote for the two Democrats by 400,927. Prineville Editor Joint Paper Firm Portland - IUPD - Jack R. Brown, editor of the Prine- vilie "Central Oregonian," has been appointed as public rela tions assistant for the North west division of Crown Zel lerback, Corp, , Police Union To Appeal Authority Portland -(WO- An attorney for the Multnomah County Po licemans Union said today the union will appeal to the State Supreme Court a Circuit Court ruling rcgurding the au thority of Sheriff Francis Lambert. The appeal Is being made against the ruling of Circuit Judge James W. Crawford which upheld Lambert's au thority to transfer command personnel at his own discre tion. The question of Lambert's authority arose last November when he switched :apt. Gor don Auborn from tiie uniform division to the detective division. Deer Reported in Downtown Salem Salem -IUPD- A deer showed I up in the heart of downtown Salem just before the noon rush hour Wednesday was struck by a startled motorist and police last saw the ani mal heading out of town. The police switchboard was flooded with calls from shop pers and drivers reporting the deer. Police gave chase but failed to corral the terror stricken beast. Officers were particularly concerned because the deer raced down several one-way streets - going the wrong way. Ruling Sought on Modified Vehicles Salem - IUPD - The Oregon Traffic Safety Commission today recommended legisla tion dealing with modified ve hicles. The proposed bill would make any lowering or modify ing of cars illegal if it brings the undercarriage below the rims of the vehicle. Purpose Is to reduce chances of a driver losing control in case of a flat tire. We Giva .1 GREEN STAMPS ELLIS MARKET 120 Crater Lake Avenue Chile Relief Goal Sought at Portland Portland-aiPD- The Portland goal of $25,000 for victims of the recent Chilean earth quakes and volcanic eruptions is half-way completed. A to tal of $12,563 has been col lected thus far. 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