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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.
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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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