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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. B 5 Mercury Space Craft Falls Into Atlantic Washington - IUP1I - A test shot of a Mercury space craft and Us pilot escape system failed today over the Atlantic ocean. The National Space and Ae ronautics administration re ported that the space craft failed to separate from its Little Joe booster rocket after being fired from Wallops Is land, Va. Both the space craft and the booster r o c It e t plummeted into the ocean 13 miles from the experimental station, NASA spokesmen said an ef fort is being made to salvage the craft from the sea. The Little Joe rocket car ried the capsule to an altitude of 53,000 feet to test the struc tural strength of the space craft but then malfunctioned when the two failed to sep arate. Cause Is Studied NASA said technicians are studying the cause of the malfunction. 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Similar escape system tests have been made with Little Joe launchings at Wallops in tne past, but today's was the first with a space craft identi cal to the ones which will carry Mercury astronauts into space next year. enants Sought or Salem Square Salem-(UPll-Two Salem Fi nance Co. officials are going to California this week in an ttempt to stimulate develop ment of Salem Square, a pro posed commercial enterprise in downtown Salem. The proj ectjs estimated at $7.5 mil lion. Plans call for the center to be one block square, bounded by Liberty, Court, State and Commercial streets. Richard J. Schmidt of State Finance Co. here said purpose of the trip is to further nego tiations with potential ten ants. LYNDON LIFTS LID Houston, Tex. -ll'PII- Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson got so ex cited Monday when a partisan crowd whooped it up. that he jammed his own Western style hat on his head then grabbed an aide's hat to wave. 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The public power group asked for the postponement on grounds that it needed more time to prepare its case It called Examiner William Levy's ruling "unreasonable' and "detrimental to the pub lic interest. Public hearings began last Friday on conflicting applica tions by the Pacific Public Two Parties Battle For State Houses Washington -0IPD-V o t e r s In 27 slates select governors today and the Democrats hope to continue whittling down the number of GOP stale houses. Republicans risk 13 of the 17 governorships they hold while the Democrats put on the line 14 of their 33 gov ernorships. The Democrats have gradu ally Increased their lead in governorships in the last sev eral elections. Chief interest in the guber-1 natorial balloting centers on several Midwestern contests in Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota and Wisconsin-and in Main. The decision of Gov. G. Menncn Williams not to seek a seventh two-year term in Michigan left a race between Democratic Lt. Gov. John B. Swainson, who lost both legs in World War II, and polio crippled Republican Paul F. Bagwell, a Michigan State uni versity professor. SILENCE IS GOLDEN Battle Creek, Mich. - (UPI) -The committee boosting candi date Ray Turner for the state Senate finished the campaign by giving voters the silent treatment. The committee, de ciding that people are fed up with political advertising, bought time for a series of 10-second TV commercials featuring absolute silence. Power Co. to build the High Mountain Sheep dam at the mouth of the Salmon on the Snake river and WPP's pro posal to construct the Nez Perce multi-purpose dam two and a half miles below on the Snake River. LOOK FOR CONFIDENCE MEMBER OP BRAND, NAMES FOUNDATION, INC. ' In Illinois, GOP Gov. Wil liam G. Stratton is rated an underdog to win a third term against Democrat Otto Kern el', a Chicago judge who has won endorsement from some Republican newspapers. 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