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i 35 8 D- Nafional Forest Sales Set Record Portland - IUPD A record volume of 4.8 billion board feet of timber was sold on the National Forests of the Pa cific Northwest Region in fiscal 1962, the U.S. Forest Service said today. Regional Forester J. Her bert Stone said the volume of timber harvested in the same period was 4.2 billion board feet, also a record high. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22. .1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON One fourth of all exports from the United States is farm products. Average TV receiver tains about 1,500 parts. con- Quincy-Columbia Measure May Pass Washington - (UPD - Rep. Catherine May (R-Wash.) says the House may accept the Sen ate version of the Quincy-Columbia Basin repayment con tract bill. The Senate measure con tains an additional provision that would have the effect of preventing the production of surplus crops on newly Irri gated lands in the Columbia Basin project for 10 years. "The general feeling is that the Senate language would be acceptable to the House," Mrs. May said in a statement. Odds Against Orbital Metal Falling Onto Human Beings By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington - (UPD - There is a chance, though not much of one, that a piece of space Junk some day will land in your back yard. There is even a chance that a hunk of metal lately in orbit will come blazing down from space and bash your head in. But the odds against this happening are so great that it would be a pity, space experts feel, for anybody to spend more than a second or so worrying about it. These experts recently tried Want a Beautiful DREAM KITCHEN! It your kitchtn Inadequate, poorly arranged, outdared? Traniform It Into a tima-savlng, work-saving, modern beauty with distinctive kitchen cabinet! by "Major Line" and built-in Kelvinator appliances. 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Space officials once as sumed that nothing could sur vive the high speed reentry into the atmosphere from or bit unless it was specially de signed, like the Mercury space cabins with their heat shields, to withstand the fantastic temperatures generated by air i friction. From time tj time bits and pieces of equipment used to launch sub - orbital rocknt flights have survived the descent to earth. Around 1 a.m., on the morn ing of Feb. 21, 1962, some thing happened which proved that orbital debris also might become meteorites. At that hour several pieces of metal fell on South Africa. Leftovers They were identified as left overs from the Atlas rocket which boosted John H. Glenn Jr. into orbit and then went into orbit itself. It was the first authenticated instance of metal scrap arriving on earth from orbit. Last April four pieces of stainless steel were found in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. They appeared to be part of the skin of another Atlas. But space officials were not able to discover just when they hit or what rocket flight produced them. The junk that fell on South Africa included three irregu lar pieces of sheet metal skin measuring about three by four feet each and weighing a total of three or four pounds. Also in the fall was a 21-inch tita nium metal sphere - the rock et's helium pressure bottle -weighing mote than 40 pounds. All fell in open country. The most widely separated of the pieces were 525 miles apart. Officials estimated the scraps came from the empty booster stage of Glenn's Atlas as it broke up on reentering the atmosphere at the begin ning of its sixth orbit. Do Not Know Experts do not know exact ly why these particular pieces survived reentry. The tita nium walls of the pressure bottle were fairly heavy. But the pieces of Atlas skin were only 14 to 15-thousands of an inch thick. Scientists believe that prac tically all of the rocket burn ed up. The skin fragments which did not were of such size and shape, one authority said, that instead of hurtling through the air and heating up, "they apparently fluttered down like leaves." Officials in calculating the chances of anybody getting hit by such bits of junk noted that in its trips around the earth a Mercury spacecraft is over water 78 per cent of the time. A recent official count showed that more than 190 spent rockets, satellites, ani miscellaneous flotsam from past launchings are still in orbit around the earth. Will Com Down All will come down some day, in one form or another. even if it takes a thousand years or so, as calculate.! for little Vanguard I. Most of tht3 junk will burn to ashes in its fiery descent through the atmosphere. I It is conceivable that some I pieces,, however, will come i down like meteorites and that I a small percentage of these j will fall on land rather than in the sea. I But, a space official said, i it i 10 limoi mnra lilreK. hat ' a natural meteorite will hit a human being than that a man made space object will. A woman in Alabama reported several years ago that a meteorite came through the roof of her house, caromed off a number of things, and then fetched her a blow which left a bruise. But this was not a direct hit. Scientists say no case of a meteorite scoring a direct hit on an inhabitant of the earth has ever been established. Attention Called To State PUC Law Salem-OIPD-Jonel C. Hill, Oregon public utility commis sioner, said today Oregon log truckers "evidently have for gotten" that a chief purpose in a new Oregon PUC law is to prevent out of state truck ers from moving into Oregon timber cuttings at peak pe riods, causing an oversupply of operators. Hill noted that an applica tion for an Oregon log hauling permit by Nordean A. Belen ski, Longview, Wash., drew no protests from the Oregon industry. Hill gave Belenski a permit allowing him to oper ate in Clatstop, Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook and Washington counties. , By contrast, Hill said, vir tually every application filed with him by an Oregon truck er seeking a new permit has been protested by other Ore gon truckers. Tomatoes are the number one truck crop in the U.S. Four Arrested in Series of Thefts Newport, Ore.-OJPD - State police here arrested two men and 17-year-old twin girls Thursday in connection with a series of motel and automobile thefts from Washington to Northern California. Police identified the men as Orville Ray Dillman, 26, of Waldport and David Henry Johnson, 21, of Tacoma, Wash. About $1,500 worth of clothing and other items were recovered. The men were held on charges of burglary and pos session of stolen property. Bail was set at $2,500 apiece. The girls were held by juve nile authorities, who said one is Dillman's wife. All four suspects were ar rested at a motel south of here.. 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The 87-year-old former Con gressman gave up Tuesday night on attempts to get 250 ! registered voters to nominate I him as an independent candi- j date for the U. S. Senate. Only 1 about 125 attended his con-l vent in Portland. Lafferty at first announced he would stay at the meeting until 6 a.m. today in hopes of rounding up enough voters. Later he reconsidered and ! recessed the convention until j Thursday night. In the meantime, he said, he will organize a telephone solicitation committee to con tact voters. Lafferty was a U. S. Rep resentative from Oregon from 1911 to 1913. He passed up the primary elections this year and has been campaign- ing as an Independent whose ' main plank is protection of the Oregon and California timber lands. If he is successful in gct i ting his name on the ballot, ' he will face Democratic in i cunibent Sen. Wayne Morse and Republican nominee Sig Unander in November. 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