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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
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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
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to calculate tl.e chances that
rocket scraps, such as those re
leased in space from a Mer
cury astronaut's flight, might
plummet out of orbit at just
the right spot on earth at just
the right moment to hit a
human bsing.
$750,000 to $1
They concluded that $750,
000 to $1 would be a fair bet
against any such occurrence.
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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Portland-IUPD-A. W. Laf
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years to run for Congress
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night on attempts to get 250 !
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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.
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he will organize a telephone
solicitation committee to con
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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.
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i cunibent Sen. Wayne Morse
and Republican nominee Sig
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