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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Fire Extinguished InK.F. Hospital : Klamath Falls - IUPU - Fire broke out in an empty room on the second floor of the Hillside hospital here Wed nesday but was quickly put out. . Fire Chief Geno Gheller said the state arson squad would investigate its cause. When firemen arrived nurses were throwing water en the blaze and a doctor was manning a fire extinguisher. Two nurses sounded the alarm; - There were about 42 pa tlents in the hospital at the time. Man and Space THURSDAY, MARCH U. 1963 68-Foot Walkway Will Lead Spacemen Toward Moon Trip ' ..... ' I rru. 1 j t - : I a 11.. ; 1 TM i a 1 11 i . By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. Cape Canaveral -IUPU- The time is early morning. On a towering platform stand three men, their silvery suits spar kling in the chill glow of bril liant spotlights. Ahead of them is a metal walkway. 'T-minus-240 minutes and counting!" the stark monotone voice from the countdown box never seems to change, no matter what the day or the oc casion. The figures on the platform move. The walkway is 68 feet long. For the three men now striding across, it becomes that "longest walk" when the mind fills with thoughts ti tanic and trivial, rolling one upon another. Simply add the eerie back ground music, and the entire scene would seem like some thing out of an awesome sci ence fiction movie. The dif ference is that this is science fact - or it will be, hopefully, in another five years or so. The three men will be astro nauts and their goal will be to land on the moon. This is how that epic flight will start. There could be minor varia tions, such as a midday launching. Most people here prefer to think it would take place at night. Breathtaking Seen ' It is easy to predict the scene will be breathtaking. The 68-foot walkway will lead into the top of the Saturn-5 towering more than 300 feet above the ground-a rocket so tall that four Atlas missiles stacked one upon the other could not reach its top. The monstrous Saturn-5 is the very symbol of the man- to-the-moon project. There is j And there is , the gigantic arc-am nseii now oeginning to take on reality amid the swamps and sands and scrub brush on the north and east edges of Cape Canaveral-the launching facilities for the moonflights. nothing small about Project Apollo. There is the cost-at least $20 billion. About 10 times the cost of the World War II crash program to build the first atomic bomb. There is the manpower that the federal space agency's Rocco Petrone, one of- the sharpest men in the business, said would involve "the most extensive concentration of the nation's scientific and techni cal talent ever devoted to a single undertaking." M lrl. 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When the astronauts reach the end of that walkway, they will step aboard the most powerful piece of space ma chinery ever built. It will be filled with liquid oxygen and hydrogen, high - grade kero sene and nitrogen tetroxide all explosive. , Short Tim Away The Saturn-5 will leave the ground with about 5.4 million pounds of fuel aboard-enough to blow a good-sized hole in Cape Canaveral or anywhere else. The unsung part of Amer ica's program to put men on the moon is the part that will stay right here on the ground. The engineering that must so into it puts the Egyptian pyr amids, Hoover dam, and ear lier "marvels'' in the tinker toy class. Petrone, in something of an understatement, calls it "an extremely challenging techni cal program compressed into a specified time limit." The time limit is about five years, and if that seems like a long time, just recall how much an impossibility those comparatively simple manned orbital flights of today seemed In 1958-five years ago. Things change fast. Canadian Boxcars Available in West Washington-IUPIW Sen. War ren Magnuson (D-Wash.) re ported today arrangements have been made with the Ca nadian Pacific railroad to provide 2,000 to 4,000 bo-.-cars to relieve a shortage west of the Mississippi. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, said the boxcars were obtain ed through the cooperation of the railroad, the Interstate Commerce commission, the Bureau of Customs and the Association of American Rail roads. ' : The cars will be used main ly to ship lumber east, and will be available for the next six to eight weeks, Magnuson said. They are currently in surplus in Canada, The senator said the cars can only be loaded west of the Mississippi but they can be shipped to any point in the United States. Cattle on high grain or high concentrate rations eat less salt than do those on high roughage rations. That's be cause the grain contains so dium and chlorine, the same elements found in salt. 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