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1 !l fan and Space mpact Predictions System Protects Canaveral Workers By LEON DANIEL Cape Canaveral - WPfc - For eight horrible seconds the Fleck, white rocket-instead of arching harmlessly over the Atlantic - veered sharply over the heart of the Cape and aimed death and destruction toward the mainland. At the end of those eight seconds, which seemed much longer, a range safety officer triggered a pair of "de- struct" switches which blew the Minuteman ICBM into hundreds of fiery frag ments, including tons of vol atile solid propellant, into a "safety area," keeping dam age at a minimum. -There were no injuries in the spectacular accident here last October. -A year and a half earlier an Atlas missile knifed into the sky in the first effort to orbit an unmanned space cap sule. But an Air Force officer in tently watching electronic in dicators on an instrument pan el knew better. The indicators told him the rocket was off course. . ' - He let the missile rise for a few more seconds, then triggered the BWitches which sent an electric impulse to an explosive package inside the Atlas. Instantly, the mighty mis sile erupted in a ball of fire 15,000 feet in the air. Chunks of flaming debris showered to the ground, some falling on the blockhouse which protect ed missilemen at the launch site. The space capsule was blast ed free by a rocket escape system and was dropped un damaged Into the ocean by parachute. There were no in juries, . . That these two unsuccessful launchingg were not further marred by deaths or injuries can be attributed in large measure to what scientists here call the impact prediction system. The complex system pro vides the range safety officer, the man who must trigger the "destruct" switches if neces sary, with information on where the missile would im pact if fuel were to be cut off during powered flight. The system also enables recovery forces to be on the way to the scene even before the nose cone impacts. Trains Safety Officers As the nations pioneer launching site, the spaceport here helps train safely offi cers from other bases and military schools pass through here i for observation and training. , Safety officers work closely with the launch agencies. The launchers indicate what they would like to attain and then it is determined whether It can be dona safely. Charts are drawn covering the entire course of a planned launch. The charts show such things as distances from popu lated areas, islands along the route and emergency procedure. During the launch itself sev eral officers besides the range safety officer man various in struments to observe plotted flight data. - Because of these safety measures the potentially dan gerous missile program-which involves explosives, great pressures, high voltage and super - inflammable fuels-has a safety record that outshines that of many other Industries. Noon Edition Page 2A MEDFORDtWTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963 Recognized Police Power Essential For Outer Space Athens, Greece - (UPD - A "recognized police power" must be set up to enforce law in outer space an American lawyer told jurists from around the world Wednesday. Andrew G. Haley, speaking to lawyers of 100 nations at the "world conference on world peace through law" here, pointed out that space law already is evolving. But, he said, "no body of law or set of rules is of any value without enforcement and administration." "Eventually some recog nized police power must come into being in order to enforce the regulations of the many international and interplane tary activities which the space age surely will bring upon us. "If no effort Is made to re solve these problems today, the only justifiable expecta tion is that they will be great er tomorrow." Variety of Subjects During Wednesday's meet ings - the conference began June 30 and ends July 6 -a number of other speakers were heard on a variety o subjects. Another U. S. lawyer, Sid ney Goldstein, pushed for a more complete international law on aviation. He pointed out that in a recent ruling the Japanese government re stricted night time jet flights to Tokyo because of the noise. If this trend continued in the light of modern, super sonic Jet travel "a situation uoulH occur in which a nlane taking off during permissible hours from one airport would never be able to arrive at the other airport in time to avoid the restricted hours in force there. "If a great number of air ports throughout the world in stituted the curfew, the rather ludicrous result would be a virtual elimination of jet air craft as a practical instrument of world communication." Goldstein added that "the peril is real, for Japan is not the only nation contemplating a curfew, or at least a limita tion on the number of night time jet flights permitted." In other papers and speeches presented to the conference: Diego Bustamante of Ecua dor spoke of the need for in ternational cooperation in legal education and research. He called for "a world body of lawyers" to coordinate the work of national and inter national commissions set up to carry out this work. Leonard M. Marks of the United States noted that America now has put com munications satellites into or bit and the day is fast arriv ing uhpn definite internation al rules must be set up dealing witn space communications. LOTHARIO THWARTED Rome - (UPD - When a Ro man would-be Lothario tried to flirt with her Wednesday, Swedish tourist Elizabeth Schmidt, 23, kicked him so hard she broke one of her toes. Fedora phobia Fashion Magazine Provides Gratis Public Service as Psychiatrist By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - One of the truly marvelous develop ments of our times has been the growing ability of the average 1 a y man to in dulge in t h e p r a c t i ce of psychiatry. A person would be a fool to spend money for consults- wen tions with a professional psychiatrist when he can get essentially the same service entirely gratis from the editor of a fashion magazine. So if you are a man in the 45-50 age bracket, and if you don't like to wear a hat, stop worrying about It. It's not your fault. A Freudian explanation for your behavior was set forth in London this week by John Taylor, editor of a fashion and psychotherapeutic period ical called Tailor and Cutter. Taylor observed that when President Kennedy was traveling about Great Brit ain, he held hit hat in hii hand. He concluded from this that the U. S. Chief Executive did not like to wear a hal. As it happens, he was right, although he might just as logically have assumed that the President was hoping someone would put something in the hat - like maybe the head of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Anyway, Taylor advanced the theory that President Kennedy and other men of his age group instinctively reject head coverings because of a childhood influence of fathers upon their kids. As lads, he explained, they saw their fathers wearing hats. Thus hats became associ ated in their subconscous with middle age. And middle age is something they would like to avoid, if possible. What Taylor teemed to be saying is that bareheadness Agreement Reached By Flour Millers Seattle -(UPD- Federal Me diator Raymond Lewis Wed nesday night announced that a tentative agreement has been reached in the strike which has idled more than 1,000 workers at seven flour mills In Washington and Ore gon since Monday. Lewis announced the tenta tive agreement shortly after a meeting with representa tives of the Flour, Feed and Cereal Employers association, the Grain Millers Union, AFL-CIO, and the Internation al Longshoremen and Ware housemen's Union ended In Seattle. Lewis said the union nego tiators will submit the tenta tive agreement to members of the union involved Satur day. He said the exact, terms of the agreement were being withheld, pending ratifica tion by the membership. The union also agreed to withdraw pickets from mills in Seattle, Portland, Spokane and Helix, Ore., immediately, Lewis said. HOT SHOT SALESMAN San Antonio, Tex. - (UPD -Police would like to talk with a man who has been selling subscriptions to Collier's mag azine along the city's North Side for the past two or three weeks. Collier's suspended publication about five years ago. is a pari of the familiar Oe dipus complex, or tauier hostility. I can't tell you how relieved I was when I read his hypothesis. I had I-sen under the illu sion that I didn't like to wear hats because they made my hair sweat. I am grateful to Taylor for clearing that up and for put ting the blame for my hat lessness where it properly be longs - on my father. I don't suppose my old man was aware that he was dis turbing my psyche when he wore a hat in my presence, but that does not exclude him from the responsibility for my present condition. Now that we all under stand the origin of fedora phobia - now that the sub ject has, so to speak, been dragged from the dark re cesses of our subconscious into the fresh open air - it behooves us to do something about it. First we should call in our own sons and have a hat-to-hat talk with them, making sure they don't grow up with the same mental quirk that our fathers inflicted upon us. Then we should write our congressmen demanding a government-financed research program to answer the follow ing questions - if hats don't cause middle age, what does? For Fast, IV&tt ' eiricienl service hjUn , Ship It ffJ LASME to or from Oakland, San ; Francisco, Los Angeles and Other California Points Call Jack Fitzgerald 773-7761 :c m JFK SENDS THANKS its "generous" offer to con Washington -(UPD- President tribute the marble for use in Kennedy has sent his thanks the proposed National Cul to the Italian government for tural Center here. The" Fashionette JULY mm mm mw yds. NOW IN PROGRESS! 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