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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.
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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?
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