U.S. Solid Fuel Rocket
Develops 600,000 Pounds
Thrust for New Record
SACRAMENTO, Calif. MV-The
United State’s largest solid fuel
rocket was tested successfully
Saturday in a roar of flames and
rose-colored smoke visible for 20
miles.
The Aerojet-General Corp. said
the 53-foot, 119-ton rocket burned
for 08 seconds and developed
600,000 pounds of thrust—both
new records—in ground test
firing.
Aerojet president Dan Kimball
said the test, part of the Air Force
large rocket motor program,
showed big solid fuel boosters can
be developed on short timetables.
Company officials also hailed
the test as an important step in
the development of big solid fuel
booster rockets which will launch
manned space vehicles.
Flames shot 500 yards behind
the huge rocket in the test. The
firing was the sixth successful
test in a row of big solid rockets.
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C21 Will Be Ready
To Open On April 21
SEATTLE UP) — There may be
“some wet paint and some soft
spots" but the SeatUe World’s
Fair will be ready on schedule at
noon April 21, its general manager
said Saturday.
The Seattle Times said there
have been rumors a few exhibits
will be days or weeks late, but
it quoted manager Ewen Ding
wall as saying:
“We expect all of them to be
open on time. But we know the
greatest effort will be required.”
Construction of major build
ings averages 90 per cent com
pleted. Some individual projects
are lagging and some are finished.
The construction now involves
48 separate contracts, with 1,280
workmen on the grounds.
To avoid slowing construction
no parking of private automobiles
will be permitted on the grounds,
beginning next Wednesday.
JUNEAU — The three fer
ries to be used on the Southeast
Marine Highway system would be
named the Tlingit, the Haida and
the Tsimshian under the terms
of a resolution introduced Satur
day by Rep. Alfred Widmark of
Klawock.
The resolution would present a
I problem, since Gov. Wm. Egan has
already announced that the first
I of three vessels will be named
[the Malaspina.
Alaska Marriagable
Age at 21 Years
JUNEAU —The House voted
28-12 today to keep the marriag
able age for Alaska’s youth at 21
unless they have the consent of
their parents.
The measure would have low
ered the marriagable age without
consent from 21 to 19. It pro
posed a number of other changes
in the present laws, largely tech
nical in nature. One, however,
would provide for RH blood tests
for both spouses.
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WASHINGTON m — Rep. Gor
don McDonough, (R-Calif.), sug
gested Saturday that the oft post
poned Mercury manned shot
project be moved bodily from
Florida to California to avoid
further embarrassment.
California,, McDonough said,
has more reliable weather.
He suggested in a letter to
James Webb, head of the Nation
al Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration, the project be moved
from Cape Canaveral to Vanden
burg Field.
McDonough told Webb he made
the suggestion in view of “the
frequent disappointments and
wrecking postponements of the
Mercury manned shot at Cape
Canaveral.”
McDonough, a member of the
House Science and Astronautics
Committee, said the many recur
ring postponements of the project
at Cape Canaveral have put the
United States “in an embarrassing
position in the scientific com
munity of the world” and that if
the shot should be a failure “this
embarrassment would be com
pounded.”
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John Powers, NASA spokesman,
said McDonough “is a congress
man and is certainly entitled to
his opinion.
“However,” said Powers, “the
fact remains tht we do pick up
an extra thousand miles per hour
from the earth’s rotating by
launching east. I don’t think that
at this phase of the research and
development program we are pre
pared to launch on a Polar orbit.
“With the program we now
have,” Powers continued, “we
are able to bring our men down
in a tepid climate, Anyhow, this
is a very expensive place to move.
I would hesitate to guess how
many millions of dollars are iii
ested here, but its an awful lot.”
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