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Old 05-31-2008, 03:34 PM
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MAY 1958
Sputnik-3 launched May 15,1958

5/58 Ist MMI Ad (Denver 4,Colorado) in American Modeler magazine; features Aerobee-Hi 001-A for $7.95; 6 pak of motors $2.50


5/58 American Modeler magazine article by G.Harry Stine about MMI Model Missiles Inc the worlds first Model Rocket company titled, "Manufacturing Model Missiles Sounds As Difficult As Turning Out Real "Birds".

http://www.oldrocketplans.com/pubs/...8_AmMod_MMI.pdf

5/58 Vern Estes meets G.Harry Stine for the 1st time in Denver, Colorado. Vern and G. Harry discuss model rocket motor making.

Amateur Rocket Headlines

5/58 "Handling the Amateur Rocketry Problem" (called the Youth Rocketry Problem by G. Harry Stine & the NAR) by NFPA Director Charles S. Morgan; The report is never publicly published (other than in the NFPA's own inhouse magazine "Fire News"), but it finds its way to the ARS. This unpublished paper was presented at Palmer House, Conference: May 19-23, 1958. National Fire Protection Association 62nd annual meeting 1958 .This report will become the basis for the assault on Amateur Rocketry, using inaccurate statistics that are still used to this day.

5/58 There was an also article in the Fire News Quarterly "Supervision of Teen-Age Rocketeers" "...based on an address by Capt. Carroll E. Shaw before the 31st Annual Meeting of the Fire Marshals' Section held in conjunction with the NFPA Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 19-23, 1958"

NOTE: Carroll E. Shaw eventually became the Connecticut State Fire Marshal and he and G. Harry Stine later started the NFPA process for model rocketry.

5/58 NY Times 600 BOYS ATTEND ROCKETRY CLASS; Army Encourages Interest, but Warns of Danger in Booming New Hobby

5/58 LA Times Burbank Teen-age Rocket Builders Test Missiles in Mojave Desert When today's teen-age scientists send one of their pals to find a vacuum, it is something like the old gag of sending an apprentice mechanic to look for a left-handed monkey wrench.

5/58 Chicago Tribune AMATEUR ROCKETS KILL 4, INJURE 86 IN 6 WEEK PERIOD

5/58 LA Times Valley School Officials Act to Prohibit Rocket Firing on Campus; School officials in San Fernando Valley communities are taking firm steps to prohibit teen-age rocket experimentation as a campus activity.

5/58 Washington Post Teachers to Get Rockets Lesson; Fairfax science and mathematics teachers will attend a meeting at the Annandale High School Monday night to hear recent developments in rocketry and rocket safety described by missile experts.

5/58 Christian Science Monitor Teen Rocket Alarm Set

Hope you enjoy sorry its so late I kinda forgot

terry dean
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