September 10, 1982

The Commerce Department imposed trade sanctions today, as expected, against John Brown P.L.C., a British engineering company and the fourth European concern to be penalized for supplying equipment to the Soviet Union for the Siberian gas pipeline. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige announced the sanctions - barring United States exports of oil and gas technology to John Brown - a few hours after a Russian freighter left Glasgow with six turbines made John Brown and using rotors supplied by the General Electric Company of the United States. President Reagan has banned exports of oil and gas equipment to the Soviet Union by American concerns, their subsidiaries and licensees as a reaction to the continuation of martial law in Poland. Mr. Baldrige said the Government had no evidence that the Polish situation had eased, but he also said that ''The effect of the sanctions has not been felt yet.''

The village trustees here have voted a new ordinance that sets rules for joggers and punishes violators with fines of up to $250 and with jail terms of up to 90 days. The ordinance requires joggers along roadways to run single file, to keep to the shoulder of the road, to run against traffic and, at night, to wear both front and back reflector gear. ''This type of law is far from common - it's extraordinary,'' said Gloria Averbuch of the New York Road Runners Club, which has more than 21,000 members in the New York metropolitan area. ''It treats joggers like criminals.''

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives today gave President Reagan a setback by voting to override his veto of a $14.1 billion supplemental spending bill. The vote of 301 to 117, more than the two-thirds needed, represented the first major breakdown of Republican unity on fiscal votes in the 97th Congress. Eighty-one Republicans voted with 220 Democrats to override the veto, while only 13 Democrats voted with 104 Republicans to sustain it. Mr. Reagan, questioned about the House action as he got off a plane in Ogden, Utah, on a flight from Kansas on a two-day political swing, shouted: ''The big spenders won!'' He added that he hoped his views would prevail when the Senate votes on overriding the veto on Friday.

A private corporation with only seven permanent employees launched a spacecraft made out of surplus rocket parts from a cattle ranch here today, ushering in what its promoters believe will be a new era of commercial exploitation of space technology. The gleaming white craft, carrying a mock payload of 40 gallons of water, lifted off dramatically with a roar and a puff of white smoke at 10:17 A.M. It sketched a high parabola over the choppy waters of the Gulf of Mexico and splashed down 321 miles from this barren island 10 1/2 minutes later. The successful test flight of the 36-foot rocket, symbolically named Conestoga 1 after the covered wagons used by American pioneers, was a pivotal event for its owner, Space Services Inc. of America. The Houston-based concern had persuaded 57 investors to chip in $6 million on the argument that the time had come for private enterprise to get a piece of the action in space, which has long been dominated by governments. Plan to Launch Satellite The company's chairman, David Hannah Jr., a Texas real estate developer and space enthusiast, said the company was now prepared to push ahead with plans for the first privately launched satellite in 1984. Space Services hopes to sell ''low-cost, market-oriented'' space services that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of oil companies and other potential customers needing satellite tracking and communication.

''Yes, recovery has been sighted.'' - President Reagan. (D17:1.)