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Ethiopia Toll 2,000 Dead;
loyal Troops Hunt Rebels
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP)
Emperor Haile Selassie's loyal
army today hunted rebel imperial
guards who fled to the mountains
after an abortive attempt to de
throne the 68-year-old monarch.
Army patrols marched through
the streets of Addis Ababa and air
force patrol planes droned over
head out the city otherwise was
quiet, concerned mainly with
burying its dead and tending its
wounds. Officials estimated civil
ian and army casualties at 2,000.
A communique claimed the re
volt, which broke out Wednesday
while the emperor was visiting
Brazil, was "quickly crushed by
.the Ethiopian army and people.
Swift punishment was promised
' for others attempting to over
throw the Ethiopian "king of
kings."
Haile Selassie flew to Addis
' Ababa airport Saturday, then
drove in a tank to Jubilee Palace.
His primary residence, Guentalul
Palace, had been a rebel strong
hold. The government claimed it also
was the scene of a rebel massa
- ere. The rebels killed 18 govern
ment dignitaries and hostages and
" wounded 32 others before pulling
out, the government said,
Haile Selassie's son, Crown
Prince Asfa Wassen, 44, was ex
. onerated from any part in the re
' bellion. The rebels forced the
; crown prince and other govern
ment leaders to make statements
against Haile Selassie, the com
munique said.
The emperor's bodyguard, 5,000
picked soldiers who formed the
nucleus of the rebellion, were
Atlantic Alliance Partners
Await Reaction Of Kennedy
PARIS (AP) Ministers of the
North Atlantic Alliance are going
' to wait for the reaction of Presi
' dent-elect John F. Kennedy before
deciding on a conditional American
offer to equip NATO with a nuclear
striking force pegged to Polaris
submarines. -
Winding up their annual three
day review Sunday, the foreign,
' defense and finance ministers of
' the 15-nation North Atlantic Alli-
ance deferred action on the U.t S.
proposal until a spring meeting
scheduled for May 8-10 in Oslo,
. Norway. . .
Some members are pressing for
a spring summit conference of
Western leaders but this depended
: on the attitude of the new Ameri-
' can president. '
President Eisenhower's top aides
put forward the blueprint for a
- force of medium-range ballistic
missiles under combined control in
an apparent move to induce U. S.
. allies to forego Independent nu
clear programs.
There was little immediate sign
this maneuver would succeed.
France, for one, has made it plain
she intends to go ahead with her
own atomic striking force.
' The offer hinged on several big
conditions approval by Kennedy,
agreement by the Allies on how to
pav for the force, and changing the
McMahon law that now makes it
illegal for the United States to put
nuclear warheads in foreign hands.
This is the way the proposed
plan would work:
Five U. S. nuclear submarines,
each armed with 16 Polaris mis
siles tipped with nuclear warheads,
would be placed under joint North
'
Macmillan Planning
Atlantic Meetings
PARIS (AP) Prime Minister
i Harold Macmillan is reported
planning an early series of per
sonal meetings with the leaders
! of Britain's three biggest Atlan
tic Alliance partners.
Informants said that barring
' unforeseen developments:
West German Chancellor Kon
' rad Adenauer will go to London
lata in .Tnnnflrv for the visit
which Illness prevented this
monin. , .
Macmillan may come to Pans
possibly in February for a
meeting with President Charles
de Gaulle.
In March or Aoril Macmillan
will fly to Washington at the in
vitation of John F. Kennedy, who
by then will be the U .S. presi-
The affairs of the Atlantic Al
liance, the future pattern of re
lations with the Communist East,
the simmering Berlin crisis, nu
clear policies and a host of mat
ters affecting Britain's relations
with each individual partner will
dominate hese meetings.
Macmillan, according to Infor
mation in Paris, is likely to be
the first of the European govern
ment chiefs to meet Kennedy of
ficially. The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Meitlr cloudy tonight and Tuos.
day. Considerable fog or low
clouds. Cooler tonight.
Highest temp, last J4 hours 5
Lowest ttmp. last 14 hours 41
Highest tomp. any Doc. ('St)T
Lowest tomp. any Doc. ('55) 13
Procip, last 14 hours 3
Procip. from Doc. 1 1.10
Proeip. from Sept. 1 11.44
Excess from Sept. 1 1.03
Sunset tonight, 4:3 p.m.
Sunriso tomorrow, 7:41 a.m.
tricked by "treacherous leaders
of the revolt" into thinking they
were fighting for their ruler, the
communique said.
Many rebel leaders were killed,
the government said. Those being
hunted reportedly included the
imperial guard commander, the
commissioner of police and the
security chief.
Refugees who fled from the
fierce fighting in Addis Ababa be
gan returning to the city. Ethiopi
an airlines announced resumption
of flights inside the country and
said flights to Europe would get
bf a W
HAILE SELASSIE
. . returns to throne
Atlantic command providing the
Allies bought an additional 100 mis
siles costing about $1 million each.
These additional 100 missiles,
perhaps including some solid-fuel
f ershings, could be based either
on land or sea.
U. S. spokesmen at the NATO
meeting put great emphasis on the
price tag of the program. They
said the United . States has come
on hard times and her allies must
shoulder a greater share of the
cost o( defending Europe.
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter led the American delega
tion at the talks, which ranged
over many other topics. But they
came to lew conclusions as tne in
coming American administration
was not represented.
NATO Secretary-General Paul-
Henri Spaak said at a closing news
conference "this was a transition
meeting. '
Two Roseburg BLM Men
Win Suggestion Awards
Two Roseburg Bureau of Land
Management employes have been
Eiven $25 cash awards for sugges
tions improving BLM operations.
The awards were presented by
BLM District Manager Archie
Craft.
Francis J. Horak,' forester, re
ceived an award for a suggestion
for a Radial Line Method of es
tablishing permanent plots .for for
est type maps.
Clarence K. Huston, administra
tive assistant, received his award
for the proposal to use web ma
chine belting to protect the floor
mats in BLM vehicles.
Horak has been with the BLM
six years and Huston for four
years.
Herter Leaves Paris
PARIS (AP) U.S. Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter and tne
other U.S. delegates to the NATO
ministerial conference left by
special jet plane for Washington
today.
Electoral College Begins
Official Presidential Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Electoral College began today
making official Sen. John F. Ken
nedy's election as president.
Ironically, the first four elec
toral votes reported, from New
Hampshire, went to 'the loser
Republican Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon.
By tonight, after the last of the
50 separate meetings of stale elec
tors in their respective capitals,
there should be no doubt about
the Democratic candidate'l title.
But the exact size of his elec
toral margin the one that
counts, under the Constitution
may remain in doubt even until
the final formality, the official
tallying of the electoral vote by
Congress in joint session Jan. 6.
Hawaii'a three electoral votes
will be cast both ways, for Ken
nedy and for Nixon. A partial re
count in the newest state, which
had been certified as carried by
Nixon, put Kennedy 45 votes
ahead Saturday. A full recount is
; expected.
I The Hawaii court may settle
the issue before Jan. 6. If not,
i congressional legal experts said.
Congress has power to do so. They
! said the joint session could itself
'. decide whether to receive the
votes of the Democratic or the
Republican electors, or since
thi outcome could not possibly be
I under way soon. International
telephone service also was being
restored.
The first passenger plane out of
clmopia since uie rebellion was
flown by an American, Capt. Ed
ward Liebendorfer, 37, of Reno,
Nev., a pilot for Ethiopian Air
lines. He told newsmen in Cairo.
Egypt, Sunday some rebels still
were holding out on Entotto Hill
outside Addis Ababa but appar
ently did not constitute any signi
ficant military opposition.
"The coup is finished," he said.
"It's all over."
10 Persons Hurt
In Bering Crash
NOME. Alaska (AP) Ten ner-
sons were iniured. some serious
ly, when a Wien Airlines faltered
on takeoff and crash-landed Sun
day on St. Lawrence Island, in the
Bering Sea.
The eight passengers and two
crew members were ferried here
about midnight by an Air Force
C47, which picket! up a doctor and
nurse in Nome for the mercy
flight.
Six of the passengers were Air
Force men headed home for the
holidays from the bleak island,
which is less than 100 miles from
Siberia and about 130 miles south
west of here.
The extent of their injuries and
names were withheld temporarily.
The two civilians and two crew
members suffered bruises, cuts
and sprains. Three had fractures.
The twin-engine plane had just
taken off on a return flight to
Nome when it veered sharply to
the right at an altitude of about
500 feet and pancaked onto the
tundra near the runway.
one of. the passengers said the
veteran bush pilot Porter Loch
hard of Fairbanks, prevented a
possible fire or explosion by cut
ting bis engines just belore im
pact. Cause of the crash was not
determined immediately.
The civilian passengers were
two Anchorage. Alaska, employes
of Rand, Inc., R. Mohr and Jeff
P. Brown. Both had sprained
backs and bruises, and Brown
broke several ribs. j
. Lockhard fractured a vertebra
and Dan Karmen suffered a wrist
fracture, slight concussion and
cuts. '
All of the Injured were hospital
ized.
Mobile X-Ray Unit
Will Visit County
A mobile X-rav unit will be In
Douglas Countv this week with its
first stop set "for Drain on Tues
day. The unit will be in Drain near
the bank building from 2 to 6
p.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday the
unit will move to Yoncalla from
10 a.m. till noon, in tne atternoon
it moves to the Drain Plywood Co.
where it will be from 2 to 6 p.m.
Thursday the unit will be in
Roseburg stationed behind the
Douglas County Court House. The
unit will be in Roseburg from 2
to 5 p.m.
No charge is asked for the chest
X-rays. The unit is sponsored by
the Oregon State Board of Health,
the Douglas County Health Depart
ment, and the Douglas County
Medical Society.
New Eugene TV Station
Goes On Air Tonight
EUGENE (APi KEZI-TV will
go on the air tonight on Channel
9 here.
Spokesmen for the new station
said its test patterns have been
seen as far south as Bandon, west
to Coos Bay, north of Salem, and
in Bend to the east.
affected could limply disregard
Hawaii s vole.
Counting Hawaii's three votes
for Kennedy and barring unfor
seen defections of some electors
who are only morally bound to
support the winner of the popular
vote in their states the count at
the end of the day should be:
Kennedy 303
Nixon 220
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va. 14
At least 269 votes are needed to
win.
Byrd was not a candidate, but
he now is the choice of 6 of Ala
bama's 11 Democratic electors and
all of Mississippi's 8. The 14 ran
unpledged on Nov. 8.
Kennedy won the popular vole
in the closest presidential race in
76 years. He carried 23 states for
a total national margin of about
113,000 votes. Nixon won 26 states
Unpledged electors carried Mis
sissiDDi.
But Kennedy's electoral margin
was a comfortable 34 more than
needed of the votes that decide an
election. Winner of a state's popu
lar vote, even if the margin is a
single vote, gets that state's en
tire electoral vote. There are ex
ceptions. In Alabama, for exam
ple, the Democratic Party did not
put up a full slate of electors
pledged to Kennedy this year. In
stead, the Democratic slate of II
electors had six unpledged and
five pledged to Kennedy,
Established 1873 20 Pages
Kennedy Sets
Talks With
High Demos
PALM BEACH. Fla. (AP) -
rresiaenl-elect John F. Kennedy
meets with the Democratic hieh
command from Congress today
and Tuesday for strategy talks on
the new administration's legisla
tive program.
With his 10-mcmber Cabinet
now selected, Kennedy arranged
to spend more time on the new
frontiers blueprint for laws and
the budget plans he will send to
87th Congress shortly after his in
auguration Jan. 20.
For discussion of the program
Kennedy called to his ocean-tront
home Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, the vice president-elect;
House Speaker Sam Rayburn of
Texas; and Sen. Mike Mansfield
of Montana, slated to succeed
Johnson as Senate majority lead
er in the Democratic-ruled Con
gress. Kennedy headquarters said Rep.
John McCormack. D-Mass.. the
House floor leader, had been in
vited but was unable to attend
because of business in his state.
In addition to discussion of the
new administration's budget plans,
. -7, V
. ELIZABETH SMITH
. ,. named U. S. Treasurer
Kennedy and the trio from the
Capitol will be talking over plans
for legislation in various fields.
These include increasing the min
imum wage, aid for areas of chron
ic unemployment, a medical care-for-the-aged
program financed un
der Uie Social Security system, aid
for schools, and possibly the Ken
nedy regime approach on the ex
plosive civil rights issue.
Tne president-elect s Drotner
Robert, 35, named last week to be
attorney general, is vacationing in
Palm Beach with his family and
might be asked to sit in at the
strategy huddles.
The president-elect arrived at the
home of his parents Friday eve
ning and hopes to be able to slay
on here, combining work and re
laxation, until at least tne fust
week of January.
Kennedy completed his Cabinet
Saturday with announcement he
had picked J. Edward Day, Los
Angeles insurance executive, to he
postmaster general. He chose H.
W. Brawlev, staff director of the
Senate Post Office and Civil Ser
vice Committee, to be Day's dep
uty. Over the weekend Kennedy an
nounced that:
Elizabeth R. Smith, Democratic
national committeewoman from
Kentficld,' California, will be the
treasurer of the United Slates in
the new administration.
George Lodge, assistant secre
tary of labor of international af
fairs in the Eisenhower adminis
tration, will stay on in that position
until next June. He is the son of
Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republi
can nominee for vice president in
the November election.
Family Made Homeless
As Flames Raze House
The Randolph Smith house on
Tcnmile Valley road across from
the Tenmile community church
burned to the ground Saturday aft
ernoon, according to Mrs. Walter
Coats, correspondent. The only
thing salvaged from the fire was
an automatic washer from the back
porch, she said.
Mr.'and Mrs. John Finney and
their three children were renting
the home. However, they were not
at home at the time of the fire.
Mrs, Coats reports that the
house was all ablaze before a
neighbor noticed it and gave the
alarm,
Gas Line Explosion
Rocks Tri-State Area
HL'NTINCTON. W. Va. (AP-
A trunk pipeline carrying natural j
gas from Louisiana exploded near,
hor narltf tndnv ahakintf Ihe Iri. '
state area of West Virginia, Ohio,
and Kentucky.
The rupture in the line, operated ;
bv the United Fuel Gas Co.. oc-i
currpd about IS miles from Hunt'
ington.
A company spokesman said tha(J)
no une was injured imi inci wmii
no immediate danger. The fire
i was under controlj
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LENDING A HAND Members of the Roseburg Lions Club lent a helping hand to the
Christmas effort Saturday, when they manned the Salvation Army Buckets between
10 a.m. and noon in downtown Roseburg. Several members were at each bucket. Shown
is the Salvation Army band aiding the Lions attract contributions News-Review Photo)
France,
Atomic
PARIS (AP) French and Is-. Washington and London that Is
raeli government spokesmen con- rael is trying to build an atomic
firmed today that the two na- bomb.
tions are engaged in joint atomic The Israeli embassies in London
research but said it involves
only the use of atomic power for
peaceful purposes.
They denied reports published in
Runaway Flatcars
Race Into Nierl In
GRANTS PASS (AP) The
railroad line was open again to
day,, and nerves finally subsiding
from Sunday when a series of
runaway flatcars came racing in
to the uttle community oi memo,
northwest of Grants Pass.
The first one flashed through
town at an estimated 60 miles
an hour just after noon. It rolled
down the long grade from the
northwest, climbed part way up
another grade on the other side
of town, then came rumbling
back through town again. It got
partway up the northwest grade,
then back it went into Merlin,
where it stopped.
The second empty flatcar came
along soon, banging into the first
nnn and knocking it off the rails.
Then came two more. They piled
into the others, tearing up some
track.
Railroad officials said the cars
apparently were released from a
siding three miles from town. On
their way the cars raced past
four road crossings wunoui inci
dent. ....
Repair crews cleared tne line
and had it back in operation af
ter several hours. Only freight
trains use the Southern Pacific
line there. None was delayed by
the incident.
Officials are searching for who
ever released the cars,
Two Teen-Agers Hurt
In Train-Car Accident
Two teenagers, John Buerman
and Barbara Bogen, were injured
in a train-car accident in down
town Drain early Sunday morning,
according to Mrs. William Guthrie,
News-Revfew correspondent. They
were taken to Cottage Grove Hos
pital. ,
Young Buerman received a right
leg injury and lacerations over tin
left eye and bruises, and Miss
Bogen sustained a hip iniury anil
cuts and bruises on her arms and
legs.
It was raining hard, with poor
visibility,, no bell or light at the
crossing, and the couple did not
see the train, police were inform
ed. They were returning from the
Drain High School Christmas ball
The accident occurred shortly alt
er midnight.
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Israel Confirm
Research Effort
and Paris issued denials this
morning.
Then Ihe French Foreign Min
istry, after first disclaiming anv
knowledge of the affair, formally
denied that any French atomic aid
is going to Israel for other than
peaceful purposes.
French assistance is going to-
ward a research pile involving
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aiding I dia a n inistrv sookei "crctly building a "fairly large I . "" 8 " lowered acety
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that the French assistance is util
ized solely for peaceful purposes.
Then came official reaction from
the Israeli sector of Jerusalem.
The Israeli Atomic Energy Com
mission issued a statement declar
ing "Israel does not deal with the
production of atomic weapons." It
said tne research is done only for
industrial,- agricultural, medical
and scientific purposes.
The statement said Israel's
atomic reactor, nut into operation
only a few days ago, is open to
inspection.
Both Israel's ambassador to
Britain, Arthur Lourie. and the
Israeli Embassy in Washington
denied reports published in Wash
ington .and London that Israel is
trying to build an atomic bomb.
McConeTo Quit
AEC Position
' WASHINGTON (AP) Chair
man John A. McCone of the
Atomic Energy Commission plans
to leave the commission when the
Kennedy administration takes of
fice. McCone's five-year term is
not due to end until 196.1,
There had been speculation
McCone would resign as chairman
but remain on the commission.
McCone, however, said on a tele
vision interview NBC-Meet the
Press Sunday he would return to
private life next month.
Recovery Of Space Capsule Marks
Prelude To Manned Space Flight j
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
The United States successfully
rocketed an unmanned model of
its man in space capsule 130 miles
high today and recovered it intact
lrom the Atlantic 235 miles down
range. The shot wss an Important prel
ude to launching an American
astronaut on a similar flight
planned within a few months.
The astronauts training to he
first Americans in space all were
on hand to see today's shot.
The successful launching capped
three disappointing ones, that set
the program back.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration announced
50 minutes after launch that a
helicopter from the aircraft car
rier Valley Forge took the one-ton
capsule from the ocean at 11:46
a.m. 31 minutes after it was
launched alop an 83 foot Redstone
miile.
The capsule was deposited on
the carrier flight deck at
12:03 p.m.
Ihe bell, shaped capsule was
sighted about 80 miles norlheast
of Grand Bahama Island shortly
aftfr it completed Its 16-minute,
4.000 milc an hour flight. A fleet
of ships, planes an helicopters
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The reports said the French were
helping secretly.
Information was said to have
reached U.S. intelligence agencies
that Israel would be capable of I
exploding its first nuclear device
within a year. The Washington!
U.i.., .raii ,i
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produce a nuclear weapon in about
five vears
five years.
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men have heard reports
nave neara reports mat
France is sending Israel or help
ing her to obtain shinments of
pitcnbiena, trom wmcn uranium
can be obtained.
France also was said to be
offering Israel technical advice on
how to build a cut-price nuclear
reactor and on how to separate
explosive uranium from non-explosive.
There was no immediate official
comment from the British Foreign
Office but the- reports gained
streng'h with a statement by
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman John A. McCone that
Die U.S. government has asked
Israel for further information on
its nuclear program.
British press reports said It Is
believed that France and Israel
agreed to cooperate in the nuclear
field last June when Israeli Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion visited
Paris.
Kennedys Son To Get
Douglas Christmas Tree
The junior chamber of com
merce here is sending a 2'-i-fnot
Christmas tree to John F.
Kennedy Jr., the new son of
the President-elect,
"It's all we can afford, but
It's his size," said Bill Sparks,
a chamber spokesman.-
sped immediately fo the scone.
The capsule will be returned to
Cape Canaveral for intensive
study to determina how well it
stood the trip.
A fleet of ships, planes and hel
icopters was standing by when the
capsule was launched.
I)ye markers, radio beacons
and a flashing light were to help
searchers locate t ho space craft.
The bell-shaped capsulo was
carried aloft by an 83-font Hcd
stone rocket that roared away
from this missile test center at
11:15 a.m. It separated neatly
from the booster 140 seconds later
and raced to its target at speeds
up to 4.000 miles an hour. It com
pleted the trip in 16 minutes,
NASA announced:
"Preliminary dala Indicates
that Ihn Prniprt MpriMirv iti.-ifp.-
! craft apparently flew its pre
planned sub-orbital ballistic tra
jectory and impacted approxi
mately 235 statute miles down-
range. All of Ihe Mercury capsule
systems appcarec to operate suc
cessfully. Recovery ships are now
being directed to Uie impact
area."
Main purpose of the flisht was
to quality Ihe Project Mercury
capsule and its many complex sys
At Least 40
Workers Hurt
At Navy Yard
NEW YORK AP A r,i'n '
fire broke out aboard the new air-,
craft carrier Constellation at
Brooklyn Navy Yard todav.
Nearly two hours later, ' the
Navy reported no deaths but some
injuries among more than 4.009
workmen aboard.
Other sources put the burned
and injured as high as 90.
Fire Commissioner Edward F.
Kavanagh said that the fire still
was burning furiously, and that
plates on the ship were red hot.
Firemen reported they reached
W badly iniured" men traDDed on
the port side of the second deck,
and rescue teams were leading
mem 10 saieiy. ine nrefignters
cut through steel plates to free
the men.
There still was the possibility
that from 100 to 200 other workers
might be somewhere on the ship.
Fire Chief George David said
about 100 men had not been ae-
counted for. He said they probably
were below the fire line. -Some
jumped into the water and
were rescued, as flames shot as
high as 180 feet at one stage.
The Navy said the fire was
caused by accidental puncturing
of a can of flammable liquid,
which exploded as it hit hot metal.
Workmen were putting finishing
touches on the $250-million vessel,
which was scheduled for commis
sioning iri March. , .
Firemen, in near freezing
weather, poured streams of water
on the ship from the docks and
from boats on the river. Snow be
gan falling, cutting visibility. -,
Smoke billowed up some 700 feet
along the big ship's length, from
near the bow to well beyond the
control island.
Rear Adm. Schuyler N. Pyne,
commandant of the Brooklyn
base, said some 4,200 civilian
workmen were aboard when the
fire broke out. Firemen were still
laying new lines of hose as the
admiral came ashore from the
burning carrier.
Observers at the scene said am
bulances had carried at least SO
injured to hospitals,
Some men dived from the car
rier into the Icy waters of the
Kast Biver. Others were removed,
by crane lifts from the flight deck.
or taken aboard tugDoais Dy
hastily placed gangways from the
upper level.
"There are atffl some in there."
said Chief Police Inspector
Michael J. Murphy. "I've no idea
how many." That was nearly two
hours after the fire started. .
- Murphy said about 90 persons
licautii- hidhu inw vuiwici-
nh.ar,,-,.. ...-luj thn
lation. Observers surmised that
rescuers might try to cut their
way into the ship to rescue
those trapped.
Water cascaded from the main
deck into the East River as fire
boats and trucks on the Dior
played streams at the base of the
ship's skyscraper-like superstruc
lure. All Accounted Far
The Navy said all Navy person
nel was accounted for. Only a few
Navy men normally would be
aboard while finishing touches
were being put to the new ship.
The 60,000-ton Constellation is
1.047 feet long and 252 feet wide.
and from keel to mast is as high
as a 3-siury uuiiMiuf. lis km
was laid Oct. 10, 1957, and it was
scheduled for commissioning next
March. i . , .
The Moran Towing Co. sent five
tugs to provide assistance.
Capt, Lars .0. Thorsen of the
tug Carol Moran said he took off
from 150 to 200 men and put them
aboard a railroad tug and an ex
cursion fishing boat. ;
Many Aboard j
Estimates of the number of men
aboard, fitting the (250 million car
rier for commissioning, ranged
from 3,500 to 5,000. ,
The 1,047-foot ship, scheduled
for commissioning next March, is
one of six carriers of what is
known as the Forrester class ,
the largest in' the world.
tems In a space environment. :
it all goes right today, a chim
panzee will ride a Redstone-boosted
capsule over an identical course
within two months. If the chim
panzee's ride is perfect, an astro
naut will take the same trip, prob
ably in April or May. Manned
orbital flights using a similar cap
sule will follow. j
All seven astronauts were here
for today's launching. Five ware
at the Cape. The others, Air Force
Capts. Donald Slaylon and Virgil
Grissom, flew overhead in an FIOA
jet. They were to watch the
launching from above, then speed
to Uie intended impact zone to
watch re entry. '
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein !
If the World appear topsy
turvey next year, don't bt sur
prised, Father Time may have
turned 1961 upside dawn and
failid to notica -
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