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Obttrver, La Grande, Or.. Tues., Nov. 24, 1959 Pag 8 VOLCANO ERUPTION Rivers of molten lava stream from Kilauea Iki Crater on the island of Hawaii in this photo taken within 30-minutes after eruption began. Lava flows from top of i rater to hottom where river of fire is formed (lower left). U.S. Astronauts Not Frightened By Failure To Recover Capsules Ivy League School Presidents Rap Student Loan Plan Clause WASHINGTON (L'PI) The lanuunce in Die national detent act which the presidents of Yale and ilunard I'niversitii-a have found to be distasteful and un-ar-'-eptuble stipulates certain things. It stipulates that no persoi may participate in the Federal Student Loan Program unless he: "Has executed and filed with the commissioner iof education1 an affidavit that he does not be lieve in. and is not a member of, and does not support any organization that believes i.i or teaches the overthrow of the U.S. government by force , or violence or by any illegal or unconstitu tional methods.'' That is the stipulation. The stu dent must s'.vear to all of that before he can qualify to obtain a loan from the taxpayers to help finance his education. Dr. A Whitney GriswolJ. Vale, aid Dr. Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard, have w. Indrawn their universities from participation in the Loan Pro gram. Break For Taxpayers? This could be a gocd break for the taxpayers, of course, on the theory that every little bit helps. A loan program usually gets its money back if it is well admin istered, but the truth is that the taxpayers are short of cash themselves, and have not the money to loan. Acting through the I S. Treasury, the taxpayers borrow the money to loan t 'I'1' students and fur other public purposes. They must borrow it. that is. so long as the L'.S. government operates at a deficit which has been most of the time. no. tr about 30 years. The annual cost of paying interest on the money borrowed on behalf of the tax payers and spent or loaned for good works is edging up toward $10 b llion a year, a heavy loal If the taxpayers feel pretty deeply the brushoff of their Stu dent Loan Program by Vale and Harvard Universities, the situa tion could be remedied by act of Congress. The taxpayers could gang up on their Congressmen to demand that student borrowers Im- rulicved ol the loyalty o.ith affidavit which the presidents of Vale and Harvard universities find both distasteful and unac ceptable. Would Be Neat Trick That would be a neat trick if the taxpayers could bring it off. assuming that they desire to en tice Vale and Harvard back into the Loan Program, which is not I'kely. If it can be assumed that Congress pretty accurately rep resents the viewpoint of the tax payers, it must be assumed, also, that the taxpayers do not give a hoot if Yale and Harvard stand aside. This latter assumption is based on the fact that the requirement for that anti-Communism oath was written into the law in the first place and since has with stood efforts to write it out of the law. Sen. John F. Kennedy RICE IN EYE CROWS l hi OKA. .Inpuii '( J doctor here reported today he had removed from the eye of fhekj clu Seki. 71, a grain of rice thai Cot stuck and took root. He sad Ihe root had grown to a leng(J) of atiout a thud of an inch in 10 (lavs iD-.Mu. introduced a repealef in the last session of Congress. U was approved by the Senate Labor Committee and for tw days was debated in the Senate, The repealer was sent back tn the labor committee and restcijj there. It will come up again next session. A majority of senator seem reluctant to repeal some, thing which is known to fnenfl and foe alike as: "The Student Loyalty Oath." The $114,000 question apparently was: "What's wrong wit J Student Loyalty:" EDITOR'S NOTE: The Air Farce's failure to recover space capsules from Discoverer satel lites has net discouraged the even U.S. astronauts. In the following exclusive interview they fell why. By DARRELL GARWOOD UPI Staff Writer LANGLEY FIELD. Va 'ITU America's seven astronauts are convinced that if they were launched in a space capsule now they could bring it back safely from an orbit around Ihe earth. They are not worried about fail ure of efforts to recover capsules from orbit but feel success will be attained once man is shot into space in such a vehicle. These space pioneers involved in "Project Mercury" say you can't rely on automatic devices alone to do the job and that man himself will provide the reliability that has been lacking. Judge McCormick At Salem Confab ' Union County Jude C. K. Mc Cormick represented this area at the recent Association of Oregon Counties meeting at Salem. Judge McCormick presented the panet topic discussion on county weed control activities. The judge said that highlights of the cenfab included consul cration of the county role in timber and grazing land manage ment; county home rule and bud get problems; suburban street construction; investment of ccun ty fund balances in U. S. govern ment obligations, and county civil service and labor relations. Everv one of the astronauts is confident that even if all the au tomatic devices should fail he could 0ierate manual controls to slow down the orbiting vehicle and bring it back. Man Gives Reliability "It's a misconception that you have to build a system that is perfect automatically before you can put a man in space," Air Force Caul. Donald K. Slayton told United Press International "Actually, it's the man aboard that gives you reliability." Slayton pointed fiul that auto matic instruments are available to fly planes but that no commer cial airline would think of relying on the instruments to the exclu sion of human pilots. It is no secret that each of the astronauts, who have been train ing at this base for six months, hoes he will be the first man rocketed into orbit. But they are trying to de-em-phasize "tirsts." Eeh is training either to make the flight himself or to support in some special way the man who U selected for the space at'emut. Slayton believes that reliability in manned space flight may be about doubled as compared to all auioniatic orbital recovery opera tions. W Per Cent Reliable "I don't know just what the fig ures would be. he said, ' but I can easily imagine .that if a rys tem were 50 per cent reliable au tomatically it might be 99 per cent reliable when you add a hu man pilot at the controls." Slayton's statements were made in an interview with four of the astionauts, all test pilots, who were picked from the military services by the Civilian National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration i NASA I. Backing his views were Air Force t'apt. Gordon Cooper, of Shawnee, Okla.; Navy Lt. Comdr. Walter M. Schirra, of Hacken sack, N.J.; and Navy Lt. Comdr. Alan B Shepard Jr., of East Der ry. N il. Two others. Air Force Capt. Vir gil I. Grissom of Mitchell, 1 1 id . and Marine Lt. Col. John It. Glenn, of Cambridge, Ohio, were in St. Louis for tests of a -new pressure suit. The seventh. Navy Lt. Scott Carpenter of Boulder, Colo., was unavailable. 2 Americans Die In Plane Crash UKIKUT. Lebanon (UPI) - An Alghan airliner crashed in flames onto a hilltop near Beirut Satur day night, killing 24 persons in cluding two Americans. Three passengers survived. The Americans were listed as Gordon Hay Clark, 48, a Nebras ka physician, en route to Kabul from Itome and Frank William Shepherd, 51, an accountant en route from London to Kabul. Both Americans were reported employed in Afghanistan. Their hometowns were not immediately available. Most of the passengers were from Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Af ghanistan and India. SPIES TO DIE AMMA$. Jordan H'PH Five persons were sentenced to death Monday in a state security court trial of six persons charged with espionage for Israel. The sixth was acquitted. Zv HANKSGIVING is an American heritage deeply etched in the history of our country. 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