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Newspaper Page TextEtocnc Cold Sunday Weather Report, Foot SA Sunday Edition LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER, 95th Year, No. 90 Sunday, 10 Cents SIX SECTIONS) PAGES Eugene, Oregon, January 21, 1962 Second Clait Pottiga Ptd it Eufent, Oregon " ' t v ft 1 Rocket Rider John H. Glenn Sweats Out the Big Push U.S., Glenn Wait; Countdown Looms By BEM PRICK Of the Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Ml The United Slates will try to rocket astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., on an earth-girdling, 81,000-mile journey through the lifeless blue-black ot space next week, perhaps Wednesday. Basically, the purpose of the bullet-like flight atop a 360,000-pound thrust Atlas mis lile is this: To add to mankind's meager fund of space knowledge in order to determine whether earthlings ultimately can travel safely to the moon and beyond. To find out what happens to a man in apace, Glenn on his flight will do certain exer cises, cat and spin himself about to see what happens to his sense of balance. Everything that man can do to insure the success of the flight and Glenn's safety has been done. Even now an armada of 15,000 men aboard 24 ships, including three aircraft car riers, is being deployed around the world to keep track of the red-haired, quick-smiling Glenn on his flight, and to rescue him when necessary. In making the trip the balding, 40-year-old Marine licutensnt colonel will follow a flight path that is planned to take him three times around the world at altitudes varying from 100 to 150 miles. ' Glenn will pass at 17,500 miles an hour through a fantastic realm in which an unpro tected man facing the sun could bake as in a slow oven at 248 degrees Fahrenheit, while the flesh on his backside froze and became as brittle and breakable as glass at minus 157 degrees. ... Glenn's great speed will keep him in orbit vcr the 44 hours of the projected flight. The principle is that of centrifugal force, balancing the tug of gravity, the same principle kids use to keep a rock swinging at the end of a string. The balance of centrifugal force and gravity Is what makes Glenn weightless. From Sun to Space If all goes as planned, Glenn will pass from the sunshine of Launch Pad 14 to the blue black of space in about 2V4 minutes. At lift off he will experience a forte seven and a half times that of gravity and thus weigh for a moment seven and a half times as much as his normal 165 pounds. Glenn will be able to see the earth through a small window and with a periscope. Where the earth's white cloud-cover parts, the ground will appear as patches of brown and green sur rounded by blue water. Out where Glenn will be, the vacuum will he so close to absolute that even if a bomh exploded 10 feet away, he would not be able to hear it. Sound docs not travel in a void. The stars will appear as distant, round nrbs minus the twinkle they seem to have from earth, a twinkle caused by the diffusion of light through the dusty atmosphere. As matters now stand, Glenn will he launched on his historic journey sometime be tween 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Wednesday. The National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration cautioned, however, that the trip might be postponed on i day-to-day basis by weather or the merest hint of malfunctions. . The flight is timed to give the recovery forces at sea three hours of daylight ifnecded in which to search for Glenn and his space capsule after his return to earth. If all goes as planned, Glenn will land about 800 milrs southeast ot here in the waters off Grand Turk Island In the Bahamas. Glenn is due to climb into his bell-shaped space craft atop the Atlas missile sometime Just before dawn. NASA officials said Glenn named his ship the "Friendship 7." This space capsule stands nine and a half feet high and measures six feet arrow the base. At lift-off it weighs 4,200 pounds, 3,000 Demos Cheer Kennedy President Says Efforts for Progress Can Light World Anti-Castro Moves Demanded Pullout Threatened pounds while in orbit and 2,400 pounds upon return to earth. As it travels along, the spaceship will auto matically jettison certain equipment that is no longer needed. The whole assembly missile, spacecraft and escape tower stands 93-fcet tall on the launch pad and weighs 125 tons fully fueled with liquid oxygen and kerosene. The escape tower itself is 16 feel high. In event of a malfunction on the flight at any time between blastoff and going into earth orbit over Bermuda, an automatic sensing de vice fires a rocket in the tower. Immediately, the spaceship with its pas senger is pulled up and away from the big booster and then a parachute lets the cap sule return gently to earth. As the space capsule gets safely under way, the escape tower is cast off. As he circles the earth, Glenn's progress will be monitored by 18 tracking stations stretching across the Atlantic, Africa, the In dian Ocean, Australia, the Pacific and the United States, Canada and Mexico. Some 500 technicians man these stations. Aboard the capsule, Glenn will have 3,000 calories of food-beef and mixed vegetables similar to the stuff babies eat in toothpaste tubes. He'll also have six pounds of water. In addition, he will have some quick-energy sugar tablets. Air pressure inside the cabin will be main tained at six pounds per square inch at sea level it is 15 pounds so that Glenn should have no trouble breathing. Glenn will travel strapped to a contoured couch made of a special crushaWe honeycomb material bonded to a fiberglass shell lined with rubber padding. Attached to his body will be medical sen sors to register pulse, respiration, body tem perature and heart action. Throughout the flight Glenn will he able to communicate with the tracking stations by radio. Everything needed to support life in the capsule "has been doubled up and all circuits needed to operate the systems are duplicated just in case. '. Lights, Fuses ;. ( Glenn will be almost surrounded by in struments over 100 lights, fuses, controls, switches and displays which' tell him what is going on and where he is. A lfi-mm camera will take continuous pic tures of the control consoles and another will register Glenn's reactions.; - Through his periscope he will have a 360 degree view of the horizon and he can adjust the view through the lens to inspect an area of earth as small as 80 miles in. diameter or as large as 1.900 miles in diameter. The flight can be terminated by Glenn or from the ground at any time. If he makes only one orbit, he will land 500 miles east of Ber muda. After two orbits he will come down 500 miles south of, Bermuda. If Glenn makes the planned three orbits of the earth, he will begin his reentry into the atmosphere preparatory to landing as he ncars the western coast of the United States. By firing braking rockets, the speed of the . space craft will be reduced and the force of "' gravity will pull him earthward. In I little over five minutes his speed will drop from 17,500 miles an hour to 270 and by the time he reaches an altitude of 25 miles the heat shield on the blunt end of the cap sule will have reached a temperature of 3,000 degrees. At 21.1)00 feet a small parachule will nprn, slowing descent still more. At 10.000 feet a fi3foot diameter main landing 'chute will spread and lower the capsule into the nrean. For the United States the flight of Glenn will be the high point in a man-in-spact ef fort, which io far has coil 400 million. 0 WASHINGTON President Kennedy told cheering Democrats Satur day night that the fire from American efforts to bring progress "can light the world." Speaking at a starsluddcd. $100-a-plate dinner hy which the party expected to raise $550,000, the President told more than 6,- 000 fellow Democrats: "I do not believe that there is room in the United States for two parties that believe in laying at anchor. In 1962 the Democratic party should run in a progressive world. The fire from our efforts can light the world." Kennedy spoke after a long evening of glittering entertain ment and addresses by vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and former President Harry S. Truman to a raucous, milling crowd of Democrats who over flowed the District of Columbia National Guard Armory. Primarily Political The occasion was the first an niversary of his inauguration as the youngest elected presi dent of the United States. Ken nedy was reminiscent, but pri marily political in his talk. The President, dressed in a dark blue dinner jacket with a blue cornflower in his lapel, told the applauding Democrats that he hopes to reverse the history of off-year elections when the party in power ordi narily loses scats in Congress. "History is not with us," he told the array of diners. "In 1934 we reversed the trend but not in other years. I believe however, that the Democratic party is best fitted to lead this country. Kennedy said his administra tinn is treading in the same steps that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman patterned before him. He said that because of this "any member of the House and Senate and state leg islature can stand with pride on the Democratic record. Party Loses Scats In saying, "History is not with us," Kennedy referred to the fact that the party which comes out on top in a presidential year normally loses congression al scats two years later. The President said that he thinks the "greatest hazard" that faces the country would be for both parties to try to pre serve the status quo. Former President Truman de clared he was happy to take part in an affair honoring a President "who knows where he is going." Truman, in a departure from his custom as a speaker, laid off the Republican opposition and followed the text of a speech in which he lauded Ken nedy as a "wise, brilliant vigor ous President ana cauca on the nation to support Kennedys request for authority to bargain for tariff cuts with the Euro pean Common Market. The 77-ycar-old lormer presi- dent also took the opportunity to rouse his party for the com ing congressional campaign a sideline purpose for this and other Democratic fund-raising rallies on the party schedule. "We arc going to send a Democratic Congress back," Tru man said. rUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay OP Central American delegates to the Punta del Este confer ence Saturday night made an implied threat to pull out of the Organization of American States unless strong measures ar tak en against Cuba Trime Minister Fidel Castro's regime. The conference opens Mon day, with the governments of the Western Hemisphere deeply divided on what action to take to prevent the spread of com munism from Cuba. Strict Measures Taken The Cuban delegation landed Saturday night at Montevideo's airport and was greeted by a crowd of about 2,000, mostly teen-agers, shouting "Cuba si, Yankee no."- The head of the delegation, President Osvaldo Dorticos, was given a 21-gun salute as a visiting head of slate. After Dorticos reviewed an honor guard of Uruguayan troops, the delegation left by i white paper on Jan. 3 warned i country, violation of the rher- car for Punta del Este. Police took strict security; measures and set up check points on roads leading to this luxurious resort. They were protecting the Cas tro delegation and also pre paring to intercept 300 pro Castro workers and students making a slow march along the 80-mile route from Montevideo to the conference scene for the purpose of staging an anti Yankee demonstration. The U. S. delegation, headed hy Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was expected to arrive Sunday and go into huddles throughout the evening in at tempts to iron out difficulties in advance of the formal open ing. Members of "Los Quatro Grandcs" the Big Four Mexi co, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, have shown varying degrees of reluctance toward taking defi nite action against Castro, The State Department in a that Cuba has become a bridge head of Chinese-Soviet impe rialism in the Western Hemis phere and that Castro's purpose is to spread communism through the Americas by revo lution, subversion and propa ganda. Central American nations are particularly vulnerable to Cas tro infiltration because of their proximity to Cuba and their own tricky internal situations. They are reported planning to push to the hilt the Inter-Am erican Peace Committee report of two days ago condemning Castro for violations of human rights. Adoption of this report these diplomats feel, would practically force, the foreign ministers to apply sanctions against Castro. Mexico, Brazil, and to 1 less er extent Argentina have been opposing far-reaching action, Officially, these countries take the view that sanctions would be an interference in the affairs of another American ished hemisphere principle of nonintervention. But some observers feel their real reason is the fear that sanc tions would evoke widespread disorders by leftist and pro Castro elements. Joint Armed Action A few of the smaller coun tries were reported favoring a drastic course of direct joint armed action to overthrow Cas tro. Although he will not even be here, the bearded Castro will cast a shadow of urgency and danger over the conference. The Cuban prime minister left himself wide open to some sort of inter-American action in his five-hour speech on Dec. 2 when he declared himself for the first time "a Marxist-Leninist until the day I die." Under the Rio de Janeiro Treaty the Organization of Am erican States can intervene in one of its member countries against a Communist threat. Rusk Calls Castro Soviet Accomplice WASHINGTON W Leaving for South America, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Saturday night Fidel Castro's Cuba is an accomplice of the Soviet Union and Red China in a Communist plot to overthrow democratic governments in the Western Hemisphere. Rusk expressed confidence an inter-American foreign minis ters' conference opening in Uru guay Monday will lind ways to deal with the menace "to our free societies and the collective security of the hemisphere." The meeting at Punta del Este presents nusk with one of the biggest challenges of his year-old career as secretary of state. While other American na tions generally agree Cuban communism presents a grave danger to Western Hemisphere security, they disagree on what to do about it. Rusk will press for a decision to impose political and economic sanctions but is by no means cer tain of success. Prior to his departure, Rusk conferred with President Ken nedy on U.S. aims for the meet ing. Kennedy also discussed the situation with Sen. J. W. Ful bright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, and Sen. Bourke B. Hick enloopcr, R-lowa. Hickcnlooper is one of four members of the congressional group which will attend the con ference to advise Rusk. There is strong sentiment in the Sen ate and House for drastic meas ures to deal with Cuban com munism. Other members of Congress in the advisory group are Sen. Wavnc Morse, D-Ore., and Reps Armistcad I. Selden Jr., D-Ala., and Chester E. Morrow, R-N.H Traveling by jet liner. Rusk is scheduled to arrive at Montevi deo. Uruguay, at B a.m. local Sub-Freezing Cold To Stick Around The first, snowfall of the year is definitely over but the sub-freezing weather will be around until at least Monday according to the weatherman. Most of the residents of the Emerald Empire were shoveling the two or more inches of snow away from the sidewalks Saturday in temperatures that hovered in the mid-twenties. Eugene's high was 25. The Mahlon Sweet meteorologist has forecast more cold with today's high to reach 30 and a drop tonight to 14. This cold will be enhanced by a north wind which will keep the temperatures down. , One rumor which persisted in Eugene Saturday in regard to the weather proved unfounded. The story got around that a University of Oregon student had been killed while "bumper riding" (grabbing the rear bumper of a car and being pulled along), but checks with the law enforcement agencies and local hospitals discredit ed the story. Springfield and Eugene fire men were called out into the snow and cold four times Sat urday but only one alarm was of any consequence. At 11:45 a.m. the Eugene department answered a call at 481 Sunshine Acres to extinguish a fire in a pump house owned hy Earl Bccson. It was caused by an electric heater and damage was estimated at $500. Other cold facts about the cold: Record peaks of use of electricity were reported hy the Eugene Water and Electric Board two times Friday due to the weather and electric heat. Between 5:30 and 6 p.m. 167,500 kilowatts were used, breaking the previous mark of 159,000 set at noon. The Lane County Memorial Blood Bank reported that six Florence residents, who made appointments two weeks ago to give blood, showed up Saturday morning as promised, despite the snow and road conditions and they wcro only 15 minutes late. Some school districts were uncertain about holding classes Monday. If roads are slick, some schools may not open, but they will make announcements on the radio if they don t, Two Merging RRs Face rWU Strike Cold Grips Entire State By ASSOCIATED PRESS Bitter cold gripped Oregon Saturday night, in the wake of a violent snowstorm that left much of the state crippled and some roads blocked by snow. Only the coast and the Port land area were spared the snow but the mercury did not get above 29 Saturday in Portland. The normally temperate coast reported the same freezing read ings. Newport had a low of 15 degrees Friday night. Other Sat urday lows were Burns, 2 below; Redmond, 0, and Astoria, 20. The storm dumped a whop ping eighteen inches on Klam ath Falls. Most major highway routes were open, although chains were required in many mountainous areas. Highway 30 was closed by wind-driven snow In the Huntington area for a lime Fri day night, but was reopened Saturday. Birth Imminent PORTLAND 11 Elephants in captivity in this country rarely lime Sundav after a refueling have baby elephants. Belle, a slop at Paramaribo, Surinam, on 10-year-old elephant at the Port- the north coast of South Amerl- land .no, appearca reaay oav es, lurday night to have one. NEW YORK liTI A strika against the merging Pennsylvan ia and New York Central rail roads was set Saturday for Feb. 4 by the Transport Workers Union unless job security is guaranteed, Officials of both lines reacted Immediately to the strike threat, declaring It a violation of the National Railway Labor Act ana pledging legal action to prevent a walkout. The TWU's railroad employ es are nonoperating personnel," They do maintenance and simi lar work. Train crews have their own unions. Michael J. Quill, TWU presi dent, had announced Monday his union would strika unless Is members' jobs were protect ed under present contracts. The date was set at a meet ing of 91 members ot tne union's executive committee and president of 77 TWU locals Involved. The railroads operate as far west as Chicago and St. Louis. They announced Jan. 12 they had agreed to merge. Quill told newsmen a walk out would affect both long dis tance and commuter travel. He said the two railroads employ 32,000 TWU members and that the jobs of about 9,000 could be lost in the merger unless the job guarantee is granted. "The whole reason for the merger is to lay off men," Quill said. However, the vice general chairman of the Firemen's and Oiler'a Union, AFL-CIO, denied that a strike is imminent. Thai official, George Francisco of Os- sining, said there has been no discussion of a strike by any of the unions which represent New York Centrals employes. Boy, 5, 'Fair'; Was Shot Accidentally NEWPORT A 5-year-olr! South Beach hoy was in fair condition at a Corvallis hospital Saturday night after being acci dentally shot by an 11-ycar-oldi neighbor boy. Richard Mansfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mansfield, was shot through the back and chest Friday at 4 15 p m. while he, his brother John, 11. and a neighbor boy, Charles Fogarty, were playing with a .22 caliber rifle in the Mansfield home, ac cording to officials at the Lin coln County Sheriff's Office. The Fogarty boy was holding the gun when it discharged, striking Richard in the back, the sher iff's office officials said. Richard was taken to Pacific Communities Hospital In New port, given several blood trans fusions, and later Friday trans ferred to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis. The sheriff's office is still in vestigating the ihooting. Ludwig Kaufman Dead at 85 The senior partner and found er of Kaufman Brothers Fashion Center, Ludwig Kaufman, 85, died late Saturday afternoon at his home at 996 Jefferson St. in Eugene. He was the third leading busi nessman in Eugene to die since the first of the year. William N. Russell, managing director of Bon Marchc Russells, died Jan. 5, and Esy Rubenstein, the founder of the Rubenstein Fur niture Co., died Thursday. Kaufman, was born Dec. 26, 1876, in Muenstercifcl, Ger many, and lived in the larger city of Mainz where he was as sociated with Kaufman Bros, clothing store for 33 years. Honored in 1957 In 1936, he and his wife, Trude, whom he married In 1921, came to Eugene to escape Hitler's discrimination program. In 1957 Kaufman was presented a model ot ine jupuer column which had been erected in Mainz by the Romans. The Lord Mayor of Mainz an nounced at the time that the I ..... ', C 7 ; vL LUDWIG KAUFMAN Businessmm Dies SfilttrriViy replica award was presented "ai a lasting mnmento of your ac tivities in Mainz and to bear witness that we feel bound to you by everlasting tics as a rep resentative of one of Mainz's most prominent mercantile fam ilies,." The present Kaufman Bros. operations has branch stores in the Eugene Hotel and in Spring field as well as the mam store on Willamette Street. Kaufman started the business in the mid dle of 1937. Kaufman is survived by his wife, Trude, a sister, Johanna Kaufman of Omaha, Neb., and a brother, David, of Grand Island, Neb., and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral To Be Tuesday Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. In the Pnolc-Larsen Chapel with pri vate cremation to follow. Rabbi Sidney Akseirad of Berkeley, Calif., will officiate. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations In memory may be made to the Pearl Buck school or the Jewish Hospital for Children In Denver I In care of Fooie-Larsen, Titan Fired; " 2nd Readied L VANDENBERG AIR FORCB BASE, Calif. The Air Forc fired a Titan Intercontinental missile Saturday and then in the first practice for firing Ti tans in salvo began readying another. Two of the three armored, un derground silos in the Titan complex here were used In the test. From one of the deep pits a giant Titan rose into the sky at 4:57 p.m.. Pacific Standard Time, heading for a target area near Wake Island, 4,000 mile west. Plans called for a second Ti tan to be elevated from Its hoi sn hour later, but it will not be launched. The test was a run-through for Strategic Air Command crews on how to fire a salvo of the huge missile. The Air Force says that a Titan battery should be able to launch all three missiles before) an enemy missile could com plete its 30-minute flight. 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