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Eugene, Oregon, January 21, 1962
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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
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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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