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No Other Tree in the World Like the I LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY TREE I Meet Scott Carpenter fUd Fotiag in Fall! Beautiful Whit Flowers! Our Next Man in Space Only $100 s (8 for $4.00) A a Here is an intimate glimpse of this astronaut who finds romance and glory in flying and the wife who shares his adventures gram, his wife is even more so. Mrs. Marjorie Slayton, for instance, has al ways maintained that the astronauts' wives had been preconditioned by their husbands' experience as test pilots. On the other hand, Rene Carpenter tells how she used to watch the kitchen clock when Scott was testing planes in Maryland. Each minute he was late con vinced her that Scott had crashed. Does she feel differently now? "I still have some qualms," she says. Scott trained as a Navy flier in the closing years of World War II, then re turned to Boulder to study aeronautical engineering at the University of Colo rado, where he met Rene. He supplemented his GI aid by work as a lumberjack, hod carrier, and jackhammer operator, which probably accounts for the exceptional development of shoulders, chest, and bi ceps on his otherwise slender frame. Even now he is an extraordinary gymnast who can climb a 20-foot rope hand-over-hand in a few seconds and perform effortlessly on exercise bars. THE couple makes a point of the fact they have "worked" to make their marriage a success. "You can't take any thing for granted that's important," Rene says, which sums up their methodical ap proach to everything from raising a fami ly to discussing Scott's career. As an example of "working" at mar riage, Rene tells about their honeymoon. She and Scott isolated themselves from the world in a crude cabin deep in the Rockies. Scott chopped wood and added to their provisions by hunting and fishing. Rene learned her housekeeping with a minimum of conveniences. The experi ence, she says proudly, brought them closer together and helped shape their whole concept of marriage. This concept includes long sessions discussing each other's problems over coffee or milk at the kitchen table. When Scott is away, which is often, he writes 17- or 20-page letters detailing each phase of his training. Rene responds with long diarylike letters. In outward appearance, Rene seems to have a tendency to "take charge" of the Carpenter family, but intimates claim this is deceptive, resulting from Scott's habit of clamming up around casual ac quaintances. In Navy parlance, friends say, he "runs a taut ship" in the privacy of his home. "Scott is very conscious of the fact he doesn't get to spend as much time with his children as other fathers," says his mother. "Yet he's a strict disciplinarian with them. I think this is especially hard for a father who has to be away from home a lot and who has lost a young one." Timmy,- the Carpenters' first-born, died in 1951. THE carpenters have succeeded so well in sharing their lives that Rene doesn't wait for husbandly instructions when a crisis arises. For example, Scott had re turned to service in 1949 and, after Korean missions, became a Navy test pilot in Maryland. He wanted desperately to join the Mercury program, but felt he had only a slim chance because he had so little jet-flying experience 400 hours compared with the 1.600 to 2,500 hours of other astronauts. Even more mortifying was his ap proaching assignment two years of sea duty aboard an aircraft carrier and, worst of all. in a nonflying role. Just before his ship was to leave. Rene re ceived word at home that, despite Scott's lack of jet experience, he could join Mer cury if he was still interested. Rene didn't hesitate: she wired his acceptance first, informed Scott afterward. The Carpenters live in a project-type duplex a short distance from the Manned Space Flight Center. They have four chil dren, Mark Scott, 12, Robin Jay, 9, Kris ten Elaine, 5, and Candace Noxon, 4. At the end of this school term, they will move to Houston, where the Space Center is be ing relocated. "I think all the astronauts' wives are looking forward to the move," Rene says. "It'll be something permanent to work on, or so we hope. But we have so many other things to think of now." In this case, the "we" is quite appro priate. As his mother and wife have said, astronaut Scott Carpenter shares his life with those he loves, and his coming ad venture in space will be no exception. family Wetkly. April 2, ml 3 I Na atHar traa aulta Ilka H In anrlra wartdl tvary July, tfcls t changes almast vvrnlght frm pretty gtMn shod tr Into a whit clavd af Miautandi af flowtrt locHy lika perfect UliM-f-rt)-VoHy. Vary frog rani. Tha tacond miracle hapfwns In th fall with rha first frost, which cantos th whl tr to turn to c flaming rod. On of th most beau tiful and unusual of all trt. 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