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dentists to Try Mid-Course Maneuver on Venus docket By DOUGLAS DILTZ Unilid Press International Pasadena, Calif. - (UPli - A spectacular United States space triumph over Russia and the possibility of discov ering life on Venus could be decided today in a fateful "showdown" maneuver by Mariner-2, now a million and a half miles from Earth. Sometime within a few hours after 7 p.m. EDT sci entists at Cal Tech's Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory (JPL) will flash a solitary signal to the spacecraft in a sctnt 7 sec onds, ordering its robot "elec tronic brain" to execute a cru cial "midcourse maneuver." The Mariner's midcourse motor and other guidance de vices must perform a perfect change-of-course to success fully swing the 447 pound spacecraft within the 10,000 mile exploration range of the mysterious cloud-veiled planet by early December. Prepare For Maneuver The fiiiRl move in preparing the Mariner for the maneuver was successfully completed Sunday night. The process, called earth acquisition, was designed to stabilize the craft's attitude so a high gain directional antenna would be permanently "fixed" on the earth. Previously the Mariner-2 was in communication with the earth through an omni antenna which is only effec tive for 8 million miles. Since the distance to Venus will be about 36 million miles, the directional antenna, cap able of transmitting over 64 million miles, had to be brought into position and Ku Klux Klan Reactivates in Louisiana, Burns 16 Crosses New Orleans - IUPII - Segre gationists s? id today no Ne groes would report when Louisiana's first desegregated Roman Catholic school re opens Tuesday and that dem onstrations will be held throughout New Orleans. The Ku Klux Klun entered the scene over the week end, staging cross - burnings throughout the slate In op position to desegregation of schools. It marked the first time in 30 years that the Klnn had taken a strong stand in the state. A spokesman for the Klan said: "We want everyone to know the Ku Klux Klan has reactivated in Louisiana. We are publicly demonstrating our resentment to Integration by these cross burnings. The crosses measured five am Extra Work Made Easy! RENT Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8th & Grape 772-4100 feet tall and 3'i feet wide and were wrapped in burlap They were burned at 16 towns In Louisiana and Klansmcn promised "to burn thousands of crosses across the state" before their protest was over. Our Lady of Good Harbor School No. 2 at Buras, first Catholic school to be inte grated, was closed Friday aft er two days of classes. The Rev. Christopher Schneider said the classes would not be held because of fear of "threats of physical violence" and economic reprisal. Five Negroes were admit ted on Wednesday when the Mississippi River Delta school, about 60 miles south of New Orleans, opened for classes. Forty-four white pu pils also enrolled, compared with a normal enrollment of 340 last year. Thursday, the enrolment dropped to 25 white pupils and no Negroes. Always Segregated Two signs were posted In front of Our Lady of Good Harbor School No. 2. One read "Our schools have al ways been segregated" and the other said "We only want what is ours." Harry Packard, chief depu ty for the Plaquemines Parish county sheriff's department, said the FBI was In Buras oh Thursday and Friday but ap parently had completed its in vestigation. An FBI official said, "I don't know when Mr. Pack ard became a spokesman for the FBI. You can say the FBI is investigating alleged threats of violence in Plaque mines Parish on orders from the attorney general's office." Demonstrations Set . A total of 154 Catholic schools were affected by an archdiocese order this year opening all parochial schools to white and Negro students. About 76.000 students attend ed the schools last year. When desegregated C a t h olic .schools nnen in IMpw Or. leans on Tuesday, demonstra tions will pe staged at about a dozen sites and segrega tionists will march en masse on the residence of Arch bishop John P. Cody at noon. Mrs. a. J. Oaillol. excom municated from the Roman Catholic church because of her stand attains! integration of parochial schools, will lead the demonstrations. She will be at the Mater Dulorsa grade school, where Negro pupils were to be admitted. "I will have a placard per sonally dedicated to his excel lency, Arch bishop Cody," Mrs. Gaillot said. "fixed" upon the earth. JPL scientists said the slightest failure in the critical midcourse maneuver could doom the space probe to pass Venus at too great a distance to peer with an "electronic eye" at ageless secrets hidden beneath its strange wreath of perpetual clouds. But a successful maneuver, which scientists confidently expected, could score a major prestige comeback for the United States over the Soviets who recently startled the world by maneuvering two manned spaceships to a near rendezvous in orbit. Russia has tried and failed twice, once only 9 days ago, to send a spacecraft to Venus. The first attempt was in early 1961, but the Soviets lost contact with their vehicle shortly after launch and it came only within 62,000 miles of Venus, the Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Red Shot Falls The second attempt was made Aug. 25 - 48 hours be fore the United States success fully launched Mariner-2 on a 180-million mile journey to Venus from Cape Canaveral, Fia. But this Soviet Venus shot broke apart in flight and fragments of the space vehicle scattered into orbit around the Earth. The launching of the U.S. Foreign Briefs FIVE KILLED BY EXPRESS TRAIN Vienna.-'il'luThe Hungarian news agency MTI said five perions were killed and another badly injured in a train station outside Budapest yesterday when platform crowds pushed the victims into the path of an express train pulling into the station. AMERICANS IN ISRAEL FOR BANKERS MEETING Tel Aviv-iUI'li-Nine American representatives from lead ing financial institutions in four U.S. cities arrived here yes terday for a bankers' study mission. The Americans came from New York, Chicago, Detroit and Boston. They planned to study first hand the effect of U. S. funds on immigration resettlement and economic de velopment here. MEIR RESTS IN SWITZERLAND Rome-dil'll-Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir flew into Rome from Tel Aviv yesterday on her way to Switzerland for a rest. She planned to stay here two days. and Russian Venus bound spacecraft within only hours of each other signified per haps the most dramatic com petition yet between the two powers in their race into space. Cold Fronts May Threaten Outings By United Press International Cold fronts spawned rain clouds in the Great Plains, Rockies and Southeast during the night, threatening Labor Day outings with showers. Canadian-born chill stabbed southward through Montana, where temperatures in some spots dropped more than 20 degrees from the night before. The mercury dipped to 32 at Great Falls, Mont., while frost was common in the mountains. One inch of snow fell on Cutbank, Mont. Severe storms lashed some towns in the Dakotas. Mo- bridge, S.D., was hit by 3.25 inches of rain and hail. More than an inch soaked Huron S. D. Snow was in store today for higher elevations in Montana and northern Colorado. 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During Sky Shield Test Colorado Springs, Colo.-flJPD -The North American contin ent's defenders and defense planners watched helplessly Sunday as 40 "enemy mis siles" streaked toward Amer ican cities, but repeated at tacks by manned bombers were beaten off successfully. "The "enemy missiles" were nothing more than data fed into computers and flash ed, quite realistically, to watchers manning the North American Air Defense Com mand's (NORAD) ballistic mis sile early warning system. The manned bombers were flown by crews from the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Com mand SAC and the Canadian air force. , The exercise was Sky Shield III test of NORAD's air defense capabilities. More than 3,000 military planes from this country and Canada took to the air during the 5 '4-hour exercise to fight a massive mock air battle high over the continent too high to be witnessed by ground ob servers. Meanwhile, about 1,800 American and 130 Canadian commercial aircraft and 75, 000 privately owned planes were grounded. Gen. John K. Gerhart, NORAD commander, said the operation' was "very success ful" and "lasting benefits" would result. Railroad Strike Talks To Resume Chicago-IUPD-Talks were to resume today in the marathon effort to end the telegraphers strike which has shut down the Chicago and North West ern, the nation's third largest railroad. The strike, going Into its fifth day, was cutting supply lines to industries and com munities in the nine Midwest and Great Plains states served by the 10,565-mile-long line. Federal Mediator Francis A. O'Neill Jr. called repre sentatives of the carrier and the Order or Railroad Tele graphers (OTI) back to the bargaining table on Labor Day after earlier talks dur ing the holiday week end fail ed. O'Neill, after Sunday's meeting, said "There has been no appreciable break in the negotiations. We may have ironed out some problems, but I can't be specific." It appeared that the strike could not be settled in time for the North Western to re s u m e operations Tuesday, when more than 35.000 Chi cago area commuters who nor mally use the line go back to work. At the core of the dispute is job security. Dale Peterson Gets Society Scholarship Dale W. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Peter son, 11396 Dennis rd., Central Point, was recently awarded a scholarship by the Society of Exploration Geophys icists foundation. Peterson is a sophomore at Colorado School of Mines. He is studying for a career in ex p I o r a t i o n geophysics. The scholarship was made possible by a grant from Dresser Elec tronics in Houston, Tex. This is the second year Peterson has received the Dresser award. Among the top 5 per cent in his graduating class from Medford High school, Peter son participated in the 1H60 Summer Science institute at Colorado School of Mines, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His design of a seismograph placed him in the Westing house National Science talent search honors group, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry awarded him the future scientist award for 1PS1. Prime objective of Mariner 2 is to determine whether any kind of life exists on the mys tery planet which has haunted the imagination of mankind for centuries. This could be learned through the spacecraft's ex- i,. f hp Venetian sur face environment and atmos phere by its highly sensitive devices. The S18.5 million space ven ture also is aimed at studying the constant layer of clouds that obscure the planet. Noon Edition MEDFORDf Page 2-A MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1962 " i rs s , Eff iciei For Fast, Efficient Service Ship It LASMI r-JL, Oiklend. 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