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
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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.
WHALE SHARK
San Francisco - A whale
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25,000 pounds and an overall
length of up to 60 feet.
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'Enemy Missiles'
Hit U. S. 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
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Gen. John K. Gerhart,
NORAD commander, said the
operation' was "very success
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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.
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