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Mariner.' Course Eteiige tefeetly Executed Pasadena, Calif. -IUPD- M;in kind ventured on his "first major step into the explora tion of the planets" today as America's Mariner-2 sped to ward a close rendezvous with Venus that could unravel age less mysteries of the universe. The spectacular spacecraft became the most successful in terplanetary probe yet known Tuesday night by perfectly executing a critical change-of-course maneuver and hurtling on-target beyond a million and a half miles in space. The teat also could give the United States a resounding space age triumph ever Russia and might discover some un known form of life existing beneath the planet's perpetual wreath of strange clouds. Scientists' Hopes Soar Tuesday night's "mldcourse maneuver" was described by United States scientists as being so successful that Mariner-2 was reported on a tra jectory that would take it nearer Venus than expected within 9,000 miles. Plans had Foreign Briefs PRICE OF FOOD HISES IN YUGOSLAVIA Belgrade lUPII-The Yugoslav ntws agency Tanjug reported yesterday the price of food in Yugoslavia rose 20 per cent in 1961. Quoting a statistical yearbook, the agency said tobacco and beverage prices rose 25 per cent and footwear 4 per cent. UDALL INSPECTS RUSSIAN POWER STATION Moicow-liPI-U. S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall yes terday Inspected the world's most powerful hydroelectric power station at Volgograd, the Soviet news agency Tass re ported. The Vc'gograd station hi a capacity of 2,563,000 kilo watts, about 650,000 more than the Crand Coulee dam in the United States. SWISS DEPARTMENT HEAD RESIGNS Bern, Switserland-IUPIt-Vice President Jean Bourgknecht of Swiiierland resigned yesterday because of illness. Bourgk necht, chief of the federal finance and customs department, would have become president of the confederation in 1963. Under the Swiss system of government, the vice presi dent usually is elected to succeed the outgoing president. Both are elected by the federal assembly for one year. SEATO ALLIES TO CONDUCT EXERCISE Canberra-HIPH-Australia will conduct a full-scale tactical exercise next month with the participation of Its seven South west Asia treaty organisation (SEATO) allies. An announcement here said the exercise will be con cerned mainly with how to keep open Australia's shipping lanes and maintain them free of enemy submarines, surface vessels and mines. Dillon Won't Urge Congress To Limit Revenue Deduction Senators Look Washington - III") - Treas ury Secretary Douglas Dillon has decided gainst asking Con gress to prohibit or limit tax deductions for interest pay ments, It was learned today. About 18.7 million taxpay ers claimed deductions of $8.4 billion on their tax returns last year lor interest they had paid, primarily on home mortgages. Reports have circulated for some time that the adminis tration's 1963 tax reform package might include a pro posal to deny deductions for interest, or at least to limit them. But responsible Treasury officials said today this has been ruled out. Nor will there be any proposal to change the present deductabllity of state and local property taxes, it was said. Wants Loopholes Closed President Kennedy has said he will ask Congress next year to cut taxes across the board, for individuals and corporations. He also said he would ask the lawmakers to close certain loopholes in the tax code. By closing the loopholes, the administration hopes to reduce the revenue loss re sulting from rate reduction and to introduce a greater ele ment of equal tax treatment tor taxpayers. ' ,mong the more contro versial areas of lax reform getting intensive scrutiny in the Treasury are capital gains, depletion allowances and stock options. The Treas ury also is still interested in removing the $50 exclusion and the 4 per cent credit for recipients of dividend Income. The decision to drop any idea of limiting deductions for interest payments appear ed, at least in part, to be po litically motivated. Democrats in Congress have privately expressed to Dillon fear that ev'en the possibility of curtailing interest deduc tions could be used against them In the election cam paign. The issue is believed to have a lot of political signi ficance because of the mil lions of taxpayers, especially home owners, who take de ductions for interest paid. A home owner with a mort gage typically may pay as much as $1,000 a year In In terest. If he is, for example, in a 26 per tent lax bracket, (he deduction saves him $280 In (axes. ROAD GETS PICKLED Saint Avoid, France - IUPI! -A tractor-trailer truck over turned near here Tuesday, dumping 23 Ions of cucum bers on the highway. EXTRA SPECIAL! CI School Binder Combination Includes 3-ring canvas binder with jumbo rings and clip. Filler paper end organizer. I l l N.wberrys I t X. J Downtown I called for a "fly by" explora tion at 10,000 miles. Scientists at Cal Tech's Ji-t Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), guiding and tracking the 447- pound instrument-laden Mar iner, conceded it still had "a very long way to go" on its epochal 180 million mile journey. But the successful execu tion cj the crucial "mldcourse maneuver" sent their hopes soaring for a historic success. ' "We're going great at the moment," said Mariner-2 proj ect Director Jack James, "and it apppears we have a huge success." Dr. William Pickering, chief of the propulsion laboratory and a leading figure in the U.S. space program since the first Explorer entered orbit in 1958, alo expressed optimism. "This is the first major step in the exploration of the planets," he said. "We're reaching way out beyond earth which is necessary for fm i 1 'OSSss sSntwiKk. f Ml j future exploration of the solar system by mankind." Tuesday night's maneuver was to correct an off-course trajectory of 223,000 miles caused by faulty tracking data shortly after Mariner-2 was launched from Cape Canav eral, Fla., Aug. 20. . Fire Rocket Motor Scientists at JPL successful ly fired the mid-course rocket motor by flashing a lone com mand signal to the vehicle while it was 1,492,500 miles from earth on its four-month journey to Venus. The maneu ver swerved the space probe on its new heading. The Mariner-2 is scheduled to draw closest to Venus at 2 p.m., (EDT) Dec. 14. It will peer down through the plan et's mantle of clouds with an electronic eye" at secrets which have haunted man's imagination for centuries. Astronomers have theorized that if the strange clouds of Venus are made up of water droplets like earthly clouds. DISCUSS MANEUVER Mid-course trajec tory engineer Fred Barnes, left, and project engineer Tom Bilbo discuss the apparently succeessful mid-course maneuver of the Mariner-2 spacecraft in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday. On a signal from Cal-tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the course of the Marlner-2 was altered to come within 10,000 miles of the planet Venus sometime in early December. On the desk in front of them are a model of the Mariner and a mock-up of the mid-course motor (at rear). (UPI) 4Y- -J i- T.. rorwara to lax Revision Bill Washington - (UPU - Senate leaders looked forward to completing action today on President Kennedy s m u c h amended tax revision bill. Democratic chiefs were re ported to have the votes neces sary to sidetrack the most troublesome of two remaining amendments. With these two roadblocks out of the way, the Senate was expected to ap prove the measure before the day is over. Administration sources said a majority of senators present would vote to table an amend ment that would allow pro fessional and other self - em ployed persons to take tax de ductions of up to $1,750 a year to set up their own re tirement plans. Separate Bill Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield promised to call up the pension plan pro posal as a separate bill before the Senate adjourns this year. The other pending amend ment would cut the tax deple tion allowance on oil and gas income and reduce the top bracket tax rate. Other congressional news: Estes - The Senate investi gations subcommittee today summoned an attorney for Billie Sol Estcs to ask him about his role In the cotton allotment transfers engineer ed by the Texas farm fi nancier. John Dennison, who represented Estes In his cotton allotment dealings, has staunchly defended the com plicated transfers which the Agriculture Department con tends are illegal. Powell - Rep. H R. Gross (R-Iowa) todny criticized Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's cur rent junket in which the La bor committee chairman is in vestigating equal Job oppor tunities for women in Europe. Gross, who is a perennial critic of government spending, said the trip was "a little more than par for the course." Powell and two female aides sailed for Europe Aug. 8 and were expected to reti:rn about Sept. 21. Body of Drowned Man Is Identified The Dalles-ilTP-The body of a man pulled from the Co lumbia river here Monday was tentatively identified as that of John W. Wilson, a migrant laborer who had been working In the Athena area of Umatilla county. Deputy Coroner Leonard Smith said the body appeared to have been In the river about two weeks. LIGHT "eFfTcTenC Y Schenectady A modern electric light bulb gives 10 times as much light as the first Incendescrnt lamps and at about one-tenth of the cost. Light Buying Noted At Opening; Prices Recover Early Drop New York -IUPI.- Llghl buy ing developed shortly after the stock market's opening to day. Prices recovered their early losses. Glamor issues, as usual were in the vanguard of the recovery movement. IBM climbed nearly 4, Beckman over 2 along with Polaroid, and Zerox, Zenith, Korvette, Litton and others a point or more. Blue chips were slower to respond although Chrysler and Alcoa quickly chalked up point-sized gains. Steels were staedy, ch"r,icals and inter national oils narrowly mixed and autos firm. Procter & Gamble showed a point loss. DOW JONES AVERAGES Ntw York (UPU Dow Jonet final stock averages: 30 Industrials 602.45, off 6.73: 20 railroads 122.42, off 1.33; 15 utilities 120.99, up 0.16; 65 stocks 209.98, off 1:70. Sales Tuesday were about 2.97 million shares compared with 2.B3 million shares Friday. Tuesday's prtcei on selected itocki: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am American Air Unci American Can .. American Motors .... AT&T American Tobacco ... Anaconda Copper ... Armco Bendlx Corp nethlel.em Steel Boeing Air iiruntwicK .. 38 .. 99 .. tS'i .. 44 ... 17 'W -111', .. 30 .. 39 .. 44 .. M .. 31 .. 39 Caterpillar Corp Chrviler Corp Coca Cola . CB S Continental Can Crown Zellerhach Cruclhle Steel Curtijs Wright Dow Chemical Dn Pont Eiuiman Kodak Firestone Tord Onera) Electric General Food a Genera) Motors Georgia Pacific fire hound Guif on . . Homestake Idaho Power IBM Inl Paper Johns Manvtlle .... Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft . Martin Merck xd Montana Power Montgomery Ward ... National Blicutt New York Centra Northern Paclllc Pennev J. C Penn RR Perma Cement Phillips . Procter At GamMe Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safewav Santa r Seara Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co Sperry Rand Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J Stokley Van Camp Sun Mines Texas Co. Texas C.ulf Sulfur Texas Pac Land Trust . Thlokol Trans America Trans World Air Tr Continental t'nlon Carhide Union Pacific Untied Aircraft United Airline V. 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Pope John, In the introduo tion to the three-part docu ment, said that "the forthcom ing Ecumenical Council, be cause of the number and va riety of thaie who will par ticipate In its assembly, evi dently will be the most grand iose of all those thus far cele brated by the church." The council, known offic ially as the Second Vatican- Council, will be the 21st in history and the first since 1870. The fir?t Ecumenical Council was held in 325. The long-range aim of the council is to bring all Chris tian churches back under the fold of Catholicism and the Pope. The pontiff expressed opti mism for the results of the council, which Is expected to last for a vear. Barn Scheduled To Be Torn Down Today A crew of Jackson county prisoners were scheduled to tear down a halMallen barn in Phoenix today to eliminate a potential fire hazard, Coun ty Commissioner Edwin Tay. lor said this morning. The barn and a shed are on Jackson county property occupied by Charles Pipes, County Commissioner Wendt noted. Phoenix Mayor Faye C.ir- ver recently requested the barn be removed as a fire hazard. County court records show that the county had given former Phoenix Mayor Arthur Mackintosh permis sion to tear down the barn However, the court had re quested the city of Phoenix wait until Mrs. Tipes recov ered from an illness. Easter island is 14 miles i'ialong and seven miles wide. Dead Agriculture Official Approved Estes Allotments Washington -IUPD- Billie Sol Estes' attorney said today that an Agriculture Department official, later found dead un der mysterious circumstances, had approved the Texas farm tycoon's cotton allotment deal ings. John B. Dennison. who handled Estes' legal affairs, told the Senate Investigating subcommittee that the dead official, Henry H. Marshall was "so completely satisfield' with the allotment operation that he declined even to look at the sales contracts. Subcommittee Chai r m a n John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) told Dennison his account "seriously conflicts" with the testimony of Taylor Allen southwest regional director for the Agriculture Soil and Conservation Service. He re called Allen's assertion that Marshall had said such trans actions would be invalid. Marshall, a cotton program specialist for the government was found mysteriously shot to death June 3, 1961. His death was ruled a suicide at first but the Texas Rangers now say he probably was murdered. Dennison told McClellan that Allen was "confused' about two different contracts. The Pecos, Tex., lawyer said Allen was unfamiliar with the details of the arrangements and "his memory serves him poorly." RETAIL SALES RISE Washington - IUPD - The Commerce Department re ported Tuesday that retail sales rose by 3 per cent in July to a record high. Sales totaled nearly $19.7 billion, about $231 million above the department's earlier estimate life is a possibility on the ob scured planet. 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