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reme Court To R ule on Bible Reading in Public Schools Washington -IUPII- The Su preme court agreed today to rule on the constitutionality of Bible reading in the public schools. The decisions are expected to provide far-reaching guide posts in the running contro versy over the question of state vs. religion in American life. The justices accepted two challenges to Bible reading practices brought by parents in Pennsylvania and Mary land. The Maryland case in volves recitation of the Lord's prayer as part of school open ing exercises. Acceptance of the two cases plunged the court into its new term on the same explosive note on which it adjourned last summer. At that time it held unconstitutional t h e reading of a state written prayer in New York schools. The Maryland appeal was brought to the Supreme court by Mrs. Madalyn E. Murray who described herself and her son, William J. Murray III, as atheists. William attends a Baltimore school. The other Bible reading case was initiated in Philadel phia by a Unitarian couple, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewisj Schempp. Their children at tend a high school in Abing ton Township, Pa. Today's decision means that the high court will hear open arguments in the two cases and later hand down its rul ings on the constitutionality of such practices. In other actions today, the court; - Refused, as expected, to review lower court orders which brought about the ad mission of Negro James H. Meredith to the University of Mississippi. The refusal con firmed a ruling handed down during the recess by Justice Hugo Black after consultation with his colleagues. -Upheld two lower court decisions which struck down racial barriers in bus and rail road termials in Louisiana and Georgia. These suits stem med from regulations issued by the Interestate Commerce Commission in the aftermath of the so-called "freedom rid er" campaigns in the South last November. -Declined to review a rul ing which barred distribution of textbooks at public ex pense to parochial schools in Oregon. This left standing a finding by the Oregon Su preme Court which held a statute allowing such distri bution was unconstitutional. -Refused to consider challenge by a group of Ken tucky taxpayers to the leasing of a publicly' financed hos pital to a Roman Catholic or ganization. -Agreed to decide whether a state antidiscrimination agency may compel the hiring of a Negro by an Interstate airline. The case involved the cmrra Soys rbits Possible Houston mm Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, acclaimed as a new space hero for his "text-book" perfect flight of six orbits around earth, actu ally could have stayed up for 18 orbits an entire aay Only a decision that was never made stopped him. The 39-year-old Navy com mandcr unfolded to the world Sunday the story of how he flew farther, faster and high er than any other American, of viewing brilliant "moon- sets" and mysterious "space fireflies" and the grandeur of an eerie brownish-gray haze around earth. From his blast-off aboard an Atlas rocket at Cape Ca naveral ("That railroad train you are sitting on really does move") to his Pacific ocean landing Wednesday ("My space honeymoon was over") Schirra flew the most nearly perfect U. S. manned spaceflight. 'The bushy-haired, quick smiling spaceman summed it up himself: "The overall flight, I thought, was a textbook flight." But through Schirra's mix ture of weighty subjects and quips ran a common theme the 18-orbit, day-long flight through space by an Amen can. The astronaut made no bones about his own feelings on the subject: "I felt like I could have' gone for a full day." Then, almost casually, he stated flatly to nearly 400 newsmen and photographers at Rice university that the flight "could have gone for 18 orbits." The technical evidence sup ported him. The orbit, carry ing him to a U. S. record 17(1 miles into space, was high enough. His oxygen supply 28 hours would have made it with several hours to spare. Regional Edition Page 2A MedfordSTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 11182 The food and water could have been stretched to do the job. Recovery forces were sta tioned in the Atlantic, where he would have come down after a day. But Schirra said "we had to cut short" at the planned six-orbit, nine-hour flight, be cause of "problems" involving deployment of the recovery forces and supplies aboard the spacecraft. Despite the fact that he might have gotten by for a day with the oxygen, food and drink aboard the Sigma 7, he said such life-sustaining sup plies will be increased on a one-day mission in space. On the one-day mission, Schirra said, the astronaut should be able to sleep for a period. As for nausea, or "space sickness," experienced by So viet cosmonaut Ghcrman Ti tov, "I'm here to say there was no problem at all . . . no uneasiness, no queasiness," Schirra said. Schirra himself cleared up a final critical point: the supply of fuel that controlled the position of his Sigma 7 capsule in orbit. "My inten tion was to use so little fuel that no one could argue that we had enough fuel . . . for 18 orbits, if we wanted it. "I think I proved that point." But someone had to give the "go" for 18 orbits. No one did. Apparently there were two reasons. First, there is the Mercury man-in-space pro gram's adherence to a con servative, slep-by-step ap proach that does not include taking chances. Secondly, Mercury officials were not prepared for the stunning success that Schirra gave them. It caught them off balance. There were some surprises, Schirra said, and the biggest was the "brownish-gray" haze that surrounds earth. "By peering way down be low I could still see stars below this layer and it sur prised me. I thought I was seeing lighted areas in cities," he said. Schirra said that the layer "didn't seem to be as thick" as either of America's two previously orbiting astronauts, John H. Glenn Jr. and M. Scott Carpenter, had said. Congress Waits on Kennedy a mini ii ji hi "Z-m!T t -Tr t DOWN TOWM STORE ONLY Transistor Complete with carrying case, car phone and battery. $14.95 vlue . . Washington -IUPII- Whether President Kennedy signs or vetoes a controversial pension bill for the self-employed loomed as a major factor to day in determining when Con gress will adjourn. Backers of the bill to pro vide tax deductions for pen sion plans by the self-employed were determined to keep both House and Senate in ses sion until after the Wednesday midnight deadline for Ken nedy to act. They were confident of enough votes to override a veto if the President turns down the measure. If he fails to veto or sign it, it will be come law automatically. The pension measure and a stubborn House-Senate wran gle over a stalled Agriculture depa r t m e n t appropriations bill were the two major re maining roadblocks. But lead ers of both houses privately felt the appropriations squab ble could be settled if the President cleared the air on the pension bill. Both House and Senate fac- Charge It Transistor Complete with metal case, ear phone and battery. Rg. $24.95 Charge It Stocks Narrowly Mixed on Opening New York - IUPII - Stocks were narrowly mixed in dull trading today. Brokers attribute much of the trendlcss action to a com bination of the Jewish holiday and the World Series in New York. Electronics were fairly good with Bcckman and Schlum berger up a point or more. Steels showed little change and Du Pont rose about Hi in a mostly firm chemical sector. Chrysler added nearly 3. In a narrow mixed auto section. A few tobaccos, stores and drugs cased. In the last group, Rlchardson-Mcrrell lost about 1 after being named a defen dant in $24.8 million suit in federal court on claims of birth deformity through the use of one of the company's drugs. General Dynamics, Crown Cork, Houston Lighting, Phelps Dodge and Babcnck & Wilcox rose 1 or more but Bi'ckeye Pipeline, Xerox, Sears Roebuck and Reynolds Tobacco slipped at least a point apiece. Campaign Group Appointees Named John Dellenback, Republi can candidate for reelection as state representative from Jackson county, has announc ed additional appointments to his campaign committee, ac cording to S. V. McQueen, campaign chairman. Volunteers who will serve on the finance committee are Dr. B. L. Lageson, Dr. Gene Ray, Mark Goldy, Dick Hen selman, Kent Blackhurst and Glen Revel. New appointments as area chairmen in the county are Mrs. Marcel LePiniec, Apple gate; Don Geren, Eagle Point, and Butte Falls; Mrs. Don McGeary, Phoenix and Bill Bagley, Talent. keeping the required majority ed the growing problem of of members on hand as they plodded wearily into another week of the long session with no fixed adjournment in sight The House planned only a perfunctory session today with no business because of the Jewish religious holiday, Yom Kippur. The Senate went back to its normal meeting hour of noon, with action on the House-ap proved $3.9 billion foreign aid money bill as the probable ma jor item of business. Columbia Highway Opened After Slide Hood River-IUPIl-A section of the Columbia River high way ; west of here was re opened Saturday after a slide blocked it for two days, LEAVES REMINDER Leichester, England - (UPD Wealthy surveyor Frederick Banks left 100 pounds ($280) and his umbrella to waitress Doris Bean who reminded him daily to take the umbrella when he left the cafe where she worked, his will revealed today. Foreign Briefs TOKYO ESTIMATED AT 10.172,877 Tokyo-UIPH-The population of metropolitan Tokyo was estimated at 10,172,877 as of Sept. 1, the government has announced. TWO SOVIET CITIZENS SENTENCED TO DEATH Moseow-IUPIi-A regional court in iht Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan has sentenced two Soviet citiians to death by shooting for rape. SCOTSMEN NOW BUY SUNDAY DRINKS Edinburgh. Scotland-itlfti-Scotsmen legally war able to buy a drink in their local bars Sunday for in first time line homing laws wert introduced in this country. Under the new licensing act, the Sunday drinker no longer has to sign a register saying whert ha came from and where he is going before ordering a drink. The old laws permitted sales of drinks only to travelers. NASSER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ALGERIA Cairo-HTO-United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdal Nasser has accepted an invitation to visit Algeria. A TERRIFIC SELECTION OF y A beautiful assortment of plaids, checks and novelties. Nice lengths and 36 inches wide. Sanforized, 1st quality. Reg. 49c yd. p 3 Jj m I N ewberry's Downtown - 6th & Central Fly United to Portland for jet service to Chicago and the East Morning ami evening flights from Medford connect in Portland with United jets nonstop to Chicago. And from Chicago, you can fly other United jets to New York, Philadelphia, Washington-Baltimore and other major cities in the East. Call United Air Lines at 773-6233 or your Travel Agent. -t , Colorado Antidiscrimination Commission which ordered Continental Air Lines Inc. to give pilot training to Marlon D. Green, a former Air Fores captain who lives in Lansing, Mich. The Bible reading cases were based on the First Amendment to the Constitu tion which says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer cise thereof. held that the same bar applies to the states through the 14th Amendment. The Schempps won a ruling Feb. 1, 1B62, by a special three - judge federal court in Philadelphia that Bible read ing in public schools in un constitutional. But in the Baltimore case, the Maryland Court of Ap peals rejected Mrs. Murray's challenge by a 4-3 vote last April. The tribunal took note of the Philadelphia ruling but The Supreme Court has I declined to go along with it. For Fart, Efficient Service -'Vfc to or from Ship It LASME Oakland. 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