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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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