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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1962 Editor's not. the year of th. 2 Year of Space Strides; Longer Flights, Moon Trip Scheduled - 1362 was big lift in myths grabbed the headlines. Twice more U.S. astronauts but 1962 was a year of many roared successfully into soace Americas space program, j other strides spaceward the and returned safely. M. Scott John Glenn showed the way ! year of Telslar and intercon- Carpenter duplicated Glenn's in orbital flight, and a lot of tinental television: of mighty three-orbit flight on May 24, the "missile gap" myth was , Saturn rockets and a glimpse and Walter M. Schirra Jr liet dispelled. What was 1962's at the tunderous future: of i tered it with six orbits on Oct. contribution to the history of .Mariner and the first close-up space conquest, and what will' look at another planet. 1963 bring? One of America's Failures. Too '""'"S "r"e" n ""Y. And hera.ise Ihis n still veteran Cape Canaveral re- porter, reports the events and outlooks of this turning point' era in a three-part special re. J port. The first dispatch re ports on the space exploration! milestones of 1962. By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. Cape Canaveral - ilil'll - 'In the chronicles of a glamorous new age. 1 962 will go down as the year of five spacemen and one space myth. Tile men were three Ameri cans and two Russians who rode rockets uito orbit around earth and proved that one can find space habitable if not very hospitable. The myth was the i n fa I la bility n Soviet rocketry. It was officially exploded when V,. S. leaders disclosed Russia had suffered at least six ma jor space failures in two years. Astronauts and exploded just year 5 of the space age, there were failures Rang ers that tried to explore the moon but missedd, the power ful new Centaur rocket that failed and many satellites that remained grounded. By and large, the failures were lost in the rash of U. S. space successes that began at 9:47 a.m. EST, at Cape Ca naveral on Feb. 20 and ended four hours 56 minutes later in the Atlantic Ocean. On this day, a freckle-faced U. S. Marine leaped into space aboard a thunderous At las rocket. Three times he soared around the globe and awed millions with his de scription of the "tremendous view" from space. The fact that John Glenn's flight came six months after and fell 15 orbits short of the space flight of Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov was almost forgotten. 4T 5 nvwc "ass LAST SHIP UNLOADED This Is an aerial view of the Dulut'n. Minn.-Surprior, Wis., port facilities after the last ship was unloaded this winter. Snow covers the ships and the giounci as ice begins to fill the channel. (UPI) "Vol Readies Longer Flight As the year ended, the U.S. man-in-space program was readying a day-long 17-orbit flight for another astronaut, L. Gordon Cooper, next April, and pouring hundreds of mil lions of dollars into a stepped up drive to reach the moon in five or six years. The United States is striv ing to beat the Russians to the moon. But despite the succes ses of the three astronauts, America found in 1962 that it still trails the Soviet Union in manned spaceflight. The Russians left no doubt of that with a midsummer space spectacular. On ,Aug. 11, Soviet Maj. Andrian Nikolayev was hurl ed into orbit aboard the Vos tok 3 spaceship. About 24 hours later, while Nikolayev was in his 16th or bit, another Soviet spaceship, the Vostok 4. blasted into or bit with Lt. Col. Pavel Popo vich aboard. The Vostoks at one point were within three miles of each other - a stun ning accomplishment. Before it was finished, Nik olayev had soared 64 times around the world and Popo vich had made 48 orbits a feat that U. S. experts said this nation could not hope to match until 1964. Have Own Troubles On the whole, however, 1962 was not a vintage year for Soviet space accomplish ments. Most of their orbital shots were in the "cosmos" series unmanned satellites that apparently are busily and hastily gathering scientific in formation the United States has long since collected. Only once more did the Rus sians approach their patented "spectacular" on Nov. 1, when a one-ton probe was sent hurtling toward the planet Mars. The "Mars 1" is expect ed to reach the red planet in mid-1963, possibly to provide information on the legendary Martian "icecaps' and "canals." But by this time, the bal loon of Russian infallibility had been punctured. In Sep tember, the U. S. space agen cy revealed a list of six So viet space failures, including two earlier shots at Mars and four at Venus. Businessmen Asked to Check Mailing Practices Kitchen Surgery Saves Tiny Baby ' Stanford. Calif.-IUPH-A Palo Alto physician saved the life of a 12-week-old baby with open heart massage per formed in the makeshift sur- . roundings of a household kitchen Tuesday. The infant, Orian Merlcr, had stopped breathing for j nearly five minutes when Dr. i Jack Remington arrived at I the Palo Alto home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezio Metier. The physician quickly opened the baby's chest with a knife and massaged his tiny heart until an ambulance and resuscitator crew arrived. The baby was in critical I condition today, according to 1 Palo Alto Stanford hospital. ' With new postage rates due in 12 days it is important now that local businessmen "take a close look at their mailing practices to determine if they are operating with maximum economy and ef ficiency," according to Postal Inspector John A. Eidswick. "Businessmen should search for more efficient and eco nomically sound methods of handling their mail because they may be able in many cases to offset the postage ad justments effective Jan. 7," he said. Proper use of postage scales and meters, in particular, can prove to be a good source of postage savings, he said. Spe cifically, he explained, busi nessmen can minimize losses by making certain that mail, particularly first-class and air mail, is correctly weighed and the correct postage carefully applied. Can Add Postage Individuals unfamiliar with the meter machines can add more postage than is neces sary which results in a di rect loss to the business. The post office wants correct post age, but is anxious to encour age the development of mail "know-how" to make certain that postal patrons pay no more than is fair. During the past two years the post office department has placed special emphasis on devising new techniques and "know-how" to assist business in mailing operations, Eids wick said. "For example, all post of fices including ours," he said, "have special mail technicians who are available upon re quest to assist businessmen in fostering better mailing prac tices." Eidswick cited the Nation wide Improved Mail Service program (NIMS) as an ex ample of the type of closer cooperation that can and has been generated between busi ness and the postal service. Reschedule Bulk Mailings NIMS, Introduced last year, calls for large mailers to re schedule their bulk mailings to reach the post office dur ing the morning hours avoid ing the late afternoon rush when nearly 75 per cent ol all first-class mail reaches the post office. This enables the post office to more effectively utilize its men, machines, and space so business mail can be more evenly dispatched throughout the entire working day. 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