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.
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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.
Knowing these dispatch
schedules, which also are
available at the post office,
lessens the chance of mailers
having to pay higher postage
to meet special deadlines.
Eidswick said that other
techniques available to local
businessmen include the use
of "pressure-sensitive bands"
which are used to separate
first-class mail into local and
out of town bundles.
This one method eliminates
over three handlings which
the mail would normally have
to go through before it is de
livered, he noted.
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