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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1959)
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28. 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACl THREE CITY BRIEFS PTA MoUimlngers will prac tice Thursday evening, January 29. at 7:30 in the Mills School music room. New members and visitors are welcome. Baby Boy Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard finnell. 917'i Dakota Street Medford, formerly of Klamath Falls, announce the birth of a son. January 11. Mineral Club Regular monthly meeting of the Klamath Mineral Club will be held Thursday night January 29, at 8 o'clock in the Community Lounge. Refreshments will be served alter the meeting Visitors are welcome. Cub Scout Pack S-will hold Its January meeting Thursday January 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt School auditorium Theme will be newspapers and reporting. Teen-Age Dance at the fair grounds Friday. January 30, for teen-age students of all Klamath County and city high schools. Dancing from 8 to 11 p.m. Contri butions will be taken up for the March of Dimes. : Polio Date January 29 is the date for the 1959 Mothers March for Polio sponsored by the Ven lure Club of Klamath Falls. Zero hour will be from 7 to 8 p.m P.lease turn on your porch lights at this time to signal the March ing Mothers that it is your de sire to help the polio victims of our community. If no one calls you may phone TU 4-7782 and someone will pick up your contri butions. Sirens at the fire stations will open the march. "Neighbors of Woodcraft will meet at the K.C. Hall, Monday, February 2 at 8 p.m. All mem bers please come. There will be election of officers. 'Retarded Children An impor tant meeting of the Klamath As sociation for Retarded Children will be held tonight at 7:30 at the county library. Third and Klam ath. All those interested plan to altend. -Klamath Salon 355 Eight and Forty will hold a regular meeting tonight, at 8 o'clock in the legion hall on North Eighth Street. Host esses will be Alice Abbott, Mil dred Cooper and Irene Tobin. Space Chief Tells Meet Traveler Picking Begun NEW YORK (API-Selection of America's first human space trav eler is under way. T. Keith Glennan, U.S. space chief, startled a staid dinner meeting of the Institute of Aer onautical Sciences with this dis closure Tuesday night. The new federal space agency. he said, has picked 110 rugged oung Americans as candidates for the first manned satellite to orbit the earth. They will assemble in Washing ton for further tests, Glennan said, and be asked to volunteer for space flight. Within three months, their ranks will be re duced to about a dozen. "I suspect that the one who will make the flight will not know he is to do so until count-down day he added. Beck Relative Asks Excuse TACOMA, Wash. (API A relative by marriage of Dave Beck, Norman Gessert, has asked that he be excused from testilying in the former Teamsters Union president s income tax evasion trial. Gessert, a nephew by marriage of Mis. Beck, filed a motion lues day asking that the subpoena against him and his wife be quashed. His counsel argued that Gessert is a defendant in a con spiracy trial in connection with Beck's case, and is still to be tried. The motion also asked that the document served on Mrs. Gessert be quashed because it would vio late the rule which does not per mit a wile to testify against her husband. Beck is charged with evading $240,000 in income taxes in 1950-53. Beck's defense attorney, Charles Burdcll, indicated he would fight Gessert's move, which shows an apparent split in the defense ranks for the first time. The government had made and then temporarily halted an at tempt to have Mrs. Gessert testi fy. Its case is nearly completed. The trial began Nov. 10. it will be reduced to the point a pilot faces in testing a new plane. "Ve are not going to cut any corners which would put the young man in jeopardy, he said. He refused to predict when America's human space flight will take place. The expectation is. however, that such a flight is about two years away. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration which Glen nan heads, announced two weeks aso the selection of McDonnell Aircralt Corp , St. Louis, to de sign, develop, and build the Pro ject Mercury capsule. It is to be capable of carrying a man into orbital flight around jAero-Mcdical Committee, headed the earth and salely back to earth ; by Dr. W. Randolph Loveless ol again. If anything goes wrong at Albuquerque, N.M. They will un launching or soon afterward, thelriergo a series ol intensive physi mlot will escape via an emergency leal and psychological tests, includ- ejection system. The 110 most likely candidates were chosen on the basis of re quirements set up by NASA's ing studies ol their ability to cope with space flight stresses. The dozen lot) candidates will lie assigned to the NASA Space I low. Task Group at Lanyiey Air Foit Base. Va . fur intensive training. Additional training at the Johns ville. Pa., Naval Air Development Center: Cape Canaveral, Fla.j The Wright Air Development Cen ter at Dayton, Ohio, and at other U.S. bio-medical centers will fert ile said he does not know whether this cp'ntry will get man into orbit b.fore the Soviet Union. "The Russians have been at it somewhat longer than we have, and it is wholly possible they will beat us into space," Glennan told newsmen later. The 110 potential American space pioneers were not listed by name. Glennan gave these quali lications ol the man who finally will be selected: 1. A university degree in physi cal science or engineering. 2. A graduate of an Air Force or Navy test-pilot training school with at least 1,500 flying hours. 3. Superb condition, with the physical and psychological attri butes suited for space llight as determined by aero-medical sci entists. 4. Younger than 40 and no taller than 5 feet 11. There are no weight restrictions. On the last point, the slockily built Glennan smiled and told newsmen: "I'd like to qualify myself." Candidates for manned space flight will be known as Mercury astronauts. The United States' manned satellite program is known as Project Mercury. Glennan said the element of risk cannot be completely removed but Sirens To Signal Start Of Drive Fire sirens of the Klamath Falls City Department, South Suburban and Stewart Lenox Volunteer De partments will be blown at the zero hour for start of the Mothers March on Polio. 7 p.m., Thursday, January 29. Homes in Klamath Falls, all sub urban areas and the Kingsley Field homes will be visited be tween 7 and 8 p.m. Those wishing to donate are asked to turn their porch lights on during that time. Anyone missed who wishes to contribute to the 1959 drive may call TU 4-7782 and someone will call to pick up the donation. Members of the Klamath Falls Venture Club will sponsor this year's march. 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