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cxir. m--.;s?a'.-:h ssciios Pacific CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla UPH L. Gordon Cooper, 36, whirled through the final orbits o( Ameri ca's greatest space (light today to ward splashdown in the Pacific this afternoon. The Air Force major long since had logged more hours and miles space than all of his American RyssiAif U : tACtrlC OCIAH US"?' g&L f I MA9 I jt fim'h sou,M N W COOPER SPLASH PINPOINTED When Astronaut Gordon Cooper has completed his full 22 orbits of the earth he will have flown over more than 100 countries and possessions and made four passes over the Red Target lone as shown in the newsmap above. When his full mission is completed, Cooper will splash down, arrow, about 100 miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific at 4:23 p.m. PDT. UPI Telephoto In The- Bay's lews By FRANK JENKINS The Big News today? It's still Astronaut Cooper. As this is written, he has just been given the nod to go ahead and complete his full 22.9 orbits mission. The go-ahead means that if everything continues to go well he will splash down in the Pacilic 100 miles southeast of Midway Island at 4:23 p.m., PDT. Not "about 4:30 or thereabouts, as we would say here on earth if calculating the time at which we will probably get home from a trip. At 4:23 p.m. The space scientists have no use for the word "about." They do it right on the button. (If all goes well.) (. Why the careful timing? Well, FUEL had nothing to do with it. Fuel isn't a problem when you're orbiting out in space. The problem is Allt. Astronaut Cooper is geared lor NO JIUlir. than three days. That's the limit of the oxygen supply in his cralt. He took his air with him, just as you would take water along on a salari into a waterless desert Going into the desert, when your water's gone you're a goner. When Major Cooper's air is gone, he's a goner. Hence his time limn. WHY the flight? lt wasn't just a stunt to see 11 we could do it. We KNEW bar ring the totally not-to-be-expected we could do it. We had done it twice before and what one has done twice before one is fairly conlident one can do again. The problem was one ol WEIGHTLESSNESS and air. Es pecially weightlessness. The astro naut can carry his air in the lorm o( oxygen. Lack of weight is a horse of another color. What is weightlessness? II is a measure of the amount of force with which a body is pulled toward the earth by grav ity. At the center of the earth, a body would have no weight at all because it would be equally at tracted in all directions. The scientists tell us that the farther a body is Irom the center of the earth the less will be the force o! gravity and therctofc the less weight it will have Because the caith is FLATTENED at the poles, a mass of iron which weighs 1.000 pounds at the equa tor will weigh five pounds MOKE at the poles because the tmlcs are nearer tu the center of the earth than the equator. Sn- The farther nut in space man pels the less WEIGHT there is un til the point arrives where there is no weight at all. If jou should cirop your waicn mil i'ictc in i distant space it won't lall to the fl , lu II uill ill. I ' FLOAT AltOLND. We need to know more about tins business of weight and the I lack of it That s one of the tea sons lor these space flights. What alumt tiie an ' We think of it as LIGHT. It isn't It s HEAVY. Believe it or not. the air pressing down on this pate as uii read it weighs near ly HALF A TON. Incidentally, the weight less at Klamath Falls than at Med lord or Hnsclmrs be cause Klamath Falls is HIGHER IT and dncMi't have so much air resting on II. fCnatiaiied Page 4-A) SpSasDi) predecessors combined. Shortly after the 147-pound as tronaut started his 19th orbit at 8:45 a.m. PDT less than five laps from his goal flight con trollers reported that weather conditions in his Pacilic recovery area were "pretty good." As of 9:30 a.m. PDT. the space Wii(Iur Klamath Palls, Tulalakt and Lahavlaw Fair tonight and Friday with low! tonight of M-JBI high Friday 10-TS. Vari. abli wind) s-12 m.p.h. High yattorday 45 Low thii morning ia High year ago aj Low yaar ago 34 Preclp. past 24 hour .00 Since Jan. 1 i.tj Soma period tail year 7.01 Education TV Budget Gets Okay SALEM (UPI I - A trimmed educational television budget of S906.900 with a feature, liesigned to stimulate state and lncal school participation won legislative committee approval Wednesday. The Ways and Means Education subcommittee voted for the sum which is $57,100 less than the gov crnor had proposed. Furthermore, $70,000 of the sum approved by the subcommittee would be available, only if the higher education system, the edu cation department, or local school districts put up $2 tor each $1 of state money. Rep. John Mosser. R-Beavcrton. expressed hope that would encour age the state's school and college systems to take part more seri ously in educational television. The subcommittee abandoned a proposal to put educational tele vision and radio under an inde pendent council and decided to leave it under higher education, where it is a semi independent branch. Most of the monev approved by the committee for Hie 1963-63 bi ennium. $696,900 of it. would go to the svstem for cultural broadcasts and its "College of the Air." Of the rest, $80,000 would go to higher education and $ao,ooo to tlie Department of Education for school programming. The cflect of the budget approved by the subcommittee would be to hold back the expan sion of the 3-vear-old state educa tional television system, which had hoped to increase its broad cast hours. Ediica'.ic.r.al radii is included in tin? budget. North Carolina Negroes Protest Segregation In Cafes, Theatres fly United Press International Negroes staged another big demonstration in North Caro lina Wednesday mht in a protest acamst e cremation a' restau rants and theaters. At Birmingham. Ala . a group of businessmen urged citizens of tlie racially tense city to accept an asreement with Negro leaders lr. rioegregate downtown stores. Mayor Art Itancs called for re pudiation of tlie agi cement. Biracial committees at Nash ville. Tenn., and Raleigh, N. C.i continued working Inwaid a solu-j tion of racial problems in those capital cities. An estimaied 1..VH, Negro col lege students marched at Greens boro, N. C. in attempts to inte grate restaurants and theaters in that textile city huh gave birth to the sit-in movement apainst lunch counter Kgregation. There agency said, everything was set ior a triumphant conclusion of the 22.9-orbit flight -which Cooper began with a flawless liftoff at 6:04 a.m. Wednesday. Said an agency spokesman: "Recovery forces, weather, and all our people in those areas are Price Ten Cents 24 Pages . ' ' ''V-:.:., ., ... ..." 1 . ' . , . . , . '. ' . OPERATION TURNAROUND Kingsley Field airmen begin refueling two FI0I Voodoos, jet fighter-interceptors, in one phase of a "turnaround" carried out soon after the aircraft landed at the field. In a turnaround operation, the fighter planes land, taxi to the ramp and shut down. Airmen then refuel the planes from petroleum Armed Forces Day A day-long slate of activities! commemorating Armed Forces Day followed by tlie dedicationj of the site for the proposed Inter community Hospital are in pros pect for residents of the Klamath Ba.sin next Saturday and Sun day in one of the most eventful weekends planned for Klamath Falls in recent years. The two-day schedule of events opens 10 am,. .Saturday, when a parade of marching units, mo torized float and mobile exhibits pass along Main Street in one of various activities for Klamath Falls, Kingsley Field, and tlie Air Force Station at Keno in cele bration of Armed Forces Day. At 2:45 p.m.. Sunday, the week end program ends with the dedi cation of the hospital site, near the new OTI campus, by Kcv. .lohn O. Iteynolds. pastor of the Ifcdiu. d WelMiiiiU'i Pi vtty it- nan Church, who will be among was no violence. Police arrested 200 demonstra tors on trespass charges. Some oi the .Negroes were carried bodily! to paddy wauons from the estab lishments alter they refused Te (jots to leave. Two white girls and two white youths were ar retted with the Nccroes at one cafeteria when they blocked a serving lin. More than f Negroes had marched throuch Raleigh Tues-i day nicht to back up desrurea ! tion demands. Police arrested 54 of the demont-tratoi s. The previ ous day. a similar march at Nashville touched off fightiniremnved from Alabama. He ac with white youths. Olltcials nfiniH-d the government of il!egal- both cities began negotiation ly sending the troops into the with Negro leaders tn theUtate. President Kennedy dis- situation. p.itciicd more Uian 3. "W soldiers1 Tlie ' senior iturns" group atjo military bases near Birming Birmingham said Its agreementham Sunday following six hours with Negroes to desegregate bu&Mof racial noting in the steel city. To mi Waiting to pluck Cooicr and his Faith 7 spacecraft from the sea about 100 miles southeast of Mid way Island were the aircraft car rier Kcarsarge, with 2.156 men aboard, and two destroyers. "We are sure he will get a warm welcome." said Lt. Col. John A. i Shorty i Powers, spokes man for the Mercury man-in-space program. Cooper In Good Shape Cooper, refreshed after the first long sleep ever taken by an American in space, had been de scribed as in "vei"' good shape" as he soared at more than 17,500 miles an hour toward the climax of a trail-blazing flight for U.S. moon journeys of the future. Already the question was being raised as to whether Cooper's flight would wrap up the $500 million Mercury project, which is to be followed by the two-man Gemini and Apollo moon pro grams. Space officials said it was too early yet to say. Hut the national Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration had stated previously that a successful mission by Cooper would wind up Mercury. D. Brainerd Holmes, director of .NASA's oflice of manned space flight, put it this way: "we're up to this lime delighted the flight's not over yet we'll do our cheering when he gels back." NASA officials estimated that a number of guests in a ceremo ny in which William B. Sweet land will be master of ceremo nies. Tlie guest speaker at the dedi cation will be U.S. Senator Barry Golduater of Arizona. Senator Ooldwater, who is to be the honored guest at a mill tary banquet at Kingsley Field later that evening, will arrive with his entourage at the dedica tion site in a helicopter H-43'. The aircraft will depart from Kingsley Field and then hover several inches above the hospital site uhile the senator and his party of five deplane near the speaker's platform. Accompanying the senator, who is a major general in the t.S. Air Force Reserve. Mill be Maj. Gen. Henry R. Spicer, command er. 25th Air Division. McChord Air Fuice Base. Tacoma; Coi. Iron Gray, commander. Portland Iterate ness "violates no law. It binds no! posed constitution, but as a acpa one in the white community ex- rate question, cepl the businesses involved." It The Senate committee also urged Birmingham citizens "to marie several other changes, appraise the co-l of him or her Tlie House had adopted Ore f more thoughtless irresponsibii-lgon's present legislative apor ity. violence or hate." jtionment plan. And it had lelt the Uanes, however, told some fiOOidcalh penally in the constitution, persons Wednesday night to "do with the intent of asking voters everything in your power" to re-at the November general election -it desegregation. He called the, whether it should be removed, i itiens committee "a group of The two Senate committee votev hi?y minded liberals, pinkos and a gainst Ihe document came from Reds . . ." iov. (tftitkie Wallace said Wednesday he would 20 to court in an effort to get federal troops braking rockets on Cooper's 3.000 pound spacecraft would fire at 4:02 p.m. PDT about 170 mile; southeast of Kyushu, Japan, to ward the end of his journey to pull him aown from orbit. Iteturn Is Complicated That would put his splashdown in the Pacific recovery area at about 4:20 p.m. after a sharp plunge d u r i ng w lliui Cooper's weight would jump about 7's times under the forces of decel eration. Powers warned that the braking maneuver, called retroiire. is a complicated and difficult timing operation. Ships and planes were ready to got quickly into action if Cooper should miss the landing bullseyc. CooHM had elected to stay aboard his spacecraft until it was hoisted aboard t h e Kcarsarge rather than let himself be lilted aboard a recovery helicopter. Space officials said Cooper awoke from his space sleep around 3:23 a.m. PDT, calm and relaxed. The Air Force major got his go- ahead to complete his pace-setting assignment at 6:37 a.m. PUT, 24 hours and 33 minutes alter he rocketed into space Wednesday. 1 ho uluc-eyed astronaut, drilling around and around the world. completed his lHth orbit at 5:45 a.m. PDT. His condition: "Excel lent." KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON, v IV. rill I.I .mlin m ill ill I I. II. .....IT ,..,..., .n.ll.i..l,-lll.l I . I I, Ml.' .1 trucks, and if necessary, reload them with the proper armament for the next mission. Aircraft land, are re fueled, rearmed, and returned to the skies in less time than most recinq pit stops. A "turnaround" and other demonstrations will be performed during an open house at the airfield, Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 18. Observance Set Air Defense Sector, Adair A i rlcommandinK ollicer of Kingsley Force Station, Corvallis; Col. William Pitts, aide to tlie aena- lor; Col. Kdwin J. Witzenburfjcr.l Constitution Faces Action By Senate SALEM i UPI i A new constitu tion was approved 7-2 by the Sen ate Committee on Constitutional Revision Wednesday night, with Senate action planned Tuesday morning. Sen. Walter Pearson, D Port land, chairman, said he will ask the Senate to make the document a special oro.T of business at Hi: 15 a m The constitution that cleared the Senate committee contains two gnificant changes from the House-passed version: The Senate committee adopt ed the legislative apportionment plan of Sen. Anthony Vturri, It Ontario. The committee decided to put the death penally issue on the same May, I'M, ballot as the pro- ,Scns, Don WiHncr, I) Portland and Glen Stadler. D-Kugene, be cause of Ihe Vturri apportionment plan. They said, however, if sub sequent study convimes them it is a true population plan, they will support the document on the floor. It needs a two-thirds vole of tlie Senate to pass Then the two Houses must agree befme It can reach Die voters. pes'' The go-ahead meant that if everything continues to go well Cooper will splash down in the Pacilic about too miles southeast of Midway Island at about 4:23 p.m. PDT. This w ill climax the .most am bitious space venture vet attempt ed by the United States. Already Cooper s flight had amassed piles of information which will help America shape its Apollo program to land men on the moon before 1970. He had set a new t'.S. record for time spent in space and had guaranteed for himself the dis tinction of having made the third longest orbital flight in history. 1 his was assured at the 25-hour, lo-minutc point in Cooper's flight after 440.000 miles of space travel The No. 3 honor previously be longed to Soviet cosmonaut Gher man S. Titov who flew 17 orbits in 25 hours and 18 minutes on a 437,500-mile trip Aug. 6-7, 1061. Soviet Maj. Andrian Nikolayev holds the record with a 64-orbit flight Aug. 11-15. 1962. which last ed just under four days. He flew 1,615.000 miles. Kunnerup is Soviet Lt. Col. Pa vel Popovich who (lew 48 orbits in just under three days Aug. 12 15, ma. His distance was 1,243,- 000 miles. "All systems are go, the astro naut is go. and he has been given go' decision" for the full mission. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1W.3 Field, and Mayor Hobert Vcatch (fnnllnurd nn Pari' 4-A The Vturri apportionment plan would make the sizes of the House and Senate flexible, with top limits of 35 and 65 members. Kach county would Ret a legis lator tor each 1 .10 nr 1-60 of the population of the state. Counties with more than one half (lie re quirement lelt ' over (a major fraction) would set an extra leg islator. Counties with less than one half the requirement to start with would he combined intn dis tricts meeting the major fraction requirement for a legislator. Vturri said it is a true popula tion plan, although its immediate effect would be to give a slight advantage to Kastern Oregon. Milk Control Bill Approved SALEM 't'l'li - The Hnue approved milk price control bill won unanimous approval in the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday, and was sent to the florrr for action. The bill is designed to stabilize tlie prices farmers get tor milk by setting up automatic market pools to equalise prices. Tlie committee tlien rewrote an other bill to it would set minimum prices on processed milk sold at Ihe wholesale level. Tlie rewritten measure is designed to give stronger control over out-of-state milk shipments which are dumped'' in Oregon. Sen. Harry Hoivm. D Klamath Kails, ex- plained 22 -Orbit a Mercury spokesman said in an nouncing the go-ahead. At that point, Coo)er was swing ing across the southern coast of Australia on the start of a north east path across the Pacific Ocean back toward the United States. He was midway through orbit 17. Cooper slept ?': hirs during Astronaut's Family Books Passage On Hawaii Plane TAYLOIt LAKE VILLAGE, Tex. i UPI I Mrs. L. Gordon Cooper and her daughters broke out their luggage today and booked passage on a jet plane to Hawaii. They plan to join astronaut Coo per at Honolulu after he comes down. Mrs. Conner awoke today about the lime hrr husband aroused himself from a sound sleep in his Faith 7 spacecraft. An hour later, Mrs. Coniwr awoke her daughters, Camala. 14, find Janita. 13. Jan prepared n breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast. They plan to leave Houston Fri day morning on National Airlines Flight 35, which will take them Telephone Small Tax Increase Noted In Tentative City Budget A modest Increase of $ig,nr3 in the tax levy will be necessary to finance the budget tor opera tion ol tlie city of Klamath Falls during the KHi.1-14 fiscal year. The city budfict committee has yet (o formally approve the li nalizrd budget, hut it has processed It thoroughly and has tentatively approved a combined city budget of $l.i2,10fi M Estimated revenue from a 1 1 sources except taxes for tlie city amounts to $i24,110. Cash on hand will be $.W8.3ft5.0R. and UM.m, derived from translers. This leaves a total to be levied property taxes to meet the budget of $(24.1(3. It is expected that $02,417 will he uncollectible during the 1963-M year, leaving net tax levy of $jfil,745 lor budget purposes. The total budget is composed of $t!fi4,0l0 for general fund ad ministrative budget, ffi4S.MZ lor departmental budgets and $I.V 2o4.IKt lor involuntary budgets covered by siecial tax levies The total budget represents an increae of about $100,000. Of this amount. exiecled revenue will absorb about $110,000 of this in crease, and a balance of $19.0).1 will be levied via taxes. This amount amounts to the permit ted six per cent increase over the amount levied for this pur pose last year. The increases in tlie city budg et are entered mainly in the gen eral fund budgets which show f DAY CAMP COOKERY Camp Fir Girls Day Camp lettions feature a variety of educational and fun ae tivitie. including cooking hobo-ttyla. Learning how to operate the "hobo itova are, from left, Kathy Farr and Kathy Rot. Information and applications for th day camp are beinq distributed this weak to all qirls between 7 and 17 in the community. Two four-day sessions, Mon day through Thursday, are scheduled at Cable Corral on Stukel Mountain, with bus transportation furniined. Datat ere June 1 7-20 and June 24-27. the night as his Faith 7 rahin drifted through space. He awoke about 3:25 a.m. PDT. Dr. Charles Berry. Project Mercury physician, said Cooper slept with "very regular respira tion." "Medically, he has been in very, very good shape," Berry said. He added that the astronaut had cat- in Los Angeles. They will leave Los Angeles for Honolulu at 12:30 p.m. PDT Friday on a Pan Amer-, ican jet. Although they took their lug gage out of storage, they did not start packing immediately. Hawai ian leis were expected to be de livered to the Cooper home later today. Mrs. Conner and the girls tried to listen to Cooper's voice on a special radio receiver as he mrde his 16th orbit but failed to hear anything intelligible. Mrs. Cooper said Wednesday's reception of her husband's voice Iransmissinns was poor. But she said she did hear her husband's voice. TU 4-8111 No. 7141 net increase ot $78,500. Another $22,000 increase is In the vlun- tary budgets which are supported by (unds from other than prop erty tax sources. The major portion of the $78,500 increase comes in two depart ments. Ihe police department budget which is up $48,000 and the street department which Is up S.10.000. The general administra tive budget is down $lB.ono and the legislative budget $5(10. Tin's decrease is absorbed in modest increases in other budgets such as $4.0110 in the legal, judicial budget, $1,5(10 in the planning department, $3,000 in the sewer department. $2,000 in the engineer ing department, $ti,jO0 in the lire department and $3,000 in the dog pound funds. Actually, the major nhare of the increase in tlie police de partment budget comes about from a transfer of expenditures usually carried in previous years under the parking meter lund. Some $.14,000 in salaries has been Iranslerrcd from tlie parking me- ler fund tn the police depart ment fund, leaving an actual in crease of $4,000 in tlie police de partment exicnse for IOtiJ.9r4 year. Much of this comes about for salary adjustments and mi nor increases in other items. The item of prisoner meals of $7,000 was formerly earned in the ad ministrative budget and has now been moved into tlie police de- alpartment budget. mht en at least twice during his first 24 hours in space. Although Cooper's spacecraft was in drifting flight while he slept, it was not a case of drift ing and dreaming. Asked from the ground if he had any dreams while asleep. Cooper replied: "Negative. Actually, I slept very soundly." "It was very comforting to hear," she said. Mrs. Cooper will not talk to re porters until her husband is safe ly down from his flight. Hat Dave Schwartz, public af fairs officer for the national space agency, said, "w i t h this textbook flight, they couldn't be less than pleased." Throughout the d,oy, Mrs. Coo per and the two girls followed the progress of the Faith 7 on televi sion. The girls went outside dur ing Cooer's sixth orbit, however. and played badminton in the backyard with two neighbor girls. Mrs. Cooper called the liftoff of her husband's rocket Wednesday "beautiful." Weailur AGRICULTURAL FOR IC AST Mostly fair tttrough Saturday with full tun t hint both days. No rain expected. Liqht winds and warm daytime ttmpere turei. loll Temperatures 4a and rising slowly. I Examining the police depart- ment budget in detail we find salaries up $4,000 above the $34.- 000 translcrred in, $2,000 increase in expected payroll costs for State Industrial Accident and So cial Security payments, cloth ing allowance is up $400, supplius $1100, prisoner clothing up JW- gas and oil up $1,000, motor ve hicle maintenance up $1,000, re serve for office equiimicnt up $800 and -Identification equipment up $300. The reserve for auto equip ment was decreased $1,000 and another $2,500 was dropped from last year's budget when the pistol range was purchased last year. This sum was a non-recurring item. The $10,000 increase in the street department comes about through three items. A sum of $.000 in salaries previously car ried under tlie Slate Street Tax Expenditures has been moved into the street department budget, and two new accounts have been added to the budget. One is for $10,000 and would provide funds for sustaining tlie newly initiated street improvements by providing money (or paying assessments against city owned property in volved in such improvements. City Manager Robert Kyle Indi- (Continued on Page 4-A) Boards Set Election Day The Klamath County School Dis trict and the Klamath Falls Ele mentary District No. I jointly agreed this week to hold a spe cial county wide election. June 10. on the proposal lor single dis trict reorganization. Attorneys lor both district are working together to draw a bal lot title and legal notice of elec tion. Hay llunsaker. city school su perintendent, will write to the at torney general for an opinion nn certain issues that would arise in the event a majority of citizens in the separate districts involved vole to reorganize. One of tlie problems is wheth er another budget election w ill be necessary. llunsaker said. Anoth er question is how to arrive at tlie new district's lax base and third Is whether Ihe Union High District is automatically dis solved or does the county court. acting as a boundary board, have to act to dissolve the KU district. Welfare Group To Meet Here SALEM (UPD-The Slate Wel fare Commission w ill hold Us riett regular meeting May 24 at tlie county courthouse in Klamath Ealla. f
