Russian Astronaut Worked and Ate
While Floating in Cahin of Spare Ship
By Reinhold G. Ensz
MOSCOW — Maj. Yuri A.
Gagarin said Thursday he easily
worked and ate in a state of
weightlessness on his orbital
flight, and his body responded
smoothly to the pull of gravity j
as his space ship headed for a
landing.
He floated in the cabin of his |
space ship as it whizzed at a
speed of 17,000 miles an hour i
more than 100 miles above the
earth, he told the official News
Agertcy Tass somewhere in the
Soviet interior. Other objects in
the ship floated about him.
“The transition from weight
lessness to gravitation,” he said,
“to the appearance of the force
of gravity, is smooth. One’s legs
and arms feel as before, as dur
ing weightlessness, but again
acquire weight. And I am no long
er hovered over the chair, but
eased myself into it.”
Had to Work All the Way
The entire flight, he asserted,
was work all the way and parti
cularly in that phase.
Even so, he said, he felt ex
cellent during that period of his
108-minute flight.
As he waited in the Soviet in
terior for a hero’s welcome in
Moscow, the 27-vear-old astro
naut told for the first time about
his experiences as his five-ton
space ship hurtled around the
earth.
When I became weightless,
Gagarin said, it became easier to
do everything.
“This is quite natural,” he com
mented. “One’s legs, arms weigh
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nothing, objects float in the cabin.
Neither did I myself sit in the
chair as I did before that, but
hung in midair. While in the
state of weightlessness, I ate and
drank and everything occurred
just as it does here on earth.
“I even worked in that condi
tion, wrote, jotting down my ob
servations. My handwriting did
not change although the hand
does not weigh anything. Only I
had to hold the notebook, other
wise it would float away. I main
tained communications over dif
ferent channels and tapped the
telegraph key.”
Gagarin said he learned first
hand that weightlessness does not
deprive a man of an ability to
work.
As to what he saw from space,
Gagarin reported:
“I did not see the moon. The
sun in outer space is tens of
times brighter than here on
earth. The stars are visible very
well. They are bright and dis
tinct. The entire picture of the
firmament is much more con
trasty than when seen from the
earth.”
Gagarin said the sunlit side of
the earth was quite plain and he
could see easily the shores of
continents, islands, great rivers,
folds of the terrain, large bodies
of water.
Flying over the Soviet Union,
he reported he could see the great
squares of the collective farms.
He could even tell cultivated
from meadow land, he said.
Emphasizing he was no mere
passenger as his space ship
circled the earth at a maximum
altitude of 188 miles, Gagarin
said:
“I was entirely concentrated on
carrying out the flight’s program.
I wanted to carry out every point
of the assignment and to do it
as well as possible. There was a
lot of work. The entire flight
meant work.”
While the space ship was un
der ground control for the land
ing, Gagarin helped with the
control phases, Soviet scientists
said when the historic flight was
announced Wednesday.
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f rom The
Nation s Capitol
iThe Weekly Newsletter from the
, Office of Senator Ernest Grueningt
By GEORGE SUNDBORG
Administrative Assistant
Aid In Alaska
Mineral Development Sought
The appointment of John M.
Kelly of Roswell, N. Mex., as As
sistant Secretary of the Interior
for mineral resources, was con
firmed by the Senate last week.
He is the former state geologist
for New Mexico.
Sen. Gruening took advantage
of Kelly’s appearance before the
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee to outline the need for
action to bring mining back to a
position of importance in Al; ska’s
economy. As the various senators
addressed questions to the nom
inee, prior to recommending con
firmation of his appointment.
Sen. Gruening said:
“We in Alaska are very much
concerned about the low status of
our mining industry. We have the
reputation of having 31 of 33
critical minerals there, but nothing
is happening. The only subsoil
mineral that is being developed
is oil. We have great tin deposits
on the Seward Peninsula, and lead
and gold. I hope it is part of your
activities in the formulation of
the program to help us in develop
ment of those mineral resources.
Some of them are gravely needed.
We have the only tin deposit in
the Western Hemisphere, that is,
on the North American continent,
and it is in a very low state. As
you know, gold production is on
the way down; most of the gold
operations are about to be sus
pended, and the whole mining
picture is very depressing. We
hope that you will give your at
tention to that problem in Alas
ka as soon as it is possible for
you to do.”
Expansion of Native
Handicrafts Encouraged
At the invitation of Sen. Gruen
ing, J. Edward Davis, general
manager of the Indian Arts and
Crafts Board, visited Capitol Hill
this week to meet with the Sen
ator and his staff and discussed
means of enchancing the position
of Indian and Eskimo crafts in
the state’s economy.
Davis said he was hopeful that
Ronald William Senungetuk of
Nome, who is now in Norway at
tending the State Handicrafts and
Arts School at Oslo on a Ful
bright scholarship, will join the
Indian Arts and Crafts Board on
his return to the United States
this summer, so he can work par
ticularly on expanding the scope
of crafts work in Alaska.
All Express
To Be Flown io Alaska
If the Civil Aeronautics Board
approves a proposal now before
it, the time required for express
shipments to reach Alaska will
be cut by as much as a week,
Sen. Gruening was advised this
week by Joseph G. Feeney, vice
president of REA Express. REA
Express is the new name for the
complete domestic and interna
tional surface and air services of
Railway Express Agency.
Feeney said his concern pro
poses to fly all express shipments
to Alaska instead of using steam
ship service via Seattle. No in
crease in rates is planned for the
service, the Senator was told.
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By Ifni Boyle
NEW YORK UP) — Dr. Maynard
! Amerine, a distinguished scholar
i with sherry-colored hair and
| madera-colored eyes, has an un
I usual academic chore.
Each year, he must taste test
some 1,500 different lost of wine.
“But in the daytime — from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. — I never
I swallow any,” he said.
The testing is one of the duties
that falls to Amerine as Director
of the University of California’s
Department of Oenologv, or wine
making.
The department operates its
own winery and 150 acres of
vineyards stocked with more than
1,000 varieties of grapes. It also
is pioneering in the development
of automatic grape harvesting.
Its 50 students come from all
parts of the world, including
such famed wine centers as
France, Germany and Portugal.
At the end of the year Amerine,
who can easily indentiify 100
kinds of wine, expects his senior
students to be able to classify
by taste, color and aroma at least
25 of the popular wines.
The students don’t get to drink
the wine. They merely sit in
cubicles and sniff and taste the
samples — then expectorate
them, as does a professional
tester.
A course in wine making might
sound like a collegiate boon
doggle to the uninvited. It isn’t.
“We don’t have the problem
| of the smart alec student looking
I for a snap subject. Before en
rolling our students have to have
16 units of chemistry, 8 units of
physics and 9 units of math, in
cluding calculus,” Amerine said.
“The requirements are so stiff
| they eliminate all except the
j serious students, those really in
terested in finding a career in
the wine industry.”
The department spends nearly
a million dollars a year in teach
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Village children need milk and
the people of the village need
flour if the Western Alaska vil
lage is to survive, according to
a report received here today.
The village council has sent a
letter here “to appeal for infor
mation about which agency to
contact to seek aid for the people
of Holikachuk.”
The council said that the native
store is out of canned milk and
flour and the supply staples at
two neighboring villages is also
nearly exhausted. The council re
ported that villagers had gone
to Anvik, 40 miles west, and
Shageluk. 18 miles south on the
Innoko River, by dog team to get
staples, but found that the sup
plies were extremely low there.
Because the trapping has been
extremely poor this season and
the unemployment compensation
from seasonal work “is long gone,
these people have no money to
order these costly items from re
tail stores in Anchorage.
A freight boat is not expected
to bring new supplies of milk and
flour until mid-June. The need
for milk for the children is fur
ther compounded, the council
said, by the fact that a flu epi
demic has closed the school. Milk
is needed to help restore their
health, the council said.
The village is located on the
Innoko River and is only about
40 miles east of the Yukon River.
When the breakup comes, the
village will be entirely cut off
from contact with their neighbors
and it will be virtually impossible
to send supplies to the village
until the ice moves out, the coun
cil said.
ing and research. It is currently
conducting perhaps the most
active grape breeding project in
! the w’orld.
To Amerine, oenology is more
than a mere academic pursuit. To
him the lore of wine is full of
I both poetry and romance.
“A good wine must have a
come-hither quality — something
to stimulate the imagination.
“A memorable woman or a
memorable wine must have a
special individual quality — if
either is too transparent, how can
either be really interesting?”
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