62nd Year Wo. 142
Astro-Chimp
Makes Successful
1 Orbital Flight
I Around the Garth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. MV
1 The United States rocketed Enos
the apace ape into orbit today,
I then recovered him alive from an
ocean landing place after troiible
in his capsule forced early ter
ruination of the 17,500-mile-an
|| hour flight.
Three orbits had been planned,
!| but when tracking stations detect
ed difficulties in the spacecraft
^ controls near Pie end of the sec
m ond circuit, a signal was flashed
jf from Point Arguello, Calif., to
fire the breaking rockets and start
the ship down.
It glided through the atmosphere
to a parachute landing S00 miles
southeast of Bermuda and was
I spotted quickly by a search plane,
which signaled recovery ships
; placed in the area for just such
an emergency. The destroyer
Stonmes plucked the chimp from
the sea and reported he “appeared
to be normal.”
“Although Enoe came through
all right, and the recovery demon
strated perfect ground control of
his craft, the flight raised ques
tions as to whether a crash pro
gram now will be launched to
get an astronaut in orbit before
Pthe year’s end.
The chimp and the capeule were
to be taken to Bermuda for pre
liminary examination, then re
turned to the Cepe.
The freckled-faced eetrochtmp,
a 37 Vi pound native of Africa’s
French Cameroon*, zipped away
from Cape Canaveral at 10:07 a.m.
atop a thundering Atlas rocket.
The huge Atlas performed per
fectly and blasted Pie two-ton,
bell-shaped capsule into an orbit
ranging from 99 to 146 miles high.
The speed was about 17,500 miles
an hour. ^
A report from the flight sur
geon at the Mercury Control Cen
ter at Cape Canaveral said Enos,
a 5 Vi-year-old male, had not
missed a trick, indicating that his
ability to function was not hinder
ed in any way by the crushing
force of blastoff or the initial
entry into the weird world of
weightlessness.
Price of Silver Hits
New High In England
Wisdom hr — The highest
Lt. Col. John Glenn Jr.
Named to Be First U.S.
Astronaut Sent Into Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR—
John Hersehel Glenn Jr., a 40
year-old Marine lieutenant colo
nel, was named today as the
first U.S. astronaut to be rocketed
into orbit, over the > space route
blazed by the chknp, Enos.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter
was named to backup pilot for the
first manned flight. The assign
ments were announced in a state
ment read by Robert Gilruth,
Project Mercury Director, at a
news conference following today’s
successful chimpanzee orbit.
Gilruth named Donald Slayton
to be the pilot for the second
manned oiibit flight, with astro
naut Walter Schirra backing him
up.
Alan B. Shepard Jr., who made
America’s first sub-orbital space
flight last May, was named flight
technical advisor for the Glenn
Canpenter team.
Virgil I. Grissom, who made
the second US. sub-orbital flight
in July, was named flight techni
cal advisor for the Slayton-Schir
ra team.
Gilruth said the naming of
these teams does not necessarily
mean that the next Mercury
flight will be a manned flight,
nor that the next flight will be
made in this calendar year.
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Mob of Katangan Troops
KUZABETHVILLE, Katanga if)
— U.S. Sen. Thomas Dodd, (D*
Conn.), crouched on the floor of
the American consul’s automobile
last night as the driver sped
through an angry mob of Katan
gan paratroopers. The paratroop
ers earlier had dragged two white
U.N. officials from a dinner party
and beat them with rifle butts.
Anti-U.N. violence mounted in
the Kstangan capital in the wake
of the u.N. Security Council
resolution authorizing U.N. troops
to use force to arrest foreign mer
cenaries serving Katanga Presi
dent Moise Tshombe’s secessionist
regime.
Dodd, guest of honor at a dinner
party given by an American, ar
rived with Consul Louis Hoffacker
as the paratroopers were beating
the two U.N. officials, a Briton
and an Australian.
Hoffacker rescued the Austra
lian, put him and Dodd on the
floor of the car and drove them
to the home of Tshombe, whom
Dodd has praised in Senate
speeches. Tshombe’s personal
guard finally secured the Briton’s
releast.
ITS A KILT I . . .
DUNDOQN, Scotland If) — A
UJS. Navy ^officiol^ says American
cfUaUy advised never to call the
kilt a skirt. He said one did end
’Tie was forcibly corrected by the
chap who wore the kilt, a chap
*5*.*” — *•
Many Dignitaries
To View Hospital
Dedication
Dr. K. Kasuga, area medical
officer in charge of the U-S. Pub
lic Health Service’s Alaska Native
Health Area Office in Anchorage,
will give the dedicatory address
tomorrow, when the new 50-bed
hospital at Kotzebue is officially
dedicated.
Local officials anticipate a
crowd of near 1,500 people for
the dedication, and report that
Eskimos in the community plan
to have dances and games in con
nection with the dedication.
The dedication will commence
at 11:00 am. with the Rev. Earl
Farisho, minister of the Friends
Church in Kotzebue giving the
invocation. Dr. James Hunter, de
puty medical officer in charge of
me Anchorage area office, will
give the welcoming address and
introduce the guest speakers.
Among the guest speakers will
be Sen. Ernest Gruening, Gov.
Wm. Egan, Mrs. John Cross,
president, Kotzebue Village Coun
cil, and Mr. Jacob Stalker, state
legislator. Father Pascual Spoli
tini, S. J. of St. Francis Xavier
Catholic Church will give the
benediction.
Dignitaries from Washington,
D.C., and other parts of the coun- 1
try, and the State of Alaska are
also attending the dedication cere
mony
Among Alaskan dignitaries
scheduled for attendance is Lt.
Gen. George Mundy, Commander
in Chief of thd Alaskan Command.
The new hospital is located just
above the Arctic Circle and 150
miles across the Bering Strait
from the 'borders of the Soviet
Union.
The construction of the new
hospital was authorized by Con
gress in 1955 and preliminary en
gineering studies to overcome
water supply and sewage disposal
problems were done by the Arctic
Health Research Center. The
| necessary preliminary studies
were completed early in 1957 and
in May of that year, Foss, Olsen,
and Sands, a Juneau architectural
firm started work on the hospital’s
plans.
KENNEDY VISIT TO SOUTH
AMERICA BEING DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON (ft — President
Kennedy may make a trip to
Venezuela and Colombia next
month, the White House said to
day.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
said the United States “has been
in discussion with the govern
ments of Venezuela and Colom
bia” on the possibility of a Ken
nedy visit sometime in Decem
ber.
It was learned that if Kennedy
does go, he would dedicate edu
cational and housing projects
launched in the two countries
with funds provided through
Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress
plan.
Churchill Last mt list Laaoats
FALMOUTH, England (ft — Sir
Hugh Bateman Phothero-Smith,
89, died yesterday leaving Sir
Winston Churchill as the last
of the 21st Lancets, who made
the historic charge at Omdurman
in Sudan in 1898..
I Seventy-five were killed or
grounded when the Lancers
charged against the fuzzie-wuzzies
led by the Mahdi, a Sudanese re
ligious leader who revolted against
the British.
Sen. Frank Peratrovich
Turns Down Post With
BIA on Policy Differences
WASHINGTON UR — State Sen.
Frank Peratrovich of Alaska said
today he was turning down a post
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs
because of “fundamental policy
differences” with the Interior De
partment officials.
Peratrovich, president of the
Alaskan Senate, was to become
Alaska Area Director for the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs.
His decision was announced
through the office of Sen. E. L.
Bartlett as Peratrovich left here
for Seattle.
Bartlett’s office said Peratrovich
was declining the appointment
because he had found “funda
mental policy differences between
himself and Interior Department
officials” and that “there was a
wide gulf separating their views
on how the Alaska operation
should be conducted.”
Bartlett's office did not ela
borate on the differences.
Top East German
Official Defects
To West Berlin |g j
BONN, Germany UW — The chief |
of the American desk in Bast'
Germany’s Foreign Intelligence
Department has fled to the West,
the *7est German Interior Min
istry announced yesterday.
The defection of Guenther
Maennel, 30, the ministry said,
revealed for the first time that
East Germany has been making
extensive efforts to establish a
spy network in the United States.
An official said that as a re
sult of Maennel’s fefection “most
of the ageitis sent out to pene
trate the United States have al
ready been neutralized?'
It’s believed the Bast Germans
had not actually placed an agent
on U.S. soil, but had operatives
throughout Latin America whose
targets were U.S. interests and
who were to have worked slowly
toward entering the United States.
Officials said Maennel gave
Western counter-spies valuable
details on espionage activities
aimed at penetrating the U.S.
Embassy in Bonn and various
U.S. consulates in West Germany.
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Alaska’s 1962 Motor
Vehicle License Plates
Go on Sale December 15
JUNEAU iff) — Alaska’s 1962
motor vehicle license plates will
go on sale Dec. 15, State Revenue
Commissioner Peter Gatz said
yesterday.
(Motorists will have until mid
night Feb. 28 to get the new
plates on their vehicles before
facing arrest, Gatz said.
The new plates will be used
for three years, with tabs sched
uled to be issued in 1963 and 1964.
Basically, the new plates will
be very similar in design and
color scheme with the plates in
use now. They will have blue
numerials on a white background.
The word “Alaska,” however, will
be moved from toe top of the
plate to the bottomJPf the plate.
Official state plates, Gatz said,
will carry bide numerals on a
gold background.
The last Legislature boosted the
ooat of plates for most types of
motor vehicles. The passenger ve
hicle fee was increased from $20
to $30 a year, effective with the
1962 plates.
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Kennedy Tells
Reservists They
May Be Discharged
Within the Year
By Whitney Shoemaker
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy today told men called
into military service they may get
out of uniform within less than a
year.
Urging then*, not to grumble in
the meantime, he said they pro
vide the strength to spare the
United States a choice “between
humiliation and a holocaust.”
Somewhat heatedly, Kennedy
took note at a news conference of
newspaper stories reporting dis
comforts and possible shortcom
ings in equipment and training
programs for reservists and Na
tional Guardsmen summoned to
service as a result of the East
West crisis over Berlin.
The President said his admin
istration — contrary to some
speculation — never intended to
hold men called up for more than
a year.
Kennedy, in a clear attempt to
bolster the morale of the re
servists and Guardsmen whose
lives were disrupted by the mus
ter of additional strength, said
the soldier on duty in. a “cold
[ and windy camp" is rendering the
1 same valuable service as a air
1 plane on 15-minute alert with the
\ Strategic Air Command.
He said the armed forces ware
increased — “to prevent a war.
not to fight a war.”
“We want to have a choice be
tween humiliation and holocaust,’*
Kennedy said with reference to a.
middle ground between surrender
and the devastation of nuclear
war.
Kennedy declared once again,
that this country wants to nego
[ tiate a peaceful settlement of East
West issues “hut does not intend
to surrender.”
The President covered a wide
range of questions in the news
conference.
In the midst of the half-hour
session with 372 newsmen and on
lookers he announced that the
space-riding chimpanzee had.
taken off at 10:07 am. from Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
“He reports that everything is
perfect and working well,” Ken
nedy said as his audience roared
with laughter.
Kennedy departed from his
usual news conference pattern by
inviting questions at the outset
without making official announce
ments with which he customarily
has opened his meetings with
newsmen.
Fallout shelters — as the ad
ministration moves to clarify its
shelter program, Kennedy said,
the emphasis would be on com
munity shelters to protect large
numbers of people from the deadly
threat of radioactive debris from
shots in a nuclear attack.
He said the long awaked gov
ernment publication on Civil De
fense would be issued shortly and
would contain advice for home
owners on protection and on what
each individual can do.
High Winds Topple Xmas Trse
PARAMUS, N.J. UP — A 7-ton.
80-fbot ChriCtmas tree at the
Bergen Mall Shopping Center was
toppled by high winds yesterday (
and crushed an unoccupied auto.
No shoppers were in the im
mediate vicinity because toe area
had been blocked off, police said.