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Two Men Ascend 40,000 Feet
In Balloon In Space Travel Test
MINNEAPOLIS, OP) — An as
tronomer and a veteran Navy
balloonist, tired and hungry af
ter a 12-hour ascent to 40,000
feet, today said they found a
place near their maximum al
titude where the stars didn’t
twinkle.
Cmdr. Malcolm D. Ross, long
time Navy aeronaut, and astron
omer Alfred H. Mikesell, were
flown here after their landing in
a clover field near Dubuque,
Iowa.
“We’re a little tired, but very
happy,” both men said. They
wanted shaves and were anxious
for breakfast.
Ross and Mikesell said the
balloon was around 40,000 feet
when they observed the stars
were not twinkling.
Mikesell, 44-year-old father of
eight children, specializes in
studying the scintillation or
twinkling of the stars. This was
his first balloon ascent.
Observation of the stars from
* the balloon was different and
better than any previous view-j
ing he has had, the astronomer
said.
“There’s quite a different look
up there,” Mikesell added.
Cmdr. Ross said the landing
was a “textbook landing.” Del
icate equipment aboard was un
damaged.
Ross, a veteran balloonist, was
impressed with the way Mike
sell described the heavenly bod
ies they saw—the moon, Saturn,
Mars and other planets and stars.
“It was just wonderful listen
ing to him describe these things
as he viewed them,” Ross said.
In Washington, a Navy medical
officer said flight data suggested
a possible built-in hazard in a
pressure-breathing arrangement,
which had been designed as a
safety factor.
The ascent provided the first
test of techniques that some day
will be used to record men’s
physical reactions in an orbiting
satellite.
Heartbeats, respiration and
other physical reactions were re
corder by radio and piped 1,300
miles by telephone to a Naval
Medical Research Institute near
Washington, D. C.
Between their 8:50 p.m. as
cent from an open mine pit near
Crosby, Minn, last night and
their 8:26 a.m. landing today,
the balloonists crossed parts of
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Illinois. They were in a small
fibreglass basket, open to the air.
Chamber Will
. Urge Earlier
Sailing 1st Boat
The members of the North
western Alaska Chamber of Com
merce discussed the summer
boat sailings to the Seward Pen
insula at their regular weekly
meeting. Requests will be sent
to the Alaska Steamship Com
pany urging that the first boat
< sails at an earlier date and the
last boat at a later date. It was
* noted that each year the first
boat arrives later and it is be
coming a hardship to the mer
chants and others in the com
munity.
“Sometimes it takes someone
from out of town to see the pro
gress made in an organization
such as Girl Scouts”, stated Mrs.
Tom Brady, executive director of
the Girl Scout Council from
Fairbanks and a guest at the
Chamber luncheon. She contin
ued with the statement that two
years ago there were four troops
in Nome and now there are nine,
with two troops in Teller. Mrs.
Brady also said she wanted to
publicly recognize the excellent
work being done by Nelda Liebig
and by Mildred Harwood for the
Girl Scouts in this community.
Other guests at the Monday
luncheon were Mrs. Liebig, Mrs.
Harwood, Rusty Dahl of Stand
ard Oil, and Rev. A. Halverson
of Madagascar.
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., (ff) —
Samuel Seabury, the driving!
force in a corruption investiga- ■
tion which led to the resignation
of debonair James J. Walker as |
mayor of New York City, died'
today. He was 85. ‘
You Can’t Keep
A Good Man Down
CHERRY POINT, N. C., UP) —!
“He’s a good Marine and he
gets along fine. He’s doing a fine
job.”
That was the official verdict
here on Matthew McKeon two
years after the tragic drowning
of six men on a training march
at Parris Island, S. C.
The public information office
here said McKeon was promoted
to Corporal May 1. He serves as
an administrative clerk here. The
33-year-old Marine was a Staff
Sergeant platoon leader at Par
ris Island the night of April 7,
1956, when his night march ex
ploded national headlines.
He was convicted by a court
martial board of negligent homi
cide and drinking in the barracks
before the march. He was sen
tenced to nine months at hard
work and reduced in rank to a
private.
V
Alligator Gets Loose
On Air France Plane
PARIS, — Passengers
screeched when an alligator
waddled down the aisle ef an
Air France plane during a stop
over at Niamey in French West
Africa yesterday.
The airport crew quickly got
nets and captured it.
Hermann Broker, a German
business executive, said he had
the ’gator—about 2 Vi feet long
and three months old—in a
leather pouch on his lap. He
dozed off and his pet wiggled
free.
Broker was advised to keep
closer watch over the ’gator for
the rest of the flight to Paris.
Attorneys Move For
New Trial In Steve
Salinas Arson Case
The attorneys for Steve Salinas
have filed a motion for a judg
ment of acquittal or a new trial.
He was found guilty by a jury
recently of arson in the second
degree.
They claim that new evidence
has been* found; that the ver
dict was a compromise coerced
by the court which refused a
discharge of the jury for 31
hours after the jury had been
out sixteen hours and had re
ported a deadlock; misconduct
of the bailiff in securing a dic
tionary without the consent of
the court and that the definition
of the crime of arson in the
second degree was not clearly set
out in the instructions of the
court to the jury.
They also claim that the ver
dict was inconsistant insomuch
that it found Salinas guilty of
arson in the second degree but
found him not guilty of burning
with intent to defraud insurer.
SAS Is Fined
$20,000 In Airways
“Sandwich” War
COPENHAGEN, (#> — A
$20,000 fine has been slapped on
the Scandinavian Airlines Sys
tem for an innuendo published
during the wordy war of the
airborne sandwich. (On the con
structive side, the war produced
a ruling on what a sandwich
must or must not be.)
An SAS official said tonight
the International Air Transport
Assn, levied the fine after Trans
World Airlines complained about
an SAS sales letter saying in
part:
“On our planes you won’t find
rubbery indigestibles wrapped in
cellophane.”
The official said SAS expressed
regret about the wording and
agreed to pay up.
The sandwich war blew up
recently over the question of
what is and what is not a sand
wich.
Pan American World Airways
complained to the IATA that four
European airlines were compet
ing unfairly by serving economy
flight passengers sandwiches so
elaborate they amounted to a
fancy meal.
The IATA at a two-day meet
ing in London ruled a sandwich
must be: cold, largely of bread
or something similar, unadorned,
self contained and not include
such fillings as caviar, oysters
and lobster.
Earl Owens Named
Tax Commissioner
For Second Division
Earl Owens has been appointed
Deputy Tax Commissioner for
the Second Division replacing
Gordon Osborne who has re
signed to take a position with
the M and M Bank.
Roberta Ross will be the
assistant of the new deputy
while Mrs. Ash Craft who now
holds that position is in the
states on vacation.
Eisenhower Starts 1958 Campaign
By Telling Republicans It Will
Take Hard Work To Win In November
WASHINGTON, to — Presi
dent Eisenhower says GOP pros
pects are bright and the party
can win, if it works, in the No
vember election. But he left
himself free today to withhold
his support from Republicans
who do not support his program.
Teeing off the party’s 1958
election campaign, Eisenhower
said last night that, in a nut
shell, the Republican case be
fore America is “responsive, re
sponsible government at home—
plus effective support for pro
prams essential to America’s
peace and security in this gravely
menaced world.”
But the President exhorted
Democrats and Republicans alike
to line up against what he termed
the evil force of tyrannical Com
munist imperialism and push
through Congress his world trade,
foreign aid and military reorgan
ization plans.
In a new era of great un
easiness and “balanced terror in
the world,” he said, “our national
survival and human liberty are
at stake in the way we form and
sustain our national policies.”
The approaching decisions on
the three key legislative items he
named, Eisenhower said, “de
mand our attention as Americans,
without regard to partisanship’*
because they are of grave im
portance-to the nation and world
peace.
Yet all three are encountering
rough going on capitol hill—and
some members of the President’s
own party are helping make it
rough. Only yesterday a House
committee halted work on recip
rocal trade extension and called
on Eisenhower for a compromise
proposal.
At a dinner honoring Repub
licans in Congress, Eisenhower
wound up with this political fore
cast and promise:
“If we will but try—if we will
never forget the value of good,
hard work—we are certain, with
our record, to win next Novem
ber. This is the sure road to a
Republican 86th Congress:
j Much Ado—
i About A Megaphone
WASHINGTON, (51 — The Air
Force, after extensive research,
confirmed today what every
cheerleader knows—that a mega
phone is a big help in a big noise.
The study was undertaken to
determine scientifically if a mega
phone could be a solution to
this vexing problem:
How to make important mes
sages understood, without shout
ing, in the vicinity of jet air
craft or other loud noises.
Researchers, reporting on elab- j
orate tests involving a high
fidelity tape recorder, a micro
phone and jet noises, presented
this conclusion to the American
Acoustical Society:
“A small megaphone (strapped
to the mouth) would be a very
cheap and handy aid to commun
icating by speech in noisy places.”
Green Navy Guards
Threaten To Shoot
Reporters At Crash Scene
EL CENTRO, Calif., UH — The
Navy has apologized for gun
toting guards who threatened to
shoot newspaper reporters and
photographers at the scene of a
jet crash.
The guards were green and
overly conscientious and their
actions yesterday reflected their i
individual feelings and not those J
of the Navy, Capt. Ben Moore Jr.,;
commanding officer of the aux-1
iliary air station here, said in a
press statement.
The guards ordered the news
paper representatives away from
the crash of an FJ3 Fury jet in a
cotton field not on military prop
erty.
The pilot, who was returning
i from a routine gunnery flight,
| was killed.
Folsom Submits
©
His Resignation
WASHINGTON, UP) — Marion
Folsom resigned today as Sec
retary of Health, Education and
Welfare. ■
President Eisenhower picked
Arthur Flemming, president of
Ohio Wesleyan University, to
succeed him.
Folsom, 64, wrote Eisenhower
he is leaving the Cabinet for per
sonal reasons which he did not
specify. He will step down some
time between July 15 and Aug. 1.
Accepting Folsom’s resignation
Eisenhower sent to the Senate a
formal nomination of Flemming
to be chief of the department.
Flemming, 53, is a former di
rector of the office of Defense
Mobilization and for many years
was a member of the Civil Ser
vice Commission.
In a letter to Eisenhower
dated yesterday, Folsom remind
ed the President that “last year
I told you that for personal
reasons it would be necessary
for me to leave government ser
vice sometime this year.”
Folsom at present is taking a
rest in Florida, reportedly on or
ders from his physician.
2-Year-Old Survives
Being Run Over
By Bulldozer
TORONTO, UP) — A bulldozer
ran over 2-year-old Skelly Bre
din last night and she lived. She
was in a serious condition with
skull, leg, shoulder and. arm
fractures.
The bulldozer was being used
for construction work at the sub
urban home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Bredin. Police
said the child escaped instant
death only because the earth was
wet and soft.
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