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Mechta Is Now
In Sun Orbit
i By The Associated PressI
The Russian Rocket Mechta is
now in orbit around the sun. The
Russians predict it will reach its
top speed of 72,000 miles per hour
next Wednesday.
They expect the peak velocity
to be reached when the missile
gets to the point nearest the sun,
a distance figured at about 92V£
million miles, in its elliptical orbit.
“At that moment it will reach
its maximum speed of more than
32 kilometers (about 20 miles) a
second,” the official Soviet news
agency Tass said.
This will be nearly triple the
speed at which the rocket was
launched last Friday.
The missile was hurled clear of
the earth’s gravitational field to
become the solar system’s first ar
tificial planet.
According to Soviet calcula
tions, the rocket Wednesday had
gone more than 621,000 miles on
a direct line from the earth. Tass
said this distance between earth
and Mechta would increase at “a
terrific pace since the earth and
the artificial planet are diverging
in the cosmos.”
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N. Y. ‘Cooler’ Needs
Automatic Cooler
NEW YORK, UPl — The old
fashioned icebox at the city jail
is getting to be more and more a
pain in the neck to the staff.
Ice dealers are few and far be
tween. Those who can be found
don’t like to tote ice cakes up two
flights of stairs. And — even with
ice — it’s tough to store food in
the outmoded box. '
Sheriff John J. McCloskey
thinks it would be just dandy if
the jail could get a modern me
chanical refrigerator — say for
about $1,500.
The sheriff made his pitch to
the city budget director, Abra
ham D. Beame.
- Beame appeared sympathetic.
But — for the record — he re
peated the belt-tightening warn
ing he has been giving to all de
partments at Mayor Rober F.
Wagner’s direction.
Van Cliburn Wants
Time for Dental Work
TUCSON, Ariz., UP — Van Cli- j
burn and his Tucson dentist have
confirmed that dental work has
interrupted the Texas pianist’s
concert tour. The dentist, who de
clined use of his name, said the
treatment was necessary and Cli
burn “should be left alone to have
it done.”
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Fleeing Cubans
Fly Armed Bomber
Over Canaveral
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., OP) —
An armed B26 Cuban bomber
flew within striking distance of
the Missile Test Center on Cape
Canaveral to land here New Year’s
Day and never was challenged by
U. S. Air Defense, the Daytona
Beach Morning Journal said yes
terday.
Two Cuban Air Force men flee
ing after the downfall of President
Fulgencio Batista’s government
landed the plane here, seeking
asylum.
First Lt. Chester Loewe. public
information office at Dobbins Air
Force Base, Ga., said neither the
32nd Air Division log nor the log
of the 660th Aircraft Control and
Warning Squadron at Macdill Air
Force Base, Fla., contained infor
mation on the plane.
Elbert H. Chambers, chief of
the Federal Aviation Agency (for
merly the CAA) at the Daytona
Beach Airport, said he understood
the tower had no knowledge of
the Cubans until they asked* for
landing instructions near Titus
ville, 47 miles south of here and
about 17 air miles from Cape
Canaveral.
Asked how the Cubans managed
to fly so near the Cape unchal
lenged, Chamber said the areas
immediately overhead and east of
the Cape are restricted. But he
said the area west of the Cape
is not restricted and not in. a
defense zone.
“Apparently the Air Force
doesn’t believe the enemy would
bomb the Cape^” the newspaper
quoted Chambers, “and therefore
they haven’t put it inside the Air
Defense identification zone. The
farther north you go the tighter
the air defense becomes.”
The Cubans now are living in
Batista’s home here. They asked
their names be withheld because
they feared for relatives in Cuba.
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