X-15 Pilot Qualifies
As First Astronaut
In a Winded Craft
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.
Calif. UP — Veteran X-15 pilot
Robert M. White flashed a record
58 miles into space Tuesday, be
coming the first to qualify as an
astronaut in a winged craft.
Shooting skyward on a giant
tongue of flame. White surpassed
the little rocket research plane’s
old mark by aproximately 12 miles.
“This is a fantastic view,” he
radioed exultantly as he floated
weightless at peak altitude. “This
is absolutely. . .”
At that point, atmospherics
blotted out his words.
Ilis feat makes him the fifth
American entitled to wear the
wings of an astronaut, which go to
those who vault 50 miles or more
above the earth. The others, who
qualified with flights in the Mer
cury space capsule, are Alan Shep
ard Jr., Virgil Grissom, John II.
Glenn, Jr. and Malcolm Scott Car
penter.
White’s height was given offi
cially as 310,000 feet. This com
pares with 246,700 feet achieved
earlier by both White and test
pilot Joseph Walker in flights
aimed at reaching the X-15’s de
signed altitude maximum of
250,000 feet.
White hit 3,784 miles an hour
during his climb. The X-15 speed
record is 4,159 mph.
At the peak of his arc White
coasted weightless for three min
utes, a full minute longer than any
X-15 pilot has experienced before.
Then he plummeted down from
the edge of space to perform tests
that were the real purpose of the
flight. Re-entering the earth’s
thicker atmosphere, he pulled the
steel-skinned Sky Dart’s nose 23
degrees higher than its tail, falling
spread-eagle style to slow descent
—a maneuver future space ships
may employ.
He then went into a convention
al glide for his landing approach.
For the first time in history,
the earth's human population has
passed the 3 billion mark.
AI ASK A INDIANS I OS I: OI I
ON ROM.I R COASTI'R RID)
CINCINNATI 'T — The First
District Court ol Appeals Monday
agreed with a Common Pleas .judge
who ruled that Alaskan Indian,
do net have to he specially warned
before they get on a roller coaster
The case concerns Mr. and Mrs.
j .John Dick, native Alaskans from
near Juneau who visited the
| Coney Island amusement park on
! Sept. 13, 1959. In their suit, which
j was dismissed in Common Pleas
I Court last Nov. 14, they declared
Mrs. Lucille Dick suffered a back
injury while riding a roller coast
er.
They contended they mistook
the roller coaster for a sightseeing
train and the Coney Island, Inc.,
was negligent in not warning them
it was dangerous. They said the
j surroundings in the amusement
| park were unfamiliar to them, as
I Indians, and asked for $36,313
j damages.
The judges agreed with the
j amusement park attorney’s argu
| ment that the company is not re
i quirecl to give special warning to
| Indians.
The couple came to Cincinnati
| in 1958 as the result of an Indian
I relocation program.
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BETHEL IS HOT SPOT
A low pressure center located
some 250 miles south of Kodiak
I Island brought cloudy skies along
the Gulf coast from the Southeast
Panhandle to Kodiak Island today.
Another low pressure center
over the Bering Sea resulted in
cloudy skies and some light rain
over the Aleutians.
Over the Alaska mainland, skies
were mostly fair, with a few wide
ly scattered ramshowers reported
in the northern Susitna valley and
the eastern interior.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low of 37 at Barter Island
to a high of 57 at Annette Island
and Juneau. The high yesterday
\ was 82 at Bethel.
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Burbank, Calif., is home for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
J. Walsh. With her is her year old
daughter, Rion Kathleen.
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Social Security
Health Care Plan
i WASHINGTON '.•? The Sen
hit'.' killed by ;i 52-43 vote- Tuesday
j President Kennedy’s social se
curity hi alth care plan in a shatter
in'’. administration defeat.
The vote adopted a motion by
Sen. Robert Kerr, <D-Okla.>, to
tal.de and thus kill the administra
tion’s plan.
Alter this vote, the Senate nailed
down the result, adopting by voice
vote a motion to table a motion to
reconsider.
The roll call vote was carried by
votes of 21 Democrats and 31 Re
publicans. It was opposed by 43
Democrats and 5 Republicans.
The action was widely accepted
as killing all chance in thh Con
gress for action on medical care
to the elderly. The Senate's de
cision also probably would prevent
any House vote on the issir .
Backers of the health plan
never had believed they could get
it through the House this year
over strong opposition in the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee.
But they had been quite opti
mistic about Senate victory and
had felt that passage there would
help make the proposal an im
portant issue in the congressional
elections in November.
MOST SERIOUS DEFEAT
WASHINGTON (A*» — President
Kennedy said yesterday Senate re
jection of his plan for medical
care for the aged was “A most
serious defeat for every American
family.” He appealed to the voters
to show Congress they are for the
plan in the November election.
“We have to decide in the con
gressional election,” Kennedy said,
“whether we want to stand still
or support this kind of legislation
for the benefit of the people.”
He said the judgment of the
people will decide this, and with
their support in November the
medical care bill will pass in 1963.
Against Tabling Care Bill
WASHINGTON W — Seven out
of eight U. S. senators from Alas
ka, Idaho, Oregon and Washing
ton voted Tuesday against tabling
President Kennedy’s social security
health care plan. The seven are
Democrats. Sen. Dworshak, Idaho
Republican, voted to table.
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mittee said hearings .vnulb be- hold
in Washington and othei cities.
He emphasized that the inquiry
“will be in no way an investiga
tion or an attempt at censorship."
"We are not gunning for any
body,'' he told a reporter. "We jus:
want the facts. We will shun cen
sorship like the plagues’
Among things the committee
1 wants to know, Celler said, are:
"Why newspapers have been
falling by the wayside. The eff< •
of joint ownership of morning and
afternoon papers and radio and
television papers in the same cities
by the same companies-. Are the
people getting both sides of pub- j
lie questions, or are they getting
slanted views? To what degree ,
have radio and television diverted i
advertising from the newspapers'? j
The inquiry, he said, also will !
touch on the operation of wire |
services and the manner in which j
they process their news for pub- I
lication.
NIXON CERTIFIED
SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP! — !
Richard M. Nixon has been certi- '
fied as the Republican candidate j
for governor of California.
Secretary of State Frank Jorday j
gave him a certificate Monday i
after Nixon turned in a statement
of his personal campaign expenses,
saying he had spent S1.056. His
campaign committees previously
reported expenses of more than
$5<)0.0(in in the* primary race.
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Crockett ntomk a; Car shell
i — *.».•;*> exploded iii t.r • nit at the
1 Nevada test :~i*e tod a;. hiIe 900
soldier.- took part in battle-field
maneuvers.
Th< A’omie Energy C m • . an
and the Department > f Defet
said the blast wn low yield, in
dicating it did not exceed the
equivalent of 20,One tr .. ■ : TXT
.\ joint annouiiC'-mi ■ • .hd the
exercise siieulated rea 1 i ‘ie- : able
ondhions in the amrruc asm and
involved betii a nuclear w tonation
and firing of conventional ’■ ipons.
The troops who took part vv ro
with the 4th Infant r. Diva-ion
fron Ft, Lewis, Wn.
The test was conducted in sei recy
and neither the A EC nor t;
military would give a:,- :e!a, .
Outride observers were barn d
from the area.
The last American *e r involv
ing use of troops wn in 1957
when Marines huddled in trenches
during explosion of a u < a pen re
portedly at least three Times as
powerful as the one touched off
yesterday.
Believed to have been among
observers at Tuesday's atmospheric
blast were At tv. Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy and Gen. Maxwell Tay
lor, the President's military advisor.
The Army's Davy Crockett is:
a mortar with a nuclear warhead.
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SEATTLE W — The Navy ice
breaker Burton Island left here
Monday for three month:' in the
Arctic on resupply missions, ocean
ographic studies and other re
search. The Seattle-based ship is
commanded by Cmdr. Gc ry H.
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