Astro-Chimp Enos
Developed Bad
Case of Nerves on
His Orbital Flight
By Rlaph Dighion
LOS ANGELES UP> — Enos the
astro-chimp developed a bad case
of nerves during his orbital
flight last November, and for two
good reasons:.
1. Something went wrong with
the system designed to give him
an electric shock when he-pushed
the wrong levers. As a result,
Enos got buzzed when.he pushed
the right levers, too.
2. Something went wrong with
the tiny steam jets that were sup
posed to stablize his capsule in
flight. The poor chimp was sub
jected to a continuous rocking
sensation unlike anything he had
ever experienced.
* And Enos isn’t the sort to take
such indignities with equanimity.
He is extremely pugnacious and
once wrecked the astronaut couch
in which he was trained for the
flight.
All this was disclosed by Dr.
John Meehan, who designed a
recording device which orbited
with Enos during the ISO-minute
trip.
Meehan, associate director of
physiology at the' University of
Southern California, trained Enos
'and four other chimps last Sep
tember on the school’s big centri
fuge, normally used to whirl hu
man subjects at the end of a
long beam to stimulate gravity
forces experienced in flight.
After weeks of analyzing blood
pressure recordings made during
the chimp’s two orbits around the
earth, (Meehan said: “Enos de
veloped hypertension at the start
of his journey and it persisted
until his recovery. In spite of this
he continued to perform tasks
for which he had been trained
throughout the flight, even during
the exit and peak re-entry ac
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Five Crewmen Die In
Flying Boxcar Crash
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah
UP) — A C-1.19 flying boxcar
* crashed and burned near here
Staurday, killing five crewmen
and strewing wreckage between
two houses only 30 feet apart.
Names of the dead were with
held pending notification of rela
tives, but one official said they
were all Utahns, from a local re
serve squadron.
The base information' officer
said the plane crashed just souih
of this northern Utah base after
it made a pass over the field on
a local flight. He said “it just
dived into the earth.”
A witness said the plane land
ed on a roadway near the base,
bounced and plowed into the
ground between the two homes.
One engine of the two-engine craft
was left on the roadway. The crew
was killed instantly.
The residents of the homes
escaped injury.
Total Blackout . . .
SPOKANE UP) — When the man
looked out his bedroom window
and saw nothing but darkness at
mid-day, he wasn’t going blind.
Someone had painted the window
over from the outside with black
paint.
•Police investigated the black
out and discovered tracks leading
from the window to the house
next door. They questioned the
neighbor and got a confession. *
The irate neighbor told officers
he had painted over the window
so that his- 15-year-old daughter
could not see the man next door,
who he said had been walking
about the bedroom only partially
clothed.
No one asked why he hadn’t
painted over his daughter’s win
dow. e
celerations.”
The hypertension, or high blood
pressure, he said, resulted from
a bad case of nerves caused 'by
frustration and confusion.
The 37-pound chimp has now
recovered completely and is re
ported in good health at Hollo
man, N.M., Air Force Base.
A spokesman* for die school said
It was highly unlikely that any
such experience is in store for
(Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr.
when he makes his orbital flight
next week.
Glenn can talk, so there will be
no need for him to push levers
to let ground scientists know he
is alive and functioning.
And if his capsule starts rock
[ ing, he can control the stabilizing
jets manually.
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Manned Orbit
Shot Postponed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. <*> —
United States plans to rocket as
tronaut John H. Glenn Jr. into
round-the-world orbit were post
poned today at least until Satur
day because of a faulty oxygen
system in the space capsule.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Adiminstration announced
that the shot, which had been
schedule^ for Wednesday, “is
scheduled no earlier than Satur
day, Jan. 27. This timing will give
engineers and technicians time to
correct their technical difficulties
encountered in the spacecraft en
vironmental control system during
the pre-launch preparations.”
The NASA announcement came
after it was learned that the shot
had been postponed first until
Thursday and then until Saturday
because of the difficulty.
The sources reported the trouble
was in a regulator in a system
which feeds oxygen to the astro
naut’s pressurized space suit.
Technicians believe dust parti
cles are preventing two parts of
a valve from closing completely.
The sources said the valve must
be pulled out, tested and either
repaired or replaced.' Then a com
plete simulated mission, without
Glenn, must be flown.
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
James Harding and James HI,
W. Langeweiscre, Marlott and Re
becca Trigg, Leon Miller, Rose
mary Brockman, Judy Kerns and
Irene Baehr.
To Fairbanks: Mrs. Grace John
son, George, Arthur, Irene and
Clara Johnson, Barney Canson, R.
Bennett, Emil Kowalczyck, Ray
mond DeKay, Ray Shields, and
Daniel Karmun.
From Kotzebue: Jerome Hallo
ran, (Mr. Gass, and Mr. Byrd.
To Kotzebue: James Mills and
Paul Sines.
JACK SMITH NAMED yCMDR.
OF AMERICAN LEGION
WRANGELL UR — Jack Smith,
Ketchikan, was elected Com
mander of the American Legion’s
Southeast District at a two-day
weekend convention here.
Hernando Villarma, Wrangell,
was named first vice commander;
Ray Perkins, Sitka, second vice
command; Jerry Cousins, Juneau,
judge advocate; and the Rev. A.
Gray, Haines, chaplain.
Richard Ballard, Wrangell, Fred
(Martin, Auke Bay, and A1 Per
kins, Sitka, were named to the
Executive Committee. Haines was
selected for next year’s conven
tion.
FOR CLEAR TV . . .
HU3TANTON, England UH —
Every time John Fleming’s tele
vision picture goes haywire, he
inarches outside with a crowbar
and clouts the street light near
his front door. He goes on whang
ing until his'wife calls that the
picture is all right again:
All attempts to find out what
caused the nightly interference
had failed, and Fleming kicked
the post just to relieve his feelings
one day.
“>It brought the picture back
perfectly for a while,” he report
i ed. “Now I always hit it.”
Swedish Soldiers Released
STOCKHOLM Uh — The Swed
ish soldiers captured during the
United Nations-Katanga flighting;
in the Congo came home Sunday
night after 44 days of paieon in
Katanga.
Parents and chiidmn gave them
a welcome w»*s» with hi—s mm*
wet with te— at Stockholm’s
Iromma Airport.
Your Dimes Will Do If Again!
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JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE
AKXHITO TAKES 3 WEEK TOUT
TOKYO — Crown Princ
Akihito and his wife, Crow
Princess Michiko left by plan
today for an official three-weel
visit to Pakistan, Indonesia anc
-the Philippines.
* The 28-year-old heir to the
Japanese throne is making the
trip as- a representative of his
father, Emperor Hirohito. He said
he and his wife hoped their tour
would “further improve friendly
relations between Japan” and the
three nations.
John Wayne is Grandfather
HOULYWOOD GfV—John Wayne
is a grandfather again — a month
before he expects to be a father
again..
Gretchen Wayne, wife of
Wayne’s son Michael, gave birth
to a _7-pound, 1-ounce girl Sun
day, the actor’s sixth grandchild.
His wife, Pilar, is expecting her
second child in February.
U£. Embassy Bombed
L CARACAS, Venezuela UB—U-S.
i embassy officials announced a
i bomb exploded today on the em
3 bassy’s seventh floor near where
: acting Amdassador Allan Stewart
I has his ofifces.
The blast blew a hole in the
I front wall of the embassy. Offi
cials said the explosion was in
the men’s washroom tout that no
one was injured.
TAX PROBLEM . . .
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya Ufi—
The government has turned down
a suggestion to grant income tax
exemptions for all four wifes of
every Moslem.
Finance Minister Tan Slew said
if the 'Moslems got this privilege,
non-Christian Chinese with a
multiplicity of wives also would
want it and in the end a large
proportion of the higher income
group would not be paying income
tax.
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