U.S. Launches
Mighty Saturn
For Second Time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UFi —
The great Saturn booster was
launched successfully for the sec
ond time today and deliberately
blown up after the trial to dump
95 tons of cloud-forming water into
the upper atmosphere.
With a tremendous roar and
spurt of flame, the world’s mighti
est known rocket rode 1.3 million
pounds of thrust to an altitude of
65 miles. There a signal from the
ground detonated dynamite charges
which ripped the vehicle apart
spilling the water into the near
vacuum of space in a bonus ex
periment.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration announced
several minutes after the 9 a.m.
launching that the flight was com
pletely successful.
Observers saw the water quickly
form a huge cloud of snow-like ice
particles which spread several
hundred feet across a clear sky.
The great mass — higher than
any natural cloud has flown — re
mained seemingly motionless in the
air for only a few seconds, then
spread apart and quickly vanished. ]
As on the first flight of the
Saturn last October, only the first
stage performance was being
checked. And once again it was
a remarkable performance by what
is believed to be the largest and
most complex rocket in the world-r- j
a forerunner of a rocket designed
to carry American astronauts to
the moon later in this decade.
By the time the explosive charge
was ignited 160 seconds after
launching, the 162-foot Saturn had
completed its main mission — a
checkout on the boost®- itself.
The eight - powerful engines in
the first stage functioned for about
115 seconds, pushing the 463-ton
vehicle to an altitude of 35 miles.
The engines then shut off as plan
ned and the rocket coasted up to
the point of expulsion — which oc
curred some 50 miles southeast of
Cape Canaveral over the Atlantic.
Two dummy upper stages were
filled with water to simulate the
weight of the upper assembly to be
carried on future Satums.
It was this 23,000 gallons of
-water which was spilled into the
icy ionosphere in a secondary sci
entific experiment dubbed “Project
Highwatcr.”
By tracking the cloud and rec
"LONG THRUST 111”
WASHINGTON UR — A 2,000
man infantry battle group will be
flown to Germany in early May as
part of a new exercise designed
to test U.S. ability to reinforce
defenses in Europe.
The Pentagon announced today
that exercise “Long Thrust III,”
as it has been named, will take
place between May 7 and May 12.
The 1st Battle Group, 8th In
fantry, will be airlifted to Ger
many by air transports to replace
the 2nd Battle Group, 39th In
fantry, which was carried across
the Atlantic last January in a
previous exercise, Long Thrust II.
Both battle groups are part of
the 4th Infantry Division, based at
j Ft. Lewis, Wn.
Jet fighters will provide air
cover on the transatlantic hop.
The whole operation will be
under the control of the newly
formed Strike Command, a com
bined Air Force-Army organiza
tion assigned the job of directing
rapid movement of U.S. forces
overseas to handle possible emer
gencies.
MRS. BARBARA POWERS
DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON W — Mrs. Bar
bara Powers, wife of U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers has been dis
charged from Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, a spokesman there
said today.
The 27-year-old Mrs. Powers,
taken to the hospital in a coma
last Friday, left on Monday with
the nature of her illness still some
thing of a mystery.
Powers himself was not imme
diately available for comment on
a New York Post newspaper story
today that quoted him as saying
his wife had indigestion and that
a report she had taken an over
dose of sleeping pills was silly.
JUNEAU m — Road restrictions, ]
limiting maximum loads to 75 per
cent of normal and truck and bus
speeds to 35 miles an hour, will go
into effect at 8 a.m. tomorrow on i
the Richardson Highway from Val
dez to Mile 148, W. E. Brice, Asst.
State Maintenance Engineer for the
Department of Highways, said yes
terday. -
ording its action scientists hoped
to gain further knowledge of the
upper atmosphere. %
Officials were jubilant. Two
straight successes in the program
have given added impetus to
America’s plan to race the Soviet
Union to the moon.
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Mooncraft Has
Injured Brain . . .
Remains in Coma
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Uft _
A mooncraft with an injured brain
tumbled through space Tuesday
toward an almost useless collision
with the moon after scientists
abandoned futile efforts to awaken
it from its coma.
The 730-pound silver and gold
craft, Ranger 4, will zip by the
leading edge of the moon early
Thursday and crash at about 8:55
a.m. on its hidden backside, the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration says.
The deeply disappointed director
of NASA’s jet propulsion labor
atory, William Pickering, said: “It’s
kind of fun, though, to hit the
backside, it’s not everyone who can
do that.”
In Pasadena, Calif., a spokesman
for the jet propulsion laboratory
which made the spacecraft, said
there’s a longshot chance it may
\ not impact.
Calculations indicate it will
skim by the moon’s leading edge
at a height of 900 miles, then
| hook in for a landing on the back
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will pick it up when it emerges
from behind the moon. In this
event, it would go into an eliptical
orbit around both the earth and
moon.
j.vu«*^va * *vuo tubvu aiuii Kfj a
towering Atlas-Agena B booster at
3:50 p.m. Monday in what appear
ed to be a beautiful beginning. Its
assigned job was to gather infor
mation, including closeup tele
vision pictures, on the composition
of the moon.
A NASA spokesma said tne
Atlas had pushed the vehicle to an
altitude of about 100 miles and
separated, that the second-stage
Agena had pushed the craft into
parking orbit and cut off, that the
Agena had fired a second time
to launch Ranger 4 on the second
leg of its journey, that the vehicle
was on the proper flight path away
from the earth at 24,500 miles an
hour.
Two hours later a spokesman
said, “tracking information indi
cates that malfunction occurred in
the spacecraft telemetry radio sys
tem.”
The trouble was tentatively diag
nosed as a malfunctioning timers
a clock-like electronic device which
was activated a few seconds before
launching. It was supposed to pro
vide the timetable for a central
computer and sequencer which
were to issue steering commands
to Ranger 4.
IN THE
FOft THE
SECOND
CIVIL A<
ORDER TO SU:
STATE OF
an sab
cial district
ON NO. 62-3
Eft, POSSESSION
Plaintiff,
COFFEE CREEK MINING COMPANY,
and all other persons. Defendants.
Upon consideration of the declaration
of taking filed herein, it is ORDERED:
That the State of Alaska is entitled to
occlusive possession of the property
described in the complaint filed herein,
and the defendants are hereby ORDERED
immediately to peieeably surrender pos
session.
DONE this 9th day of April, 1962, at
Nome, Alaafcfc.
/S/ Hubert A. Gilbert
Superior Court Judge
Pub: April 11, 18, 25. 1962.
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TREASURY DEPT. TO
DISCUSS GOLD PROBLEM
Sen. Ernest Omening is among
members of Congress from the West
who have been invited to meet
with Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon May 4 to discuss
matters of importance to the gold
mining industry. The meeting will
take up incentive payments for
domestically mined gold, a free
market for gold, restoration of the
right of the individual citizen to
possess gold and the withholding
of sales of government stocks of
gold to industry, the arts and crafts
and other private commercial in
terests.
The Treasury Department, under
all recent administrations, has
taken a position against any legis
lation which might affect the dollar
price of gold. Sen. Gruening is a
co-sponsor of S. J. Res. 44 which
would provide a subsidy of $35 an
ounce for newly mined domestic
gold while keeping the price of
the metal, for monetary and ex
change purposes, pegged at $35 an
ounce.
SEN. JOHN COGHILL
WILL BE GUEST SPEAKER
AT YOUNG GOP MEET
KETCHIKAN UO — State Sen.
John Coghill of Nenana will be
the keynote speaker here Saturday
for the 2-day state convention of
the Alaska Young Republirans.
There is speculation that Cog
hill may announce his future po
litical plans. It is generally agreed
that he plans to run for governor
but now that State Sen. Howard
Pollock of Anchorage has tossed
his hat into the gubernatorial ring
Coghill’s plans may be changed.
Others expected to attend the
meeting from other points in Alaska
include Frank Heintzleman, for
mer governor and Rep. Bruce Ken
dall of Anchorage. The Ketchikan
area Representatives William
Boardman, Wally Kubley and A1
Widmark also will play leading
roles in the convention.
Coghill, Nenana trading post
operator and consignee of an oil
compahy, is a veteran member of
the State Legislature and of the
old territorial body
Propose World -
Wide Weather
Forecast System
WASHINGTON W — A blue
print for a worldwide weather ob
servation and forecast system has
been unveiled by its American co
designer.
Dr. Harry Wexler, Director of
Research for the U.S. Weather
Bureau, said Monday that he and
Viktor Bogaev, assistant director
of the Soviet Hydrometeorological
Service, developed the system at
the request of the World Meteor
ological Organizations.
Wexler said the plan might take
five to 10 years to effect and could
easily cost over $100 million.
It includes:
Establishment of three or four
world weather centers to draw
maps and make predictions for
facsimile transmission to regional
centers.
Establishment of a number of
observation stations in the southern
iemisphere.
Use of cooperatively launched
satellites.
An increase in the number of
balloon weather stations in both
hemispheres.
Wexler said the system would
make possible the tracking of every
major storm around the globe and
provide warnings for all hurri
canes. It also would lead to an im
proved understanding of weather
behavior.
Wexler and Bogaev hope to pre
sent the final draft to a panel of
experts in Geneva May 22 and
then to the Secretary General of
the World Meteorological Organiza
tion a week later. The proposal
may go before the United Nations
in the summer, Wexler said.
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