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Astronaut Glenn r malty Keeps
His Personal Date With Destiny
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By Howard Benedict
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) —
John H. Glenn Jr. yesterday kept
a personal date with destiny, a
date he worked unswervingly
toward for a long time.
In all ways since his selection
as a Mercury astronaut three
years ago, Glenn drove himself
hard—dedicated and determined
to ride into space and contribute
to man’s knowledge.
So far as anyone could tell,
nothing could corrode his iron
nerve. All those postponements,
including the heart-breaker of
Jan. 27, when he spent 5 hours
j and 13 minutes strapped down in
a capsule that wasn’t going any
where, could have unhinged a
lesser man. But not Glenn.
Modesty also stood out all over
Glenn’s makeup during his long
training. In vain, he pleaded
with the world to take the spot
light off him and his family and
focus it on the worthwhile things
to be done, and learned, up there
in the skies.
Why was Glenn, a family man
with two children, willing to risk
his life in a space capsule whirl
ing about the globe at 17,500
miles an hour?
Age of Exploration
“We’ve got to do it,” he once
said. “We’re going into an age
of exploration that will be big
ger than anything the world has
ever seen.
“People are afraid of the future,
of the unknown. If a man faces
up to it and takes the dare of
the future, he can have some
control over his destiny. That’*
an exciting idea to me, bettei
than waiting to see what’s goinj
to happen.”
Glenn, a b aiding 40-year-olo
Marine lientenant colonel, wanted
desperately to be the first Amer
ican space pilot. He lost the call
on the first two flights to Alan
B. Shepard Jr. and Vilrgil I.
Grissom. For each of those brief
sub-orbital flights, Glenn was the
'backup astronaut.
He rated his backup experience,
in which he worked closely With
Shepard and Grissom for Weeks*
before each flight, as iriValuable
for liis rOUhd-ihe-Wortd orbit
mission.
Also invaluable was his experi
ence as a combat pilot tn World
War II land later in Korea. He
shot down three (iommunist (Mig
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fighters in the final days of the
Korean War, and after one dog
fight returned to base with more
than 200 bullet holes in his plane.
He won five Distinguished Flying
Crosses and an Air Medal with
18 clusters.
After the war he became a top
test pilot.
Close to Family
Always very close to his
family, Glenn nevertheless de
cided early that the Mercury pro
gram was so important he would
live in bachelor quarters at
Langley Air Force Base, Va., see
ing his wife and children only on
weekends. The wife, Anne, David,
16, and Carolyn44, live in a com
fortable home in Arlington, Va.
During his training period in
Florida, he was apt to be found
on a Sunday driving from Cape
Canaveral to Cocoa Beach to at
tend services at Riverside Pres
byterian Church and autograph
ing bibles for youngsters after
ward.
He said that religion should not
be a sometime thing, handy only
in emergencies.
State Supreme Court
Retires Judge Earl Cooper
JUNEAU LW — The State Su
j preme Court yesterday retired
Third District Superior Court
Judge J. Earl Cooper, saying he
was “so incapacitated that he is
substantially unable to perform
his judicial duties.”
The unanimous decision, sign
ed by Chief Justice Buell A.
Nesbett and associate Justices
John H. Dimond and Harry O.
. Arend, was based on a hearing in
r Anchorage Feb. il6.
The hearing was called as the
I result of a recommendation Jan.
113 by the Judicial Council that
Cooper be retired because he was
| ill much of the time since he
was sworn in as a member of
I the bench on Nov. 27, 1959.
Nome Unemployment
Rate Reported 40.8 Pet.
JUffiffij tm — The state De
partment of Labor sgid ^yesierday
that Alaska's insured unemploy
ment rate during the weA end
ihg Feb. JO was 19.2 per cent.
This compared with a rate of
1910 the previous Week and 20.4
per cent during the same week: a
r ago.
ew unemployment totaled 026
..continuing K,t unemployment
amounted to 6,440, the Depart
ment reported.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 181;
Fairbanks, 19.9; Juneau, 14.4;
Ketchikan, 20.7; tfoirie, 40.8;
Petersburg, 35.7; and Sitka, 10.4.
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