s Carpenter Wasn’t Confused or Tired
... Was Fre-occupied With Many Tasks
By Vern Haugland
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) —
Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter
says he did not become confused
or tired during his third orbit of
the earth — but was pre-occupied
with many tasks.
This personal account contra
dicted a report from an official at
the Hawaii station that Carpenter
seemed tired, perhaps confused.
He made these other points at
a news conference Sunday:
1. Frost peeling off his capsule
apparently caused the “Firefly”
effect — or “Snowflakes” as he
called them — on the triple orbit
of the earth last Thursday. He re
lated how he created his own snow
flakes by knocking on the sides
of his spacecraft.
2. He made a mistake in leaving
two control systems of the Aurora
7 on simultaneously. This depleted
his fuel supply.
3. After he re-entered the earth’s
atmosphere, he could hear the
Mercury control center here. He
was unable to talk to the center
because his radio equipment was
out of range.
4. He called his triple orbit “easy
as a bus ride” and declared he
was “ready to go for a two weeks’
orbit." .
5. “Drifting flight offers no prob
lem,” he said. “I would be happy
to have continued four or five
more orbits in drifting.”
6. He said he did not know
whether his 250-mile overshoot of
his planned area might have been
the result of failure of his retro
rockets to deliver the proper
amount of braking thrust.
Delighted and Daisied
The Navy lieutenant command
er’s news conference left scientists
here delighted and dazzled. They
treasured the knowledge he gained
in his trouble-studded triple orbit.
He told about the haze layer
that America’s first astronaut to
go into orbit, Marine Lt. Col. John
H. Glenn Jr., had noticed surround
ing the earth.
This is so well defined, Car
penter said, that when the dark
side of the earth is seen from the
moon “the earth would appear to
be a bright blue ring in the sky.”
About visibility in space — there
is no change in depth perception,
he said. The astronaut has the
same relative size and stereoscopic
vision in space that he does on
earth. “I was able at one time
to look straight down and dis
tinguish four separate layers of
clouds. This is depth percention of
a hundred miles.”
Very Welcome
About weightlessness — as Glenn
also had reported, it is “very wel
come and very peaceful — there is
just no difficulty in accommodat
TWO MORE QUEEN ENTRIES
Two more entries have been an
nounced feu: the Midnight Sun
Festival Queen contestants making
a total now of four.
new entries are Mary Jean
daughter of Frances
and sponsored by the
Commercial Co.
Kuhnuk, daughter of
Ainnuk, who is
sponsored by the Nomerama
Theater.
Previously announced were Lari
Lowe and Ann Chambers.
ing to this state.” The space suit
itself — in which Carpenter had
never previously spent a comfort
able moment—suddenly was “more
comfortable than I would be at
home in bed.”
Carpenter had arrived at Pat
rick Air Force Base by military
plane, upon conclusion of a 48
hour medical debriefing at Grand
Turk Island in the British West
Indies.
He was joyously greeted by his
beautiful blonde wife, Rene, and
their two small daughters and
young son — and by several
thousand friends and well-wishers.
Then he and Mrs. Carpenter and
space chief James E. Webb led a
parade of convertibles 12 miles
past Cocoa Beach to Cape Canaver
al.
Asked about his 25-mile over
shoot, he said the braking sensa
tion was not the same that Glenn
had described it, as being “a
healthy kick in the back.” Car
penter said the accelerometer, be
fore re-entry, showed only Vi G
—one half the force of gravity, and
“this is not as much as we ex
pected.”
Carpenter said all the fuel for
his manual control system was ex
pended after the retro-rocket fir
ing, He said he had had sufficient
fuel aboard but “I managed it
improperly.”
Khrushchev
Has High Praise
For Carpenter
MOSCOW Ot — Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev, opening an
Italian industrial fair, today
praised American astronaut Mal
colm Scott Carpenter and said the
Soviet Union now is not alone in
the cosmos. His remarks came as
the Soviets shot another unmanned
satellite into orbit.
Scores of Italians and Soviets,
clustered around the speaker’s
stand, heard the Soviet leader
praise Italian industry, but spent
most of the half-hour talk on Car
penter’s orbital flight.
Khrushchev said Carpenter dis
played great courage and fortitude.
The Soviet premier congratulated
America’s two spacemen, John H.
Glenn Jr. and Carpenter, adding:
“I especially congratulate the
second one on his courage and for
titude in a situation when he could
have burned up if something went
wrong, or drowned in the sea.”
He scoffed at the scientists whc
directed the latest flight for the
incident when Carpenter’s space
suit heated up.
“They couldn’t give him any
better advice than ‘drink as much
water as possible’,” he said.
The Italian fair was held in the
pavilion built by the United States
for its big exhibition and boughl
afterward by the Soviets.
Khruschev severely criticized the
American fair, which he said had
made the worst possible impressior
on the Russian -people “because
there was nothing but propaganda
in it”
He complained that the kitcher
in which he debated with Vice
President Richard Nixon was a
propaganda fake.
“The kitchen was created to sur
prise Russians,” he said. “But |
Father Hubbard,
Glacier Priest, Dies
SANTA CLARA, Calif. UP) — The
Rev. Bernard Hubbard, 73. famed
“Glacier Priest/’ died today of a
heart attack at his home.
Father Hubbard, associated with
University of Santa Clara, gained
his title of “Glacier Priest” be
cause of the scientific expeditions
he headed to the Arctic regions.
Father Hubbard started the work
that made him a world renowned
authority on glaciers and other
Arctic phenomenon in 1927. He led
his first expedition to Alaska that
year. He continued going to the
northern Arctic every summer, ex
cept for one year during the war
and in 1955. His research was
utilized by the United States gov
ernment.
He studied for the priesthood at
the Jesuit Novitate at Los Gatos
and, in 1921, went to Austria to
study at the University of Inns
bruck. For four years he devoted
his spare time to exploring the
Tyrolean Alps.
In 1925, he returned to Santa
Clara and in 1927 made his first
expedition to Alaska. His maps,
charts and weather studies made
him a recognized authority on
Alaska.
During World War II he was
called on by the armed forces to|
help map the area. Later he served
as a chaplain in the European
theater of operations. •
One of his Alaskan trips, in
1948, took him with the Navy to
search for an uncharted island he
had sighted in the Arctic.
His status at the University erf
Santa Clara was professor of
geology. He did much lecturing
throughout the country and was
often outspoken on matters like
defense of Alaska and State De
partment policy in the Far East.
His health was failing in 1958
when he made his 22nd tour to
Alaska, but he still was able to
climb around the rocky volcanoes
and glaciers.
The stroke that ended Father
Hubbard’s life today was one of
a series he had suffered. Earlier
ones had left him partially crip
pled.
He went to his room after break
fast, collapsed and died at 7:45 am.
AS7ROLAND . . .
NEW YORK UP) — Coney Island,
keeping tune to the times, gets a
new $3-million amusement park
this Friday: Astroland.
The park will feature such rides
as the rocket ship Star Flyer, the
Mercury capsule Skyride and the
Ascension Tower.
New Tests . . .
WASHINGTON IB — A new
series of high-altitude nuclear tests
will be started in about four days
over Johnson Island in the Pacific,
the Atomic Energy Iommission in
formed Sen. Oren E. Long, (D
Hawai), today.
The first test, Long said, will be
in the sub-megaton range, less
than a million tons of TNT, equi
valent, and exploded at an alti
tude of 10 kilometers, or about 6
miles.
This will be followed by two
explosions in the ionosphere at an
altitude of hundreds of kilometers.
One will be in the megaton range
and one less than a megaton.
A shot at 100 kilometers would
be about 60 miles up.
Depending upon the results of
these first three tests, Long said,
; a fourth may be fired at an in
termediate range.
—
Stock Market Has
“Black Monday,”
Suffers Heavy Loss
NEW YORK — The mightiest
avalanche of selling in 32 years
slugged the stock market into an
other severe loss today.
It was a “Black Monday” for
investors who saw billions of dol
lars in stock values go down the
drain.
The New York Stock Exchange’s
high-speed ticker tape ran a rec
ord 89 minutes late as transactions
piled up. The greatest previous
lags were 34 minutes.
This was the 6t'n straight day of
decline as measured by the Asso
ciated Press average of 60 stocks.
Blue chip stocks — gilt-edge is
sues which have long been con
sidered the wheelhorses of the mar
ket — were seriously battered,
some losing several dollars a share.
What has been described by
some Wall Street'experts as a panic
among investors whirled to a peak
of selling.
“An emotional upset, such as
being experienced, often feeds on
itself,” an investment advisory
service pointed out. “More and
more holders become panicky and
sell to protect vanishing profits
or to prevent losses from mounting.
The movement gains momentum
and almost invariably is carried
to an extreme.”
The sell-off ranked right along
with that experienced Sept. 26,
1955, on news that than President
Dwight Eisenhower had suffered
a heart attack. On that day 7.72
million shares were sold.
Harried brokers blamed the
selling frenzy on a host of factors.
They said investors were losing
confidence in the outlook for busi
ness, some feeling that a reces
sion is ahead in 1963.
There was anxiety, too, that the
profit-squeeze on business will be
tightened by the Kennedy admin
istration’s attitude toward business
as exemplified by its attack which
forced the steel industry to with
draw a $6-a-ton price increase.
The biggest buyers of stock,
the mutual funds, pension funds
and investment trusts, have turned
a portion of their holdings into
cash and higher-yielding bonds,
and are sitting on the sidelines
waiting for the market to stabilize
before getting back in.
In brokerage offices across the
nation anxious share owners stared
at falling prices as the ticker tape
flashed on screens.
Margin calls were taking their
toll of people who had borrowed
money to buy stocks. The current
margin requirement is a down pay
ment of 70 per cent cash. With
many stocks having lost 30 per
cent or more from their 1962 highs,
lenders were calling for more
money to cover the purchased
stock. If it wasn’t forthcoming,
they sold the stock.
ALMOST DISASTER
INDIANAPOLIS iffl — Disaster
t
almost caught Gene Hartley, former
national midget car racing cham
pion, in practice today for the 64th
500-mile auto race Wednesday but
he escaped injury.
.The 36 - year - old Indianapolis
driver slid broadside 462 feet
through the northeast turn at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway after
the engine blew up in his Drewrys
special.
He missed the concrete retaining
wall and came to a stop on the
infield grass. The engine can be
replaced before the race. ;M..
Gov. Egan Refuses
Japanese Right to
Fish in Shelikof
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Wm. Egan
refused yesterday to permit a
Japanese fleet to fish in Shelikof
Strait despite a plea from the fleet’s
commander that such a refusal
would mean huge losses for his em
ployers.
Yamaki Hisao radioed the gov
ernor yesterday from the mother
ship Banshu Maru 31. He said the
fleet, made up of five catcher boats
and the mothership, has made no
catch since arriving March 24.
He asked permission to fish in the
strait for three weeks, saying the
Japanese firm which operates the
boats would incur a huge loss from
a complete failure.
The governor said it was im
possible to grant such permission
because a case arising from the
state’s arrest of three skippers of
the Japanese boats is still before
the courts. In any case, he said, he
could not grant such authority to
unlicensed fishermen with unli
censed gear.
Egan repeated the state’s con
tention that Shelikof Strait, lying
between Kodiak Island and the
Alaska Peninsula, constitutes an in
land water subject to regulation by
the 49th State.
“The State of Alaska bears no
ill will toward the officers and fish
ermen of your fleet but urges that
your fishing companies use rea
sonable discretion as to locations
of North Pacific fisheries efforts,"
Egan said.
SGT. YORK IMPROVING
JAMESTOWN, Tenn. UP) — Sgt.
Alvin C. York, the World War I
hero who killed 25 enemy soldiers
in the battle of Argonne, was re
ported improved at a hospital to
day.
York, 74, was admitted to the
hospital Saturday. Dr. Guy Pinck
ley said York had been seriously
ill but did not reveal the nature
of his illness.
York, who lives at nearby PaR
Mall, Tenn., has been bedridden
since suffering a stroke eight years
He was awaredd the Medal ef
Honor in 1918 for destroying a
German machine gun nest, killing
25 of the enemy and capturing 32
others.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued fair. Low tonight 30,
high tomorrow 38-42. In the last
24 hours: High of 43, low of 27.
Max. wind l& tsph from the NW.
Sunrise at 1:59 ajn., sunset at
10.02 p.m. Temps, a year ago .today:
High of 50, low of 36. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of 66
in 1947. low of 17 in 1934.
NOME CITY CLEANUP
Nome Ciiy Cleanup will be the
first two weeks of next month-—
June 1 thru June 14, ending on
Flag Day, June 15.
The first week will be the gen
eral cleanup with advice and help
where possible and necessary. The
second week will be the pickup
week.
For a complete campaign the
city will have to be sectioned off
into blocks or areas. This will take
many man-hours and it is stressed
that help be needed to make it a
success.
All interested groups or indi
viduals interested in helping please
contact the City Clerk or die
Health Committee.
WP