MINISTERS OPPOSED TO
PRE-GAME MASS PRAYERS
ROCKDALE. Tex. IT The
ministers of Rockdale have Rone
on record as being opposed to mass
prayers at the beginning of high
school football games.
Tlie Rev. Frank Bueehley, pastor
the First Prebyterian Church 1
and president of the Rockdale Min
isterial Assn., said Monday the
association had voted to discon
tinue participation in pre-game
prayers.
"It wasn't a conductive atmo
sphere for that type of thing," he
said. "There is a time to pray and
a time to play."
Color blindness is seven times as
common among men as among
women.
Two Missing 7-Year-Old
Girls Are Found Safe
ALEXANDRIA. Va ,-T' — Two j
7-year-old girls missing since
Sunday were found Tuesday, lock
ed in an unoccupied apartment
less than a block from their homes.
The FBI saiii they were safe, but
there was no immediate report on
their condition.
The girls are Rita Ohlgren and
Maria Morlev.
The discovery of the children
i came after hope virtually was
I given up for their safety.
The whole area had been search
j ed many times, without trace of
| the children, and police had
switched to an assumption that
the girls were either captive or
' dead.
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U.S. Helicopters Must Fly Into Muzzles
Of Red Guerrilla Guns for Full Effect
By Peter Arnett
SAIGON. South Viet Nam if) —
The American military high com
mand in South Viet Nam must be
willing to send US. helicopter
units right into the muzzles of
Communist guerrilla guns if the
full effectiveness of helicopter at
tacks is to be realized here, U.S.
military field advisers believe.
Until this is ordered, they say,
the element of surprise which heli
copters bring to an attack against
the elusive Viet Cong will be lost. !
The advisers, basing their ob
servations on operations in the
southern swamplands of South Viet
Nam, say that the practice of
landing troops in fields or jungle
outside a Viet Cong military in
stallation gives the guerrillas plenty
of time to get away.
This is one reason fewer than
100 guerrillas were killed in a
swamplands operation even though
I 30 U S. Marine and Vietnamese
j army helicopters ferried troops
I about the area for four days, the
! advisers declare.
I Met Concentrated Ground Fire
An example of what lies in wait
for the helicopters if they hit Viet
Cong positions dead-on happened
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last Friday. Ton Marino helicopters
ferrying elements of a Vietnamese
army battalion into a Viet Cong
village were met by concentrated
ground fire.
As the helicopters veered off
the village to land hundreds of
yards away, one was hit in the
main fuel pipe and forced down.
By the time government troops
struggled through the mangrove
swamps to the village, all the guer
rillas had disappeared.
U.S. advisers say the fragile heli
copters would be sitting ducks for
Communist guns if they settled
down on a guerrilla position.
But. they add, such casualties
would be necessary for major
operations to be successful.
Government troop casualties
would also be higher if they fell
out of the sky onto a Communist
position. But one adviser, a vet
eran of frontal attacks on Japan
ese-held islands in the Pacific in
World War II, said: “This is a
war, isn’t it?”
The Viet Cong have already
challenged the strategy of landing
troops in clear areas well outside
guerrilla positions. They have
| erected dozens of sharpened bam
boo poles, about 15 feet long, on
the clear ground in the vicinity of
a village.
Helicopters have to veer away
to find a clear area where they
i can hover a few feet above the
ground while the troops are dis
gorged. Improved unloading tech
niques, using ropes for example,
i might speed the attacks.
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> Second Delay
Made Carpenter
Overshoot Landing
HOUSTON (.ft — A delay of at
least three seeonds in the firing
of the braking rockets on his
spacecraft helped land astronaut
Malcolm Scott Carpenter some 250
miles beyond target in his May
24 flight three times around the
world.
That was the report Tuesday to
a National Aeronautics and Space
Administration conference —- the
first official post-flight conference
held at this new base of the man
ned spaceflight center.
Project Mercury engineer John
Boynton said:
“Astronaut Carpenter reported
that when the clock sequence (au
tomatic timer) had counted down
to zero, the rockets did not ignite.”
The braking rockets slow the
spacecraft's 17,500 mile per hour
flight, permitting its re-entry into
the earth’s atmosphere.
The rockets did not ignite be
cause of incorrect information
from scanners that seek out the
earth’s horizon.
The scanners, located around the
neck of the Mercury spacecraft,
are frequently clouded by the
blazing rocket exhaust when the
escape tower is jettisoned in the
early stages of flight.
The troubled scanners fed in
correct position information to the
automatic systems all through the
flight.
“The pilot waited about two
seconds’ Boynton reported. Then
bypassing the automatic system,
“he pushed the manual retro-fire
button.
“He reported an additional de
lay of one second or more before
the first retro-rocket actually ig
nited,” Boynton said. After the
flight the electrical circuits in the
I spacecraft were carefully investi
I gated and “one reason can be of
! fered for the delay” in the manual
j rocket firing system.
| Boynton's report was the first
I in a series of seven culminating in
! Carpenter’s own technical report
j of his flight to nearly 1,000 engi
| neers and space scientists attend
! ing the conference.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of
Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mlckelson, W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Roy Snyder
President
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of I Very
Month at School
Dorothy Grant, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secretary
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Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Ralph DeLong, Pres.
Chas. D. Jonas, Sscty.
Civil Air Patrol
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Nome Cadet Squadron
Is* Lt. Jesse Jones. Cmdr.
Meetings - Each Thursday 7:06 pjn.