Suspect “Man
Made” Bomb
Blew Up Jetliner
CENTERVILLE, Iowa UP> — Civil
Aeronautics Board investigators
said Saturday an explosive force
occurred within the Continental
Airlines jetliner which crashed
and killed 45 persons Tuesday
night. The president of the air
lines said evidence indicated the
blast was “man made.”
Robert F. Six, president of Con
tinental, said in Denver he asked
the FBI to enter the investigation
after his firm’s own specialists had
sufficient evidence to indicate the
possibility of a “man made” blast.
Edward E. Slattery, Jr., CAB
public information officer, said in
a statement:
“Investigators have determined
that an explosive force of unknown
origin occurred within the aft por
tion of the fuselage and caused
the aircraft to break up in flight.”
The $5.5-million Boeing 707
crashed on a farm near Unionville,
Mo., while on a flight from Chicago
to Kansas City and Los Angeles.
Debris from the plane as it dis
integrated in flight has been found
as far as 150 miles northeast of
the crash scene.
“Portions of the cabin interior
and fuselage structure have been
sent to Washington for laboratory
analysis to ascertain the nature of
the explosive ingredients,” Slat
tery said.
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AFL-CIO HEAD ENDORSES
35-HOUR WORK WEEK
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. UP> —
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO says he expects the
merged labor movement to very
seriously consider a nation-wide
campaign to reduce the standard
work week from 40 to 35 hours.
Such a campaign, Meany said
Friday, likely will be deliberated
by the AFL-CIO executive coun
eil n’hci* it meets in August.
He told the convention of the
International Ladies Garment
workers Union, “I am of the
opinion that a reduction of the
work week, with the same take
home pay, would have a tremen
dous impact.”
Meany first endorsed the 35
hour week at another convention
here last week. He is at odds with
the Kennedy Administration and
Secretary of Labor Arthur Gold
berg, who feels that the present
40-hour week is best for the na
tion’s economy.
Said Meany, to cheering dele
dates:
“I do not like to disagree with
Arthur Goldberg any more than
Dave Dubinsky, president of the
ILGWU, does . . . but I feel that
we have got to look at this ques
tion of how many hours do we
work.”
Dubinsky’s union already has
the 35-hour week. He has said he
favors it on a nation-wide basis.
MILE OF HIGHWAY
COLLAPSES IN B.C.
TERRACE, B.C. — A mile
of highway collapsed south of here
Friday night, churning earth
moving equipment, cars and a log
ging truck into the mud in a four
hour upheaval.
Believed triggered by a sub
terranean movement in an area
known for at least one hot sulphur
spring, the slide cut the only high
way link to the Aluminum Com
pany of Canada's industrial com
plex at Kitimat.
No one was injured.
Construction crews had just fin
ished work Friday w'hen the earth
slipped. Eight bulldozers tumbled
into the mid.
Witnesses said the highway con
tinued to heave until 11 p.m., when
it stabilized “more or less like a
bowl of jelly.”
Splits in the earth where the
highway pulled away were 20 feet
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Death Is
Commonplace
In Algiers
By Andrew Borowlec
ALGIERS UP> — The old Moslem
woman leaned to pick up scraps of
food from a garbage pail.
A young European in a yellow
OA1AA V puucu UUl Cl piatui.
He fired one shot into her head.
The woman fell. Blood began
to trickle across the sidewalk.
The killer put the pistol back
into his pocket and walked away.
No one stopped him.
This was Algiers, Rue Charras,
at 11.14 a.m.
Someone said: “Call the police.”
Someone else said, “No, call an
ambulance.”
“She doesn’t need an ambulance.
Call the morgue,” said another
European.
Within three minutes the blood
reached the gutter.
At 11:20 a.m. an ambulance siren
screamed. City ambulance No. 25
pulled up and two helmeted fire
men stepped out.
“She is dead,” one of them said.
“This for the morgue not for
us.” The ambulance drove off.
From the windows of office
buildings, hundreds of Europeans
stared. These were girls in pretty
summer dresses and men in colored
summer shirts.
Housewives carrying baskets of
supplies stepped over the puddle.
“Disgusting,” one said.
Five more minutes elapsed be
fore a police van arrived.
“One shell,” a policeman an
nounced.
Another covered the woman’s I
battered head with her white
shawl.
“Must requisition another place
in the morgue. Not much room
there these days,” he said.
The policemen drove off.
The body lay where it fell, under
the sizzling North African sun.
Wouldn’t it be nice if it took
as long to spend money as it
does to save it?
NOTICE OF BOND SALE
STATE OF ALASKA
A. GENERAL OBLIGATION
FERRY AND ROAD BONDS, 1962—
$5,500,000.
B. GENERAL OBLIGATION UNI
VERSITY OF ALASKA BONDS, 1962
—$800,000.
C. GENERAL OBLIGATION HOS
PITAL BONDS, 1962—$354,000.
D. GENERAL OBLIGATION AIR
FIELD BONDS, 1962—$275,000.
Sealed proposals will be received by
the State Bond Committee at the office
of th Governor of the State of Alaska in
Juneau, Alaska, at or before 9:30 a.m.
Pacific Standard Time on June 20, 1962,
for the purchase of the bonds of each
of the above-named issues of the State.
The bonds of each issue will be dated
July 1, 1962, may all be in denominations
of $1,000 or $5,000 each at the option of
the purchaser, may be registered as to
principal only, and will bear interest at
a rate of not to exceed 6 p~ ~Ci_nt per
annum.
The principal place of payment of the
bonds of each issue will be the Chemi
cal Bank New York Trust Company, New
York, New York, and the co-paying
agents for the bonds of each issue will
be the Continental Illinois National Bank
and Trust Company of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, and the Seattle-First National
Bank, Seattle, Washington.
The issue A bonds will mature in
from 1 to 20 years from date, the issue
B bonds will mature in from 1 to 15
years from date, and the issues C and
D bonds will mature in from 1 to 10
years from date.
The bonds of each issue will be gen
eral obligations of the State secured by
a pledge of its full faith, credit and re
sources.
Separate bids must be submitted for
each issue, and each issue will be award
ed to the bidder offering to purchase
all of the same at the lowest net interest
cost to the State and to pay therefore
not less than par plus accrued interest.
Bids shall be accompanied by the fol
lowing good faith deposits: Issue A,
$110,000; Issue B, $16,000; Issue C, $7,000;
Issue D, $6,000. Telegraphic bids may be
submitted as long as such good faith
deposits are in the hands of this Com
mittee at or before the time of the bid
opening.
An official statement relating to the
issuance of the bonds of each issue will
be furnished upon request made to the
New York, Chicago, or Seattle office of
John Nuveen & Co., financial consult
ants-to the State of Alaska, or to this
Committee, Department of Commerce,
p.O. Box 2259, Juneau, Alaska.
The bonds of each issue will be sold
with the unqualified opinion of Preston,
Thorgrimson, Horowitz, Starin & Ellis,
bond counsel of Seattle, Washington, ap
proving the legality of their issuance.
STATE BOND COMMITTEE
ALASKA
Pub: May 28, June 4, 1962.
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NASA Spokesman
Believes Carpenter Made a Mistake
GRAND TURK, B.W.I. UP) —
Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter
made a mistake late in his third
orbit that helped short his space
craft of a vital fuel used to control
position, it was learned Saturday.
The 37-year-old astronaut acci
dentally left a manual control
system on when he switched to a
fly-by-wire, or semi-automatic sys
tem.
In the sense that he should not
have to control systems on, it was
a mistake or error, said Lt. Col.
John A. Powers, a spokesman for
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
The two systems were on side
by-side for three or four minutes,
Powers said, and the entire supply
of fuel for the manual control sys
tem was exhausted before Carpen
ter had positioned his spacecraft
for re-entry into the earth’s at
mosphere.
Carpenter still had fuel left in
his automatic system and was able
to use this in a semi-automatic,
or hand-controlled sort of power
steering to stabilize his Aurora 7
spacecraft.
Fuel Shortage
Powers said that the fuel short
age, which Carpenter admitted
gave him anxious moments dur
ing re-entry, was not critical, in
that other fuel supplies were avail
able to control the spacecraft’s
position.
Carpenter was controlling the
spacecraft by the manual system
to make corrections on the auto
matic system as he went into the
retro-rocket firing stage.
After this, he switched on the
fly-by-wire control and inadvert
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Because of this, he was using fuel
from both systems to control the
spacecraft’s attitude as he pre
pared for re-entry.
The disclosure of the mistake
should add fuel to the question
whether Carpenter was confused,
pre-occupied or simply reflective
on his last whirl around the globe.
Space officials seem unable to agree
on an answer.
As they weighed Saturday this
and other questions which arose
during the 37-year-old Naval of
ficer’s thrilling space journey, he
had a date to go skindiving with
other astronauts off this tiny West
Indies island.
Question of Condition
The question of Carpenter’s con
dition during his last orbit arose
late Thursday night, several hours
after he had been plucked from
his tiny life raft in the Atlantic
250 miles beyond his target land
ing area. The 17 Project Mercury
tracking stations got together on
their world-girdling radio net
work for a post-flight critique.
The Kauai, Hawaii, station said
Carpenter sounded tired and his
voice was weak as he flew over:
“He was quite concerned about
his capsule attitude and therefore,
on several occasions, when the
capsule communicator tried to get
him on his retro-sequence he kept
returning to what he was doing.
“We told him to get ready for
the retro-sequence and he started
doing something else. There was
some confusion whether he under
stood what the order was.
“We had the impression that he
was very confused about what was
going on. But it was very diffi
cult to assess whether he was
confused or pre-occupied.”
The Woomera, Australia, station
came in to say, ‘we also feel the
astronaut was acting somewhat
tired on the last pass.” It said his
voice was weak.
Asked to Comment
When he was asked to comment
later on the critique, the medical
expert who monitored Carpen
ter’s flight said the astronaut ob
viously was tired. But, Dr. Stanley
White said, Carpenter performed
his tasks “in an appropriate man
ner.”
His theory was that the track
ing stations thought Carpenter was
confused because he was too busy
—too pre-occupied—at times to
make the requested responses.
At Grand Turk, the psychiatrist
who talked to Carpenter after he
came back to earth said he didn’t
think the astronaut was tired
during the trip.
“Quite the opposite,” Dr. George
Buff, of the University of Penn
sylvania, “I think he was quite
alert nr» the whole flight ”
So far as making decisions goes,
I Dr. Ruff said, people differ. Some,
| given 10 seconds for a decision,
will make it in the first second.
But Carpenter, he said, is the type
who will think about it for nine
seconds, considering the alterna
tive, before making the decision
in the 10th second.
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
National League
San Francisco 7-6, New York 1-5
Los Angeles 5-2, Philadelphia 2-1
Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 3
Cincinnati 10, Chicago 0
Pittsburgh 7, Houston 2
American League
New York 3-1, Detroit 1-5
Cleveland 6, Washington 3
Baltimore 4, Boston 2
Minnesota 5-8, Chicago 4-6
Kansas City 3-3, Los Angeles 2-6
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake City 11-1, Seattle 8-3
Tacoma 7-5, Hawaii 6-2
San Diego 7-1, Spokane 0-9
Vancouver 7, Portland 2
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