Mcasle Epidemic
Feared in Pribilof Islands
ANCHORAGE GW — A measles
epidemic is feared in the Pribilof
Islands in the Bering Sea as the
result of a single case brought
back to St. Paul Island by a young
boy.
Vaccination of the villagers has
been started in an attempt to halt
any spread of the disease beyond
the one case, however, Public
Health officials feared the measles
could spread within a few weeks to
the native villagers.
The germs have a two-week in
cubation period.
Dr. Robert McAlister, a Public
Health Service spokesman here,
said all of the islanders are con
sidered susceptible to the disease
because there has been no out
break of measles in the distant
Pribilofs for 22 or 23 years.
Some vaccine was shipped to
St. Paul Monday from Anchorage.
Another 500 units of the new
Livus measles vaccine was flown
to the islands yesterday by the
Public Health Service.
About 700 Alaska natives live on
St. Paul and St. George Islands in
the Pribilofs.
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Goldwater Lauds
Scranton as Favorite GOP
Presidential Candidate
WASHINGTON UP) — A move
to make Gov. Wm. Scranton of
Pennsylvania a favorite son candi
date for the 1964 Republican Pres
idential nomination won applause
Tuesday from Sen. Barry Gold
water.
Sen. Hugh Scott, (R-Pa.), told a
news conference Monday there is
growing sentiment among local
Republican officials that Scran
ton should have Pennsylvania’s
votes pledged to him.
At Harrisburg, Scranton said he
would be a favorite son candidate
as a means of holding the state’s
delegation together at next year’s
convention. But, he added, “I want
to make it perfectly clear that I
am not a presidential candidate.”
Goldwater, who is being boomed
by some Republicans for the 1964
nomination, said in an interview
he thinks that would be “a very
wise move for Pennsylvania to
make when there are no announced
candidates.”
“I think that any state that
wants to should have its own
favorite son candidate,” the Ari
zona senator said. “Then the con
test for the nomination will go
down to the wire. This would make
for an interesting, open conven
tion that could do the party some
good.”
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Project Mercury
Leaves Legacy
Of Experience
Editor’s Note: Project Mercury
left a vast legacy of experience
and knowledge for future space
flights. Howard Benedict, AP
correspondent at Cape Canaveral,
reports on Mercury’s important
contributions in the second of
three articles.
By Howard Benedict
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UP —
Project Mercury’s original cost
estimate of $200 million soared to
more than twice that figure because
1 of unforeseen problems in sending
men into space.
There are few who will dispute
the high price tag. For Mercury
— now officially ended — left
a vast legacy of experience and
knowledge which is being applied
to the two-man Gemini program.
Gemini will lay the groundwork
for the Apollo project.
Mercury’s most important con
tribution was its demonstration
that man can effectively perform
useful tasks in space even after
long exposure to weightlessness.
“I think we proved man is a
pretty good backup system to all
these automatic systems,” Air
Force Maj. Leroy Gordon Cooper
Jr., commented after his 22-orbit
flight which climaxed the pro
gram last month.
Jerome Hammack of the Nation
al Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration’s manned space flight cen
ter, said: “Man as a positive fac
tor contributing to mission success
in the space environment has
proven himself in Project Mer
cury.”
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Malcolm Scott
Carpenter, who demonstrated man’s
capability when trouble forced
him to manually steer his space
j craft back to earth last year, said:
i “The Gemini missions are going
to require a great deal of astro
naut control from the launch to
the recovery phase. Although we
will be aided and backed up by
the same flight operations team
that has made our Mercury flights
so successful, pilot decision is going
| to play a larger part in the space
j flight missions of the future.”
| Gemini inherits the operations
i and management structure which
pushed Mercury to conclusion—
the world-wide communications
and tracking networks, recovery
techniques and the men who called
the shots, such as Director Robert
Gilruth, Operations Director Wal
ter Williams and Flight Director
Chris Kraft.
Gemini also acquires the Mer
cury astronauts, plus nine new
astronauts who have been on the
sidelines.
Mercury produced a storehouse
of medical data from which have
been drawn medical trends and
general physiological information.
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| Too frequent "coffee breaks” may
I help put you on the road towards
having a peptic ulcer, a Philadel
phia doctor said Monday.
Dr. James L. A. Roth told the
American Medical Association’s
112th annual meeting there is ex
perimental evidence that caffeine
can contribute to ulcer formation
in cats.
While granting that there is as
yet no proof that this is also true
in man, Dr. Roth said he’s con
vinced that “drinking 10 to 15
cups of coffee a day will give a
contributing influence” toward
touching off an ulcer.
Mercury also paved the founda
tion for scientific observations in
space.
Gemini engineers learned many
design lessons from Mercury, most
important of which was that space
craft systems must be positioned
so they can be worked on or re
placed with minimum disturbance
to other systems.
Experiences with Mercury also
influenced these Gemini design
and checkout procedures:
Use of identical checkout pro
cedures and checkout equipment
at both the manufacturer’s plant
and at Cape Canaveral.
To eliminate the numerous elec
trical problems which cropped up
on Mercury, Gemini will obtain
electrical power from a chemical
fuel cell which will convert hyro
gen and oxygen to heat water and
electricity. Mercury employed sil- j
ver zinc batteries which sometimes
produced trouble-causing transient
voltages.
Gemini will have a new type
propulsion system to operate the
jets which control the spacecraft’s
roll. The fuels — a propellant and
an oxidizer — ignite on contact
in thrust chambers. No catalyst
• or spark is required, thus elimin
ating the danger of explosive de
’ composition posed by the hydrogen
peroxide used in the Mercury
capsule.
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2^-Year-Old Boy
Bitten to Death by
Siberian Husky Dog
BOULDER, Colo — Brett
Alan Whitney, 2V£, was bitten to
death by a hungry Siberian husky
dog, police reported Tuesday.
The boy’s lacerated body was
found in the backyard of his home
late Monday afternoon. His mother,
Donna Whitney, was hysterical.
The father, Douglas Whitney, is
stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla.
Investigating officers said two
Siberian dogs owned by Clair J.
Bankston were chained in the yard.
Bankston lived in another section
of the duplex home on the north
east outskirts of Boulder.
Police said they were told by
Mrs. WThitney that Bankston had
been on a fishing trip for three
days and the dogs had not been
fed except for a few table scraps
she gave them.
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Here's why teachers are bitter
about the size of their paychecks:
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lege graduate is better than $10,000
a year. But the average pay of
public school teachers and super
visors—most of whom hold col
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