The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 185, Ed. 1 Monday, February 29, 1960 Page: 4 of 20
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iagtnam #n Monday, February 29, I960
TALKATIVE MAN IN ORBIT WILL BE LAUNCHED BY U.S.
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Tibet Seizes Gold Of
Dalai Lama Smugglers
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP'-Po-
liee seized a group oI Tibetans
canyidg one million rupees-C10.-
im-worth ot gold they claimed
belonged to the Dalai Lama, re-:for 1960 business staged a sharp
liable sources said’ today. rebound last .w eek. .
The Dalai Lama began .moving When the year started, roost
the fomagirt. am . nothing
Business Rebounds
After Dip In Boom
NEW YORK (API—The outlook Stock Exchange president, urged
die Federal .Reserve Board- to
reduce sfock margin require-
ments. He. said it was needed to
protect the liqiSSity of die market.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When this country putt a man
in orbit around the eartb-possibiy
late next year—he'll have to be
something-at a chatterbox.
Officials are hoping the first
man-in-space flight will be made
from Cape Canaveral, Fla., late
in 1961.
But whatever -the date, the
astronaut will spend about a third
of his time in space talking to
Maple .back on the . ground.
Data about the talkative Rpee*
tan can to light during a day
in which an experimental Midas
iBPBr** satellite hM • Polaris
rat destroyed hi flight when it
*£ ont ef control, and had
rather forced postponement of
Hie launching at aa inflatable
|lNfe S|lN*fc .. :
The Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee in Washington made.pub-
bc testimony from. National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration
dNlb about tfen man-in-space
program called Project Mercury.
The committee also approved
an additional 19 million dollars
for the Mercury program. The
unt is an advance on
807,750 (Mb asked by NASA for
the fiscal ’year starting July L
Congress ahead? ban provided
in thf winter of HSL51 to keep but boom; Then came the stock
them out of the hands of the in-1 market decline'and lower than ex- The current requirement is for an
vading Chinese Communists. He pected automobile sales. Opti- i investor to put up 90 per cent fash
more-than-KB million dollars for Cathetf oCOtfckasha. t*ta
Maj. Vic Hammond, director of!that while the capsule is in flight approximately 5 minutes out ot tioned perfectly in propelling the
tracking and communications for “we have provision to have conil
the project told the committee imunications with the astronaut for
Order Of 29ers: Today Is Your Day
PITTSBURGH, Kan. (AP)-The Century years not divisible for
quaAetmial meeting of the Order «o are not Leap Years, yet the
of 29ers is in session.
You who are members of World
Chapter No. 1 are scattered all
over the United States and some
other countries, but you know this
is The Day. You are celebrating
ypur birthday today for the first
time in four years. . _ - . I
Because be felt you were being
short-changed, F. % Brinkerhoff.
the Pittsburg, Kan. editor and
*, founded fire order hi
1928. Then, as now, he sent a
membership scroll to anyone who
could meet the single obvious
requirement: that he be bom on
Feb. 29. There are no dues, no
formal meetings.
bership in the order has grown to
1,900. Senior .member is Miss
Julia Covert of Jeffersonville, Ind.
who is 101 years old today. .
Next are Irene Alexander of
Oskaloosa, Kan. and Elizabeth
______. _____mo
the program the past two years, years old.
organization secretaty, Kenneth
L. Simons, reports there have ;
been three applications claiming
birfh Feb. 29, 1900. One of the
applicants, a woman, indignantly
insisted the date was right. She
said her mother and the family
Bible supported her daim, -
Simons, managing editor of the
Pittsburgh Headlight arid Sun.
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There are also three or four sis-
ters and brothers born Feb, 29,
four or eight years apart.
California with 90 requests for
newspaper in California has t of-
fered to form World. Chapter No!
2.
Babies born today will get gold
tinted scrolls. ’ .
"Meeting adjourned Until Feb. 29.
1964.
every 15 that he flies.
George Lew, director of NASA
space flight development, pro-
vided other details. He said plans
call for the first astronaut to
make three 90-minute trips around
the earth and then a package of
braking rockets will be fired to
Blow toe capsule.
“It will re-enter the
and it will land to_____,
Ocean* near Pareto Rico,*" Law
said. Parachutes will be used to
stow the descent and ships will
be deployed to the area to pick
up the capsule, he said.
Meanwhile, technicians at Cape
Canaveral were . studying tele-
metry data to learn toe reason
for toe failure of this country's
first attempt to orbit an expert,
mental Midas “spy" satellite.
Officials said another satellite
might be launched within two
months.
The Atlas booster rocket func-
Btade Holds Screws
If screw must be started in a
hard-to-get-at location, use tape
over the tip of a screwdriver to
used to accomplish the trick.
2 14-ton satellite into position for
a low -flying orbit. But the satellite
did not separate and the entire
assembly plunged to a fitoy
death to the earth's atmosphere
about 2,500 miles down the Atian-
tic missile range^B
At Wallops Island, V*., toe
NASA postponed an attempt to
launch an inflatable plastic sphere
to an altitude of 250 miles be-
cause of adverse weather condi-
tions. > .
The experiment is designed to
lead to the placing in orbit later
ing. Six previous shoots of the
submarine missile were success-’
units
Satellites to serve as radio wave
reftectora.' -
TBTlll. Illlimi ill I Ml lllllljilllli .......... Ihrrr balloon-type
system—is designed to. detect’ a
ballistic missile immediately aft-
er it is launched through use of
infra-red sensors. Plans call fori
six or eight of these satellites.
They will whirl about the earth
in polar orbits to provide the
United States with 30-minute
warning , of a’missile attack.
Cape Canaveral had another
failure Friday.'A-Polaris was de-
stroyed by the range safety of-
ficer when it went out of control
about two minutes after launch-
People 60 to 80
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. , . imd 'mall it today to find
out hoW«you can still apply
for a Jl.'M) life insurance pol-
icy to help take care of final
expenses without burdening
your family. ' \
You handle the entire trans-
action -by Snail with ; OLD
AMERICAN of KANSAS CITY-
There is no obligation of any
kind! - ..
•Write . today, simply givto*"
your name, address and year
of birth. Mail to Old American
TKTT&. 4900 Oak. WfttJ L242B,
Kansas Ctty 12. Missouri.
fled himself last spring.
r.ism dimmshed.
Now a survey by.the National
Penguins use . their flattened ■ industrial Conference Board shows
for stock he buys.
Briefly around the business
scene: Esso Research k Engineer-
Bp-
days of February', up about id per
.cent from a year ago and the
best since 195*. Nevertheless,
[there was disappointment because
’the figure was considerably under
{original estimates.
Estimated auto production this
Veek was 156.060, a gain of 24per
cent over last year. The pace-*et-
• tme compacts accounted for about
mm,
wings-to “fly under water. consumer buying plans far ahead ing Co. has developed a process
Ibf a year. a^Far instance. plans [that may bring on multicolored
to buy new automobiles are up pavement for ^highways -and air-
127 per cent and new homes up 18 j port runways." ... United Air
I per cent, j Lines bought 20 Caravelle jet air-
._4-poll of 1.500 businessmen! from Sxl Aviation of Ftance
found them more optimistic abouts for to minion dollars. . . . Amer-
ithe second quarter of (his year j»can cigarette consumption in 1969
jthab they were about toefirstjwasattoe reteot 190 packs tor ev-
Seventy-four per sent said they gY P**? My, ••
expected 1960 to be the biggest Exports of goods other than null-
year ever lor business • tary in January is estimated at
.. i' The' Commerce-Department re- SI.442.000.000. compared with Sl.-
4 ported the year got oil to a good l286.000.000. in January 1959.
start to January with bigger pro- yRadio Corp. of America has de-
1 ..ducyon. operung up new jobs and 'eloped an eleetrdh tube for poe-
. personal income rising to a record stole use in space commumca-
annual rate of, 393 billion dollars, ticris and transoceanic television.
-t The. automobile industry sold
162.000 new care to toe middle 10.
Engineers Show
Bridge Film To
School Classes
Members-of the Baytown Chap-
, ' iter of the National Society of Pro;
Wito steel usere mdiratmg they (!K,ional fatten hav-e shown
are not going to build torn mm* fUm -jv Mackinac Bridge Di-
tones as high as ahticipated, aotoe[,fr... to school
industry leaden scaled down esm as ^ Natl0nal
mate* of 1960 production to IZ Wffk proKram
million tons, which still would be ' • . , .
a record The production rate. ,Tllc *Pgi*1 ***
istayed close to 95 per cent this ^a> .on Gepr** ''ashlJP,on*
r birthday since he was the na-
. Americans found out their cost u«'* “j? «Wnwr Mayor R. H.
Lower prim for clothing new Baytown,
icars and most meats brought a P. F. Bennett, vice president
drop o< one-tenth ot one per cent of the Baytown Chapter, showed
in the government * cost of living the film Tuesday to approximate-
index. ly TOO students at Cedar Bayou
It was the second straight Jun. or High. The movie concerns
monthly dip'. Even so. the level,the building of a bridge across
was a record high for January, the strait between Michigan and
Ewan Clague. labor statistics Canada and invoh-e* engmeenne
commissioner, had a few words of of a. different type than usual-
mixed encouragement: "The.hv-Jly formed by Baytown engi-
fKfcosf lev el is not going to move ' neeH ’
anywncre for the next couple of On Wednesday the film was
months." dwwh to approximately 165 stu-
Most 'Southern cotton mills an- (fonts at Baytown Junior High by
nounced a voluntary wage raise, ;T. F. Chirk end D. JR. Cassel-
. generally about five per rent. man. chapter members.
Some mills immediately boosted
prices on knitted goods and den-
ims.
SPECI
WITH
By NORVIA GAI
A1‘ NewXfeatures 1
The workaday worldl
(airy princess is- cngJ
- -The brtiotlial of Brill
.res* Margaret Rosc l
idiotographtr, Antony I
jonex was announced. i|
by . Queen Elizabeth.,
mother.
The new* was giee-til
joicing by a generatuT
watched -niargaret gr.l
lively, unp'retlir table ' L
beaytiljii. vivacious w.J
Queen - Elizabeth's y!
• ter. unwilling to !»• b
pletely by. stuffy court
has always lived a gay
own .-Sopie critics lab
' piaygirl for her partyii
of jazz and g*4-t'ime
But it was four year
rigid royal tradition 1
first great love— for F
send, a divorced -mat
. known since her tecnsJ
Margaret Rose, atvv
ligious girl, heeded thcl
I-togland, jshich opp"stl
age of divore-ed persori
Since she renoune. ill
- who has sincef marl
- there had been a swl
-.iatiori o\i r future I
the blue-eyed princess I
- recalled an ancient leg<|
, Ing her birth in GlatJ
Scotland, on Aug. 21. ■
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dent* saw
was shown by W. C. Johnson
Store all interested groups were
able to see the film during
Elsewhere on the price front,
gasoline went up and fuel oil
dTto Mock market dipptd earlv t^neers' Week, it wU be shown
dSr J™',! this week to the RLL Chemistry
stronger -Oub and to toe sevTnth. eighth.
^5k ^amounted to Um.M* ^
645 shares during toe latest •«* *«““■ Highlands- Junior
compared wim 17,290.350 the pre-|”E*y
vwus week. Oft th bond market ”“ *
sales amounted to SZ3J67.000 par Hxutbdl reaches as much
value compared wito S30.743JOO IMO inches a yvar on the mountain
the previous week. *h>P« of-tfc-Otymplc peninsula
Keith Film, WyeJTo»hy| WMhtngtoti.:
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in its price range exceeds new Esso Extra’s over-all quality. No other
will give your car better perfonnauce. ' .
Octane rating readies a new high- Mileage is better-you get ah
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at Humble Research Center, conditions your engine so that perform-
ance improves mile after mile.
Esso Extra, at intermediate price, is the perfect pawline for hun-
dreds of thousands of Texas automobiles. Try it in yours.
ilfwMHHH
Esso Extra
gasoline
Which gasoline should you use?
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Some cars give satirfactoiy per- aboat 20S.of the I960 models n-
formance on “regular’ For those quirt Golden Esso Extra to give
can, Humble dealers recommend satisfactory performance. Golden
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Most can will perform better cost is repaid . •. many tones over
on new Esso Extra. Intermediate ... in extra performance, extra
price. - , mileage and the extra satisfaction
But the .gasoline that tops all that comes from driving^1 car per-
others is Golden Esso Extra, and forming at its peak.
... You get fame
YOU WILL BE A HAPPIER MOTORIST WHEN YOU BECOME A HUMBLE CUSTOMER
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 185, Ed. 1 Monday, February 29, 1960, newspaper, February 29, 1960; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057668/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.