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Localized rains and thunder showers in the area
Friday and Friday night; ending early Saturday
and becoming partly cloudy and a Jittle cooler
Saturday and Saturday night.
Today’s Range: 55-75. Tomorrow’s Range: 50-70.
Yesterday’s High: 70. Rainfall: 0.
Sunrise: 6:13 a.m. Sunset: 6:53 p.m.
Moonrise Sat.: 8:34 a.m. Moonset Sat.: 10:16 p.m.
Lake Levels—Travis: 667.88’. Buchanan: 1004 82’.
U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for
Taylor and Williamson County
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TAYLOR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 19G2
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Pries Five Cents
Hail Batters
South Plains
During Night
Rains Begin
Tapering Off
Ry THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
Damaging hail battered several
South Plains areas during the
night. New thunderstorms, loaded
with hail, boomed in the Big
kpring area Friday morning.
W Rains of the last two days tap-
ered off early Friday to a few
showers in North Texas. There
was considerable fog in East and
South Texas.
Hail and briefly torrential rain
pounded rural areas just north of
Lubbock and around Muleshoe
and Farwell on the South Plains
overnight, denting a six-month
drought. Since last August, Lub-
bock had received less than one
inch of moisture.
The hailstones banged down a
vent pipe1 over a stove and rolled
across the floor in the home of
Mrs. Eugene Black 9 miles north-
west of Muleshoe. South of Mule-
shoe the icy pellets piled up 4
to 5 inches deep in heaps like
snowbanks. Some were as big as
golf balls.
Some sections of a storm sewe'r
in a Muleshoe street collapsed as
an inch of irain poured down in
18 minutes. Water backed up and
blocked another street for a time.
Most other sections of the state
received rains worth millions of
dollars to farmers and ranchers
ealrlier Thursday, but broad
stretches of West and Southwest
Texas remained dry. The heaviest
downpours were in the Texas Pan-
handle, where Ralph Patterson
measured 4.75 inches on his farm
21 miles southwest of Perryton.
Scattered showers and an occa-
sinonal thundeirstorm were in
prospect for northern areas of
■he state and a few showers
■cross the south later Friday.
cT’hey were expected to dwindle
into showers in the southeastern
third of the state Saturday.
A thunderstorm boomed through
San Angelo in early morning.
There was fog around Amarillo,
Dallas, Longview, Tyler, Lufkin,
Houston and McAllen.
Temperatures before dawn
ranged from 38 degrees at Dal-
hart to 68 at Brownsville.
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Ballinger's Man of Year
Editor Dies at 70
BALLINGER W — Editor Troy
Simpson of the Ballinger Ledger
died Thursday at a hospital to
which he was admitted Monday
for treatment of a respiratory
ailment. He was 70.
Honored as Ballinger’s man of
the year in 1961, Simpson had
edited the weekly newspaper here
in West Central Texas since 1924.
Rites H eld for Dr. House,
Leader in Civic Affairs
Toddler Dies After
Drinking Kerosene
SAN ANTONIO W — Ten-
month-old William Stafford Jr.
died at a hospital three hours aft-
er drinking about a cup of kero-
sene Thursday.
His mother told police he found
the kerosene on a window sill
While playing in his stroller. It
was used as fuel for a kitchen
stove.
Dr. A. M. House, Sr.
Washington
Tag Refuted
By Connally
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
Candidates are stepping up
their campaigns as they go into
the last month campaigning be-
fore the May 5 primaries.
John Connally issued a state-
ment, tossing back charges of
Washington influence at Gov.
Price Dasiel and Atty. Gen. Will
Wilson. Connally is running for
governor.
“I guess they have now
switched their loyalties,” Connal-
ly said.
Connally said that his opponents
have been whispering that Presi-
dent Kennedy and Vice Presi-
dent Lyndon Johnson sent him to
Texas to get in the race.
He asserted this was untrue,
but that he was not going to dis-
avow his friendship with Kennedy
and Johnson.
Connally said he worked for
the nomination of Johnson at the
request of Daniel and the late
Sam Rayburn.
Other candidates for governor
were busy.
Republican candidate Jack Cox
of Breckenridge took notice of the
Will Wilson - Price Daniel feud in
a letter to 500 local GOP officials
in Texas.
He said the attorney generals’
comments are “only part of the
story,” adding:
“Were the situation not so se-
rious, and the revelations so
shocking, the spectacle would be
amusing and downright comical.”
Wilson said Daniel had not an-
swered his “conflict of interest”
charge made in a televised
speech last week. He said Dan-
iel’s answer fell far short of full
disclosure of the governor’s prop-
erty and income records.
Daniel has said that Wilson’s
figures are incorrect and that
some of the property Wilson cited
was inherited.
Daniel spoke in Wichita Falls,
saying Texas has increased its
water conservation storage ca-
pacity 169 per cent in the past
five years from the previous 44
years.
Two other Democratic candi-
dates for governor, Marshall
(See TAG, Page 6)
Most Air Bomb Scares
Traced to Jokesters
WASHINGTON iff) — Most air-
plane bomb scares are started by
practical jokers—not by mentally
deranged characters, FBI sources
said today.
Expressing concern about the
growing number of plane bomb
hoaxes, FBI officials say they
have identified nearly 400 per-
sons responsible for such false, re-
ports is the last six years.
“It has been found that most
of these individuals have been
persons of maturity and, in many
cases, 'persons who were connect-
ed with substantial businesses,”
said the FBI.
“It has been apparent that
many of these individuals can
best be described as perverted
practical jokers who made state-
ments regarding possible bombs
on aircraft out of a warped sense
of humor or while under the in-
fluence of liquor,” it added.
FBI files disclosed this cross-
section of bomb hoax perpetrat-
ors:
A welding company partner, 49,
from Fall River, Mass., who be-
came angry about 'the delay of
his flight from Miami to Boston
in January, 1961. “If you don’t
get this flight out in 10 minutes,”
he told a ticket agent, “I’ll have
to rewind my bomlb.” He was
fined $250.
A Midwestern lawyer who tried
to delay the departure of a client
by falsely reporting a bomb was
aboard the client’s plane. He was
sentenced to one year in prison
and was fined $1,000.
An Oregon dentist, 62, who on
a flight from Portland, Ore., to
Minneapolis twice told a ste-
wardess a bomb was in his lug-
gage. He was fined $1,000 and
drew a year’s probation.
A Michigan sales engineer who,
as he left a plane during a briei
stopover at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
told a stewardess, “Keep your
eye on the box in my seat. It’s
a bomb.” He was fined $250.
A Denver man who telephoned
airport officials that his mother-
in-law and six sticks of dynamite
were aboard a departing plane.
When arrested he said he had
been drinking after his wife made
him angry. He was sentenced to
four months.
False reports like these, said
the FBI, “constitute a grave prob-
lem and represent an appalling
record of lawlessness.”
Maximum penalty on conviction
is a $1,000 fine and one year im-
prisonment.
Dr. A. M. House Sr., long time
Taylor church and civic leader
and well known optometrist and
jeweler, was buried this afternoon
in the Taylor City Cemetery.
Dr. House, a resident of Taylor
since 1921, died at his home at
605 West Seventh Street, early
Thursday afternoon.
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. at Condra Funeral Home,
with the Rev. John Allen, pastor
of the First Methodist Church,
and the Rev. R. M. Burton, a
nephew from Cleburne, Texas,
officiating.
Pallbearers were Virgil Du-
pree, Dr. J. K. McWhorter, E.
M. Grimes, Ben Allgood, Joe
Burruss, J. O. Baker Jr., T. C.
Stern and Henry Alexander.
Requiem communion services
for the family and friends were
held Friday at 9 a.m. at St.
James Episcopal Church.
A native of Tennessee, Dr.
House came to Texas at the age
of 4. and to Taylor in December
of 1921. At that time he purchased
the old Paul Bauer Jewelry Store,
a business formerly owned by the
late Carl Grau. His sons, Aubrey
and Welton have been engaged in
business with him, first in the
one location, and then later
when the two departments were
separated, the jewelry store con-
tinued in the original location and
the optometry offices moved to
317 N. Main, with Dr. A. M.
House Jr. continuing in practice
with his father, and Welton in
charge of the jewelry store.
Dr. House was a lifelong mem-
ber of the Methodist Church. H’e
(See RITES, Page 6)
Snow Slides
Kill 3 on
Tunnel Project
COURMAYEUR, Italy ®) —
Snow slides killed at least three
workmen in the Mt. Blanc tunnel
project early today as miners on
another Alpine tunnel 12 miles
away celebrated their conquest of
nature.
The avalanche rolled down the
side of Mt. Blanc near Courmay-
eur and buried several workers’
bunkhouses as the men inside
slept.
Rescuers found three bodies
and pulled three injured workers
out of the snow.
It was not known immediately
if other workers were buried,
and a search continued.
Less than a mile of digging re-
mains on the 7.2-mile Mt. Blanc
tunnel, which will link Courmay-
eur and Chamonix, France. It is
expected to be open to motor traf-
fic late next year.
Hours before the slides in Mt.
Blanc, Italian and Swiss workers
—safely below ground as a bliz-
zard raged above—blasted away
the last rock barrier of the new
37-mile1 highway tunnel connect-
ing Saint Rhemy, Italy, with
Bourg, St. Pierre, Ewitzerlamd.
Millions of European television
viewers watched as Marcello Pie-
trobon, Italian foreman, pushed a
button. Half a ton of dynamite
blasted the thin remaining rock
wall, and the way was open to
the Italian side. ,
When the dust had settled, the
Italians and Swiss met at the
opening. The Italians broke out
bottles of chianti and all began
celebrating the last major step
toward completing the first high-
way tunnel through the Alps.
The $28-million tunnel runs un
der 8,000-foot Grand St. Bernard
Pass, part of the Mt .Blanc chain.
It will be ready for traffic next
year and give motorists an easy
route through the Alps in winter,
when the Alpine passes are snow
bound.
Ike Speaker
At GOP Session
PALM DESERT, Calif. (ZP> —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower came
off the golf course at Eldorado
Country Club Thursday to attend
a luncheon of 250 Republicans in
one of his rare public appear-
ances.
Eisenhower was accorded a
standing ovation as he said:
“If we are for sound finance
rather than skyrocketing debt, we
must make certain that good Re-
publicans are returned to the
halls of Congress.
“I say that the principles of the
Republican Party represent the
greatest good for our country.
Let’s get more people in the Re-
publican Party. We don’t have to
be snooty. Let’s have everyone
who believes in good government
within our party.”
Fresh Details
Bared by Estes
Indictment
Accountant's
Death Probed
EL PASO USY — Indictments in
the Billie Sol Estes case bared
fresh details Thursday in what
the government charges was a
$24 million fraud, plot.
Federal grand jurors accused
Estes, 37, who had been consid-
ered a youthful genius of farm
financing, and three other Texas
men of conspiring to bilk nine fi-
nance companies from coast to
coast with faked mortgages.
In most cases the security for
loans was liquid fertilizer tanks.
Prosecutors claim some of the
tanks never existed. One of the
biggest among 30-odd Estes enter-
prises is a business handling the
fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia.
U.S. Dist. Judge R. E. Thoma-
son received the grand jury’s re-
port while sheriff’s officers were
investigating the unexplained
death of a certified public ac-
countant who had worked for Es-
tes, George Krutilek, 49, of El
Paso.
A rancher discovered the body
of Krutil’ek in his car near Clint,
southeast of here. A hose from
the exhaust pipe indicated car-
bon monoxide fumes had been
piped inside the auto.
Dr. Frederick Bornstein, a path-
ologist, said a preliminary report
indicated, however, that this was
not the cause of death. He added
that the condition of the body
made it difficult to determine the
cause.
Investigators would not com-
ment on a report that Krutilek
had been questioned about the
Estes case Monday, when the ac
count ant last was seen alive.
Federal agents arrested Estes
at his palatial home in Pecos,
Tex., exactly a week before the
grand jury indicted him. He is
free under $100,000 bond.
Also named in the indictments
are Superior Manufacturing Co.
of Amarillo and three officials of
the firm—Harold E. Orr, 31, its
president, and Ruel W. Alexand-
er, 36, secretary-treasurer, both
of Amarillo; and Coleman Me
Spadden, 45, of Lubbock, a direc-
tor. Each has posted $25,000 bond.
Judge Thomason said he would
not require additional bonds and
the defendants probably would be
arraigned in 10 days to two
weeks.
Money lending firms the gov-
ernment charges them with de-
frauding are Pacific Finance Co.,
of Los Angeles, Commerical Cred-
it Corp. of Baltimore, Pioneer Fi-
nance Co. of Detroit, Walter E.
Heller & Co. of Chicago, Asso-
ciate Investments of South Bend,
Ind., First Acceptance Corp. of
Minneapolis, CIT of New YoYrk
and Kuykendall Investment Co.
and Caprock Investment Go.,
both of Lubbock.
Asst. U.S. Atty. Fred Morton
said these firms held fraudulent
mortgages and promissory notes
for $24 million, about $2 million
more than spokesmen for the
companies had estimated earlier.
Representatives of the finance
companies ended a conference at
Lubbock, meanwhile, without de-
ciding whether to start involun-
tary bankruptcy proceedings
against Estes.
McSpaddeh’s lawyer, G. H. Nel-
son, said he had offered to ac-
cept bankruptcy and suggested
this course “might save costs
(See DETAILS, Page 6)
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TOP TEEN-AGER—Lana Kay Stacy, Taylor High
junior, receives from the Rev. Jerry Mallory a
plaque naming her Optimist “Teen-Ager of the
Month ” —Taylor Press Stall' Photo
TopTeen-Ager Honored
At School Assembly
Miss Lana Kay Stacy today
was named Optimist “Teen-Ager
of the Month.”
She is the daughter of Mr. and
and Mrs. Voice Stacy, Route 3,
Taylor.
The 17-year-old junior received
an impressive plaque from the
Rev. Jerry Mallory in front of
her fellow students at an assem-
bly program at Taylor High
School.
The program is designed to
recognize the accomplishments of
youth in the home, church,
school and community.
Names of the adults who make
nominations are not made public.
Miss Stacy was cited for her
active membership in the Trinity
Lutheran Church, where, even
with her crowded schedule at
home and at school, she is al-
ways one of the first to volun-
teer for gratuitous duties at the
church.
Each week she types and prints
the Sunday School bulletin. She
is assistant team captain for the
Bible Class and a member and
past officer of the Walther Lea-
gue.
“My personal comment on this
young lady,” said the adult mak-
ing the nomination, “is that she
is of the highest type of Chris-
tian character, and if ,all our
teen-agers were like her, the
word ‘delinquent’ would drop out
of use.”
Miss Stacy is a member of
the High School Band and Stage
Band and is student conductor
of the1 high school band, as well
as serving as assistant band li-
brarian. She has been a member
of the all-district and all-regional
bands for two consecutive years
and was alternate for all-state
band in 1960.
She has learned to play the
French horn without private in-
struction. Her only instruction
was what she got with the band
in practice and a little coaching
from the hand instructor. She is
so outstanding she will partici-
pate in the state meet again this
year.
She has been on the honor roll
(See TEEN-AGER, Page 6)
B rozilio rt P res i dent
Honored in New York
NEW YOR K® — Brazilian
President Joao Goulart was hon-
ored Thursday with a ticker tape
parade up Broadway viewed by
thousands. He was greeted at
City Hall by Mayor Robert F.
Wagner and met with Francis
Cardinal Spellman.
Lat’er, he was the guest of hon-
or at a private dinner attended
by more than 50 dignitaries in-
cluding Acting Secretary-General
U Thant of the United Nations,
and heard himself lauded by Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Aprs! Cancer Month
Williamson Has Record
For Year-Round Service
April is Cancer Month, but in
Williamson County every month
in the year could be so designa-
ted. The East Williamson County
chapter of the American Cancer
Society has a year-round prog-
ram and committees that func-
tion as alert groups to help in
the wax on cancer.
In the local chapter of the
ACS, two committees are out-
standing, the education committee
and the service committee.
Mrs. Edmund Arning, chairman
of the education committee, is
mindful of the various groups in
het territory in which a cancer
film or other cancer programs
will be beneficial. She sees that
high school students see films on
their level; women’s groups, films
that remind them of their need
of frequent health checks; and
men’s groups, members of which
are reminded that cancer is a
hazard, but with early discovery
is cured a lairge part of the
lime,
The service committee is active
the year-round too, and with no
let-up since patients in the area
are constantly in need of some
or all of the services available.
Miss Dorothy Franzen, chair-
man of the service group, may
be contacted or help will be
available by calling the William-
son County Health unit in fur-
nishing cancer dressings; trans-
portation to and from a hospital;
a hospital bed, or other needs
in the home.
Patients are referred to the
committee by physicians, and
names are kept in confidence by
Miss Franzen and her assistants.
Finally, the only way in which
April is the stand-out cancer
month locally is because every
home is contacted, presented in-
formative literature on the1 di-
sease, and permitted to make a
donation for hse in research,
education, and other work of the
American Cancer Society.
Priest Talks
Father Off
Austin Perch
AUSTIN ® — For 40 minutes
a screaming father perched near
the top of a 150-foot tower with
a baby boy in his arms and
threatened to leap early today.
As police and firemen stood by,
a Roman Catholic priest finally
induced him to hand over the
infant ahd descend in a mainte-
nance elevator inside the tall city
street light tower.
Officials identified the man as
Joe Avila Garcia, 36, of Austin
and said he had been drinking.
They held him without imme-
diate charge.
Police gave these details:
Garcia fled with the two-month-
old baby after a fight with his
wife, - 33.
While she was en route to a
hospital for treatment of head in-
juries, he started up one of Aus-
tin’s “moonlight towers,” topped
by a cluster of bright lights to
illuminate a broad downtown
area.
Father Antonito . Gonzales, 38,
came from Our Lady of Guada-
lupe Church nearby as witnesses
summoned police and firemen.
Screaming incoherently in Span-
ish, Garcia kept complaining his
wife was never home. He threat-
ened to leap if anyone followed
him up the tower.
“It’s my baby—nobody’s going
to take it away from me,” he
shouted.
At length Garcia allowed the
priest to ascend in the elevator.
He surrended the baby and was
given a crucifix. After a moment
he agreed to go down also.
Mrs. Garcia’s eyes were1
blacked but hospital attendants
said her injuries were not serious.
Army to Disband
824 Small Units
In Reserve Cuts
Study fe Star! to Spread
Mm Evenly Over Nation
WASHINGTON (TP) — The Army is planning to
disband about 824 small units all around the nation in
paring its Reserve-Guard strength by 58,000 men, in-
formed sources said today.
These are units — some as small as two-man de-
tachments — which the Army feels it no longer needs.
They represent about 10 per cent of the 8,800 les-
ser outfits maistained by the |
Guard and Reserve.
The Army is getting ready to
start an exhaustive study aimed
at spreading the cutback evenly
over the nation.
The study, which may be fin-
ished in a month, will consider
population distribution and wheth-
er specific communities have fa-
cilities such as armories to sup-
port Reserve or Guard groups.
The Army also is counting on
attrition from existing units to
contribute to the planned drop.
Sources stressed that virtually
none of the manpower reduction
would come out of eight Guard
and Reserve infantry divisions
which have been tagged for elim-
ination.
A new Army reorganization
plan, announced Wednesday, con-
templates regrouping men of the
four Guard asd four Reserve di-
visions into eight flexible bri-
gades of perhaps 4,000 men each,
plus supporting units.
The plan also calls for creating
a ready force of six prime Guard
divisions—four infantry and two
armored — which would be en-
larged from their present
strength of about 8,000 men to
perhaps 11,000 each. With the bri-
gades, these divisions would back
up (he 16 regular Army divisions.
The details were disclosed as
the Army sent Undersecretary
Stephen Ailes before a Senate
subcommittee to explain the pro-
posal which already has drawn
fire in Congress.
The Army knows it will have a
rough time getting state gover-
nors to concur. Although each of
the four Guard divisions is split
between two or more states, gov-
ernors must agree before any
unit of such divisions wholly with-
in his state is either wiped out
or changed. The law requires
this.
As for the Reserve divisions,
the Army believes it could re-
aligh these without congressional
approval, although it was con-
ceded Congress could specify how
Reserve money should be spent.
The four Guard divisions ticket-
ed for eliminations are the 34th
of Nebraska and Iowa, the 35th
of Kansas and Missouri, the 43rd
of Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Vermont, and the 51st of Florida
and South Carolina.
The four Reserve divisions are
the 79th of Pennsylvania, Dela-
ware and Maryland, the 94th of
Massachusetts, the 103rd of Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the
(See CUTS,Page 6)
Senate Gives
Nod to U N.
BondPurchase
WASHINGTON Iff) — The Sen-
ate has given lopsided approval
to President Kennedy’s plea for
authority to extend $100 million
in aid to the financially troubled
United Nations.
Through a long legislative day
Thursday a coalition of Democrats
and Republicans beat hack efforts
to limit the President’s authority.
What emerged for consideration
by the House was a compromise
measure much to the administra-
tion’s liking. Passed 70 to 22, it
would permit Kennedy to either
lend the United Nations the mon-
ey on his own terms or buy U.N.
bonds bearing 2 per cent interest,
repayable over 25 years.
Attached is the condition that
all U.S. loans above $25 million
must be matched by bond pur-
chases by other U.N. member-na-
tions. This isn’t likely to tie Ken-
nedy’s hands. Sen. John Spark-
man, D-Ala., floor manager for
the bill, said other nations al-
ready have agreed to buy more
than $52-million worth.
A ringing declaration by Senate
Republican leader Everett M.
Dirksen of Illinois that “I have
not lost my faith in John Fitz-
gerald Kennedy” highlighted the
legislative struggle and pointed
up the partisan support for the
measure.
Dirksen has sponsored the
compromise jointly with the Sen-
ate Democratic leader, Mike
Mansfield of Montana.
While the proposal may be in
for rougher going in the House,
Senate Democratic and Republi-
can leaders were confident the
big margin piled up for it in
the Senate would help turn the
tide on the other side of the Capi-
tol.
Kennedy originally asked the
straight-out authority to buy half
of the $200-million bond issue the
United Nations is floating to
meet costs of peace-keeping oper-
ations in the Congo and, the Mid-
dle East.
The compromise was worked
out by the White House in nego-
tiations with Sen. George D. Ai-
ken, R-Vt., who originally insist-
ed on a $100-million loan thai
(See SENATE, Page 6)
Glenn Had Medication
For Injury in Space
WASHINGTON ® — If Astro-
saut John H. Glenn Jr. had been
hurt on his space flight, he could
have given himself a pain-killing
injection right through his flying
suit.
Biomedical experts of the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration reported this today
during a detailed symposium on
the Marine lieutenant colosel’s
three-orbit flight of last Feb. 20.
They disclosed that Glenn car-
ried in his survival kit four newly
developed “automatic self-injec-
tors” stored in a small package.
The injectors contained medica-
tions for pain, shock and motion
sickness, and a stimulant.
One end of each injector was
fitted with a red safety cap, and
the other end contained the medi-
cation and needle.
Upon removal of a safety pin,
the injector becomes armed.
The astronaut would have
pressed the needle end of the in-
pector into his two-ply alumnized
pressure suit. The needle would
have gone through the fabric and
into the astronaut’s skin, releas-
ing the medication.
In tests of the technique “the
resulting hole in the suit caused
an insignificant suit leak,” the
NASA scientists reported.
Glenn did not use any of the in-
jectors before, during or after the
flight, however.
The 13 papers presented at the
symposium also reported that:
About 19,300 people were deploy-
ed in Project Mercury at the
time of the Glenn mission. About
15,600 were associated with the
widespread recovery program,
launching complex, and 1,100 were
manning the tracking network.
A study of all the reports on
the mission shows that all of the
various systems in the Mercury
space craft functioned “at least
as good as designed, and in some
cases better.”
Harmful effects of minor mal-
functions were neutralized by du-
plicating systems, corrective ac-
tion of the astronaut and by am-
ple margins in system design.
At launch the spacecraft weigh-
ed 4,265 pounds, at insertion into
orbit 2,987, at firing of the
braking rockets 2,970, at water-
landing 2,493, and on recovery
2,422.
During reentry into the earth’s
atmosphere, when the capsule
was taking its “most severe beat-
ing,” the temperature of the air
(See GLENN, Page 6)
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The Taylor Daily Press (Taylor, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 93, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1962, newspaper, April 6, 1962; Taylor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800157/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taylor Public Library.