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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 18, 1963
New Astronaut List Announced by NASA
HOUSTON, Tex., (UPI) — Fourteen young but experienced jet pilots will make their debut today as America's newest astronauts — each carrying a tentative ticket for a trip to the moon.
The rookie spacemen, all male and including the first bachelor, were chosen one week ago today to make up the nation's third, youngest, and reportedly most highly educated team of astronauts.
They will compete with 16 veterans — the original seven Mercury astronauts and nine others added 13 months ago to the more advanced Project Gemini — for berths aboard U.S. spaceships headed for lunar landings in the next five to seven years.
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and Space Administration (NASA), which is running the $40 billion U.S. program to conquer the moon, planned to introduce the new space pilots at 5 p.m. (EDT) today in the University of Houston's Cullen Auditorium.
The 14 were notified only last Saturday that a top-level team, including NASA administrator James E. Webb and deputies Hugh Dryden and Robert Seamans, had approved their selection.
The slender young jet jockeys, all less than 34 years old, are the cream of 271 applicants who answered the space agency's call three months ago for more astronauts to beef up its pilot team for stepped-up manned flights into space starting in 1965.
Informed sources said the new astronauts probably will be assigned almost exclusively to Project Apollo — the program with the national goal of landing Americans on the moon by late 1968. Assignments aboard the Interim, earth-orbit flights of Project Gemini will
Play Tryouts Set for Monday
Tryouts for "Raisin in the Sun," a play on Negro life in America, will be at 7 p.m. Monday in the Experimental Theatre.
The play will be presented at KU as the third offering in the Experimental Series, Feb. 13-16 and 18-22 and March 1-2 at Battenfeld Auditorium in Kansas City, Kansas.
"Raisin in the Sun" requires a cast of 10 Negroes, according to William Kuhlke, director of the show. This includes six men, three women, and a young boy, 10 to 12 years old. Also to be cast is one white middle-aged man.
"We want to stress that all interested University students are invited to try out." Kuhlke said. "Scripts are available in the script library, above the music library in Murphy Hall. Interested persons may wish to read over the play prior to trvous."
The prior reading of the play is not necessary, but it may help the actor trying out, Kuhlike said.
KU Debate Teams To Manhattan Sat.
Four debate teams will represent KU at a novice debate tournament at Manhattan Saturday, Oct. 19.
Novice teams from five states are expected to attend this tournament.
The question to be debated is: "Should the Federal Government Guarantee Opportunities for Higher Education for all High School Graduates?"
The following teams will participate in the tournament: Jerry Hoskins, Bonner Springs freshman and Judson Briegel, Bethel freshman; Margaret Miller, Red Wing, Minn., sophomore and Louis Floyd, Topeka freshman; Ruth Hatch, Davenport, Ia., freshman and Howard Whitehead, Bonner Springs freshman; and Russell and John Hedge, Cambridge freshmen.
On Oct. 25, two KU debate teams will attend the Emporia Invitational.
go to the 16 previously selected spacemen.
FROM BASES throughout the United States and as far away as Japan, the neophyte space pilots were pouring into Houston yesterday for their formal introduction.
This is a tournament for junior and senior debate teams, and will have teams from all parts of the nation.
The federal space agency steadfastly refused to reveal either the names or the number of members on the new team.
The 271 applications for the new astronaut positions included 26 from the Air Force, 10 from the Marine Corps, 34 from the Navy, one from the Army and 200 civilians, including three women.
Most, including the would-be astronettes, were quickly weeded out when they fell short on one or more of the three basic requirements: no older than 34 years of age, possession of a degree in engineering or physical sciences, and a minimum of 1,000 hours of jet pilot time or experience as a civilian or military test pilot.
Engineering Educators Hold 44th Annual Meet
The Kansas-Nebraska section of the American Society for Engineering Education is holding its 44th annual meeting here today and Saturday.
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will be the banquet speaker tonight, telling of the KU-University of Costa Rica experiment in international cooperation.
Professor Maynard P. Bauleke will moderate a panel on technical obsolettecence Saturday morning. Panel members will be Dean Paul Russel, Kansas State University; Col. M. L. Wachendorf, U.S. Army Engineers, Kansas City; Don Nigg, Bendix Corp., Kansas City, and Robert Gatts, professor of mechanical engineering at KU.
Floyd Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering, will moderate a panel which will discuss "Patterns of Participation in International Education."
Convicts Get Hot Bath
MATSUYAMA, Japan — (UPI) Officials of the federal prison in this central Japanese community yesterday dedicated their new hot springs bath for convicts—the first such facility in the country.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower today called for withdrawal of some U.S. troops from Europe and for insistence upon increased defense responsibility by the other NATO powers.
Eisenhower Would Reduce American Army Overseas
Writing in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the former chief executive said that during his eight years in the White House he had told his associates that "A reduction of American strength in Europe should be initiated as soon as European economies are restored." But, he said, the matter was considered "too delicate a political question to raise."
"I believe the time has now come when we should start withdrawing some of the troops," he wrote, noting that the six U.S. infantry divisions sent to Europe as an emergency reinforcement when he was commander of NATO in 1951 are still there "somewhat reinforced."
"One American division in Europe can 'show the flag' as definitely as several," Eisenhower said. "Unless we take definite action, the maintaining of permanent troop establishments abroad will continue to overburden our balance-of-payments problem and, most important, will discourage the development of the necessary military strength Western European countries should provide for themselves."
He said European countries seem more concerned with having the security of American ground troops than with the billions of dollars invested in U.S. bases, the European supply system, and NATO deterrent power. He proposed putting American troops abroad on a "hardship basis," sending them on shortened foreign duty tours without their families.
Gift-'Your Own House'
LONDON — (UPI) — Viscount Astor, who gave his family home, Cliveden, to the National Trust 21 years ago, is to receive a medal from the Trust for his services to it, it was announced today.
Astor and his family still live at Cliveden.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES SALUTE: BOB DuBOIS
Bob DuBois (B.S.E.E., B.S.B.A., 1957), Senior Engineer, Transmissions Group for Southwestern Bell in Topeka, Kansas, is part troubleshooter and part prophet.
Bob's job is to maintain the standards of excellence in voice and data transmissions in Kansas. He must predict where trouble might occur so that preventive maintenance procedures can be set up to offset the problem.
As a member of the Transmission and Protection Group, he studies the design and uses of communications equipment ranging from the telephone to complex microwave units.
On earlier assignments Bob was an assistant engineer in inventory and costs, equipment engineering and special projects. After being named senior engineer, he was selected to attend a 12-week comprehensive course at the Bell System's Data Communication Training Program, Cooperstown, New York.
Bob DuBois, like many young engineers, is impatient to make things happen for his company and himself. There are few places where such restlessness is more welcomed or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
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