Glenn Is Excellent, Talks to Scientists
GRAND TURK ISLAND, Bahamas — (UPI) — Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. came through his three-orbit space trip around the world in "excellent condition" and began telling doctors and scientists today about what he saw in space.
"John is in excellent condition." Lt. Col. John A. Powers, Astronaut Spokesman, said, "A preliminary physical did not reveal any sign of physiological change."
Glenn got little sleep last night after being brought in triumph to this island in the Bahamas after his mission in space. Despite that, however, Powers said he was "fresh, rested and in good spirits" this morning.
HE HAD PEEN UP, through space, picked up at sea, brought here and put through a series of examinations, all within 24 hours. He did not get to bed until 1 a.m.
Despite that, he was up at 8:30 am, and eager to talk to the scores of scientists about what he saw in space and how he reacted to the experience of weightlessness. Apparently it did not hurt him.
Dr. Ashton Graybiel, a Navy physician, put Glenn through a "walk the rails" balance test and reported his performance was "almost identical with that before flight." Powers said Dr. Graybiel "feels his sense of balance has not been affected."
been affected. Powers said Glenn had approached the sensation of weightlessness cautiously because of the nausea reported by Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov. Glenn moved his head cautiously at the outset of weightless flight in space to see if the experience made him dizzy, but he reported he had no trouble at all.
GLENN WAS TO SPEND two days at a small, pre-fabricated hospital here undergoing physical tests and giving his first vivid impressions of space to scientists. Then
UN Congo Forces Ready For Attack
ELISABETHVILLE — (UPI) — Katangese gendarmes were reported today to have advanced toward the north Katanga capital of Albertville where the U.N. Indian garrison was braced to resist any attack on the town.
Radio reports from the area said the gendarmes, who last week recaptured the railway center of Kongolo from mutinous Congolese troops, were within 13 miles of Albertville.
INFORMED SOURCES in Elisabethville said the Katangese force have halted their advance to try to find out how the U.N. troops would react to an attack on Albertville, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
A senior U.N. official in Elisabethville told UPI yesterday the Indian troops are ready to resist any attack and have "quite a welcome" prepared for the Katangese force.
ALBERTYVILLE, biggest city in northeast Katanga, is capital of Lualaba Province, a territory loyal to the Central Congolese government. It is a stronghold of Baluba tribesmen who are opposed to Katanga President Moise Tshombe.
A U.N. OFFICIAL, meanwhile, said he expects Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyville Adoula to meet "very quickly" to discuss the agreement they signed at Kitona last December to end Katanga's secession.
U. N. legal counselor Constantin Stavropoulous said before his departure for Leopoldville that the only disputed issue is a site for the meeting.
"BUT I THINK that problem will be solved in one or two days and that the meeting will take place soon afterward." Stavropoulos said.
Reports in Leopoldville said Adoula has rejected an offer to go to Elisabethville to confer with Tshombe and has appealed to the Katanga leader to travel to Leopoldville for the talks.
the 40-year-old Marine lieutenant colonel will return to Cape Canaveral for a Hero's meeting with President John F. Kennedy on Friday.
His Friendship 7 space capsule was brought here by the destroyer Noa which picked the capsule and the astronaut from the Atlantic Ocean. The capsule then was flown back to Cape Canaveral for inspection by specialists. Powers said it appeared on the surface to be in the same good condition as the capsule which carried Chimpanzee Enos on a two-orbit space flight around the earth in December.
Cortrol problems that plagued the chimp's spacecraft also hit Glenn's capsule, but the astronaut overcame them with manual control throughout most of his flight. This duty kept him from performing some of the exercises and experiments that had been planned, but Powers said his control work also could be regarded as part of an experiment of man's abilities and function in space.
Glenn talked with scientists about the control problem and also was expected to dwell at length on the mysterious "glowing particles" he spotted over the California coast.
HIS PROGRAM TODAY included a complete examination of vision, brain and nerve reactions, and the results will be compared with identical tests made before he was launched into space by an Atlas rocket at 8:47 a.m. CST yesterday
"One of the chief points of the present physical examination of Glenn is to examine this question of weightlessness. We are very much interested in getting the reaction of our own pilot," Powers said.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was scheduled to fly to this little island today, and on Friday will accompany Glenn back to Cape Canaveral where the trail-blazing astronaut will receive the personal plaudits of President Kennedy.
There was speculation that the President might decorate Glenn or promote him from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
IN WASHINGTON, government leaders said the astronaut's flight had boosted the nation's morale and might be a strong influence on nations torn between the East and West.
Praise of his feat flowed in from all over the world. And in Arlington, Va. his wife and two children glowed with pride. Mrs. Glenn celebrated by having champagne with friends
Aside from fatigue, skinned knuckles and a touch of seasickness while his capsule bobbed in the sea, the astronaut suffered no apparent ill effects during the flight.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 87
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1962
Mr. Myers, chairman of the American Committee of Patrick Henry
Local Resident to Help In 'Correction' Debate
A Lawrence resident has agreed to participate on a panel that will discuss "Operation Correction" and answer questions after the film is shown at 7:30 tonight in Fraser Theater.
"OPERATION ABOLITION was produced by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as a documentary of "Communist-inspired student riots" against the Committee's San Francisco hearings in May 1960.
C. W. Tankersley Jr., who says he is "interested in what the Communists are doing," will speak against the film, along with Kenneth Myers of Wichita.
John Grumm, assistant professor of political science, and Charles Landesman, assistant professor of philosophy, will defend "Operation Correction." The film is produced by the American Civil Liberties Union to correct alleged distortions in another film, "Operation Abolition."
Legion Post No. 174 in Wichita, issued the Post's outspoken protest in December against the appearance of a Soviet diplomat in KU's World Crisis Day program.
Mr. Tankersley, plant operator for the Kansas Power and Light Co., says he agreed to defend "Operation Abolition" because he did not want Mr. Myers to have to defend the film alone.
Mr. Tankersley said Mr. Myers will debate with Prof. Grumm and Prof. Landesman, after the showing of the film.
"WE MADE AN EFFORT to find a faculty member to talk in favor of 'Operation Abolition,' but could find none," said a spokesman for the student group which obtained "Operation Correction."
Mr. Myers told the student group he will bring a copy of "Operation Abolition" with him and, if there is enough interest, it will be shown at the close of the discussion.
After the film is shown, each of the four speakers will talk about 15
French Officials Meet To Approve Cease-Fire
FRENCH AUTHORITIES were not seriously concerned that it might be rejected. But the rebel negotiators were known to have made considerable concessions to the French and it was thought likely
WHILE THE CABINET met at Elysee Palace, the Algerian rebel government-in-exile in Tunis left by road and air for the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
The National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA), the parliament and supreme authority of the nationalist movement, meets there tomorrow to study the draft agreement worked out in secret talks with the French last week.
PARIS — (UPI) — President Charles De Gaulle and his government met today to approve a draft cease-fire agreement with the Algerian rebels that officials hoped would end more than seven years of bloodshed by Mar. 5 at the latest.
At the same time, the government put the finishing touches on plans for a massive buildup of troops, tanks and riot police designed to safeguard both France and Algeria against an explosion of mass violence after the cease-fire is proclaimed.
here that these would come under heavy fire from more miltant CNRA members.
Several points still awaited agreement by the two sides. If the draft as a whole is approved by the CNRA, French officials expected another final meeting between France's Algerian Affairs minister Louis Joxe and the Algerian delegation some time next week to clean up these issues.
Draft Service Test To Be Given April 17
Students pursuing a full-time college course who want draft deferment should apply at the registrar's office to take the Selective Service College Qualification Test Apr. 17.
THE COLLEGE qualification testing program provides local Selective Service boards with evidence of registrants' aptitudes for continued college study.
Registrar James K. Hitt said:
"We would encourage any student enrolled at KU to take the test, even though nobody is required to do so."
ASC Telegram Chides Myers
The All Student Council (ASC) last night replied by telegram to the Wichita American Legion post which criticized the University's World Crisis Day program in December.
The telegram, authorized by the ASC in its meeting last week, was sent by Ron Gallagher, Fort Scott senior and ASC member.
It was addressed to Kenneth Myers, chairman of the Americanism Committee of Patrick Henry Post 174, and a member of the panel which will discuss the film "Operation Correction" after its showing in Fraser at 7:30 tonight.
Text of Telegram
The telegram, which is reprinted on this page, "deplores" restrictions on the student right of questioning and examining any system of political thought.
Commenting on the telegram today, Gallagher said he sent Myers a telegram instead of a letter so Myers would be aware of the ASC stand before he arrives here to comment on "Operation Correction."
The Associated Students of the University of Kansas have authorized us to inform you of their position concerning your attack on the University and its World Crisis Day program.
We believe the program — and particularly the participation of a Soviet official — symbolized the true function of a university in a free society.
AS CHAIRMAN of an "Americanism" committee, you should know true Americanism encourages the free expression of all ideas. If democracy cannot withstand challenge, it is meaningless. We are confident it can.
We resent your implication that KU students are too immature to be exposed to the views of what you described as a "propagandist subversivist of the enemy."
In this spirit, the All Student
Council at the University passed the following resolution:
"WHEREAS: ACADEMIC freedom has long been a tenet of a free society as is the free press and free speech;
"Whereas: the University has recently been criticized, from within and without, for:
"1) The presence of a diplomat from the Soviet Union, and 2) a preponderance of a certain political thought at KU.
"Therefore: the Associated Students of the University of Kansas deplores any restrictions on the rights of KU students to question and examine any system of political thought."
We appreciate your concern for the University and its students; however, we feel it is misdirected.
The All Student Council of the University of Kansas.
minutes. The audience will then be permitted to question the speakers.
THE STUDENT GROUP had asked that the following rules be observed during the question and answer period:
- After standing and being recognized, audience members should state their names before asking questions.
- All questions will be directed to the chairman.
- Participants representing the opposite points of view will be allowed to make short comments.
Prof. Advocates Government Aid
A professor of economics told the KU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom last night that the present highly mechanized and interdependent economy requires government intervention.
Prof. Leland Pritchard said:
"Whether or not to have government intervention is no longer the question. Now we must decide what type of intervention we want."
"Depressions were no longer self-correcting," he said.
PROF. PRITCHARD said in a telephone interview today that the economy had ceased to be self-regulatory during the 1920s.
Prof. Pritchard listed the increasing interdependency of the labor force and the increasing inflexibility of the non-agricultural price structure as reasons for initiating government intervention during the 1920s.
"THE BASIC ASSUMPTION of the YAF," he said, "is that government intervention is bad and has bad people behind it. They think if we can get rid of the 'bad people,' they can get rid of government intervention.
"That government intervention is done by diabolic meddlers is a naive and uninformed opinion," he added. However, Prof. Pritchard said that his discussion was "very well-received" by the YAF members.
In other action last night, the YAF voted to;
"I THINK THAT these students have enough intelligence and open-mindedness to understand both sides of the question," he added.
- Choose another nation for the Model U.N. mock session, March 13-14, because its original choice, Katanga, has merged with the Congo.
- Set membership dues at $1 per semester.
Former Gov. Arn To Run for Senate
WICHITA — (UPI) — Edward F. Arm, a former two-term Governor of Kansas, today announced his candidacy for the unexpired U.S. Senate term of the late Andrew F. Schoepe, R-Kan.
In making the announcement, Arn became the first opponent of fellow Republican James B. Pearson, who received the interim appointment to Schoepenel's Senate seat.
Pearson, a Prairie Village attorney, announced earlier he would seek election in November to the remaining four years of Schoeppel's term.
Arn, 55, has practiced law here since January, 1955, when he stepped down after two consecutive terms as Governor. Earlier he had served as State Attorney General and at one time was the youngest jurist ever to serve on the State Supreme Court.