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60th Year, No.142
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, May 15, 1963
Cooper Into Fifth Orbit Of Apparent'Textbook'Flight
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CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI)— Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper began his fifth orbit of the earth today at 1:03 p.m.
CAPE CANAVERAL —(UPI)— Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper swept around the earth time and again in jaunty style today on a 34-hour 575,000-mile space voyage planned to give America a vital new boost toward the moon.
Hurtled from Cape Canaveral at 9:04 a.m., EDT, into an "almost unbelievable" orbit, the 36-year-old Air Force major shot into a 22-orbit trip that called for him to splash down in mid-Pacific about 7:20 p.m., EDT, tomorrow. It was America's longest space journey.
So well did things go for the confident spaceman from Shawnee, Okla., that he reported after his second orbit: "I'm really comfortable, in fact I had a little nap." Doctors said this was normal. He sometimes falls asleep when they take his blood pressure.
WALTER C. WILLIAMS, operations chief of the mercury flight program, said Cooper's orbit was "more than adequate for the expected lifetime of the mission." In the past, officials have said an orbit like Cooper's would be good for a week or longer. This would be too long for Cooper with his three-day oxygen supply.
For the first time in U.S. space history, Cooper sent back television pictures of his flight as his 3,000-pound Faith 7 spacecraft circled the planet at 17,546 miles an hour. He was going around the world each time in 88.45 minutes.
At the end of Cooper's first orbit, highly pleased space officials flashed word for him to go for seven. If all went well, they would tell him at the end of the seventh to "go" for 17 and then for the full 22 as planned.
Cooper's primary objective in the nation's sixth manned space flight was to test the effects of sustained weightlessness on humans and to pile up other information for the forthcoming two-man gemini orbital missions and the Apollo flights to the moon.
ASC Approves Rate Increase
The All Student Council (ASC) last night finished this year's business by approving an increase in insurance rates for next year.
ONE OF COOPER'S first reactions was to agree with fellow astronaut Walter M. Schirra on the ground that it is great sport to ride the spaceways. In a merry mood, he also told
A resolution was passed to accept a raise in student insurance rates
Committees listed on page 4
based on the change from the $3 to the $7 a day charge at Watkins Hospital.
A RESOLUTION providing for a study of the present insurance plan was also passed. Marshall Crowther, Lawrence first year law student, who introduced the resolution, pointed out two areas which need attention; the clause which limits the income of the student, and the higher rates for married students because of maternity coverage.
Susan Flood, Hays junior, and Carolyn Kunz, Greenville, S.C., sophomore, were sworn in as ASC members to replace Joy Bullis,
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astronaut Alan B. Shepard he was a "son of a gun" for some Shepard remark lost to radio listeners.
In another exchange after Cooper sent back his first TV pictures, Schirra jokingly told him: "Frank says you can stop holding your breath any time and use some oxygen if you like."
Officials of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration were jubilant over the success of the launching. Six minutes after blastoff, astronaut spokesman Col. John (Shorty) Powers hailed the orbit as almost unbelievably good.
Later on it was established that Cooper's orbit ranged from 100.2 miles at its lowest to 165.8 miles at its highest. At the same time, at the end of the second orbit, doctors reported the astronaut in excellent shape.
EARLY DATA FROM tracking stations around the world showed the temperature inside the bell-shaped space cabin was 105 degrees and inside Cooper's 20-pound air-conditioned space suit 60 degrees.
Cooper was reported to be "working up there as a competent,very carefully trained test pilot."
President Kennedy, watching Cooper's takeoff on television from the White House, was described as "very happy." Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the Chief Executive planned to keep an eye on his set until the end of the flight.
At Taylor Lake Village, Tex., the astronaut's wife, Trudy, and his daughters, Camala, 14, and Janita, 12, watched the lift-off in the seclusion of a bedroom. Mrs. Cooper's reaction: "beautiful."
THE SPACEMAN'S widowed mother, Hattie, who "dreaded" the take-off, was equally thrilled at her Tecumseh, Okla., home. "No lift-off ever looked so good," she said. Also following Cooper's flight in Oklahoma were his two aged grand-mothers.
The countdown for Cooper's trailblazing flight was amazingly smooth after the disappointing postponement
he suffered Tuesday when engineers were unable to fix in time a pesky Bermuda radar system.
The astronaut spent nearly six hours in his capsule before officials called off the Tuesday launch and re-scheduled it. There were no hitches the second time around. After a steak breakfast, Cooper inched into his capsule at 6:32 a.m., EDT, and roared into the sky atop his 260-ton Atlas rocket two hours and 32 minutes later.
AFTER ORBIT had been established about 500 miles down range from the Cape, Astronaut Schirra on the ground at Canaveral told the pilot: "You look good here, Gordo you're looking beautiful."
He appeared to experience no great discomfort as the forces of acceleration multiplied the astronaut's 147 pounds by $ 7 \frac{1}{2} $ times.
Alabama To Court About U.S. Troops
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — (UPI) — Gov. George Wallace announced today Alabama would go into federal court in an effort to get U.S. combat troops removed from state soil. In a formal statement issued at the mansion, Wallace said:
"We are preparing a suit to be filed in appropriate federal court seeking to confirm the continued existence of the basic constitutional rights of the respective states of the United States and the people there- of."
Wallace said "during the campaign for governor I repeatedly stated the federal government was continuing its attempt to destroy the liberty and freedom of the people. I promised to pose constitutional questions which have never been raised heretofore.
"We are at that point. The federal government illegally sent military troops into Alabama."
it's a beauty . . . we have a full go for you. Gordo."
At that point, Cooper already had started performing the myriad tasks confronting him. He was monitoring dials and meters on his instrument panel, giving him information on fuel supply, oxygen status and various medical data.
He started sending back television pictures during the first orbit. They were rather fuzzy on home television. He tried again at the end of the second orbit and this time the pictures were better and gave promise of still further improvement.
Cooper's flight plan carried him over more than 100 countries, including five trips over Red China.
Launched at 9:04 a.m., EDT.
Cooper completed his first orbit at
10:39 a.m. his second at 12:06 p.m.
and his third at 1:35 p.m.
On his third orbit, the astronaut released a 10-pound sphere with flashing lights from his capsule. The experiment, conducted over Africa just before sunset, was designed to see how far Cooper could spot the lights in space. Such beacons could be used to help future astronauts rendezvous in space.
HE MESSAGED BACK that he did not see the lights then. He took over controls of the capsule and turned on jets that swung it around. Officials said the sphere may have been too close to the capsule for Cooper to see it.
At the start of the fourth orbit Project Mercury officials said of Cooper:
"He is very much on top of his mission. He is in good spirits and in good health."
OFFICIALS SAID when Cooper passed over Florida he could see all the way from Jacksonville in the north of the state to the Florida Keys.
Col. Powers said that everything was going so close to plan that the
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Research Center Can Help Any Kansas Government
(First article in a three-part series)
By Terry Ostmeyer
The promotion of good democracy through the dissemination of information concerning American governmental institutions has long been the aim of one of KU's busiest segments — the Governmental Research Center.
The Center came into being as the Municipal Reference Bureau in 1909. It was the second oldest such state-supported bureau in the country. A similar set-up at the University of Wisconsin was first, by six weeks.
Existent for over 50 years, the Center carries on this promotion of American government through a vast array of means activated by many people and long hours of research.
SINCE THEN, the Center has been in continuous operation except for a period between the end of the depression and World War II.
Ethan Allen, professor of political science, called this period the "limbo existence" of the Center. It still existed, but its realm of activity was narrow.
The Center began rebuilding in 1942 under the directorship of Edwin Stene, professor of political science, and it was completely reactivated as an independent division of KU in 1945.
Prof. Allen became director of the Center in the same year and has held that position ever since.
TODAY, THE KU Governmental Research Center is a well-staffed, highly workable department, equipped with the facilities to serve any government institution in the state.
The first area is a training program for public officials, which is by far the largest single undertaking of the Center. This area of activity will be discussed in more detail later. The program consists of schools for peace officers, county clerks, city clerks, city managers, recreational directors, librarians and library trustees, and also includes a seminar for mental health instructors.
The Center's work is pointed in many directions, but its over-all effectiveness falls into five major areas of activity.
Many of these schools are held at KU each year and are conducted by staff members from the Center and visiting instructors.
A SECOND functional area of the Center is administrative consultation, which is directed toward public organizations only.
The Center conducts studies for these administrative organizations and then submits a report on its findings. A general orientation of
the roles and duties of these organizations is also worked out.
As an example, the Center is currently compiling a handbook for mental health boards.
The next area of activity covered by the Center is rather all-inclusive research. This has been divided into two segments, theoretical research and applied research.
The first segment deals with studies made on a long-range basis, such as the present analysis being conducted by a team of researchers headed by John Grumm, associate professor of political science, on the recent Kansas City municipal elections. The Center also assists faculty research projects under theoretical research.
The fourth area has to do with adult education on important issues. This vital area is coordinated by the Center staff through public speeches and by working with Chamber of Commerce units and citizenship groups on public affairs, problems, and programs.
APPLIED RESEARCH consists of working with specific practical applications. The Center, for instance, may tackle such problems as the projected cost of an operation.
Publications issued by the Center make up the final area of activity. This is the point where results of the
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The famous wild winds and furious thunderstorms of Kansas roared through Lawrence shortly before 2 am. today, knocking down limbs and power lines and breaking windows.
It was the state's first severe storm of the spring.
Winds were clocked at between 90 and 100 miles an hour at times.
Workmen spent the morning clearing away tree limbs that had fallen throughout the campus.
Electric clocks stopped in residences in many parts of the city at 1:45 this morning. Some of the power in Lawrence was still off at noon today, and Austin Spedham, division manager of the Kansas Power and Light Company, said service would not be restored until later this afternoon.
Several windows in Corbin Hall were broken during the storm, sending many girls scurrying from their rooms to avoid flying objects.
Spedham estimated damage to city power lines at $25,000. Most campus electrical service was restored at 3:30 a.m., after a city-wide blackout of power about 1:45.
Harry Buchholz, superintendent of the KU physical plant, said most of the damage on campus consisted of torn trees and broken windows.
He said repair crews have been clearing tree limbs and repairing windows since 3 a.m.
Two cars owned by Don Massey, Caldwell freshman, and Bill Walker, Leawood junior, were damaged by a falling limb said to be two feet in diameter. The cars were parked in front of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity on Tennessee Avenue.
Several families of KU faculty members who live in a trailer court near the Navajo Motel on West sixth fled their homes during the storm after one of the residents, Donald Rayle, teaching assistant in zoology, heard that the storm had overturned several trailer houses at a court in Topeka 20 minutes earlier, injuring 14 persons.
Weather
Weather will be partly cloudy through tomorrow, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the northeast and extreme north tonight, and over the northeast to-morrow morning.
Tonight heavy thunderstorms will be likely in northeastern Kansas. Temperatures will be a little cooler in the northwest and west tonight, and in the east and south Thursday.