Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - July 21, 1961, Lowell, Massachusetts VAULTS SPACE BARRIER THE LOWELL SUN Lowell Massachusetts FRIDAY EVENING JULY 21 1961 20 Pages 7 Cents Fair SEE PAGE 8 Year Serving Historic Middlesex County Plucked Safely From Ocean After Thriller CAPE CANAVERAL Fla Virgil I Gus Grissom across the frontier of space today in the space ship Liberty Bell 7 and was safely after a flight America's second spaceman rocketed 118 miles high and impacted in the Atlantic ocean 305 miles down range in a thrilling journey At one point in the flight Grissom reported he was so fascinated by the view of the earth below that he momentarily forgot to work A helicopter hauled the U S for Rapid Buildup Rusk Outlines Kennedy Plans for the Army WASHINGTON AP j tary of Slate Dean Rusk called in ambassadors of Britain France and Germany today lo open urgent Allied conversations on proposals by the Kennedy ad- ministration for prepar ations to meet expected Sovie pressures against West Berlin The United States it is under stood intends to seek a fas buildup of conventional NATO military strength in Europe by the addition of several divisions to the Western European defense force This would mean some of- indicate an increase to th long-planned goal of 30 divisions from the present strength of 22 divisions The immediate purpose of the conference with Rusk was to give the ambassadors detailed re- on decisions on U.S policy made by President Kennedy at a National Security Council ing late Wednesday RUSK predicted that the ern Allies will show whatever solidarity is needed to combat Communist pressures on Berlin Speaking at a dinner Thursday night for 26 visiting parliament members from NATO countries he We shall see in the months ahead that spirit of arity of postwar years reassert itself so there will be no doubt in anyone's mind that cies or alliances of democracies can do what has to be done Saturday Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara Gen man L Lemnitzer chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other high defense officials will fly to Europe for conferences with Allied leaders In Paris and London Three Certified as Firemen STATE civil ice commission has certified three as eligible for appointment as permanent firefighter in the ell fire department They are Leo J Farley Paul W Wesson and William E Daly There is presently one vacancy The job pays a week o start Grissom in His Couch Astronaut Virgil I the United States second spaceman relaxes as best he can in his seat just prior to riding his space vehicle into the wild blue yonder at Cape Canaveral Florida this morning PHOTO WIRE- for Devens and Hanscom house committee today a military appropriations earmarks a total of DOO for Ft Devens and L G Hanscom field Bedford Of this total which represents mately a third of the tion originally requested by the two military installations Ft Devens will receive scom field The committee denied an Air Force request for an tion of for Hanscom field of which was marked for a headquarters ing and for a data com- puter laboratory and rejected the Army's request for a gas transmission line at Ft Devene old Air Force captain from his capsule after it parachuted into the sea northeast of Grand Ba- hama Island was ferried to the nearby carrier USS Randolph for immediate physical examination The Randolph reported at that Grissom was on the deck He was smiling and ap in excellent condition surviving the brutal ef feet of the crushing forces of lift off and re-entry and a giddy minute period of weightlessness After Grissom was retrieved a helicopter dropped the capsule and it sank in the Atlantic THE pickup came at 31 minutes after the Redstone booster rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral to fling America's space hero over the same suborbital course ered by astronaut Alan B ard Jr May 5 The flight had been delayed twice Tuesday and heavy clouds over the launch area which prevented camera tracking of the Redstone during powered flight Today a thin layer of clouds was over the Cape but a hot sun burned the clouds away Grissom demonstrated his pilot training by asking to remain in capsule an additional two minutes after he landed to com- plete a check of instrument in- side the vehicle An Associated Press reporter aboard the Randolph sent word Liberty Bell 7 splashed on the surface at not far from the prime recovery ship Calling on his many years of experience as a combat and test pilot Grissom performed a ety of tasks on the flight For brief periods he controlled the space ship by ing its roll pitch and yaw Throughout the flight Grissom of Mitchell Ind radioed assurances that his condition was good and that all capsule systems formed normally A-OK he messaged several times space agency reported As the rose The sun is really bright Through his picture he reported seeing the east coast of the United States but was unable to identify marks because of the bright sun Nine minutes after launch as his space craft the at- he 1 very good Everything is looking good SHOUTING encouragement to Grissom from the ground was the astronaut who preceded him to the threshold of infinity Shepard was at the vital capsule post in control center The two fellow astronauts almost constant voice com- throughout the flight Street Fighting Rages in Bizerte By Andrew Borowiec TWIS fighting is raging in Bizerte the Tunisian government radio reported today with Tunisian infantrymen and civilian volunteers battling French paratroops supported by tanks and rocket planes Radio Tunis said French forces broke out of the besieged Bizerte naval base and launched a pre- dawn attack on the ean port city three miles away Tunisian troops holding city of defied a French matum to evacuate They were ordered o fight to Uie death Tlie Tunis broadcast said there were numerous dead and wounded but Tunisian infantry were holding their own in the heart of the city Officials mated volunteers in and around the city were bolstering the troops Many were wearing the red shorts and shirts of the youth section of the ruling Neo- Destour party PARIS reports and the official Tunis news agency reported other elastics between Tunisian teers and French forces in the Sahara Desert The fighting spread as the Security Council was called into an emergency session at the re quest of Tunisia to deal with the mounting crisis The Tunisians charges France with aggression and demanded the French give up the Bizerte naval base they kept after granting their former protectorate Independence in 1956 The United Stales showed ing concern over the clash be- tween allied France and friend Tunisia and appealed to both to INSIDE THE SUN Draft Pools Increased Back Sox Open Big Series With Yanks 14 Girls Badly Hurt in Dracut Crash 13 Amusements 18 19 12 Classified IS 16 17 Crossword 3 News 10 11 S Editorial 4 5 M 15 Suburban News 13 1.1 in II 11 TV JO News 8 9 To reach of The Sim TELEPHONE GLEN VIEW end hostilities without delay Arab nations lined up behind Tunisia and denounced French imperialists President Gamel Abdel Nasser's United Arab Re- public and Algerian rebel based in Tunisia offered troops to fight the French Tunis radio said French laid down an artillery barrage and attacked with planes before paratroops stormed out of the naval base to drive on Bizerte BURSTS of gunfire could be heard from within city 40 miles to the northwest of this capital and smoke was seen swirling overhead but reports reaching here were meager a Tunisian government man said the garrison had been ordered lo resist any attempt to invade the city after ing a French ultimatum to give it up One report said Tunisian in were manning cades around the local governor's residence in the central part of the cily Reports of casualties in the un- declared in its A Tunisian government man said up to last midnight 110 Tunisians were killed and 500 wounded A French report in Paris had 90 Tunisians killed 200 Approved For Land Takings STATE governor's council has approved 12 land damage awards total for properly in the ell area taken by the slate de- of public works Awards lo Lowell properly ers for properly In the nome of K Salalayko for property in the name of Everett Archambault for property in name of for properly in name of Nellie and for erly In of James F el nl Other awards properly in Westford in name of Gilbert and Dupras for properly in Tyngsboro In name of Gilbert and Dupras for properly in Littleton In the name of George and Hope Mai thews for properly in Tyngsboro in the name of Joseph and Lena pi for property in boro in the name of Thomas and Viola for property in Tyngsboro In the name of Lloyd and Anna and for properly In ford in the name of Roy and Aline Rose captured French casualties were fisted as 5 dead 30 wounded Mongi Slim special Tunisian representative rushed to the emergency Security Council session said on arriving in New York Thursday night there were at least 500 civilian and military dead in Bizerte city He did not give source of his report Petition Denied WASHINGTON UPI The Federal Communications sion FCC has rejected a tion from Inc to sider its the Boston Television Channel 5 case On May 24 the commission sued an order carrying out the findings of U.S Court of peals that the commission should start a new comparative ing in the four-year-old Boston Channel 5 case a subsidiary of the ton Herald Traveler Corp re- the TV grant in 1957 But court later found that it should be withdrawn because of backdoor influences exerted on FCC com- missioners The commission has called for statements from the three original applicants for the channel on their claims by July 25 The two others are Greater Boston Television Corp and Massachusetts Bay Telecasters Inc The Redstone rocket blasted off at following three holds in the countdown One was lo check out a system in Liberty Bell 7 A second brief hold was called to remove floodlights from the launch area And a minute hold was called at to allow some clouds to pass from the Cape area At the lime of launch Grissom had been inside the spacecraft three hours 22 minutes During this time he was ed calm cool and collected The Redstone roared mto the skies under the watchful an- eyes of hundreds of men thousands on the beaches to north and south and millions more who viewed the blazing takeoff on nationwide television AS slender while rocket the cold air of the upper atmosphere its white fluffy vapor trail was twisted inlo a strange serpentine pattern by winds aloft Another vapor trail was visible high in sky as astronaut Leroy S Cooper Jr sped over- head in an jet to observe the launch from above At 141 seconds after launch the nine-foot tall capsule separated from the rocket and the escape tower designed to pull the spacecraft free of the rocket in case of trouble was jettisoned Automatic controls then turned the capsule around slowly 180 degrees so the blunt heal shield base led the way with Grissom riding upright and backwards At the peak of the ballistic trajectory Grissom entered a weightless world for about five minutes If he had not strapped down he would been have floated like a feather During this weightless period he performed most of his manual tasks Shepard showed that man can perform useful tasks in this weird environment and Grissom con- firmed it Supporters Nabbed by Police TEHRAN Iran ers of former Premier med were arrested day and their party headquarters were seized under orders of Pre- mier AH Amini In pre-dawn raids security lice picked up several leaders of Several hundred persons were kilted during the riots and the government warned it would shoot if necessary to halt any demonstrations this time Troops backed by tanks set up machine-gun nests at the site of the scheduled the National Front They were i stadium Armed security police jailed with six other leaders who stood guard at all entrances to were arrested last right The j the seized National Front prisoners included all prominent I quarters members of the central Armed police and soldiers and executive committee trolled the city The raids came a few hours Military spokesmen refused to fore the National Front in acknowledge the reason for the ance of Amini was to hold a army's show of strength giant rally to commemorate the 1952 riots protesting resignation We are holding exercises and a spokesman said 3 eico OKI JAMAICA DOMINICAN Hurricane Anna Arrow locates Anna first of the 1961 in the Atlantic ei it whirled near northern coast of South America today Storm was expected to continue on a courn between west and west-northwest at of 17 miles an WIREPHOTO Anna No Threat to U.S MIAMI UPI Hurricane were also lowerer for Bonaire the season's first Curacao and Aruba cal storm churned steadily vard the west-northwest today in he Caribbean sea hut men reported her vinds do not threaten any land areas Anna located about 400 miles due south of San Juan does not yet pose a threat to the U S mainland forecasters said The San Juan weather bureau Potomac Fever Rockefeller denies there's a conservative surge Just more people wistful about where we've been than excited about where we're going Democrats say President Kennedy Is now quietly de- termined to hold Berlin They're calling him the Rocking Chair Rocket Barry Goldwater says youth will save the nation He's the first Republican to complain that Kennedy's too old for the job Big boom in tlie book publishing business Everybody's literature to get away from all things they learned of books Republicans accuse the Kennedy team of 15 mental errors This Is fourteen more than the cans are guilty of Their lone fundamental error was losing the election FLETCHER I said however that possible Anna was located about could ne expected miles southeast of Miami alonE coastal areas of Venezuela today after briefly threatening a t The storm was first chain of islands off the north yesterday by a Navy hurricane coast of Venezuela jhunter Mnt to The threat to the islands raut ended late last night when the winds and barometers Sun Juan weather bureau ed hurricane warnings lowered for the chain which includes las Hermanos Orchilla and Los Roques Gale warnings Costly Lesson HOUSTON Tex cost something like yesterday to teach rookie truck driver W L that you cannot drive a six-inch high truck through a underpass Davis hod been on the job three days when he tried it It resulted in damages to under- pass and to Iruck And il mny cost even more Police charged him with gent collision with a fixed ob- ject Last year's first tropical storm Abby was discovered on July 10 COMING NEXT SUNDAY 1001 tips and Saving Ideas which will profit you In the care repair of your homo and the upkeep of your garden and farm Next Sunday's Sun
