The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - May 2, 1961, Zanesville, Ohio Wednesday's President's Medical Care Explained Th Times Record and THE SIGNAL Story Of Its Successes And Wednesday's TR 98TH 16 PAGES MAY 2 1961 SEVEN CENTS This news Global Laos Attempts to get warring factions in Laos together for ceasefire are at a rebel guerrillas fire on royal government HAVANA Premier Castro leads giant parade to brate May Day and defeat of last month's Defense ister Malinovsky pledges port of entire Red bloc to Castro's Cuba against new MEXICO CITY nist demonstrators join lar groups in and in May Day parades rivaling and opposing Castro's tions in The CAPE CANAVERAL The although still un- and his rocket are but the weather isn't as possibility grows that first U.S. astronaut shot may be delayed until sometime later this original target hour was 7 a.m. President Kennedy signs million de- pressed areas and calls it important step toward putting thousands of jobless men and women back to WASHINGTON National curity Council meets with President to study next moves in Laotian crisis as U.S. steps up aid to South Viet next-door neighbor to Around CLEVELAND Raymond 36, is arrested and charged with carrying bills in the amount of he admitted paying for each of the phony COLUMBUS Atty. Gen. Mark McELroy announces discharge of Joseph D. Karam as sistant attorney general be- cause he represents a firm against which the state has filed a tax COLUMBUS Gov. DiSalle charges state Sinking Fund Committee has postponed in in highway bonds to replace money taken from Highway Department by passed by Names fit Tom St. All American basketball has pulmonary losis and is to bs confined in- definitely in a sanitarium a1 Mount N. Y. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy asks Congress to increase greatly the penalties for ing false airplane bomb re- D. Eisenhower es he has canceled his ned trip to Japan this fall on advice of the State The FORECAST Fair and a tle cooler today and PREDICTED TEMPERATURES High MONDAY'S TEMPERATURES s Low s High S s n. 4S 4pm...... in 2 5S 6pm...... 8pm...... 2 p n 62 in p TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE 1-1 31 51 70 81 59 92 52 y. ini S-n Francisco FIVE DAY FORECAST Southern and Central average To seven de below Normal high 6 to 75 southwest normal northeast to Coole Tuesday and again Saturday wu slew moderation Wednesday will total fror of an inch to inches in show ers scat tered occurring mainly Thursday through Ohio Sunset today 7-23 p.m Sunrise tomorrow tonight pm Last quarter PROMINENT STAR low in northwest VISIBLE PLANETS in the west p.m 5uturn. rises 1-SO low In east a.m. Mr. and Mrs. John Glenn of New Concord look at photographs of their son and the six other astronauts and of their his wife and two Astronaut Shot May Be Stalled CAPE Fla. The man and his rocket were ready Monday but the weather So there was a strong possibility America's first attempt to fire a being into space might be postponed from 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday until some time in the But Florida weather is forecasts sometimes are reversed in a matter of and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration re- for the time being to predict a In the forecast for the flight time was cloudy and too NASA still was keeping secret identities of the No. 1 and No. 2 But speculation tred on Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard 37-year-old test pilot from East for the prime The other members of the man Mercury team trained for this flight were Air Force Capt. Virgil I. 35, of and Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn 39, of New The 66-ton Redstone rocket and the Mercury craft were ready on pad No. 5. The astronaut and his were ready in their comfortable isolation quarters on the Nearly 10.000 men finely trained crews of the recovery were The crucial the painstaking two day checkout of rocket and cabin was proceeding no officials with the nation less than 24 hours away from its first brief but critical step toward manned conquest of the forecasts turned But even a 15-minute space ride is however hard the men of Mercury have tried to an- and eliminate So NASA had set certain rigid weather both here and in the recovery that nature had to meet before it would jeopardize a Glenn Appears In Motel Office CAPE CANAVERAL John H- Glenn of New Con- one of three astro- who were supposed to be in seclusion as candidates for 3 et ride into startler newsmen Monday by showing up in a motel Glenn spent about 15 minutes hi the motel's then ed by a rear leaped into a green car and sped toward the B. G. project officer on the Atlas was in the office at He said Glenn had come in to a give his wife some money and pay his motel COUNTDOWN AT HOME Mr. and Mrs. Glenn stand outside their comfortable home in New Their astronaut son was 2 years old when the family moved into this Tiie mother last night was expecting to make good use of the telephone She said she planned to be talking her son and with his wife and Glenn's Parents Await Word With Mixed Emotions By REGIME The lights probably came on early this morning in a pretty home on Bloomfield a short distance north of New Con- cord's main In the John parents of Lt. Col. John Glenn one of two candidates for America's first weren't sure Monday that they would even go to bed last may just slay Colonel Glenn's mother Neither a retired plumbing nor his wife displayed any outward signs of anxiety as they discussed the possibility of their son's space we view the whole thing with mixed Mrs. Glenn know that John is eager to be the first and for that we are hoping that he is the one the Glenns know that if their son misses out on Dr. Robert N. president of Muskingum Col- announced Monday that Lt. Col. John Glenn will be awarded an honorary degree at commencement exercises next The action was taken by the board at a meeting last week and approved Monday by the Colonel Glenn will be one of several to receive honorary A former Muskingum he is expected to be given the degree of doctor of being picked for the first manned space he is assured of a later perhaps an even more important one than Despite the fact that it was rumored early yesterday after- noon that Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. had been ed to make the the Glenns were inclined to wait for an official In a telephone conversation Sunday their Annie at her home in they were told that the identity of the first astronaut would be revealed three hours before the said she would call us if she had a She was in good spirits and iold us she had talked to John on Friday Mrs. Glenn Colonel Glenn's father pointed out that space shots are frequently delayed for several days and may have to wait this thing out all Although the Glenns have not seen their son since they receive frequent telephone calls from his form of his mother And during the past during a Florida the Glenns were able to talk with their son even more Un- his rigid training schedule and the tight security surrounding Cape Canaveral kept the three from getting during a previous trip to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn visited Cape Canaveral with John and are thoroughly familiar with the scene of the proposed space They have watched several recent telecasts featuring their son and Commander Shepard as well as the third Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Captain it w a s reported during the has been eliminated from the three-man Both Mr. and Mrs. Glenn thought their son looked a little older in the telecasts and both were quick to point out that he be balding more He has always been interested in flying and while ing Muskingum College received his first flying instructions as part of a Navy training He made his first solo flight at New Since then he has gained nationwide first as a Korean war pilot when he became known as the Mad and later when he streaked from California to New a distance of in three 23 eight In his home is a small replica of the Crusader jet in which then Major made the toric night on July 16. 1956. Glenn and his the former Clara Sproat who was a school teacher in Cambridge before her are widely known in New On Sunday they attended services at Westminster United Presbyterian where they are longtime and by heard their the Rev. Gerald deliver a sermon on Place of God in the Space The Rev. Mr. was not aware when he his text that it would be timed so close to the posed Ceasefire Solution Up To 4K' Laos U.S. roving Averell man Monday placed the of a fire in Laos on Soviet Pre- mier Nikita S. After talks with leaders of the Laotian roan charged the Communists with in Laos with men and He told the delays in a ceasefire between he warring factions is to Mr. Harriman made his statements vhile the royal government and he Communist Pathet Lao rebels U. S. Rem t t LONDON Russia has vetoed plans to send a three nation com- mission into war torn Laos and insists there must be a ceasefire the British disclosed STEP President Signs Areas To Aid Jobless WASHINGTON than any other Same as leans except mone dent Kennedy signed the in dealing with not have to be paid assistance grants lion depressed areas Chief Executive used million a Will help loca and called it an important 20 pens to sign the at hire planning talent t toward putting thousands of House ceremony their less men and women back Vice President Lyndon retraining and leading a Will finance stal Kennedy immediately supporters of the local retraining classes t William Bait veteran distributed the pens to the unemployed workers an expert and now learn a new labor to four-year one the program under Commerce Secretary Luther H. He said Batt probably had more 16 priority will provide million in loans and million in grants to depressed communities attract new industries and unemployed workers for new Cities immediately eligible Home include Detroit and A Nations Wage Providence and Lines hijacked on flight over the Florida n fn and LU U 1U iin WASHINGTON Fall Lowell an conference committee Monday approved a Atlantic and to The pilot of the plane reporte nv nf f T nf mise an hour minimum Ponce and lie vr a to fly to Cubs du which largely met Kennedy's Democratic in firm which expires June 30, 1965. gives to the depressed by one of the eight passer gers who apparently remained i TT of the conference group the task of the said the carrying out and a Coi measure would be brought up projects to attract was released by the Cuba government and landed at Ke a showdown vote in both House and Senate on features of the its original i 8.17 Conference Chairman plant p.m. Clayton told reporters he thought it would pass the House by about 13 plant Public facility Urban and rural areas S. authorities impounded the plane's crew an remaining passengers for was the same margin by which the House adopted a Before that it scuttled Kennedy's 25 proposal by one Sen. Pat D up to 100 per cent of the cost of improving industrial water sewer railroad spurts and similar Public facility grants and told newsmen interview would not be The plane was reported missin uhen it failed to reach Key at 3.53 p.m. on a short hop froi Senate sponsor of the in the Key The Coast Air Fore tion predicted easy Senate He said the Gives by sea and ground units iho Mm to maneuvered back and forth over meeting to discuss a the fighting both sides rejected the other's terms Another possible obstacle to ng the hostilities loomed on the jasis of a report by Prince doum Sihanouk of Cambodia that ung Savang opposed a 14-nation conference to settle the Prince a neutralist who has emerged as a leading indicated King considered a 14-nation conference n Geneva would be a waste of The prince said the king told him in Luang Prabang that a vote first on the government would then the when parliament is The final would extend vened on May 11, one day coverage to about 3.6 the proposed Geneva conference im i 11 i o n currently unprotected is to a Congo Outpost Of Port Franqui Page 3 Sec. A Page 5 Sec. A Area News Highlights Are Times Broadway Chatter 2 Sec. A Dinner Conversation 4 Sec. A The Congo Nations forces gave up another Congo outpost Monday when they flew out of the Ghana rison from Port cap- tured by Congolese army troops last A U.N. spokesman in ville said U.N. many casualties roe County sheriffs office and state conservation district mount ed an intensive More than three hours after the plane was reported the international air traffic contro center at Miami was notified tha the airliner was on the at Havana's airport and would be released as soon as in the fighting at Port He reported Page Sec. Bridge 2 B Classified Ads B Comic B Funerals Editorial Pages A three killed Ghanaian and five Page Sec. two and a Ghana Markets B and presumed Radio-TV A Fourteen Ghanaian U.N. Sports B diers were missing and believed Theater A to have been taken prisoner by Women's News 6-7 A the Indictment Upheld N. J. forces suffered Camden County grand jury Mon day handed up a 15-count man slaughter indictment against Dr Albert L. N. J. in the serum deaths of 15 of his The 43-year-old Weiner was sus pended from practice last Novem ber 16 after 41 of his fell ill with the non liver Fourteen privates were officers two Security Council Briefed WASHINGTON President Kennedy and the National Security Council a secret report on military in Communist ened southeast Asia and scheduled another session for The succession of top level meetings the fourth and fifth n 10 days indicated Kennedy concentrating on vital deci- sions about what to do next to preserve freedom in Laos and its Monday's security council sion was held as officials dis- closed that the United States was stepping up military aid to South Viet next door neighbor to Kennedy and his chief military and intelligence ad- visers are considering a number of moves in case the Communists a ceasefire in These include possible use of allied troops in Laos or South Viet some United tions But U.S. officials remained tight-lipped to avoid tipping this country's After the security council White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said only that the top-level policy group and who were received a ing from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on current developments in east Asked whether the scheduling of another session Tuesday meant that any deadline for U.S. action in Laos had been inger said he had nothing more to In addition to the regular the security council meeting was attended by U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. The Story Of Laos World attention is focused on a small kingdom in eastern Asia in danger of being run over by the As a service to readers who would like to know about this the Times Recorder will publish a four-part cartoon ries on Laos starting Watch for this special Land of a Million
