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,9*J A 30 foot tower, complete with ( 18 mlco-wave discs, has been crcct- j ed on top of the Muskingum Col ( lege gymnasium to beam TV an video waves to another tower that has been erected on the Red j, '*s Rud Acres farm, about a mile P* east of New Concord This one is ( j 100 feet high (jC In addition to live television, tl \ both wir services Associated ( ^ Press and United Press Interna tional, will be on hand to fee t f) copy to newsoapers throughout f, the cuntry. Still photographs ^ will be transmitted via wire photo t; ,e fafilities jReporters from two national .« [jjj magazines, Time and Cife. will he ‘ on hand to cover New Concord activities for their respective e ^ publications, hn Mr and Mrs Glenn, whose nor 51 ^ mally routine life has been dis If. rupted since their son was select* 0 ■e ed to orbit the gobe, have told a !»• score of TV personnel and new*- ” I men all about Col. Glenn’s child hood. During the four or five hours Col. Glenn is aloft, they u will keep abreast of develop c „ ments via TV. Three TV setsII t,t have been installed in their n home,m The Glenns will watch the 0 ,j. flight in the privacy of their ^ home and will not grant any j.' u interviews until after their son Ps has been safely recovered. It *s was reported that a radio sta 1 ,j tion offered the Glenns $500 for ( a one-minute interview while the - flight was going on.Dr. and Mrs Homer Castor, parents of Col. Glenn s wife, Annie, will be in Arlington, Va the day of the shot to watch with therj daughter and two grandchil-e dren, The Castors live a short e distance north of the Glenns on jf the Bloomfield Road e Here in Cambridge, Col. is Glenn’s sister, Mrs, Jean Pinks h- ton, will watch her brother via if TV at her home at 812 N Eighth r St.y On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn attended church services at New t Concord U. P. Church where d their son attended a* a boy. Rev e Gerald Wheat offered praers of:-the safety of America's astro it- naut at the services which were attended by near capacity crowd
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Mon, Jan 22, 1962
Page 2
Full Page
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Evelyn B.
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