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PhonesNEW I BOOM TV SIM BUSINESS OFFICE TV S-SftUTHE HERALDPRESSWeatherFINAL EDITION—24 PAGESST. JOSEPH, MICH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1961PRICE SEVEN CENTSWtaSr vt* nta iiiMMiy mbmi wtto mv to mtoitm •Mttaat todtoy. MMUy to m aai atotog «irl|Tkanlsy, Tmjfitom to tot to* M htwvsMfli « to I p. to Tiaiiftjt tow M to S t. to today.Launch. Return First Human2New 1-94 SignsSpotlight CitySt. Joseph and Benton Harbor will be put back on the map insofar as 1*94 route markings are concerned, the Michigan Highway department said today.Howard E. Hill, managing director, said the designations will be implaced by late June, in sufficient time forthe new tourist season.M'kay ResignsAs Principal01 St. Joe HiTears FlowAs QueenGets CrownPlans To Enter Business With Brother HaleThe Twin City signs will be green and white, but somewhat larger than the 5xl4*feet insignia plannedfor other major Michigan communities along the Interstate freeway system The St. Joseph poster a ill be located a mile north of Stevens-ville denoting five exits for northbound traffic Benton Harbor's sign will be northeast of Main st, denoting five exits for westbound traffic.Equal BilUng The confusing and Inadequate] signs now on 1-94 have been a subject of complaint for several months from a variety of Twin City government and civic groups: and many local motorists still become lost getting off and on the 1-94 at various points until repeated driving has familiarized them with “the new look'* ofthe home area terrain The latest complaint was lodged by St Joseph City Commissioner Clifford Emlong at last Monday’s commission meeting He also wants St. Joseph to share equal billing with Benton Harbor on all milage markers *Up until Hill's announcement today the Highway department has been stymied In an effort to eliminate this confusion.The existing signs are standards previouslyy laid down by the U S Bureau of Public Roads which Is the supervisory authority over the 90 per cent federally financed Interstate road network.The Bureau's economy with exit markers has been the resultrtf InfprvtrnHnff tVio hqdf' ftfaftlt.PMalcolm R Mackay, principal of St Joseph High school for the past 10 years, announced today he is resigning effective June 30 to go Into private business Mackay, 52, has been an educator for 29 years Supt Earl Place said no one has been hired yet to replace himMackay will continue to live in St. Joseph at his home at 407Wallace ave„ which faces the new senior high school He will be sales representative In southern Michigan and northern Indiana for Mackay Foun-dry Sales. Inc., a Grand Raplds-based Arm owned by him and his brother Hale.The superintendent told of Mackay’s resignation “with deep personal regret. I wish to publicly thank him for the tremendous Job he has done for the students who have attended this high school and to wish him good luek in the business venture he decided to undertake” Mackay came to St Joseph with Place after the shake-up in the school system’s administration in 1951 Place listed Mackay's prime accomplishment as the setting up See MACKAY, Page 9MackaySpacemanHas Wife,2 DaughtersCircles EarthLONDON, April 12 (AP)— Moscow television presented a picture of the Soviet Union’s first space man today, describing him as aman with “a good, honest smile ” The portrait of Major Yuri A. Gagarin was shown and thenIn 89 Minutescame this broadcast comment,RUSSIAN HERO—This is Russian Maj. Yuri Gagarin, history’s first man in space. The Russians today rocketed him around the earth in an orbit taking slightly less than 90 minutes and brought him back safely to a pre-arranged spot in the Soviet Union(AP Wirephoto)Apartment HousePlanned For St. Joerepeated by Moscow Radio’“For those who did not see this picture we should like to give a description of this splendid man.“On the screen appears the image of a man aged about 25-28 with a kind, Russian face, eyes set well apart, fine bushy brows and high forehead “He wears a flying helmet, a light overall suit. He smiles a good, honest smile And Is there any need to add that this man who has been the first to dare to fly to space, to reach for the stars, to look down on our earth, Is a man of a very great and very real character. This is evident In his smile, in the Intelligent, fine eyesGagarin was 27 Just a monthBy STANLEY JOHNSONMOSCOW, April 12 (AP—The Soviet Union fired t man into space today who rode once around the earth and then landed safely back in the Soviet Union at a prearranged target point.A statement from the Soviet government and the communist party said the satelago.luuPlans for a 14-unit apartment house, the first to be built in the twin cities in 15 years, were revealed this week by John Chiviges, Benton Harbor insurance man in his request for re-zoning four lots on South State street. - t The $100,000 project is awaiting city commission approval to change four 82 by120-foot lots from A-2 (single-family dwellings) to C (multiple family) district.Chiviges wrote the St. Joseph city commission that property owners to the rear of the property have approved the planAnnexationBattle InHave 2 DaughtersHe is married to Valentina Gagarina. 26, who also has a scientific background. She was graduated from medical school at Orenburg.They have two daughters, Yelena, 2, and Galya, just a month old.The cosmonaut has an ideal Soviet background: his father, a Joiner, his mother a housewifeGagarin was born March 9, 1934, in the Gzhatsk district of the Smolensk area.As a child of 7, just starting school, he and his family experienced the Nazi invasion and fled into the hinterlandsAt the end of the war the family returned to Gzhatsk to a collective farm. Gagarin resumed hislite space ship Vostok (East), with 27-year-old Maj. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin aboard, rose into outerspace at 9 07 a. m Moscow time “and. having rounded the globe, safely returned to the sacred soil of our homeland, the land of the Soviets”Vostok landed at 10 55 a m Moscow time, 108 minutes after the launching, the Russians said Neither the point of the takeoff nor the location of the landing was announced Soviet scientists watched Gagarin during his flight by television and he was In constant radio communication with a Russian control station, the Soviets said Messages from him while in flight saying that he was wellwere broadcast to the breathless public.According to Tass, the Soviet news agency, Gagarin on landing said “Please report to the party and government and personally to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev that the landing was normaL I feel well, have no Injuries or bruises”Soviet Premier Khrushchev replied with a message of congratulations telling Gagarin the “entire Soviet people acclaim your valiant feat which will be remembered down the centuries as an example of courage, gallantry and heroism in the name of service to mankindIn a statement boasting that★ ★ ★World-WidePraise GivenRed ExpertsBy Tht Associated PressScientist throughout the world today heaped praise on their Soviet colleagues who won the momentous race into space.Sir Bernard Lovell, eminent British scientist who heads Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Observatory, termed the successful orbiting of a man around the earth the “greatest scientific achievement in the history of manJames E Webb, director of the U. S National Aeronautics and Space Agency CNASA) which wai racing to beat the Soviets, said the flight was a “splendid achievement ... a aignificam event in terms of the Soviets own timetable.Webb, whose Astronauts art now in training, said he hoped the Russians will provide the scientific community the lnlbr-mstlon gained from the experiment.At an international symposium in Florence, Italy, leading spaciscientists from throuehnut thlt;
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