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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1962
Page
1
United States plans to send astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. around the Earth were postponed again due to a faulty oxygen system in the environmental control system. Officials extended the delay to ensure safety, with no definite firing date announced by NASA.
A tufted titmouse collided with a window at the Robert Martin residence on Hunting Ridge, leaving the bird groggy. The local note also reports a Jan 26 1927 Evening Star image of Marines in Nicaragua and the death of Mrs Semina L. Van Deventer. Weather shows 50 degree high with rain and a cooler outlook. five day forecast near normal with warming later. In local oddity, a woman in a shop had her chihuahua’s tail caught in her purse.
Astronaut John Glenn undergoes unusual medical tests to study weightlessness ahead of a space voyage. He walks barefoot on rails with warm water in his ears as researchers monitor balance and motion sickness. The goal is to learn how long humans can endure weightlessness and whether the body copes with zero gravity. Glenn is 40, a Marine officer, and will experience about four and a half hours of weightlessness during orbital flight.
An heavy explosion rocked the French Foreign Ministry injuring several and killing one person. A booby trapped automobile caused the blast near a courtyard archway, shattering windows and tearing a wall. Police continued investigations amid talk of possible political motives.
Italy accuses Bulgaria of using a supersonic jet with high powered cameras over a NATO missile base near Gioia del Colle. The pilot 2nd Lt Miluse Solakov, 22, is held in Acquaviva hospital after a training flight crash in fog.
Bitter cold blankets the north central states with subzero readings at Bozeman -40 and Butte -34, while Denver logs -14. Snow and freezing precipitation stretch from Texas to Indiana. SF and LA see rare snowfall with San Francisco first measurable snow in 30 years.
A massive slide from Mount Elbert on Sunday swept four houses in Twin Lakes Colorado. At least six people were killed and two rescued as rescue teams labored in freezing conditions. The avalanche followed a three day storm with high winds and dumped 30 inches of snow.
Richmond AP reports Gov A S Harrison Jr will outline new fiscal programs before the House Appropriations Committee in an item by item review of the omnibus budget bill. Chair H H Adams said the appearance is Harrison’s first before the committee as the General Assembly reconvenes.
Washington AP summarises Kennedy’s economic report to Congress. The plan forecasts record profits income and output this year and seeks standby anti recession powers to cut taxes and spend 2 billion on public works. It urges labor management restraint to reach full employment without inflation with goals of 600 billion in production and 4 percent unemployment in 1963.
A Middletown man Samuel Milton Herbaugh age 19 was convicted in Municipal Court on drunken driving hit and run and resisting arrest after a Saturday night driving spree. He was fined 106.75 for drunken driving 75 plus 1.75 costs for hit and run and 50 plus 1.75 costs for resisting arrest. His 1954 Pontiac coupe was destroyed and he sustained chest contusions. The incident began around 7 30 p m in the 500 block N Loudoun St and involved a pole and wires, ending near a Sears Parking Lot with the car hitting a steel post and catching fire. Fire crews from South End and other stations responded. The report notes another fire later at 1214 S Loudoun St caused by a faulty flue.
Western Hemisphere foreign ministers meet in Punta del Este to debate action against Castro’s Cuba and the Alliance for Progress. U S officials warn of external interference while Congress weighs funding. Delegates stress inter American unity amid Cuba concerns and regional economic unrest.
President Kennedy presented Congress with an optimistic 1961-63 economic plan aiming at higher employment and up to 600 billion dollars in 1963 production. He proposed temporary tax cuts up to 5 percentage points, up to 2 billion in standby public works lending, and expansion of unemployment benefits, investment credits, and social programs while warning against premature recession.
In Havana Prime Minister Fidel Castro announced a planned major radio and TV speech tonight likely to touch on the Havana mass meeting to be held next Sunday and possibly comment on the Inter-American Conference in Punta del Este Uruguay. The AP notes U S activist Robert F Williams, a Castro admirer, disappeared last summer after a kidnapping indictment in North Carolina.
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