Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1963 — Page 8

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Flight In Space Is Dangerous Business

By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — One of the cold, hard facts of space exploration is that, sooner or later, an astronaut will be killed. No one likes to talk about this possibility, least of all around here where the men who build spaceships live and work so closely with the intrepid ones who fly them. But it’s a nagging thought in the minds of a lot of people. One expert put it bluntly: ‘‘The law of averages is bound to catch up with us.” How could it happen? A thousand ways—a faulty two-bit valve that causes an explosion at blastoff, a reverse rocket failure that leaves a man stranded in space' to die of suffocation, a parachute mishap that sends him to a flaming death in earth's atmosphere. I It hasn’t happened yet, but I neither has the scientist’s “law of j averages” been pushed. Ameri-1 ca’s manned flights into space have been few—two suborbital leaps and three for orbital voyages—and each of those has been steeped in an almost fanatic regard for safety. Emergency Breaks The U.S. Mercury program was built on the premise that, for every critical system placed in the hands of a space-going astronaut, there are at least two others around to do the same job, either automatically or on command from a ground tracking station. The payoff, of course, has been a 100 per cent clean safety record in Project Mercury. Even so, there have been some tight moments. When astronaut Virgil I (Gus) Grissom had his bid day in July, 1961, he made a successful leap into space only to come within a hair of drowning minutes later. What happened was that a I small device to blow open the hatch accidentally was triggered and let the ocean water in. i Signal Proves False 1 1 Some scientists thought John i; Glenn had bought the cake when i I a signal from his orbiting space i i capsule indicated the vital heat- : shield had detached. Thankfully, it proved to be a false signal. < And a world held its breath for : < 40 minutes while astronaut M.’ 1 Scott Carpenter was missing at, 1 the end of his three-orbit ride last i May. Carpenter had overshot the I ’ target—due In part to a reverse'! rocket error. ’• I:

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. None died, but the implication lis clear—accidents do happen, -1 even when every possible precauf tion seemingly has been taken. For all its glamor, space flight > is a dangerous business. America has a lot of astronauts to send ; up, and scientists realize that . some may die. . I They want to put one of them • off as long as possible. The first • one. More Moderation In I Weather Predicted By United Press International The new week brought a change of pace in weather for Indiana- to- ' day, featuring the prospect of rain instead of snow and above-normal temperatures instead of shivery , cold. Sunday’s highs ranging from 38 ! at South Bend to 49 at Evansville and today's overnight lows ranging from 21 at South Bend to 27 at Indianapolis were just about as normal as you can get. But there will be even more moderation, the forecasters said. Highs today will range from the mid 40s to 58, lows tonight from 26 to 36, and highs Tuesday from the upper 30s to the mid 50s. Furthermore, the week will feature normal to above normal readings. In the north, temperatures through Saturday will average near normal highs of 33 to 40 and normal lows of 17 to 22. Elsewhere, they will average 3 to 6 degrees above normal highs of 41 to 48 and normal lows of 24 to 29. Upstate, there will be some fluctuations from a little colder Tuesday to warmer Wednesday and turning colder Thursday and Friday. In central and south portions there will be only minor day-to-day changes through the week. Forecasts called for a chance I of rain or snow Tuesday in the north and rain in the south. It may rain again Wednesday in the south. On a five-day basis, about one-fourth of an inch of snow or rain was expected north Tuesday and Saturday, and about one-half inch around mid-week central and south. The Sunday warmth melted most of the snow around the state except in sheltered areas north of buildings, and except in the South Bend area where there was too much to melt in a hurry and where six inches from previous falls still lay on the ground this morning.

One Man Is Injured In Refinery Blast HAMMOND, Ind. (UPI) — Two tanker trucks exploded and set fire to a truck rack at the Shell Oil Co. refinery near here today, injuring a man. The blast, blamed unofficially on static electricity, destroyed the trucks and touched off a blaze which swept a fuel loading dock until firemen brought it under control. The injured man was taken to an area hospital. His condition was not known immediately. Firefighting units from the refinery and from Hammond and East Chicago fought the flames. The explosion- occurred about 7:30 a.m. CST at the dock located between Hammond and East Chicago where fuel is loaded on tankers from a storage area. The injured man was identified as John Bowman, a dock loader. He was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital at East Chicago with a leg injury apparently suffered when he was blown off the dock by the concussion. Tom Ragen, Harvey, 111., said he was standing back of one of the tankers when the explosion occurred. Dan Samok, driver of one of the tankers, said he was blown from the cab by the blast and got up and was running away when he heard cries for help. Samok said he found Bowman lying helpless near the flaming wreckage and pulled him to safety. Visitor Inspection An automobile outside rearview mirror will permit you to inspect callers before opening your door. Install the mirror on the outside jamb of a window directly in line with the door. Have someone of average height stand outside the door while you adjust the miror, so you can see his face from inside the window without his seeing you. Keeping Tools Dry Keeping yor tools clean and dry outdoors in bad weather is no problem at all if, between jobs, you slip the tools into a section I cut from an old automobile inner tube and tie the ends. This is a good trick to remember for camping; fishing, and hunting.

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Affirms Convicfion Os Ex-Prosecutor CHICAGO (UPI) — The U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the conviction of former Lake County, Ind., Prosecutor Metro Holovachka for income tax violations. Holovachka recently was sentenced to three years in prison and fined SIO,OOO in District Court in Indiana. The circuit court announced its ruling in Holovachka’s appeal following his denial of a new trial. He was charged with filing false and fraudulent tax returns in 1955, 1956 and 1957 claiming liabilities of $39,220. But the government contended Holovachka’s correct tax liability for the years was $78,567. . In its opinion written by Chief Judge J. A. Hastings, the court found that Holovachka received a ‘‘fair trial” and that the “evidence of guilt warranted the jury verdict.” The appeals court also said it found that the trial court had “correctly charged the jury” on essential elements of the case as related to the crime charged. Holovachka and his attorneys had claimed that the trial court was “biased and prejudiced” in selection of the jury, that the trial court was discriminatory in locking up the jury between sessions, and that the trial court had erred in its rulings in reference to examination of certain witnesses. But the court said it agreed the. jury should be isolated to prevent its being confronted with possible inflammatory newspaper publicity. It cited a recent reversal in a tax trial of Tony Accardo, Chi-’ cago syndicate chieftain, who was convicted and won a new trial on charges of adverse publicity in newspapers. In the new trial, Accardo was acquitted. Holovachka’s attorneys also complained that the court permitted use of the word “rackets” inanswers to questions put to witnesses. They also claimed errors in the asking of three questions by government attorneys relating to the McClellan rackets committee in the U.S. Senate before which Holovachka appeared while he was prosecuting attorney. The opinion, which found no reversal errors or grounds for a

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Violence Is Erupting In Coal Fields PALMER, Tenn. (UPI) — Violence, including at least two more dynamitings and several fires, erupted during the weekend in the embattled southeastern Tennessee coal fields. “All hell was popping up here last night and this morning (Sunday),” a company spokesman said. — Jie said the coal company office manager, Dan' Toney, and his family of six were “forced from his home and out of town” and : that an explosion in Toney’s yard shattered windows. The incidents fame a few days after a Tracy City mine official’s car was dynamited, company truck drivers were harassed and company rewards totaling $2,000 were posted, company officials said. Officials of the United Mine Workers of America said they knew nothing of the Trouble. One said, “We don’t go in for that kind of thing.” He said union locals also had been the victims of clandestine incidents, including fires at two local halls last summer, which inspired offerings of SI,OOO in UMW rewards. Company spokesmen said Toney, of nearby Gruetli, was threatened by as many as 100 men on the streets of Palmer Saturday. They said, “One tried to pull him out of his car.” Several men Saturday night forced a guard at the Palmer mine office of Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. to come out of the office at gunpoint, a spokesman said. Then a truck drove by and “a stick of dynamite was tossed on the building’s roof. It left about a yard-square hole,” one said.' “You can see daylight through it.” Fire leveled a nearby company warehouse before firemen could save it, they said. mistrial in trial court proceedings, was concurred in by Justices Win G. Knoch and Latham Castle.'

Open Talks On Hiking NATO Nuclear Power WASHINGTON (UPI)— American and British officials begin talks here today on boosting NATO’s nuclear striking power. The Anglo-American discussions are expected to continue through Friday. The objective is to speed arrangements under the Nassau pact to give the alliance some nuclear striking power as quickly as possible and provide Britain with a Polaris submarine which will be “assigned” to the NATO commander. William R. Tyler, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, heads the American delegation, which also includes defense and atomic energy officials. Leaders of the British group is Denis A. Greenhill, minister of the British embassy. Technical experts from London will join the talks later in the week. The meetings are being held at the State Department. The United States is preparing to offer other members of the alliance — with the exception of France—the opportunity to “buy a share” in an internationally manned and NATO - controlled fleet bf Polaris nuclear missile submarines. French President Charles de Gaulle has dealt himself out of the multilateral planning, insisting that France must build her own independent nuclear deterrent because Europe cannot always depend on the United States. The Kennedy administration is attempting to impart more- momentum to the multilateral planning in an effort to forestall any weakening or collapse of the alliance after the French veto of Britain’s Common Market bid and De Gaulle’s refusal to accept the Nassau offer. Ambassador Lvingston T. Merchant, special U.S. negotiator for the multi-nation plan, is expected to leave in about a week for Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and England to push the broader arrangements. L i ■- — j—| New Fighting May Break Out In Laos VIENTIANE, Laos (UPl)—Tension between rival factions mounted toward the danger point in Laos today and officials warned that new fighting might break the country’s uneasy peace. Neutralist and pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces, on “alert” status, faced each other in defensive positions in the strategic Plain of Jars where they once fought as allies against the U.S. backed right-wing forces in the civil war. The threat of renewed hostilities caught this tiny Himalayan kingdom with its key leaders out of the country. King Savang Vatthana and neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma are on a tour of countries which participated in the Laos conference that ended the civil -war last year. The two vice premiers. Pathet Lao leader Prince Souphanouvong and right-wing leader Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, also are out of Laos. Laos has been governed by a three-faction coalition since the cease-fire went into effect. Each faction has maintained its own military force. Gen. Kong Le, commander of the neutralist army, warned Sunday that fighting could erupt at any time between his forces and the Pathet Lao troops. He said open hostility has been mounting since the assassination last week of his field commander in the Plain of Jars, Col. Ketsana Vongsouvanh.

54 Persons Killed Throughout Nation

By United Press International Fires, automobile accidents, a plane crash and drownings during the weekend claimed the lives of at least 54 persons, most of them children. Six persons— three couples — died in a plane crash near Livermore, Calif. A couple and their three children burned to death at Reading, Pa. Four persons died instantly in a car accident near Dothan, Ala. The three couples were en route back to Hayward, Calif., when their rented single - engine plane piled into the side of a hill near Livermore Saturday night in a light drizzle. The victims were Edward Silva, 44, San Leandro, Calif., the pilot, and his wife, Doris, 38; Terry L. Boscacci, 37, Castro Valley, Calif, and his wife, Mary, 37; and Arthur L. Hoenig, 52, Castro Valley, and his wife, Elsie, 50. A highway patrolman said bodies were stacked like cordwood after a truck carrying butane gas plowed into the rear of a stalled car without parking lights near Bo than. Ala., Friday night. Four persons were killed ar.d a fifth was critically injured. Two cars collided near Waterloo, 111., Saturday night in a crash so terrible the engine of one auto was pushed back to the front seat where it crushed one youth to death. The victims were David Johnson, 17, Waterloo, one of the drivers; Ernest Downing, 21, St. Louis, the other driver, and his passenger, Charles White, 20, Savannah, Tenn. A car attempted to beat the train at a crossing in Gallatin, Tenn., Saturday night. It was dragged a mile and a half down the tracks before the train could stop. Three persons were killed and a fourth was in critical condition. Three small sisters visiting their grandparents’ farm at Holts Summit, Mo., drowned Saturday when they broke through thin ice on a pond. The bodies of Thelma Jean, 8, Mary Ann, 7, and Carrie Mae Logan, 9, were recovered about one hour after the girls were found missing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fakcleman and their three children, Edward, 13, Catherine, 5 and Gwenn, 2, died Saturday in a fire and explosion which rocked their home in Bethlehem, Pa. Four sisters died when fire swept a three • story tenement building in North Philadelphia. The victims were Cynthia White,

Carnival Days! MASSEY FERGUSON’S Gigantic Open House Wednesday, February 20 • Ham and Bean Dinner • ssss Thousands in savings to you • See the Latest in Farm Equipment • See the New 300 Combine — ••Flrat Time Shown in This Area!** • Everybody Welcome — Bring the Family Free Jet Holiday Io Cauda Games - Prizes - Fun Special pre-festivities breakfast of sausage and pancakes served by company officials for inter ested combine purchasers. Wednesday, February 20 TIME: 8:30 a.m. til??? DIERKES Implement Sales 341 N. 13th St. U. S. Highway 27 North Decatur

MONDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1963

7, and her sisters, Rhonda, 6, Linda, 4, and Caprice, 3. Four of Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Copper’s five children perished in a fire that roared through their three-story home at Tacoma, Wash., Sunday. The child who was saved, Ricky, 7, awakened his father and said he smelled smoke. The father carried Ricky to safety but was unable to return to the house and Terry, 6, Daleen, 5, Roland, 3, and Scott, 2, died. ■ No Pictures, Please! It is better not to hang any pictures in the rooms whose walls are covered with the scenic kind of wallpaper. Pictures would only add a cluttered, overdone effect.

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