Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1964 — Page 6

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Glenn Is Embarked On A New Career

EDITOR’S NOTE' — John H. Glean Jr., America * Na. 1 spaceman, has stepped down aa an astronaut to embark on a new career —politics. The following is the first of two dispatches which deals , with Glenn’* early life, his days as a Marine fighter pilot his brief career as a test pilot and his rise to fame as the first U.S. astronant to or- > Mt earth. By ALVIN E- WEBB Jr. United Press International HOUSTON (UPI> — His path reached the heroic when, as he stepped from his odd - looking craft onto the ship's deck, someone with a sense of the historic marked his footprints in white paint. He went to New York and flashed that boyish, freckle - faced smile. Americans responded with streams of tears, mountains of cheers and a 3,-474-ton avalanche of confetti and ticker-tape. He went to Washington and

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turned his charm on Congress. The sophisticated House and Senate members jostled and shoved just* to shake the famous hand. Thus was the election by popular acclaim 23 months ago Glenn Jr. to the status of American hero. Glenn, a 40-year-old Marine with thinning red hair and twinkling green eyes, had ridden to fame on the nose of a silvery Atlas rocket that sent him into space from Cape Canaveral < now Cape Kennedy) Feb 20, 1962. as America’s first orbiting astronaut. Quits For Polities Those days, in Glenn’s own words, "are fine memories-’’ But his job as an astronaut is ended. This was .Glenn’s own decision, and 23 months after his spectacular voyage, he revealed it in an announcement that he was quitting the space program to run for the U. S. Senate from Ohio. In a manner of speaking. Glenn has been “politicking"

all his life on a sort of “God, country and motherhood" personal philosophy—the heritage boyhood in the small, somewhat morally strict central Ohio town of New Concord. Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio, 10 miles from New Concord, where he moved at an early age. His father built up a prosperous plumbing and heating business. He envisioned a day when John Jr. would succeed him in a life offering quiet security. Instead, the future hero went off to nearby Muskingum College. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, Glenn quit college and tried to join the Army Air Force — only to be turned down. He .went to the Navy, became a flier and, in 1943, shifted to the Marine Corps. Exploits Were Legendary Long before he became an astronaut, Glenn’s exploits as a jet pilot were legend. One fellow pilot recalled a singularly precise trick his red-haired buddy used to demonstrate his skill: — "Johnny would fly up alongside you and slip his wing ‘under yours — and then tap it gently against your wingtip.” Glenn became the "MIG-mad Marine” of the Korean War and, in the last nine days of the conflict, gunned down three of the enemy jets. When the war was over, Glenn took up flying model airplanes — fullscale models of that dangerous breed known as “experimental aircraft.’ One day as a test pilot, Glenn pushed the Navys new jet fighter, the FBU Crusader, through the sound barrier — and felt something crack. He tried it again, and again — and both times felt that snap. On landing, he found 24 feet missing from the edge of one wing. It was this persistence in tackling a problem that stood the slender Marine in good stead when, in 1959, he found out Project Mercury was looking for astronauts, John Glenn wanted in. He set out to get in. Uninvited, he tagged long with one of the Navy’s prime candidates. When that man flunked early in the game, the 37-year-old war hero and jet ace stepped in to volunteer. He made it Waited His Turn Glenn trained almost viciously, working his weight dowp from a plumpish 195 pounds to 168 pounds. But he had to stand by while Mercury teammates Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. (Gust Grissom made suborbital flights 115 miles into space in mid-1961. Finally, John Glenn day arrived. As his heart skipped along at a relatively calm rate of 110 beats per minute, he felt the mighty Atlas engines beneath him shiver into life. Five minutes later, he was speeding through space at 17,500 miles per hour—America’s first orbiting astronaut, watching the seas and continents whiz by beneath him. ‘‘l’ve never been happier in my life,” Glenn said in summary. “I wouldn't trade my job for any other in the world.’ But John Glenn’s days as a flying astronaut were over, and he became increasingly aware of it in the months ahead. The time had come for a decision — whether to stick with the space program in an advisory capacity, or accept one of the myriad offers in private business, or to seek out something else. The Ohio Senate seat, occupied by Sen. Stephen Young, caught his eye. Glenn, who could quote Einstein and Arnold Toynbee and the U.S. Constitution as well as he could fly a spaceship, set his sight on a new career—politics. mI b ORB'- - : - w f ' " ’ HOLDUP TRAGEDY— CarIa Leach, 20. and a male companion are charged with .•> first degree murder in Buffalo. N.Y., following the shooting of a deaf man during a tavern holdup. The victim walked in while the holdup was taking place and was unable to hear Miss Leach's order to lie on the floor.

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Robt. Kennedy Ends Visit To Britain Today LONDON (UPD—U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, assured of British support for his Far East peace efforts, wound up his visit to Britain today with a final round of far-rang-ing talks with Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Kennedy, en route home from his Malaysian peace mission, met for an hour with DouglasHome in what was described as a preview of the British prime minister’s forthcoming visit to Washington. Diplomatic sources said the two men, with Foreign Minister R.A. Butler sitting in on the talks, discussed a wide variety of subjects in the context of the agenda likely to be used when Douglas-Home meets President Johnson early next month. The British government confirmed that Kennedy and Doug-las-Home discussed the Cyprus question to see what might be done to broaden the basis of Britain’s peace-keeping mission on the Mediterranean island. An official foreign office spokesman said, however, that reports that Britain had asked the United States and other allies for military support on Cyprus were “premature and speculative.” Informed source had said Britain has asked the United States, through Kennedy, to send troops to Cyprus to help the 2,000-man force on the island keep peace. The talks ranged well beyond the issue of Malaysia, the British backed federation in Southeast Asia whose existence is threatened by Indonesia. In negotiations last week, Kennedy won Indonesian agreement to a cease-fire and got Malaysia and the Philippines to agree to a summit conference with Indonesia. Informer On Chicago Crime Blast Victim CHICAGO (UPD — An insurance agent who turned informer against Chicago crime syndicate hoodlums was blown from his car by an explosion in front of the Chicago Criminal Courts Building today. The victim, Lewis C. Barbe, 32, had just appeared before a judge in connection with a $48,000 fake insurance plot in which he was expected to be the state’s star witness. Police said Barbe’s car apparently exploded when he stepped on the starter. There were no known witnesses. Court workers heard the explosion, ran outside, and found Barbe lying beside his wrecked car. He was rushed into surgery at St. Anthony’s Hospital, where doctors said his right deg was ripped to the thigh and might have to be amputated. Barbe was in shock and could not be questioned. Barbe and seven other men had been indicted on New Year’s Eve on •‘‘charges of conspiring in the fake insurance plot. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and local authorities said Barbe had volunteered information on fake insurance claims mounting into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among those indicted with Barbe was Marshall Caifano, reputedly one of the rising lords of the Chicago crime syndicate. Caifano is currently in Los Angeles standing trial on charges of trying to extort $60,000 from millionaire oil man Ray Ryan at Palm Springs, Calif., and Las Vegas, Nev; Barbe had said he feared for

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his life ever since he volunteered to turn informer. Nevertheless, he turned down offers of a police guard while he was free on bond awaiting" trial of the case. He professed himself fearful even though he said Caifano, alias Johnny Marshall, had given him permission to “go ahead and make a deal for yourself.” After the explosion, a police guard was placed on Barbe s family and on the insurance agent himself. All Barbe said as he was taken to the hospital was “Save my leg...please save my leg.” Barba’s hair was singed by the blast, his clothing was ripped, and his 1964 Chevrolet car was wrecked. State’s Atty. H Daniel Ward said the explosion was the work of “agents of this human vermin”—the crime syndicate. “We' have been successful in fighting this rotten syndicate, drying up their revenues to the point where they have to come to this cowardly. dastardly act,” he said. Framing Prints You can make prints and magazine covers look like oil paintings by pasting the pictures wet on burlap, and then applying a coat of shellac. Frame them in na-tural-color wood, without glass.

Portland Hospital Increases Rafes The- Jay county hospital, ai hospital fully accredited by the joint commission on accreditation of hospitals, has raised its rates, Garrett R. Graham, administrator, has announced. The hospital is now charging $17.50 for semi-double rooms. Other area accredited hospitals are cha ging: Bluffton Clinic, $22.50; Ball Memorial, Muncie, $lB, Parkview, Fort Wayne, $18; Kokomo, Howard county, sl9: Anderson Community, $21.50; Anderson St. John, $23.50; Kokomo St. Joe, sl9; Noblesville River--side, sl9. The hospital raided its service charge for room and board from 50 cents to $2, and in the nursery inc’eased from 50 cents to $6.50 a day. Three and four-bed wards will be $15.50, while two-person rooms will be $17.50. Purpose of the raise is to cover a pay increase granted to workers. who got a 10 cent hourly increase, costing nearly $31,000 a year. The scale for aide§, maids, dietary. and laundry employes now starts at $1 an hour. The Jay county hospital has been completely self-supporting since 1952, and all increased costs fftust be offest by increased

revenue. Statistically in Indiana, the average adult stays 7.5 days in the hospital for each admission.

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In Jay county the average is 5.6 days. Thus, the savings to patients is $260,000 a year, Graham stated.