The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1965 — Page 3

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GEMINAUTS JIM MoDIVITT (LEFT) AND ED WHITE lie in their Gemini-4 space capsule a top the powerful Titan-2 rocket as they await their fiery blastoff from Cape Kennedy into a historic four-day orbit.

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! trouble keeping White in sight. I White made his appearance in ‘ Move closer,’’ he urged ' the front yard, he and the White. NASA man discussed the matIt didn't sound dramatic. But ter by use of the radios, it was. It was dangerous, too. The astronaut's mother met White and McDivitt knew it. the news people after the While they joked, death in its i launch but her only comment most fantastic form was here, was "the whole thing was exA meteorite could puncture citing." She remained in the White's $26,000 space suit. Or house during White's afternoon an oxygen leak could dim his session. senses, leaving him confused;

and disoriented.

But now. White was nearing the 20-minute mark in his stroll. He still could not get

over the joy of it.

"This is fun,” he told McDivitt when the astronaut again urged him to re-enter the cap-

sule.

The "fun" White

Both wives of Edward White and James McDivitt and their children were assured of the well being of the two men by early morning news broadcasts and newspaper reports. They hope to make another trip from their homes today to the nearby manned spacecraft center to observe mission controllers who are in contact with the astronauts. Lights went off Thursday night at the White’s home in a residential subdivision at the customary 10 p. m. while over at the McDivitt’s two other astronauts and their wives visited a bit later with Mrs. Pat McDivitt. She finally turned off her television set at 11 p. m. after saying goodnight to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borman and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gordon. Children had to observe almost their regular bed times in the two homes, varying from 8 p. m. to 10 p. m., and were sleepy after the excitement of Thursday’s first part of the four-day space mission. Things could hardly have gone better.

Program Sunday INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana Department of the American Legion expects about 10,000 persons to attend a program Sunday at the Indiana Soldiers Home at Lafayette. A full day of band concerts, contests, picnics and a brief | program is planned. Depart1 ment commander Gilbert E. Sheeks of Mitchel will speak. Open house will be held all I day.

Tht Daily Banner, Graancastle, Indiana Friday, June 4, 1965

Great Sport

ST. JOHN. V. I. UPI — Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson has discovered skin diving, and she thinks it’s great. The First Lady donned goggles, a face mask and swim fins Thursday and went "snorkeling’’ off a gleaming white beach at Cancel Bay plantation, where she is spending a brief vacation. She said later shh hopes to repeat the experience every day she is here.

Flight Watched By Europeans

LONDON UPI — Europeans today joined Americans in following the progress of U. S.

described astronauts James McDivitt and

could be converted into statis- i Edward

tics that boggle the mind of the

man in the street.

White had left the capsule as it soared toward the California coast. He did not re-enter until the space ship was east of the Dominican Republic, having crossed the entire United States. He had claimed space for his own for a total of 20 minutes— 10 more minutes than his Soviet counterpart, Lt. Col. Alexei Leonov, who turned his feat

last March 18.

White. They grabbed

up newspapers and listened to the radio to find out more about

a “dream coming true.” Moscow Radio finally in-

formed the Russians that White had walked into space. The feat was not reported when

it happened Thursday.

Youngsters in Portugal paid a tribute to White by inventing a "space walker” game. They could be seen outside their schools at Lisbon, linked to a lamppost by a rope and “propelling” themselves around it

with water pistols.

Some adults were more blase. Commented Roger Chabert, a Paris waiter: "the flight was interesting, even exciting —but

j ST. PETERSBL RG, Fla. UPI a ft er a n it wasn’t the first one. I—The parents of astronaut Ed- “We are getting rather used

1 ward White remained in semi- t o seclusion at their fashionable

Three Tots Die In Home Fire BALTIMORE UPI — Three pre-school children were killed and four others were injured early today in a fire started by a. little girl using a match to look for her mother's shoes. The children had been left alone in their home by the mothter, Mrs. Burnice Payne, who was visiting a relative ' nearby. She sent a cousin to bring the pair of shoes and one ^ of the children hunted for them with a match. ; The family is on relief and : the electricity in their home was turned off for non-pay-ment of the bill. One child used the match to look under an upstairs bed, touching off a fire in the mattress. The children thought they had extinguished it and went to bed. The fire flared up about an hour later trapping the victims, ranging in age from 2 to 5, in an attic bedroom.

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High And Low NEW YORK UPI — The highest temperature reported Thursday to the U. S. Weather Bureau, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, was 104 at Presidio, Tex. The lowest reported this morning was 29 at Phillipsburg, Pa.

HISTORIC RIDE INTO SPACE—Riding atop a mighty Titan-2 rocket in their Germni-4 space capsule. Geminauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White leave Cape Kennedy on a historic, four-day, 1.7 million mile space voyage during which White was to become the first self-propel-led Earthman.

space flights these day.,” Nevertheless, millions were

thrilled. It was estimated that 10 million persons watched the blast off via Early Bird satel-

lite in Germany alone.

Two Families Are Up Early

Spaceman White Liked Dangling 103 Miles Above Earth's Surface

By Robert Buckhorn United Press International

a 9 or 10 minute stay. But things like that are hard to give up. White seemed to

dawdle.

McDivitt cautioned him again: “You still have three and a half more days to go,

buddy.”

But McDivitt was strapped in

» Astronaut Edward H. White ^jseemed almost to be in love ^V'ith space. it For the moment, it was all ^ihis. Like a child, he didn't want

J.o leave.

"Get back in,” came the near a capsule. That was one thing, ^|ptern command from his fellow but White was floating in •jBstronaut James A. McDivitt. space, tied to the capsule only a The reply? Laughter could be by a 25-foot-long goldplated _-heard as White dangled 103 lifeline. —miles in space silently coasting The planned 10-minute stay through the great void at j was stretching out. W'hite, toy--17.500 miles an hour. I ed with his space gun in a Buck

f. This was an exhilaration •■known to only one other man. Slhis was excitement, and beau£ty. This was the reason for hewing an astronaut. The schedule called for only

Rogers-like exercise.

Firing a blast of compressed oxygen, be moved himself around the space capsule. Inside, McDivitt took pictures.

At one point McDivitt had White

home today and kept track of their son’s flight on television. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Edward W’hite, Sr., formerly of

Fort Wayne, Ind., met with j newsmen twice Thursday, once i

immediately after the launch and the second time after his son s historic space walk. W'hite told a host of newsmen

and well-wishers that the fam-1

ily had no set plans for the SEABROOK, Tex. UPI — time his son is whirling around Families of America’s two orin space but said he would stay biting astronauts awoke early "pretty close" to the three tele-1 today after a sound night’s vision sets in the house. I sleep, eager to learn the latest

"Were happy that everything appears to be well,” White told the newsmen. Staying with the Whites is the general's cousins, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Morris of Naples,

Fla.

Traffic was heavy past the White home on Snell Isle as sightseers passed l?y hoping to catch a glimpse of the astro-

naut's parents.

While a representative of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration stood watch in the front yard, along with an NASA security man and a local city detective, a telegraph boy made several deliveries and the mailman left a

bundle of mail.

The NASA information rep-

resentative was -armed with a walkie-talkie. Inside the house

had one also. Before

Mrs. Berkfield Dies BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UPI— Mrs. Ethlyn Berkfield. 77, mother-in-law of Dr. Elvis J. Stahr, president of Indiana University, died today in Bloomington Hospital shortly after she became ill while visiting her daughter. Mrs. Berkfield had made her home in Bloomington the past several months. She was the widow of Edward Berkfield and had lived in New York City for 50 years. Her husband was an executive of the National Steel Corp. She was a native of Cooperstown, N. Y.

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LUCKY TO BE ALIVE—Lonnie Harper looks into incubator at his new son, a baby born after a rusty 14-inch bolt was Imbedded nearly 10 Inches in the mother’s side at their Nashville, Tenn., borne. Mrs. Harper, expecting their first baby any day, was watching Lonnie mow their lawn. The mower struck the bolt and hurled It into her side. She was rushed to the hospital, where the bolt was removed and the baby was born—with just a scratch on the neck from the bolt.

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