Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 27 Jan 1962, p. 1

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our TELEPHONES For manner WantAds Tele hone PA 02114 The telephone number to call lor the Business or Editorial Dept it PA 66537 95th YearNo 24 Gooymoi MEXICO Barrie Ontario Canada Saturday January 27 I962 IN ORIT BIA Moon Shot Miss Will Circle Sun ASTRONAUT JOIIN GLENN ABOVE TALKS WITH NURSE MAP SHOWS PLANNED ORBIT COURSE NEW ZEIILIINDEB SNELL CLOCKS 13544 Mile Record Broken WELLINGTON Reuters New Zealnnder Peter Snell broke the world mile record to day with time of minutes 544 seconds ina meet here Snell the Olympic soumetres champion clipped onetenth of second off the record of 3545 set byAustralian Herb Elliott in Dublin August 1958 The record was even greater achievement because Snell was running on grass track Bruce Tulloh of Britain was second in 35933 and Albert Thomas of Australia third in 485 The previous best time on grass was 11555 by Elliott in February 1958 Snell lay at the rear of the field for the first two laps which were run in two minutes He then opened gap of 20 yards onTulloh Others in the race included New Zealander Murray Ilal berg and American Ernie Cun liffe Grass tracks are considered to be two seconds slower than cinders for the mile Snell who before the race predicted time of 3550 crossed the line completely fresh and less tired than in win ning several halfmile races Snelllookthclentl 300 yards from the end and with sus iniued finish of tremendous power produced the greatest rum ever seen in New Zealand The crowd of 15000 set up tumultuous cheering as the New Zealander tore home HaltMiler Barry Cossar set onds Snell moved up in the second lap following Cosssr to the halfmile point in 159 17 MEN on IN nor STEEL RIO DElANElltO ma huge crucible nt Brazils Volta Ronda steel mill tipped over today and spilled so tons of molten steel on 50 workers Seven teen workers were killed The other 33 were hurned Keep SweePStake Cash At Home MP OTTAWA CP All who spoke favored private MPs plan to establish national sweepstake except oneand he expressed enough doubts about it Friday to prevent its CornL mons passage Six members backed the sweepstake plan of Ferguson Browne PCVancouver Kings way during the first private members hour of the current parliamentary session The doubts were voiced by KenMore PCRegina whose 10minute speech ran out the clock and consigned the bill to the bottom of long list of sim ilar measures with not too much prospect of proceeding further Mr More said wider consider ations should be recognized than that many Canadians already break the law by playing the sweepstakes Mr Browne argued that since 25 per cent of the prizes of the Irish Sweepstakes go to Ca nadians it is evident that at least25 per cent of the money oontributed to the sweep comes from Canada This money could be kept in Canada for use in sociallyuseful projects USE FOR HOSPITALS Bis bill would establish board to pay the proceeds from nptxdnal sweepstake to the provincial governments for de fraying hospital costs Louis Joseph Pigeon PC Juliette LAssomption Mont calm estimated that $90000 000 issent abroad annually by Canadians through sweepstakes Henderson PCCorl hoo said he backs legalizing potion sweepstake buy them sweeps tickets all the time dont heat about the bush TORONTO CP Strike leader Archie Jobnstone Friday oflered to escort US track star Wilma Rudolph Ward throtgh the Royal York Hotels picket bnes ifthe threat of force is the onlytblng keeping her from at tending the Sports Celebrity Dinner next Thursday In letter to the Ontario Sportswriter and Sportscasters Association which sponsors the dinner to raise money for crip pledchildren Mrs Ward said she received all kinds of tele grams asking me not to attend the banquet due to strike of waiters at the hotel She said one threatened violence if she attempted to attend the dinner but this was not her reason for declining The winner of three Olympic gold medals and twice US woman athlete of the year said she did not want to do anything that would harm her position as HERES ONE Being in love is just like skijumping First you are up in the air and then you come down to earth with jar But what thrill you get while you are still up in the air In the third lap mlloh moved up strongly but Snell took over with 660 yards to run and the three lnps came up in 258 plucky Englishman was fighting magnificently Down the straight Snell flew to complete the last lap in Snells vast reserves of power sporkling 56scconds lacwas were then seen He plunged into in lulillight when he hit the full sprint going right away from Tnlloh although the tape and there was no strain on hisdface TeenAgers Die As Car Skids tssihiiifottbtatzidl 0n Icy Curve Others Injured MOUNT FOREST Out Four of six teenagers riding in one automobile were killed early today when their car skidded on an icy curve and was hit broad srde by second car College Declines Request For Room By Nucleaerlen TORONTO OP SI Mich aels College has declined to let its facilities be used by nuclear disarmament group request for space to hold meeting in its membership drive came from the University of Toronto branch of the Com bined University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Rev John Kelly president of the Roman Catholic college said the request was rejected because the college affiliated with University of Toronto does not share the attitudes of tbe disarmament group TStrike Leader Offers Escort AcroSs His OwnPicket Lines representative of her school or country She is teacherat Tennessee Agricultural and In dustrial State University in Nashville She said she will at tend if the site is changed The hotel has been picketed sincea strike of theHotel and Restaurant Employees CLC began last April 24 OFFERS FREE TRIPS The Ontario Federation of La bor Friday offered to provide free round trip transportation for the 1200 dinner guests if the gathering is moved from the Royal York In letter to the dinner com mittee the federation said the often can and should be moved to another site The federations secretary treasurer Douglas Hamilton said therfederatiun will provide buses or anything they want if the dinner is moved chairman said he would have to discuss it with his conunittee There is no meeting scheduled before Wednesday An estimated 524000 iSex pectcd to be raised from the $15 plate dinner for con struction of swimming pool for crippled children at Watar loo Ont Gordon Campbell dinncr Two persons from the death car and three from the second car are in hospital One girl is in critical condition Police identified the dead as Edward James Curtis 18 of RB Arthur driver of the death car Evelyn Moore 14 Mount Forest Elsie Wilson 14 Mount Forest and Don Smith 18 of Damascus near Arthur The injured were identified by Mount Forest Hospital official as Sharon Bunyan 14 or 15 of the Arthur area in critical con dition with fractured arm and internal injuries Ken Henly 19 of Woodstock unconscious and in poor condi tion with undetermined injur leS David McLeod 16 Woodstock in fair condition with anrinjured right eye and fracture Jack Stoddard 35 Owen Sound in fair condition with fractured right leg James Duncan Kern 18 of Mount Forest in satisfacto condition with lacereted let band Mount Forest provincial police said they received call to the crash scene shortly after ero Bodies were strewn about the road and in ditches police said One teenaged girl was decapiv tated and herbead was found some distance from her body they said Mount Forest is about 40 miles northwest of Guelph CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP vagrant US moon shottoo fast for its own good probobly will go into orbit around the sun missing the moon by some 20000 to 30000 miles But manoeuvre today may bring the insectshaped space craft closer to the moon and back eventually to fiery death in the earths atmosphere The altered course could make better use of the photo graphic and xray measuring equipment aboard the wayward Ranger spacecraft Its mat ter of how close Ranger gets to the moon Ranger was fired into orbit around the earth hiday Then rockets were restarted to yank the moonship out of orbit and boost it up to escape velocity 20500 miles an hour heading it toward the moon The rocket engines gave the moon ship too great shove whicb meant it would reach its intended rendezvous point with the moon 11 to 15 hours before the moon got there WILL GO INTO SPACE moon ship would go hurtling on ward into space and into orbit around the sun The rnobn ship carried panels pfr soler guys wings tight and convert power In its nose moonquake recorder Scientists would have liked to land this on the moon for 30 days of reports on meteorite impacts and pos sible tremors in the moons MESS This is out now But two other experiments can still be useful Telescopic television cameras in the moon ship may still take and relay to earth pictures of the moons surface The picture of the lunar sur face would not be the first The Soviet Lunik 11 took pictures of the previously unseen back side of the moon from dis tance of 37000 miles The moon ship was to have covered the distance about 237000 milesto its rendezvous point in 66 hours As the craft plunged toward the lunar sur face television cameras werc to have flashed picture every 13 seconds to earth 100 pictures in all which would have shown objects as small as 124 et in diameter under best con tlons SPEED moronic Early today hanger was 87 759 miles from earth and was The speed of the vehicle was decreasing gradually because of the earths gravitational pull Officials estimated Ranger the moon at its closest aplt preach They say it may be possible to get valuable pic tures of the moon from this dis tance The pictures would be of si ef the moonthe left side looki gup from earth not previously photographed The manoeuvring device aboard Ranger is amidcourse rocket engine It can be fired on command from the ground It is powerful enough to in crease or decrease Rangers IN NUTSHELL Brakeman Dies Track OSHAWA CP John Ostopowich lbrakeman with the CNR died in hospital early today less than five hours after he was found lying on the track near here It is be lieved he fell from boxcar as it was being shunted Algiers Roadblocks Removed ALGERS AP French authorities today removed road blocksvand troop concentrations from the heartrof Algiers in what appeared to ho concession to angry European settlers Robarls Plan Coming PORT CREDIT Ont CF sweeping program of econ omic development for Ontario will be made public next Fri day by Premier Roberts Energy Robert Macaulay said Friday night and Resources Minister Buffalo Police feet Shaikhup BUFFALO NY AP Police Commissioner Howard Finney in his second major departmental shakeup since tale mg office earlier this month has demoted 16 detectives to patrolman and ordered 23 plainsolotbcsmen back uniform patrol duty travelling 5546 miles anrhourp will be about 25000 miles from rate from Canadas contingent the Organization of American fat the conference The United Mexico mole deeded to adopt action Filip metric hammer speed by 90 miles an hour or of changing Rangers course by about degrees Officials decided this morning they would give the command to increase Rangers speed so that it will take only about 50 hours to reach the moons orbital path It should arrive at that point sometime Sunday morning With collision impossible the in LOCAL warms Variable cloud snow squalls drilling snow Low tonight l0 high tomorrow is For com pletc luminary see Page Not More Than 7cper7Copyl2 Pryor 24HOURDELAY ST Clouds Stop Countdown Astronaut Rests Easily CAPE CANAVERAL Fin APA hcevy cloud cover in the launching area today forced the United States to postpone for at least 24 hours on at tempt to rocket astronaut John Glenn Jr into roundvthc world orbit The launching was called off for the day at 910 am EST as Glenn loyearold Marine lieu tennntcolonel anxiously waited out the countdown while sealed in his crampcd twoton space capsule atop towering Atlas missile statement from the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration said the attempt was postponed due to heavy overcast in the area The pilot John Glenn Jo will he re moved from the spacecrafL It is not known when an othcr launching attempt will be made Glenn was to be taken down from the rocket and returned to his special ready room quarters about four miles from the launching pad There was no immediate coma ment from Glenn on the post ponement He had left the ready room at 446 am alter final physical examination and breakfast He entered lb capsule at 512 nm for scheduled 730 launching CLOUDS OBSCUEE SKIES Two minor problems delayed the launch past the scheduled time and while technicians were BOMBS HIT NEWSPAPER HUNTSVILLE Ont OP Two flaming Molotov each tails bottles filled with lg nited kerosene were hurl edzfntoth office or the eder and publisher of the weekly Huntsville Forester here Fri day night Publisher Paul 11 Rice said they were seen too ru pldly to do much damage He estimated damage at about $200 lie said he thought It was the work of some crackpot and that fnewspaper editors in some communltlcl are not too popular correcting one of them the clouds moved over the cape and TOWERING ATLAS AGENA Rocxer BLASTS AWAY Congo Army Asks OTTAWA CF The govern ment has been pondering United Nations request that Canada send team of army officers to The Congo to help train the army of the cen tral Congolese government it is learned authoritatively Such commitment would be entirely different to and sepa of about 400 soldiers and air men serving with the 1500 member UN Congo force The UN request was received some months ago it is under stood that the defence depar ment hasopposed it Because Fail To Break OAS Deadlock PUNTA DEL ESTEA lock continued today at meeting of foreign ministers of States over what action the intIerAsnerican group should take against Premier Fidel Cas tros Cuban regime The signs pointed to the oust ing of Cuba from the Harlem ber OAS gt State Secretary Dean Rusk held closedrnidnight meeting in this Uiuguay resort with rep resentatives of the two factions States is leading drive to have immediate sanctions adopted against Cuba or its proCom munist leanings Brazil and end goslow group The led group numbers litone Ashort ofthe twothirds Teachers no action has beentaken to date it is considered probable that the departmentsview will prevail The numberof officers who would be involved is believed smalla dozen or so The defence detplartment sources saidfeels at even such team because it would have to he French speaking would further deplete the Frenchspeaking officer element in the amiy andthat it might be years before commitment of this kind could be termini ated keen DISCIPLINE The UN request is based on the belief that there must be more discipline and training in the CongoleseiArmy if the UN operation there is end in the foreseeable futur It was felt the therelatively small expenditure for such team would in thelongrun save the UN and Canada the much larger expendituresbei curred by th LINoperation in The Congo Canada has already set an example of helping to train Ab rlcan troops by sending mih my team of about 30 members to Ghana at Ghanas request The government has also ap proved in principle the dispatch of similar team to Nigeria Howev mys officer corps isbecoming too thinly spread by various peacekeeping duties around the world Morethan 100 Canadian on are performing such duties in Egypt The Con Nigeria remains to be filled completely obscured what had been clear skies earlier The postponement thwarted for at least day the US ef fortto burl man into orbit to match the feat accompllsbed last year by the Russian cosmolt nauts Gherman Titov and Yuri Gagarin Two US astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom were rocketed on two 15miuuto suborbital flights in 1961 Both these launches also were de layed by weather each for three days Todays postponement was the fifth forGlenns flight Origin ally scheduled for last Dec 20 when officials felt there was chance of achieving manned orbit in 1961 it was put off until Jan 16 when pressure began mounting on the launch crews Then technical problems with the Atlas and capsule caused three subsequent short delays MANY DISAPPOINTED The postponement was bit tcr disappointment to the hun dreds of technicians engineers and scientists involved in the project Also disappointed were more than 600 reporters here from the United States and 15 foreign countries to cover the firing big crowds of persons who gatblt ered on the beaches near the cape and perhaps millions more who were watching on televi sddn when the shot was called recovery fleet of 24 ships and on planes stning out across theAtlantic Ocean from the cape to the west coast of Africa will remain on station until the launching is tried again Minutes after the postpone ment was announced technl cians began dumping the yolo tile liquid oxygen from the At Ias fuel tanks Great cloudsof steam rose from the base of the rocket as the fuel poured out Spirits throughout his futile wait He rested easily and his breathing was normal At the tune the shot was called off the count stood at 20 minutes to takeoff The rugged loopound astrlr naut was awakened at uni He showered shoved endaten breakfast of pea ch ed eggs steak coffeinfree coffee or ange juice toastaud jelly After donning his silver space suit he strode out of his quark Glenn Page Glenn Was reported in good

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