Volume
60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1962
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SCHIRRA ATTAINS GOOD ORBIT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (^)—
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra at
oned successful orbit today and
iis tiny spacecraft started whirl-
fig toward six scheduled circuits
)f the globe.
With a mightly roar from its
engines, an Atlas rocket blazed
skyward from Cape Canaveral at
7:16 a.m. (EST) to boost Schirra
>n the way to the most ambitious
nan-in-space shot yet attempted
>y the United States.
As the 39-year-old Navy com-
fiander soared upward on the
powerful source of the big rocket,
le reported that all systems in the
:apsule were “in the green.”
He said fuel and oxygen supply
and electrical power were excel
lent.
FIVE MINUTES after liftoff
the Project Mercury Control Cen
ter on the Cape reported to news
men that Schirra’s “Sigma 7”
spacecraft had settled into the in
tended orbital path more than 100
miles above the earth.
Immediately after insertion into
orbit, Schirra used his fly-by-wire
controls—a combination of auto
matic and manual—to spin his
capsule 180 degrees on its yaw
axis so that he was riding upright
and backward through space.
He reported his craft was “fly
ing beautifully.”
At the same time, he made his
first blood pressure reading, using
a special cuff attached to his arm.
THE ROCKET performed with
the same precision that other At
lases did earlier this year in pro
pelling astronauts John H. Glenn
Jr. and Malcolm Scott Carpenter-
on three orbit journeys.
The silver-skinned projectile
shoved Schirra’s Sigma 7 through
a “keyhole in the sky” at the
proper speed and angle. If it had
missed this spot 100 miles high
and 500 miles slant range from
Cape Canaveral, a tracking station
at Bermuda would have com
manded Schirra back to earth im
mediately.
During the five minutes of pow
ered flight before the Atlas kicked
the spacecraft into orbit, Schirra
was busy monitoring his capsule
system.
HE REPORTED successful burn
out and separation of the two At
las booster engines, jettisoning of
an emergency rocket escape tower
and cutoff the main sustainer en
gine.
His reports were crisp and clear,
the control center reported, despite
the extreme stresses of rocket ac
celeration. Forces about eight
times the pull of gravity pressed
him against his contour couch.
But the pressure vanished swift
ly as the capsule was injected into
orbit and Schirra entered the
strange world of weightlessness.
He was to remain in this state
until reentry through the atmos
phere at the end of his flight.
SCHIRRA REPORTED as he
achieved orbit that he was in ex
cellent condition. Mercury Con
trol told him he was at the proper
speed and angle for a seven-orbit
mission. Although the capsule
could go seven orbits, today’s
flight was planned for only six,
primarily because of the setting
up of recovery areas in set spots
around the world.
If all went right, Schirra would
land in the Pacific Ocean 275 miles
northeast of Midway Island at the
completion of his sixth orbit.
Based on the launch time of 7:16
a.m., expected impact time would
be 4:27 p.m. (EST).
Twisting At The MSC
Doing the twist in the top picture are Nancy Whitmore and
Leonard Trovero. They were among the 90 persons attend
ing the Memorial Student Center Dance Committee’s
classes held Tuesday night in the MSC ballroom. In the
lower picture Benny and Jeannette Killingsworth seem to
be swinging right along. . _
Dances To Highlight
Weekend Activities
The Dance Committee of the
Memorial Student Center Direct
orate will feature two dances this
weekend for Aggies and their
dates, according to David L. Ka-
bell, chairman of the committee.
There will be a “Stereo Dance”
held in the lower level of the MSC
Friday night from 8 p.m. until
midnight yell practice.
“THIS IS the second dance of
its type and we hope it will be as.
successful as last year’s” Kabell
said. Admission will be 25 cents
and is payable at the door.
The first All-College Dance of
the school year is scheduled Sat
urday in the MSC Ballroom, im
mediately following the Texas
Tech football game and lasting
until midnight. Music will be
furnished by the Aggieland Combo.
Admission to the All-College
Dance will be $1, “stag or drag,”
and will be payable at the door,
added Kabell.
Florida Bus Trip May
Materialize After All
A deadline extension may yet provide for a student bus
trip to Florida for the Aggie-University of Florida football
game in Gainesville Oct. 13.
Head Yell Leaders Bill Brashears announced a deadline
extension Tuesday for purchasing tickets. The new deadline
is Oct. 9, one week from Tuesday’s original deadline.
Brashears said several students had purchased tickets
for the trip after an unexpected slow start. At least 37 will
have to buy tickets before the trip will be made, Brashears
said.
Costs per person will be $31.10, plus individual expenses.
Arrangements have been made for dates, wives and other
guests at the same rate.
The group of buses is scheduled to leave Houston for
Florida the morning of Oct. 12. They are due to arrive in
Florida the following morning and will return immediately
after the afternoon game.
KABELL ALSO announced that
Cafe Rue Pinalle, an annual dance
sponsored by the dance committee,
previously scheduled for Friday,
Oct. 19, may be cancelled due to
a conflicting program with Town
Hall. Town Hall has scheduled
a program featuring the Smothers
Brothers and Leon Bibb on Oct. 19.
Final arrangements for this dance
have not yet been decided, Kabell
said.
Other dances sponsored by the
MSC dance committee which are
scheduled this fall include two All-
College dances following the TCU
football game Oct. 20 and the Uni
versity of Arkansas football game
Nov. 3.
A&M To Celebrate
86th Birthday
A&M officially notes its 86th
birthday Thursday as the oldest
state-supported institution of
higher education in Texas.
The college officially opened
Oct. 4, 1876.
No observance of the anniver
sary is planned Thursday, but
the fact will be noted during the
first A&M Convocation here
Nov. 16.
Only 107 students enrolled for
the first classes back in 1876,
as compared to over 8,100 today.
Wire
Review
By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
HONOLULU—The United States
resumed nuclear testing in the Pa
cific on Tuesday after a two-month
recess.
The task force in charge of the
tests said an “intermediate device”
exploded in the air above Johnston
Island after it was dropped from
a plane.
U.S. NEWS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—
An Explorer satellite was rock
eted aloft here Tuesday and sci
entists hoped it would go into
a long, looping orbit for the
most extensive space radiation
study yet made.
The complex, 89-pound satel
lite was hurled into space by a
towering Thor-Delta rocket at
5:11 p.m. Eastern Standard time.
If everything worked as plan
ned, the satellite would swing
53,000 miles into space and then
loop the earth at a point only
185 miles high.
A A - A’
WASHINGTON—In line with
Kennedy administration strategy,
the Senate passed the foreign aid
money bill Tuesday after beating
back every attempt to cut the
$792.4 million added by its Ap
propriations Committee over what
the House voted.
The vote was 57-24.
The measure carrying $4,422,-
800,000 in new r economic and mili
tary assistance now goes to a Sen
ate-House conference to work out
a compromise.
‘Visiting Critics ’
Program Set Up
For Architects
Fifth-year architecture students
will work this year under the di
rection of several nationally known
practicing architects in a new
“visiting critics” program.
T. R. Holleman, head of the Di
vision of Architecture, announced
Allison Peery, A.I.A., San Antonio
architect, is the first of the visit
ing professionals.
TWO OTHER visiting critics for
the fall semester will be Cai’roll C.
Rudd, A.I.A., vice-president of
Welton Beckett & Associates,
Houston, and Charles Granger,
A.I.A., of Fehr & Granger, Austin.
Others will be appointed for the
spring semester.
“While this kind of instruction
is not new in schools of architec
ture, the program is the first of its
kind to my knowledge to be at
tempted in this part of the coun
try,” Holleman said.
“By bringing in some of the top
talent from the profession, -we ex
pect the program to be education
al for the students and stimulating
to faculty members, who will be
collaborating closely with the crit
ics,” Holleman said. “Through
this program, our students will be
better prepared for the practice
of architecture upon graduation.”
A native of San Antonio, Peery
has been a practicing architect
since graduation from A&M in
1948. His firm’s institutional proj
ects in San Antonio and commer
cial projects include the Wool-
worth Store building, Bear Oil Co.
plant and buildings and the Sand
and Sea Resort Hotel in Corpus
Christi.
His firm was recently cited by
Architectural Forum’s “New Tal
ent for the Sixties,” a ten-year
survey of outstanding new firms
throughout the U.S. Peery’s Re
gency House Apartments is fea
tured in the summer 1962 “Pro
gressive Architecture” and his
Mulberry Terrace Apartment was
cited in “Architectural Forum” in
August, 1961.
tlM
ALLISON PEERY
WALTER M. SCHIRRA JR.
. . . before ‘Sigma 7’ orbit shot
News Fronts:
Crisis Remains
At Ole
... Oxford, Miss.
The University of Mississippi
has urged students who had de
parted the campus to return,
saying accreditation has been
assured and the Army has
vouched for safety on the cam
pus.
Registrar Robert B. Ellis told
The Associated Press on Tuesday
that some of the thousands of
students who left Ole Miss after
Sunday night’s rioting returned
Tuesday.
He admitted attendance—nor
mally 4,800—had dropped off
Monday about 30 to 50 per cent.
He said he could not estimate
Tuesday’s attendance.
“We believe,” he said, “that
the sooner the students return,
the faster the university can get
back to a normal operation. We
have been given assurances from
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools
that Ole Miss accreditation shall
continue. We’ve also been given
assurances from the Army and
the U.S. government that the
campus is safe for students.”
Elsewhere on campus there
was some some concern over Sat
urday’s scheduled homecoming
football game in Oxford with
Houston. Some thought the
game, which also is scheduled
to be High School Day featuring
thousands of young students
and band members, might pos
sibly be switched to a place out
side Oxford.
But a university spokesman
said the game would be played
at Oxford as scheduled.
★ ★ ★
OXFORD, Miss. —U.S. mar
shals said Tuesday border pa
trolman Thomas B. O’Donnell of
Detroit narrowly escaped severe
injury in the rioting Sunday
night.
O’Donnell, assigned to the
U.S. border patrol at Laredo,
Tex., took three or four shotgun
pellets in his vest over his heart,
a U.S. marshal said.
... Springfield, Mo.
Former Maj. Gen. Edwin A.
Walker, a key figure in week
end battling over admission of a
Miss
Negro to the University of Mis
sissippi, was ordered under psy
chiatric examination in a federal
prison today.
His attorneys announced im
mediately they would fight the
order Wednesday in U.S. Dis
trict Court here. They instructed
Walker to refuse • to cooperate
with prison physicians.
Walker was brought here from
Oxford, Miss., in a Border Patrol
plane Monday night after his
arrest and arraignment on
charges of inciting insurrection
and seditious conspiracy.
U.S. Dist. Atty. F. Russell Mil-
lin of Kansas City told newsmen
the psychiatric examination or
der was issued in Oxford Tues
day afternoon by U.S. Dist.
Judge Claude Clayton. Millin
said it prevents Walker from ob
taining his release under a
$100,000 bond set Monday at his
arraignment.
Millin said he understood the
psychiatric examination would
take 60 to 90 days and that dur
ing that period Walker could
not be freed on bail.
Clyde J. Watts, spokesman for
Walker’s corps of attorneys,
said they would ask U.S. Dist.
Judge John W. Oliver, holding
court here, for either a writ of
habeus corpus freeing Walker
or for an injunction against any
surgical or medicinal treatment
of the former general without
the presence of a psychiatrist
or physician approved by Wal
ker’s counsel.
Watts said he and two Spring-
field attorneys, George Donegan
and William Wear, talked to
Walker in the medical center
Tuesday morning and found him
“clear, lucid, undisturbed and
possessing all his mental facul
ties.”
Today’s Thought
When an archer misses the
mark he turns and looks for the
fault within himself. Failure
to hit the bull’s eye is never the
fault of the target. To improve
your aim, improve yourself. —
Forbes Magazine.