European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 3 planned for astronaut Hibama t l " i a life steady to ride sky High saturday. By edict lift Ahji r Ansi Oti legislation businesses hit by in sfmpbrts4ias"passed its Juse ways and Means com name Reg the Complex Section by Section let principle of government inversion of such Busk Nesses. But the idea of a. New Spe Cial government Agency to. Handle the Aid " Ajja gently went by the Board. I " All the committee s actions Attis stage Are tentative but indications were that the business Aid features like the Tariff cutting Powers considered earlier Are no past the Point where the commit tee is Likely to change them drastically however the prevailing senti ment at the closed door meeting was reported to be for letting existing government agencies handle the special helps including loan guarantees and technical Aid which a. Firms might need to remain profitable in the face of imports. Or. Kennedy had proposed a Spe Cial Agency in the department of Commerce. Instead the committee favors leaving the Job to such agencies As the area redevelop ment administration Small Busi Ness Agency and manpower re training Branch of the labor department the committee still has to con Sider the controversial question How much direct Aid to provide for workers being retrained. Liest ions timing of guard Cut. V i ". C5 hous Tor told Pentagon officials i tmay., a Poar time Long about Mitt Long Back the in guard and reserves be i rent crisis in Laos tiur"1 win Sierd d states might even with Aii Ogier Hes Erye of events in Asia run member of the House Ces faves a defense j Pearl Nen plan in reserves indicated the lie department should1u proposal to eliminate Irving 3elphia ipod the 1n of Newl Jersey gov. Ihu Hes tvs reported r1 at children s hospitaldoctors1 Sald the exact of the child s heart defect known. issued by the bos id the baby still is in was nls1 conditionals in his Ludrigs has up. He % Tak no. His for la tie is off oxygen and is a good1 color. He t Lia Yerneni also said that if d s condition turns out to org locally correctable r heart at the apr Portia a rime. T Thomas More Hughes april 28. "",.-- aim. I Erfft of $ , Abo tug blocks a Liisu Oft passenger termly i 1 i Side to the . Some guard units Tion move " i under Secretary of the army Stephen Ailes said the guard and the Reserve would be reorganized More along lines to meet the mod Ern needs of the army and willbe Able to respond much faster to any emergency. L / but rep James e. Van Zandt Kpa a and other lawmakers challenged this View. A i do not believe we re going to have. Time to train the divisions we need if this Pian goes through Van Zandt said. Jin response to questioning by Pirner a y Ailes said / we would have been in much better shape As far As Laos is concerned u this reorganization had been completed before now rep Otis g. Pike b-n.y., said he wondered whether if Laos developed into a dangerous Situa Tion two National guard division Snow on Active duty might be called on to fight they Are the 32nd in of Wisconsin and the 49th army of Texas the two divisions Are trained and ready to go,1 Pike said. Ailes replied that the 32nd an the 49th would be replaced by regular army division this sum Mer. " we Are trying to get the army in apposition where we can meet these things with the regular army Force Ailes other testimony Ailes said the Pentagon plans to increase the number of reservists required Totake summer Camp. At present about 32,000 reservists who Are not in organized unit must attend Camp. Ailes said the number would be increased to100,000, the aim he said is of have better trained individual Drew. Pear son political columnist and commentator paid s250 for a 6-month old Buffalo it the Cleveland zoo. Pearson said he Hopes to Cross Breed the female Ralf with the cattle on his 400-acre farm on the Potomac River near Washington. Ant commander a number of unique assignments including observation of a trailing balloon ejection of Man made i u min oust articles study of liquid in. Weight is Ness and several photographic duties. ". Near the end of Glenn s first orbit the automatic control sys tem in his capsule malfunctioned slightly. Two Small jets which Emit streams of Hydrogen peroxide Gasto help keep the spacecraft prop Erl oriented became clogged. This caused the capsule to Drift of the planned attitude and Glenn Totzk Over manual control of the Craft the last a two orbits / conclusively demonstrating that Manis better than machine in space. Without a human Pilot the Cap sule would have been ordered to. The ground after the second orbit just As Enos the Chimpanzee i Aachen his Craft developed similar problems in a preliminary project Mercury flight last november. The fault was traced to the breaking up under excessive heat of a stainless steel screen at the Mouth of the Jet fuel line with pieces of the screen being sucked in o the line. Platinum wire which is highly heat resistant a been substituted for the stainless steel on Carpenter s capsule. Carpenter will try Many dec crime its Glenn was unable to carry out because of his occupation with the manual controls among them Are observation of the stars exercise Flag. Eating More frequently and preplanned Man Ual control tests. Actually about half the flight in planned to be automatic and half manually directed. At times Aurora 7" Vili be permitted to Drift off its intended attitude course to determine what happens to communications. This could afford a hint to the Type of radio will be needed on Moon bound spaceships. Will eject balloon. As Carpenter passes Over Cape canaveral at the end of one orbit he will eject a go Inch mylar Plas tic balloon which is to inflate and Trail behind the capsule of t Heend of a 100-foot Nylon one. Purpose is to deter me car Penter s visual observation of the reflective qualities of five c0-1 or schemes on the sphere Orange yellow Silviv White and phosphorescent. Yalu to he sees May Aid in designing colors for vehicles we tuft spacemen May have to approach and make Contact with in night packed in folds of the balloon Isa Cluster of Multi coloured particles of plastic confetti which win be released in space. Carpenter will photograph their behaviour. If he spies the same firefliesth.at Glenn and Titov reported he also will record them Carpen Ter Nat Ive of b o u 1 d e a colo., is married and the father of four children. The family Home presently is at Langley air Force base a ". A in some missile contracting Senate quiz reveals 17% profit Washington up Senate investigators said that profits to contractors and subcontractors on some phases of the nation s Multi billion Dollar missile program amounted to 17 per cent of costs. Staff members of sen. John l. Mcclellan s investigations subcommittee arrived at the figure by digging 5nto the layer of contractors working on the air Force Atlas intercontinental ballistic mis file. The air Force said earnings had been held to 6 per cent. Joseph m. Mannix a subcommittee counsel traced alleged prof it Mark ups on $16.9 million Worth of Cable work by three Small con tractors at Vandenberg Warren and Offutt air Force bases. The three firms took reasonable profits of $751,306, Mannix is a i a and sent Bills for Cost and profits to radio corporation of America a subcontractor. R Ria. According to in Briix took profits on the same work of$1,111.807 and general. Dynamics astronautics one of five associate prime contractors for the Atlas marked up the same Cable work by $1,084,800. Thus total profits of $2,913,914 on the original $16.9 billion Worth of installation came to \ 17.1 per cent Mannix said. Mannix and chief counsel Jerome s. Adlerman tried to show during a subcommittee prof it pyramiding occurred under air Force procurement methods in the same Way As it did under the army s systems manager method of procurement. On hearing the testimony Mcclellan remarked it does t seem to me that a prime contractor should take Smuch profit As the fellow who actually does the and other senators who heard the testimony made no accusations against the Atlas con tractors
