European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Widne Day september 16, 1964 the stars and stripes Page 7 gemini flight postponed to 965 because of Hurricane damage seafaring husband at her new York apartment wills looks at photos of her 71-year-old adventurer Hus band who completed a Solo trip by raft across the Pacific. Willis arrived in Australia sept. �. He set nut on his raft from Peru on july 4, 1983, to show that a Man past 65 is still in the running he wants to associated press photo Cape Kennedy up i the space Agency also Sai America s first two Man space Light has been cancelled this Yea Lecause of Hurricane damage inflicted on the sprawling rocket enter. Nasa official Salil the two Man gemini space flight has seen rescheduled for sometime during the first three months of 1965.the three orbit night will be made by astronauts Virgil and John w. Young. The announcement of the postponement was made by or. George e. Mueller the space Agency s associate administrator for manned spaceflight. Two hurricanes and a lightning storm eliminated the possibility of the flight this year he said. Lightning damage Mueller blamed the delay on lightning damage aug. 17 to the Titan 2 rocket set for the final unmanned gemini test this fall and on hurricanes Cleo and Dora. The previous schedule announced by Nasa called for the unmanned flight to be made bythe end of september and the first manned Mission before the end of the year. That the spacecraft for the unmanned shot a sub Orbital flight designed to test the spacecraft recovery systems is due to arrive at the Cape sometime next week More than a month be Hind second stage for the Titan 2 was dismantled aug. 27 because Little Hope held for huge fire hit Oak Newhall Calif. Up tree experts held Little Hope for a fire ravaged 79-foot live Oak tree to be the largest of its kind in the army of More than 990 firefighters brought a Bouque Canyon Brush fire under control but not until after the two Day Laze blackened 3,900 acres of the Angeles National Forest an burned two summer Cabins. Experts headed by Glenn i att Asl Stant director of the los Angeles arboretum inspected the tree 20 mites Northwest of Here even As the area still spokesman said there was a slim Chance that the tree36feet in circumference and a spread of 130 feet at the top might be saved. Three quarters of the tree s foliage was destroyed and upper branches of the tourist attraction were still soldering when the experts arrived. Navy pockets zoo problem Washington up the Navy has reported dealing satisfactorily with a Brand new prob Lem a seasick baby Kangaroo. The Kangaroo christened Matilda joined the nuclear powered aircraft Currier Enterprise when the ship visited Sydney austra a. Last was seasick for 2 hours but responded to treatment bought by co b. A. Juel. Wit the assistance of australian an Mal Lover sir Edward Hallstrom Matilda will be presented to to Lafayette Park zoo in Norfolk Virginia when the Enterprise returns to Norfolk next month. Top . Civilian medal Iven to 30 by Johnson Washington up Presl ent Johnson has awarded the Fiat Lon s top civilian Honor the medal of Freedom to 30 per sons who have made Freedom Longcr for All of the medal was authorized byte late president John f. Ken Nedy in february 1963 to recognize achievements of persons who contribute significantly Tohe Quality of american during the ceremony the resident singled out three of the winners for special were Edward r. Murrow Elc vision commentator and for Mer director of the United states information Agency rep. Car Vinson d-ga., chairman of the armed services committee who retiring and former Secretary of slate Dean Acheson now a troubleshooter for or. Johnson. The other medal winners were Etler w. Bronk scientist and ormer Johns Hopkins University resident Aaron Copland com a user will pm de Kooning ar-1st Walt Disney movie cartoon St or. Lena f. Edwards Phy Ician or. John w. Gardner president of the Carnegie foun lat Lon for the advancement of caching Rev. Theodore m. Hes Burg president of the University of notre Dame Clarence l. John son aeronautical Engineer Fred trick Kappel chairman of the Ward of american Telephone my Telegraph co. And John , labor Leader. Others were Waller Lippmann Nice place for a stroll Ann Arbor Mich. A the Hydrogen bomb is now so clean that a Man could walk into its Crater without after effects after its explosion or. Edward Teller said in a speech Here. Teller the physicist sometime called father of the a bomb told the Michigan Section of the american nuclear society tha the bomb now has no radioactive the a go Vernille criticized mint for what he called ing too much secrecy about the he said one future use of the bomb could be to release Wate vapor from the atmosphere a put water on the dry surface of the Moon. Columnist Alfred Lunt and Lynn Pentagon had honoured aide it fired Washington a a sen Lor Pentagon official fired last month after a probe of alleged irregularities in the handling of certain funds was honoured in1962 with the defense depart ment s distinguished civilian service award. Department files show that William h. Godel was Given the highest Honor conferred on de sense employees along with a citation lauding his perceptive and imaginative contribution to a wide Range of defense pro Grams and his selfless Devotion to Public . A Marine intelligence officer in world War ii and a Pentagon employee for 12 years was Deputy director of he advanced research projects Agency until i. Was removed from that 120,-000-a-Yoar Post on aug. 24. Has appealed firing the Pentagon said last week that Godel had been fired after being served with a notice o suspension and removal in july on the basis of information developed through the initial investigation by the department o he has appealed misfiring. Two other Veteran official serving in the office of Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara were granted retirement in the Wake of the Pentagon Fri still is investigating the details of the alleged irregularities or any amounts involved have been a closed. The f the threat of Hurricane both stages of the rocket were trucked to safety for hut inane Dora last week. The Rock t was placed Back on its stand is week. Nasa said the lightning dam ged some electrical systems in die Booster. The systems Havelow been replaced and the Rock t is being put through another eries of tests. Unmanned flight the upcoming flight 2,100 mlle shot downrange must be Ucic Soful before the first manned flight can be gemini unmanned debut april 8 was near perfect. The Itan 1, a modified version of America s most powerful icbms a bleed a stripped Down version of the two Man spacecraft the ii billion gemini program designed to keep two men i space up for up to two weeks at a time is already More than a ear behind its original schedule. Pentagon has said the irregular Antalne husband and wife a i tics were uncovered last oct. 9 Ting team Ralph Mogul pub As a result of an of the Atlanta Constitution in response to questions the Samuel Eliot Morison naval his Torlan Lewis Mumford architectural critic a. Philip Randolph president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters Carl Sand Burg poet and biographer John Steinbeck author or. Helen , heart surgeon Thomas j. Watson jr., president of the International business machine corp., and or. Paul Dudley White heart specialist. Other winners were Helen Keller who was represented by her Niece Katherine Tyson theologian or. Rpm hold Niebuhr Whoso son Christopher accepted the medal and opera Star leontyne Price who was in the soviet Union on tour and. Had no t. S. Eliot a British subject will be presented with his medal at a special Cere Mony at the american embassy in London later this week. J. Frank debit Tunas historian was ill and unable to attend. Mistrial called for 3 charged n Hoffa Case Nashville Tenn. Up . Dist. Judge Frank Gray or. Has declared mistrial in the Cas of three West Virginia men charged with jury tampering Ina 1962 trial of James r. Hoffa. Gray reset the trial of Hermana. Frailer Alfred Nelson Paden and Albert Cole for oct. 27. The defendants nil of Huntington . Were charged with at tempting to influence jurors in Hoffa s trial Here on conspiracy charges. Gray declared the mistrial when government prosecutor Charles Schaker advised him that a juror in the Case of the West virginians had once Wor Kedas an investigator for the Hoffa identified the juror As o. E. Beechum and said he was once employed by z. T. Osborn jr., a former Hoffa attorney convicted on jury tamper big charges. Frailer Paden and Cole Al had pleaded innocent to the and prosecution attorneys had rested their Cas Friday after four Days of test aviatrix astronaut b58 Pilot honoured Washington Dent Johnson has awarded Harmon International aviation trophy to an astronaut an Avla Tolx and an air Force l. Gordon Cooper won the award for overcoming mechanical failure to guide his Faith 7 space capsule to a Safe Landing after 22.9 Earth orbits in the chief executive honoured mrs. Betty Miller of Sinla Monica. Calif., or her 7,400-Inue flight from Oakland. Calif., to Brisbane. Australia in the Spring of 1963. She was the first woman to Cross the Pacific alone. The third award went to Alt col Fitzhugh l. Fulton who flew a b58 Hustler bomber to a Altitude of 89,318 feet with a payload of More than 11,000pounds. Fulton s flight produced sonic Boom data which will Beof value in designing supersonic airliners. The other 19 Are dead Joanne Mcconnell a sobs her Hospital bed at Kasola minn., despite the comforting efforts of her Stepfather and Mother or. And mrs. Kenneth Bow Dehes were away on u business trip when fire swept their Home where 11 of their ii children aged 3 to ii were sleeping. All but Joanne who leaped from a second floor window. Died la the Blaze. A photo
