European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes a genl 1965 wont Fly any gemini missions of to train military astronauts Houston a the air Force will Irain about 15 Astro nauts to Fly Mill try orbiting space lop sources said three or four Navy pilots arc expected to be among the the names of the Astro nauts will be announced in about three the sources a National aeronautics and space administration spokes Man said the new astronauts would not train at any civilian space Agency facilities and would not Fly any of the remain ing gemini air Force Joseph Deputy commander for manned suggested at one time the later gemini flight might carry one military astronaut in the two Man no coddling Bley Malar said the military astronauts would not be cod there will be no contracts for personal he nasal s3 astronauts each receives yearly from a Magazine and a science news service for personal the military astronauts will be picked from the 80 to 90 graduates of the aerospace flight school at Edwards air Force Many of nasal astronauts i Are graduates of the famous test Pilot the air Force named six astronauts to Fly in in Dyn soar Secretary of defense Robert Man Smarn killed the program and the pilots went Back to test Pilot flying or in three or four of these men Are Likely candidates to be Mili tary the former Dyn soar Astro nauts arc Albert j the first manned William Ohio Crews Henry Russell James and Milton a civil Ian of Tho Navy pilots will be used in the laboratories to observe Ocean conditions and ship move the source president Johnson announced t h c program Mighels in the which will be about the size of a House Are scheduled for unmanned flights Start in late the program is to determine the military applications of Man in astronauts will stay in the laboratories at least one the first piece of hardware to be used will be the gemini 2 which was sent on an unmanned flight Early this House demos meet with Shriver Over Antipoverty criticism in Washington a presi Dent Johnsons Antl poverty pro Gram is in deep trouble with some of its Best friends in con leading democrats on the House education and Tabor at u heated meeting with program director Sargent volume of truths Colt holds us 4yearold on his shoulders for belter look at the Large Model of a Book with the title word of the two youngsters Are taking Par in the Jehovah witnesses convention at Yankee Slad Fum in new York where the volume is set in front of the speakers photo passing the Buck becomes lofty problem for Conrads Houston a gemini 5 astronaut Charles Conrad apparently won a ii bet from Bis wife he and space mate Gordon Cooper also tuned in on some Dixie land Mission control played the Muskrat ramble and other selections for the Astro nauts As they whirled around the Earth on their 78th it sounds Cooper re Here is a portion of their conversation with communicator James Mcdivitt Conrad will you pass my wife a message Mcdivitt id love Conrad Tell her she owes me a Mcdivitt laughing ill Tell her do you want to collect it yourself or do you want me to mall it to you Conrad ill collect i just wanted you to Tell that Mcd i v 111 Charles Berry says Shes Al ready called up and admitted she owes you a Conrad very at her Home in suburban Timber would not elaborate on the on an earlier pass Over Tex there was this Exchange with gemini 5 Mcdivitt have you Ever been Able to see the domed stadium in Cooper we didst Sec the domed stadium this time Conrad later were right Over Rocey West and its a very Nice Day Down Mcdivitt lottery on labor Day deaths proposed by Legal official Boston up a National based on the number of labor Day weekend was proposed Here by an offi Cial of the automobile Legal association us proceeds would go to the High school Driver education pro the present estimate of la Bor Day weekend death figures serves no useful purpose other than obtaining publicity for those making the Ala safety director Philip Wall work a whereby motorists would do the guessing of National and slate death would not Only help cities and towns de fray the Cost of High school Driver training classes but would make motorists More aware of Highway Long As motorists insist on killing themselves Over the labor Day the slates might As Well get some Good out of he Conrad saw he Airfield Al key Mcdivitt Honvo you Ever noticed the Gulf coast and the Atlantic outlined in those Little puffy Clouds like we Mcdivitt and gemini 4 astronaut Edward White ii Conrad there there Mcdivitt that really Clas Sical int it Conrad it sure you can also Sec a big sort of Lorrn Rich Down off the tip of Florida in the Mcdivitt were you Ever Able to Sec the Eye of tropical storm Dorcon Cooper i got some Pic Tures of kind of Mcdivitt is the does it actually look like an open or is it just All Clou ded Over Cooper looked kind a like a sem open it built up very heavy and then right in the immediate Eye of was sort of like a sunken in kind of Mcdivitt very All the storms we passed Over were just you could never really pick out any Center to Cooper this one had a very Well defined it looked like renter of a big you know Conrad i got a Good look at the Guantanamo naval base in Mcdivitt very 22hour fire guts ship at Mobile up the stubborn fire aboard the 325foul liberian refrigerator ship Arctic Heefer has burned itself the danger of explosion but the ship appeared to be a total the Blaze ended 22 hours after it insurance investigators stood by to Board and Huijin their damage estimates As soon As it was the Bow of the vessel Sank to the in Tum As u tilled with water and the badly listing Stern twisted to n 45degree Angle partially crushing the fire broke out wednesday night aboard the 325foot which has 500 Gallons of lug cd coolants and several tanks of pressurized air any one of these could cause o major waterfront cleared the waterfront area near the vessel was cleared and ships in the Harbor were warned away from the cause of the Blaze was not the Arctic Teefer had been tied up a the wharf nearly three months undergoing repairs after running the work was nearly finished and the ship would have been ready for sea in Abou one the Dock where the ship is tied up is in a relatively Remote m More than a mile South of the Busy Alabama state docks and across the ship Channel have told him they dont like the Way things Are and they arc seeking an Point mint with Johnson to until thai who also Heads peace be replaced in of his jabs so the poverty pro Gram will have a full time and the committee is ing its own nationwide scrutiny of the 1 criticism of the program and demands that Shriver give of one of his jobs Are nothing Dew on cup loll but up to now has been Only republicans who have been heard now it is 8 group of dono1 who just recently pushed through the House a Belfi bling the Money available what Johnson Calls a War poverty and beat Back Alcan amendments to Cut Down the meeting with held secretly into monday in committees was de scribed by one member As a ragout Al ended with a round of drinks in the office of chairman adm Clayton pow local groups although there is unhappy Ness among the democrats with Many phases of the Antipoverty program the major complaint is Over the Way Shriver is administering the Community action which puts Money in the hands of local groups to carry out plans of their own it was the intention of con the democrats that such plans could be purely of a neighbourhood worked out and run by the peo ple living but they has chosen to work primarily with organizations set up to represent in entire which Means they Are dominated by the cites Public its our own Power we left it to the discretion of the director to determine tin criteria for eligible instead of Walt Lar it into the Bill Well Lake care of that powells comment provide another ironic for it was the republicans on the tee who tried to pet guidelines written into the Bill when program was established last special staff Powell is following up meeting by appointing a Spe Cial investigating staff to fan out Over the country and inspect Community action House has authorized for the investigation and Powell has already started hiring peo he said he is also sending let ters to every member of tit House Unk Init them to Send along any complaints they May have received about the opera Tion of the program in their Dis investigating teams will lean Washington and Start looking into the complaints after labor he the study is expected to run through the rest of the year and form the basis for hearings next february the administration comes in for Money for the next fiscal i still believe this is a Good sold bib weve eat to take a much Clown look at How it is
