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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ms 8, 7C are in complete agreement with the way this program was laid would hive to make the first orbital flight, Q. COMMANDER, you did have one anxious moment I I believe when the retrortxket light, the release light, failed to come on. Could you tell us about that? A. There are several things of course that happened through-: out the flight, capsule separa- tion, turn around and soon.

One Shepard Continued From Page One. fied in your own mind that you were going to hit that water, and this was the end of the line and that you were evidently going to get out of the capsule? A. It is not the fall that hurts; it is the sudden stop. Q. Commander, I wonder if you could ask all of those fellows on your right Which one as we are in the capsule we are ventilated inside the pressure suit by a ventilation As I went out of the capsule 1 disconnected, of course, from its ventilation system and went into the helicopter and back to the aircraft carrier and on down below decks before I finally rook my pressure suit off.

I was pretty warm at that time. Outside of that there was no evidence of any real physio- logical stress. Q. HOW LONG do you feel you Sam Snead, Winner In Champions' -Plans Shot at Open LAS VEGAS, May 8 (UPI) Sam Snead, who is pushing 1 49, has proved once again that age is no barrier to a top-notch golf game. Golf Scores a And he's looking forward to another shot at the U.

S. Open, lone major professional golf title that has eluded him. Snead ran away with the 72-bole, $52,000 Tournament of Champions on the Desert Inn Country Club course yesterday, winning by seven strokes and adding $10,000 to his already considerable bankroll. Bucking strong winds which intermittently swept tne aesert 70 course, he carded a 72 hole Stn of 273 15 under par. Jullu' Bor.71.75.742S7 'v: Second place went to another BMly veteran, Tommy Bolt, with a samifrs.

total of 280, Bolt picked up $5000. Ken Venliirt, tv tvm 72-70-73-73 28S Big Bill Collins, at 281, took f.we Liitir. third place and $3000; Bob Ros- my S9 hnra ont anH fMA onH 7S-70 71-73 29 RUSSIAN IS SAID TO HAVE REMOVED OWN APPENDIX MOSCOW. May (AP)-A young Soviet phsu-ian. marooned by a blizzard af the research station in the Antarctic, removed his own appendix in surgery lasting almost two hours, Tass said today.

He was reported recovering ami able to walk again. The Soviet news agency said Dr. Leonid Rogozov, 26 years old, was struck by acute appendicitis April 30 and realized an operation was urgent. Using a mirror, he cut into his own abdomen that night, Tass said, The dispatch made no mention of anesthesia and said Rogozov performed the operation, "in spite of severe pam," with the neip ot a mechanic and a mete- fron, man complement. Ihe station is located on the Queen Astnd coast, seveial hundred miles from the main Soviet Antarctic base at Mirny.

The weather prevented any attempt at flying Rogozov to Mirny for surgery there. BOY HURT IN EXPLOSION AT COUNTY FISH FRY DIES Twelve-vear-old Michael Tav- or nn(, persons injured explosion and fire at Helle fontaine Neighlxns Friday, died 0f mirns Saturday at DePaul Hospital. He was the son of. Mr, and Mrs, Robert Taylor, 133 Chambers road, Riverview. The Surrey Lane Athletic Association was holding a fish fry in a building at Surrey lane Park, 800 Chamlers road, when the explosion occurred in the room where fish were being fried.

Fire Chief Max Mueller of the Riverview Fire Protection District said that a leak in lulling connected to a stove apparently had caused an accumulation of gas. Of the eight persons injured, four were admitted lo the hospital. Auto Kills Two Horsemen. RIC ESTER, ngland. May (AT) An automobile ran into a string of race horses returning from exercise near here Satur- and two of the rider were could stay up; and would you 1 recommend that the next trip be longer? A.

If I could categorically an- swer the question as to the length of time we could stay up, I think we could rearrange our future schedule for Project Mer-! cury. We intend to investigate 1 on a bit-hy-bit basis hat man's tolerance is to the weightless condition, Q. It is going to cost so many billions of dollars in future spare exploration, I wtinder hnw you personally feel about co-operating with all ihe other nations of the world Russia, if we can get them, and everyone, to avoid duplication. Do you have any feeling yourself on that? 1 1 do, but I would rather not express them. Q.

Sir, could you tell us in very plain language what we will benefit from all these flights? What will be the benefit to humanity from all of these flights1 That is really very diffi- cult to describe. 1 think 1 had best answer it by saying that 1 we expect to make advances in Ihe field of high temperature be-; cause of designing against the hish temperatures of re-entry. 1 We expect to make advances in knowledge of radiation sci- ences because of the need to peneirate the Van Allen belts in 1 deep space probes. These things I think are treated in a general way. Sometimes you don't know specifically what you are going to find, particularly in the manned case 1 think the real answer is that you just don't know at this point, Q.

COULD THE RFDSTONE have boosted you into orbital flight before Gagarin made his trip last month? A. The answer In that is. yes; we could have. We could have gone a lot earlier. You may remember in my opening remarks I tried to describe the orderly basis upon which we proceeded with Project Mercury.

All nf us who are here on the stage now were in and would like to take the next ride? I A. How about a show of hands? I (There was a show of all hands). Q. I am interested in a couple of more details. One, at the launch pad in the morning I I noticed when you got out of the van you stepped aside and you looked it up and down and then looked it up and down a second time.

I would like a little more background on that, i A second thing I would like a little more background on is during the flight and re-entering the atmosphere Shorty (Air Force Lt. Col. John Powers, in talking to the press, said that your voice showed some strain. I wonder if you could give us a little more background on those two points in the flight? A. I will take care of the first one.

I realized that I might never see the outside of that missile again, and I thought it was appropriate to look it over. So far as what Shorty said about the strain in my voice, maybe he would like to comment. POWERS: I think perhaps "strain" was the wrong word. As most of you know, while you are under high or perhaps you don't know when you are under high "G' there is a system of strain. You can strain your stomach muscles and your leg muscles so as to resist the effect of It was audible from Al's voice transmission that he was in fact straining.

This was, in fact, the same sound we heard a number of times over the loudspeaker system at the centrifuge and during other training activities. Q. TO WHOM ARE you refer ring when you say "We?" "We' went so far, and "we" went so high? SHEPARD: I think it may be appropriate at this timp, as I said before, earlier today, that I am acutely aware of the hundreds of individuals who made this flight possible. Q. Commander, I don't know whether you can answer this or not: Does your experience best qualify you to go the next time, or will they try others to train them? A.

Suppose I give you my answer, and then I will give the answer of these fellows. My answer is, of course, I have perhaps an advantage from having made this flight. 1 heir answer is or should be that they should be encouraged thaf our training program prepared us so well for this flight; and this does not necessarily mean that I or the next Redstone pilot LAS VEGAS, Nf Way (API Finnl frtlf scores and pursa monay in tha $52 OOo Tournamant of Cham. pinna Sam Snaad. i 2T3 110.000 Tommy Unit.

B7-S9-73-71 2Rn Bill Collins. 71 SS-73-S9 2K1 Bob Rnsbur? I T3-70-71BS 2SJ i Poug Ford. R7-S9-74-73 2S3 Jav Hahart. 6SS7-79-73 2S 5000 3000 2SO0 JlOO 17RO 17RO 1760 1R40 1640 1R40 150 loOO 1500 1440 1400 1.160 1320 12S0 1204 1160 11R0 1160 10R0 1040 1OO0 Gary piayar. Pow Finalfrwulfi, nav Hill.

7S-71-69-75 291 Mik Smichak. 74-71-71-78292 Bill Johnston. 71- 70-74-78293 Art Wall 69-70-78-77 294 Johnny Pott, 72- 70-74-79 29S Jerry Barbfr, 29R i-7S-76 29R Arnold Palmer. r-73 29 298 Krnia Voasler. 75-73-T4-1 Bob Goalbv.

7R-72-76-75 299 Lionel Hebert. 75-73-72-81301 going to play with Arnold Palmer in the International Canada Cup matches. Then I'm going to start practicing for the National Open. "I just found out here that I get 35 points toward getting on the Ryder Cup team. This gives me a real good chance to make the squad for the eleventh time.

As a result, I intend to play more on the tour." So it is obvious Siammin' Sam has no intention of slowing down. Ukrainians Defeat N.Y. Sport Club, 1-0 NEW YORK, May 8 (AP)-The defending champion Ukrainian Nationals moved into the lead in the two-game series for the east lenge Cup soccer championship yesterday by defeating the New York Sport Club, 1-0. The, teams are listed for another meeting in Philadelphia May 28 with total goals of the two games to determine the team that will oppose the Los Angeles Scots for the national crown. Stanley Dlugosc scored for the Ukrainians three minutes before the first half ended.

a' Doun Ford 283 and $2100. Three Tie for Sixth. Jay Hebert, the National P.G.A. champion who led the tournament for the first two rounds, finished in a tie for sixth with 284 and $1760, The only two foreign entrants in the elite field of 26 major tournament winners here Stan Vancouver, B.C.,' and Gary Player, Johannesburg, South Africa were tied with Hebert at 284. S.

Open champion Arnold Palmer, who had a 69 on opening day on the par 36-3672 course, saw his game go to pieces and finished in a tie for eighteenth place with Tournament of Champions defending titlist Jerry Barber and Don Fairfied at 296. They didn't go away empty-handed, however. Each won $1160. Snead, who will be 49 May 27, moved into a five-stroke lead at the end of three rounds and breezpd in on the final 18. His rounds were 68-67-69-69 remarkably consistent golf in trratic weather.

He has won more golf merits and more money than any other man in history. His official lifetime earnings are anoroximatelv $280,000. All told he has won more than $400,000 i killed. Two horses suffered Zmkert reported his findings broken legs and had lo be de to President Kennedy and Aug-si roved. Two other rulers were gesled that a mistake had been badly injured, The motorist was made.

The President promptly put in a hospital. withdrew Hillman's promotion. and with his victory here heVern Iinal ot the National Uiai out. There were times when we could have rushed the program. but we chose not to.

Q. Can you say why we did not do it before they did if could have? A. Yes. Primarily hocaiise we felt that he had a well-laid out, well-designed reliable program. Q.

Commander, did you find any discrepancies in what Yuri Gagarin reported and what Yuri Gagarin saw? A. Actually, I would rather not coment on that particular one. Those of us really had so much to do on our program thai we didn't really delve into the data from his flight, other than what was presented in the newspaper accounts. So without more specific data we couldn't really say. Q.

COMMANDER, if you can talk about any discrepancies that vau mav have found, can you say at least wnetner tney might have caused you to hae some doubts as to whether Ga garin actually accomplished what what he said he accomplished? A. First of all, let me clarify the reason why we are not trying to call them discrepancies, and that is primarily because we found none. The ones we found were very minor, of a minor nature. 1 would rather not compare the two flights. We, of course, are very proud of what we have done.

We are en- courageu to com mm- program. Q. You have indicated that perhaps we could nave neaien the Russians in Ihe first flight. Do you think we have been loo cautious in our program; and do you see any possibility that it could be speeded up to where we might catch up to their present position? A. lt is always easy to look back on Saturday's game on Monday morning.

It is very difficult to make decisions ahead of time. I think that Mr. Webb James Webb, NASA administrator) and Mr. (iilruih, as well as have indicated that we have been satisfied with the progress of Mercury. We have speeded up in arears of which you are not aware, and the general directive was to go when ready and we did.

0. Commander, at any time since Ihe time vou were tusi picked to be an astronaut until lift-off. did you wish you were something else other than Project Herniary? A. That is the easiest question I have heard today. No1 BOURBON that YOUNG REPUBLICANS PLAN DEBATE ON U.S.

SCHOOL AID Federal aid to education wi'l be Ihe topic of a debate and 1 panel discussion at a mcetinc of the St. Louis Young Republican Club at 8.30 m. Thursday at the Cheshire Inn, 70,16 Clayton road, Richmond Heights. Oscar I hrhardt, secretary of the St, Louis labor Council, AFL CIO, and former president of the St. Louis Roard of Education, will take the affirmative stand in a debate on the question, "Should There Re Federal Aid to 1 ducal His opponent will be James S.

McCiellan, an attorney and member of the Board of Education. Panel discussion speakers will be Richard .1. Childress, professor of law at St. Louis University, and David LaDriere, attorney and president of the Citizens for Educational Freedom. SMOKE INHALATION VICTIM Howard W.

Davis, 19 year, old, was in serious conditio from smoke inhalation suffered early yesterday in a smolilennz fire in his third-floor apartment at 2X1!) Menard street. Firemen, who carried Davi from the building, attributed the iarH in was asleep on a divan which caught fire, firemen said. Dam- ws estimated at $75. Pearson Continued From Page One, H-bomb. When Ihe guards refused.

Ilillman sped o(f angrily in his automobile at SO milei per hour. THIS INCIDENT CPA) him his command, plus an abrupt transfer to Alaska 18 months ago. Yet he was recommended for promo, tion las! month by the same commanding general who had disciplined him, On, Archie Old, commander of Ihe fifteenth Air Force. The promotion passed through channels all the wav to the White Hons. where the President ap- proved it.

Then Jack Anderson (Person's assistant) Inquired at the Pentagon about llillman's record, which caused Air I orr Secretary Eugene Zurkert to do a little cheikini; on his newest brigadier general for seven long ears! mxu nut MONTR mmhi hat TJk of these is the jettisoning or the breaking away of the retro-' I rocket package after the retnvs are fired prior to re-entering the i i atmosphere. This in fact did happen right on scneauie. 1 package ejected and I saw bits of scrap I flying around through the pori-! scope and by the window At this time the light inside the 1 i capsule, which is also supposed to confirm it, had not lighted, 1 1 used the manual override switch just to be sure At I this particular time the light lighted and everything proceeded normally. Q. Commander, you were not able to see the stars.

Did you catch a glimpse of the moon from your window? A. No. Had we gone off close to 7 o'clock, we had a nice array, Moon. Venus and Saturn were in the southwest fairly close to the horizon, which was the direction of the porthole on the left side. As you know we had some hold time, As a result the moon had al-1 ready set by the time we got up to apogee.

Q. HOW MUCH of the earth's surface could you see when you saw that beautiful sight? My view of the earth's sur- face was obscured by clouds, primarily in the northwesterly direction from the apogee point. The distance from the point irn' mediately below the capsule out to the horizon vision is about 800 miles, using the periscope. Q. How did the heavy gravity affect you? How did you feel, and did it affect your eyes? Do you think possibly you, might not have seen stars because the weightlessness affected your eyes? A.

Fortunately, we have a device called the centrifuge, which has been described before as an over-sized cream separator which whirls you around on a I long arm and provides artificial gravitational forces. We have i used a couple of these devices and invesligated these fields. At the extreme levels of peripheral vision decreases, just prior to blackout or grayotit. It is more difficult to brpathe because of the pure mechanics of lifting the heavier chest structure. Even so through this training program we found we were able to do very well.

Q. Commander, at what stage did you suffer the greatest physical stress? Blast-oof, re-entry, or where? A. think lie stage at which I suffered the greatest stress was after recovery, and this was primarily my own fault. So long PUERTO RICO 7 dayi, 6 nights $63oo plus air far pern, lian on twn in mom. FREE from your travel agent planning gmdt with full-color photos mf7'M Every day more people are enjoying-Kentucky's Finest BOURBON ETMW EASTERN'S "HAPPY HOLIDAYS' 1 i 'If I -V I $L(S 1 1 -ff Jvt if 7 mL li mm became the oldest man ever to win a P.G.A.

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