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3 Profiles New Astronauts, 9 Hottest Jet Pilots in the U. Have Been Training a Year THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, TUESDAY Z'M TJMBE 1C. 1CG2 tt vfiTl i FY 2 tliniln, fcff. 1 t- 8L Elliot M. See, July 23, 1927, in Dallas, Tex.

Received bachelor of science degree from U. S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1919 and master of science degree from U.C.L.A. in 1962. He is a civilian experimental test pilot for General Electric Co.

He is five feet eight inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot M. See, reside in Dallas.

He is married to the former Marilyn Jane Denahy of Georgetown, Ky. They have two daughters, Sally, 6, and Carolyn, 5. He has logged more than 3200 hours flying time, including 2300 hours in jet Neil A. Armstrong born Aug. 5, 1930, in Wapako-ncta, 0.

He was a civilian test pilot with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Edwards Air Force Base, where he is pilot on X-13 rocket plane program. He received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1355. He is five feet 11 inches tall, weighs 163 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Steve Armstrong of Wapakoneta, is married to the former Janet Elizabeth Shcaron of Chicago, and has one son, Eric, 5. Armstrong has 2400 hours flying time, including 900 in jet aircraft. Charles Conrad, Jr. Born June 2. 1930, in Philadelphia.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1933 with bachelor of science degree in engineering. He is five feet six and one-half inches tall, weighs 138 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes. He is a Navy lieutenant, and his last assignment was as safety officer for Fighter Squadron 142. His father, Charles Conrad, lives in Sarasota, Fla. His mother, Mrs.

Frances V. Sargent, lives in Hav-erford, Pa. He is married to the former Jane Dubose of San Antonio, Tex. They have four sons, Pete, Thomas, Andrew, Christopher, 2. Conrad has flown more than 2800 hours, including 1500 hours in jet aircraft.

James A. Lovell, Jr. 'Born March 23, 1928, in Cleveland, 0. Graduated from U. S.

Naval Academy in 1932. He has blue eyes and blond hair, is five feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 165 pounds. He is a Navy lieutenant commander and his last assignment was as flight instructor and safety officer at the Naval Air Station at Oceana, Va. His mother, Mrs. Blanche Lovell, lives in Edgewatej Beach, Fla.

Lovell is married to the former Marilyn Lillie Gerlach of Milwaukee, Wis, They have three children, Barbara Lynn, James Arthur, 7, and Susan Kay, 4. He has 2300 hours flying time, including 1600 hours in jets. James A. McDivitt Born June 10, 1929, in Chicago, III. He received bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1959.

He is an Air Force captain, and his last assignment was as experimental flight test officer at Edwards Air Force Base. He has brown hair and blue eyes, is five feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 155 pounds. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McDivitt, live in Jackson, Mich.

He is married to the former Patricia Ann Haas of Cleveland, O. Three children are Michael Ann Lynn, Patric 2. McDivitt has logged 2300 hours flying time, including 2000 hours in jets. Frank Borman Born March 14, 1928, at Gary, Ind. A graduate of U.

S. Military Academy at West Point in 1930, Borman received master of science degree from California Institute of Technology in 1937. An Air Force major, his last assignment was instructor in the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base. He is five feet 10 inches tall, weighs 163 pounds, has blond hair and blue eyes. His parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin Borman, live in Phoenix, Ariz. He is married to the former Susan Bugby of Verona, N. J. Two sons, Frederick, 11, and Edwin, 9.

Borman has accumulated 3600 hours flying time in jets. Thomas P. Stafford Born Sept. 17, 1930, in Weatherford, Okla. A graduate from the U.

S. Naval Academy in 1952, Stafford is now an Air Force cap-lain. His last assignment was chief of the Performance Branch, Experimental Test Pilot Division, Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base. He has black hair and blue eyes, is six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. His mother, Mrs.

Mary Ellen Crabtree, lives at Weatherford. He is married to the former Faye Laverne Shoemaker of Weatherford, and has two daughters, Dianne, 8, and Karen, 5. He has logged more than 3500 hours flying time, including 2500 hours in jets. Edward II. White II, 32, an Air Force captain was born in San Antonio, Tex.

He was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1952 with a bachelor of science degree and received a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1959. His last assignment was as an experimental test pilot at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is five feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 176 pounds and has auburn hair and brown eyes.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. White of St. Petersburg, Fla.

He and his wife, the former Patricia Eileen Finegan of Washington, I). have two children, Edward 9, and Bonnie Lynn, 6. He has 2900 hours flying time, including 1700 in jets. John W. Young, 32, was born in San Francisco, Calif.

He is a Navy lieutenant commander who stands 3 feet, nine inches tall and weighs 163 pounds and has brown hair and green eyes. He was graduated from Georgia Tech in 1952 with a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering. His last assignment was as maintenance officer for Fighter Squadron 53 at the Naval Air Station, Mira-mar, Calif. His father, William Young, lives in Orlando, Fla. His wife is the former Barbara Vincent White, Savannah, Ga.

They have two children, Sandra, 5, and John, 3. He has 2300 hours flying, 1600 In jets. Democratic Nod Kennedy 'Secret Wedding' 9 New Astronauts Named; Phila. Flier on Moon Team U. S.

Resurrects Red and Green Routes for Road Jo Morgenthau Rumor Called Groundless Expected inN.Y. clude contributions to the engin seven averaged more than 3500 hadn't had anyone that famous WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (AP). for a long time." A whisper campaign that Pres hours of flight time, but only 1700 hours in jets compared with eering designs, to the development of future spacecraft, to the monitoring of flights and to the country from Holland in 1638. In tracking their descendants, one entry in the book under the 11th generation says: "Durie, (Kerr), Malcom, (Isa ident Kennedy once secretly Mrs.

Smith's husband, Wil-iam, informed the Associated SYRACUSE, N. Sept. 18 the 1900 average for the new married a divorcee was branded development of advanced flight Press that there is only one nota baseless by two publications Monday. (Tuesday) (AP). Robert Morgenthau, a soft-spoken law By MAX B.

SKELTOX Continued from First Page civilian and a test pilot with NASA. Elliott M. See, 35, a native of Dallas, who was graduated from the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy.

He is a test flight engineer and an experi tion concerning a Kennedy marriage in the records of Louis comers. Average age of the first seven now is 38. John H. Glenn, first American to orbit the earth, simulators." The new astronauts have averaged 2800 hours of flight time Newsweek Magazine exploded yer from New York City, had Blauvelt. bel O.

Cooper). We have no birth date. She was born Kerr, but took the name of her stepfather. She first married Firmin Des-loge, IV. They were divorced.

the long-circulated rumor in an virtual assurance of the Demo each, largely in jets. The ongina lis 41, eldest of his group. Smith described this as a typed article to be printed in this index card containing substan week's edition. The Washington By SAUL KOHLER Continued from First Page analyze the traffic on all three corridors, and we expect the answers in a couple of months." In opposing the Blue Route, officials of Swarthmore College said it would suffer most as a result. The Blue Route would bisect the college campus, but Martin said the highway would go through the college parking lot cratic nomination for Governor early Tuesday, but loud and long Durie then married F.

John Bers- Post, which owns Newsweek, mental test pilot for General bach. They were divorced, and tially the same entry as the book itself. On the bottom of the card, Smith said, is a date apparently printed the article earlier. Both Danger Is His Calling, rank-and-file demonstrations of she married, third, John F. Ken publications labeled the rumor.

Electric Co. Navy Lt. Cmdr. James A. Lov opposition delayed balloting at nedy, sen of Joseph P.

Kennedy, referring to a letter received by groundless. the party's State convention. one time Ambassador to tng- the author which contained information concerning the mar ell, 34, of Cleveland. He is an Annapolis graduate and lately land. There were no children of Morgenthau, who resigned as a U.

S. Attorney to seek the nom Conrad's Mother Says The mother of Charles Conrad, one of nine newly the second or third marriages." as a test pilot for the Navy. riage entry. Smith added, however, that there is no such letter The rumor the alleged "evidence" for which is an unsupported passage in a genealogy book has been current more than a year. The White House declined comment Monday, as it Navy Lt.

Cmdr. John W. DAUGHTER NOTED and not any of the buildings. COMMENT DECLINED in the files. ination, had the pledges of a majority of the three big New York The genealogy adds that a chosen astronauts, acknowledged Monday that her son had Smith said that a year ago; at Since he sent the recommenda daughter was born to the mar the request of Whilte House press been given a dangerous assignment but she added, "That's has in the past.

To citizens who City delegations. CLAIMS 'GOOD CHANCE' riage to Deslcge. what he wants to do." I i Young, 32, of San Francisco, who joined the Navy after graduation from Georgia Tech. His last assignment was program manager and test pilot for the F-4H plane. PROJECT SWITCH SET The stepped-up program secretary Pierre Salinger, he sent Salinger a letter attesting to write the White House about the rumor, this reply goes cut: Newsweek said that in Blau- Mrs.

J. Weir Sargent was in- tiontogether with transcript of two hearings on the route to Washingon, Martin has declined to comment on the status of the proposed expressway, which At a news conference in ad velt's records, now in the cus the complete absence of any orig "The President has been only once to his wife Jac vance of the drawn-out conven tody of his a Mrs inal source material to back up terviewed in her home at 104 Sunset lane, Haverford. The astro William K. Smith, of East the "Kennedy marriage" entry. tion session, he told newsmen he comes at a time when the center N.

there is no sub queline Kennedy." NO EVIDENCE FOUND Smith said his father-in-law would become part of the interstate highway system. is preparing to switch from the stantiation for the Kennedy mar naut is stationed at a Navy base near San Diego, but lists thought he had a "very good'1 chance to beat Republican Gov kept careful records, though he one-man Project Mercury orbits The A i a ted Press and made some mistakes. riage reference in the genealogy. "Under the entry for the al the Haverford home as his ad Nelson A. Rockefeller in the No ry A 92 tip.

LI INFORMAL METHODS of the earth to Project Gemini which will put two men into a dress. other news organizations have checked many sources over the vember election. Raymond D. Blauvelt, of Ridge- leged marriage to 'John F. Ken nedy' there is only an old clip This couldn be any more two-week orbit in a single cap field Park, N.

a former secre Morgenthau also.said he would dangerous than his present as months and never found substantiation for the report of an early marriage. tary of the Blauvelt Family As sule. Genmi is the forerunner of a ask President Kenendy to cam paign for him. sociation, said Louis Blauvelt had ping from a Miami gossip column, reporting Miss Malcolm and young Jack Kennedy had been seen in a restaurant right "It is in the hands of the U. S.

Bureau of Public Roads, and there it must remain until they make some determination," he said. "The Department of Highways and the Governor have transmitted our recommendations for their consideration and it is theirs to decide." There had been reports recently that the Blue Route was "dead," but Stinson said this is not o. He declearcd that al signment, Mn. Sargent ob served. Conrad, a Navy" lieu tenant, flies missile-carrying air craft.

trip to the moon, already named The rumor stems from a pas rather informal research meth Among the big New York City Project Apollo. sage in a privately printed fam ods, kept much information in his after World War II. ily history, "The Blauvelt Family blocs that swung to him Tuesday was that of Rep. Charles A. Buck Conrad's father, a retired in Center officials say only one or two more Mercury trips are head or on bits of paper, and often relied on hearsay passed "One Blauvelt in-law described Genealogy," written by a mem vestment banker, lives in Sara sota, Fla.

The parents were di the entry to Newsweek as 'just necessary before the first Gem ber of the family's 10th genera from one family member to one colossal He said: another. vorced. The mother later mar ini shot. Walter M. Schirra is scheduled to make a six-orbit tion, Louis L.

Blauvelt. He died at 82, two years after the book "It was likely that the old man ISewswcck said there were though the controversial route is ried Sargent, an insurance execu live. formed the idea in his head, see was published in 1957. Mercury trip Sept. 28.

MRS. J. WEIR SARGENT Mrs. Sargent said Charles, Jr ley of the Bronx, who promised 106 of his delegation's 110 votes. Manhattan then pledged him 85 of its 118 votes.

Brooklyn followed with all its 185. OTHERS NOMINATED Besides Morgenthau, those ing that clipping, and the family The Blauvells came to this In Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The seven original astronauts moved to -Houston in early July not alone in consideration, it is one of the routes being studied. SUARTiniORE VIEWS Conrad's wife Jane, said she is was born June 2, 1930, at Penn sylvania Hospital. He was edu other errors in the paragraph in question: Miss Malcolm's maid-' en name was not spelled Malcom as in the book; and she first married Bcrbach, then Desloge, not vice versa.

as NASA began construction of Ted-Ed Race Ends; Opposition to the Blue Route cated at the Haverford School the spacecraft center, which President Kennedy said last placed in nomination were Queens District Attorney Frank has been led by Swarthmore Col and at the Darrow School, in "thrilled'' her husband has been selected for the space program. Mrs. Conrad said she learned last Thursday that her husband was to be an astronaut and kept the news from their four chil Newsweek said "hate groups" New Lebanon, N. Y. D.

O'Connor, Rep. Samuel S. lege officials because, although the six-lane hichwav will not and others keep circulating the Tuesday will cost $200 million. 2 CIVILIANS IN GROUP The present lineup of astro In the fall of 1D49, he entered Stratton of Schenectady, indus Record Vote Expected mean the demolition of any false marriage story, thus put trialist Howard Samuels of; Princeton University and in Canandaigua', former National June, 1953, received the degree buildings on the campus, it would come within 1200 feet of Wharton. nauts includes one Marine, two dren until Monday night "because they told us to keep it ting the President "into a position where he is damned if he denies the story and damned if he Chairman James A.

Farley and BOSTON, Sept. 17 (AP). Massachusetts' two-way sena civilians, six from the Navy and Hall, a men's dormitory building. Abraham Beame, New York seven from the Air Force. torial campaign roared Monday night toward a primary vote An alternate route, throug'j doesn't." "I knew if I told the kids they'd City Controller.

The average age of the new astronauts is 32.5 years, while explosion that could pit the famous Kennedy-Lode names Miss Malcolm's present hus spread it all over the neighbor The choice appeared to repre Nether Providence township, also was opposed by the college. This route runs west of the Blue band is socialite Thomas Shevlin, hood." she said. "They went off against each other in Novem the original seven averaged 34.5 sent at least a temporary truce between Buckley and Mayor stood the bearer of another fa of Palm Beach and Newport, to of bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering. Almost simultaneously, he married the former Jane Dubose and entered the Navy as an ensign. The couple have four sons.

Mrs. Sargent said her son Is five feet, six inches tall, weighs 138 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes. He plays golf, she said, "but flying is his first love." at the time of their selection in ber. whom she was married in 1947 mous name, Harvard professor Robert F. Wagner, of New York 1959.

to school with it today." Asked if she was worried about her husband making a space flight, Mrs. Conrad replied, "I'm With opponents conceding noth H. Stuart Hughes. He is a grand Cilv. But Buckley would not Gilruth said the nine, all test She was not available for comment Monday but Newsweek said she had previously denied the son of the late Chief Justice confirm that and said he had ing in advance of Tuesday's expected record-breaking balloting, pilots, were the pick of 253 volun just so pleased I don't let myself not talked with Wagner.

Wagner, Lnaries fcvans Hughes, lie is tcers from among military and think about the scary part." running as an independent in the who declared support for Mor Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, youngest brother of the Presi "Kennedy marriage" story pri vatclv. general election. genthau last week, has been civilian applicants. Medical and other examina tions weeded out all but 31.

dent, and George Cabot Lodge, odds with Buckley and opposed son of a former senator and am if During July and August, the 31 his nomination to run this No vember for a new term in Con bassador and great-grandson of were given still more intense a senator, were credited with a fragile edge in separate contests Route, an easterly route also had been under consideration. Among the reasons for indorse ing the Blue Route, Martin listed those: It has been approved by the commissioners of Montgomery and Delaware rounly, and by various chambers of commerce. Its selection would mean the displacement of the fewest number of homes. It was approved unanimously by the staff of the State De-partment of Highways. It is in line with recommendations of the Penn Jersey Transportation Survey.

Seldom, if ever, has a highway project generated such interest gress. Mr. Kennedy backed Buckley, however, and the latter was renominated in the primary tests to find the final nine. BASIC STANDARDS But Edward J. McCormack, nephew of House Speaker earlier this month.

The five basic qualifications John W. McCormack, was mak Meanwhile, in Buffalo, the Re listed by Gilruth ing it a horse race with young publicans prepared to open their 1. Experience as a jet test Kennedy for the Democratic convention Tuesday and renomi nomination to fill out the unex pilot and preferably still en gaged in flying high-perform ance aircraft. pired two years of President Ken -it nate Rockefeller Wednesday night. The Republican slate was well-planned, and no surprises nedy's vacated Senate term CURTIS 'COMING ON' 2.

Experimental flight test were on tap. abilities attained through mili tary service, the aircraft indus And in the free-swinging Republican primary, advocates claimed that Rep. Laurence Cur tries or NASA, or graduation from a military test pilot Green's Tax Bill tis was coming on with a rush that might dump Lodge. and such heated controversy as the Mid County Expressway. Last, Dec.

7. throngs crowded into the Marple-Newtown High School in Broomall, Delaware Would Aid State school. 3. A degree in physical or bi ological sciences or engineer ing. The weatherman complicated predictions that more than one Inquirer Washington Bureau million voters will go to the 1988 WASHINGTON, Sept.

polling places. He forecast morn 4. U. S. citizenship, age less than 35 at the time of selection ing rains, with possible clearing House passed and sent to the and height of six feet or less r' i 111' 'if' skies later in the day.

Senate on Monday a bill by Rep. county, to hear and be heard. The public hearings lasted all night. The following night, there was a repeat performance for Mont-gomry county residents at Ply-mouth-Whitemarsh High School. YThere, however, the hearings 5.

Recommendation from the In good weather or bad, how William J. Green Pa.) to re-! Individual's organization. pver President ts.enneny ann Gilruth did not say exactly how quire State liquor control agen-i much training the new men will Speaker McCormack were expected to contribute personally to swelling the total above the record 994,304 ballots cast in the require before they fly in space were quieter and duln last He said this would depend on nearly as long. yrl ism Mir Ntw esY r. yws' -J continuing physical and techni 1938 primaries.

WOO INDEPENDENTS cal performance of the nine and Franco Is Granddad on flight schedules. cies to purchase only one Federal retail tax stamp, regardless of the number of retail outlets they operate. For Pennsylvania, the bill would mean an annual saving of at least $36,450, Green's office said. There presently are 675 Slate liquor stores in the Commonweallh, and each is required to have a $54 Federal tax stamp. "The new flight test personnel Registered independents, who can vote in either primary, were wooed vigorously by all candi will, however, have an important DtlAWAZC dates concerned as their stren role in the manned spacecraft program in addition to any flight uous campaigning came to a MADRID, Spain, Sept.

17 (AIM Carmen Franco, Marchioness of Yillavcrde and only daughter of Gen. Francisco Franco, gave birth to a girl at Kl Pardo Palace Sunday night, doctors announced Monday. The girl is the fourth daughter of the Marchioness and her husband. They also have two sons. close.

There are 1,200,000 independents in this swing State, compar I'PI Telephoto Mrs. Margery Petretta, teacher at Rancho Santa Fe, school, shows sons of new astronaut, Charles Conrad, how their dad would orbit earth. The children of the Philadelphia-born spaceman are Peter (left), 8, and his brother, Thomas, 5. Map shows the three proposed routes of the mid-county expressway through Delaware and Montgomery counties. The Federal Government is studying the alternates as well as the Mue Route, which was recommended officially by Gov.

David L. Lawrence. participation," Gilruth said. The pioneer astronaut team members acted in various important capacities while one of their number was in orbit. Gilruth said, "This role will in Sixteen other Slates regulate retail liquor sales.

These would ed with 900,000 registered Denv he saved an estimated $88,550 if ocrats nd 600,000 Republicans I Aloof from all of, this conflict the bill is passed..