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Bexar's Top Teens The search for the two top teen-agers of Bexar County has been narrowed down to 12 finalists, six boys, six girls, all outstanding. Who are they? For color picture and full report, turn to page 1-E. Why Do You Dress That Way? A woman's habits of dress are revealing to a psychoaialyist. See This Week Magazine. Do You Really Hate Cooking? Wish you didn't have to cook? You'll firjd.something interesting -j on Page Atomic Ashes Pose a Problem For a report on an important subject, tee Page 7-H.

GUfeM Business 34 Arts Mi Cattle Clatter Cttiumnt. 7-H Outdoor NEWS By PAUL, THOMPSON The Christopher Press, which puts out the officui Catholic newspaper (Alamo Messenger), starts next month to print the Southside Reporter, a neighborhood weekly now handled by American Printers. "Why is it," asks one un-' ion man, "that it used to be so important to have the Messenger printed in union Knowing a Archbishop Robert E. Lu-j L-ey is pro-union, doesn't he do something about it? Or is he, too, backing the Christopher' Press?" Dick Mcskill, columnist, edi-f torial writer and executive for the Alamo Messenger, is also hoard chairman of the Christopher Press. He said: "We can't find union men able to operate the composing room machinery for our offset press.

All camera a press work is done by union rren. I am still very much pro- union." ravs Park It's reassuring to know that the Public Service Board plans lo! spend J18.500 to light up Travis Park, long a browsing spot and contact point for homosexuals. Once Ihe M-some llghtt are in- (lalied, however, it becomes a job to keep these fellows along. The centrally-located park was "adopted" by the so-called third toe'many years ago and effects won't dislodge them unless accompanied by Ihe more concrete deterrent of virile, incorruptible males in uniform. Wants Out Those who duck jury duty usually do not give a hoot about other fivil obligations.

A Republican poll tax deputy "fold" two receipts in one home --to the woman of the house and! her husband. i That night the husband, sound-' ing worried, phoned the deputy! and said: "How about tearing up my receipts and dropping me from your list? I understand they' pick JURORS from the poll tax roll." I Actually, it's the property tax; roll that furnishes prospective 1 jurors in Bexar County. XPRE SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1962 136 PAGES IN 16 SECTION Theaters TV Preview Sect. FEVAL Section A 20c JET CRASH PROBE I Iowa--(AP) An unknown explosive foive from i i ripped apart a Continental, 'Airlines jet in i killing 4f persons aboard, a Civil Aeronautics Board spokesman said Saturday. Another source said it appeared that the explosion He added thal smud os 6 ihave resulted from anything very distinctive odor were dls-! er than a bomb.

The source on pieces of metal, clined to be named. i siattery said it had been deter- While CAB investigators mined (he osi(m occurred at the cause of Tuesday nights! crash. Robert F. Six, Continental the rear of Ihe passenger cabin, president, said in Denver that rather than in the belly of the 'ihere was "sufficient evidence toi anei here baggage is carried. He sajd hjs meanj was in the indicate the probability that a man-made explosive had been set off within the aircraft." He also area near the asked the FBI to investigate.

"It's a fair guess that the explc- There was a report that a occurred at the aircraft's assigned altitude of 39,000 feet but that the plane remained substantially intact until it had descended to a much lower altitude jsanger had been insured for $225,000. Rear of Fuselage Investigators have determined that an explosion occurred within the rear portion of the fuselage. where it apparently broke apart, 4 Siattery said. MEDICAL CHECKUP FOR CARPENTER--Astronaut Scott Carpenter gives a big yawn as technician attaches medical sensors to his forehead at Grand Turk Island where he underwent tests Saturday following-Thursday's orbital flight. The sensors record brain wave Wirephoto.

said Edward E. Siattery. Severed public information officer. All four engines were severed He said the was from the wisga and were found arrived at from the manner in ahead of fuselage in the which 4)ie plane's structure had line-'of ttm plane'i descent. The broken up.

i Siattery explained, jfre SUttery said the skin f' to break off cleanly I urn purlinn the fuselage, al-lthn wings under extreme maneu- though lorn by impact of the vers, to avoid causing fire remained relatively damaging Such an ex- i Behind 1 the breakoffltreme maneuver could have re-, Ipoint 'the pieces were found to, suited when the tail section finally be smaller, he said. completely severed from the That indicates the explosion wasj aircraft, he added, from the inside out, he added. A residue, identified by Siattery "When the metal breaks out it is indicated on the metal by the type of tear," he said. "The as "ash" rather than a powder, was found not only on the metal fragments but also in the air- Carpenter's Error Blew Capsule Fuel President San Antonio Social-Civic Organization gave President Kennedy "the world's largest tamale" on his 44th birthday. This gustatory monster went to the local airport in an armored truck--but got lost in the expanse of the White House kitchen.

This Tuesday, when Mr. Kennedy celebrates his 4ith birthday, the same outfit will present him with a red, white and blue "Pinata" donkey bearing a load of Mexican candy. Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez has been alerted to exact arrival time and place of the donkey, according to Robert L. Gomez "to insure that the donkey, will be received and not lost." DA Race Pro-Yarborough activity on the West Side by Commissioner Pena and his man of all work, Albert Fuentes, is accompanied by vole hustling for district attorney candidate Jim Barlow.

This has the effect of throwing the large number of Connally supporters over there into the arms of Barlow foe Dick Woods. And what's the Barlow reaction to charges by Woods that both criminal district judges asked DA Charles Lleck to keep Big Jim GRAND TURK, B. W. I. In the busy moments of re-entry, i astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpen-' ter made a.human error that leftj him short of fuel to control ne Hawaiian tracking station had OTHER SCOTT CARPENTER NEWS ON PAGE 7-A molecular separation is differentjditioning piping of the plane, when caused by a powerful force i He said seat cushions and cover- las compared to a slow bendingijngs also bore traces of the ash.

Two Passengers In Chicago, Chicago's American said it has learned the investigation is centering upon two passengers, a man and a woman, who came to Chicago separately but planned to meet here. The American quoted friends of the pair as saying that they came to Chicago to inspect merchandise for use in a home decorating business they were thinking of setting up. The friends were not The American said the man and As a result of the mistake, woman made reservations to Carpenter did, indeed, run put of travd back to Kansas city aboard fuel 'for his manual control system before he had put the Aurora spacecraft's position and contributed to his own anxiety. By accident, Carpenter left oh a manual control system as he doubts about the astronaut's condition during the third orbit. The station, during a Thursday night critique among the 17 track, i II1U1IL wi iliuut i.iiw switched to a fly by wire, or said it had the automatic, control system.

Bolh irnpression that he was very i I 3 3 I I I 1110.1 ere nS fig fud fOT I fused about what was going on, or at least preoccupied. Powers said Sunday that to the extent that Carpenter should not BOMB 7 spacecraft into the proper posi- now mucn tion to re-enter the earth's atmos- i any tney the same plane. Investigators are trying to learn phere. But he still had fuel remaining in the automatic system and was! able to use this system in a semiautomatic or hand-controlled way to put the blunt end of the space- boarding the plane. trive insurance, purc hased prior AFTER NUCLEAR BLAST A mushroom cloud appears to be on a pedestal in this picture made of an air drop at Christmas Island in th'e equatorial Pacific during the current nuclear tests being conducted there; -t- AR Wirephoto.

Car-; a craft 1 This is the correct position for or the blunt end can take the four minutes. This disclosure came as penter prepared to return Canaveral Sunday' to receive big welcome, get a 6 itu Service Medal and hold a the same time, he had erred. conference Earlier, Powers quoted Carpen-' entere(J theBear(h atmos WASHINGTON (AP)-The in an effort to cooperate, dusiye photographs Word of the error came phe re in an incorrect position, the tice as as possible with the Rob-j the current atomic explosive tests ertson County, grand jury.l a Christmas Island in get a Distinguished have been on two control systems brun( tremendous ternp a a i i 0 np nan 1 If it Estes Case Data Rushed to Jury Newspaper Gels O1 VV. The 'Forbidden' BlaStS Rip Bomb Pictures i I OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)-The, I Oakland Tribune is publishing ini series Lt.

Col. John A. Powers, "Yep, I had a few moments of spokesman for the National Aero-ianxiety near the retrofire (brak- nautics and Space Administrating stage) over whether I was a day after the report that'going to have enough fuel." I Introductions in Order cier spacecraft would have burned up. The attitude of the spacecraft is important at another point! late in the flight, when the nnti rvitict aimoH tial material Saturday on finan- Billie Sol Estes to a. Texas that is of agriculture end must be aimed 34 degrees The material, part of a Depart, lie i i i i i i A i ui A above the horizontal to fire the, ment Qf Agricu re report on Es nedy said the Pa- 1 Barefoot Sanders, U.S.

attorney cific. BERLIN (AP)-Four blasts In braking rockets at the proper i in Dallas, will offer the material! The Tribune, a member of minutes ripped the. to the grand jury when it recon-j Associated Press, made the copy-j in Berlin Saturday and heightened venes Monday in Franklin, Ken-j jgh pictures available to the API tension over the fatal shooting qf for simultaneous publication byian East German border guard. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) shook hands and exchanged names, of course." In these words, pararescueman John F.

Heitsch Saturday described his first contact with astronaut Malcolm- Scott Carpen- It was Heitsch's first actual rescue jump, although he had had practice leaps. Their meeting took place about 1,000 miles southeast of this spaceport--some 250 miles beyond the point where Carpenter's Aurora 7 ttllu aiiuLinciiLA, tan i angle. This determines where jkelv (0 shed he spacecraft will land on earth. i circurn5tances isn "The grand jury's investigation other members. About 50 East German policy; ter after leaping into the Atlantic! capsule was to have dropped to Thursday to give Carpenter the water at the end of his three help he needed.

Powers said the fuel shortage Ideath. I enocuntered by Carpenter was However, Atty. Gen. 'Robert F. critical, since the other fuel sup- i Kennedy said, there are several ply was available.

references to Marshall in the re a a of death," Kenne-j rapner s'have been permitted on not police appeared when vh dy said, adding: "There is no hristrn as Island. iP redawn 0510 knocked-a SB lorbits about the earth. It sounded like two men meeting on a street rather than in the vast emptiness of an ocean infested A "la lTld ltd, with sharks. The fuel used is hydrogen per-1 port and they are being made oxide, which powers small jets toiavailable under a well-recognized cratic control the roll, pitch and yawiprocedure TM I of the craft. There are actually two sepa- rate sets of jets and two separate fuel tanks of hydrogen peroxide.

Before he was found dead last June 3 on his farm near Franklin, Marshall had been investigating Estes' cotton acreage was functioning in Lieck's office? changed names. Grinning, Sooner or later. Barlow may youthful pararescueman said: have 10 say something on this ab-j didn't know him and he di. snrbing subject. He can deny know me Ihe Woods charge or affirm it, with explanations.

Certainly voters will be interested in the state- the Continued partly cloudy One set of jets and Its fuel supply are controlled manually by renpcned last eek and ji a cases. Some and crated either automatically by deals omy with the circumstances No reporters or news photog- rushed to he scene and West Be aaiu. a i i j- formation in the report about his! How the Tribune obtained oot hl)I ll Lthat aa death. Earlier Saturday, in a speech to a breakfast meeting of a Demn- oictures is a story of newspaepr i for 25 miles across the city. AT enterprise that cannot be fully re-i other blast buckled the masoniSj ated i a dama 8 was done ty Al Reck veteran staff two detonations, if'arc nf ihi Tribune learned recently! could not be seen from the Was U7ncfar-n sllthnrif ine a i tha of candidates.

Kennedy vigorously defended the administration's a friend northern Cali-j Western authorities dling of the Estes case. Kennedy also suggested that the Democratic administration had fornia that such a set of pictures exist. The friend had seen them in a private home. wnit. allotments.

Marshall's death at acted quicker than had previous Through an'intermediary. Reck, hind the firs, was ruled a suicide, but the Republican administrations Rot touch with he person who did not know who set off the plosions, but speculated they wei the work of resistance groups ind the wall. The East German News Agei weather through Sunday Heitsch, 27, an airman first Burcau fnrccast i class from Madison. was the; The local temperature Sundayi first member of a'two-man Air computer or can be operated a semiautomatically by hand con- Red 15' had taken them and obtained pub- 1 cy ADN declared, however, tt lication rights. Reck said he did were a continuation begun Wedne not TOKYO (AP)-Communist McClellan, which Cong forces in South Viet Nam communicate directly attacks' photographer and did not i day when an East German bprde his identity.

-guard was shot and killed in did learn that Ihe pic-'exchange of fire with Western taken late in April, lice. along with the men in charge May' the two criminal courts, A district kwninc 77 vcars aao attorney, after all. must work with! Pianos and Or ans, Sold and years ago -c iudces in his efforts to ob-i Rented. Alamo Piano Company- Mtklmnto Pearl Jewelry at i convictions. 1101 S.

Alamo, CA 4-5526. (Adv.) Joske's Diamond narts wr-re flown lo Texas van nw 10 over huntin meni of Defense in Washington I set off the explosions to for security clearance. Thoy werciUnitcd Slates-Soviet talks in 'returned without an official.

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