Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 13

13-A TIIE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abileac Tnu Wrdaefcdiiy Evening October 3 19E2 H33 Tokeon From FORT WORTH (AP) A man widower who lives alone and a woman teamed to rob EL 0 'Soapy) Gill am 71 a bomb shelter manufacturer of $13300 m-" heart began to flutter lated these details: ball about 10 minutes and "she GiUam slowed recently by a Unable to find the safe the gun-! The woman heeded his muffled The woman rang his doorbell ame- heart ailment and fading vision' man hit GiUam three times ith'Deu mn hi about 7 pm and introduced her-! She sprang to the front door asked to ride his electrical chair-'his fist GiUam said he'd take1 and a $3500 diamond ring at hu Kif as a volley baU player from1 the rang and a man uft The request was denied to the safe if they would Th home Tuesday nighL (Florida running by her with a gun in his truderc GillamV untie him iw him oa the bed pushed aa He re- am1 ball 1 The two discussed volley upstairs about 10 minutes and "she: GiUam slowed recently Tey left the fonner soap heard all about you in maker bound and gagged but Florida" she said some' yeBed: This is a stickupjau2e and covered his mouth winding staircase took a pot of departed set pills to ward off a possible of the girls asked me to stop by got a secret safe and a with another strip (flowers off a post lifted a board Gilliam summoned help through and teU you of money in it I gonna known you a long time! and disclosed the safe then un- his attack It eon- While he was mixing her av 1 fonna blow your the gunman informed his locked it with a key gists of a direct Hfrhrae link drink she made a phone call head off victim your sight was worth GiUam was escorted back to to the home of his daughter Mrs my parents know where The gunman directed his victim a damn you might recognise his bed and bound again His' Arthur Ticknor hand1 PENNEYS WjViVfVERS snop 9 TO 9 FREE PARKING Here it comes the high point of big year of bargains! For months now has been unfolding value after value but saved the biggest ones for now! Thursday! Friday! Saturday! Buy 3 PROUD PARENTS Walter Schirra Sr and his wife tell newsmen at their San Diego home Tuesday they have confidence in their astronaut son and are ready for him to (AP Wirephoto) Save 159 to 217! Rah-Rah7 Still Describes Schirra By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (AP) is what the boys at Annapolis called Walter Schirra Jr 17 years ago The name till is appropriate today a powerful boat expect one of his women I to snag him the Annapolis yearbook continued mean-1 whUe his big brown eyes still have that new-fields-to-conquer Excerpts from the 1945 Naval look" TODDLETIME Academy yearbook provide idea of Schirra's character is a guy who could make anyone laugh His never-ending Wally succumbed to matrimony not long after graduation and has been conquering new worlds ever since climaxed by his selection Printed Sleepers Regularly 219 Sizes 1 sense id humor descriptions andas the pilot for the longest US ability to execute new pranks manned orbital flight yet at-have kept us either amused or temped to 4 NOW 3 For 5 Si holding the bag" Easygoing imperturbable Wally Schirra is much the same today The gal who snagged him was Josephine Fraser of Seattle Wash They have two children'! He is the most carefree of the Walter III 12 and Suzanne 4: original seven-man astronaut Their home is in Houston head-team always ready with a smile quarters of the Manned Space Toddletime grows one full year thanks to extra-long tops Gripper9 fasteners 4 inch cuffs And the roomy fit never washes out! Non-skid plastic soles are ventilated to breathe wipe clean Soft cotton in prints or a fast wise crack Nothing seems to disturb him He went about the strenuous train- Flight Crater Schirra was born March 12 1923 in Hackensack NJ and ing for his orbital flight with the grew up in Oradeli NJ He was ease of preparing for a family pic-j somewhat of a hell-raiser in (hose nic He is happiest when things' days when he'z at the! a normal recalls stick of a jet plane the wheel of mother who with Schirra's a fast sports car or is skimming father now lives in San Diego the waves on water skies behind 'r'nnf he was a she W8S 8 60th DAYS SPECIAL! Compare the Savings on Towncraft SPORT Telephone Being Carried By Schirra SHIRTS Long Sleeves Flawless Tailoring Solids! Plaids! Checks! Gentry Prints Too Regular and Button-down Collars LADIES SEAMLESS HOSE HOODED Sweat Shirt HOODED Sweat Shirt says "Not that Wally ever got I into any real trouble but was so mischevious that I had to send him to his room often for punish-1 She remembers that Wally was I about aircraft" This was natural because he came from a flying family The eider Schirra was a World War I ace in the Army Air Corps and after the war he and his wife barnstormed1 through the eastern United States in a light plane with Wally's mother walking a wing or two in her day mother describes her son as an excellent student especially in mathematics and says he had a lot of girl friends but I no The family attended the Episcopal Church Wally's father wanted him to go I to West Point but he chose Annapolis and naval aviation He ia now a commander Schirra was first introduced to real danger in the Korean war where he flew 90 combat missions in F84E jet aircraft He downed one enemy MIG Tighter and had one probable kill For his service he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and two air medals After Korea he was assigned to help develop the sidwindcr air-to-1 air missile Later as a test pilot Schirra helped develop a whole family of super-fast Cutlass Fury Demon and Phantom 88 I Sizrs S-M-L Size S-M-L a a a Sizes Vt to 11 S' For SPECIAL! 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CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (AP sort of extension telephone designed for mid-ocean raft lounging is part of astronaut Waltf Schirra equipment for his scheduled six-orbit flight The idea is to let people know where he and how he at Journey's end The telephone is essentially a tiny highly refined version of the headsets worn by switchboard operators It has a 30-foot cord one end of which can he carried by the astronaut from the space capsule to the life raft The addition of the telephone to the spacecraft equipment was predicated upon the assumption that Schirra would much prefer a sunbath aboard the life raft to remaining inside the capsule cabin after landing This assumption was understandable since one capsule sank only minutes after impact in July 1961 This was the one Virgil I Grissom rode on a 15-minute sub-orbital flighL There was i communications blackout at the end of the three-orbit flight by Malcolm Scott Carpenter last May 24 With this new telephone system Schirra could plug his extension cord into the capsule's "ommuni-caliona in itself about the size of a pound of enter the lire rail and still keep in touch with his rescuers The capsule's tiny pushbutton transmitters built by the Collins Ttidio Company of Dallas Tex have a theoretically unlimited range 199 LEDDY BOOT SHOP 450 PINE Downtown Abilina Yaar triad and Prnvad Quality Waitarn Stara BACK TO SCHOOL SAVE NOW! 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