The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 11

kj Our First Man in The Berkshire Eagle, Tuesday, July J3, lOSS-1-! part We ISeed Maimed Spaceships for Defense But We Put Priority on Pilots Retiirri the United JStates brutal pigh-gravity conditions (Man-In-Space-Soonest I calls for a he will be -thrust into total weight- pilot orbiting the earth in a cap-lesness'. His fuel ttanks may ex-jsule satellite by late 1959. This is plode to consume him tend its first man into spaa. This is the first article of ft le telling how he i being pre prized, the purpose of the tnp, and hoir, consume in fiery aij unrealistic date, many military death. SIow-Deaih Menace leaders feel.

By late 1959, they warif, Russia may well 'have launcbed.several manned-space- Once in orbit his controls may not function, and perhaps he will be marooned in vacuum, to die slowly from lack of food, water and air. His ship may be struck by a hurtling meteor, and he may dieting it for space horribly as air and body fluids e-jup by many months their target plode outward. If his return to The logical choice for this ships. thus our top scientists and military planners are considering alternate programs developing equipment now availab, modify atmosphere is not perfect, he mayjprogram crusTuTd by deceleration is the North. American foices.pfl5.ji a rocket powered--research fop swift a jretum may incinerate airplane.

Designed to fly fastgrthan him from fnction with the thicken- 4. 000 ph. the X-13 can be mated Police Report Concert Sales Doing Wellv Glenn Miller Band To Appear July 27 As Assn. Benefit Patrons tickets fori th'eGlenn Miller Band concert scheduled for July i.7 are getting scarce, it was report-ed today by Officer Earl H. Borden, generaLchairman-and piesident-of the Pittsfield Police Relief Assn.

Officer Borden said other ticket sales are also progressing well, but the patrons tickets have been disappearing fast. Only 500 patron seats were set up for thf Wahconah Park concert. Local police are seeking to fill Wahconah Park to its 2,400 for, the after-noon and-everung appearances of Ray Eberle ard his Glenn Miller Band. Don Cornell will be featured vocalist at both concerts. Patrons tickets "are being sold for the evening concert only.

Concerts will be given at 4 p.m. and 8.15 p.m., with the proceeds going to the benefit of the Police Assn. Weather permitting, police will also sell tickets at concert time for bleacher seats on the field. All advance sales are for seats under cover of the grandstand. Calls from New York State and ing air, These dangers, and many This must be overcome by.

a single pi-'X-13 to nwrtMharvUOO miles above lot. A man who is physically per-! the earth, into, orbit at 18, '000 p.h. feet, whose nerves are sound. This Nfore important, it: can bring its is the man I am calling Jim Randall. He was selected from the ranks of test pilots! to the giant avaho rocket booster, combination cotild send, the yther Frojccts Wait- Mahan "ROAD NORTH, painting by Thomas Blagden, ia He is about 28 or 29.

years old, with thousands of flours flymg experience in jets and rocket aircraft. He, is a capable mathematician, an expert navigator. He is a veteitin oFmany demanding flights with experimental, tricky airplanes. Most important: He-wdnts to make that flight, to accept all the dangers. And if we are to he successful our critical war for outer space, he-must make that flight soon.

Fight for Supremacy Our'sec'ond enemy is just as The race to put the first man in space is vital because of the stakes involved. The nation which first colors by the artistoh display for the remainder of the month at th'e Berkshire Museum. Mr. Blagden, was formerly head of the art department at' Hotchkiss School. He-esigned to devote full time to his painting, which is based' upon nature, and characterized by bright colors.

He has frequently exhibited at the museum. He is hav-' ing a showr at Sharon, (itinn. also. Vermont have been coming in for Ashl tickets. Officer Borden said.

conductor the Roxy The-urged local persons planning t0ater orchestra wall be held tomor-attend one of the concerts to get-ro'V mornin at Church of thc for He -died Pittsfield Iron Works Opening First of Four Service Stations if all goes weU, he trill return to earth. Martin Catdm is a leading authority on guided missiles, author of TanguSrd' ia 1957- and Countdown for just recently published. By MARTIN AIDIN' Written for United Press International cockpit. The moment has come, In a matter of minutes he will be lln tbr Amenca's first traveler in outer space. "How did I get her thinks.

What ami do i Will ever see this earth again? Jim Randajll is a name I picked at random. This Jim Randall doesn't exist and yet he does. He is a composite, a true composite, of the sort of man who will be- come, and very soon, America's first, man in space. How did he get into What is he. -doing? WjU he ever get back to earth again?" The answers are all before us.

We know we can putk man into space, into orbit. -The only question is when. It could be tomor- row. Thousands of scientists and engineers in the United States are at this moment preparing for Jim Randalls epochal flight When his moment does come, he'll be the right man for the job. Hell be prepared.

i Two Big Challenges' i Before we send our Columbus of space on his historic jqumey, lets examine, briefly, the chal- lenges he and "the men who paved the way for his take-off faces. There are tvTo major enemies. One is the simple, basic danger of this first flight, the danger that in asplit-second the efforts of years could be destroyed, and our first spaceman killed The second enemy is time. It is the knowledge thatiRussian scientists are in a crash program to send a spaceman out of this world be- fore we do. What of first enemy? The initial thrust of man away from his home" planet into space will he a harrowing journey.

From At i. i i the first second of flight the pilot will be subject at every moment to catastrophe. He wlil be punished by his rocket -launching- Wont establishes a capability of manned'highly secret projects. But they all Advanced Research Projects have given the Air Force the primary responsibility for the first manned flight into space. The Air Force needs des-erately to accomplish mission in- the shortest time possible It has several vtial manned space projects under vvayIn their success lies the key to future military superiority.

There is MISS, the beginning of manned space stations. There is DYNASOAR (for dynamic soaring), which calls for 16.000 m.p.h. manned bombers which plunge from space to ''skip across the atmosphere at per-sonic speeds. There are other. wait for the success of jhe most cntiqal flight ever made the launching of 'the man into space.

Police Briefs William Goodrow of, North Adam? reported his car ransacked while was parked on Pacific Street. Mr. Goodrow said two" packs of cigarettes, several pens and the wallet he left in his suit jacket were taken. Mrs. Lucy Blake of' 57'Dewhy Ave.

reported the entire right side of her car damaged while it was parked on Greenwich farp The Pittsfield Grain New West Street, reported several sections of septic tank pipe stolen from their lot lasrnight. space flight will have a tremendous military advantage over the rest of the world. The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, is not the ultimate weapon." It has too many weaknesses; it is barely capable of modifying its course flight. Defenses are being created to reduce its effectiveness. It is a powerful weapon, btyt it will replace manned strategic weapons.

We tmeed manned spaceships, manned satellites, manned space weapons. need them desperately if we are to continue 6ur present superiority in strategic striking power over the Soviet Union. Russian scientists 'are determined to wrest from "us the advantages we now "enjoy with our strategic range bombers. They can do this only with a successful manned space program. Survival Paramount Actually, theres little problem in sending a man into We A brother and sister were reportedly bitten by the same dog within two weeks.

Stephen Sperling, 2j, of 377 Pecks Rd. was bitten on the face Friday by a dog owned by Joseph McCluskey of 493 Pecks' police said. His sister? Linn, li, can put a man into space any tun biUen two svreks 8g0 and had we want to, one scientist told have four stitches taken on her i liituary Maranville, Miss Rachel M7 Pigott, Francis Rachel Maranville Miss Rkchael M. Maranville, 65, Of 103 Bradford died last evening at Pittsfield General Hospital, where she had been a patient two weeks. She was bom in Pittsfield, daughter of Warren B.

and Amanda- Burt Maranville, and was a lifelong resident here. Miss Maranville attehded the South Congregational Church and was a member of the" Golden Age Clnh and the Bobhy-Kidney-Son shine Clut. Survivors include a twin brother, Richard D. Maran-ille, of Lancaster X.Y and-a niece, Mrs. Robert Marshall, Ken-more Scotia Friends may call at the Newton Barnfather Funeral Home tonight from 7 to 9.

The family will '4-meet friends a't the funeral home tomorrow fram 2 to 4 and 7 to -9 p.m. Services will be Thursday at-the funeral home. Burial, will be in Bellevue Cemetery. Francis Pigott Francis Pigott of Of-foly, Ireland, brother of Williarft J. Pigott, 35 Forest PL, died at his home Saturday, after a long illness.

Survivors, besides his brother, include a sister, Mrs. Rose Ryan of Ireland, his wife and two children, Conductor Paul "Ash; Discovered Stars NEW YORK' A funeral serv-67, many- Transfiguration. Sunday at his home. Mr. Ash, born in Germany and brought up in Milwaukee, first became popular as a band leader -m Chicago in the 1920s.

He presided over the Oriental Theater, tiere, built for him by the Balaban 'Katz chain. In 1928 he made his triumphal entry into New York, billed as The Rajah of Jazz. to play at the then new. Paramount Theater. The band leader was credited with discovering and developing a number of performers who later became xstars.

Among them were Paul Whiteman, the Dorsey Brothers, Glen Miller, Ruth. JEtting, Helen Ginger 'Rogers and Dave Appolon. He retired from the Roxy in 1951. Funerals Harold W. Edwards i Services for Harold W.

Edwards tterei this afternoon, at 2 in St, Stephens Church with the Rev. Malcolm W. Eckel, rector, officiating. Burial was in Pittsfield Cemetery. Bearers were Carl Risch, Columbus O.

Castagnetti, Sherrill P.sBates, Irving O. Bull, John G. Anderson and Theodore R. Sherpy. Harold Graveside services for Harold H.

Lusk of Johnstown, N.Y., former resident of Pittsfield, were this afternoon at 2 In Pittsfield Cemetery The JtevEllisrJHoltr pas-tor of the First Baptist Church, officiated. Harry J. Fish Services for Harry' J. fish will be Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in St. Stephens Episcopal Bur" ial will be in Pittsfield Cemetery.

The family will meet friends at the Wellington Funeral Home tonight-from -7 to 9. Louis H. Loehr The-funeral of Louis H. Loehr will be tomorrow morning at 8:30 at the Condron Funeral Home with a High Mass of Requiem at 9 in St. Joseph's Church.

Burial will be in Joseph's Cemetery. 'The family will meet friends at the funeral home today front 2 to and 7 to 9 p.m. Fire Record Yesterday i 10, p.m. Gas fumes from a pow-er lawnmower ignited in a workshop at 83 McArthur St. when Rene G.

Fontaine entered the shop with a lighted cigarette. Lawnmower damaged. Firemen said Mr; Fontaine had just filled the mower with gasoline V-- To Find Tel. 3-4149 tTheres no problem with the rock- we h8 "Today in firing a man i 1a ArKl 1 BAB IIak kM into orbit af 18,000 miles per hour. The trick is to" bring him back alive.

The Air Force's MISS Project you take their tickets early. Tickets are available from the desk officer at the police station and from any police officer, as well as at several local stores. BCIDC Approv Budget For Advertising The Berkshire County Industrial Development Commission-approved last night a space advertising budget of approximately 510.000 for the rest of the jear, including 53,000 for a special series of ads in the New York Times. Philip C. Ahern, executive director of BCIDC, said the advertising program was presented by John Fr Downing of the Berkshire Hills Conference and W.

Frank, owner of the Boston-New York advertising agency Which handles the Conference and BCIDC account. The special New York Times ads will beaimed af smalt family-owned businesses, inviting them to locale In" the Berkshires. The commission also approved expenditures of for ads in Business Week, 52.400 each for. Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Commerce and 5430 for Industrial Development Magazine. Snack Bar Opened In Lanesboro By Francoeurs Mr.

and Mrs. Noble J. Fran-coeur have opened the Westview Snack Bar in, Lanesboro at tle in-tersection of-Rockwell-Jload-4o Mount Greylock and Route 7 to Williamstown, They recently purchased the Westview Cabins from Mrs. Lillian snack bar will offer sandwiches, grinders, pizzas, soda and ice cream. A large parking area is available for patrons.

Mrs. Francoeur was employed for seven years at Pontoosuc Lodge. Her husband works at the GE naval ordnance They have three sons, and, a daughter. CD Staff Sees Film On Electric PoM er The monthly meeting of members of the.stafr of Sector 4- Civil held last night at headquarters in Berkshire Village. John M.

Russell, supervisor of distribution for the Western Massachusetts EJectnc showed a film, 'Electric PowVr and Cpmmon Sense. Alphonse T. Kasuba, sector director, presided- the time that I one of 13 oils and gasoline during the fouf days. Simon -Lipton of Pittsfield Iron Works Coal Supply announced today the appointment of Ethan A. (Scotty) Scott a4 manager of the new Richfield station and of William McDermott as manager of the-tire og tires, batteries, and ac-' Mr, Scott, 39, former owner of Scotty's Service Station on Elm Street, has been in the gasoline service busmess'for 14 years.

For fiveireaT ffirwarthe-Army-and was, a technician, fourth class. He is married and has. four The family resides at 5 Rostone PI. Mr. McDermotf, 23, of Lanes-boro is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of science degree in business administration.

He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve and' fulfilled his requirement with Co.D in Great Barrington. For a year and a half he was with B. F. Goodrich Co. and received training and experience in retail and commercial sales of passenger, truck, farm, and industrial tires, and retreading.

He has been training recently as credit sales manager for the Pittsfield Iron Works Coal Supply budget department. 3 Bids Opened On Fuel Oil For County JaiF Three bids 'on the county jail fuel supply were opened this mTrmngT but 'the County CorrirnTs-sioners will not, award the contract until they receive specifications on ffieXow bid. 1 Pierce Coal 4 Oil Co. was bidder, asking 8 61 cents per gal-" km on the approximately contract. Other than saying the oil would be supplied by Sears Cor Inc.

of Albany, the producer "as not identified. Frank E. Gogan's bid for Socnny Mobil was 9 72 cents per gallon, while L. R.Swratland Inc. submitted a price of 9.70 for the same oil.

1 Holders of the present contract, Five Brothers Oil did' not submit a bid. Last month the commissioners called for new b.ds when there seemed to be some confusion over the fype or oil being offered. pgIQv urging School To' Blnspccted ly I Accmlitlng Service Bishop Memorial School of Nursing-' wjill inspected by representatives of the NationaKNursing Accrediting Service sometime this fall, according to ThomaV A. Harrington. assistant administrator, at Pittsfield General Hospital, Applications, with detailed written, information, have already been supplied to the service, he said.

It was erroneously in Friday's Eagle 1 hat the PGH school was already fully, accredited. Tim Olympics To Be Postponed If It Rains If predicted showers interfere with the Junior Olympics, sihed-uled to be held tonight at Clapp Park, the Department of Parks and Recreation will move the event to Thursday. G. Thomas Farley, director, said radio announcements will be made at 5:30 p.m. if the events are to be "postponed." The Olympics win start at 6:30 p.m., if weather permits.

This year.s program has been worked out in conjunction with suggestions made by President Eisenhowers Council on Youth Fitness, which emphasizes balanced programs of fitness for the development-of the whole individual," Mr. Farley said. Each of the citys '20 playgrounds will enten one contestant in each event, with every member of the winning Olympic team receiving a felt pennant embossed with his playgrounds name The winning playground will also receive the Olympic banner. William A. Tully will be chief clerk of course.

Service of the Department of Infanti'e Paralysis. 'X Mitchell Ethan A. Scott Pittsfieki Iron Works Coal Supply, distributor of Richfield gasoline, announced today the opening on Thursday at 438 South St. of the first of four service stations under its ownership. The other stations' will be at 239 West Housa tonic St, corner of Linden Street and Daniels Avenue, and upper North Street, opposite the former Pontoosuc Lake station.

In addition, the company leases two stations, George's, on Dalton Avenue and Mario's on Tylet Street. The new threebay station on South Street was built by contractor Robert Betit of Dalton. It features large doors, modern lighting, and the latest type equipment. One bay will' be used exclusively for tires. Prize Offered Persons who register at the station on grand opening days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will be eligible for a chance -on twor major prizes a Motorola portable television set, VHF- and -UHF, valued at 5159 95, and a boys or girls bicycle.

Children attending rfiusf be accompanied by adults. Lollipops and balloons will be distributed, and a sat of glasses will be given with each" purchase of eight gallons of Stapleloii Plans lo Criticize iirnsRettntl County CommissioneMVilham Stapleton" of a Democratic candidate for Congress, said last night that he intends lo criticize lerecor(fandpoll(ies'' of his op-ponent in the coming primary campaign and to campaign on the issue." He Spoke to more than 50 Pittsfield Democrats at a gathering in the Hotel Wendell-Shcrwood. 'Mary Burns Drury, who Established herself as an outstanding election worker last fall in Mayor Haugheys organization, pesidetj at the session and was in charge of arrangements. Stapleton's primary election opponent is James M. Burns, of Wil-iiamstown.

Over the past 'two months Burns has had published in all the daily of (he 1st' Congressional District statements explaining his starlet on various national and international Stapleton said last night that he will take Issue not onlv with the published statements of Burns but with public statements he has made. However, he did not take issue with any of Burns sentiments last-night. The lTolyoke lawyer also said he will condurt a campaign which is basically "decent and honest." Ilf said there wolild be no personal vilification, character assassination. and whispering campaigns. He said he would reject the ue of campaign material which misrepresents the facts about any candidate, ROCK of AGES MEMORIAL? rm Small Thing A Big Thing A to Look For Actual Size UNLESS IT HAS tlUS SEAL IT IS SOT A ROCK VF AGES MEMORIAL Brown, Stevens Fifield, Inc.

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Then go out and start your polio shots fast. Polio-doesnt give anyone a second chance. 1 DONT TAKE A CHANCE-TAKE YOUR POLIO.SHpTS! See your doctor or health department i- Mimi Largest Display in Berkshire Over 29 Year of Service i "Rock of Granite. Savino BrosMonument Co. The Berkshire Eagle The only otier speaker last night was Leonard E.

city soli- eitohor Holjoke, who testified as In wek, isjhe juily 'school- in' Vet-Staplelon's, qualifications and St. Lpke's School of Nursing, vvhicfr1 received hill accreditation last the nation- ern Massachusetts on Thu message 1 published as a public service in cooperation with the Adverbs! Council, the Public Health qcj5 We fare, the Americpn Medicpl Assbciaion and the Nnfiorbl-Foundation for 37 Wahconah Street i 1 hst..