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THE LINCOLN STAR TFF5 ear Xu. LINCOLN, MONDAY MORNINO, JANUARY 22, KILLS SIX Orbit Hinges Weather SCIENTISTS ENCOURAGED WITH FINGERS CROSSED By ALVIN' B. WEBB JR. Cape Canaveral plans to rocket astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

into orbit around the earth Wednesday hinged Sunday on a balky space capsule and tricky winter weather STAR STAFF PHd'J'O the countdown moved to within Tl hours, scientists were a little more encouraged about their chances of getting the first manned orbital flight off the ground on time but were keeping their fingers crossed. After a brief week-end scare, technicians quickly corrected a new mechanical problem in lt' 2 -ton space capsule. And early long-range forecasts indicated than weather for this time; the skies will have to be al of year over the Atlantic. most cloudless. Simultane- But the last 72 hours are ously, the weather has to be the longest and most difficult.

good and the seas smooth in In this period the myriad the 3 possible landing areas electrical parts and 7 miles 500 miles east and 500 of wiring aboard the capsule miles south of Bermuda, and and the 50,000 moving parts 800 miles southeast of Cape inside the rocket booster Canaveral. must check out perfectly be' fore the man can go aboard. Glenn Anxious Glenn, a 40-year-old Marine lieutenant colonel who said he is to make the trip, continued preparations optimistic weather picture for his il 3-orbit Sunday. flight through space by weather pattern over the Atlantic is shaping up better than normal for mid-win! the report said. I The overall pattern is relatively good compared to a normal Then the Weather Bureau (ffi-A handsome 40- year-old bachelor was be dlfilcuU to predict willed 50,000 cape, which is affected by short local difficulties such as Proposals Cause Rich Bachelor To Flee England Karen And 200-Hour Project 200 Hours Builds Old Qlobe Theater 'JUST' A CLASS PROJECT By DEAN TEHBII.L Star Staff Writer Wilber-Work and Karen Honisky have never been strangers, as witnessed by her top grades and recent winning of a University of Nebraska Regents scholarship.

But never had her fellow seniors at Wilber High School seen such tangible proof as in her astonishingly detailed class project. More than 2(M) a few recruited from a boy into her model of famous old (ilobe Theater. about all 1 did during Christmas Karen said, admit I never would have undertaken the job if I had foreseen all the time 5 To A Side Each of the 8 sides required 5 hours of meticulous miniature process similar to that of the original building. Hundreds of tiny wood strips were cut to exact size, then carefully glued. A brick pattern w'as etched, almost microscopically, into the floor and foundation.

Although the model far exceedtni Ted requirement that each of her students complete either a term paper or crafts project, even this monumental task satisfy Karen. I should have chosen the term she reflected. ended up writing one in addition, just to explain the Kansas' Schoeppel Is Cancer Victim WAS NEBRASKA GRID STAR Washington IB Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel, died unexpectedly Sunday at the Naval Medical Center in suburban Bethesda, where he had been under treatment for cancer.

He was 67. A two-time governor of his native Kansas, Schoeppel had been in the hospital since Dec. 4 but only last week his office had reported him making progress in his treatments. was even expressed that he might be able to return to his Senate desk late this month. Conservative Schoeppel generally was counted in the more conservative wing of the Republican Party.

He did not participate a great deal in floor debate ANDKLM but wa.s in ofl-the-floor versily of Negraska, gradual-11? im. 12:30 A m. I 1 direction of party policy. with a law degree in 1922, 2 0 Schoeppel was elected to the the year he was a star in a Senate in 1948 after serving football game when Nebraska sun 53 a pm m-U ft.SI pm ging two miles across the sandy beaches of Cape Canaveral early Sunday. For Glenn, the hundreds of Project Mercury scientists who are working to put him into orbit and the thousands of visitors who have jammed the nearby beach areas to await the results, the weather threatened to be the biggest headache.

The weather demands for the orbital flight are stiff. For launch-time at the cape, Notoriously Bad In the cape area, January and February weather is notoriously But the U.S. Weather Bureau in Miami presented an WIREPHOTO ONLY DOLLS REMAIN Three dolls, battered and covered with snow, were found with a mattress and bedspring in the vicinity of the General Shelton home, destroyed by avalanche. All 3 members of the Shelton family were killed. Local Talks Pupils To Hear On Communism BY AMERICAN LEGION POST 3 MEMBERS on condition he did not marry fled the country to dodge a shower of marriage proixis- als.

Army Capt. Douglas Naylor of West Bromwich, who said he got 30 proposals after the will was published, resigned his post as adjutant of a Birmingham territorial unit after 18 years, and left for a long vacation in Italy. stand the embarrassment of these proposals any he said By WOODY HOWE Star Staff Writer Lincoln public school children will hear talks on post 3 0 i 11 for the study of communism. The Rev. Mr.

Kuhn and Dr. Court both have traveled assemblies late in the spring, according to Johnston. Dr. Fredstrom said this is the extent of the Lincoln involvement in the lering to my Roars Down Slope BURIES CABINS IN CGLGRADG Twin Lakes, Colo. A wall of snow collapsed off the side of Mt.

Elb highest mountain, Sunday, and led 9 persons in houses below, killing at least 6. er was missing. The avalanche, worst in Colorado history, was blown loose by 70-mile-per-h our winds and roared down the slopes at 150 miles per hour, crushing three houses. Hundreds of rescuers, working directly beneath another great potential snowslide poised on the slopes above, recovered 6 bodies before they called off the search at dusk and gave up hope that a 7-year-old boy sucked out of one of the houses by the vacuum power of the rushing snow' would be found alive. Families Evacuated Twin dozen families w'ere evacuated late Sunday.

was Just a big a survivor, William Adamich 35, told United Press International. hear it coming. 1 know where I was Adamich and his wife lay in the WTeckage of their home for hours before being pulled alive from the snow a debris. just lay there and he said. kept hol- wife and kids.

On tw'o previous iriunism by American Legion the Soviet Union, manned space flights the Post 3 members next semes- Additionally, plans are be--Legion program now. I but 1 got no answer. It was 15-minute rocket I 0 Nebraska jng developed to invite Judges I School Superintendent e-1 Jost except for the rides of astronauts Alan B. 1 oan Legion proposed basic 1 Herbert ven N. Watkins said no one i Shepard Jr.

and Virgil I. Gris-1 course on communism will not som last year weather; be part of the curriculum, problems forced several de- This is contrary to some relays. ports that the public school If all goes as planned, system has accepted the Le- Glenn will be rocketed into! course and would offer orbit at a speed of 17,500 it for the semester beginning A. Ronin to speak at school from the state com- Adamich said he was afraid mittee, assigned to prepare: of freezing to death, and saw teaching materials for the. the snow and ceiling timbers course, had talked with him down on be- miles per hour 5 miles a second sometime between just before his departure.

have burnt all the letters. 30 p.m. EST None sent photographs. How! Wednesday. Scientists plan can I have an idea what these women are like, even if 1 wanted to see them, let alone marry them? It puzzles me why they bothered to The money was left to Nayler by Miss Eleanor Plumpton I he was living of a man to whom she had been engaged 70 years ago.

The Weather LINCOLN; Considerable cloudiness and continued very cold. High Monday near 5 above. EAST AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA: Partly cloudy and very cold Monday. High zero to 5 above. I.inr*(n Trniarralurea 1:1) am.

iSun 0 2 30 7 am 0 3.30 6 3 a 0 4 6 4 30 am. 0 5.30 am 0 pm. 4 am 1 7:30 7:30 a 2 8 30 pm 4 8 .30 a 3 9 30 pm 3 a 4 10:30 pm. 3 to let him make 3 orbits before triggering the reverse rockets for the return through the atmosphere to a landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Net Saves Life Fleetwood, England tf' Trawler Capt.

Peter Ince owes his life to a fish net. Knocked unconscious by a breaking rope, Ince fell overboard, but came to underwater, fought his way into a herring net and was hauled aboard with the fish. January 29. The Legion announced late last month a plan for developing the course. Clergymen Appear Dr.

R. L. Fredstrom, public WEATHER? IT'S GONNA BE COLD Cloudy skies and continued very cold are forecast for Nebraska Highs will range from near zero east and central to zero or 5 above in the Panhandle. mercury may climb about it. fore the rescuers got him out.

He said he would study! Robert Rinker said he materials in the course, found Adamich. He said he should it be submitted to the made his way to the slide Lincoln school system. Should scene, heard a groan and saw its content appear superior to head sticking up i whst tnc schools flrc now; the snow. I teaching about schools curriculum coordina-! as high as 5 above during the tor, said he has tentatively day. approved the appearances of the Rev.

C. George Kuhn and Dr. FTank A. Court on the social studies television Light snow was falling Sunday in Scotlsbluff, Chadron, Sidney and Alliance. Cold ruled the state Sunday.

in for these speakers, both Legionnaires, were made with Miles W. communism, he might propose to the Board of Education that parts of it be incorporated in the curriculum, he continued. Though the board is not normally asked to pass on matters of curriculum. Dr. Watkins said he felt the touchy nature of such a course declasses for 7th and 8th grades high was only 8 at Omaha and Beatrice.

Vaientine manded board approval. and Alliance shared the low said, everything Rinker said. guess he thought the A-bomb had wife was later found about 8 feet below her husband. The victims were all members of two families. One family was wiped out com- Johnston, Dr.

Fredstrom above zero. high Johnston is chairman of the I was 7, the low 0. He said he was pleased that of 10 below. reporting: the A i a Legion had jxiints except Omaha had lows; adopted a to the comparative two two-year terms as gov- defeated Notre Dame and its ernor. He w'as re-elected to famous He a third 6-year term in 1960., participated also in track and Schoeppel for 4 years baseball, headed the important Repub -1 At Schoeppel was a llcan committee on commit- memher of Sigma Nu and Phi tees which decides part Delta fraternities and assignments to coinmitiee.

innocents. He had been hon- the lime of his death he was with the I senior Republican on the Alumni distiri I Commerce Committee and also was on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Schoeppel was a Wichita, guished service award. He had addressed several Nebraska Republican functions, including the 1958 state lawyer and a resident' cA Wichita at the lime is widow was Marie Thom death. Schoepel was born in 1894 on a farm near ClafUn, attended Ransom, high school, the University oi Kan- sA 5 for one year and then joined the Naval Reserves.

He later attended the Uni- illo HirnuiiiUiiun Buunnivlt BrowiuxUki 8 Dta FI CwMj sen of Tilden before their! marriage in 1924 a 1 was a University of Nebraska graduate. Moon 7 34 am Normal January prw'ipiUtKzn Total Januaiy pracipKatioo to 37 ui. Total to Bate 37 in. XabraaSa TtmparaMiraa ml 7 0 Imperlai 3 Omaha 8 2 SitHtabluff 3 -4 North 4 6 Chadntn 4 fl Hurueit Ailiama -J -Itl Orarid Iklatul 3 TriiiiMrraturaa F.lkrabcre If 37 Juneau 3U 11 33 U) Kanaaa CtW 33 12 .34 3i 41 Miami 77 TO 17 Uiiui -St Patri 3 I 78 48 73 53 20 Neu York 37 3f Ifl PtKMMUX 45 0 Sait Lake City 13 5 1 i Saa Antonio 54 41 San Franmaco 38 30 S7 30 33 13 At 53 Campa 57 44 WaahliMDuii Ji TO '1 pletely. Five cars and trucks parked alongside the buildings were carried a quarter of a mile.

Century-old trees were snapped off. The snow cleared an area of timber analysis ot communist and gijove the houses as if it had free enterprise systems. logged off. Johnston, like Dr. slide rolled up the trees IS a 1 that studies ot aiQjjg with debris and huge communism be handled deli-1 into a mass 150 feet its crest.

are proceeding slowly i two small tom with gloves on, he said, referring to the speaking lineup. must retain it on an absolutely factual level we need to press (the students) with Only Pilot Program Johnston said his committee IS not planning a course or anything like it is, instead, a pilot program being tried this spring for evaluation over the summer were sucked out of the cabin by the avalanche. One of the bodies was found. The other was not recovered nightfall, of the National Ski Patrol were stationed on the side of the mountain with two-way radios as hundreds of volunteers toUed below. The Ski Patrol members said a second slide, po- and possible expansion next slopes if the temperature had risen much above 20 degrees.

The dead were Identified as: WTHKIMUm) fall, he said. 'I'he state committee, of which Johnston Is nut a niein- her, reportedly is working on the course with the State Department of Education. Present plans call for the materials to be made available to local school iMiards for the 1962-63 school year. The series of talks is separate from, but related to, this course, said Johnston. BELLE'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN Peterson Co, Open daily 8-9.

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son, Steve, 15. daughters, Linda, 9, and Vickie Kay, 7. Adamich 8. The Adamich brother, Michael, 7, was feared in the tons of snow. Today's Chucklo The credit card ertalei another Americaa ftril distant debt..