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Assembly Considers Merging HUNTINGTON (UPI) The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly gets down Monday to the hard business of legislating on racial questions, the place of women in the church and how to proceed with mergers with other churches. The 456 commissioners who make up the 103rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. have been in session here since Thursday night. But the first days have beer. used mainly for election of a new moderator, committee works and routine business, plus worship services.

Crowded into the last day and a half will be almost all of the controversial items on the agenda. Sunday's schedule included an elders' fellowship breakfast, a worship service in a downtown theater, an afternoon, presentation by the agencies, and a "love feast" with the Reformed Church in America. One of the questions pending before the commissioners Monday is whether to take further steps toward merging with RCA, a "conservative" body of about 225,000 members with churches scattered through most of the nation except the South. Crucial Decision. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.

C. Monday Morning, April 29, 1963 22 Times Around Ambitious Orbits Slated Next Month By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -Leroy Gordon Cooper preparing here for the most ambitious U.S. manned space flight yet, may become the first astronaut to face a true space environment protected only by his pressure suit. "'We want to see how well a man can live in a pressure suit," Cooper explained matter-of-factly in discussing plans to depressurize his spacecraft so cabin environment will be the same as that outside--more than 100 miles above the earth.

The important depressurization experiment is one of many tasks Cooper will attempt after he blasts off atop an Atlas rocket next month-under the present on a flight intended for 22 orbits lasting 34 hours. The flight could last an orbit or two longer, he said, if his supply of oxygen, fuel and other consummables holds up. Among other things, Cooper will eject a flashing light sphere which will orbit the capsule; trail an orange balloon on a 100-foot line; evaluate different types of food; sleep; study the stars, and do considerable space sightseeing. Flying Camera. Cooper, called "Gordo" by the other astronauts, will tote SO much photographic equipment that he terms himself a "flying camera." For the first time on an American manned space flight, a television camera will be aboard to relay to earth pictures of the pilot in action.

But most important, Cooper's flight is to greatly broaden U.S. knowledge of man's ability to function during prolonged exposure to space, especially during a period of more than 33 hours of weightlessness. Medical monitors on the ground will watch him closely throughout the mission for any signs of strain, and afterwards he will receive thorough examinations by doctors and psychologists. If the 36-year-old Air Force major completes the full flight, he will eclipse by a wide margin the previous American man-in-space flights- -the 15-minute suborbital rides of Alan B. Shepard Jr.

and Virgil I. Grissom, the three-orbit missions of John H. Glenn Jr. and Malcolm Scott Carpenter and the six-orbit trip of Walter M. Schirra Jr.

But he will fall far short of the tandem flights last August of Soviet cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich who circled the globe for approximately 94 and 70 hours, respectively. It will be next year, with the first flights of the two-man Gemini apsule, before the United States will surpass these Russian feats. Gemini pilots will remain in orbit for up to two weeks and rendezvous with other orbiting spacecraft. A tentative plan calls for one of the astronauts to step outside the speeding vehicle to see what space is like. Because Cooper's flight may be the last in Project Mercury, many of his experiments are geared to gather data for Gemini.

The depressurization test will be vital trial of a pressure suit's ability to protect the life of a man stepping into the hostile void of space. Cooper said he will depressurize the cabin late in flight, probably on the 17th orbit, after most mission objectives have been achieved. Duration of the flight afterwards will depend to a great extent on how much of the precious spacecraft oxygen supply is required to the cabin to a normal 5.5 pounds per square inch, equal to ground level pressure. New Feat. There is no evidence that any of the Soviet space pilots depressurized their craft.

The release of the balloon and the flashing light sphere will determine Cooper's ability to judge distances in space, which will be essential for rendezvousing the Gemini vehicle with another satellite when both are traveling nearly 18,000 miles an hour. Now Makes It Shrink And Heal Without Surgery Pain In Minutes both ointment or suppository form called Preparation In addition to actually shrinking piles- Preparation lubricates and makes bowel movements less painful. It helps to prevent infection (a principal cause of hemorrhoids). Only Preparation contains this magic new substance which quickly helps heal injured cells back to normal and stimulates regrowth of healthy tissue again. Just ask for Preparation Ointment or Preparation Suppositories (easier to use away from home).

Available at all drug counters. Emotional Ills Topic For Doctors ASHEVILLE -Emotional problems will receive prime attention from the 1,800 Tar Heel five-day expected, the State physicians here for a Medical Society beginning this coming weekend. Five speakers will discuss mental health, for the 109th annual convention of Society. The speakers and their topics include: "Emotional Aspects in the Surgical Patient" by Dr. Robert N.

Creadick of Durham; "Emotional Aspects in Medicine" by Dr. Morton D. Bogdonoff of Durham; "Emotional Aspects in Adolesence" by Dr. Felix P. Heald of Washington, D.C.: "Emotional Aspects of Illness- -Psychiatric Viewpoint" by Dr.

Rex of Chapel Hill; and "The AMA's Program for Mental Health" by Dr. Lindsay E. Beaton of Tuscon, Arizona. Other speakers during the three day general sessions include: Dr. George M.

Fister of Ogden, Utah, president of the American Medical Association; Dr. Ellen Winston of Washington, D.C., U.S. Commissioner of Welfare and former public welfare chief for the State of North Carolina. Dr. Richard C.

Bates of Lansing, Mich. will speak at the annual banquet on "How to Have a Heart Attack." Monday's events include the opening of scientific and technical exhibits plus the first general session. Also scheduled are a postgraduate audio -visual presentation on recent medical techniques, medical school alumni luncheons, special scientific section meetings a and another meeting of the House of Delegates. Tuesday's program includes another House of Delegates session, additional alumni luncheons plus more section meetings on specialized medical subjects. The president's dinner and ball are set Tuesday evening.

22 orbit flight. Wednesday's agenda includes a joint session with the State Board of Health, award presenhe would be doing tations, reports and the election of film released to new officers. The Auxiliary to he replied: "No, I the Society will be in concurrent keep that as a sur- session during the convention. Dr. John R.

Kernodle of Burlany comments di- is president of the Society. viewing audience? The president elect is Dr. John yes." S. Rhodes of Raleigh. He'll Wait Later Byrd in No Hurry To TakeUp Taxes WASHINGTON (-Sen.

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Anderson, N. M. Gore told a reporter, "I believe we ought to get started and not wait for the House to send us a bill late in the session as it so often has, when tempers are frayed and time is short and we cannot give it proper consideration." Waiting On House. Byrd reiterated that he would begin taking testimony on the legislation immediately after the House acts. He does not expect this before June.

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HARRY BYRD using his power. Observers say this is one of the most crucial decisions facing the assembly, highest legislative body of the 928,000 member Southern Presbyterian Church. A decision to proceed could, in effect, turn the Church's back on proposals that it move instead toward eventual union with the more "liberal" United Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern), or even with other denominations. The question on race relations, is not, of course, whether to condone segregation.

For the past 10 years the General Assembly has been on record as condemning enforced segregation as un-Christian. It is rather to decide how strongly-worded the Assembly's recommendation should be. The permanent committee on Christian relations has proposed that the Assembly call on every member church, institution and agency to drop all remaining racial barriers. In almost every case decision will rest with the local church or trustees of institutions. On Saturday the assembly reaffirmed its policy of not meeting in cities where its Negro commiss'oners-there are 9 this year out of 456-are subject to discrimination in lodging and eating facilities.

Woodmen Open State Meeting GREENSBORO -Around 225 persons from all over North Carolina registered at the O. Henry Hotel Sunday for the opening of the State Head Camp Convention of the Woodmen of the World. Sunday night the group attended a dinner at the Tropicana Club and Monday, wives of the W.O.W., will be guests at a fashion show to be held at the O. Henry Hotel from 12 to 2 p.m. After a business session in the morning in which the group will be welcomed by Mayor Pro-Tem William L.

Trotter, David L. Rollins, Greensboro consul commander, Mrs. Virginia Butchart, behalf of the Women in Woodcraft. The group will be addressed by Charles A. Hines, honorary chairman of the society's board of directors.

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Two nigh-intensity xenom gas lights will blink every second and Cooper will photograph them and make periodic observations and distance estimates for the approximately three orbits it will be in sight. The estimates, recorded on tape, and the photographs will be correlated and compared after the flight. The astronaut is to pop the inflatable balloon out during the sixth orbit and tow it through space least one orbit before cutting it loose. A strain gauge will measure amount of atmospheric drag on the object and Cooper also will observe and photograph it. As Cooper whizzes around the globe, he will look like a cameraladen American tourist traveling about Europe.

The television monitors are designed to receive the pictures at the slow-scan rate of one frame every two seconds, compared with 30 frames a second for commercial television. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will have conversion equipment at Cape Canaveral so that some of the pictures can be fed as swiftly as possible through the television networks to home sets. Surprises Planned. Cooper hinted his space television debut may hold a few surprises. German Visit To Fort Bragg FT.

BRAGG (UPI)-Gen. Fredrick Foertsch, top West German military commander, will visit Ft. Bragg May 2-3, it was announced Sunday. Gen. Foertsch is the insector general of the West German armed forces, a position analogous to the chairman of the U.

S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Goertsch was a deputy chief of staff of the NATO forces before assuming his present role. He will see demonstrations of paratroop maneuvers and guerilla tactics--as did British Gen. Sir rd Hull, chief of the Imperial General Staff, last week.

S. C. Educator Gets Fellowship NEW YORK (AP) Professor Mary Elizabeth Massey of Winthrop, South Carolina State College for Women at Rock Hill, has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. The South Carolina woman's award is to pursue a study of the effects of the War Between the States on women, North and South. The exact amount of her award was not announced, but it is one of 269 totaling $1,380,000.

Goldsboro Pageant GOLDSBORO The 1963 Miss Goldsboro Pageant will begin Monday at 3 p.m. with a parade through downtown Goldsboro. The parade will feature Jacquelyn Mayer, Miss America; Janice Elizabeth Barron, Miss North Carolina; and the 10 pageant contestants. The pageant will be held Monday at 8 p.m. in the Goldsboro High School.

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