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I i I Austin daily herald 2 i No 100 AUSTIN MINN RIDAY APRIL 27 1962 18 Paget Scientists Plot Venus Space Shot Wisconsin IN HAND Macmillan Blames Soviet Union for Resumption of US Testing British Orbit Spurs Hopes Russ Will Team Up given United Spates had the guidance rise to hopes meUnited Stafeeapability to nd a vehicle to thi GOVERNORS IGHT CUT Late News 128 to a US each case the number and type of AS 5 get 4 failed to carry out a number of scientific experiments because of a faulty electronic device of ficials said it demonstrated the 79 76 74 71 70 69 64 68 73 78 81 89 By HOWARD BENEDICT CANAVERAL la (API successful launchings of a US British satellite and an Amer Rusk Soviet Envoy Meet in Spite of Heated Dispute 9 A 10 A 11 A 12 Noon AZ WEATHER THURSDAY END THE ROAD Elizabeth Tay lor views ditched car with co star Rich ard Burton after they narrowly escaped MU 6 BODIES ARRIVE NEW ORLEANS (API The bodies of six Minnesotans killed in' a Honduras plane crash last week arrived in Neff" Orleans Thursday aboard the Standard ruit Co freighter Ondine They were sent cm to their homes Rusk an opportunity to make a personal report to British rench and West German allies who along with the United States have a a primary interest in the explora tory talks with Russia on the fu ture" of Berlin'' He Is expected to use the occasion to try to work out difference with West Ger many over the possible elements of the settlement Tells Conference Rusk told a news conference Thursday that he thought Allied relations on the Berlin problem in good He stopped short of saying the US and West German governments are In full agreement In fact Chancellor Konrad government is reported still strongly opposed to any maneuver that would be con US ires 2nd Shot of Series and Russia will eventually com bine their great resources for an all out assault on space An American Thor Dfcila rocket Thursday blasted a packet of British experiments into orbit as the first international sat ellite Its purpose is to study the ionosphere and cosmic radiation Earlier at Wallops Island Va a US Nike Cajun sounding rocket boosted a small bundle of Japan ese instruments on a brief 75 mile high trip to take readings in the upper atmosphere Names It 'Artel' British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaking in New York Thursday night named the satel lite high and said: joint enterprise reflects great credit on the British and American scientists and technic ians concerned It provides a fine start to the United States program of international cooperation in The launchings occurred during a day of crowded space activity Other developments: The US Ranger 4 spacecraft crash landed on the dark side of the moon after a 64 hour 231486 mile journey that started Monday at Cape Canaveral Although Ran strued as moving toward Western recognition of the East German Communist regime Rusk declared' flatly that the presence of the West Berlin gar ri son force wasnot negotiable facts are that we are in West Berlin and we are going to stay he said Gromyko and Dobrynin have told Rusk in their meetings with that anend to the" Western occupation status must be part of any settlement Court Soys Dranow Guilty of 3 Counts MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A US District Court jury today found Benjamin Dranow former owner of a Minneapolis department store guilty of three counts of income tax evasion Dranow accused of failing to report taxable income in 1955 1956 and '1957 The government said be had $37627 in taxable in come these years and willfully evaded payment of $9602 in taxes The trial began jn US District Court March 27 and the case went to the jury Thursday Dranow formerly was owner of the John Thomas Co depart ment store in downtown Minne apolis' He already is under a 12 year prison sentence by the same court on charges of mail fraud Ranger Success Gives New Hope to Roach Planet Areas Divided Over Adoption of ast Time SOUTft ST PAUL Minn (AID A dispute over working an hour overtime has halted hog killing and threatened other operations at the Swift Co packing plant here Work stoppages spread rapidly Thursday continued today Neither the company nor Local 167 United: Packinghouse Work ers Union said how many men were away from their jobs today The plant employs 3800 workers and a UPWA spokesman estimat ed Thursday that between one third and one half of its 2000 members were idle Indications were that some refused to work and they and some others were suspended The dispute was set off Wednes day by the suspension of 30 load ing dock workers who refused to I work an hour overtime contend ing any work over eight hours a day is in violation of the master i union agreement is not a true IE Erickson the plant manager said today know of nothing in the union contract that says we work employes over eight Erickson said the entire contro versy stemmed from employes taking the position they would not work over eight hours The union charged the men were ordered to work overtime' al though there is a large backlog of I laid off workers available for help I 4 Dispute Halts Hog Killing at Swift ESTABLISHED 1891 VOL CXXXX' BONUS READING Youth Pcge otur Roundup Every Saturday In The NEWSEATURES WEEKLY By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS' i'YS'cTpati5n switches to daylfght' time Sunday ut manycom ffnuiunes' aria tion of fast time The' fellowingare states where all communities are going on day light time: Maine Vermont New Hamp shire Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts New York New Jersey California Washington Delaware Illinois 1 Minnesota and Nevada Alter Clock In Nevada however two coun ties will not have to alter their clocks: White Pine and Lincoln in eastern Nevada stayed on day light schedules by switching to year round Mountain Standard Time under a 1961 enabling law ollowing are states that' re main on standard time: Georgia Texas Tennessee Ha waii Kansas Louisiana Missis sippi Oklahoma Arizona Nebras ka Alabama Utah North Dakota South Dakota Alaska Michigan and Colorado Many States There are many states In the category wherein some sections are divided or only sev eral communities are involved or where the starting or ending dates 1 are different or instance nearly all of Penn i sylvania goes on fast time Sun but 31 communities inost of them small will set clocks ahead only until the end of September I not the end of October Other states' the category Sscare Montana Ohio'' Virginia' West Vir ginia Missouri Oregon Idaho Iowa New Mexico and Indiana Hie state breakdown: Butte and Anaconda AST TIME (Continued on Page 2) EXPECTS KENNEDY WASHINGTON (fl Hu bert Humphrey Minn said today he expects President Ken nedy to send the Senate next week the nomination of Mrs Eu genie Anderson to be minister to Bulgaria BETTER MARK DES MOINES Iowa (fl A opened the Drake Re lays today by bettering the col lege 440 yard relay mark only IS minutes after the 53rd track and field classic started The dinner ended the an nual press week events Macmillan goes to Washington today for formal discussions with President Kennedy Saturday The prime" minister' 'was ap plauded warmly several times during his dinner speech espec ially' wben he blamed 'Premier Khritthchev for this country's re symptioa of' nuclear tests in the atmosphere Macmillan was given a standing ovation the end of his address Not Abaadoa Efforts Macmillan said the West should not abandon its efforts in any sphere we can find the possibility of some agreement be By RALPH DIGHTON PASADENA Calif (AP) Encouraged by success of the crippled spacecraft Ran ger 4 in hitting the moon US space scientists today' disclosed plans to launch a similar rocket called Ma riner toward Venus this summer Mariner will be boosted into space by the same Atlas Agena combination that aimed Ranger 4 so accurately it landed on the moon even though electronic fail ures prevented mid flight con ec tlons Ranger 4's 233000 miIe journey which ended on the Jar side of the moon Thursday took 64 hours Mariner will take four months to reach Venus 26 million miles away Current Plans Current plans call for Mariner to pass within 16000 miles of Venus but scientists at the jet propulsion laboratory builder of both Ranger and Mariner believe it could hit the planet if plans were changed Although the Mariner space ve hicle weighs 30 pounds less thaft Ranger 780 it too will be loaded with scientist yiStromenU'''' tlese Venusian tem peratures from the surface up through its dense atmosphere the magnetic field the dead liness of any radiation belts sur rounding Venus and the density of cosmic dust in space between earth and Venus Two Mariners are being readied at the laboratory the second as a possible backup for the one now scheduled to be launched in August 19Month Watt ailure to achieve a successful launch during the few days Venus is closest would mean a wait of 19 months until the planet swings near earth again In another section of the huge plant in the foothills north of Pasadena work also is underway on Ranger 5 a duplicate of Ran ger 4 Ranger 5 is "the latest of a se ries of three spacecraft designed to crashland on the moon Ran SPACE SHOT (Continued on Page 2) WASHINGTON (AP) More mutterings of discontent came from state officials Thursday in the wake of a National Guard Bureau announcement telling how a cut of 475 'Army Guard units would be spread among the states Iowa Gov Norman Erbe said he would not comply the order but federal officials said the matter had not reached the stage In St Paul Gov Andersen will confer today with Adjutant Gen eral Chester Moeglein about the matter' Both adopted a attitude Thursday although Moeg lein said it would require a total reorganization of the National Guard in Minnesota Told Reporters Maj Gen Donald McGowan chief of the National Guard Bu reau told reporters he had not issued any order but only sub mitted a proposed plan He stressed the law requires that a governor must agree before any unit wholly in his state is altered or disbanded say to the State of Iowa must give up a battle McGowan said Empirical Decision is an empirical decision made here that they neces sarily have to The proposal is intended to help carry out a plan to ctit the Army Guard by about 33000 men This is part of a general reorganization of the Army Reserve and Guard in which eight infantry divisions will be broken up into brigades and six other beefed up into ready to go outfits A Guards spokesman said the aim is to apply an average 10 per cent cut across the board al though he said this might vary slightly from state to state In its message to the governors The British Conservative party leader discussed the present state ot the world and looked Into the future Thursday night In address ing 800 persons at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertis ing of the American Newspaper Publishers Association Eventrr" ves and their guests Joingl in toasts to the health ij President Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth The toasts were led by Russ Stewart retir ing board chairman of the ANPA Bureau of Advertising and execu tive vice president of the Chicago Sun Timei and' Chicago Daily Newa By JOHN HIGHTOWER 4 WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk and So viet Ambassador Anatoly Do brynin scheduled a new meeting on Berlin" today in spite of the angry dispute between Moscow and Washington over US re sumption of nuclear atmospheric tests the" two" prepared to meet there was speculation that the sec ond test in the new US series might be touched off today or Saturday The first was fired on Wednesday over the Pacific test ing area Continue Search Soviet readiness to continue the search for a Berlin settlement plus Soviet failure to walk out of the Geneva disarmament confer ence was interpreted here as evi dence that Premier Khrushchev has decided to limit Russian re action to the new US tests to a propaganda fight US officials found this encouraging for the fu ture course of US Soviet rela tions i One of the limiting factors In decision it was said may also be his own plans assumed here for the Soviet Un ion to hold new nuclear tests in the near future Meeting Set The Rusk Dobrynin meeting was set for It will be the third such session within a two week and the last for about two weeks Rusk is scheduled to leave Sun day for Allied consultations abroad including a NATO foreign meeting in Athens His trip also will take him to London Australia and New Zealand NATO gathering will give IS 'PROBLEM ive year old proffered his treat but then yelped as the toucan units to be eliminated and request ed certain information by May 3 These included a nomination of specific units to be eliminated a statement of the impact this would have on armory utilization "the effect on the program of hiring civilian technicians to maintain Guard installations and related matters Need OK 5 McGowan said before It became effective the plan would have to be approved by Secretary of Defense ttobert McNamara and must be negotiated with each governor He Indicated Congress would cot have to act The number of company size units to be eliminated includes: Iowa one infantry battle group Minnesota one field ar tillery battalion and (me transpor tation battalion? North Dakota one engineer battalion South Da kota one field artillery battalion and one clothing exchange and bath company tween East and West to their mutual advantage and to that of the whole He urged continued efforts to end nuclear testing and to achieve a peace suitable to the' of civilized men'' Macmillan said Britain would continues to support theUnited there arg from time to time as there are bound to be strains and stresses these must not weaken our determination to work for a steady increase in the influence of the only human insti tution which has within it the seeds of growth into an effective world authority" JAPANESE ROCKET LAUNCHED IN Separate Japanese and US probes streak skyward propelled by a Nike Cajun sounding rocket during a cooperative launching at the US test site at Wallops Island Va Thursday It was one of a series of three It reached an altitude of 75 miles and impacted 73 miles down range (AP Photofax) VOTE CONIDENCE PARIS (fl The rench Na tional Assembly gave Premier Georges Pompidou a 259 vote of confidence today REDS CHARGE TOKYO (fl Red China day charged Chinese National 1st pilots to American U2 planes had made repeated spy flights over the southeast coast of the China mainland TELL CONERENCE GENEVA Ambas sador Arthur Dean and Soviet Deputy oreign Minister Valerian A Zonn told the 17 nation dis armament conference today they could not agree on outlawing war the Guard Bureau stipulated in nronavandfl Erbe Won Drop Iowa Battle Group SINGLE COPY 10c moon Send Rocket 2 Space scientists ijisclosed plans to send a similar rocket to ward Venus this summer called Mariner and will be boosted by the same Agena combination that aimed Ranger 3 The Russians announced the launching of their fourth scien tific satellite in six weeks The Soviets said the vehicle Qismos 4 carried radiation measuring and other scientific gear There NEW YORK (AP) British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan urges the West be firm but patient never to yield and never to give ground but never to take" provocative action ourselves" CHe says he believes that If the free wsrld follows this policy the YeYRian Ifl two geoeraponmaybe will ba ready for a better peace than oce by intrfual fear Calling President Kennedy's de cision to resume nuclear tests in ths atmosphere "a tragedy he says 'Ithe world must realize the responsibility for the tragedy is not Kennedy's It is Khnish Cher's 1 ReatnnptiM Is Tragto Macmillan says the test re sumption is tragic because means the nuclear arms race Is again tn full spate He says Britain and the United States voluntary moratorium of three years which was rudely broken by the Rus sians last autumn Youth Glad Cop Shot Halted Theft ST PAUL (AP) A police offi cer stepped up to tbe bedsideof a youth he ha wounded critically (hiring a burglary attempt early this month hard said the youth Patrick Dixon Jr as he managed a smile The 16 year old boy thanked White Bear Lake patrolman George Medlicott for saving him from a possible life of crime you me that night might have tried it Patrick told the officer might have gopp on to commit more I might have been Medlicott haT come to visit at the request Patrick and two other boys were caught burglarizing a tavern early April 4 and a shot fired by Medli cott missed the youth's spine by less than an inch Although been a juvenileoffender before Patrick vowed going straight from How on going back to school this fall to get my high school credits" he said 1PM 85 2 86 3 86 4 86 5 84 6 3L 82 BIRD 'Jimmy ishbeck of St Paul had his hands full today gave him a nip on the chin Jim is the son of Mr when a photographer asked him to pose with a white and Mrs Roy ishbeck the bird' a recent addition breasted toucan at Como Zoo Jimmy was willing the zoo's aviary (AP Photofax) IP 67 2 AM 65 3 AM 65 4 AM "65 5 AM63 6 A 62 It's Time to Switch the Clocks WEATHER Precipitation (m a at KAUS): 12 inch State Doesn't Switch to DST Until May 27 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS clock switching time again changeover to daylight sav ing time starts in some parts of the Midwest this weekend Wisconsin and most of Iowa make the switch Sunday along with 22 other states moving the clock ahead one hour to produce an extra hour of daylight each evening 7 7 changeover come until 2 am May 27 the last Sunday in May Minnesota goes back to central standard time Sept 4 well ahead of Wisconsin and' Iowa North and South Dakota stay on standard time the year around Summer Launches? Manned Cloudy and cooler with occot 'Ionol showers tonight Incrsoilbd cloudiness and warmer Saturday low tonight 42 48 high Saturday 7278 WASHINGTON (AP) The Unit ed States today fired the second shot of its planned series of nu clear tests in the atmosphere Like the first on Wednesday it was a detonation of a device dropped from an airplane In the vicinity of Christmas Island in tire Pacific An announcement from the Atomic Energy Commission said the shot was touched off about 11 am EST and the detonation was In the intermediate yield range jThis description is used for a shot with a force greater than the explosive force of 20000 tons of TNT but less than one tons of TNT No details 'were given The AEC announcement merely said: nuclear test detonation took place at about 11 a EST today in the vicinity of? Christmas Is land The detonation was in intermediate yield range The de vice was dropped from an air plane The test was part of Op eration Dominic now under way in the and swerved into ditch Burton and his wife Sybil turned up at Rome's airfield today to meet their daughter injury in a pre dawn accident Katy'" who flewin from London Rome early today The car blew a tire (AP Photofax) 7 PM 8 PM 9 10 PM 11 PH 12 AL RIDAY 7 A was some speculation the recent wave of Russiansatelliteshave been sent up to gather data on series dTnuclear tests in the Ragific 1 Tw'o see2'eir'ssldlites were launched by the Air orce at Point "Arguello Calif One em ployed a Blue Scout booster the other an Atlas Agena which has been used primarily for Mi das and Samos spy satellites Sources at Cape Canaveral where Blue Scout's also are launched in dicated the Blue Scout failed to place its payload in orbit The De fense recently de cided to withhold all Information BRITAIN (Continued on Page 2) A 'awKmirJSWf! 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