Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 56, No. 58, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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MRS. MASSENBAUH
OKLA. HISTORICAL soc.
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OKLA.
Grissom, Young and 'Molly Brown’ complete historic 'orbit :
shifting’ flight around earth: home safely is Gemini Three
-------------------- — CAPE KENNEDY (UPD — flight path th e times while it was wise. Both steering f--------
— 2 2 WIUSI
DAILY JOURNAL-
GAP I TA
Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and
John W. Young were picked up
today from their floating Gemi-
ni 3 capsitle by a helicopter and
were being flown to the carrier
Intrepid at 2:08 p.m. CST.
flight path three times while it was wise.
Both steering
maneuvers
speeding at 17,500 miles an hour, were successful and one official
he fina
naneuver, the pilot called it a “truly historic ma-
shifted the low point of his craft’s neuver.”
Published Evenings, Tuesday through Friday and Sunday Mornings at 700 Kihekah Avenue, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
VOLUME 56 - No. 58
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1965
PRICE 7c
Critical
injuries to
boy,4, here
An Air Force sergeant and his
4-year-old son, of Wichita, are in
St. John’s hospital, Tulsa and the
child’s mother is in the city hos-
pital here as the result of a car
accident at Timber Hill, west of
Pawhuska on U.S. CO. at 9:50 a.
m., today.
Osage County counted its first
traffic fatality of 1965 Monday
morning when a Tulsa man,
Don Joe Pringer, 21, died in a
one-car accident on a county
road west of the Lombard Ad-
dition. Sheriff Dick Streetman
said the driver of the car, John
Lee Tyner, 21, Tulsa, was being
held in the county jail on inves-
tigation of manslaughter. Ty-
ner reportedly lost control of
the car on a curve. He was not
injured.
flight from 97 to 52 miles, an alti- A spokesman for the National
tude nt which gravity and air drag Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
would be certain to bring it down tratios (NASA) said the agency
out of orbit in the course of time was “very pleased with the opera-
An air rescue plane droppe I if planned methods had failed. tion of the maneuvering system.”
para-re scue swimmers to assist the To accomplish descent at the He described it as “absolutely es-
Gemini astronauts and attach a pre-planned time an t place, the as- sential to future rendezvous ma-
large flotation collar to the cap tronauts als fired four sp al neuvers" in which Gemini space-
suel to prevent it from sinking. breaking rockets, thus ending their craft will meet and couple with
Five helicopters took off from 76,000-mile voyage through space, a rocket in orbit.
the recovery carrier Intrepid for As Gemini 3 smashed back into The word from both spacecraft
the approximate landing spot, the atmosphere ar about 16,500 and pilots was that they were in
At 2:41 p.m. EST the space miles an hour, the heat shield at its “excellent” condition. Underscor-
agency estimated the capsule was blunt end glowed red as its tem- ing this, Grissom and Young were
about 58 miles from the Intrepid, perature built up to more than given the “goahead” for a second
An agency spokesman said it 1 700 degrees „rbit only 51 minutes after lift-
would "take more like an hour and In quick order, the spacecraft’s off.
a half to an hour and 15 minutes various parachute unfolded. At Ready For Conclusion
- and that is only a tentative, esti- 2:13 p.m. EST the 84-foot main Ground controllers were set for
mate - to reach the Gemini-3.’ chute deployed at an altitude of conclusion of the 3-orbit flight in
Radio reports from the copters 10,600 feet to lowe r the cabin the Atlantic sometime after 2:07
said the capsule was "floating gently to the sea. p.m. EST.
very nicely " inside a floation col- At 2:35 p.m., about five mi utes The National Aeronautics and
lar attached by two para-rescue after splashdown, a plane rep t- Space Administration (NASA) bill-
swimmers. ed it had spotted the capsule and ed the Grissom-Young mission as
The capsule landed co or 65 miles said, "happily it is floating, ‘ the first aboard a spacecraft cap-
north-northwest of the primary re In its fiery descent, Gemini 3 able of changing orbits in space,
covery ship, the carrier Intrepid, built up around it an ionized Colonel Pavel I. Belayayev, chief
The closest vessel was reported to (electrified) sheath of air mole- pilot in last week’s flight by Rus-
be the Coast Guard cutter Dili- cules which block transmission of sia’s Voskhod 2 spacecraft, con-
gence, which was about 10 miles ordinary radio signals, tended that the Soviet ship also
away. Ina final successful experiment, was maneuverable in space.
Astronauts Gt som and You E the astronauts squirted water But U.S. trackers detected no
waired three times around the spray through this "plasma sheath" proof of this, either for Voskhod
earth today and splashed down on to neutralize the ionization and 2, according to U.S. intelligence,
schedule in the Atlantic after per- make communication through it was steerable to a limited extent
forming “truly historic" space- possible. but only during its descent into
craft maneuvers in orbit. The experiment worked for high the atmosphere for a landing.
The Grissom-Young mission was frequency communications, al- Changed Flight Path
soared into space at 1-24 a m. EST though there was a brief blackout This is a far cry from forc-
They ended their flight about 2:20 of other kinds. This was the first ing a spacecraft, hurtling at 17,-
p.m. EST. time any communications had been 500 miles an hour, to change its
Aircraft were in contact with received from a U.S. spacecraft orbital path in flight. Gemini 3
the capsule and space agency of- during the final stages of reentry, accomplished this.
ficials said, "We are assuming he The Grissom-Young flight was a Over Texas, Grissom used his
(the capsule) is on the deck and space trial blazer looking toward on-board rockets to force the cap-
floating." future U. S. landings on the moon, sule from a path ranging from
The Grissom-Loung mission was Nestled in their 7,000 - pound 100 to 148 miles in altitude to a
a pioneering demonstration if or- Gemini 3 cabin, America’s first new path ranging from 97 to 105
bit shifting techniques which will two-man space team soared into miles.
i
1
The child, Michael O’Neal Gan-
non is in a critical condition with
a fractured skull and a compound
leg fracture. His father is in a
serious condition with undeter-
mined injuries. The youth was
taken to St. John’s immediately
after the accident this morning
and the father was taken to the
hospital about 2 p.m., today. Mrs.
Gannon is less seriously injured.
Gannon is stationed at McConnell
AF base, Wichita.
The Gannon family was in a
compact station wagon headed
toward Pawhuska when the acci-
dent occurred. They crashed al-
most head-on into a Lumbermen’s
Supply Company van, driven by
Oral Vernon Christie, 46, of Okla-
homa City.
The youngster was thrown from
the seat where he was sleeping
apparently into the rear vision
mirror and then through the
windshield of the auto. The car
was not equipped with seat belts,
OHP Trooper Bob Phillips who
investigated the accident, said.
The truck was headed west to-
ward Ponca City. Phillips said
there is confusion as to how the
accident occurred. A pickup truck
making a left hand turn into Tim-
ber Hill apparently played a part
in the accident, Phillips said.
The Corvair station wagon was
extensively damaged. It was spun
around as a result of the impact
and stopped, headed back west,
following the impact.
The truck driver was not in-
jured in the crash.
THREE INJU RED — Three members of the Sergeant Charles O.
Cannon family of W ichita are hospitalized as the result of this
crash at Timber Hill shortly before 10 a.m. today. The Gannon
station wagon was headed west and collided with the Lumbermens
Supply Co van near the Timber Hill intersection. Michael O’Neal
Gannon is in a critical condition in St. John’s hospital. Tulsa,
and his father is also a patient there, but in less serious condition.
Mrs. Gannon is hospitalized in the Pawhuska city hospital.
(J-C Photo)
be used hy U. S. space pilots who the skies at 9:24 a.m. EST, only Officials proclaimed this a “tru-
fly to the moon late in this de- 24 minutes behind schedule. They ly historic maneuver.”
cade. began their third and final orbit Looked Like Star
The National Aeronautics and at 12:34 p.m., EST. The two-man Gemini - 3 cap-
Space Administration (NASA) of- At 10:57 a.m., EST while fly- sule rose from Pad 19 at this
/ficially prounced Gemini 3‘s un- ing over Texas in their first cir- spaceport atop a Titan 2 rocket
precedented orbital maneuvers cuit, the space twins changed the which belched reddish brown smoke
"truly historic.” Grissom changed shape of their orbit. At the time from its twin engines generating
WEATHER
Spring’s first wintry storm hurl-
ed a cold wave at Oklahoma to-
-------the shape and altitude of his craft’s their flight pat ranged from 100 430,000 pounds of thrust. It rose
to 142 miles above the earth, into the sky on a pink column or
. , 1 flame and faded to a bright star -
..II et thrusters aboard their craft, like point as Gemini hurtled to.
Knoer responds Well their orbital path was more nearly ward orbit.
C circular, ranging in altitude from The countdown was almost per-
■ 1 197 to 105 miles, feet. At one point it became neces-
TO COUIECO CAAindo AGFA Gle Then, two hour ' and 20 win- sary to tighten a fitting when a
" 1Cel • utes after liftoff, as they soared leak de n rocket oxidizer
* eIndian Ocean halfway line. This accomplished, the launch
sinusal mo. through their second tup around came off only 24 minutes later
11 V C I O O 1 PI C S. O U © G steered the than scheduled.
T pacecreft in a different dimen- Building up speed as it rose,
PASEDENA. Calif. (UPI) — evision close-up photographs of sion-to left and right., the spacecraft went into orbit over
Camera-laden Ranger 9 was zeroed it. These maneuvers had the effect Bermuda at a speed of about 17,-
in on its lunar target today by a Scientist were not expected to of changing the spacecraft's land- 500 miles an hour. The initial flight
delicate midcourse maneuver to knoutentidi not expectest ing spot 30 to 40 miles north of path ranged from • low point of
lake closeup photographs of the Whether Ranger o had made the where it would have been other- 100 miles, exactlyas planned, to
moon which will be telecast “live” mid-course maneuver and its re- a high point of 142 miles, eight
suiting Change in course perfect: n..e. >L--L.. ---I. ......s under thepre-p......
ly. However, scientists said Ran-
ger 9 appeared to have responded
well to the radio commands.
The snapshots may tell earth-
bound scientists whether astro-
nauts can land safely on the
moon by |970.
Sentiment grows today
for impeachment of
justice N. B. Johnson
----------OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice
N. B. Johnson, accused of taking
bribes to "throw" court opinions.,
faced growing sentiment in the
house ti day to imepach him.
Johnson, meanwhile, refused to
resign.
Another justice, Earl Welch,
already convicted of income tax
evasion, resigned Monday rather
than face impeachment proceed-
ings.
Speaker J. I). McCarty, appar-
ently in anticipation the house
would approve articles of impeach-
ment against Johnson, was report-
ted ready to name a 5-man board
of managers, or prosecution team,
to present the case to the senate.
Feeling Is Strons fairgrounds and new rules and
One high sourcein the house said regulations were made up for the
feeling as of today was running 1965 Roundup Cavalcade which
so strongly against Johnson that will open here July 23.
possibly no more than 12 of the
W-member house might vote John Criner of Tulsa served as
against impeachment. master of ceremonies and miro-
House debate is scheduled for duced officers of the local club.
1:30 p.m. Wednesday with a vote
scheduled to follow.
The house investigation com-
mittee recommended impeach-
ment of Johnson and Welch
Monday. The veteran jurists
GE
day. RESIGNS — Oklahoma Supreme
A strong cold front, propelled Court justice Earl Welch resign-
by brisk north winds, surged cd shortly before articles of im-
through the state and caused tem- peachment were readied for til-
peratures to drop quickly. The ing in the Oklahoma House in
weather bureau said temperatures Oklahoma City. Welch and N. B.
would recover little during th" af- Johnson were to be charged with
ternoon and would fall to lows to corruption in office.
night from 13 in the Panhandle to ____
(Continued On Page Two)
Polls open until
7 tonight in
school board voting
The annual board of educa-
tion election was drawing few
voters today. Polls remain op-
en until 7 p.m., at the board
of education building.
Only one candidate is on the
ballot. Robert Kelley is seek-
ing re-election to his post on
the board of education.
The standard 5-mill emer-
gency fund levy was also be-
ing voted on today.
for the first time to the nation.
Ranger 9 is America’s last
Forty clubs attend
Roundup Cavalcade
planning session
chance to photograph the lunar
surface before landing astro-
nauts.
Officials at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) at the Califor-
nia Institute of Technology an-
nounced today that the national
Plastic 'bombs’ rock
Muskogee building
Sponsler rites were
here Sunday
MUSKOGEE (UPD _ Two ex- Funeral services for Don Spon-
plosions rocked a half-vacant sler were conducted at the John-
downtown office building early son Funeral Home chapel at 2:30
At the time of the mid-course today. There were no injuries, p.m., Sunday. Rev. Clifton McKoy
correction. Ranger 9’s distance Police said more than a half- assisted by Rev. Barton Williams
was calculated as dozen plastic bottles containing officiated at the rites.
t 1 space agency approved nationwide from the earth
at "the” Suber Were rem telecast of the photographs taken 175,416 miles or more than two- an Explosive, possible" gasoline. Casket bearers were Emil Hunt,
resenlCO at planning Auvine t h. loat 1n minutru hafara ., ,
thirds of its way to the moon. were placed in the eight- lory 1 111 vandandt, John Atterberry,
The maneuver was aimed at building. George Renfroe, Delmar Enyart
changing Ranger 9‘s course 320 Two of the bombs exploded, and Ira (Mickey) Kennedy Jr.
miles to the south and slightly but fuses on the others eitherMusic was by Mrs. Dorsey Mc-
to the east of its position, which went out or were never lighted. Cartney, soloist, accompanied by
would have been about 400 miles Damage was heavy on the third Boyd Whitworth at the organ,
from its intended target point, and fourth floors where the two Burial was in the city cemetery
This was expected to alter the bombs that exploded were locat- with the Johnson Funeral Home
(Continued OK Page Two) ««.....inmned on Page Nixi in charge of the arrangements.
telecast of the photographs taken
March planning during the last It) minutes before
session of the Pawhuska Round- impact
up Club Sunday at the county
Cameras will snap photo-
graphs every five seconds. The
nationwide showing of the pic-
tures will not affect the record-
ing of lunar photographs on 35
millimeter film for analysis by
scientists.
Home viewers will see about 100
Officers now serving are: Wes still photograph; taken just prior
Gullett, president; Frank Prof- to impact at 6:08 a.m. PST Wed-
fitt, vice-president, (replacing nesday, if the new electronic sys-
Ralph Brown); Jack Walker, the tern is successful.
chairman; Claude Morris, co-
chairman; LoEtta Hestand, secre-
1°
A spokesman said the photo-
graphs would be in sequence and
might appear on the television
screen similar to the first mo-
tion pictures which rapidly flicked
still photos in sequence - giving
tary; Mary Downing, assistant
secretary.
A drawing for 10 prizes donat-
ed by local retail merchants
through the Chamber of Com-
were accused of accepting
bribes to influence court decis-
ions. Both were accused of "cor-
ruption in office’ and offenses
involving "moral turpitude.”
a somew hat jerky movement.
The electronic system which will
Monday he would not resign, ap- and donors included: allow the worlds first live tele-
A parently in the belief he could Bill Blankenship, a gift from vision pictures of the moon will be
large attendance of women inter- weather an impeachment attempt, the Manhattan Cafe; Andrea tested by scientists durin gthe first
ested in the work of a hospital Unlike Welch, who was convicted Preece, Osage Saddle Shop; few minutes of picture taking. It
, auxiliary is expected to attend the by a federal jury, no criminal char- Merle Wilson, Allen Bros. Feed all goes well then still photo-
WASHINGTON (1 PI five organizational meeting at 10 a.m. ges have been brought in a court Company; Bob Stuart, C. R. An- graphs received at the Goldstone
members of Oklahoma s congres- Wednesday in the Presbyterian of law against Johnson. (Continued On Page six)
sional delegation said today their chinch. Officers are to be elected Senate Trial
mail is running in favor of the and by-laws adopted. Mr Ed Under Oklahoma's constitution, . 1. 1
American Medical Association's mund T. Kennedy, temporary impeachment action must be insti- re-eleed
Eldercare bill over the administra- chairman said today, gated by the house, and the senate
tion s Medicare proposal. ------then sits as a trial court, in district hoard
Senator Mike Monroney and Rep- B-PW MEETING - Mrs. A. ( The house committee returned UUlIll.! MUniU
resentatives John Jarman and Redwine and Mrs. Lolita Black- three articles of impeachment
Page Belcher said at least 90 per iston will be hostesses for a meet- against Welch and two against J. B. Smith, Pawhuska rancher,
cent of the correspondence they ing of the Business and Profession- Johnson. Chairman Lou Allard, has been re-elected to serve a ll-
lad received was for the AMA al Club at 7:“0 p.m. tonight in taking note of Welch's resignation, year term on the board of super-
plan for medical care to the aged, the Redwine home. New officers recommended that no action be visors of the Osage County Soil
Senator Fred Harris said Elder will be elected,
care mail dominated his incoming
Mail to Oklahoma
solons favor AMA
Pawhuska Brief
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY —
Johnson stated emphatically merce was held. Gift winners
Tracking Station will be trans-
mitted by microwave to JPL and
: subsequently broacast live by the
three major networks. The time
lapse between the actual picture
transmission from Ranger 9 to the
home television screen will be a
matters of seconds.
taken on the Welch report.
The committee based part of
its findings on a sworn state-
ment by former Justice N. S.
Corn that he accept'd $1 50,000
and Water Conservation District,
according to Marvin C. Emerson,
executive director of the state soil
conservation board.
Scientists expect to receive
thousansd of photographs Wed-
nesday morning just before the
spacecraft, final of the Ranger
series, crashes on the lunar sur-
face.
Folloing the delicate midcourse
maneuver. Ranger reacquired its
mail, but he had not broken it APPOINTED — Frank Proffitt
into percentages, has been named vice-president of
Representative Ed Edmondson the Pawhuska Roundup Club by
said his mail was “running heavily the board of directors. Proffitt is
in favor of Eldercare, but he al- active jn ranching on the Hule tt
so had not made a check to see if Ranch, south of Pawhuska. He
it amounted to as much as 99 was named by the hoard to fill
per cent, the unexpired term of Ralph Brown
Other members of the delegation who resigned because of pressing in the .Mmes va aupcac -.
were not available for information personal business, against both judges. Also cited local soil and water conservation
on their mail. ------against both Welch, 73, and John- problems.
The Oklahoma State Medical As- POLICE COURT - Lewis H. son, 72. were alleged bribes of Smith will serve with Y- T.
sociation said last week that it Robinson. 45, Pawhuska, forfeit- $2,500 apiece in the case of Okla- Park, Fred Drummond, George Mc-
understood about 90 per cent of ed $10.00 bond on a public drunk home Co. vs. O’Neil in 1959. These Kinley and Garland Evatt of the ranger 9 on a “bullseye” course
the mail to the delegation support- charge. Others forfeiting bonds charges, the report said, constitut- county board. The offices are lo- for the moon’s Alphonsus crater
ed Eldercare. (Continued On Page Six) (Continued On Page Six) cated here. so the spacecraft could take tel-
to help influence the supreme
( ourt in the 1956 Selected In-
vestments tax case and paid
The Osage County Soil and stabilizing "lock" on the sun and
Water Conservation District is the earth.
local unit of state government cre-
ated for conservation action. It
The command, issued at 5:54
has the responsibility of developing
The alleged bribe was mentioned and carrying out a conservation
B articles of impeachment program that will effectively solve
Welch and Johnson $7,500 each.
a.m., EST, activated a small
rocket motor aboard the space-
craft and changed Ranger 9‘s
pitch and roll in space at 7:00
a.m., EST. Scientists delayed
the command to 7:03 a.m. EST
for greater accuracy.
The mid-course maneuver put
WATCH THE BIRDIE — The man in the moon on straighten his collar and smooth his hair. Latest
move in the most successful U.S. space program was the launching Monday of another flying
camera to the moon. There is a specific target area. Scientists are attempting to photograph the
crater Alphonsus, one of the lunar craters from which gaseous emissions seem to have been detected
by telescopes on the earth. The Ranger unit was “on target" this afternoon.
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