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property.
 Council members discussed the problem of drainage in the Coop garage area, and re- quested that the city manager have the culvert checked.
 City manager Gilchrist re- ported that he is working on the budget for the coming ifs cal year and asked for infor- nation from the various de partments on methods of breaking down budget and ac- counts.
 The city clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for the purchase of the city-owned post hole digger, with bids to be opened at the August 28 meeting.
 The transfer of a liquor Ii- cense for the Tropical Gar dens from Billy R. and Ruby Miller to Cleora Mckee Wa $ ! approved by the council.
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partment C, livestock, from 2 am. to l2 noon on Friday, Aug ust 31.
 Poultry, Department E, should be pre-registered by Angus 29. Registration cards may be obtained by calling the fair office at PI 5-4688 or by writing to Alaska State Fair, Box l731, Palmer.
 Deadlines for all exhibits must be observed, Miller em- phasized.
 We urge everyone to help the growth of the Fair by en- tering exhibits for competi- tion," Miller added. ITO. be an
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Sir Edmund Hilary and his party spent about two hours in Palmer on Saturday, August II, photographing the big cab bages at the Max Sherrod veg etable farm. Jim Wilson of the Matanuska Valley Bank acted as guide for the caravan. which included several ve- hicles and a complete camera crew.
 The Hilary party is making movie of their journey up
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Hilary Photographs sherrod cabbases

the Alaska Highway for the Sears, Roebuck Company. Their stop at Palmer was prompted by stories they had heard concerning the enor- nous Sherrod cabbageS.
The frontiersman., 1962-08-23
ALTER SOCIETY PLANS BAKE SALE

St. Michael's Alter Society will hold bake sale at Kos losky's department store on Saturday, August 25, from 10 am. to 4 pm.
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Follow the straight and mar row path and you'll seldom get adverse publicity.
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The fellow who takes advice is superior to the one who gives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24

efforts really haven't gotten us
very far into space, if you
think about it.
If you think of the diameter
OF the earth being represented
as some 100 miles to the inch,
this would mean that the
earth's diameter could be repre-
sented by 80 inches approx
mately, which would only be
about 10 inches higher than
I am. If I held my hands up
over my head, this would be
of the order of 80 inches if
were standing up. Our Oribital
altitude, if that was the surface
of the earth and I was the
diameter line of the earth
our orbital altitude would be
about one-and-a-t third inches
above that 80 inches.
So perhaps if you think OF
the enormity Of space it makes
our efforts seem puny at this
time. But these are all STEP
by-step functions we &c
through. AS we said, all the
manned flights we've had tc
date have added information
This flight, I hope, added 6
little bit more and there are
more to come.
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Solves StobiIizer

We had some problems dur
ing the flight. The automatic
sterilization and control sys-
tenn was causing some difficult
ty. 1t didn't appear to be cor
recting up the way it should
I was able to use the manual
control during that period and
this appeared to - it didn't
cause any trouble at all. It
seemed very natural to take
over manual control after all
of the trainer work we've done
Trainer simulations, Incl
dentally, were very, very close
to the orbital control situa-
ton. This was particularly
true in the fly-by-wire mode
where we control through the
automatic thrusters. When we
started having this problem at
the end of the first orbit,
was largely on manual con-
troll from there on until the
end Of the flight.
The other observations that
we had planned to make had
to go by the boards, while
tried to work out the control
system problems, and I spent
most of the last two orbits
working on this and making
some other observations,
largely concentrating about go
per cent of the time on the
control system,
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Eating, Swallowing

Eating experiments-we had
planned to do some of that
We'd tried this before on some
of the weightless flights in the
airplanes, Stimulating weight
lessness for a minute or so, and
it hadn't appeared to be any
big problem. However, we
wanted to try it. And I did. !
had one tube Of food that was
that I squeezed into my
mouth out of a tube-and this
presented no problems swallow
ing or getting it down at all.
I think the only restriction
probably to food will be that it
not be Of a particularly crumbly
nature like crumbly cookies
that have little particles to
them that might break off and
you wouldn't be able to get all
these back unless you had a
butterfly net Of some kind, I
guess.
AS long as the food is solid,
you can hold onto it and get it
into your mouth and from that
point on there appears to be no
problem.
It's all positive action. Your
tongue forces it back in the
throat and you swallow nor
mally and it's all positive-a
positive displacement machine
all the way through.
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Accepted Advice
On Retro PACKAGE

Q.-When did you know that
you had a possible emergency
on your hands (the heat shield
problem), and how concerned
were you about it?
A. I don't recall the exact
time that I knew about it. I
knew about it for some time in
advance of the retro sequence.
l can't pin a time to it exactly.
I didn't really contest this de-
cision from the control center,
because I knew that the experts
we had on the ground had Ger
tainly thought this thing out
much more thoroughly than
could in flight to make the rec
concentration that they could
make. I knew that there would
not be any change of this mag
nitude made unless it had Ger
tainly been considered from
every possible angle by many,
many experts on the ground, all
the people that designed the
system and all the other ex-
'perts that were in the control
center.
So, while it was Of some con-
Germ, of course, because it was
a malfunction; we never have
had a capsule re-enter with a
retro pack on it before. Some
thing untried like that you
look at it with "a little bit
askance maybe before you try
it, of course, so there was some
concern about it.
I think the major concern
when these chunks started
breaking off during re-entry
and I could see them going
back by the capsule. This was
a period when I wasn't sure
whether it was a retro pack or
whether it was a damaged
heat shield beginning to break
up. Obviously it was the retro
pack.
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after 7 had been weightless for
I guess a half hour or As min
uteS I had acclimated to this
rapidly enough and 1t just
seemed perfectly natural,
rather than to put the camera
away, I just put it out in mid
air and let go of it and went
ahead with the switch position
and reached back to the cam
era and went on with the work.
Adapts Quickly
I remember thinking after
wards that we were treating
this pretty blase at the time
here but the point I'm making
is that we all adapt very, very
rapidly to these new situations,
much more rapidly maybe than
those of us who have Eeen
training for this for three years
would have believed possible.
But it seemed just the natu-
raj thing to do. If you were
Just letting go of something for
a minute. you'd just put 1t
there and let go of it and go
back to it when you got time.
Under this zero G condition,
of course, it would be easy to
lose different items, have them
get away and get out of reach
some place. AS far as I know
there was only one item that
got lost and that was a little
can of film that I got out and
was going to put in the cam
era. And I let it slide out of my
fingers and went to grab for
it and instead of clamping on
to it I batted it and it went
sailing off behind the instru-
ment panel and I think that
was the last I saw of it. don't
know where it went.
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how had survived the black
out and when I regained con-
seriousness, and a few things
like this, and this was-when
we referred to blackout dur
ing re-entry - a communica-
lions balckout is what we were
referring to in this case. And
we probably should reterm this
a "comloss," or something like
that. so that we don't confuse
it with a blackout of the as
tronaut involved.
This is due to high ioniza-
ton around the capsule and
makes it impossible for the
radio frequencies that we're
using to get in and out from
the capsule.
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Proves a Man
Can Take Control

I think, perhaps, the diff
Guilty that we had and the &C
ton I had to take may actu-
ally have been a blessing in
disguise in one way. because il
showed when we had to that
a man can take over control
Of the various systems and op-
crate manually and still know
what he's doing and not have
any ill effects in this regard
from zero G..
And probably, if sufficient
study of our records from this
flight warrants it, we probably
can go on some future flights
with considerably less auto
nation and less complexity, we
hope, as a result of some oil
the things that we learned on
this flight. We certainly hope
so, anyway. But before we
make any big decisions along
that line, of course, we want
to review a lot of the data
much more thoroughly than
we have so far.
These things are all step-by-
step items. Al, of course, made
added to our knowledge a
large amount on his flight. Gus
added more. added a little
more, I guess, on this one, and
therell be many more to come
Deck ID. K.) Slayton, or course
is up next and we're looking
forward to that flight with just
as eager anticipation for him
as I looked forward to this one
for me.
Just Scratching the Surface
I think we've really hardly
scratched the surface. We had
a lot of attention focused on
! this one right now, but our
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Question Period

@. Col. Glenn, based on your
experience and ability to fly
the capsule when the control
malfunction developed, what
changes are you going to rec
ommend in the capsules con-
troll for Deck Slayton's flight?
A.-Well, before we make
any positive statement like
that as to the exact recon-
mendations for future flights
we need to do a lot more look
ing into records and data and
get all the tapes back from the
various stations around the net
work and we have several
weeks work to do just sitting
down and analysing the data.
Stars Very Sharp
Q.-What did the stars and
the earth look like up there?
A.-Well, starS-I was a little
bit surprised. I think I maybe
expected to see the stars in
greater quantity and greater
numbers than I had seen them
before. The nearest thing I
could compare it to and did
compare it to during debrief-
ing was the-I think-if you've
been out in the desert on a
very clear brilliant night when
there's no moon up and the
stars just seem to jump out at
you, that's just about the way
the stars look.
So I didn't feel that I could
see any greater number Of
stars. They were not blinking.
They came through very clear
and straight shining light.
There was no Pickering on and
off. But other than that, it
looked very similar to looking
at the sky on a very, very clear
night in the desert.
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of three-and-a-half, or four
minutes. That time period
made close observation of them
possible. Occasionally, one of
them would come drifting by
the capsule window very close
in the shade from the sun and
at that time they would look
like very small white particles.
And they would vary in size
from maybe pinhead size to
something say about three
ghths-of-and-inch in diam
eter, or that order.
There are numerous things
that some of the people are
thinking about looking into,
but I have no theory myself
except that we observed them,
we saw them on all three Or
bits, about the same length of
time on each sunrise. They
were very luminous yellow
ish-green color and, as George
Ruff, our psychiatrist listened
to this, he said: What did
they say, John?" ...
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Parks Camera
In Mid-Air

It was a very pleasant expert
ence all the way through. Some
Of the things that happened
under zero G has sort of dem
onstrated how fast, though, 6
human being adapts to this
situation. 1 recall last night,
when we were discussing some
Of these things, the fact that
I had had this little hand cam
era in my hand and when
had taken a picture and
wanted to do something with
the switch Immediately, it just
seemed natural at that time
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Passes Through
A Sea- of Liqhts

And this would bring us
around to a sunrise. This
turned into a pretty interest
ing area each time around, I
think, as most of you are
aware. At first light of sun
rise-the first sunrise I came
to I was still faced back toward
the direction which I had come
from with normal orbit atti-
tude-and just as the first rays
of sun came up onto the cap
Sule, 1 glanced back down in
side to check some instruments
and do something, and when I
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Spots Gulf Stream

Q.-Could you tell us of some
of the things you saw on earth
during the course of your flight
while you were up there?
A. Well, No. l, it's all very
spectacular from up there. You
can see a tremendous distance.
You're up above the atmos-
phere. You see this little hori-
ION band of very brilliant blue
color even on the day side. -.
Certainly one of the most
beautiful things is to be on the
dark side with the full moon
out and see this coming off the
clouds down below.
And then running over and
seeing the very sharp demarca-
ton line where the stars keep
coming down below the hori-
ION. It's interesting to note
that your sunsets and the stars
moving down behind the hori-
ION occur at approximately 10
times their normal speed. This
makes for a pretty speedy SUM-
set.
You can see different pat
terms in the ocean currents,
like the Gulf Stream, for in
stance. You can see the chang
ing colors there. You can see on
the earth-one area that I
could observe very clearly was
the area northwest of Ell Paso.
And that's an area where
there's a lot of desert with a
big irrigated area that comes
down a valley northwest of Ell
Paso and that stood out very
much. You can see the squares
OF the irrigated areas from this
distance :. You can't pick out
things like a bridge or a rail-
road trestle or anything like
that with any certainty from
this type distance of course -.
You can see blocks or squares
in towns. We had figured be-
fore we probably would be able
to pick out items down to saw
a hundred yards to $50 yards
long, and 1 think this was
probably a fair estimate.
Heavy Training Vital
Q. Do you agree that future
aStronauts may do with less
physical training than you and
your colleagues
A. I don't think so. You
don't know what you might run
into on future flights, and we
certainly would not want to
make a categorical statement
See CONFERENCE, Page Alb
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WeightIessness
Feels Wonderful

I think all that has beer
pretty we'll covered from what
I have seen in the paper. AS tc
our after-insertion-as to the
zero G's- this, of course, is one
Of the big things we have won
dered about through the early
phases of the program, wonder
ing what effect zero G'S woult
have.
This put us into a new en-
vironment that we have had nc
experience or limited expert
ence before in airplanes. We
extended this realm of weight
lessness, of course, during the
Redstone shot that Al and Gus
had and we're extending it far
ther here and I'm very happy
to report that there was no il.
effects I got from zero G's.
It was very pleasant as 9
matter Of fact and I had ne
tendency to particularly over.
reach switches or have any
trouble with the controls as 6
result of zero G's- indeed, 8
very, very pleasant experience
addicted" to Zero-G
Someone told me last might
after I had been talking so en-.
Enthusiastically about this that
was an addict to it and
think I probably am. It's 6
wonderful feeling.
We thought that over 9
period of time we might fee
some i'll effects from it in the
way Of nausea or Differentiation
but there were none of these
effects whatsoever. No problem
keeping oriented under zero G
I tried different head move.
ments to see whether with GER
tain head movements anc
combinations of head move
ments we would get any dis
comfort or any nausea. We die
not experience any of these al
all and these wound up with
some rather violent heac
movements in roll, pitch anc
yaw to see If we were going tt
induce any abnormal feelings
We did not.
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Perspiring Pilot
Lands in Sea

Gs during re-entry got up to
about s. Parachute functioned
in completely normal fashion
and that's probably the pref
test little old sight that you
ever saw in your life-to look
out the window and see that
parachute.
I remember AL Shepard max
ing some comments about that
after his flight and how pretty
that parachute was, and
concur. That's just about as
pretty as anything you can see
at that point.
The capsule was pretty warm
after re-entry - very hot, In
fact-and it was getting very
warm inside. I was sweating
rather profusely when I came
down. and when I landed, Sc
I remained as still as I could
in the capsule, trying to add
as little heat load to it as
possibly could. The destroyer
Noa was close by and had me
spotted and came over and
made an excellet pickup OF
the capsule.
Blows the Hatch
1t came aboard and at that
time I had been heated up
enough and had been sweating
very profusely long enough that
I decided after taking the
panel-the right side of the
panel - down, preparing the
egress out through the top,
decided at that time, since we
were already on deck, that 1t
was hardly worth the effort
and I should get on out and
be comfortable, so I did.
We blew the hatch on the
side, after checking to see that
everyone was clear outside and
came on out through the side
hatch. I was not in such bad
shape at that time that I could
not have gotten out through
the top, if I had had to do it
I still could have come out
through the top.
But at that time I was hot
I'd been sweating for a long
period of time and it seemed
like the thing to do-to get or
out of there at that time.
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Louds Co-Worker

) I might add one thing here
One person I wanted to pay a
real tribute to, who has worked
long and hard, particularly
close with me during this, and
that's Scot Carpenter. Where is
Scott? He's around here some
place. Stand up. (Applause).
Nobody knows the hours that
he put in for somebody else. We
saw Scott a couple of days ago
perform another feat, too. He
risked his. own life to save
another mans life while swim
ming out at Grand Turk the
other day. That may not be
generally known, either.
This was very impressive.
When you have an aqua lung
and you're down at about 30
foot depth and you're trying to
give your own air to somebody
else to help them out, this is
almost heroic, in my book.
One of the people here, I
think you may have seen this
morning in some of the activi-
ties, I'd like to introduce here.
Here's the real brains and
the power behind our house
hold-my wife. Annie, right
here. (Applause.)
My daughter, Lyn, and son,
Dave, right next to her, here.
applause
My mother ard dad who, as
the President said this morn
ing, started all this trouble a
long time ago.
And Annie'S father and
mother, DR.. and Mrs. Castor.
l think gathered around here
in front are the other astro-
nautS and their wives. 1 think
you know most of them
by sight. I'm afraid it would
take too much time to intro
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'|enn Tells Story Of Pleasant Experience in Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,
Feb. "a (AP).-Follotoing is
the tert OF Astronaut John
Fl. Glenn, IRIS story OF his
flight and some OF the cues
ttons and ANSWERS at yester-
days ne1Os conference:
Well. I know you are prob
ably anxious to hear about
what things were like on the
flight. so we might as we'll get
started on that.
I can make few brief re-
marks concerning some of the
major phases of it and then
we can field some questions
from it and then we will have
some specific questions. First
off, lit was quite a day. I
don't know what you can say
about a day when you see four
beautiful sunsets in one day.
1t is pretty interesting. Three
in orbit and one on the sur
face when I was back aboard
the ship. This is a little I'M
usual, think.
Not Upset by Delays
We were asked some ques-
tons before the flight about
how the delay affected our
readiness, and although I didn't
read some of the write-ups, I
understand there were some
considerably gross misconcep-
lions put out how the delays
affected our state or readiness.
I think that Scott Carpenter
put it into probably the best
light when he said I was the
most fortunate one around
with all this excitement going
on and all the business around
the cape area and all the prepa-
rations, because all I had to
do at that time was sit back
and just hone the edge a little
more and keep in good shape.
I think that put it about in
its proper light.
I certainly did not expert
ence any of the terrible sub
liminal impressions or halluci-
nations that I was supposed
to be receiving from all of this
pre-flight activity and cancel
lationS. We've had our holds,
Of course, on previous launch
attempts.
On the day Of the Goth. that
morning. the weather started to
clear and we could see the big
blue holes coming up and I
thought we were in a "go" con-
dition at that time because the
booster was ready and every
one sort of gets "go" fever
when you get all conditions set
right.
I felt that was-I think ev-
eryone was excited that morn
ing.
Power Face Perfect
The powered flight phase of
the booster worked perfectly.
Obviously it did from the
fact that we came out within
a very few feet per second of
the velocity that we wanted
and we were shooting Of course
for velocities a little over U.s.
900 feet per second.
And when you come out
within just a few feet per sec
ond at that speed this is very
accurate control. It was a good
insertion.
I think the best words I just
about heard in my life were
you have a seven-orbit capa-
bility" from Al Shepard here
when he gave the "go" to me
from the communications posi-
ton. That was very well
come sound.
I don't want to 60 into a lot
of details on the launch, I don't
think they're necessary.