Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03

quit to sign up for the naval
aviation cadet program in 1912
just half his lifetime ago. He
did not graduate.
The campus is about three
blocks from the comfortable
white wooden house on Bloom
field road where he lived as a
boy and about five blocks from
the brick home of Anne Caster,
the astronaut's boyhood sweet
heart.
Annie and John received a
joint welcome from their home
town today. Many Of the signs
in store windows hailed the re-
turning girl as well as the re-
turning boy-the girl whom Col
Glenn introduced to Congress
last Monday as "the real rock
in our family"
The post-luncheon program
called for the parade to form on
a side street near the east end
of town for a 1870 start.
Music-without which no pa
rade is a parade-was to be
furnished by the Muskingum
College Band and those of New
Concord, GAINESVILLE and Cam
bridge High Schools.
In a way, it seemed a pity
that the newest high school in
Muskingum County had not yet
started classes and organized a
band.
The local school board decided
a day or so ago to name the
new school after the astronaut.
The official name will be John
Glenn High.
I'VE can't put the 'jr.' behind
hisn anne or people would think
it was a junior high school,
School Board President Anne
Marshall said.
The parade down Main street
and up to the college on the
hill will take about an hour
During that period the normally
heavy traffic on U. S. 40, the
Columbus Wheeling highway
will be at a standstill.
The parade will end at the
main quadrangle of Muskingum
College. The atronaut and
others Of his party will go into
the college gymnasium, where
most Of his fellow townspeople
will be gathered.
A half-hour ceremony offici-
ally labeled Tribute to Col.
Glenn" will follow. The pro-
gram will range literally from
the Sublime-an invocation by
the Rev. Henry Evans, minister
of Mrs. Glenn's family church
hereto the ridiculouS-a pre-
sentation of a first travellers
award" by Gov. Michael v
Disable of Ohio. The first
travellers award, a promotion
scheme of the Ohio Department
of Highways, is normally pre-.
sented to persons who manage
to squeeze their way first acros.
Ohio bridges, turnpikes anc
other public works.
Some time before the parad
started the highway patro
blocked off the town near tn
city limits. Travellers stopped
at the roadblocks were handet
mimeographed sheets reading:
1.-THE home of 1t. Col. Johl
H. Glenn, jr., Americas frs
astronaut is New Concord, Ohio
In commemoration of his recen
three-orbit space flight a home
coming has been arranged an
is now in progress. We are sur
you will not object to the Sigh
delay and will cooperate b,
keeping your vehicles in tn
right hand lane, leaving tn
left lane open for emergenc,
use. This delay will be kept t,
a minimum"
At the city limits, near wher,
cars were stopped, new his
torical signs have Just beef
erected. Bearing a picture o
torical signs have just beer
the Mercury space capsule eacl
sign reads:
New Concord, Ohio-homt
of 1t. Col. John H. Glenn, jr
USING, first American to orbi
the earth, February 20, 1862.
Virtually identical signs have
been placed at the city limits
of Cambridge, nine miles east
of here. except that instead Of
New Concord" and home