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The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10
Astronaut Cooper Scheduled to Orbit Earth Tuesday
CANAVERAL. Fl

SAPt CANAVERAL, Fla. H1 - Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr has his "ditty bag packed anc the Mercury Travel Agency has ticketed him for the most exten- sive round-the-World tour ever planned for an American.
 Next Tuesday, if the present schedule. holds, Cooper will rocket into space on an intended 22-orbit mission lasting 34 hours and 19 minutes. His only luggage will be a lunch box of bite-size tidbits and dehydrated food and the ditty bag "a packet for storing cameras and miscellaneous items.
 A glance at the flight plan re- veals these highlights:
 Cooper's Faith 2" spacecraft will travel nearly 6O0,OOO miles and cover more than one million square miles of the earth's sur face-at attitudes ranging from 100 to ITO miles.
 As Cooper circles the globe, he will traverse all areas between 32.5 degrees north and 325 de- grees south attitudes, which in the We tern Hemisphere extends roughly from Charleston, sc, to Santiago, Chile, and in the Eastern Hemisphere from Shanghai, China, to Sydney, Australia.
 He will pass over parts of five continents, North and South Amer ica, Asia, Africa and Australia Africa and South America will be crossed frequently.
 Cooper will be the first US. as- tronaut to fly over Red China, spending a total of about 45 min utes over the Communist nation on passes lasting from four to eight minutes during orbits Mo- ', 8, 9, 10, II and g. Should an emer- gency force a landing in China, America could be faced with a diplomatic headache.
 If it's a clear day, Cooper will be the first American space pilot to peek behind the Iron Curtain. As he crosses above Afghanistan on the 10th and 11th orbits he briefly will be within a couple hundred miles of the southern So- viet border-within easy viewing distance from his sky-high vantage point.
 Cooper's crossings of the United States will be confined to the extreme southern area on orbits No. l, 2, 3, Is, 16, IF and Is. Near the end of l, 3, 16 and 18 he will be practically over his present home in Houston, Tex.
 Cooper's Atlas booster is sched- uled to blast off between 8 am. and 10:30 am. EST. If the flight goes the full distance he will land in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Midway Island between 6:19 pm. and 8:49 pm. EST the next day.
 Primary recovery areas, which will have greatest concentration of ships and planes, will be southeast of Midway and east of Bermuda in the Atlantic. Each spot covers sev- eral orbital paths.
 The assigned recovery force in- cludes 2 7ships, 125 aircraft and more than 19,OOO persons, most of them shipboard personnel.
 If you are short one egg in a
The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10
Musial Is New Homer King

ST. LOUIS R = Babe Ruth'S career high of 1856 extra base hits went out of baseball's record books Wednesday night when Stan Mu- sial walloped a 4th inning homer against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 The wallop gave the St. Louis Cardinal start total of 1857 extra base hits, breaking the tie he had last week with the old time Yankee slugger.
 Musial now holds or shares Az National League records and 15 major league marks.
The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10

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The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10

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The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10

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The Nome nugget., 1963-05-10

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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
The Spanking Judge Gets Results
'arannah (GaD Erening Press

JUDGE w. J. Obermiller of the City
Court Of Whiting, Ind, is a jurist
whose ideas on the proper handling of
Juvenile delinquents" are such as to
make professional social workers"
shudder But he has been getting re-
suits. and his approach strikes US as
being sound He frankly admits to be-
ing called 1.-The spanking Judge be-
cause Of his tough, no-nonsense policy
toward young offenders.
A first | tried the so-called psyche
logical approach" Judge Obermiller
SAID IN discussing his treatment of re-
peat offenders. You know, the theory
that holds that you must not give teen
ayers a complex j.. It was not long be-
fore | discovered that this was a mis-
take. | could understand and sympa-
thize with the first offender who COM
mitted a minor offense. | would not
tolerate the repeated offender
He described the situation this way:
Here were children committing adult
crimes. strutting about like adults.
Dragging about what they We're getting
away with. The Younger ones knew that
because they We're Juveniles their
names would not be used in the news
paper and that they would not be sub
ject to the punishment meted out to
adults.
SO the Judge took different tack
Il have ordered haircuts and spanking
for teen-age delinquents. have assign
ed them to work details where they
spend long hours doing worthwhile Jobs
f or the community or for their
churches | have assigned them special
readings and then tested them on the
assignments. | have in all cases attempt
ed to make the punishment fit the
crime. and to make the punishment
such that it removes the tawdry
'glamor of jail or court appearances.
The embarrassment caused by such
punishment is my key weapon A
juvenile committing an adult offense
is on the road to destruction. | am at
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

tempting to grab him back, to pull him
into the proper circle of family and
community !. -
And the reports we get say he is hav-
ing success. Juvenile gangs in his area
are splitting up and disappearing Boys
assigned to work details are perform
ing we'll and his court is getting fewer
repeaters. The boys are learning re-
spect and the parent is the boss again"
Perhaps more Spanking judges"
like Judge Obermiller would have such
effects all over the country. Crime -
whether committed by hardened pro
fessionals or by Juveniles" - is a
threat to the entire community. A few
more tough" judges could benefit the
entire situation.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
Days Grow Longer

4 LREADY the days are growing long
er. Can you tell ii by noticing the
time of darkness every afternoon? Since
Just before Christmas (the winter SOL
stlce) the sun has changed its course
and the angle is changing ever so
slightly every day now.
BY the end Of the month, around
February LIST, the days will be notice
ably longer and in February you can
definitely tell that the brightness Of
the sun has changed somewhat. This
does not mean, though, that the wea-
Their is already warming.
In March the length of day and night
will become equal again, as it was in
September. January is likely to be the
years coolest month, February some
times is.
The only consolation right now is the
fact that the days are steadily getting
longer. Pretty soon, there'll be talk
b out baseball training camps in
Florida and Arizona From then on. it
won't seem so long. Baseball, the sum
mer sport will be on its way for 1868,
and SO will warmer weather.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

Y. s. opinion in New York, and in
Washington, is certainly different
1t is hoped by the vast ma ority Of
Americans that Stevenson is right But
even if he is wrong, we have no bust
ness in that unpredictable, backward
area with United States soldiers The
Congo was obviously made an indeoend-
ent country prematurely, because of the
stirred up by the Communists, and no
thing we can now do will prevent the
inevitable Turbulence and chaos which
this struggling new democracy faces.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

other agricultural or fruit state
Will lick climatic problems for
droughts and floods may be as
serious as freezes is by at
tr2ctlng more industries. But
even these should be Of differ
ent kinds. A city now dependent
upon the steel industry, or the
paper industry, or any other one
industry may be greatly handi-
capped by foreign competition
Prime Minister Macmillan has
been telling this to President
Kennedy and he may be right
In saving that we cannot have
world peace without more free
dom OF trade. This may mean
that the have more" nations
may need to give up more to
the have less" nations. This is
what Mr.. Macmillan was telling
Mr.. Kennedy in the Bahama Is
lands a few weeks ago. Florida
and every other state should
prepare for great changes
ahead.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
fer statehood to the island.

ieI Statehood W tlie lSldliu.
One idea which appealed nota-
bly, to us was the whimsical
suggestion from one good lady
who asked, after a column on
the plight of the abstainer,'
Why can't they make filters
for people who DON'T
smoke" Well so along with
that thought 100 per cent.
Religion is a touchy subject.
and almost any column on that
topic is bound to bring squaWks
Once, with nothing but the best
OF intentions. We commented on
a church publication which call
ed for up-gradng the religious
caliber of music used at we'd
dings. Some ultra sensitive souls
though We were behtting their
church. and adopted 6 most I'M
charitable attitude toward us.
Our recurring espousal of
states rights and opposition to
forced racial indignation have
brought their share Of censure.
generally from gentlemen either
of color or of the cloth. B ut
more than off-setting these. at
least in number, have been the
letters from Americans W h 0
share our views and those
writer's are by no means re-
stricted to the Southern states.
Our preachments for conser
vahsm and constitutional gov
eminent likewise have produced
varied reactions. with the
"amens" again out numbering
the "oh, no
But all the letters have con-
tributed to a better understand
ing of the mood of America.
Let US hope that the letter.
writing impulses will never die
down, although the mail hence
forth will go to others The
views expressed in this column
will continue to see print, but
as editorials rather t h n
columns.
So. Milton-lkC. we say good
bye:
Tomorrow to fresh Woods,
and Pastures new.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
W. Q. Workmon
va|edietory

COL uMBIA, S. C-Since the
end of the year rings down the
curtain on this particular col
umn. perhaps some purely per-
sonal observations will be toll
Grated in this valedictory piece.
During h G tWo-and half
years that the column has been
kicking around eand occasional
~ kicked around. it has gen
Grated many letter from
readers. The letters have in
cluded bark pattcrS, wrist
slappers, knuckle rappers, and
had it been possible = a few
horse whippers. There has been
a measure of considerable COM
fort in the fact that many more
letter have begun with ID a /
Friend" than with You Bum.
Nevertheless, some OF t h e
toughest epistles which have
come our way contained valu-
able lessons. Excluding the very
few when have been downright
abusive and ill-tempered. the
critical letters have reflected
points Of view, sincerely held,
which differed from ours.
Surprisingly. some of TIL e
most spirited reactions h ave
come from columns which APP
peared, at least in the writing,
TO be on the innocuous side. For
example, there was the some
what off-hand column which
said that we could not quite
understand all the hubbub rails
ed by attempts to bring about
fluoridation Of water.
Well, we understand it now.
That one column brought
more mail, most of lit highly
critical, than any other single
piece of writing. In the course
of being called everything from
a Communist to a dope, we
learned the hard way tn a t
water fluoridation is a subject
not to be taken lightly.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
BabsOn Discusses Florida Freeze

BABSON PARK, MASS. Jan.
10 - The recent freeze was very
severe. The newspapers say
worst in the century Stats
tics show that a similar freeze
came IN 1899 Then nearly all
citrus trees north OF Orlando.
Fla, were killed.
This latest freeze hit the cit
rus belt or the central portion
hard: but also. the southern pOr-
ton where many Of the vege-
tables are grown likewise had
crops wiped out The northern
section of Florida. where the
celery and other hardy crops are
raised suffers less damage from
freezes.
Florida Received Full Warning
There was no mistake on the
part of the Weather Bureau. for
three days it had warned Flori-
da Of the very cold air coming
down from the Arctic regions.
But what could the fruit an d
vegetable growers of Florida do
about it? Only the Indian River
area escaped.
The early crops had bee
picked The second crop, includ-
ing the Valencia oranges. were
not ready to harvest. M any
growers built fires: but these
raised the temperatur only two
or three degrees. Growers who
had adopted new schemes of
spraying with water saw the
spray itself freeze.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

The Loss Has Been Very Great
The loss has come not only
to the growers: but to all the
plckers. the cultivators, and the
transfers. 1t has thrown over a
million out Of work and thereby
affected all the merchants and
storekeepers. Worst of all, it
came at the Christmas season,
when the people and the mer-
chant planned On their best bust
ness.
The canning Of Juice has been
the greatest hope of the grove
industry. If fruit - even though
frozen = could be rushed to the
Gamers while it was still sweet
such juice could be saved: but
the Gamers could handle only
so much juice and were power
less to can the truckloads of
fruit coming to them. l have
been in the midst Of the situa-
ton and will say that everyone
rich or poor-has helped free
ly IN every possible way.
States Face Sudden Losses
When was boy in Glou-
cester, Mass, our most profit
able product" was granite and
We knew it could not freeze
We had great quarries and we
shipped the granite to Boston,
New York, Washington, and
Philadelphia for use in erecting
the largest public buildings.
We believed We had nothing to
fear. Suddenly, the invention OF
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

cement came, and Cape Ann re-
celved q great economic blow
1t was saved only by its fearless
fishermen.
The cities which grew up and
prospered from coal have suf-
fered greatly since the oil and
natural gas industries have
flonished. When l was a boy
every Gloucester home was
heated by coal. 1 went to the
woods with my grandfather
when snow was on the ground
to bring home on sled kindling
wood for future use. Even the
farms of New England. once SO
prosperous, have been gradual
~ abandoned. The farm mactin-
cry introduced so widely for
blowing, cultivating. and even
for harvesting could not be en-
ployed on the rocky New Eng
land farms.
Florida Freeze Warns U.s.?
ID It is the need to be ready
for a change; especially now
that we are on the verge of the
Electronics Age. Every industry
IN every country this great
country is subject to change. %
1t is the knowledge that every
community must diversity more.
This should be the goal of every
Chamber Of Commerce. The
watchword should be greater
diversification.
The only way Florida or any
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15

If that column brought an out
pouring of critical mail, the bal
ance was restored by common
datlonS which came from an
earlier piece, i'll which we voic-
ed our fear of what John F.
Kennedy's election as president
would do to our system of gov
eminent. Hosts OF Americans
obviously shared those senh-
melltS. ami wrote in TO say So
But most of the columns at
tract only a trickle of m |.
Again surprisingly, more people
trouble to write when they are
in agreement and have a word
of commentator than when
when they wish to raise Cain.
This tends to refute the prevail
ent notion that Americans are
much more prone to complain
than to congratulate.
Some thought provoking ideas
have come along with the mail
There was the Southern gen
tleman who thought the best
way to solve the Cuban situa-
ton tthis was months before
this latest showdown woul d
be for the United States to Of
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
The Allen-Scott Report
Secret US. Military Satellite Data Plans
Detailed in Soviet Document; Senate Explosion Due
BY ROBERT s. ALLEN AND PAUL SCOTT

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1l-Rus-
STA has an amazingly clearcut
idea of the Kennedy Admins
tration's most scret defense
plans.
A Soviet military document
prepared under the direction Of
Marshal V.D. Sokolovsky, trans
lations OF which are now in the
posse ssion Of the Air Force and
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee. pointedly detail this
breach of security.
Titled Military Strategy" the
6l8-page Russian document gives
specific details of Defense Sec
rotary Mcnamara S plans for
drastically cutting back the
Strategic Air Commands nu-
clear bomber force by 1866.
1t accurately lists secret data
on U. S. military satellites.
their missions, and the number
of launchings planned for the
next Is years
Where or how Soviet officials
were able to obtain this class
flied Information is major
mystery. The fact that the Rus
slams did get it could touch off
an inquiry even more explosive
than the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee forthcoming
Skybolt hearings.
Shocked by what they have
read in the document, several
members Of the committee are
planning to grill Secretary Nc
Namara and other top Defense
officials when they brief the SEN
ators on U. S.-Soviet military
capabilities later this month.
The committeeman. headed by
Chairman Richard Russell. D.
Ga. will seek to determine ID
where the Russians could have
obtained this information and
~ the accuracy of the u S.
military plans reported in the
document but about which the
senators have never been fully
apprized by Defense Department
officials.
For example: While com
mittee members nave been told
there would be a cutback of
strategic bombers in the future,
they were never given the spe-
cific details contained in the So
Wet document, which states:
The Americans plan a grad
ual but considerable reduction in
the number Of strategic bomb
ers. This force will be reduced
from 1900 in 1862 to 900 by
1866. They plan to use Bass ex,
clusiVely as a medium strategic
bomber by the end Of 1866 and
to retire all Of the BATS by then
3 BY early 1862, the U. S. had
700 B-52s and 1,l00 BATS, and
60 supersonic B-58s. All Of the
B-52s and 900 Of the medium
strategic bonlbers are located
on U. S. territory: the remaining
medium bombers are based in
Europe and the Pacific. "
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
What Is The Truth

IT is little difficult to get the real
truth from the Congo when United
States officials give varying stories
about events in that so-called vital re-
glon. The latest puzzling information
was statement attributed to Adlai
Stevenson, our United Nation Anbas-
sador, that he knew of no Soviet inter-
vention or interference whatever in the
Congo
The official word from both Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy and the State
Department is that we are concerned
with the trend of events there ~ not
necessarily political events. Thus the
Savannah ga J EEeuLun Press
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
N&W Reports
Record Year

The Norfolk and Western Rail
way reported the highest annual
net income in company history.
1854 million for 1862. Earnings
per share Of common stock
were 1913. also new record
which surpassed the previous
high of S3l5 a share in 1860.
The N&W's 1862 net was S.
million above 1861, when earn
ings were S60.4 million and
amounted to $8.04 a common
share. Operating revenues for
1862 were $3.50 million, compared
with S243.7 million for the prev
iOus year.
The 1862 earnings figure
broke the previous high mark
Of S6l6 million in 1857. on the
basis Of combined income of
the INV and the former Viz
gilman Railway, which was
merged into the N&W system
in December, 1859.
Stuart T. Saunders. N&W
president, said major reasons
for the record income were a
larger volume of coal traffic,
greater operating efficiency, a
continuing cost control pro-
gram, and tax benefits from the
new Treasury Department de-
probation guidelines and the
seven per cent investment tax
credit.
The nav increased common
stock dividends from $500 a
share in 1861 to $3.50 a share in
1862, paying 81 for each of the
first three quarters, SIPS for the
fourth quarter, and Sl.25 for a
year end extra dividend. The reg
ular dividend rate was raised to
SIPS a quarter, or S. a year.
from the old rate of 81 per
share annually.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-01-15
GOOD WISHES

William D. Workman, who
has conducted this column for
the past year, has accepted
the position as associate edi-
tor Of The State. published al
Columbia. S. {. The State,
one of South Cardinals oldest
and most respected news
papers. has a long list Of out
standing editors.
We are pleased that Mr..
Workman has received this
outstanding challenge and OPP
portunity in the field OF jour
ralism. Herald readers will
miss his tWice-a-week column.
Evening star., 1963-05-14

America Coliseum Plaza match
Sunday at Tenpin the follow
ing final matches are sched-
uled. Fair Lanes Maryland VS..
Silver Spring Bowl: Pentagon
City VS.. Rosslyn: Shirley Park
Bowl VS.. Fair Lanes Virginia
and Congressional Plaza VS..
Skor-Mor Lanes.
With Coliseum and Bowl
America scoring sweeps in the
latest action, Rosslyn scored a
2-1 victory over Congressional
Plaza, Fair Lanes Maryland
beat Skor-Mor in two games
and Pentagon City won a pair
from Shirley Park Bowl.
Standings: Ten Pin Coliseum,
71-34; Bowl America, 70-35;
Rosslyn, 60-45; Fair Lanes Vir-
ginia, 52-53; Silver Spring, ST.
81; Congressional Plaza, 1888;
Fair Lanes Maryland, 47-57;
Skor = Nor, 1850; Pentagon
City, 44-6l; Shirley Park Bowl,
31-74.
The Ladies Pioneer League,
Washington's oldest all-woman
ten-pin league completed its
season last night. It was q
close race all year, with Kline
Brothers Furniture Of Alexan-
dria nosing out Why Nots by
one point to take the title.
Members Of the winning team
and their averages are Laura
Core, 179; Evelyn Camp. 1854:
Doris West, 1877; Ginger Tay-
lor, 162 and Captain Katie Nc
Lean, 1874.
Individually, Cathy Stevens
took high scratch with 1876.
She rolled consistently high all
season and did not relinquish
the lead to anyone the entire
season.
High handicap set went to
Rogers with 678 and to
Eileen Boyle for a high handi-
cap game Of 2e5. Eileen also
took scratch honors with a 258
game and q 654 set. Leta
Waddle won the most improved
average award with a 21-game
average of 1873 and q final
game average of 152.
Already plans are being
formed for action next season
in this league and any women
may contact Secre-
tary Sybil Tucker, 1904 North
Pollard street, Arlington.