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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 5-24-1962 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1962). Winona Daily News. 281. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/281 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Clear, Cool Tonight; Cloudy/ Warmer Friday Carpenter Lands After 3-0rbit Flight Plane finds Flier on Raff Near Capsule By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (*. — Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpen- ter successfully orbited the earth three times today and then—after a harrowing 35 minutes when it was not known whether he bad survived the re-entry — he was sighted sitting in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean. A Navy P2V Neptune bomber flashed the word that Carpenter apparently was all right after spot- ting him in the raft some 133 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. Floating nearby was the Aur*** ra 7 spacecraft which had carried him three times around the globe in 4 hours and 56 minutes at 17. -* 532 miles an hour. The capsule overshot its intend- ORBITA L FLIGHT PATH . Map shows flight path tor or- bital mission by astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter . Kenned y Watches WASHINGTON Wi - Presi- dent Kennedy looked on by REP. ANDERSEN HEARD television today as astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter be- No Compromise came America's Second man in orbit. y Kennedy* saw. Carpenter's liftoff on. a television set in , Questioned in On Medicare, the bedroom of his living quar- 7 ters in the executive 000 mansion before walking over to his of- Kennedy Says fice. WASHINGTON (AP)—President ed landing area by 200 miles and Estes Investigation Kennedy has made his no-compro- Carpen ter apparen tly decided to mise stand on medical care for leave it and wait out recovery in By G. MILTON KELLY Last June, when Marshall was but would look into the death be- the aged more emphatic than the one-man inflatable life raft WASHINGTON 'AP) — Senate found dead, shot five times, his cause of a cryptic not e found in ever. He insists on weaving it which +e carried aboard tbe cap- investigators disclosed today their death was written off as suicide. Pratt's car which said in part into the Social Security system. sule. agents have questioned more than But under th« pressure of the "the burden of guilt is on my He says the public wants it that The Neptune reported it was 1 .000 persons in the widening Estes investigation, his body was shoulders." way. circling the raft and said that Picture was rrjade by automatic camera Billie Sol Estes ease. exhumed Tuesday for an autopsy Investigators said they doubted Firing another broadside at the OFF ON ORBIT . .. A big Atlas missile penter. Carpenter was "sitting upward," And , said the informant , many, in Franklin, Tex. Later the county American Medical Association lumbers off the pad at Cape Canaveral at the on the pad. (NASA Photo via AP Photofax) There was no immediate report Pratt had any connection with on his condition many more will be questioned be- medical examiner told county Wednesday, Kennedy repeated his fligh t of astronaut Scott Car- , but the plane Estes. start of the orbital said he appeared to be okay. fore the Senate Investigations grand jurors his preliminary find- Meanwhile Rep. H. Carl Ander- prediction that Congress will to start its ing was murder. adopt his plan this year if it subcommittee is ready sen, R-Minn., became the second When tht Navy plan* first re* hearings into whether Washington The examiner, Dr. J. A. Congress member to volunteer reaches the House and Senate ported sighting the 37-year-old influence helped Estes build his Jaehimczyk. was expected to publicly to testify before McClel- floors. And he contended that de- Wife Sees Navy lieutenant commander in tha rickety business empire. make his final report today. lan's subcommittee after his spite AMA opposition, "more and Titan Missile sea, an obviously relieved arid The report came after President name had been linked with Estes". more doctors are supporting it." One Body Still happy Lt, Col. John A. Powers, Th* FBI also had no comment Kennedy related at a news con- Sen . Ralph W. Yarborough , D- Takeoff at Mercury spokesman , reported to ference Wednesday that the FBI on the case of Howard Pratt , 31, Kennedy heatedly attacked the newsmen : Chicago office manager of Com- Tex., previously had announced AMA and Republican critics of his has moved into the investigation he was offering to testify. He "A Navy P2V Neptune has re- of the . mysterious death of Henry mercial Solvents Corp., found medical care program at his^ news Missing in Canaveral Blows Up at portecf sighting the spacecraft dead in his car Wednesday of car- acknowledged accepting about S7, conference—a conference dominat- Marshall , a Texas farm official , 500 from Estes in campaign con- ) floating in the landing area. Along shot to death a year ago while bon monoxide poisoning. The com- ed by his strong views on the big CAPE CAN AVERAL, Fla. (AP side it was a life ra ft , and sitting pany's financial relations with tributions and to help finance the legislative controversy of 1962. —Rene Carpenter was reported in it was a gentleman checking into Estes' dealings un- senator's radio broadcasts to con- named Car- der the government cotton pro- Estes, who bought great quantities The questioning elicited these somewhere on the beach today California Base penter." of liquid fertilizer from the chemi- stituents. charges Plane Crash gram. comments and : sharing the moment unobserved CHICO , Calif. (AP) — A Titan An Air Force air rescue service cal firm, are under investigation. Kennedy said he does not plan UNIONVILLE , Mo. (AP^ -One watchers when her Anderson has said he sold Estes among Other missile was destroyed in a blast plane reached the area at •> 1 :40 FBI declined to comment The Senate subcommittee, head- to follow up his current proposal body was still missing today in Scott p.m. » and Th* $4,000 wort h of stock in a Wash- husband , astronaut Malcolm today as its silo exploded at the <EST prepared to drop on the unsual circumstance of its ed by Sen. John L. McClellan , D- for payment of hospital , nursing the fatal crash of a Continental two para-medics into the ington state coal mine owned Carpenter , was hurled into orbital missjle complex near Chico. water to entry into what normal]/ would Ark. , said it had no evidence of partly by the congressman. An- home and outpatient bills with a Airlines jet plane. The other- 44 fl i ght. assist Carpenter if necessary. be a local police case. any link between Estes and Pratt, plan to cover doctors' bills. He bodies were in an improvised Tw enty-four persons were treat- dersen said the FBI has checked Mrs. Carpenter is the first of ed for smoke inhalation , the Air Meanwhi|e two twin |ef his records and *'I am sure they accused critics of talking through morgue here. ^. helicop- the astronauts' wives actually to Force announced. ters were dispatched from the air- will find lhat everything is in both sides of the mouth. They Search for the missing, uniden- witness a blastoff putting her hus- , There were no fatalities. craft carrier Intrepid , which wai proper order ." criticized it one day, he said for tified victim and for thc cause of band into flight . Her whereabouts "going too far in limiting the re- stationed in the intended drop McClellan has stated that any Ihe accident that tore the big remained a mystery IHII it was The other two missiles and si- zone 200 miles away. and Glenn s Father Congress member whose name i.s lationship between doctors plane apart in the air over south- reported she and her four chil- los in the complex escaped dam- Tne Virgin Islands Coast Guard patients, and on another day mentioned in the hearings will their ern lowa continued with teams of dren watched only a few miles age, as did the control center, the said Carpenter had no apparent including doc- have a chance to become a wit- attacked it for not federal investigators on hand. from the launching pad. announcement stated . problems. ness. tors. " The $5' 2 million Boeing 707 Lt. Col. John A. Powers, public "He waved as the plane passed A House subcommittee bended The explosion occurred at con- over , " the Coast Guard said. Dad of Year AMA SPOKESMEN have de- plane left a trail of wreckage for affairs officer of the National trac tors were running a test be- by Rep. L. H. Fountain , D-N.C, (AP )—A , " a cruel Carpenter performed his triple NEW YORK man ac- Margaret have two children , plans io slarl hearings Monday on nounced the plan as 60 miles Tuesday night before its Aeronautics and Spac e Adminis- fore turning the base over to the good job " Kennedy said associa- circuit of the globe in a masterful claimed for doing a .John David , 34, and Carolvn Ann , the Est es case, with poliitcal con- hoax. the main fuselage plummeted into a tration , said Wednesday (hat Mrs. Air F orce. display of cool courage. tion used the same words in un- above the earth today wa.s 13. troversy already swirling about Missouri fann. Carpenter had chosen to watch ns The Air Force spokesman de- Rapid fuel consumption in his honored for doing a good job on its ears.