DIifribuHon Wetttfaer tm^trattrt «. Sway ' Today , May wi** • ttkttgk tfamtfa f titi, F*tFt» RED BAM HI stffltfrfww WKB • Ww ttf.075 fT« «ad tte M«h tft»w> ,f W MMy, ft (feme* «T 1 Independent Daily f •JBHrtn fit* to tb« tey, {J wmetiimm*mrmi>*i-*ar.m J Dial SH 1-0010 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1962 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE .Ml « V ,"' Stranger- Than "Fiction Story Carpenter Tells Details Of Exciting Orbit Flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. clinical discussion of the most The launching of Carpenter's (AP) —Malcolm Scott Carpen- dramatic bit of space fiction Aurora 7 spacecraft at 7:4f a.m. ter lived to tell a stranger- yet to come true. (EST) yesterday was a per- than-fiction story today — how fect one. The orbit into which 1 To the scientists, engineers he orbited the earth three times, and the space medicine work- the Atlas vehicle inserted the overshot his landing by 250 ers who monitored every min- capsule was near the ideal. miles and vanished for 41 min- ute of the almost-five-hours- And the orbital flight itself, utes. long flight, this was'fi major as ticked off in Carpenter's flat, Plucked by helicpoter from a milestone on the way to the terse reports, seemed almost dinghy in the- lonely Atlantic moon. routine in spite of nagging little yesterday, Carpenter was taken The mission brought to light problems that kept cropping THE TWIST — This it ell that's left of a barn'on an Atlantic Township farm, owned late last night to Grand Turk new dangers — the hazards of "P. by Charles D. Flock, Phalanx Rd. It was directly in the path of yesterday after- Island in the Bahamas for" an missing landing target areas The really, alarming part noon's twister. According to Mr. Flock, th« twister carved a 200-foot path, several emotional reunion with the first by wide margins, for example came after the Navy lieutenant American to go into orbit, John — and pointed toward solu- commander fired the retro- miles long, and leveled trees and minor obstructions in addition to the barn. H. Glenn Jr. tions of some of the problems rockets that would retard his In relative isolation,' he will of man in space. speed sufficiently to make the tell his exciting stor. there to It opened up too, new vistas capsule drop out of orbit and physicians and spacecraft tech- of voyage by satellite. descend through the atmos- nicians — before he can forget It may even have advanced phere. any part of It. •• . the United States manned space Normally the heat of re- News Conference program beyond the phase of entry, the ionization of the air And then, probably on Sun- three-or even five-or seven-or- in front of the spacecraft, cuts 'Twister' Levels Barrr in Atlantic Twp. day, he will be returned here bit flights, and on to the field off radio communications for a for a news conference — a of 18-orbit, all-day missions. minute or two. John Glenn ex- perienced a communications The skies cleared over New Jersey this on a path 200 feet wide and several miles blackout at this stage of his long. morning after a rash of freakish storms and a historic flight of last Feb. 20. tornado scare swept the state yesterday and VIOLENT RAIN But Carpenter's craft, struck last night. Other portions of the county reported only dumb at the 12:30 p.m. re-entry In Monmoulh'County, a violent storm of short periods of violent rain and gusty winds. AstronaunfsWife never regained its voice. Nor *hdrt duration, called by witnesses a twister Hail fell in the Upper. Bayshore and "Avon did Aurora 7 become visible to or "small tornado^" destroyed a barn and 9T.es. • •• • • • "•• . ' the ships in the planned -re- utility poles in Atlantic Township, - In Rumson, Mrs;-Jean:T.'Schueler, Con- . ' ; • " PHALANX RD. BARN , over La., reported her home struck by light- Never Frightened covery area 800 miles south- t east of here. The craft might "The barn, pn Phalanx'Rd. on a farm be- ning. Damage was confined to a washing longing to Charles D. Flock, was reportedly machine. v • - : ~ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Rene Carpenter, the have been burned to a cinder. lifted briefly' and dropped in pieces on the Electric power was Interruped in Rumson cool and poised blonde wife of astronaut Malcolm Scott Car- It simply disappeared. machinery stored there. for about 20 minutes at 4:40 p.m. penter, vows she was never frightened during her husband's Wrong Angle y In a nearby dwelling, windows were bro- . Traffic wasi haltejdjor 20(minutes jfl:Rari-j space venture. Aurora - 7, tilted at a wrong Mrs.Carpenter~emerged TrdTSraay-lbhg "seclusion" byhold-" CARPENTER AT EASE — Astronaut Scott Carpenter is "Ren and "twci "chimheys^ toppled, according to tain Township where a 60-foot tree was felled angle at the time the braking p Ing a news conference last night and bringing along her four Mr. Flock. ' rockets were fired, simply went now at Grand] Turk Island, where, ha will describe his by lightning on Middle Rd. Police and em- fair-haired youngsters. They were, she said, wonderful com- The hOme of Mr. Flock's son, Richard into a longer, shallower descent trouble-studded orbital flight and dramatic rescue. ployees of Jersey Central Power, and Light pany for her yesterday. Flock, escaped damage narrowly as tre ; Co. cleared - the road of 'debris . and downed than would have been the case Mrs. Carpenter, who said her husband telephoned her be- (NASA Photo via AP Wirephotol were downed within feet of the building. , power lines. had it "dug in" more steeoly in- fore liftoff from his capsule, looks forward to a reunion with Mr. Flock said the storm crossed his farm (See STORMS, Page 2) to the atmosphere. It plopped him Sunday and a trip to Colorado, the couple's home state. into the ocean off Anegada She and her children, two boys and two girls, saw the Island, north of the Virgin flaming Atlas missile blast-off that sent her husband streaking Bell Labs Protest Islands and about 1,000 miles School Report Is Explained around the world in the void of space. It was the first time southeast of Florida. - an astronaut's family were eyewitnesses of such an event. Carpenter methodically eased WAS DRY-EYED himself out of the floating Bigger School Budgets If Mrs. Carpenter felt moments of anguish, she did not spacecraft and into a rubber Access Road reveal them. dinghy.; Then, while the world wondered what had happened FAIR HAVEN — About 125 lo- U, S. schools which fall into the dents In kindergarten throug' "I'm not a brooding person by nature," she. said. And to him, he sat and waited for cal residents and taxpayers lis- top category for general excel- fifth grade and 460 in grades si: added, "I was dry-eyed." : tened with attentive caution lence. through, eight. Wasn't she frightened during the "concerned part of the help, last night to a recommendation Population Census The suggested enrollment flight?" newsmen persisted. It was not long in coming, To Be Sliiit that school budgets rise appreci- He ended his talk saying that each of the existing schools "I wasn't concerned at all," she replied. Perhaps only (See CARPENTER, Page 2) 1 WOODBRIDGE — Representa- Hill exit and entrance through the ably here in order to maintain the 1965-66 school budget should 400 to 425. The "middle school once, she added, when an unofficial report had said that her tives of the Bell Telephone Lab- park is unsafe and inadequate for and improve the elementary be pushed upwards by $150,000 Dr. Cornell proposes would housi husband's capsule was in the water and nothing had been picked up on radar. oratories were told yesterday by public use. ' ichool system. over the budget which totals 400 to 600 students in an area o Jersey Man New Jersey Highway. Authority The group gathered with mem- $552,718.. about 50,000 to 55,000 square fee What sustained Mrs; Carpenter during the crucial moments The Bell Labs people have said when her astronaut husband encountered difficulties in his officials that the Garden State the closing will disrupt traffic bers of the Board of Education Dr. Cornell said that a popu- The consultant said his firm hai Parkway's Telegraph Hill Park to hear a summary of the re- lation census taken by his firm calculated on the basis of high venture? First to Spot patterns previously 'established access road definitely would be when the company decided to sults of a recently completed sur- indicates a need for the addition- average of about 110 square fee BACKUP PROCEDURES closed. .. vey of the schools by Education- al facilities which his report ad- for each pupil in attendance. build its large facility here. "I think I've been'thoroughly checked out In all backup Carpenter Howard K. Onstott, vice presi- al Research Services, Inc.,- New vises be built. He said the Willow Street am procedures," she said. By the end of the summer York City. From five to 10 yeafs from Knollwood school classrooms SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) dent and general manager of the about 2,500 employees will be •Reminded that her husband had said recently that he was company, led a delegation at a Dr. Francis G. Cornell, presi- now an additional 290 to 300 stu- were too small and, in particu not" going to pray during his flight, that he did not believe in —As millions of Americans waited working at the labs, they said.