G enn. te • a les met, e • 4/ El at t g , , firtirgitt,tt 861' FORA ®EWER PENN STATE VOL. 62. No. 82 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 20. 1962 • FIVE CENTS —Abociated Prue WirepLrb PREPARES FOR ORBITAL FLIGHT—Astro- . calm seas in the Atlantic Ocean raised hopes naut John Glenn Jr., infers his sPace capsule,. that the flight scheduled for 7:30 a.m. will Friendship 7. early this morning in hopes that finally get underway. Bad weather and tech his long-awaited space .flight will become a , nical difficulties have forced cancellation of the reality. Fair weather at Caps Canaveral and trip 10 times. UOveillw lii-ExCeis By • ' By ANN PALMER , 'passed by the Senate today, it, • - twill go to the House for considera-I The State Senate approvedtti on , An amendment yesterday made!. Hays said that at, present, the l , i state revenues otal ;5 millionl by • Sen. Jo Hays, D-Centre,!more thin had b e ns e etimated for which could increase :the Uiti-ith i s, Year. • • . . , - Hays proposed a second amend versity's• apprcipriatipn. ern nt to the University's budget , I bill which added $l l / 2 . million to Haye amendment ; stipulaiedl that if .the state received more i n -fthe allocation. This • amendment come in :t ax es, than h as b e e n t i was defeated by in unofficial estimated for the fiscal year,co tint of 35 to 1,5, ' 1961-62, eight per cent of that; , - THIS AMENDMENT necessi-, I excess will be anocated to tbCtated additional funds to finance University. The fiscal year endsltbe .; increase. because Governor on July 1.; , t i Lawrence has said he would veto - By approvingilay's amendment,lany bill which unbalanced his SII the'Senate added it to the Univer-:billion general fund budget"' city appropriations bill (whichlllays said. would allocate $2O million to the : Hays suggested that the increase ! University). The amended bill will ibe financed by compelling all; be, brought to a final vote today.lstate-aided schools to charge! "LAST WEEK the • House passeti_higher tuition rates. for' all out-' tax excesses ta ! t of-state students.' • I a bill giving all 1 public :schools In the , state. ' 11, ANOTHER AMENDMENT WI changed that bill 'in the Senateithe University's appropriation was; so that. 92 per• cent of-lhe excesslannotmced by its sponsor, Repub- 1 would go :to public schools and'lican Sen. 'Harold- E. Flack, on' eight per cent to the University," Feb. 8. H . ays.said. ' I"I understand that Sen. Flack is • The - amendment vote was tied planning to prose his amend-' On the floor of the Senate with a merit tomorrow, Hays said last 'solid Democratic vote (25) for it ni g ht - - and a..straight Republican vote (25) 'against it: The• deadlock was broken * an affirmative vote • from theLieutenantt Governor. "I would guess ; that this bill will pass in.the.Senate tomorrow," HaYs.said last night. ..11 1 the amendment May Share Tax Income Pal woman 'lndeed'. may, , hare 2 a.m. parraissioas Friday :and Saturday for Military Ball Weelurrut hour'ern ats ll - Va rve4l l:rim:i St ied the on Senate at lb 'meal:tag zacesdly. biII - ;is Sevareid Hits Guilt Feelings 1 By. KAY MILLS The United States must to control, anxiety about Americanism as part of a job to keep its foreign polio gine running, Eric Sevareid, news anatirst,-told a capacity ence Saturday evening at Scl 'We can learn from the Bi by seeking respect. not affe or popularity, through pol policx moves." he said. Sevareid, speaking for thy versity Lecture Series, said . icons must end their. ne worrying about the opiniol other countries. - LET THEM WORRY what we think of them change." To - achieve this end. Se' said that Americans will ha change their thinking and pline themselves.. Many will have to learn that dent Is not the only answer, he Abridging a quote from row Wilson. he added tha , goal is to make the work' and save democracy in the tries which know how to w• or have a chance to learn. I "That chance," Sevareid .•,"is not promiscuously Aistri. !A change of rule, as in ernei states, does not insure thr lation of democratic societit BECAUSE THE United must at tinies.act alone, "Wk `believe our cause is right and be come' less troubled about the drawbacks of American high handedness." The veteran newscaster said the • (Continued on page seven) for Fli •ht Weather Looks Good For Blast-Off Today CAPE CANAVERAL / Fla. VII The U.S. space agency rrinved swiftly ahead last night with plans torockFt astronaut John H. Glenn Jr..arouhd the world today. , - p Mercury operations director Walter -Williams gave the weird to start the crucial second half of the countdO i wn at 11:30 p.r4i. EST. . • The forecast was so encouraging that n midnight weather briefing was cancelled_ , . , Barring some unforseen change in the weather, or other hitch, the .chances were counted good for sending the Naiirie lieutenant colonel skyward sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 12:0 p.m. EST today. • A late afternoon weather report .said conditions in the Atlantic recovery areas "appeared favorable for the missibn." The only fly in the weather ointment was that the Cape Canaveral launch area might: be ' covered with broken clouds. How ever, commanders of the, Mercury BULLETIN The weather at Cape Canav eral appeared promising and Ih4 recovery area in the tic Ocean was calm u the final countdown to send AStIVINItiI John Glenn Jr. into space en teric! it, final hours. 4 Unless a heavy cloud layer moved over the Cape this morn ing. Glenn was to blast off on his orbital trip at 7:30 a.m. At press time. Glenn had been awakened and was •being strap ped into his space capiule. Friendship 7. on top of a power ful Atlas rocket. astronaut project hoped that, it this occurred, they might find a hole in the clouds to shoot Glenn's Atlas rocket through. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN ac-, tually covers six hours of tests, checks and preparations, but the count will extend over a period of eight hours, allowing two hours of built in "holds" during which any final needed corrections could be made. Should something delay the shdt, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the: good weather was expected to continue through tomorrow. As the 11th date for his great adventure neared, Glenn reported analyst, fields a student's question at a coffee hour in !ha getzsi Union main lounge followusg his lecture Saturday • evening in: Schwab. He discussed subjects ranging horn the ansticcassfut U.S. invasion of Cuba to a journalist's rota; to inform or to itiflusnce? . he was ready. He reiterated:that he-waa not the least perturbed by the delays stretching back. to last Dee, 20. Speaking to •newsmen who found him in - a Cotton BeachAmr ber chair, Glenn Said postpone ments are of no cotisequence, be cause: "I have been training and wait ing for three yeats. and a few more days won't mutter," The hope Is to-' propel Glenn three -times around the worWin a spine-tingling, journey lidding four hours and 50_,rninutes. If need be, the trip could be cut to two orbits, or one. , Experts still plated to htiddle, keeping their eye n the weather reports. - _ Similar 11th-hot4 meeting; last week forced postponementi of the flight on Wednesilay, Thursday and Friday.. THOSE DELAYS were caused by storms which churned danger oti*waves in the Atlantic recovery l areg east of Bdrrnuda where Glenn's capsule wolUld land If the mission aborted beOuse the Atlas failed to achieve proper speed or injected the craft into the wrong orbit path. The storm has moved out of that area and conditions= in the zones where (Venni would impact after one. two or three Orbits were reported satisfactory.
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