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noth Ye.,. No. 224. tt0.u3.5w0 WASHINGTON, 0. G, AUGUST 12, 1962- 225 20 CENTS
Red May Orbit Earth for Week
Head of Ball Club
Set to Clean House
Quesada Plans
To Drop Vernon
And Doherty
By FRANCIS ST ANN
Star stair wnwr
Time is fast running out
for Mickey Vernon as field
manager and Ed Doherty as
general manager of the Sen
ators. it was disclosed this
week end by Elwood R. (Pete)
Quesada, president of the base
ball club. '
"No one should be surprised
that we. the Senators, natural
ly are considering some changes
in the management, particu
larly as concerns the manager
and general manager,” Que
sada volunteered.
The goals that were set when
the retired Air Force general
and nine partners acquired the
Washington franchise in the
American League expansion on
November 17, IMO, have not
been achieved, Quesada indi
cated.
Changes Dictated
"Prudent thought dictates
some major changes in the or
ganization," he said. “If I did
not give thought to the prob
lems that confront us, the di
rectors of the Senators should
give thought to removing me
as president.
“And Tm sure they would,”
Quesada added.
The Senators’ president was
disappointed after the team
shared the cellar with the Kan
sas City Athletics last year and
he is dismayed by the perform
ance at the club this season.
Quesada admittedly is envious
of the progress made by the
Los Angeles Angels, who are
doggedly fighting for second
place after having led the
league for a brief period.
“Replacing Vernon and Do
herty is one of the hardest
problems I’ve faced.” Quesada
stressed. “We have An excellent
personal relationship, but I
can’t afford blind loyalty. It’s
a problem I must face.”
Lists Jeb Candidates
The Senators' boss admitted
that for some time he has been
compiling a list of possible
candidates for these two Jobs
but has interviewed only one
applicant to date. “This was
the former owner and general
manager of a Triple-A team in
the American Association, who
applied for Doherty’s position.”
he disclosed. “I wouldn’t say
the Interview was satisfactory.”
Quesada said that so far he
has listed the names of “about
10 possible general managers
and the same number of field
managers.
“But I’m not even close to
making a decision,” he said.
Although Quesada said that
he has talked to Doherty on
the subject, he said he had not
spoken to Vernon regarding
plans for the future. But be re
peated, “No one should be sur
prised when and if we make
the changes.”
Wants to Shift Vernon
He would like to retain Ver
non in the Senators’ organiza
tions, Quesada said, adding:
“But I don’t know if Mickey
would be agreeable.”
As for printed reports that
Quesada is thinking of taking
over the general managership
himself, as well as serving as
president, he said:
“That’s a ridiculous report.
It’s utter nonsense.”
Doherty and Vernon were un
veiled in their capacities with
the Senators on November 18,
See QUESADA. Page C-l
If you were among the many
boating fans who thought
that accommodations along
the Chesapeake Bay were
austere, there's good news!
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Outdoor Editor Charles Co
vell's extensive survey of
Bay Marinas clearly proves
they are becoming very
plush.
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'I Love Her/Says Mother
Os Malformed Infant
District Still Trying to Determine
If Thalidomide Drug Was Used
I By WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Science Writer
While District officials sought to determine yesterday if
her mother had received the sleeping pill thalidomide during
early pregnancy, six-month-old Tammy Inez Morton smiled
and laughed.
Her eyes are bright. And, her mother said, she has a big
appetite and already eata many •
foods.
Tammy and her family were
located yesterday by The Star
after the District Health De
partment reported, Friday, that
its check of all children born
in the District since January 1
had turned up one gid. bom
February 18 with deformities
like those linked to thalidomide.
However, one or two cases such
as this might be expected to
occur in Washington each year
from other causes, Dr. Samuel
Schwartz, chief of the Bureau
of Maternal and Child Health,
said.
Yesterday, Mrs. Alberta Mor
ton. 31, confirmed that her
child was the one reported and
consented to an Interview.
She smiled warmly at her
daughter, now nearly 6 months
old. The child was bom Without
arms and with bent, shortened
Fairfax School Plans
Separation of Sexes
By HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Ztatt writer
Separate public school class
rooms will be established for
some boys and girls in Fairfax
County this fall.
The separate classes are be
ing set up as part of a study
which may lead to more wide
spread adoption of the separate
classrooms theory in the Wash
ington area.
The sexes frequently are seg
regated in private schools,
but it is not a current practice
in public schools although re
search indicates boys and gir*
learn in different ways.
Fairfax County will conduct
its study with some fifth grad
ers and possibly other classes
at Wakefield Forest School,
where Principal Glenn Wells
became interested in the sub
ject and has been pioneering
with some initial studies.
A possible study at Broome
Junior High School in Mont-
Meet the Fabulous X-15—A Bargain at $225 Million
By WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer
EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., Aug. 11.—Some
60 times in the last three years
the maneuver has been repeat
ed high in the sky over the
California-Nevada wasteland:
The countdown reaches zero,
a stubby-winged black craft
drops free of a huge bomber
and streaks outward and up
ward into area of flight never
penetrated by another winged
ship.
This is the launching of the
X-15, a strange and altogether
admirable airplane, which is
now nearing the end of the job
for which it was built—inves
tigation of the aerodynamic
unknown.
But the dark steed is not
headed for the barn. The three
past years are Just prologue for
the X-15 in a new role, that of
"service plane” in support of
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MICKEY VERNON
Time running out
legs. AU six of Tammy’s older
sisters art normal.
Mri. Morton said she cannot
recall taking any drugs on her
own, but that she was given
medication at District General
Hospital’s pre-natal clinic. Dis
trict General Hospital has de
termined that no thalidomide
was used on the mother there,
although four of the Washing
ton doctors who received the
drug are associated with the
hospital, a spokesman said.
None of the doctors, accord
ing to the spokesman, used the
drug at the hospital.
Mrs. Morton also recalls be
coming nervous and out-of
sorts and stopping by another
hospital, where she was given
two injections and six pills to
be taken over a three-day pe
riod. Mrs. Morton said that
See DRUGS Page A-U
gomery County is still in the
discussion stage.
Mr. Wells reported that some
advantages had been indicated
from setting up and observing
all-boy classes, first with
fourth graders and later with
fifth and sixth graders.
He said the boys progressed
faster in their school work and
showed some psychological
benefits from not having to
compete scholastically with
girls. The boys’ common inter
ests seemed to make motivation
less difficult, he added.
In a fourth-grade study, he
said, boys who had not been
doing well in school performed
better. He noted a group gain
averaging about two years on
the basis of standardized test
ing, and said there was an
individual gain of as much as
five years.
Improvement was "signifi
cant” in the area of work and
See CLASSES, Page A-U
Rebels Agree
On Choice For
New Minister
Argentine Crisis
Is Eased With
Compromisre Pick
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Aug. 11 (AP).—Feuding Army
chiefs tonight accepted a com
promise choice for War Minis
ter, apparently ending a four
day crisis that had brought
Argentina close to civil war.
Presidtnt Jose Maria Guido,
whose five-month-old regime
was nearly toppled in the up
heaval, swore in retired Brig.
Gen. Jose Cornejo Saravia, 83,
and ordered rival troops that
had ringed the capital back to
their barracks.
Gen. Saravia, long a foe of
ex-dictator Juan D. Peron, was
proposed by the rebel leader
ship. He was described as a
close friend of Lt. Gen. Arturo
Ossorio Arana, a previous rebel
choice for the Job.
The field commander of the
rebel front, Maj. Gen. Federico
Toranzo Montero, who sparked
the latest crisis last Wednes
day, said he had ordered his
own forces back to their bar
racks and bases.
Loyalists Accept
Loyalist elements in the
Army said they accepted the
compromise War Minister in
the interests of the Guido Gov
ernment and the Constitution.
Only 50 to 60 people, most
of them Army officers identi
fied with the rebel cause, at
tended the swearing-in cere
mony at the Government
Building.
Soon afterward, police re
leased units that had been held
ready throughout the crisis,
and the Air Force lifted a
ban on private or unscheduled
flights over Argentine territory.
At the height of the erisu.
some rebel leaders eaid they
were aiming for President
Guido’s scalp and not just a
Cabinet reshuffle. They defined
their objective as the creation
of “a democratic military dic-
See ARGENTINA, Page A-U
Buenos Aires
Views Crisis
With Apathy
By GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Aug. 11—Headlines scream
crisis, competing generals hurl
threats of war at one another,
the president of the republic
pleads tar tranquility via tele
vision—and this ramshackle
capital goes peacefully about
its week-end business.
For civilians, the greatest
hardship of the crisis so far
is cancellation of the horse
races usually held rain or
shine. Commuters on the way
to the city center also duck
around improvised tank bar
ricades thrown across the main
arteries.
Foreign exchange houses are
closed for the week-end, so the
full impact of the latest out
burst from military leaders is
yet to be felt in the plunging
value of the Argentine Peso.
Since the generals and the
admirals ousted President Ar
turo Frondizl last March, civil
ians have become used to the
political game of the military.
They control the fragile suc
cessor government of President
Jose Maria Guido.
“It’s fun, isn’t it?” smiled a
young politician between tele
phone calls to keep up with the
military maneuvers. Four
months ago, this outsider was
See CRISIS, Page A-13
■I '
The B-52 mother ship with the X-15 (arrow) under starboard wing.
the space program, a “flying
test bed” for advanced new
aerodynamic concepts. It will
be many years before the
Smithsonian will be able to
claim the plane in which Maj.
Bob White topped 50 miles alti
tude or that carried Joe Walker
■
President Kennedy takes the wheel of the 62-foot yawl Manitou yesterday
near Boothbay Harbor, Me.—AP Wirephoto.
East German Forces
Moved to Berlin Wall
Soviet Lookout on Brandenburg Gate
Also Shows Concern on Anniversary
BERLIN, Sunday, Aug. 12 (AP).—East German Commu
nists moved armor and truckloads of troops up to the Berlin
wall early today as the first anniversary of the steel and con
crete barrier across the city neared.
The Soviets themselves had a man atop the Brandenburg
Gate, apparently emphasizing that Russia as well as its East
German satellite has a direct
interest in the wall and what
may happen to it on its first
birthday Monday.
West Berlin police also re
ported a Soviet truck at the
Anniversary of Berlin Wall I* To
morrow. Page D-12
gate although it was too dark
to make out just what it was
doing there.
The Communists, showing
signs of growing nervousness
about the wall fired off a series
of diplomatic notes to the
United States, Britain and
France about the situation in
Berlin. One set came from
Moscow. It accused West Ber
lin and West German authori
ties of plotting “serious new
provocations” along the wall.
An East German note pro
tested the presence in Berlin of
West German President Hein
rich Luebke, who came here
for the anniversary on a United
States Air Force plane.
West Berlin police, peering
across the wall through binoc
ulars, saw armored halftracks,
water cannon and truckloads
of troops being moved up.
Americans who drove through
East Berlin about midnight
said it was calm and quiet. At
checkpoint Charlie, main cross
ing point for non-Germans,
it was an uneventful evening.
West Germans contemplated
with sadness the anniversary
of the day the Reds began seal
ing the 26% miles of their
border through the city with
cement, barbed wire and steel.
I Nervousness about the wall
faster than 4,100 miles an hour.
On its record, X-15 has earned
full status as a relic of Ameri
can aviation's glorious past,
along with the Kitty Hawk kite,
the Spirit of St. Louis, or the
X-l in which Chuck Yeager
first cracked the sonic barrier
and what might happen on its
anniversary prevailed in West
Berlin. West Berlin police were
keeping people back from the
Western side of the wall. They
were under orders to let no
trouble start that the Commu
nists could use as an excuse
for a crisis.
On Sunday, Mr. Luebke will
attend the first showing of a
film called "Berlin. Between
Wall and Barbed Wire.” TYiere
will be television appearances
by Willy Brandt, mayor of West
Berlin, and Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer.
On Monday, there will be
three minutes of silence at
See WALL, Page A-6
IRAN SHAH MAKES
BUDGET BALANCE
A FAMILY AFFAIR
TEHERAN, Iran (AP).—
The Shah has taken his
son, Crown Prince Reza,
off the government payroll
and from now on will sup
ply his salary out of his
own pocket.
In a letter to Prime Min
ister Ashadullah Alam
yesterday the minister of
the royal court said the
Shah had decided on this
to help the government re
duce an estimated budget
deficit of S7O million.
The government had pre
viously decided to impose a
15 per cent cut on the
budgets of all ministeries.
15 years ago. X-15 has its niche,
to be sure: but there is still
work to be done, and X-15 is
the only craft in the world that
can do it.
The United States—through
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, the Air
Bohlen Named
To Paris Post
President Sails
On PT Boat
■/ BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me.
1 (Aug. 11 (AP).—President Ken
nedy appointed a new ambas-
( sador to France today, naming
I career diplomat Charles E.
I (Chip) Bohlen to replace Gen.
James A. Gavin in Paris.
And he went to sea again in I
a PT boat—numbered PT 109.
the number of his World War
n command which was rammed
and sunk in the South Pacific
by a Japanese destroyer.
The boat was brought to
Maine as a communications
vessel, according to White
House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger.
The President boarded the
PT boat along with a group of
old friends. A couple of them
are old PT men themselves who
are spending the week end with
the President on isolated John’s
Island, a few miles from Booth
bay Harbor.
They started out from the
island at 9 a.m„ to keep a
rendezvous a few miles to the
north off Friendship Cove with
the 62-foot ocean racing yawl
Manitou, now a coast guard
training vessel.
Newsmen found the Presi
dent at the wheel under sail,
though winds were light and
the sky overcast. The sea was
moderate.
He sailed Manitou to the
north and east, sharing turns
at the wheel with Senator
Benjamin A. Smith, Democrat
of Massachusetts, a Harvard
classmate and old friend. Sen
ator Smith holds the Senate
seat which the President re
signed after he won the presi
dency in 1960.
Old PT men with the Presi
dent for the cruise were James
A. Reed, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, and Paul B. Fay
Jr., Undersecretary of the Navy.
See KENNEDY, Page A-3
Force and, to a lesser degree,
the Navy—has spent about $225
million on X-15 since late in
1955 and is now supporting the
program's operational phase at
a level close to $24 million a
year. There are few, if any, in
formed persons who would deny
that this is money well spent.
The balance sheet and log
book of X-15, at first glance,
may look something less than
impressive. The hardware Uncle
Sam has received for his quar
ter-billion dollars consists
chiefly of three black airplanes
tail-numbered 66670, 66671 and
66672, and known respectively
simply as “No. 1,” “No. 2,” and
“No. 3.” Each is 50 feet long,
13 feet high and 22 feet in
wingspread, weighing slightly
under seven tons unfueled.
Total flight time of all three
craft aggregates only about 10
hours, or slightly under the
See X-15, Page A-2
Liberace Plans
New Program
See TV Magazine
Astronaut Eats
Three Meals,
Goes to Sleep
Nikolayev Effort
Seen to Dwarf
Titov's Record'
By PRESTON GROVER
Associated Press Stall Writer
MOSCOW. Aug. 11—A third
Soviet astronaut was hurled
into orbit today, ate three
meals, moved about his space
cabin and then turned in for
his night’s sleep, Moscow radio
said. There was speculation he
might stay aloft a week.
A Soviet broadcast said Pre
mier Khrushchev mentioned in
a message to the newest astro
naut, Maj. Andrian G. Niko
layev, that he would have
“quite a number of orbits.”
Maj. Nikolayev went to sleep
at 10 p.m. (3 pm. ED.T.) and
the radio said there would be
no further Moscow broadcast
reports on his progress until
Sunday morning.
At 10 pm Moscow time, Tass
announced that Maj. Niko
layev had completed seven
orbits, traveling about 200,000
miles.
Takes “Natural" Food
Moscow radio said his three
meals included one of “nat»
ural” food. Previous spacemen,
Soviet and American, had ta
ken their food from tubes.
Maj. Nikolayev reported that
his appetite was good, that
weightlessness had caused him
no qualms, and that he took
over the hand«controls twice,
enabling him to direct orienta
tion of the ship, Soviet reports
said.
The newest astronaut, a 32-
year-old Air Force veteran, gives
himself the code name of “So
kol.” That U Russian for a
bird of prey.
Few Details Given
Announcement of the new
Soviet leap into space and sub
sequent developments poured
from Moscow radio and Tasa
news agency. But neither gave
; as much information as on Maj.
'Gherman Titov’s 17-orbtt flight
•■/a year ago.
- Moscow radio said the Vostok
- HI was launched at 11:30 am.
(Moscow time (4:30 am. EDT)
• See SPACEMAN, Page A-«
; U. S. Pledges
No High A-Tests
During Flight
By the Aeeocleted Preu
The United States Govern
ment yesterday wished Russia’s
orbiting spaceman a “happy
landing” and promised, in re
sponse to a Moscow request,
not to endanger him with
high - altitude atomic explo
sions.
The Soviet "appeal” not to
hurt Cosmonaut Andrian G
Nikolayev, carried by the Rus
sian news agency Tass, reached
what Washington officials re
garded as extreme propaganda
heights.
To the Soviet appeal to the
United States to refrain fromi
any measures that might “en-l
danger the cosmonaut’s life,”
the State Department respond
ed with this two-sentence state
ment:
"We wish Maj. Nikolayev a'
safe flight and a happy land
ing. The United States, of
course, contemplates no activ
ities that would interfere with
him in any way.”
Today’s Star
Sect. A General Newt
Sect. B Metro, Obituaries
Sect. C Sports
Sect. D Editorials, Amusements
Sect. E, F Society, Home
Sect. G Classified
Also SUNDAY, The Star Maga
zine; This Week Magazine, TV
Magazine and Hecht Co. August
White Sole gravure section.
Index of Subjects
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Amusements D 7-9
Art D 10
Books 0 5
Bridge D 6
Business, Stocks D.. 13-16
Cameras D 6
Classified G—l-22
Crossword Puzzle D 6
Editorials D 4
Editorial Features D- 2-3
Etiquette E 13
Fashions E 7
Gardens G 23
Hobbies D 6
Home Improvement E 15
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Lost, Found A 3
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Obituaries B 4
Radio D 9
Records D 6
Schools D 11
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Stomps, Coins D 6
Television Listings.-TV Magazine
Travel F 6-1
Weather Report B 2
Week in Perspective D 1