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Astronauts Have Their Day at the White House Kennedy Awards Trophies to 7 Spacemen [Chicago Tribune Press Service] Washington, Oct... 10-President Kennedy today urged greater appreciation of the nation's space program and its potential benefits to the United States and mankind as he awarded the 1963 Collier trophy to America's first seven astronauts. The President spoke informally to the astronauts and their wives at a ceremony in the White House flower garden. Hails Space Program One hundred and fifty guests, including Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, cabinet officers. and representatives of the space and aviation fields were present. In an apparent reference to critics of the Kennedy administration's multibillion dollar program to land an American on the moon by 1970, the President said that there are those who "dimly perceive" and question the value of the lunar and other space programs. He said, however, that as in the case of the airplane and the first earth satellite, the space programs of the present and future will surely be of major importance and benefit to the United States and mankind as a whole. First White House Group The Collier trophy, established in 1911, is awarded annually national Aeronautics 'association for outstanding achievement in aeronautics or astronautics. The Assemblage at White House the nation's first seven astronauts. Navy Secretary Korth, Martin (partly hidden), the President, astronauts are in the rear. association represents both civilian and military activities. Today's Collier trophy ceremony was the first time all of the seven original astronauts have been together at the White House since Comdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. received an award for his suborbital flight of May 5, 1961. Maj. Virgil I. Grissom followed Shepard with another suborbital flight. Orbital flights subsequently were made by Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter, Comdr. Walter M. Shirra, and Maj. L. Gordon Cooper. The seventh astronaut, Maj. Donald K. Slayton, was barred from the one-man Project Mercury flights a minor heart ailment. Slayton served as coordinator of astronaut activities in the now-completed Mercury program. yesterday as President Kennedy awarded the Collier trophy, highest award in aviation, to With the President (left to right), are: Air Secretary Zuckert, Adm. David McDonald, Beck (front), Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., Gordon ( Cooper Jr., Donald Slayton John Glenn Jr., Virgil Grissom, Vice President Johnson, and Scott Carpenter. Wives of BOY OF QUINTS HEAVIER THAN ANY OF SISTERS Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 10 (UPD -By scales and by safety pins, James Andrew Fischer held his place today as the huskiest of the four-week-old Aberdeen quintuplets. The lone boy of the quints tipped the scales at 5 pounds 7 ounces three quarters, of a pound heavier than his largest quintuplet sister-when the five were weighed today. Sister M. Stephan, the administrator of St. Luke's hospital, said James Andrew showed his size and strength in another way, "We are just using one pin to hold the diapers of the girls, takes two to hold James Andrew's diapers.' Other weights were Mary [AP Wirephoto] Mrs. John Glenn admiring small version of the Collier trophy which her husband re- Margaret, 4 pounds 11 ounces; Mary Catherine, 4 pounds 8 ounces; Mary Magdalene, 4 pounds 7 pounds ounces, and Mary 10 ounces. CHICAGO FUND DONATES LAND TO N. Y. STATE Chazy, N. Y., Oct. 10 (UPD-A Chicago foundation today donated a 700-acre tract of land near here to New York state. James A. Fitzpatrick, eastern attorney for the William H. Miner Foundation, turned over the deed to the property to Harold G. Wilm, state conservation commissioner, in an informal ceremony at the William H. Miner Agriculture Research institute here. The land includes 100-acre Miner lake.
Article from 11 Oct 1963Chicago Tribune(Chicago, IL)
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