IPAI Amer1oa•1 Noon lootel pul on a 9peo1aoular dl ■ plaJ -- •• 1t lhundered up fro ■ 1t8 1aunohla1 pad a, Cape OanaTeral. 8torle8 •aanger Three• ten••**••• bl1b -- r111n1 ■lowly at flra,. Llte an enoraou• 011ar - ,11eten1n1 1n the ■UDll&ht. It galbere4 •P••d •• treaendou1 power - built up ln81de 1\8 eagl•••• ""' Tb• TelooltJ aooe1,erat1a1 -- at a tant• ■ tlo rate. Tbe m111lle, tla8blng upward -- ta8ler and falter. All •1•• et the Cape follow1a1 lt -- during the to•1r alnute• that it re■ataed Tl•J.ble. The tlr ■ I 1tage pul •1anger Three• lnto a •partln& orb1t• tor thirteen ■lnutee. Thea the eeooad ~f 'v ■I•&• wen\ ott•- drlYlD& \he roc~e\ •• \oward l\ ■ deatlnallon. The 1h01, a co■plete 81.10oe11 •of ar. Tonight, Ranger Three 18 rao1n1 - toward the Nocna. l , ADIPIAPJ Let•• get to the aatronaut 1tor1 -- by way ~ of London. Seeae rather round about -- fro■ the Britl1h capital to Cape Canaveral. But -- 1t mate• 1en1e. The connecting lint - Lloyd• of London. The famou• houee of ln1urance underwriter• -- offering to quote pre ■ iuaa oa Colonel John Glean. Offering to bet that the Aaerlcan a1tronaut - ■ate• a ,ate return fro• ht• tllght lnto apace and around the earth. The odda - a 1ecret. But Lloydi 11 ready to do bueln••• -- wltb anyone who le intere1ted. Meanwhile, the tndlvldual ao■ t 1ntere1te4 1n a 1afe return - 11 watching the count down for hla • flight. Aetronaut Glenn bappJ that the firet helf 11 already flnl1bed - wltb the rocket waltln1 to tat• bla aloft. iverJ 1a1t detail - rl&ht on 1obedul~. yn.....-icludlng _ the weather. The 1t1 over Cape Canaveral ' -- clear. bd'itt. expect•-~~ to 1tay that way / A tbrou,hout tomorrow. Bla•t off 11 ,et for tomorrow aornin& - between eeYen-'blrtJ and twel . . - tb1r\J Saetern ltandard A@tl91APZ - a it••• You can follow th1e enttre bletorlc fllgbl -- over 088 radio. OBI, to cover John Glenn fro• the moaent ••-- he lea••• the launching ~ad - un,11 ihey ft1h hi• out of the Atlantia. How does one feel when poised for a leap into th• unknown? ~oes he worr7 about the danger - or try not to think of it? lf hie naae ia John Glenn - the answer ia - •10•, in both cases. Astronaut Glenn sa7a he's taking a reali1tic view of hie pioneerin1 fli1bt; well aware of the daqer, but not friahtened. in bia worda, •pioneer• have faced riaka all through biator7.• And - he added, •pioneers have survived those riska.• He's conticint! The convalescence of Joseph P. Kennedy -- can be judged by tod a,' a yachting trip. The !'resident's father, joining Ile President and t!le first Lady - aboa d the Presidential yacht - The Boney • itz. The Kennedy fa ■ ily sailing on Lake ' orth, part of The lnland Water lay. The elder lennedy - atill partially paral7zed but able to get around - with 10 ■ • asaiatance. As for ~reaident ~•nnedy, he'll relax over the weekend in ~ala ieach, •h•r• he will watch tbe iaunchin, o•tr TV; and have a •isit with ling Saud, who 11 there recu eratine fro ■ hi• recent operations. QAIFIBIBQI held up The,J;nterenoe at Punta Del late la beln1 - by< problea that haa pla1ued it fro• the fhe conflict between a coaaon deaire to do 1oaethin1 about Oaetro - and dt1a1reeaent about how to do it. Ton1&ht, the intei-.attonal lawyer• are har4 at work - trying to haa•r out an aooeptable ••laltllM reaolut1on. They eay they'll auooee4/w they'•• aated for an extra day. aeoretary of State luak 11 deacribed a• -- confldent about the outcoae. Confident - that a etrona condeaaat1on of Oaatro will be agreed on. Henoe, our secretary of State iaa•t worried about wa1t1n1 a few more houre. IIATUA While the weather 1a being kind to astronaut Glenn 1n F ~ a -- 1t'e being t~ugh o n ~ • who areo/ astronauts .. 1-1\e •lMeTi- t . e , m ~ , ror example, 1n r1a1ataft, Arizona - where 1n9w drift• are piled up, flve feet hlgb. Arizona and Hew The he~•now fall - Mex1co.~1v1ng north blanketing up the Nl••l•elppl Valley 1 on wlnde of forty mlle ■ an bou;,- ~ l the way to Ohlcago, where power llne ■ brote under the welght of the t ee. ParadoxlcallJ, the,pre ·~ ct1on of warmer weather to c oae -- 11 b eing take:i a1 a grl11 threat. Kean1ng - aounta1n• ~t • ~ • n o ~ ~ t h a river• of the mid-west; ~ the danger of ma111ve flood,. The Mlssourl a1ver ~ ••already eight feel above flood l t level - at Murphy1boro, Illin011. The Pearl Riv.,- ten feet abo ' J - at Jackson, M1as11s1ppl , The lateS t deaa nd by ~e P olice tederation in London, is typical of British p olice methods. ihere else would policemen demand that guns be taken away fro ■ - payroll guards? lt all goes back to - the code of the London underworld. The unwritten law - that neither ~obbies nor criminals ca ry guns. Scotland Yard claims that the system pre1enta the shooting that mars law enforcement practically everywhere else in the world. The prob le ■ is that some payroll guards have taken to defendillllrheaselves with pistols; preferriJlll to shoot a robber - instead of waiting for him to pull out his blackjack. The Police Fede ~ etion is afraid that in thefuture this will cause bandits to arm themselves for every job. Result - gun battles in the streets of London. And that would force the Bobbies to arm '-D 1 ·de "' they don't like. "Uns, maybe O.I. t eu1selves. n u for Chicago, but in London - never! So the liobbies are a d vising the City Fathers to make those payroll gua r ds drop 'ea. lf you're • 0nd ering what a fall out shelter is good for, when there isn't any fall out - consider Ed Willia ■s of Indianapolis. Ed doi·ng the t · t· , pa r10 1c thing -- after listening to President Iennedy, built a private shelter in his yard; and spent quite a lot oft i11e there. His neighbors assuming - he was getting ready for a nuclear holocaust. Suudenly, a strang aro ■ a lagan to waft. -- on the lndiana breei~. Or - not so strange at that. ~he police took one sniff, and said knowingly - sour ■ asb! They traced it to the shelter belonging to id lillia■ a. Inside they found instead of modern atomic survival, they found an old fashioned still to make something to cure make bite. &:ad Vdllia■ s thought his atomic shelter wouldn't look suspicious. ~ t td, forgot to close the door, p u t and now from ~.B.R.l., rittsfield, Massachusetts - S -L - U -Mon d ay •