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Rear Adm. Robert Northwood, Lt. Gen. Richard Mangrum
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Glen A. Knabenshue, Son of Enshrinee
... He flew to Dayton, his first plane trip



Celebrities Descend On City For Hall Of Fame Program

By Tim Bleck
Journal Herald Staff Writer

Astronauts were touching down all over the place yesterday. That included Dayton. 

At Cox municipal airport the first and most famous American earth-orbiter, Col. John H. Glenn, touched down shortly after 5 p.m.

The freckled, smiling astronaut was one of a handful of celebrities who came here yesterday to help with the enshrinement ceremonies for eight air travel pioneers. 

OTHERS INCLUDED AF Reserve Brig. Gen. (and movie actor) James Stewart, Capt. Jimmy Doolittle, Undersecretary of the Air Force Norman H. Paul and the granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. 

Glenn, 43, missed the telecast of yesterday morning's splashdown of Gemini 6, in order to make connections for the flight to Dayton. He said he listened to it on the radio at the airport in Houston until they had the harness around the capsule. He was leaving Dayton early this morning and expected to be back in Houston before noon. 

He said he would participate in the de-briefing activities for the Gemini 7 crew this weekend. Special consultant for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is just one of Glenn's activities. He's an executive with Royal Crown Cola and is active in promotional work for the Boy Scouts. 

He said he's through with politics

"Once in the lifetime is enough of that stuff for any man," said Glenn, while riding from the airport to Dayton yesterday afternoon. "You wouldn't believe some of the offers I've gotten in politics," Glenn said. "I've been encouraged to run for everything at every level from zither to hither."

HE SAID three separate groups or individuals from Dayton had contacted him since 1964 when because of an ear injury, he dropped out of the campaign for U.S. senator from Ohio.

The ear is completely healed. "And I'm happy to announce that all my campaign debts have finally been paid off," said Glenn.

Glenn met Jimmy Stewart for the first time [[at]] the Houston-Dayton hotel yesterday, though Mrs. Glenn had spent some time visiting Mr. and Mrs. Stewart a short while ago. 

"I saw you in the control room at Houston," Glenn said to Stewart yesterday, "but I didn't get a chance to get over to meet you."

The actor, an Air Force Reserve general, visited the space center during Gordon Cooper's first flight. 

Stewart, too, missed today's splashdown. He was en route here from California by plane. Brig. Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was to accompany Stewart, found he couldn't attend the ceremony. 

"I don't know what the trouble was," drawled the tall, gray 57-year old actor. "The general called me at 6:30 this morning and told me he wasn't going to be able to make it. he didn't say why."

Stewart, like Glenn, isn't interested in becoming a politician. 

"I FIGURE THERE are enough actors in politics for this year," he laughed. "Though I see no reason why actors shouldn't be able to enter politics."

Stewart, a Republican, campaigned for Mr. Eisenhower and Nixon, but would not comment on the current crop of GOP hopefuls.

It was Stewart's second trip to Dayton for the Aviation Hall of Fame ceremonies in as many years.

Genial and unprepossessing, Stewart's only complaint was the cold. "I just can't get warmed up. We live in a house in Beverly Hills with a draft so strong it blows dishes off the table. That plane coming out was the coldest thing I've ever been in, and I still can't get warm," he said.

He's going to relax from movies for a while, he said. 

"I've just completed five in a row. Now I'm going to take it easy."

What did he, as an Air Force man, think of the future course of the Vietnam war? 
"It's hard to make a blanket statement," he said. "I do think we are doing the right thing. I don't know whether we should stepup the bombing of the north or not."

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I air ace, wasn't indecisive, though.

"WE OUGHT to hit the north. Hit their power companies, the docks. A lot of good boys are getting killed," said the 75-year-old pilot, who was one of those inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame last night.

"We ought to send a lot of these card-burners and beatniks over there. We've got a generation, a couple of them, who haven't had to struggle to enjoy the blessings we have. Blame it on the parents. And this welfare state Great Society.

"Bomb China's atomic installation? That'll come," chuckled Rickenbacker. "Don't worry. That's bound to come at the rate we're going.

"You're in it and you're stuck in it. There'll be some killed. That's what war is for. We've got to weaken the population on the home front. After all they're the ones who are making the iron that their troops are using."

Rickenbacker was happy to be in Dayton. "It's an aviation town," he said.

Glenn was happy to be in Ohio, too. He had last visited his boyhood home in eastern Ohio for Thanksgiving.

"Wouldn't mind seeing a big old snowstorm," he said.

Jimmy Stewart was still trying to warm up.

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Lt. Robert Richards III, Mrs. F.B.Kellond... Both relatives of Thomas Etholen Selfridge

This Morning's Briefs
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Plan Unit May Expand role In Annexations
   two major disputes caused by overlapping annexations may mean the "Montgomery County Planning commission will take a more active role in future annexations.
     "Information leads this committee to believe that future years may result in more poignant discussions and ill-feelings," a commission subcommittee headed by Charles Boesch reported yesterday.
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8 Aviation Pioneers Honored
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Four at Antioch Play Santa
Bail Out Vagrant St. Nick

By Barbara Lazarus
Journal Herald Staff Writer

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