ALAN SHEPARD

(BX3) DERRY, N.H., JUNE 29 - AMERICA'S SPACEMAN HONORED BY HIGHWAY ON EARTH

Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Shepard, parents of American astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., look over new highway marker near their Derry, N.H., home. New Hampshire's deputy highway commissioner Robert H. Whittaker points out diagram of Earth and space capsule to proud parents. A 3 1/2 mile section of new highway will be opened July 1 from Massachusetts border to Salem. N. H.

(AP WIREPHOTO) (dcg50945str) 1961