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NORTHERN NEW MEXICO NEWS AND SPORTS
TV LOG
120th Year, Issue No. 203
5 6 Pages
STATEHOUSE REPORT
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1969
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Five Sections
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'If was like perfect... Everything looks okay up here
The Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins. (AP Wirephoto Drawings)
Astronauts enter lunar orbit, prepare for landing on moon MOON LANDING SITE—This is an artist's conception of the Apollo 11 lunar module landing on the moon. Drawing is from the Grumman Aerospace Corp. (AP Wirephoto Drawing)
Nixon to watch war closely during tour WASHINGTON (AP) - While drcling the globe, President Nixon will be in closest touch with military developments in Vietnam, assessing the lull in fighting that could prompt ac celerated U.S. troop withdraw als. An authoritative White House source, who decltaed to be quot ed by name, says the assess
ment being made by American officials of Communist inten tions would be significantly in fluenced by the military situa tion—most particularly if a long-anticipated summer offen sive by the enemy fails to materiaUze. The same source earlier had predicted such an offensive but
survives brush with death
now says only that U.S. officials anticipate "high points of offen sive activity." He said these could take the form of harassing actions rather than a concerted offensive. Before leaving Washington Tuesday night on a 13-day, sev en-nation tour, Nixon expects to get a personal report from Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who flew to Saigon last week to re view the military outlook. Should Wheeler's return be de layed, the informant said, Ndxon would get a prompt report via the elaborate communications equipment available on his plane. When Nixon announced plans on June 8 for an initial pullout of 25,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam, with further with drawals indicated, he called for reciprocal action by Hanoi. The White House source said again that Hanoi need not an nounce such a reciprocal move but simply convince American authorities that some of its own forces are being pulled out of the South. There has been some evidence of this, although U.S. officials have yet to decide whether it has been a calculated withdrawal or simply a maneu ver to give the troops a rest. Infiltration of troops from the North has declined at the same time, but again officials here say it is too early to determine wliether this is part of a recipro cal act or merely a temporary development influenced largely Conthiued on Page 2
which turned over and sank w^i its roof on the bottom. Police said she was a former secretary of the late Sen. Rob ert F. Kennedy. Kennedy told Edgartown po lice that he was on his way back to the village of Edgartown and took the wrong turn on the unfa miliar road. His car hit a bridge and went off the side into deep water. "I have no recollection of how I got out of the car," Kennedy told Edgartown Police Chief Do minic Arena. Arena said Kennedy reported he dove repeatedly, trying to find his passenger, but said "I was unsuccessful in the at tempt." Kennedy reported he was "ex state Police have entered hausted „nd in a state of shock" the investigation of a fire ear and that he walked back to ly Saturday which damaged a Continued on Page 2 prop room at the Santa Fe Opera. Firemen were called to the opera shortly after 3 a.m. when flames were reported in <he basement of a building at By JACK STAMM the opera where props are "Wait a minute! Hold it, hold stored. It, cut cut!" movie director Fire Chief Tom Broome (jene Kelly shouted into a bat said firemen found two fires tery powered megaphone. In the storage area, one in a couch and several chairs and another in a pile of rags across Picture, Page A2 the room. Heat from the blazes activ> "Net enough action in that ated the building's sprinkler scene. Let's do it again," he system, said in a patient voice. You Broome said there was no could tell he was computing the structural damage to the cost of retaking the shot with building, but there was water 500 extras and two superstars damage to several props. en the payroll. State Police said Saturday "Now here's what I want — morning lihey were investigatand he proceeded to explahi ifttg the blaze. Officers said bow he wanted to recreate the atmosphere of the booming fronthey feel the fire was delibertaer town of caieyenne, Wyo. Btely (parted. EDGARTOWN. Mass. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the only surviving brother of the Kennedy clan, had a second narrow brush with death early today when a car he was driv ing slipped off a bridge into a deep saltwater pond on Chappaquiddick Island at Martha's Vmeyard. Miss Mary Jo Kopechne, 29, of Washington, was riding with him and drowned in the car,
Opera fire investigated by police
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — The Apollo 11 astro nauts tested their moon landing craft in lunar orbit Saturday and found it ready for a rendez vous with history Sunday. Air Force Col. Edwin E. Ald rin Jr. crawled into the lunar module, nicknamed Eagle, and turned on all its systems for tlie first time since it was launched from Cape Kennedy four days and 250,000 miles ago. "Everything looks, super,'' ground control radioed after ward. "We're ready to go." While commander Neil A. Armstrong and Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins waited in the command module, Aldrin checked his dozens of gauges and controls in the moon taxi. Nothing was overlooked, for the landing module must work to perfection if Aldrin and Arm strong are to land on the moon and return safely to earth. The test took more than two hours. That historic exploration is to
begin at 11:42 a.m. MDT when the moon lander undocks. It is to land at 2:14 p.m., with Arm strong stepping on the surface at 2:17 a.m, Monday, Armstrong and Aldrin found some mysterious bright spots on the inner wall of a crater far to the noilh of the spacecraft's flight path on its first sweep around the moon, "It seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it," said Armstrong. "The area in the crater is quite bright." The crater was Aristarchus, In the northeastern part of the moon's face. Some astronomers have claimed observing bright spots in that area which some scientists have said appear to be volcanoes. "That area is definitely bright er than anything else I can see," said Aldrin. "There doesn't appear to be any color involved in it," The crewmen, two of whom
will be the first men to walk the surface of the moon, were pleased and awed by the day's events. Of their machine, Armstrong radioed, "It was like perfect. Everything looks okay up here." And of their closest look at the beckoning moon, Armstrong said, "The view of the moon is really spectacular. It's a view well worth the price." And later he said of the moon's solar coro na or ring of light, "It looks like an eerie sight." NEW YORK (AP) - Followhig is the television sche dule of major networks for Apollo 11 coverage, MDT. Today: CBS and NBC, 9 a.m., b^hmlng of 31 hours of continuous coverage; ABC, 10 a.m., beginning of 30 hours of continuous covarage.
Collins reported, "The earthshine coming through the win dow is so bright you can read a book by it." "It looks very much Uke the pictures," Armstrong said of the lunar surface, "but like the difference between watching a real football game and one on TV, there's no substitute for ac^ tually being there." The commander called off the moon features leading to the landing zone, his calm voice reeling off colorful names like Boot Hill, Sidewinder and Dia mond Back. He reported seeing "good sized blocks" of rock in the bot toms of craters and said the moon's color near the line of light and dark was "an ashen gray." "As you get away from It you can see several tans and grays," he said. Then the craft sped over the landtag site, which was still hi Continued oa Page 2
Mysterious Luna 13 hovers JODRELt BANK, England (AP) — Apollo 11 and Luna 15, American and Soviet ships in space, circled in lunar orbit Sat urday as the Americans pre pared to put the first man on the moon. Luna 15, the unmanned probe with a purpose which the Rus sians have never revealed, was in its third day around the moon, after a slight midafternoon course change that length ened its path just before the three Apollo astronauts went into moon orbit. Officials at Jodrell Bank, the West's chief listening post on se cretive Soviet space shots, and at Houston have said there are only remote possibilities that the two vehicles could come in sight of each other or collide. Luna's orbit change came during its 27th trip around the moon and Sir Bernard Lovell,
director of Jodrell Bank Obser vatory, said his 250-foot-wide electronic dish picked up Lima's signal again while it was half way through its 28th orbit. He said he could give no rea son for the change and refused to speculate on what Luna 15 might do next. "It could still do almost any thing," he said. Unofficial sources in Moscow had predicted all or part of Luna 15 would try a remote con trolled moon landing to retrieve a soil sample—a task set for the Apollo astronauts during their moon walk. Another theory was that Luna 15 was the first of a new series of Luna vehicles not meant to land until later and that it would be brought out of moon orbit back to earth—a feat Soviet space scientists have not yet performed.
Lovell said he could not ex clude the possibility that one new feature of Luna's perform ance, apparently continuous low-power radio transmissions behind the moon, indicated it might be communicatmg with a capsule already placed on the moon surface. The Russians officially have been mum on the purpose of Luna 15 but broadcast Saturday news of the change in orbit. The length of the new orbit was given as 2 hours 3.5 min utes, an uicrease of three min utes. The maximum altitude was given as 137 miles and the minimum 59 miles. The pre vious orbiting time had lieen given as two hours and three secondsLuna 15 went Into moon orbit Thursday after an unusually long 102-hour voyage from earth.
Cameras roll on first day of shooting Western film here Kelly's enthusiasm for his work is contagious and his pa tience almost unbelievable. He knows a temper tantrum cannot ehcit the best performance from his cast and crew. Finally the stage is set again for the opening scenes from Kelly's latest picture, "The Cheyenne Social Club," starring James Stewart and Henry Fon da. "Camera," he barks, pauses lor a moment, then shouts "Ac tion!" and the entire length of the Western Street on the J. W. Eaves Ranch southwest of San ta Fe comes alive. Kelly is not stranger to direct ing crowd scenes. In his last picture, "HeUo DoUy," up to
5,000 extras were on the set at one time. In a scene filmed yesterday, Stewart and Fonda, cast as two wiry old cowpokes, ride slowly into Cheyenne where the former has Just inherited a brothel from a dead relative. As the two approach the cen ter of town Fonda spots a cou ple of ladies of the night on a second-story balcony and seems tempted. He resists the tempta tion and accompanies his sideIcick mto a lawyer's office. "Cut," Kelly shouts, "Print that." He seems pleased with the results. "Now, let's get ready for the next scene." Carpenters, electricians, h'ght men, sound men^ extras^, actors.
script girls, makeup men, cam era men and a host of others fly into action to set up for the next shot. The scene is simply chaotic. Clouds interrupted yester day's work from time to time, but the largest day of produc tion scheduled during the entire film went off without a hitch. Richard Kobritz, production manager for the National Gen eral film, estimated that Satur day's work cost the producer in excess of $88,000 excluding the cost of the principal stars, which is considerable. Extras are on the payroll at $16 per day and the crew of 150 people earn an average of $100 per day. Other costs hiclude
stars, equipment, sets, transpor tation and food and weather de lays, to name but a few. Adding to the cost of Satur day's production were 30 head of cattle, 50 horses and 19 wa gons with teams, not to mention the railroad train. A vmtage locomotive built in 1872 runs on a mile of track for scenes in the Western com edy. Saturday, a tender, a pas senger car and three cattle cars were hitched to the locomotive for shooting. A spokesman for National General said J. W. Eaves is looking for a period train to leave at the Western street to attract futurt movies Into the ares.
Yanks raid Viet Cong garrison SAIGON (AP) - Sweeptag down in helicopters behind a rocket and artillery barrage, U.S. 25th Infantry Division sold i e r s surprised and over« whelmed a garrison at an ene my supply headquartrs north of Saigon Saturday. "This was the most precisely timed and e3q)ertly executed raid I've ever seen," said the division commander, Maj. Gen. Ellis W. Williamson, who cir cled above the battle in his com mand helicopter. At the end of the fighting 47 enemy soldiers had been killed and 25 captured, U.S. spokes man said. No U.S. casualties were reported. A spokesman said the 25 captives was an un usually large number for any battle in Vietnam and showed the complete surprise achieved. The enemy camp was located only seven miles north of Cu Chi, th 25th Division's head quarters. Cu Chi itself is 20 miles north of Saigon. There was a camouflaged main headquarters building. The attack was stag^ at dusk, an unusual time for an American attack. First, Coba gunships flew over firing their rockets. When they left, U.S. ar tillery opened up on the camp* As the artillery barrage lifted, the division's 2nd Brigade ar rived by helicopter and ground fighting raged for about m hour. If the Americans hoped to scoop up large suppUes they were disappotated. "Ihey found; only two rocket-prapellsd gnK nades. seven AK47s, the ftBii*^ ard enemy automatic rifl^, Vd^^ a maddne gun. They thea 1 W | i flown out ^ heUcopterf.