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Vol. 96 No. 92
Apollo Has Flawless Start
On Greatest Adventure Astronauts Said Doing Well After First Day; Moon Touchdown Due Sunday; Walk Early Monday
SURGE OF POWER- Apollo 11 blasts off from its pad Wednesday morning at Cape Kennedy enroute to the moon and, hopefully, man's first lan~ing thereon . All seemed to be
going well with the three astronauts on board. -Journal Telephoto
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Senate Dem.ocratic leaders Tuesday rejected renewed appeals for quick action on the surtax WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen- extension ~m the Nixon ate opposition to the antiba.llis- Administrati and Senate GOP tic missile system showed signs Leader Ever M. Dirksen. of coming unglued Wednesday, "To wait until after the as opponents argued among return of Congress (from its themselves about a related August vacation) co._uld be an arms control issue. open invitation to real economic Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R- trouble," Dirksen told his Mass ., who has been counted a::i coll .ngues. a foe of the Safeguard ABM " Why don't you help me?" system, said he had not made Dirksen thundered, 1ur cling up his mind how to vote on a his desk . "We're not iu the proposed one-year ban on ABM majority. Why don't you try?" deployment. He hinted that an ' But Sens. Mike Mansfield, Dassurance by the Nixon Admi- ·..... nistration that it would seek a H arper Indicted moratorium on testing of multiple-warhead missiles might persuade him to support the ABM. Brooke and Sen. Stuart In Drug Case Symington, D-Mo., an ABM CLARKSDALE , Miss. - A opponent, clashed at a Senate hearing on Brooke's proposed Tupelo research chemist was resolution urging a Soviet- indicted by the federal grand Ame·rican freeze on testing of jury here this week on two . Multiple Independently Target- . counts involving illegal _ V) . manufacture of drugs, federal ed Re-entry Vehi_·cles (M_IR court sources said Wednesday. Symington said he would not Dr. James Laverne· Harper, 38, was charged with unlawful cosponsor Brook~'s resolution, manufacture of narcotic drugs opposed any umlateral U. S. d halt in MIRV testing and felt an with unlawfully selling, the successful development of dispensing and distributing MIRV could increase the narcotic drugs "tha.,t: were not in national securitv. the original stamped package and not from the original Brooke denied that he was stamped package." proposing a unilateral ban on Authorities revealed the MIRV testing, but Symington indictment Wednesday but said insisted that statements made Harper has not .been arraigned ·when the resolution was intro- to answer the charges. Harper· was jailed at Aberduced gave that impression. deen following a raid by federal :flie exchange occurred at a and state narcotics agents on hearing by the Senate Foreign the Harper Laboratories at 1018 Relations Committee on East Main Street in Tupelo last Brooke's resolution. Sen. J. June 20. He was transferred William Fulbright, D-Ark. , the July 4 to Springfield, Mo., for chairman, called the hearing psychiatric tests . reluctantly, contending the Seized during the raid was 22 issue was taking away steam pounds of methadone, a heroin substitute, valued by officers at from the anti-ABM drive. Asked afterwards wh.e ther he between $2.5 and $5 million on the retail market. would support an amendment The r es·e arch chemist had to the $20 billion military moved to Tupelo from procurement bill barring use of Baltimore, Md., about a year ABM funds for deployment, dh db · h Brooke said: " I haven't made a ago an a een operatmg t e decision. " East Main Street laboratory since that time .
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rest of the world came to a standstill at 9:32 a.m. EDT when Apollo ll 's mighty Saturn 5 booster rocket blazed into life with a roar that heralded a new era for mankind. A record million persons jammed the beaches and resorts surrounding Cape Kennedy to watch the la unch, and many seemingly had a hard time believing what they saw. Chester Southerland, an Easley, S.C. textile mill supervisor tried to bring home the impGrtance of the mission to his 2-1-2 year old son. Continued on Page 21
Nixon Declares Monday Federal Holiday In Honor Of Mission
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Worst Flood In 18 Years Ru .In Cro PS Al Ong M ·1·ss ·1 ss ·1 pp ·1' R·1ve r the highest level since the July-, The worst floods in 18 years 1951, floods. However, the ravaged croplands along · the Illinois 3 bypass, along the southern Illinois and Missouri river edge, remained blocked. Shores of the Mississippi River Local a uthorities at Chester Wednesday . An unbroken 20-day feqr.ed that bank erosion may heat wave seared the southern have undermined sections of half of the nation. the highway. Crop losses in Missouri, Iowa A number of fam il ies reand Illinois from the two weeks m ained homeless between . of flooding neared the $160 Rockwood and J acob, Ill. million mark. downstream from Chester. Missouri ·sustained $113 milAs the Mississippi crest lion in crop damage and Iowa moved downstream , the main $41 million. Illinois totals were street was reopened to traffic incomplete, but Col. Robert at St. Mary's, Mo., along with Ritz, a state civil defense its bridge link to the island official, said in four counties · community of Kaskaskia, Ill., alone the figure approached $5 whose 500 residents had been million. isolated for nearly 48 hours. Wa ter was spilling into 14,000 At Ches ter, Ill., where the Mississippi River flood crest acres of valuable cotton a nd passed la te Tuesday, the river soybean fields in Missouri's receded about an inch and a Mississippi County, southeast of half Wednesday after reaching · Sikeston .
tioned for a few minutes. At 5:30 p.m. EDT, Apollo 11 was 43,800 miles from the earth. President Nixon, who told the astrona uts before their launch that their flight would "lift the spirits of the American people and the whole world," ordered government offices closed next Monday. Armstrong and Aldrin are scheduled to walk on the moon's surface early that morning. While stopping short of·declaring a nat ional holiday, the president asked Americans to spend the day concentrating in "a national day of participation." Much of the nation and the
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One of the first of the minor hitches occurred when ground control temporarily lost communication with the spacecraft. This happened when the command ship detached from its third stage rocket and turned around and nosed back into ~he bug-like lunar landing module, which is housed during flight in the third stage. " Do you read us A-polio 11? " Houston asked repeatedly. After the seventh call, Collins' voice was heard again and he explained he had maneuvered the command ship further away from the third stage than planned and his antenna was incorrectly posi-
WASHINGTO N (UPI ) -Pres- avoided use of this term, completion of their mission. With Bor man a t his side, ident Nixon ordered all federal however , presumably in the government offjces closed Mon- event of a mishap in the Nixon watched Apollo 11 lift off day a nd urged as many delica te moon-landing opera- from Cape Kennedy, Fla. , Wednesday morning on a color Americans as possible to take tion. the day off to observe the The President acted after tv set in a small rooin planned lapding of Apollo 11 mission control in Houston, adjoining the main oval office astronauts on the moon. Tex., assured him Apollo 11 had of the White House. During the day Nixon reProclaiming a " national day made a successful "lunar ff. of participation" and asking the injection" and was indeed on its ceived periodic reports from A S T op O leers Borman who planned to fly to Mont., the Democratic leader, prayers of all Americans for . way to the moon . Houston Wednesday .night. He and Edward M. Kennedy, Dthe safety and success of the V ·1etnam In Meet The Apollo 11 astronauts are Mass., his assistant, said the Apollo mission, Nixon urged expected to land on the moon will return to the White House surtax bill would not be debated SAIGON <UPD- The three governors, mayors, school ad- early Monday morning, before Saturday and take a prominent by the Senate until a tax highest-ranking American offiministrators and private em- dawn in the East, and Nixon part in the White House Sunday services dedicated larreform measure is ready for ployers to follow his lead and intended to be awake in these worship cers concerned with Vietnam to the lunar flight. action too. · " I know the sound met Thursday to discuss excuse the public from WOfk or pre-dawn hours, watching the gely Borman commanded the of a death knell when I hear study on Monday. historic landing on television. whether and how U;p. forces it, " Dirksen said. will respond to the lull ~n The Comptroller of the For several days now the Apollo 8 flight which made a The Dirksen plea was bolCurrency, William B. Camp, President's principal contact historic circle of the moon at Communist activity. At the i{' stered by Treasury Secretary T samr time it was an'nouncE!p issued a statement expressing with the historic mission has Christmas time to give man the David l'.\h Kennedy and pres- that 750 more U.S . tro ps woul9 \ Armstronf . told ground cor.- hope that the 4,700 np tional been through astronaut, Col. first close view of the area J' where Apollo 11 astronaut Neil I idential ~'esi; Se~rct0ry Ronald be 1withdrawn f om Viet9aP-: , rol his ere•., was ":fit' as 'a f banks woul9 also plvse on F rank .Borman, who has Armstrong is scheduled to . set Ziegler ,• " F riday. f I fiddle" and planned to take no Monday. , translated and interpreted mis1 " I tb ·.11k. it would be very bad The U.S. Cornman sa.id th r " medication" (sleeping pills) "As the astronauts go whe:re sion developments for the Chief foot on the moon s surface Monday. to h!}/Se the surtax in doubt or the departure of the men from ' before retiring. He said they man has never gone; as they Executive. While the President had the in question beyond the recess," the 9th Infantry Div9ion would did plan, however, to have a attempt what man has never According to press secretary power to excuse most governKennedy said at a news bring to more ~haw 6,000 the bedtime snack. tried, we on earth will want, as Ronald Ziegler, Borman talked ment employ.es work next conference. " I th k the psycho- number of Amer icans who h.w e The early quit Wednesday one people, to be with them in with Houston shortly after the Monday, he from merely could iogicai res t wouici be · very left the country since the night was made possible spirit; to share the glory and : . p . m . EDT luna r 12 21 recommend that non-federal bad." redeployment began ,t/uly 8 to because the initial launch of the the wonder, and to support injection and reported to the jurisdictions follow suit. Ziegler 2 ,ooo U.S. soldiers by astronauts was so accurate that them with prayers that all will President that both vehicles _ withdraw 5 The Treasury chief predicted explained from a technical the end of August. they were able to skip a course go well," he said. the principal space capsule and standpoint, Monday would be a Mansfield would change his At the American command's adjustment that had been built The procla mation ordered a its accompanying lunar vessel federal holiday, but it would be plans to continue debate on the federal holiday, but its effect - were in " good shape" and the up to the executives of school. Safeguard antiballistic missile " Pentagon East" headquarters into the schedule. on the edge of Saigon Thursday, During their first day aloft, was to declare a national three astronauts aboard looked system. . banks, factories , stock "I have no a ssurance· th a the · Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman the all-business Apollo 11 crew holiday. The President carefully forward "with confidence" to systems, exchanges and the like to make has changed his position," of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held conversation to an absolute + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- their owri determination. Kennedy said, but added "they huddled with Gen. Creighton w. minimum. One space official The press secretai;y said, " If acted -responsibly in the House Abrams, American troop com- following.the flight commented: you called it a federal hol iday, and I think they will act mander in Vietnam and Adm. "They're so quiet I can hardly you would miss the point of the responsibly in the Senate. . John 'S. McCain J r., U.S. stay awake. " President's proclamation of a Pacific commander. A few problems cropped up That's a statement of faith." national day of participation." · Wheeler arrived in Vietnam during the · initial hours of Ziegler said Nixon was Asked if he meant the publicly committed to tax Wednesday night under orders flight, but none that space President was asking, where from Defense Secretary Melvin officials considered serious. reform and had the Treasury possible, for Americans to take Late in the evening the JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) fo rts of our enforcement the working on . a bill, but he R. Laird to assess the situation day off and concentrate on ' wanted the 10 per cent income in the war zone and determine astronauts were told their Mississippi 's moonshine whisky agents." Officials seized 8,013 gallons the Apollo H mission, Zi egler tax surcharge extended before · if the United States can respond spacecraft cabin guages showed production dropped subContinued on !'age 21 to a lull in Communist activity the cabin 'atmosphere was not stantially during the fiscal year of illegal whisky and more than July 31. When asked about wage-price by stepping down offensive reaching 100 per cent oxygen which ended June 30, but the 170,000 gallons of mash during content as quickly as expected. state had a net income of the last 12 months. In the controls, Kennedy said that "I operations. Military spokesmen said They said the problem might be $14,761,689 from taxes and previous fiscal year, nearly Whitte.n To Speak close no doors" on any action that might be taken if inflation Wheeler would spend Thursday with the guages or a partially wholesale sales profits on legal 10,000 gallons of moonshine and A t Northeast conferring with Abrams at the blocked oxygen valve in the booze . more than 220,000 gallons of continues. BOONEVILLE, Miss . The Alcoholic Beverage mash were confiscated. Vietnam Military Assistance cabin, but in any event it did Stewart said the new income R epresentative J amie L. The White House, in respo(lse Command headquarters. Later .not appear "significant at this Control Division of the State Tax Commission gave the of over $14.7 million was nearly Whitten (D. , Miss .) will speak to days of · questions by he is scheduled to make field point.". The astronauts also reported fig ures in a pre-legislati ve a 25 per cent increase over the at an open house July 27 at reporters, affirmed President trips during his four-day stay in problems with a leaky water report to . Gov. John Bell $11.9 million earned during the Northeast Mississippi Junior Nixon's opposition to wage- . the war zone. College's Vocatiqnal and price controls · in a lengthy Willia ms , Lt. Gov. Charles pr evious 12 month period. Most of the troops involved in 1-d-is_p_e_ns_e_r_. Sullivan and legislators. The The director said there had Technical Complex. statement it saidwas cleared In the withdrawal Friday were Mr. Whitten will be guest of advance by Nixon, Kennedy and members of the 9th Division's report was to give .officials an also been an 18 per cent inaccurate picture on the ABC crease in the number of cases of honor at the open house which other high-level Administration 3rd battalion, 47th Infantry. They will be flown from Bien Division 's operations for a liquorsoldfrom thestateowned will begin at 2 p.m. economic experts. Construction on the sixHoa Air Base near Saigon to special legislative session ABC warehouse,·but added that "This Administration has McChord Air Force Base near which opens July 22. the increased sales did not building complex was begun in ruled out wage-price controls as Tacoma, Wash. Kenneth Stewart , director of necessarily indicate increased May 1967 and classes got una way of dealing with inflation derway in September 1968. The The level of fighting in .· · the ABC, said federal officials per capita consumption . ufder conditions that are now Vietnam remained low Wedneshad noted a 25 per cent drop in Rather, he said, "purchasers 90,000-square-foot complex foreseeable," it said. " The day, allied communiques reJennifer Blair moonshine whisky production have realized that the mer- houses about 20 programs and President and the Administra- ported. South Vietnamese infanS I p during the past 12 months "a ch:i.ndise can be bought in the was completed at a cost of about $900,000. tion are, therefore, opposed to trymen killed 50 Communist cores n ageant fact they attributed to t he efContinuea <>n rage 21 wage-price controls. " ~d~nin~ob~tl9 in the V~K~URG; M~. U~) - ~ - - ~ - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)-Apollo ll 's astronauts emerged " fit as a fiddle" from their first day in space and sped onward Thursday toward man's greatest adventure-the landing of two astronauts on the bare, , airless lunar surface Sunday afternoon. . At midnight EDT, officials estimated the .spacecraft- carrying Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E . " Buzz" Aldrin Jr. , and Michael Collins - was 80,664 miles from earth and whipping through the -blackness of space at 4,659 miles per hour. Armstrong and Aldrin will step out on the lunar surface. shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, approximately 10 hours after they set down in their lunar lander. Collins will fly the co·m mand ship in a moon orbit until the lunar exploration is in progress. The astronauts retired for the night a bout 9 p.m. EDT, two hours earlier than scheduled, after flashing back to earth an unscheduled 16 1-2 minute telecast showing the earth receding the wake of their spaceship. The shots were taken nearly 60,000 miles deep in space. Earth appeared as a large blue, green and white orb, backgrounded against the blackness of space. The American con t·men t was cl earl Y · 'bl e m · the s hots. v1s1 Aldrin wasn't entirely pleased with the camera work, however, and jokingly asked ground control: "Do you suppose you could turn the earth a little bi.t so we could get something ~eside~ater?"
Farmer Named
A 20 ·foot break in the Mississippi · River levee six Director Of miles north of Charleston, Mo., Head Start · Wednesday morning inundated 3,000 acres of cropland and WASHINGTON (UPI) - Asst. threatened another 11 ,000. Authorities said damage might HEW Secretary James Farreach . $560,000. Three foot mer, formerly of Holly Springs wa kes of passing towboats were Miss., where his father taught blamed for damage to the levee at Rust College, has been given at Thompson Bend, Mo., and overall direction of Headstart, Coast Guardsmen were at- the popular program for pretempting to slow barge tows. school children from poor The levee break at Charleston families. forced 20 farm families to flee. · · Secretary Robert H. Finch of . On the Kaskaskia River, the Departm ent of Health, which empties into the Missis- Education and · Welfare signed sippi 12 miles above Chester, doc um ent s esta blishi ng the Ill., high water was delaying Office of Child Development the dredging of a na vigation into which Headstart has bee~ channel. Rains last week which tran sferr ed from the inspilled into a 65 foot deep dependent Office of Economic · exca vation for a $28 million Opportunity. lock and dam under . construcFarmer , who is black, will head the OCD. <;:ontinued on Page 21
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judgmg for the Miss Mississippi Pageant here Wednesday. night . .Tennifer Jo Blair, Miss Tupelo, took top honors in the talent competition with a song and dance routine. One third ol
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This correspondent, who heltilets and ancient guns. TEGUCIGALPA, Ho_n duras ncf Wecfnesday , with the rest \ UPI)....:...The Honduran army spent Tuesday night in Ocoto- ancient guns. scheduled for Thursday and Wednesday rusi,ed reinforce- peque , saw several skirmishes .ments to the northwestern part between the Salvadoreans and · . "We don't stand a chance Friday nights. In swimsuit- competition , of the country to fight a major the · Hondurans but military · aginst the Salvadoreans with Jane Carol Foshee, Miss battle for the no-man 's city of officials said the Salvadoreans their modern weapons," said Hattiesburg, won first place Ocotopeque almost surrounded were preparing a major offen- one Honduran deserter. "They honors. by invading troops from El sive aga inst the citv. are using tanks and heavy The winners of the evening Salvador. The ~oacts from the dty to artillery and we just don't have gown competition a r e kept The Hondurans, fighting un- th e Guatemalan bor der are anything like that . There were secret until final judging is der heavy odds, retreated from choked with refugees·. Women 40 of our men killed in one announced. Ocotopeque Tuesday into the Thursday night, the girls will surrounding hills. The Salva- and children are carrying their barr_a ge in Octopeque." again be divided into three doreans were embedded in the belongings on their heads or in· The Honduran troops were groups to par ticipate in the hills on the other side of the carts. Some of the fleeing refugees badly equipped. Most of them three categories. Saturday evacuated city of 12,000. carried single-shot rifles or night, the field will be narrowed ( In Washington, the Honduran complained of atrocities by the vintage machine guns with to ten semifinalists. invading Salvadoreans. One From these ten girls, five embassy announced that E l woman claimed that the circular drums. finalists will be chosen Salvador had opened a third . Salvadorean troops had killed A young captain in a green Saturday after the semifinalists front across 'the border and little children with machetes. have again participated in all attacked the town of Marcala. Scattered among the refugees beret who trained with the U. <It also told the council of the were at least 14 Honduran S. special forces in Panama three categories. The new Miss Mississippi, to Organization of American army deserters. Some said they said " its the damn artillery succeed Mary Linda Mills of States <OAS) that it accepts the were runningiaway while others that's killing us. They've got Hattiesburg, will be crowned OAS cease-fire order. There would not comment. Along the 105s (105mm cannons) up on was no immediate word from road lay , ammunition belts, those hills." Saturday mght. . E l Salvador.)
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