Big Spring Herald (Newspaper) - May 28, 1973, Big Spring, Texas BIG SPRING HERALD Big Spring Texas Monday May 28 1973 16 Pages 2 Sections Price EXPERIMENTS MAY BENEFIT MANKIND IN MANY WAYS Draw Blood Of Three Astronauts SPACE CENTER Houston AP Man had his blood drawn in space today for the first time as naut Dr Joseph P Kerwin took samples from all three Skylab crewman starting a series of medical earth resources and astronomy experiments that may bring many benefits to mankind SLEEP LATE Be advised Joe just drew all three of us and that it went very smoothly Commander Charles Conrad Jr told Mission Control after the awakened in their orbital lab an hour later than planned When the control center re no response on its first wakeup call officials decided to let Conrad Kerwin and Paul J Weitz sleep as long as they wanted Later today they planned a news conference televised to the Space Center answering questions from re porters here on the two hectic days in which they salvaged the huge laboratory by erecting a makeshift sun shade to cool it down The drawing of blood sam ples to be done four times dur ing the mission is one element of an extensive medical program intended to determine how man is affected by longterm exposure to the space environment BREAKFAST COOKING Kenvin has a dispensary aboard to carry out his duties as a highflying physician The astronauts also ate in the space station today for the first time This became known when Conrad reported the com mander just shaved and break fast is cooking He referred to a special tray in which foods are heated Until now the fourth day of the mission the astronauts have dined in their Apollo ferry ship because of high heat in the laboratory But temperatures dropped another five degrees overnight and were around 90 degrees Were starting to live up here now Weitz commented after asking how many towels and wash cloths can we use a day Just 24 hours before the heat inside the lab registered an un livable 125 degrees because a protective shield had ripped away during the launch of the Skylab on May 14 The astronauts cooled down the sweltering station by rais ing a huge sun shade over the affected area Mission Control said the tem was dropping at an average of more than one de gree an hour and within a day or two it should be a livable 70 degrees Despite the still stifling heat in the 90s Cornad Kenvin and Weitz worked through the day in the workshop area Sunday checking and activat ing water electrical and other systems GOT TOO HOT Whenever it got too hoi they retreated to other rooms of the station which are cooler be cause they have been shadowed HUNDREDS HURT Tornadoes Rains Claim At Least 39 By The Associated Press Tornadoes heavy rains and strong winds marred Memorial Day weekend observances from Oklahoma to Florida claiming at least 39 lives and causing millions of dollars in property damage Deaths were reported in nine states as the storms across the Midwest and South Authorities said hundreds of persons were injured and thousands of homes were either damaged or destroyed BAMA TWISTERS Eleven persons were killed by twisters in Alabama six died in two accidents in Missouri five died in a tornado that struck Okla three were killed in tornadoes in Jonesboro Ark three drowned in Kansas when a tornado struck their fishing boat five were reported drowned in Tennessee four drowned in flash floods in North Carolina a Florida man was killed in a twister and one person drowned in Laurel Miss The tornadoes left little standing in their un predictable paths They began in the Midwest Saturday afternoon and worked through the South and Southeast Sunday and early today State police in Alabama said at least 16 tor touched down across the central and nor thern sections of the state Sunday night Eight of the states 11 deaths were reported in Brent a town of 2500 Police said more than 130 persons were injured in the Alabama twisters including 47 in Brent FLASH FLOODS Four persons were killed Sunday night in Brent and four others died today of injuries suf in the storm One of the victims died when a tornado ripped through the Brent Baptist Church slicing the building in half About 100 persons were attending the Sunday night worship service In mountainous western North Carolina four persons died in flash floods caused by torrential rains Two of the victims bodies were found in a house that was washed away by the flooding New River An estimated 50 homes were destroyed or damaged Saturday evening at a com munity of 400 in eastern Oklahoma Four members cf one family a man his wife and two of their daughters were killed in the storm and another daughter was hospitalized in critical condition A fifth resident was among the dead BARELY ESCAPE Some persons barely escaped the storms fury In West Memphis Tenn 17 members of the Clovis Williams family were inside their home when it collapsed under a tornados force Mrs Williams said it was more than an hour before she her husband 14 of their children and one grandchild were completely dug out of the rubble None of them was injured It looked like all smoke out there it was raining so hard she said Then the house just fell in A group of fishermen told Civil Defense of near Laurel Miss they huddled under a concrete bridge when they saw a funnel ap proaching The funnel flattened trees on both sides of their hideout but it skipped over the bridge from the sun or to the Apollo feny ship which carried the spacemen to a rendezvous with Skylab on Friday A televised view beamed to mission control showed the as floating with ease from one point to another in side the huge weightless work shop which is as large as a house But most of the time they went about their work seriously and with little conversation as they sought to catchup on the schedule drawn up for their planned mission aboard the craft mans longest space mission Considering the crews ism mission control passed up a flight plan that called Tor completion of workshop prepar ation today and experiment activation late in the day What the Skylab astronauts learn about living and working in space will help determine if man can embark on long space voyages of the future NASA doctors hope to gain volumes of knowledge from this mission and the Skylab 2 and 3 flights scheduled aboard Hie same laboratory later this year Nixons ReElection Panel Sets Low In Dirty Politics AP THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION Funnel cloud begins to de scend over northwest sector of Bloomington Ind Sunday afternoon Extensive damage resulted involving destruction of four homes The tornado across Bloomington touching down several times Missing Link In Watergate Scandal WASHINGTON AP Lead ers of the Democratic party and of the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee are challenging President Nixons contention that Watergate investigations threaten to expose sensitive na tional secrets And the Fail Campaign Practices Committee says the campaign tactics of Nixons reelection committee set a low in dirty poli tics In San Jose Costa Rica meanwhile an associate of fin ancier Robert L Vesco said he and Vesco would like to talk with special Watergate prose cutor Archibald Cox about a missing link in the case The associate Canadian busi nessman Norman P LeBlanc would not elaborate on the link in talking with newsmen Sun day But he said he and Vesco would like to meet Cox some where to tell their story NOT AVAILABLE Cox was not available for comment Vesco former Atty Gen John N Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H Stans have been indicted in connection with an unreported contribution to the 1972 Nixon campaign LeBlanc told newsmen that the Cental Intelligence Agency is working clandestinely in Cas te Rica to get rU of Vesco and other businessmen connected with Vesco He did not elaborate Chairman Robert S Strauss of the Democratic National Committee said Sunday that Nixon is attempting to justify a partial Watergate coverup on the pretext of national security But he predicted the public wont buy it BIG DIFFERENCE Theres a big difference and I think the public will un the difference be tween national security and Nixon security Strauss said in a television interview Sen Stuart Symington D Mo acting chairman of the Armed Services Committee said most of what the panel has uncovered so far has nothing to do with national security The committee is investigating ac of the Central In Agency and other links between government se curity agents and the Water gale wiretapping It seems to me that its very important that we dont consid er the effort to bug the office of the chairman of the Democrat ic National Committee as an ef fort to promote or defend na tional security Symington said Symington spoke on CBS Face the Nation Strauss on Meet the Press Also Sunday the Practices Committee a small nonpartisan group that investigates complaints of dirty electioneering issued a five page report entitled Dirty Pol The committee said other in have tied the Nix on campaign not only to wire tapping and burglary but to theft of documents forgery personal vilification violations of campaign finance laws spy ing and a coverup of apparent crimes Soviet Pilot Asks Political Asylum SAN JOSE Costa Rica AP A Canadian associate of fugi tive financier Robert L Vesco claims they have a missing link in the Watergate investi gation Norman P LeBlanc speak ing at a news conference Sun day invited special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox or hia assistants to meet somewhere someplace with him and Ves co LeBlanc did not reveal any thing about their information on the Watergate case but said they would gladly tell their sto ry to Cox and show him docu ments LeBlanc said he would not go to the United States to meet with Cox or his deputies unless promised immunity from prose Vesco said the same thing last week Vesco is under indictment along with former Atty Gen John Mitchell and former Com merce Secretary Maurice Stans in connection with an unre ported donation to President Nixons 1972 tion campaign Mitchell and Stans both have pleaded in nocent but Vesco did not ap pear in New York to answer the charges ims Differed Sap Speaker Some 100 people gathered this Memorial Day morning for a short wreath laying ceremony at the courthouse in memory of those who gave their lives for their country Chaplain James Elwell of Webb AFB read a eulogy to those present after an in from Post Chaplain Buck ONeal Elwell said a South American was once asked why South America had not prospered as has North America South America was founded by those seeking gold Elwell said the man answered and North America was founded by those seeking God There is no greater con we can make to their local war dead sacrifice than to make our hearts right with God this morning Elwell said Sponsored by American Legion Post 355 the ceremony lasted about 10 minutes Boy Scouts participated BONN Germany AP A 22 yearold Soviet pilot whose jet fighter crashed Sunday in West Germany has applied for poli tical asylum West German said today The Soviet air force ant whose name was not dis closed signed an application for political asylum with the Office for Recognition of For eign Refugees authorities said The office maintains a refu gee camp in the Bavarian town of Zirndorf Officials there con firmed receipt of the appli cation but said the pilot was not at the camp The pilot told interrogators he was defecting to the West after parachuting to safety near the East German border Additional details were ex to be released later Two Soviet cers and an official from the Soviet Embassy in Bonn visited the wreck site outside Bruns wick to direct recovery of the fuselage newsmen at the scene reported The site was sealed off by West German soldiers The pilots jet crashed and burned Sunday in a field near about 25 miles inside West Germany The Russian was first taken to a British military installation and then to a West German base for questioning In another border incident a East German sol dier crossed the mined border Sunday night and asked for po asylum customs officials in Brunswick reported The last reported defection by a Soviet soldier to West Ger many was in September 1069 when a Russian from a unit stationed in East Germany crossed the border near and asked for asylum He said he was dis illusioned with the military and political climate in Russia The last known Soviet crash in a western part of Germany occurred not in West Germany but in West Berlin It was in when two Soviet pilots were killed in a that crashed near Spandau Prison where Rudolf Hess is held The crash Sunday occurred shortly before noon in bright sunshine Witnesses reported the pilot ejected at an altitude of only about 300 feet but a British Royal Air Force doctor who examined him pronounced him fully fit An RAF spokesman said the plane apparently had been in West German airspace only a few seconds and had not been intercepted Witnesses reported it crashed into a field about 500 yards from a highway and burst into flames Travelers near the border re ported seeing another plane crash during the weekend near the East German city of Mag deburg West German news re ports said it was a MIG fighter and both crewmen were killed Death Penalty Measure Ready For Final Action News AP WIREPHOTO DEVASTATED JONESBORO Residents of day The buildings in ths background are the Jones boro Ark Sunday evening began picking up the debris boro High School complex heavily damaged by the left by that swept through the city during storm that left deaths and of Legislative session with reform both as rallying cry and a subject of derision shuts down tonight See Page i A Comics Crossword Dear Gorens Jean Jumble Sports Want Ads fi Weather Map 2A Womens 1B AUSTIN AP Legislation enabling Texas juries once more to assess the death penal ty was expected to win final ap proval today from the states lawmakers A conference committee agreed to a com promise Sunday night and planned to meet today to sign the which would place it before the two chambers Gov Dolph Briscoe is virtual ly certain to sign tne measure since he had asked the ture to pass a death penalty law to replace one struck down hist year by the U S Supreme Court CAPITAL MURDER The would set up several categories of capital murder for which killers could be exe intentionally slaying a fireman or peace officer while performing his official duties murder in the course of a kid napping burglary robbery for cible rape or arson murder for equally to the killer and the person who hired him murder of a prison or jail employe and murder during an attempted or successful es cape from prison or jail In such cases the trial judge would be required to sentence the defendant to death if all 12 jurors found he killed deliber ately and his future existence would pose a continuing threat to society When the issue of provocation is raised by the evidence the jury also would have to find unanimously that the defendants act in killing FAIR WINDY Partly cloudy windy and cooler High today expect ed in high SOs and low to night near 50 degrees High on Tuesday also ex in the low SOs Wind from the north northwest 1525 miles per hour with gusts Expected to decrease tonight his victim was unreasonable in response to the provocation if any by the deceased 102 TEST A 102 no to any question would automatically result in a life sentence Under Texas law a mistrial would result and the case would have to be tried again if the jury failed to say yes unanimously to all questions or no by a 102 margin to any one question It is likely that the measure will be challenged in court since the Supreme Court never has ruled directly on whether it is constitutional to put a man to death The 54 decision that nullified Texas death penalty law in a split majority justices said the death penalty in itself was unconstitutional in itself while three based their opinions only on lack of uni in its imposition One of the majority justices in fact said he did not believe capital punishment was stitutional
