Lawrence Daily Journal-World (Newspaper) - July 11, 1969, Lawrence, Kansas Page Two LAWRENCE DAILY July 11, 1969. Moon Walk Has Legal Rights By MAX HARRELSON Associated Press Writer UNITED - Although the moon is international there is no question about the legal rights of the Apollo 11 astronauts to land and explore it in the name of the United The only major requirements are that it be done according to international law and for the benefit of all Legal experts say the 1967 space treaty clearly recognizes the role of individual countries in the exploration of celestial bodies even though it refers to astronauts as of The 1967 which deals specifically with the moon and er celestial guarantees the free access of all countries and declares there must be complete freedom of scientific There is nothing in space law to prevent astronauts from displaying or planting their nation's There is nothing to require them to carry any international such as the United Nations The Soviet in already has set a precedent by sending a Soviet hammer and sickle emblem to the moon in an unmanned capsule which made a soft landing on Feb. 3, 1966. At that time Soviet officials declared it had not claimed ownership of the area where the landing took The space treaty says that including the moon and other celestial is not subject to national appropriation by claim of by means of use of or by any other ' Not many other restrictions will apply to Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. They must exercise care that they do not contaminate the moon or bring back substances which might have a harmful effect on the earth They must provide full information to other And they must confine their activities to peaceful The major prohibitions in the treaty are not likely to have any bearing on this initial since they deal with the placing of nuclear weapons on the the building of military fortifications and the carrying out of military The Apollo 11 crew could establish any sort of facilities or installations necessary for peaceful The only limitation on such facilities is that free access be granted to astronauts of other What happens if the Apollo 11 or succeeding astronauts should discover rich deposits of precious metals or The treaty contains no prohibition on bringing back moon The only provision which might apply in a general way is a stipulation that all exploring the celestial should conduct all their activities in space due regard to the corresponding of other parties to the 3 BIA Officials To Probe Damage Of Haskell Hall Three officials from the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in will be at Haskell Monday to survey the damage done to Tecumseh The 71-year-old building was struck by lightning Wednesday night resulting in a roof and ceiling blaze causing an estimated The officials will make recommendations to their superiors concerning the repair needed for the Expected here Monday are John area head of plant Jerome safety and Gordon assistant area director of Haskell principal Everett Bowman Thursday said the room and floor probably would have to be as well as smoke and caused damage to one of the oldest buildings on Damage Lights at Pool Two youths caused an estimated damage to lights at the Municipal Swimming 8th and Ky. about 9 p.m. Thursday when they threw rocks at the lights and broke Lawrence police One of the six witnesses to the incident gave police the names of the The witnesses also gave police the license number of a pickup the and several other were riding in. A theft and a disorderly conduct charge also were reported by Pete Rt. 1, reported the theft of a air conditioner unit in a crate from the back yard of a home at 1614 W. 27th St. apparently about 10 days An attendant at the Vickers Service 1001 N. 3rd reported to police at 1:25 p.m. Thursday that a man and woman were fighting in a car at the The man is being held in the city jail in lieu of a appearance bond on a disorderly conduct Moon Quakes Object Of Lunar Instruments By JIM STROTHMAN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE Fla. - Three scientific instruments to be placed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 11 astronauts may reveal for the first time how much the moon quakes and The instruments could tell scientists how rapidly nents on earth are drifting apart and whether the moon's interior is molten mass or solid They may also meteors striking the surface and find gas particles in radiation streaming through space from the sun. Called EASEP for Early Apollo Scientific Experiments the devices were designed to help man unlock the secrets of the origin and structure of 1969 Crop Output To Near Records WASHINGTON - This year's production of corn and wheat will be among the largest of despite attempts by the Agriculture Department to curb production through control The Crop Reporting Board estimated Thursday that corn production will be almost 4.3 billion 2 per cent less than last year's bumper and 10 per cent less than the record 4.8 billion in 1967. Wheat production this based on July 1 was estimated at more than 1.4 billion down 6 per cent from the record crop of 1968, but large enough to add to the rising Government Crop programs contributed to an acreage decline of 2 per cent for corn this officials but a prospective near record yield of 78.3 bushels an acre is expected to maintain large Last year's corn yield was 78.5 bushels an and the record was 78.6 for the top production in 1967. rising demand for livestock feed grains has caused department officials some optimism that the sorghum grain and be held at manageable Wheat is in a more serious officials The 1.4 billion bushels forecast for this year could add at least 100 million bushels to the surplus stockpile by next July 1 if current use does not The wheat surplus now is about 800 million compared with 537 million a year ago and is the most since 1965. The department said 1969 wheat output is expected to be only 6 per cent less than last year's record crop despite 14 per cent fewer Crash at Eudora Sends 3 to LMH Three persons were treated and released at Lawrence Memorial following an accident at 7:35 p.m. Thursday on a county road one mile northwest of They are Constance S. 18, of 401 Perry Nancy J. 19, of 40'/2 Elm and Charles M. 55, Rt. 2, Cars driven by Perkins and Miss McGreevy collided near the center of the on a the investigating Douglas County deputy sheriff Miss McGreevy told the deputy she was blinded by the sun as she drove and the deputy reported weeds obscured the vision of both Damage to car was estimated at to Miss at the The gas particle collector will be brought back by the But the two other instruments will operate long after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. leave the scientific because man is there on the is said John W. chief of the lunar surface projects office at the National Aeronautics and Space Manned Spacecraft If the space agency attempted to land and deploy the same experiments on an unmanned automatic devices for putting the equipment locating them very precisely and leveling them would require many more And probably you'd have to cut your complexity he Packed inside a compartment in Apollo lunar module -A seismic station that can detect the slightest motions on or within the lunar Aldrin is to place it about 70 feet away from the After carrying it to the he will pull a lanyard to release spring mechanisms that open solar -A solar wind composition experiment consisting of a piece of aluminum one foot by unrolled like a window shade and held upright on a telescoping Aimed broadside toward the the device is to trap particles of gases including and xenon driven by the solar Armstrong and Aldrin are to roll the foil up again and bring it back with them for -A laser measuring about 2V2 feet which will like a a laser beam from By measuring the time it takes for the beam to strike the reflector and bounce back to scientists expect to within exactly how far the moon is from The seismic station is sensitive enough that people on earth expect to hear the footsteps of Armstrong and Aldrin as they crunch around the Heard In Lawrence f The Kansas University Music Camp band will appear in concert at 7:15 tonight on the lawn at the south side of Allen Other weekend concerts by orchestra and 2:15 p.m. University choir and 2:15 p.m. University and 7 p.m. also in the The public may attend all concerts without Negroes Need Responsible Says Panelists Forceful opinions were voiced at the League of Women luncheon Thursday by four panelists speaking on the subject We Making Progress in Human Relations in Responding to moderator and program Mrs. Edward who asked the panelists to tell things really not how we hope they Cynthia Ken Leonard Harrison and Vernell Sturns probed local issues in human housing and employment All of the panelists agreed that in prime position on any priority list for the city is placement of blacks in administrative positions in the school system and on the school URGED that both the job of assistant school superintendant and the newly created appointive seventh member of the school board provided by state law be filled with qualified Ken director of East Lawrence Community and a 1967 graduate Lawrence High i ing the feeling among black j dents at the school that opportunities do not exist | feels that there is a unwritten policy don't go out on a limb for a black White supports the idea of black administrators who could address themselves to the problems of black CYNTHIA Neighborhood Worker at the Ballard Community offered that school children need persons of minority groups in upper level positions to look up to aspire In commenting on the failure of employers in she noted that in the center of the town's business between 7th and 11th streets on Massachusetts only about a dozen blacks are don't know any Negro who would apply for a job he wasn't qualified He would be afraid to appear Leonard director of the Ballard Community commenting upon his offered that Lawrence we are crisis We wait until something instead of planning to prevent crises from VERNELL City Director of Human Relations and Community Social noted some progress being but hard for a father to encourage his son or daughter to stay in get an get a good when he knows that child can never fulfill his Sturns commented that the black community is looking to get blacks and other minorities into positions of that they need a sense of of what is going on in their City officials are hopeful that they will get some word on the city's request for a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development by the first week in City Manager Ray Wells said Thursday that the request for funding of Lawrence's proposed Neighborhood Development Project and the city's proposed have been passed on from the Fort Worth regional office of HUD to Washington for A complaint of a southbound in the 800 block of Massachusetts Street was received by the Lawrence police department at 12:04 a.m. from a citizen who noticed the A sent to apparently failed to locate the animal - at his report read Members 0 f Lawrence's Safety Department will begin a three-week training period at the Kansas Highway Patrol Academy at Salina on Director Gilbert Smith said The second and final session of instruction on cardiac massage and resuscitation was held last by an instructor from the Kaw Valley Heart Assn. County Okays Law Firm For Condemnation Suit Only one action was taken this morning by the Douglas County Commission at its regular The board approved the appointment of the law firm of Allen and Cooley to handle condemnation proceedings against 23 parcels of land east of the present courthouse site used for expansion of the county The site is expected to be used for a joint judicial The land to be condemned is located between New Hampshire and Rhode Island and between 11th and 12th Billy Hart of Kansas City has reported theft of items valued at to Kansas University traffic and security Hart said golf clubs and clothing were taken from his locked car Wednesday or Thursday when the vehicle was in the Ellsworth Hall A window was pried open to gain he Fire Runs TWO SHEETS TO WIND - Doug 1821 and Tom 1826 are shown improvising on skate boarding by catching the breeze with sheets as they scoot along the Reprisals Talked Egypt Reports Raid Success By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egypt launched a raid across the Suez Canal Thursday night and said it was its biggest success since the 1967 Israel reported four of its soldiers four wounded and one apparently Tel Aviv buzzed today with talk of A Cairo military communique 55 New Industries Start Production TOPEKA The Kansas Department of Economic Development said today 55 new manufacturing industries started production in Kansas in the first six months of 1969. The department presented a report to the Economic Development Capital expenditures for new and expanding were placed at up 7.5 per cent from a year Lawrence police investigated six auto accidents on with the greatest damage estimate in the Steam rising from an exhaust fan in Learned Hall on the Kansas University campus at 8:27 p.m. Thursday was misinterpreted as and reported to the Lawrence fire department as No fire the Lawrence area slime Funeral Ph. VI 3-511.1-Adv. Warren Mortuary 1020 New Hampshire Phone 843-1120 Kansas AIR CONDITIONED FOR YOUR COMFORT said the raid resulted in the or killing of at least 40 and that the Egyptian force destroyed five tanks in the 30-minute battle near Port at the southern end of the Israeli military officials said Israeli forces drove off the Egyptian unit with bazooka before it entered their In addition to the they reported two damaged Artillery fire from the Egyptian side continued during the night and early today and the Israeli army reported two more of its soldiers were Israeli forces returned the which took place at the southern part of the Bitter On the diplomatic Joseph J. U.S. assistant secretary of conferred with British Foreign officials Thursday on a Middle East peace settlement before flying to Paris and The Middle East News Agency reported Sisco was taking new U.S. proposals to the Soviet capital in answer to Soviet proposals delivered in Washington last 4-H'ers Honor Weatherwax A 4-H cottage at Rock Springs Ranch will be dedicated to the memory of Lester long-time youth worker in on July 20. who died in 1966, was active in Wichita Scout and for the last 25 years of his life helped raise funds for the year-round camp located about 15 miles south of Junction the father of former Lawrence Mayor John had spoken at Douglas County 4-H Achieve ment banquets in the The Weatherwax cottage was built with funds left by Wichita grain and oil man Samuel P. who specified in his will that the cottage be donated in the memory of Lester P. Weatherwax for his outstanding contributions in youth work The dedication ceremonies July 20 will include some 500 young 300 4-H'ers attending a state Conservation and Health Camp and 200 youth from the Mennonite Church in the area who will be holding religious services at Rock Springs that Centers For 2 Areas Two shopping centers based on the convenience concept are being planned for two areas of A spokesman for the Incorporated of Lawrence said the company had purchased five acres of land at 19th and Haskell Streets and is leasing 250 by 600 at 2509 W. 6th on which to develop the The Sixth Street site is now occupied by the Hillcrest Mobile Home Residents of the 23 mobile homes received notice by registered mail Wednesday that all personal belongings and homes must be removed from the site by Aug. 8. 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