Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - July 14, 1969, Winona, Minnesota Cloudy With Scattered Rain Through Tuesday WINONA D TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS FULL MOON JULY 28 Year of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 MONDAY JULY 14 1969 NEWS TEN CENTS PER COPY Read By More Than People Every Day SIXTEEN PAGES Apollo 11 Astronauts to Tell Nation of Voyage to the Moon CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP time nr un n i CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Astronauts Neil A strong Edwin E Aldrin Jr antl Michael Collins pause in their training tonight to tell the tion how it feels lo be going to the moon The preparation of their spacecraft was ahead o schedule for W e d n e s d a y s launch and the weather is ex- lo be ideal As oxygen and drogen lowed some of ha command ship and lunar lander systems the space agency re- shuffled its built-in holds to provide time or two additional quality control tests of the liquid hydrogen system as the CDT launching The three astronauts after last-minute rehearsal at believe flight controls planned to work out in the gymnasium later in the day before going cfn television radio at 0 p.m be questioned by a panel of four newsmen on a gram to be carried on all works On pad MA the manifold tasks to ready the mighty Soviets Send Spaceship on Trip to Moon urn 5 rocket for its launch Wednesday were two to hours ahead of schedule No problems have been en- the space agency reported Sunday as the countdown resumed afler a scheduled stoppage Al about the time Apollo 11 lifts off for the moon an un- manned Russian spaceship called 15 should be ing there The Soviets announced Luna 15 was launched lo Die moon from the orbit of an artificial satellite True lo tion the announcement made no mention of specific mission only thai Luna 15 will conduct ther exploration of the moon and space near Hie There was speculation the Russians might attempt to land Luna on the moon have it up soil samples and re- lurn them to earth Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States ever has returned a cle from the moon's surface It will he a great feat if they can do said Apollo 8 astro- naut Frank Borman who has just returned ham louring the Soviet Union An unmanned machine certainly will not take the edge off Apollo 11 said he thought returning soil samples was the purpose of 15 After a relaxing Sunday he astronauts returned to lieve flight controls today for some last-minute Armstrong and Aldrin in the nar lander and Collins in the command ship If all goes on schedule Apollo MOSCOW An un- manned Soviet spaceship ed for the moon today amid speculation that its mission is la take same of the spotlight away from Apollo ll by getting ples of the moon's surface and returning them td earth If all goes normally the Luna 15 spaceship should approach the Wednesday at about the time the United States sends its three astronauts off for the lunar landing Tass the Sovet news agency announced that Luna Is was launched to the moon from the orbit of an artificial ellite at Moscow lime Sunday and six hours later was miles from the earth One Western diplomat in eow suggested that the Russians Reach Agreement On Lease for Queen FORT LAUDERDALE Fla AP Tentative agreement on land lease at the Queen Elizabeth's was reached over the weekend and will be officially considered Tuesday by the Port Everglades Authority The port commission reached agreement with a group of in- headed by Philadelphia hotel owner Stanton Miller seeking to buy the Queen from Cunard Steamship Co The deal reportedly calls for an additional million ment to the port authority over the lease Cunard which was not ing a profit operating the ship as a tourist attraction had threatened to move the Queen because of a dispute with the commission The lease ment however apparently paves the way for the investors to buy the Queen and keep it at Port Everglades were trying for another space landing on the moon of an unmanned ship which would scoop up moon soil and return it to earth before U.S astronauts make their landing Sunday If this is not the mission the diplomat then Luna 15 may orbit close td the moon so that it can observe the U.S after their landing Tass said Luna Is will con- duct further scientific tion of the moon and space near the modn No details were Soviets never announce the real of space shots so that if something goes wrong they don't have to admit failure The U.S National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a We welcome this further exploration of space and wish them every success in man's effort to better under- stand the universe around him But Dr Donald er of the NASA team which will help recover the Apollo 11 astro- said that if the Russian spaceship did bring samples of the moon back to the earth a lot of people are going to be un- happy At Cape Kennedy Fla astro- naut Frank Borman who com- manded the Apollo 8 flight and returned last week from a tour of the Soviet Union said he be- Luna 15 was sent up to get a sample of moon soil before the U.S astronauts It will be a great feat if they can do Borman said but an unmanned machine certainly will not take the edge olf Apollo II Western space experts have expressed doubt that the Soviet space program is capable at this point of bringing back a moon sample They said this would involve techniques which apparently the Soviets have not yet mastered such as launching a spaceship from the moon's surface Rogers Hints at Viet Aid Shift WASHINGTON W tary of State William P ers declared today States is prepared to shift its Vietnamese aid program ward peacetime development if war can be ended or scaled down in the months ahead Rogers testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of President Nixon's request for billion for military and economic assistance for next fiscal year Included are million for military sistance and billion for various forms of economic sistance Without help from the wealthy powers to the under- developed countries he said the cold war split between Russia and the west could bo followed by a global division between the rich and poor countries The aid program includes 5440 million for economic sistance to Vietnam In Rogers said we are prepared to shift the aid program emphasis on economic and cial development if there is a resolution of the conflict or a significant de-escalation of the war in the months ahead U.S programs to aid Laos and Thailand Rogers said are largely an outgrowth of hostilities in Vietnam and will depend in form and amount on the course of he war there Rogers said that India and Pakistan provide a testing ground of whelher man can check the ravages of and escape from the grip of poverty 11 will arrive at the day afternoon at p.m COT After circling the moon for 24 hours Armstrong and drin undock the lunar lander from the mother ship and louch down on the moon's surface at p.m Armstrong is to make his toric first step on the moon at on Monday and Aldrin will follow him 20 minutes later They blast off again at p.m Monday and rejoin Collins at p.m Their splashdown m the Pacific is scheduled at July 24 Around tho globe Sunday churchgoers intoned prayers for a safe Journey for the astro- God of a million million said the Rev Paul II A Noren in a service at tha While House we ask Thy di- vine protection for our pioneers who will soon footprints on the moon Pope Paul speaking from the window of the papal palace at dolfo in Italy Let us de- vote our thought to the astro- POMPONS BECOME MOP MOPS Still managing lo smile Winona Senior High School members flourish rain-soaked Broadway pompons as parade along Believed Opening New Offensive SAIGON AP U.S forces fought a of skirmishes with enemy forces on the move in provinces northwest of Saigon where American cers say a new communist push may be developing the U.S Command said today A total of 52 enemy were re- ported killed in the encounters including 10 in the second day of fighting on the lower slopes of Black Virgin tain which dominates the rice plains around Tay Ninh City Chinese Set To Negotiate Border Crisis MOSCOW AP The Chinese communists said they would return to the table with Soviet negotiators today after s walkout of only two days from the talks on navigation along their disputed Asian border After nearly a month of ings in the Soviet border town of Khabarovsk on the Amur er the negotiators reached an impasse last week and the Chinese walked out Saturday Tass the Soviet news agency announced Sunday that the Chinese delegation had told the Soviets that contrary to its statements of July 12 it has de- remain in Khabarovsk The Chinese said they were ready to resume work today on plans for traffic maintenance work and the new wording of shipping regulations affecting both sides of rivers forming part of the border across which Soviet and Chinese forces have been clashing with growing A Soviet representative replied that his delegation was ready to continue the talks Tass reported earlier that the Chinese had walked out because the Soviets would not discuss Chinese to large areas inside the Soviet Union's Asian border The Soviet said the commission could only discuss border river shipping not such matters as territorial claims Since the current series of border clashes began the lin has offered to discuss thd broader of the border questions but China has not re- plied to this order Tass charged Sunday that a border clash on July 8 on the Amur about 70 miles west of Khabarovsk was started by the Chinese to frustrate the ence Moscow said earlier that one Soviet worker was killed Peking has announced no but accused the Russians of the attack RECAPTURES ESCAPED PRISONERS Man Held Hostage Rebels La AP A daring man whose family was terrorized by three armed escaped prisoners held two of them at bay and shot a third with their own submachine gun Sunday night to end an long chase by hundreds of lice The action capped more than 15 hours of freedom for the trio who had held and released 13 hostages in several parts of the state The three were James Marion Sumner 28 Garry Robert iff liams 22 and Luther Pettitt 29 all of Houston Tex They caped from the Gregg County jail at Longview Tex earl Sunday with a deputy and the jailer as hostages Sumner and Williams were brought to the Natchitoches Parish jail early today was taken tj the Confederate Memorial Hospital in port for a wound in the left side of chest Sheriff Sam Sumner and charged in Natchitoches with H James said Williams were Astronauts Stake Lives on Single Engine CAPE KENNEDY Ffa HI Sitting in their landing craft rtn lunar surface two Apollo 11 astronauts will stake their lives on a single engine thai must work perfectly at least six minutes to rocket them safely away from the moon And because of the way Ihc landing craft is built it will be impossible lo before that critical moment Called an ascent engine the motor is located at the base of lunar module LM landing craft's cabin seclion where Neil A Armstrong nnd Edwin E Aldrin Jr will be quartered Until the time of blastoff from the moon's surface the engine is blocked by the bottom section containing a braking and landing legs The landing section called Ihc descent stage is to remain on the moon serving as a launch pad This engine has lo work lo get the crew back inlo n safe bit where they can rendezvous with Michael Collins in I ho Apollo 11 command mission director George H The ascent engine is to be fired at p.m CDT July 21 or 7 18 seconds Sixty-nine seconds before Armstrong anil Aldrin blast Collins will have sped directly overhead in the com- mand ship If all goes well Hie en- gine will propel two moon explorers inlo an shaped orbit ranging from 11 to 52 miles above the moon For the first 14 seconds the LM will up It then is to tip over to an angla of 52 de- Feel Prouty Holds Key On Safeguard WASHINGTON AP tors in search of a compromise in closely fought battle over President Nixon's Safeguard missile program looked hopefully today to Vermont Sen Winston L for support Wilh the delivery of a floor speech on the today Republican lakes his name oft the now nearly vanished list of Safeguard finally taking a Prouty joins his Vermont league Sen George D kCy ABM debate also a Republican came out last week against dc I and rocket into orbit at a off before six minutes Ihc Iwo j of the system insist speed of about one mile per pilots would have ing he administration come to SPACE AGE SALES The Apollo 11 mission publicized around the world also has sales value around world Here models of Apollo lunar module and command ship hang from of a Tokyo store whose current sales campaign is dubbed Operation the armed robbery of Mrs Jesse He said the fleeing men took and gun shells from the woman's home north of Natchitoches The FBI said federal charges of kidnaping interstate trans- of a stolen car and of the federal firearms law were lodged against them at Longview A fourth escapee was believed to have remained in Greea County The three led Texas Rangers slate police the FBI and deputy sheriffs of eight parishes ties on a chase through north and central Louisiana At one point Gov John hopped in his private plane lo try to meet with them By phone he talked them into releasing five hostages The manhunt ended about H p.m at frame house of Leo Martin at Flatwoods in the alchie National Forest They stormed the house said a shaken Martin 60 They rammed a gun into my girl's back and came He said the escapees were eating dinner with him his wife and daughter when Pettitt left the room at the sound of an approaching car Another momentarily put his submachine gun down That was my tin said I grabbed it up and held it on the other two and made them sit down on the floor The tall one Pettitt came back in and as he walked through the kitchen door that's when let him have said Martin Them others saw I meant business and I didn't have no more trouble out of them WEATHER AND VICINITY Variable cloudiness through Tuesday with scattered showers and thundershowers Little change Low tonight high Tuesday in the 90s LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 94 minimum noon 75 precipitation 01 observations for fhe 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 81 minimum 70 precipitation 1.10 Light scattered contact also was reported from other parts of the country as the first large of U.S Marines warded ships at Da Nang td out of the war zone The men of the 9th rine tst Battalion are part of the Americans to leave South Vietnam end of August under Nixon's withdrawal order The U.S Command also an- that additional ments of the 9th Infantry sion and a National Guard unit he Medical Detachment will leave for tha United States on Tuesday The first large jody of troops in the withdrawal were 814 men of the Sill Division who flew home July a The sharpest fighting reported today occurred Sunday after- noon as troops of 1st Infantry Division probed lower slopes of Black Virgin mountain The 1st Division inen had re- ported killing 32 Viet Cong On Saturday when they went in to check the results of strikes on enemy positions on fhe gled slopes Artillery and pounded the mountainside agapi Sunday as the armored troops fired at areas where enemy troops were holed up in ers caves and trenches A search of the area late day produced the bodies of io more enemy who had been killed by small arms fire ing to 42 the total two days There were BO U.S casualties the command said The U.S Command also an- the launching of er sweep along the coast south of Da Nang the third such operation in that area in two months The headquarters men of the Marines made a helicopter assault aboard ship to seven miles south of the city on July io and 21 enemy have been killed Seven can wounded were reported ond i enough speed to achieve orbit Small rockets instead be tfn a propel the LM into orbit if I slic pad that would send them crashing back onto the moon be- imm ascent fails after Collins savc six we must burn The sequence from lunar il least six A j liftoff to rendezvous between he space agency Collins will be in a circular path 60 miles above the lunar surface He will be prepared lo lower his altitude to rescue his if engines fail and Armstrong and Aldrin arc left in a low Bui if Hie engine and command ship is ex- peeled to take hours After using the ascent engine to fly inlo the 11 by 52 mile orbit smaller maneuvering rockets will be fired periodically lo ry Armstrong and Aldrin up to the ship's high altitude an accommodation with guard opponents He became Ihc senator to oppose guard Sources close to while professing no advance edge of his decision had stressed fie would weigh very heavily reasoning laid out by Aiken who called on the ad- ministration to accept tion of Safeguard proposal so it can be backed in ing arms talks with the sians by a large Senate TAKES CHOW ALONG An unidentified U S carries a box of aboard a troop transport at Da Nang Vietnam prior to being evacuated to Okinawa is one of 231 members of Uie 9th Regiment being drawn from South Vietnam under President Nixon's troop redeployment plan AP
