Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - November 18, 1969, Winona, Minnesota Clearing Late Tonight and Much Colder Year of Publication WINONA DAILY NEWS Minnesota 55987 Tuesday November 18 1969 News in You Can See It Reread It Keep It 20 10 SUPPORTING FIRE U.S artillerymen fire their howitzer from their position at artillery base Dory 135 miles northeast of Saigon The artillerymen are giving porting fire to South Vietnamese units ing around the Due Lap Special Force's camp miles to the west South Vietnamese troops clashed with North Vietnamese troops within a few miles ot Bu Prang 30 miles southwest of Due Lap Monday One hundred and two were reported killed most of them by artillery and air strikes AP fax Supporters of Haynsworth Seeking Delay WASHINGTON CAP tors working for confirmation of Judge Clement F Haynsworth Jr to the Supreme Court are hoping to delay the showdown vote possibly until next week Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has said he would like to hold the vote Thursday But Sen Roman L Hruska floor manager of the nomination suggested Monday the showdown be put off be- cause many senators plan to be away Thursday The Nebraska Republican told reporters the worth nomination might be set aside temporarily while the ate takes up a to provide for a lottery draft While Hruska opposed field's plan for a vote at 1 p.m the Republican tor did not rule out the ty of a vote on Friday Haynsworth supporters some of whom indicate time is ing on their side picked up two votes Monday to run the total to 39 in favor of the nomination 40 opposing confirmation and 21 still publicly uncommitted on the ment Sens William B Spong Jr D-Va and Winston L Prouty both previously mitted announced Monday they will vole for confirmation Spong told the Senate tions raised about ethics because of his sitting in cases involving companies in which he had a financial inter- est had cot been substantiated Prouty said in a statement the blizzard of accusations against Judge Haynsworth melts quickly under close tiny Hruska and other supporters of the nomination said during Monday's debate that they did not think mation by a close vole would have an adverse impact on lic confidence in court However Sen Birch Bayh a leader of the tion said mation by a narrow margin would be bad for the court A new appeal fa reject worth's nomination was made to all senators in a letter from Roy Wilkins chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Joseph Kennedy Succumbs at 81 HYANNIS PORT Mass AP Joseph Patrick Kennedy triarch of an ill-starred can political dynasty died day losing an gle for life He was SI In a brief announcement from the Kennedy family compound on Cape Cod overlooking tucket Sound a family man said death came at TO Jacqueline Onassis is shown at Boston airport on her way to Mass where her onetime in-law Joseph P Kennedy died today at 81 Mrs sis flew from Greece via London AP His wife Rose and other of the family were with him at the time the spokesman said A financier and one of the men Kennedy had been paralyzed since suffering a stroke in Palm Beach Fla on Dec 19 1961 The former ambassador had suffered setbacks from lime to time since then and had been growing progressively weaker since sustaining a mild heart at- tack Saturday The founding father of the clan suffered through the assassinations of his sons John and Robert after losing his est Joseph P Jr in World War II John was killed in Dallas Tex Nov 22 1963 Robert was shot in Los Angeles June 5 1968 and died the next day He had just received a boost in his for the Democratic nomination with a tory in he California primary Navy U Joseph P Kennedy Jr was killed in action Aug 12 1944 He was piloting a plane signed to knock out German V2 KENNEDY Continued on Page 14 Col K Forces Claim 273 Reds Dead SAIGON OH South forces today claimed 273 North Vietnamese killed in two battles in the Bu Lap area of the central lands U.S artillery and planes did most of the killing The heaviest fighting was two miles east of Bu Prang where 243 enemy were reported killed Informants said South casualties in the long battle Monday were only 11 wounded because each time the government troops met stiff re- sistance they pulled back and called on American aircraft and artillery The government claim of 243 North Vietnamese killed was somewhat suspect A search er the battle turned up only six weapons and aerial observers counted some of the enemy dead In the other battle five miles south of Due Lap 30 North were killed while South Vietnamese casualties were en killed and 11 wounded Government forces sweeping the battlefield at Bu Prang re- ported finding some bodies of North Vietnamese soldiers cr to keep them from retreating er to keep them fro rare treating under the onslaught of can firepower There have been similar reports in the past The fighting was touched off when a battalion of 400 South Vietnamese infantrymen on a sweep outside the camp's came under fire from a woodline The government soldiers drew after a heavy exchange of rifle and machine-gun fire and more than 20 U.S and FIDO raked the North Vietnamese troops with bombs napalm and rockets less than a mile east of the camp perimeter Some of the North Vietnamese force estimated at 800 men were caught in the open ALAX L BEAN Rehearsed Everyone Everything SPACE CENTER Houston AP Circling the moon in perfect orbit Apollo explorers inspected their landing craft today and declared it shipshape for a daring bullseye landing on the craggy surface early Wednesday Charles Conrad Jr and Alan L Bean slipped through a connecting tunnel into the fragile lander they call Intrepid leaving Richard F Gordon Jr alone in the command ship Yankee Clipper After an check Bean We've checked out all the things we're supposed to and all shipshape We're ready to go Conrad and Bean hope to set Intrepid down precisely in a circle in the Ocean of Storms on the western side of the moon's visible face at CST tonight Their goal is first detailed scientific exploration of the lunar face Conrad and Bean inspected the landing craft six hours after Apollo 12 swept into lunar orbit which prompted outbursts ot awe and enthusiasm from all three as gazed at the wild and wondrous landscape below Bean shouted Monday night Boy It s beautiful down there Look at that crater Through color television the astronauts shared their magnificent view with a quarter- away The telecast followed the course ot Apollo 12 as it moved across a narrow band moving from east to west Large and small rugged mountains and flat plains were visible as the camera panned across the desolate landscape Even in earth orbit at night or in the daytime the sky was never as black as it is Conrad reported This is the blackest biack I ever saw For Conrad and the view from 70 miles N 3 SETTING UP A LUNAR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CENTER Drawing bused on a NASA drawing shows how Apollo 12 astronauts plan deployment for Lunar Surface Experiments Package The array of scientific instruments is expected to beam data to for at least one year and perhaps two The package includes a seismometer a lunar ionosphere a magnetometer a solar wind spectrometer and a lunar atmosphere detector AP BUT ONLY EARLY RISERS WILL SEE IT Moon Live in Color By HARRY F ROSENTHAL SPACE CENTER Houston AP Once more a white boot will crunch into the soil of the no moon and television will be there live and in color It won't be like the first lime of course yet the moonwalks of Charles Conrad Jr and Alan L Bean will be unique and ing television at one of times of alt: 5 CST All three television networks plan to broadcast until after the lunar er touches down safely at p.m NBC says it will slay on all night ABC will open its moonwalk age at 4 when the astronauts are making final preparations for their climb down the spacecraft ladder CBS will begin its telecast at The first moonwalk of Apollo 12 mission will last until abaut The second starts at p.m CST Thursday and also should last hoars In July when A Armstrong and E Aldrin Jr made their ic Apollo 11 walk the showing was in black and white and system images thai had the jerky motions of early day movies The Intrepid as the Apollo 12 lunar lander is called carries a color camera in a storage compartment near its base Conrad will pull a handle as he de- to moon's surface so the camera his climb down the der As the spaceship neared moon Monday he astronauts abandoned an attempt to televise the approach be- cause he sun angle blinded their streaked windows But the second uled telecast after the ship went into lunar orbit was extremely successful This white or gray-white moon it contrasts very starkly with the black sky just like everyone's said Bean The black is about as black ss you've ever seen in your life It doesn't have any hues or anything to it Its just solid straight dull black then the moon is just sort of very light color At one point Bean Boy it's beautiful down there Look at the crater Highlights of Trip to Moon TODAY awake and eal period snaps pictures of the shallow crater Fra Mauro likely landing target for Apollo 13 next March and Mean landing craft to start final preparations for landing telecast showing Conrad and Bean in uncouple from Yankee Clipper as seen out command ship window and command ship triggers command ship's maneuvering rockets to pull away from Intrepid main braking rocket triggered seconds o begin drop Inward moon's Ocean of WEDNESDAY braking rocket lor cal burn to settle astronauts to surface on surface 3 preparations begin for moon walk cockpit cases nut natch activates TV camera show him descending ladder o surface picks up rock sample exits and descends to surface He and Conrad spend neit three hours taking pictures eroding American Ihg setting np scientific experiments and collecting rocks and Iloan re-enter Intrepid and close hatch ending first moon walk begins one-hour cat period then new oxygen supply in backpacks in tion for second moon walk to at p.m Thursday of nine-hour rest period during which and Bean sleep on hammocks inside Intrepid and Bean end rest period begin one- hour eat period then prepare for second moon walk hatch opened and Conrad fills In begin second moon walk During nnl three 5 utes Conrad and galher rocks after first documenting photographically one's position on the surface walk to Surveyor 3 spaceship and snip pieces oil H to to earth Except for 14 Minutes Moon Walk Devoted to Science j ixt By JIM STROTHMAN SPACE CENTER AP Except for six minutes to erect an American flag and eight minutes to position a color camera the Apollo 12 moon explorers plan to devote all their time to science on their first moon walk Wednesday Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr plans to be outside three hours and 14 minutes during the initial stroll while Alan L Bean is ex- to be outside two hours 23 minutes Wednesday's excursion will begin with Conrad backing out of the hatch of the Intrepid at CST A second stroll begins at p.m Wednesday when Conrad and Bean visit the now dead Surveyor 3 spacecraft First color television should begin at Wednesday after Conrad standing on a der opens a compartment in which the camera is mounted Bean will turn the television on to show Conrad's descent to the moon's surface While Bean films Conrad with a 70 millimeter movie camera the Apollo 12 commander will spend six minutes getting used to low gravity jumping up and down and testing his ance Using a scoop with an sion handle Conrad will pick up a sample of rock and soil put it in a bag and send the bundle in a container up a conveyor bell to Bean Conrad then will snap still photos as Bean starts down ladder at After Bean familiarizes self with the gravity Conrad will spring open an an- tenna which looks like an umbrella Officials hope the antenna to be ed for the second moon walk will improve communications with earth Bean will mount the TV era on a tripod 20 feet from lander Then he and Conrad push a staff inlo the ground and attach a nylon American flag to it As Conrad continues to align the antenna Bean is to erect an attached to a staff Scientists hope the device will capture atomic particles streaming from the sun Both astronauts then will take out the scientific instruments contained in two Using a long-handled tool Bean will open a cask containing Ionium 238 an atomic fuel ment and insert it into a clear electric generator lhat powers instruments Bean carrying the ment instruments and tor and Conrad will walk 10 a site about feet west ol lander cratt There they will distribute the instruments After photographing the ex- periment site the astronauts will return to the landing craft collect rock samples with long-handled tongs en route stowing them in saddle bags at- to their waists high was a preview for attempt to land on the eastern shore of the Ocean of Storms They are to separate the landing craft Intrepid from the command ship Yankee Clipper at p.m tonight For more than hours they will keep the world In suspense as they execute ers on the dangerous and difficult descent Their goal is a pinpoint landing near an un- named crater an area described by Conrad be- fore the night as gently rolling pocked with small craters but relatively smooth The astronauts have dubbed the landing target Pete's Parking Lot because it is Conrad the Apollo 12 commander who must steer to touchdown HOPE TO OVERCOME Continued on Page 15 Column l Business of Flying to Moon Is Not Easy By PAUl RECER SPACE CENTER ton AP Apollo flying the riskiest space flight ever face a gruelling workday thai safety rules would for- bid to an airline pilot or bus driver An airline pilot on a tine flight must rest after eight hours and let someone else take over Charles Conrad Jr and Alan L Bean must fly for nine hours and still be alert enough to land on the moon and walk its surface in bulky suits no one to take over A bus driver crossing the must knock off er 10 hours The federal government says that's his safety limit Richard F Gordon Jr must fly for 19 hours most of it alone and still stay enough to perform complex navigation lems while orbiting moon Conrad Gordon and Bean woke up at p.m CST today During the next 20 hours Conrad and Bean will land on the moon get out of the spacecraft and walk the lunar surface for 314 hours Gordon will spend much of the alone orbiting the moon la spacecraft that was to be operated by three men During 20 hours each decision and each move must be right is much more unforgiving than the hazards faced by the airline pilot or the In- bus driver Space officials said astronauts spent months building up heir for their mission Joseph D Garino an ex- perl on physical training who keeps the astronauts in shape said after Conrad learned how long he and his crew would have to work without rest he asked for advice on conditioning I lold him to increase hlj said Garino Conrad and Bean started running four to six miles n day pushing themselves while doing it Before the flight said Garino Conrad was able to cover six miles at a steady six minutes per mile The long work days in space are necessary be- cause equipment limits el oxygen and power while man is adaptable Bus and airline facilities permit the companies and federal government to fix safety limits for drivers and pilots We're just nol to the point where we can rto this in space flight saya a space agency official The crew fills in where our hardware leaves off i Explosion May Have Hurl Russ Moon Landing WASHINGTON AP The explosion of a huge Soviet et on its launch pad may hava set Russian efforts to land a man on the moon back two years and crippled its manned space program an aerospace magazine says Aviation Week Space Magazine reported day the explosion last summer at destroyed the rocket Soviets had intended to carry the main portion of a manned orbiting platform into space last month
