Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - April 27, 1969, Zanesville, Ohio The Times Recorder VOL NO PAGES SECTIONS ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 SUNDAY APRIL 27 1969 TWENTY CENTS Good Reading On The Inside Sirhan Another First Coast To Coast St John's Church To Airborne Lights Aid Night Widow OF Pancho Villa Apollo 10 Crew Set For Flight SPACE CENTER Houston 10 Commander Thomas Stafford reported turday he and Jus two are healthy as horses well ahead of the game and ready to go on their crucial moon orbit flight next month Stafford said he and astronaut Eugene Cernan both had shaken off spring colds they suffered earlier in April He said spaceman Tohn Young never caught that cold and all three are taking steps to keep from getting sick again before the Apollo 10 is a final rehearsal before astronauts try landing on the moon this summer Stafford and Cernan will fly within 10 miles of the lunar surface May 21 in the Apollo moon landing craft while Young waits for them in the mother ship in lunar orbit Illness has been a problem with all three past Apollo manned flights even delaying the start of Apollo 9 last month Some space officials said crewmen might be getting too run down during the hectic final days of preparation for the flight Stafford said his crew has tried to avoid this last-minute crush of days starting at dawn and ending at midnight We're healthy as horses Stafford said during the last weekend at home before the flight We're ready to go We're slacking off on our training Stafford Young and Cernan are scheduled to blast off from Cape Kennedy at 12 49 p m EOT May 18 and swing into moon orbit three days Because of the liftoff tune later in the day than pas missions Stafford called it A flight In addition to the interview the crew held a news ence where Cenan displayed a stuffed black and white toy hound nicknamed the mascot The three spacemen named their command ship Charley and their moon lander after the comic stop characters The little stuffed mascot wearing yellow sunglasses can not go on the flight with them however because it is not fireproof Cernan said the coast between the earth and moon will be sure ecstasy compared to the 24 hours of stark terror we will be confronted with when he and Stafford fly within feet of the moon's surface on a landing rehearsal It will be the last planned test flight before Apollo 11 astro- Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin set out on their historic landing mission in July We think everything is pretty well squared away for Stafford said at the astronauts last news confer ence before launch It's certainly a challenging flight and the most difficult to date I think we're ahead of the game and ready to go Stafford and Cernan are scheduled to leave Young in the command ship in a 69 mile high lunar orbit and swoop down to the foot altitude in a legged lunar module landing craft It will be a dress rehearsal for the later landing At the foot altitude Stafford said it will be the first time men have flown this fast this low above a surface Astronaut John Young center gives mascot Snoopy hug and draws laughter from astronauts Thomas Stafford left and Eugene Cernan during press conference at Space Center Texas Man Reported Critical After Shooting Clifford Thomas 38 of ville was reported in critical condition at Good Samaritan Hospital Saturday night from a gunshot wound in the abdomen Police said Thomas was shot at 1 36 a m Saturday after he forced his way into the home of his estranged wife's brother Michael E Brown of 906 ahala avenue Brown 28 police said shot Thomas with a 38 caliber Brown was released to Hie custody of his attorney Robert McCarty Saturday morning No charges have been filed pending further tion Thomas wife Beverly 35 and her four children by a previous marriage were ing the weekend at the Brown home Mrs Thomas recently sued her husband for divorce CAPTAIN CAM Agin gave this account of the incident Patrolman Charles Johnson and George Bailous were dis- patched to the scene after Mrs Brown called that someone was trying to break into her home When police arrived they found Thomas lying inside the doorway at the Brown home A Zanesville ambulance was summoned and Thomas was taken to the hospital where he was placed in the intensive car unit Fast Time Is In Ohio shifted to Daylight ing Time this morning along with most of the nation The time change officially began at when it suddenly became 3 aih Most folks merely moved up their clocks an hour before they retired last night DST will be in effect until Oct 26 Officers said Thomas had gone to the Brown residence to see his wife but was refused admittance by Brown's wife Marlene Thomas then forced his way into the home and was shot after ignoring a warning by Brown to stand back POLICE SAID Mrs Thomas filed a divorce suit in Perry County Common Pleas Court last November and that the court had issued a restraining order banning Thomas from seeing his wife Thomas four children are Timothy 13 Michael 11 Patrick 8 and Star Kelly 7 South Carolina Is Scene Of Second Mass Arrest CHARLESTON SC Seventy-four more Negroes were arrested Saturday the second mass arrest in as many days when they staged a hour demonstration in support of striking hospital workers and the jailed Rev Ralph D Abernathy The arrests in front of the Central Baptist Church brought to 174 the total jailed in two days Those arrested Saturday were charged with failure to obey an officer Abernathy and 99 followers were arrested Friday for violating a court order limiting pickets in front of the city's two biggest hospitals There was no violence six of those arrested Saturday were juveniles and were turned over to their parents pending appearance in juvenile court In Columbia both whites and Negroes sponsored by Charleston County Young Demo crats marched in front of the Capitol in support of the hospital workers Police ignored them The Negro hospital workers are charging discrimination and substandard pay scales and demanding a union contract You are directed to disperse and go home or you will be a police official shouted Saturday to the who had been blocked by police and National men m an attempt to march to the county courthouse The protestors about 15 adults and the rest teen agers raised their hands in a V For- Victory sign and sang We Shall Ov while police herded them into waiting buses and police vans The vehicles then pulled away from the church amid much hand clapping and from the youths inside Mourning Period For Ike Ends The official mourning for former President and General of the Army Dwight D ended at midnight Saturday according to a report from the Pentagon Flags which have flown at half staff during this period are to be flown at full staff again today Eisenhower died March 28 and President Nixon claimed 30 days of mourning ll gut TK O 43701 The intersection of St Louis and Maple avenues Is hazardous for both pedestrians and motorists since the light changes What's the solution V W Zanesville Orren Hillman public works director says a new walk lights system with pushbutton controls aie now in operation Pedestrians are able to control the lights to stop traffic and cross Maple avenue at the crosswalks 1 at St Louis avenue and 2 at the Point and cross Dresden road 3 at the Point The city is aware of the problem encountered by motorists who turn left north off St Louis and then are unable to see a traffic light indicating when to go The city is considering a recommendation from traffic engineers that left turns off St Louis avenue onto Maple avenue be prohibited Meanwhile Hillman suggested that motorists make only right turns from St Louis onto Maple avenue Please tarn Page more TR Mid State Is Proposed NEW YORK UPI Author Norman Mailer who is thinking of entering the race for the Democratic mayoral tion said Saturday that New York City might be better off as the state If election mayor he said he would give black people a chance to vote for separatism if New York City became an autonomous governmental unit Voting for me would be m effect a referendum to indicate that the people of New York City wish to become a state separate from New York Mailer said on a television interview program The novelist said New York City is not really an organic part of the state and loses out financially by being subjected to the state administration in Albany Smoke Scare At Bank Branch Firemen were called to Country Fair Branch of the Citizens National Bank shortly after Saturday but the only fire they found was in the incinerator Bank officials said a passerby saw smoke and summoned the fire department but that It resulted from paper still smouldering which the janitor had placed In the Incinerator Extend Protective Arm Task Force Shifted To West Of Korea U.S Lures Reds Into i Death Trap SAIGON UPI US troops drew North Vietnamese into a trap near the Cambodian border Saturday and reported killing 213 in a battle ui which the Americans stood one of the heaviest artillery barrages since the siege of Khe Sanh One American was wounded in the lopsided victory A force of about 600 North Vietnamese moving out of lairs in Cambodia assaulted the U S Infantry Division camp behind a curtain more than 450 rounds of rocket mortar and rocket propelled grenade fire military spokesmen said The camp Frontier about 45 miles northwest of Saigon and a mile from the Cambodian border was only Thursday in hopes it would lure the Communists into When the North Vietnamese cans called in jet bombers helicopters and fixed- wing gunships and fired ers at chest high level from within the camp a network of deep and heavily fortified bunkers The camp defenders were bolstered by two U S infantry companies dropped into the area by helicopter The strikes by the jets and gunships were directed by Maj Harry Ray of Dillon Mont from a perch atop a watchtower in the center of the camp U S spokesmen identified the attacking unit as the elements of the Viet Cong Division an outfit made up almost entirely of North Vietnamese troops based in Cambodia about two miles south of Frontier City U S spokesmen said the barrage of almost 500 rockets mortars and rocket propelled grenades which hit Frontier City was one of the most intense on a single allied outpost since the siege of Khe Sanh in South Vietnam's ex- treme northwest corner last year from Jan 21 to April 10 The American fortress at Khe Sanh housed about 6 000 troops It was hit by almost shells before relief forces lifted the siege and routed North Vietnamese gunners from mountain positions overlooking the base Maj Gen Ellis Williamson of Fayetteville N C commander of the Division flew to Frontier City at daybreak Saturday and commended Ray and Capt Ray Pulliam of Chattanooga whose com- pany of 180 men held off the initial attack Inside The Times Recorder Page Sec Books 3 A Buckwald Art 4 Builders Page 89 C Classified Pages 64 D Commentary 6 D Crossword Puzzle 8 D Deaths and Funerals 8 R Jeane Dixon C Financial News 9 R Gift of Roses 4 A lobal View 7 A Letters To Editor 3 A Vain Stem 4 Minnie 5 G spots route the U S task force is taking as It moves from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea Fighting Is Renewed In N Ireland Dispute BELFAST Northern Ireland and Protestant militants resumed their street battling over Northern Ireland's civil rights issues Saturday night facing each other in the market square of Armagh from where St Patrick introduced Catholicism to Ireland Squads of police clubbed the fighters apart in repeated baton charges Police estimated that some 150 Catholics were ing off some Protestants At least seven of the demon was injured The fighting in Armagh where St Patrick established his Holy Seat as Bishop of Ireland in the Fifth Century shattered a previously peaceful day in the Catholic Protestant confrontation over civil rights The fighting in Armagh 35 miles southwest of the capital began shortly after a rally by an estimated Protestants to welcome three militant leaders recently released from jail The top Protestant tant the Rev Ian Paisley is still imprisoned on a six month sentence for calling unlawful assemblies Earlier Saturday about 250 British troops arrived from England to reinforce guards at Northern Ireland's key utility and communications centers that have targets of saboteurs for the past week Catholic and Protestant Bishops in Londonderry made an unprecedented joint appeal for peace in the civil rights movement which is aimed at extending the vote to persons who do not own of whom are Catholics Israeli And Syrian Troops Meet In Machine Gun Duel By United Press International Israeli and Syrian troops fought a machine gun duel in the Golan Heights Saturday night and Egypt reported a destructive command attack on Israeli installations at the northern end of the Suez Canal New political violence erupted in Lebanon A Syrian government commu mque released in Damascus said one Israeli was killed and an Israeli halftrack and an observation post were destroyed when Syrian forces answered Israeli fire from heavy and medium machine guns during a one hour and 45 minute duel near Rasm Aby The Damascus account there were no Syrian losses Israel occupied the Golan Heights area during the 1907 war depriving Arab of firing positions had used to attack bolder settle ments Page Sec Money Clips 7 A Ohio Politics 4 A Old Photos 10 B Photo Highlights IB Profiles 10 A of Week Radio TV News 8 B Roy Wilkins 4 B Sally Round 4 r Sports D Stamps 9 A Theaters t B Weather Map 8 A 7 C I Impressive Britain's Princess Anno makes striking appearance as she visits an automobile factory In The Princess Is waring a stone colored wool real with brass buttons and belt Ske wears Mark styled ktt with Battleship Returning To UJS WASHINGTON UPI powerful armada formed to protect flights was abruptly shifted from the Sea of Japan and to the other side of the Korean peninsula Saturday The move may be aimed at bettering relations with the Russians The Defense Department an- without amplification that Task Force 71 which has been operating in the Sea of Japan since April 20 is proceeding south of Korea through the Tsushima Straits to the Yellow Sea where fleet operations will continue Observers noted however that Uic Russians have twice expressed the fleet's presence near their far eastern port of Vladivostok fronting on the Sea of Japan The shift take it well away from Soviet shores The move could also enable the fleet to extend its protective arm farther to the west while continuing to guard intelligence on both sides of Korea It is less than 10 minutes by jet plane across most parts of the peninsula Indicating there was no sense of crisis involved the Pentagon also announced that the ship New Jersey is departing the western Pacific and is expected to return to the United States In the normal course of evens it apparently will reach the West Coast in a week or ten days The New Jersey only ship afloat was only one day out of Long Beach Calif when U was turned back after the Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down by North Korean MIG Jets with a loss of 31 lives in the Sea of Japan April 14 While no formal Russian protest has been delivered concerning the fleet's tions the Soviets have twice discussed the subject in grave terms with American officials Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily talked to US lacob Beam in Moscow and Soviet Ambassa- dor Anatoly called on of State Elliott in Washington I he task force is led by the nuclear powered aircraft carrier and includes the Ranger and Hornet as wcl as three misers and 22 In i mbit especially in air it outranks the U 9 6th Heel in Mediterranean Defense officials refused to discuss the fleet's operations hut indicated that all scheduled flights are ing Asked if this included flights over Sea of Japan a spokesman said merely The s orders arc being carried out President MAOR ordered the resumed with air and surface protection after they had stopped for four days in the wake of the 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