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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1969
Page
1
Apollo 9 enters the holiday half of its 10 day mission after proving the lunar module ready for a moon landing this summer. Ground controllers report success in docking maneuvers and set a July target for Apollo 11 remains likely.
A lighthearted quip notes that resisting temptation may be a one off chance, implying the rarity of such restraint. The remark frames temptation as fleeting and the act as notable when it occurs.
Heavy snow warnings covered Ohio's west central region though southern and northern counties faced little accumulation. Forecasts ranged to four inches in the center, but only about an inch elsewhere, with melt upon ground as precipitation ended by mid morning. Tonight in the low 20s, tomorrow mid 30s, mostly cloudy, and Monday partly cloudy and cooler.
The midcontinent faced a late-season winter blast with heavy snows in the Central Plains. Blizzard warnings covered much of Kansas while winds up to 50 mph affected Kansas Colorado and New Mexico. Snow depths reached up to four inches from the Texas Panhandle to Central Kansas and roads iced with drifting snow.
Near Saigon the heaviest clashes occurred 15 miles north as an enemy battalion attacked a U.S. 1st Air Cavalry landing zone. US losses were seven dead and 11 wounded, while 117 enemy soldiers died in multiple assaults.
Israeli and Egyptian jets traded fire over the Sinai Desert with each side claiming a downed aircraft. An Israeli army spokesman said four Egyptian MIGs entered Israeli air space near the Bitter Lakes and one was shot down. the pilot was wounded, captured, and hospitalized. Cairo confirmed a MIG was shot down and claimed an Israeli Mirage was also shot down. In London, Dr Mahmoud Fawzi arrived as Egyptian President Nasser’s envoy to discuss London Cairo relations amid reports of Britain possibly selling arms to Israel, including Chieftain tanks.
The lunar module once carried by Apollo 9 astronauts is a $41 million casualty of space history. Flight-tested on Friday it could not reenter safely, engines burned to exhaust fuel, and Schweickart stored trash from the command ship in a bag before abandoning the LEM into an orbit from 144 to 4309 miles away.
In Lark Utah rescuers tunnel and drill toward 61 year old William Jones trapped a week after a mountain cave-in. Progress is slow with pilot holes through rock and limestone ahead of a 20 inch main bore. Jones remains in good spirits and communications via a pipe keep him supplied as families await news.
Dr. Lloyd R. Henderson, 41, named acting director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health Education and Welfare. He succeeds Ruby Martin who resigns effective Monday. Henderson will lead a 300 plus staff enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights Act in education hospitals and welfare systems. He previously taught history at Pacific University and joined HEW in 1965. The Nixon administration reportedly offered Martin a promotion to stay.
Searchers uncovered a human leg 50 feet from the graves in a Cape Cod wooded area where four dismembered young women were found. Cape Cod district attorney Emund Dinis said more bodies may be discovered. log located by rangers Richard Strange and Raymond Kempel during a late winter snowstorm. Two victims identified: Patricia Walsh 23 of Providence and Mary Ann Wysocki 23 of Providence, Rhode Island College senior.
William Jones, 61, trapped 40 miles inside a Utah mountain since last Saturday, is paid under federal rules. An official for the United Steel Workers says Jones will receive full pay with time and a half for overtime, totaling about 628 dollars weekly.
A St. Louis rocket maker Chromecraft Corp and its successor Alsco Inc along with Amerbel Corp and Joseph L Wilmott and Co were indicted on charges of unlicensed export of munitions. The case names executives Andrew L Stone and Evelyn R Price and cites shipments to Belgium without State Department licenses between 1961 and 1969.
Nixon says he will rest in the Florida sun and study antiballistic missiles at his Key Biscayne compound. He travels from Europe after a long trip and plans a decision next week on deploying a thin shield, with sources pointing to a possible Wednesday announcement.
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