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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1969
Page
1
Apollo 12 details day five and six as Conrad and Bean perform two moon walks. They photograph Fra Mauro, deploy experiments, erect the American flag, collect rock samples, and inspect Surveyor 3 before returning to Intrepid. Astronauts rest, eat, and prepare for remaining surface activities.
Puzzle feature from the newspaper highlights a bridge crossword and a brief women’s news section with notes on deaths and funerals and social questions.
AP reports plans to establish a lunar science center on the Moon for one year, possibly two. The package includes a seismometer lunar ionosphere detector magnetometer solar wind spectrometer and a lunar atmosphere detector.
Apollo 12 moonwalks will be broadcast live in color across NBC ABC and CBS starting early morning. Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean will descend the ladder as color cameras capture their steps, with the first walk lasting about three hours and the second to follow after lunar orbit.
Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad Bean and Gordon prepare for a 1:53 a.m. EST lunar landing targeting a 400‑foot circle in the Ocean of Storms. The crew expects a 32‑hour surface EVA with color TV coverage as they become the third and fourth men on the lunar surface.
Conrad and Bean inspect the landing craft six hours after entering lunar orbit. They marvel at the wild landscape below while a 30 minute telecast beams the scene to Earth. The film shows craters, mountains and plains as Apollo 12 moves east to west across the moon.
NASA releases a diagram showing Apollo 12 activity: left shows the lunar module landing with touchdown set for Wednesday, center depicts the ascent from the moon and docking with the command module on Thursday, and right shows the ascent stage separating to orbit then crash landing on the moon shortly after separation.
In two battles around Bu Prang and Duc Lap, South Vietnamese forces say 273 North Vietnamese were killed with U.S. artillery and airpower playing a major role. Officials report 243 killed near Bu Prang while 30 killed near Duc Lap. South Vietnamese casualties total seven killed and 11 wounded.
U S and Soviet negotiators opened private talks at the American Embassy in Helsinki to chart arrangements for substantive SALT negotiations. Ambassadors Gerard C. Smith and Vladimir S. Semenov, with their advisers, met to plan weeks of preliminary discussions behind closed doors.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy patriarch of an American political dynasty died at 11 05 a m EST after an eight year illness. He was surrounded by Rose Kennedy and family at the Cape Cod compound where the Kennedy name remained central in American public life.
The Middletown end vicinity expects cloudy conditions with intervals of rain tonight and little temperature change. Lows will be in the low 40s to low 50s with Wednesday cloudy and a rain chance. Highs in the 50s. Yesterday’s high reached 53 and the morning low was 46. Rain recorded overnight totaled 0.26 inch.
Washington reports say Okinawa will return to Japan in 1972 with Okinawa remaining a U.S. base. Nuclear weapons use on the island remains unresolved pending future talks between President Nixon and Prime Minister Sato.
State Treasurer John D. Herbert, son of ex Governor Thomas J. Herbert, indicated he would run as a Republican candidate for governor in 1970. He said he is focused on that direction and currently serving his second four year term since 1962.
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