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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - December 27, 1968, Norwich, New York The even Rig Sun vol. 78, no. 190 Friday december 27, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 to per copy or perfect splashdown ends lunar voyage astronauts James Lovell Anders and Frank Borman splashed Down today in the 62 saved As jetliner rams Snow Sioux City Iowa a 8 an Ozark air lines do 9 Jet with 62 passengers crashed into heavy Snow in a Grove of Trees on take off from the Sioux City Airport Friday morning but no one was killed or seriously injured. A the Snow is what saved us Quot said a passenger airman Larry Cornwell 22, Pender neb. A it was a soft Landing. There was no real hard Jar. Just a Nice floating the air plane on flight no. 982 from Sioux City to Chicago landed on its belly after its right Wing dipped As it took off witnesses said. The plane s right Wing was shared off. Ambulances rushed at least 32 persons Many of them returning Home from Christmas Holiday visits to hospitals where spokesmen said most of the in juries consisted of bruises and cuts. Accused Man leads police jr., William a spending Christmas eve orbiting the Moon. From tile left their feat puts them in the ranks of Colum Pacific after bus and Magellan. Plucked from the deep an astronaut is hoisted aboard a helicopter in egress training exercise which was planned method of pickup of Apollo 8 Crew after splashdown today. To girls body 6 persons perish in upstate Blaze Des Moines Iowa apr a fugitive from a Missouri mental Hospital has been charged with murder after leading police to the Frozen body of 10-year-old Pamela Powers missing since Christmas eve. A self styled minister who identified himself As Anthony Rethell Williams 24, a negro wordlessly directed detectives to Pamela a a half clothed body wedged Between a Culvert and the Side of a Snow covered 15-foot embankment thursday. Police waited results of an autopsy to determine How the blonde Blue eyed fourth grader died and How Long she had been in the spot near Mitchellville to Miles East of Des Moines on interstate 80. Des Moines police chief Wendell Nichols said Williams agreed to disclose the place to detective capt. Cleatus learning and it. Wallace Nelson during the automobile trip from Davenport Iowa where Williams had turned himself in thursday morning. After his arraignment on an open charge of murder under heavy guard at the Des Moines police station thursday Wil Liams spoke Only to his lawyer Henry t. Mcknight of Des Moines. Nichols said officers did not press Williams for details of the Christmas eve abduction or slaying under terms of an agreement with Mcknight on Williams surrender. Officers who accompanied Williams and the two detectives to the girls body said Williams showed no signs of emotion. A the was almost casual and not downcast Quot said one. His return to Des Moines police Headquarters Only four blocks from the Myca building where Pamela disappeared tuesday was conducted under heavy Security after police received Anonymous Telephone Calls threatening Williams life in Des Moines William served As assistant minister and organist at the Maple Street Baptist Church. Weather travellers warning. Snow tonight possibly mixed with sleet and freezing rain later tonight. Saturday rain and freezing rain with High temperatures in upper 20s and 30s. Granville . A fire from an exploding Wood stove roared through a two Story Frame House near this Eastern new York Community Early today. Six persons perished. A 29-year-old woman leaped from a second floor room to the safety of the Frozen ground be Udall seeking Mccormack s Job Washington apr rep. Morris k. Udall s startling Challenge to the House democratic leadership was welcomed by lib eral moderates today but he faces a stiff Battle to unseat speaker John w. Mccormack. Udall in announcing thurs Day he was after 77-year-old Mccormack a Job said he had reached the decision without Lin ing up any prior backing or con. Suiting with the Liberal moderate leadership. Several members of die Liberal moderate democratic study group a largely informal Alii Ance of some 140 members in. Eluding Udall said they were surprised by the four term Arizona congressman a announce ment. Low. One of her three children Thomas Bushee to fled when he saw a mushrooming fire in the Kitchen of the Small Frame House. Mrs. Elizabeth Bushee 29, and her son were hospitalized suffering from frostbite Shock and cuts and bruises. The fire broke out in 15-be-Low Zero cold. Four bodies had been recovered from die rubble by 9 a. In. The dead were Joseph Bushee 32, owner of the Home his brother Edward 36, mrs. Nellie Williams 68, Fred Steele 65, Ruth Jane Sumner 5, and Walter Carl Sumner to. Mrs. Williams was Bushee a grandmother. Steele was Bushee a Uncle. State police said it was not quickly ascertained what relationship die Sumner children had to the rest of die victims. Thomas Bushee officers said told of Awakening to a muffled explosion and fire raging in the Kitchen. The boy ran to the Home of the nearest neighbor almost a half mile away to sound the alarm. The House was in flames by the time police and firemen arrived. The House was in the Washington county Hamlet of race Ville North of Here near the Vermont Border. Aboard Yorktown apr climaxing a magnificent space Odyssey the Apollo 8 Moon explorers came Home from the heavens today blazing Back through the Earth a atmosphere to a Parachute Landing in a darkened Pacific Ocean. America s newest space heroes ended Man s greatest space adventure and one of history s most momentous explorations when their six ton spaceship dropped into a gently rolling sea about 1,100 Miles Southwest of Hawaii. Like everything else on this incredible flight the Landing was almost pinpoint an estimated 5,000 Yards from the main recovery Carrier the Yorktown. Mission control said the Yorktown had confirmed the 5,000-Yard distance and that the ship reported receiving radio messages from the astronauts As they bobbed in the water. The conversation from air Force col. Frank Borman was mainly concerned with the Post Landing Check list. The astronauts hit the water at 10 50 . Est. They Are the first . Astronauts to land in darkness. It was 4 50 . Local time. Air Force col. Frank Borman Navy capt. James a. Lovell or. And air Force maj. William a. Anders reported they were in excellent condition after the momentous journey. They landed just before Dawn and waited patiently in their Bobbing spaceship for 45 minutes until the first rays of Light began to illuminate the Pacific so that swimmers could safely drop into the sea to secure the Apollo 8 Craft. The astronauts had been away from Earth exactly six Days three hours on a dramatic Mission that thrilled the world and gave Man his first closeup look at the mysterious celestial neighbor that has intrigued humans since the beginning. They travelled 69 hours outward to the Moon circled it to times in 20 hours at an Altitude of 70 Miles and then raced Home along a 58-hour corridor. They logged about 537,000 perfect Miles. To reach their Landing target in the Pacific Borman Navy capt. James a. Lovell or. And air Force maj. William a Anders survived Many a hottest and fastest re entry through the atmosphere. Apollo 8 slammed into the outer limits of the atmosphere at 24.630 Miles an hour was punished by forces nearly seven times the pull of Gravity and was blistered by heat of More than 5,000 degrees fahrenheit. The astronauts had been on a perfect course since they fired themselves out of Moon orbit Early wednesday and started their 58-hour, 233,000. Mile Home Ward journey. So accurate was the path that three planned midcourse corrections were cancelled. Like a speeding Bullet Apollo s velocity gradually increased until it reached a breath taking 24.630 . As it slammed into the outer Boundary of the Earth a atmosphere 400,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. That a 7,000 Miles faster than any previous re entry. Friction immediately built up and the crafts heat shield was blistered by temperatures of More than 5,000 degrees fahrenheit. But the temperature in the Cabin remained a comfortable 70 degrees. Before hitting the atmosphere the astronauts jettisoned a service module attached to the Cabin. The shedding of this equipment Bay reduced Apollo 8�?Ts weight from 31,600 to about 12.000 pounds. To reduce the effect of Gravity buildup Apollo 8 skipped like a Stone off the atmosphere at 180.000 feet bouncing Back out to 210,000 feet before making the final plunge. Purim the hottest fastest part of descent radio communications were Cut off from the spacecraft about three minutes. The first word that Apollo 8 had survived the blazing dash came from Lovell who radioed a a we re in real Good a the Crew reported they had powered through a a real fireball during tin critical re entry. Ships quickly picked up the descending spaceship on radar. Hie atmosphere braked the Speed of the fleeting Craft Mak ing it possible for Small Para chutes to pop out to stabilize it. At 10,000 feet the three main chutes blossomed and the astronauts floated gently downward into the Pacific travelling at a comparative Snail s Pace of 22 . First word that the astronauts were Down came from a hell copter that reported seeing flashing lights and added the dramatic words a we have voice within minutes after the Landing a helicopter was Over the Landing on Moon May be made in april or May by Jim Strothman space Center Houston apr Apollo 8�?Ts Trail blazing flight around the Moon has Given space planners a firm foothold to try for a Moon Landing in the next few months maybe april or May. One major piece of Apollo hardware still remains to be qualified the lunar module spacecraft that will taxi future astronauts from a three Man Apollo Craft in lunar orbit to the Moons surface. That four legged lunar Lander is to get its first manned space test about feb. 20 during America s next three Man Mission Apollo 9. If the lunar module performs perfectly in Earth orbit on Apollo 9t astronauts conceivably could land on the Moon on the Foli oing flight Apollo to in april or May. Present plans for Apollo Ion to be flown by a three Maxi Crew headed by Veteran astronaut air Force col. Thomas p. Stafford a Call for the pilots to Fly a Moon orbit Mission in which the lunar module separates from a three Man Apollo spaceship and approaches within to Miles of the surface but does not land. A your present plans Are to not commit Apollo to for a Landing Quot said air Force it. Gen. Samuel c. Phillips Apollo program director. However a we might want to exercise a More ambitious option a he noted As was done when the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa decided to Send Apollo 8 around the Moon. The first lunar Landing Mission is now expected by Apollo la next May or june. Astronauts have not yet Beer assigned for that flight. The particular lunar module assigned to Apollo to does not have fuel tanks with enough capacity and weighs too much for a lunar Landing. So if a decision is made to Fly the Apollo to Crew to the Moon s surface another lunar module would have to be assigned to the Mission Phillips pointed out. Television will continue to be an important Factor in the space flights. Thursday it gave a glimpse of three explorers returning Home As the last of six scheduled to broadcasts from Apollo 8 was made at an Altitude of 112,000 Miles. It showed the sunlit Side of the Earth including North and South America covered by numerous Clouds. Apollo 8 television is completed but As Norman told earthlings a Oblay tidied Here s log of Moon Mission space Center Houston apr Here is the Day by Day log of the historic around the Moon Mission of Apollo 8 Astro nauts Frank Borman James a. Lovell or. And William a. Anders All times Eastern Standard a saturday dec. 21 Borman Lovell and Anders blast off exactly on time at 7 51 . From Cape Kennedy the first men to ride atop a 363.foot-tall Saturn 5 rocket. After 13/j orbits of the Globe nearly three hours after liftoff Saturn 5�?Ts upper stage restarts to begin the220,000 mile trip toward lunar orbit. Travelling More than 24,000 Miles an Houf the Apollo 8 Crew at that Point ventured further and faster than Man Ever flew previously. Main spacecraft engine fired for first time la hours after launch to make Apollo 8�?Ts flight path More precise. A sunday dec. 22 Borman comes Down with what doctors suspect was �?o24-hour intestinal he vomits has diarrhoea chills and headaches. Lovell and Anders report they had been slightly ill and took pills to control diarrhoea. Despite their illness they beam their first live to program showing the Astro nauts at work. A monday dec. 23 Borman reports that a nobody s sick Quot any More. Crew fires Small mane vering rockets for a Small course correction and give the world its first deep space television portrait beaming to Home to viewers a glowing picture of Earth from 202,000 Miles in space. Later they reached the Point in space where the Moon s Gravity has greater pull than Earth s making them the first men to be a literally out of this world Quot As Mission control re ported. A tuesday dec. 24 Apollo 8 pilots join the ranks of history s great explorers at 4 59 . When they trigger their spaceship engine to kick Apollo 8 into an initial lunar orbit ranging from 69 to 193 Miles High. They televise to Earth dramatic pictures of a Barren and forbidding lunar terrain and announce the Moons surface a looks like plaster of Paris Quot and a dirty Beach Sand with lots of footprints in a second engine firing Dur ing the third circuit changes Apollo 8 s path to a 70-mile-High circular orbit. The Crew orbits the Moon a total of to times before triggering engine shortly after i . Christmas Day to begin the trip Back to Earth. In a dramatic telecast during the ninth lunar orbit pilots show View of Earth Over lunar horizon beam pictures of lunar terrain which they describe As a a vast forbidding expanse of telecast is closed with a dramatic Reading of the Story of the creation in the first chapter of genesis in the Bible with each astronaut taking turns Reading the script As earthlings watch View at darkness closing Over the lunar terrain. A wednesday Christmas Day dec. 25 Apollo 8 Crew ends 20 hours in lunar orbit by triggering main engine to begin the trip Back to Earth. Delighted that the vital Man Euver was successful Lovell tells ground controllers a pleased to inform you there is a Santa at 12 39 . Spacecraft passes Back into Earth s sphere of gravitational influence again. Pilots treat earthlings to to broadcast showing How to pre pare a meal in space. A thursday dec. 26 pilots catch up on sleep in preparation for re entry Friday morning but take time to give people a look at Earth via television from 112,000 Miles away. New Yorkus fuel flu crisis eases new York apr the Cri Sis created by a flu epidemic and lagging fuel Oil deliveries eased today but riot enough to rescind the a state of peril Quot declared for the City new Yorkus acting mayor said. The Board of health declared the state of peril thursday after the City health commissioner announced that three new yorkers had died from Lack of heat and 10,000 More were seriously ill in unheated apartments. The declaration came five Pueblo Crew get exhaustive quizzing san Diego Calif. Apr the Navy is conducting intern Sive questioning of the freed crewmen of the Pueblo aft. Or examining doctors reported finding no serious defects other than malnutrition. A team of More than too intelligence specialists began talking with crewmen thursday after noon in what will become one of the most exhaustive i Vestiga. Tons of a loss of a ship in Navy history officials said. The investigators want to know precisely How much Sensi. Tive electronic equipment May have been left intact when the North koreans took control of the intelligence vessel. The circumstances of the Jan. 23 capture and treatment of the americans also concern the questioners in great degree. The word on the health of the 82 crewmen returned to the United states last tuesday after 11 months Captivity in North Korea came in a news conference thursday from rear . Hor. Ace d. Warden commanding of. Finer of the . Naval Hospital Here. A fall of them show effects of malnutrition. Instability in balance. And no doubt there Are other deficiencies which we have not yet had time to study in depth a Warden said. Until now he said there have been no serious defects noted. He said All crewmen exam ined had been physically mis. Treated. There were no signs of tuberculosis he said. Warden said the men also Are undergoing psychological testing since a fall persons who have undergone an ordeal such As these men Are subject to pay. C h o i o g i c a i pressures and changes. We must evaluate one of the men to undergo some of the most intensive de. Briefing will be the ships executive officer it. Edward r. Mur. Phy jr., who was navigator on the Bridge when the Pueblo was captured. Murphy looking More rested than at his first stateside news conference tuesday told news men he deliberately misled his North korean captors when they forced him to draw charts that gave the Pueblos position inside North korean Waters at the time of the capture. A i wanted to make sure there were enough inaccuracies in what i wag saying to be identified a Murphy said. He said the North korean officer a who hat. To prove the whole farce had no navigational sex. Prience and allowed obvious errors to pass. The 31-year-old lieutenant from san Diego said the errors included positions that would have required a Speed of 2,500 knots to maintain and another position 32 Miles Inland. He said he planned the inaccuracies to show to the world that the Evi. Dence was doctored by the North koreans. A there is absolutely no ques. Tion in my mind and the minds of the Crew or of the Captain that during no time did we intrude into the territorial Waters of North Korea. At absolutely no time a Murphy said. Days after a settlement was reached in a week Long strike of fuel deliverers. Under the state of peril any fuel firms that refuse to cooperate in making emergency deliveries could be prosecuted. A the crisis is definitely easing Quot said Timothy w. Costello the Man sitting in for mayor John v. Lindsay. A we Are making Lindsay left the City thursday for a vacation in the Bahamas after issuing a statement on the crisis in which he called for extraordinary efforts to get fuel to unheated buildings with sick persons. The health commissioner or. Edward o Rourke said three deaths were directly attributable to Lack of heat. His department estimated that 2,400 people would die in the City this week half from flu complications. Deputy mayor Timothy w. Costello said health department personnel would be stationed at about too fuel depots in the City a to order that those buildings identified As health emergencies receive Oil on a priority More than 700 unheated buildings have been designated As emergency hospitals because of a Large number of ill residents. Spaceship illuminating the area with a giant floodlight. With their Early in flight illnesses gone and the 20-hour Moon orbit segment behind them Borman Lovell Ami an Ders were noticeably More relaxed As they shot into the final 24 hours of the Mission. They talked of coming Home joked with ground controllers and even waxed a Little poetic. Splashdown is called toughest yet space Center Houston apr Apollo 8�?Ts homeward plunge today ranks As the hot. Test fastest scariest re entry yet and the first time . Astronauts have landed in dark Ness. It called for at least 45 minutes of Bobbing in dark Pacific Waters waiting for Sunrise. It meant smashing into the Earth a atmosphere at 24,500 Miles per hours the fastest of any re entry for men to Date. It meant a blazing fire Cone around the spaceships heat shield temperatures up to 5,000 degrees the hottest of any re. Entry for men to Date. It also meant re entering the Earth a atmosphere for the first time without firing braking rockets to slow the spaceship. It traded instead on Gravity and the Earth s Blanket of air to do the Job. That in itself set up some risky circumstances less margin for error in Speed flight Angle and spacecraft attitude than any manned spaceship to Date. Hitting the Earth a atmosphere at too slight an Angle would Send the spaceship skip. Ping out of the atmosphere in a wild orbit that could be fatal. Hitting the Earth a Atmos phere at too Steep an Angle would build up Gravity forces in the slowdown that could shake a spacecraft apart. Apollo officials were confident that the spaceships flight path was so perfect the risks were minimal. At the same time officials provided a greater area for undershoot or overshoot in splash Down the Pacific Ocean. There is not enough sea Range in the Atlantic free of the danger of striking a land mass. Navy recovery ships and planes patrolled a 900.mile.Long Oblong area in the Pacific Laid out in a an. Gle along the spacecrafts path �?118 degrees to the Equator. Vance trip May mean talks break Paris apr gyrus r. Vance s impending return to Paris raised expectations today of a new us. Move to break the Long deadlock delaying the Viet Nam peace talks. Vance due Back tonight has been the . Negotiator in the talks with the North vietnamese of the shape of the conference table and other procedural is sues blocking the Start of the expanded conference. During Vance s consultations Christmas week with president Johnson president elect Nixon and other . Leaders the . North vietnamese talks lapsed into a Holiday Lull while the rival vietnamese delegations stood firm in their entrenched Public positions. Despite anticipation that Vance might be returning with new proposals some diplomats Are saying privately they expect no substantial Progress of any sort until after Nixon is inaugurated his administration makes its ideas known in Paris and the various vietnamese delegations assess these ideas. 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