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Show Fly The Flag Today lor Circulation, Call ."21.2HI0 Ads ci t g Classified Gruel al Columbus Day Space Landmark CAPE KENNEDY. EL A. (AP) America i cached its 2.000th manhour in ..pace Fuday after Apollo 7 had been up slightly nmie than two limns. In 16 pieu-ou- s Motcniy and Gemini (lights. Americans had logged 1,993 hours, 43 minutes. If the Apollo 7 t!ight goes the planned days, Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr.. Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele and dv.han astronaut Walter Cunningham will total 780 horns in space on this flight. This alone is more than the 534 homsthe Russian cosmonauts have logged on iiina (lights. Ul. 197t No Nalt Lake City, 181 I tali October Saturday Morning 1, l'rice Ten Cents 1S1G.S oy By Joint Barbour Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER. HOUSTON -Texcited Apollo 7 astronauts flashed into space Friday, whipped through criti-i.maneuvers and set up housekeeping in the Inst test of whether Ameiuas newest, biggest spaceship lias the stamina to carry men to tne moon. We re having a ball." iepoited veteran command pilot Walter M. Schirra Jr. as lie guided Apollo through the firt of its voyage 16.3 times around the hree d Congress Stays at Work By William F. Aibogast Associated Press Writer Find Heart-Rucin- comlm; si m).vy ()o Cuui)uign In Home Slrrlcli Section I ridden. on lounge chairs as space suits are pressurized before Apollo blastoff. Astronauts Donn Eisele, in front, and R. Walter Cunningham relax UEA Defeats NEA Requirement, Chooses New Slate of Officers Bv John Cummins The defeated unified membership proposal was formed by UEA's delegate assembly last month. It would have done away with the option of UEA members to join NEA by next fall and would have required association members in post-Se- e Page 10, Column 5 Tribune Staff Witter Utah Education Assn.s bership Friday named C,. Dean Rose president-elect- , and turned down a resolution tiiat would have required UEA members to hold membership in tiie Navoting mem- tional Education Assn. In a final general session of UEA's 71st annual conference Carl J. Mellor accepted the gavel of UEA president for 1969 fiom reining president Jay I,. Nielsen. ;;f Kv v "Xx' 8s V, c Other Ollier rs Elected Other new oftieers include Arthur D. Jackson, Department Administrators and (DAS) president - elect; Supervisors Mrs. Maxine H. Evans, Department of Classroom Teachers (DCT) presidentelect; and Mrs. Louise Bennett, NEA stale duector for Utah. Ai Iks W. Jensen and Ex a O. Peterson were named to tiie UEAs Board of Tiustees. Bennett F. Nielsen was elected to DAS executive council and Garvin E. Carlile was named to DCT's executive Fantastic World g The DAS Section Eh Salt Oquirrh ' fakt S fihn Torrijos said it had not been decided yet whether to set up a military junta or to ask Fiist Vice President Raul Arango to become piesideut. Torrijos said he and Maj. Bones Martinez, commander of the Chiriqui Prov- ince military zone, were coleaders of the coup. He said Col. Bolivar Urrutia, who took command of the national guard Friday, and Lt. Col. Aristides Hassan. who became deputy chief, would be asked Saturday to take command of ' e roup. He said both were at home Friday night.' Panamas Armed For or- -. . president-elec- t This u a vital element in the ultimate moon flight when the small space cab with two men aboard, fresh from the lunar landing, tracks down and docks with the mothership orbiting the moon. With the mission just three hours old, the crew kicked away from the emptied and now safe second stage of the rocket. Then tiie Apollo moved about 50 feet ahead, turned and faced die rocket. The astronauts looked into the gaping jaws of the second stage, one of the four panels not quite open. Ahh, look at it! Walt Cunningham shrieked as one of his fellow astronauts laughed in the background. Cunningham apparently referred to the chaff like debus and tiie open panels. i Today's Chuckle dog. Saturday's Forecast - coniinsml.T Waiter Seliir is suited up awaiting launching. Apollo ra Associated Press ttircphott 7 1940. Earlier, Friday, Brig. Gen. Bolivar 52, commander of the guard for 17 years, had turned over his command to Col. Bolivar Urrutia, 49. Vallarino. International Airport Closed Vai table Salt Lake City and Utah iloudiness with strong, gusty winds; little temperatuie change. Map, Page 24. Tucumen international airport, wiieie was rethe guard has a main garri.-oported closed to air traffic. There were other reports tiiat the guaid was people off the streets in the city of Colon, on the Atlantic coast, Panama's second city. There had been considerable tension between President Arias and the national Guard since the chief executive n, Vital to Moon Voyage Hills School. Mrs. Bennett is a little boy was late for school, and the teacher asked him what caused the delay. He looked solemnly imo her eves and answered; I was following a slow May. The national guard, Panamas only armed force plays a major role in the nation's political life, and guard commanders have been at odds with Arias since lie was first elected president in a During a lunar mission those panels of the second stage would open to reveal the small space cab parked inside, the vehicle that will carry two . jtronauts to the moons surlace. In that flight, tiie Apollo would maneuver into the rocket, mate with the space cab and pull it out. Theie was no cab. or lunar module, on this mission. Mimicking that Friday, Schiira held the Apollo close by while his fellow astronauts photographed it. They reported considerable chaff around the rocket, the source of which was unknown. There was A last little noisy now . . . riding like a dream, Schirra reported from space on the first leg of the trip. At 1 :45 p.m., the crexv of the Apollo 7, still connected to the silenced second stage of the Saturn IB, began the crucial dump of surplus fuel in the rocket tanks. This set up the next maneuvers to be completed Saturday when Apollo 7 to track down the spent rocket attempts and rendezvous with it. "Shes riding nice, is an associ- Dis-t- Arias, 67, had twice been overthrown as president in three decades. He was sworn in for his third term Oct. 1. after winning a clear-cu- t victoiy in elections planned 142 by 176 miles. By Assembly picjwt director for Millaid School lit. Affair IT Identifies Leaders Their hearts racing, the trio blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., at 11:03 a.m. (EDT) with their Saturn IB rocket pouring out tiie furious power of more than a million pounds of b'azing fuel. Ten minutes later, they cut off tiie last of the engines and glided into a d nearly perfect orbit. Their path ranged from 140 to 183 miles above the earth, a shade higher tiian the ate professor of education at Utah Stale University, and Mrs. Evans is a fourth-grad- e teacher In Granite District's A Family PANAMA (AP) President Arnulfo Arias took refuge Friday night in the Panama Canal Zone and a national guard officer declared fhe entire country under military control after a bloodless coup. Lt. Col. Omar Torrijos said the coup against Arias government was supported by all the office! s and men of the national guard. Blastoff To Carry Space Cab council. Under UEA procedure, Mr. Rose, a Spanish and U.S. history teacher in Weber School Districts South Junior High School, will succeed Mr. Mellor, Alpine, during next years conference. Die retiring president, Mr. Jensen,' a Cedar City high school teacher, and Mrs. Peterson, a teacher in Salt Lake City's Hamilton School, will serve this year oil UEAs executive council. Formed Duck HunlingV While boili the rocket and the space-er- a It weie joined they measured a full 113 feet and weighed a combined 69. OH) pounds. Even after separation, the Apollo See Page 10, ('idmnii 1 Panama Chief Seeks Safe I v 111 Canal Zone The flight, quickly settling down into a routine, began with a wild ride aboard the most powerful rocket man has ever two-hou- Some of these events helped spur enactment of laws designed to prevent racial discrimination in housing, curb crime and beef up law enforcement, control traffic in firearms, and protect 1968 major political candidates. The for its Congress wrote mild ethics codes members, approx ed the biggest bousing forprogram in histoiy. voted the lowest hisin the aid appropriation eign in tory of the program, made record ruts appropriations, and enacted landmark consumer protection laws. On the other side of the lodger, it See Page 10, Column 2 miles ahead of the rocket by Saturday At that time, if all goes well, Seim-- i a will track down the rocket again and roheaise a rendezvous with it. 80 new-foun- d ates adjournment Help Enactment : 52 Wood loo Coup Its a fantastic world up lierc," one of tliem'exdaimed. At about 6:30 p.m.. Mission Control Do's the spacecraft look good asked, for 18 revs? Schirra answeied loud and clear, "Eighteen l evolutions a day. With that. Mission Control gave them the for another full day and they dofied their heavy spacesuits and bubble helmets and donned their light coveralls, breathing the oxygen in the cabin. The moved freely about tne cabin, that their movements did not throw the craft out of position and used such luxuries as hot and cold running water. About nine hours into the flight and some 15 hours after their day began, Schirra reported Eisele was "attempting to settle down for a long winter's night. He was to sleep for seven houis, then Schirra and Dunningham were to sleep for a like period while Eisele took the controls. Quorum Required were held. also the minor problem of one partially opened panel. Using his thruMm delicately, Schirra moved his spaceship as near to the rocket as he dated, four or five feet away. Tneir investigation complete. Schirra gave tne Apollo a burst of power to put it into a slightly lower mbit, moving some He took time out for a hot cup of coffee and grabbed a .quick lunch with his two rookie Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham, each making his first space tiip. end the session. But too many House members had scurried homeward after a 213 to 6 vote passed the $71.8 billion defense appropriation bill. Many of them, seeking were determined to keep weekend speaking engagements. conventions 52 1 earth. their branch Saturday. They said the eflort to complete final adjournment would be made Monday. Both the Senate and the House had completed all the business on the legislative agenda and the Senate had adopted a resolution calling for final adjournment at the end of the Friday session. The Senate then recessed hoping that the House would adopt the resolution and e s p a y, s p 1 a y, i y WASHINGTON Absenteeism in the IIou.se blocked final adjournment of Congress Friday night at least until Saturday and mure likely until Monday. The House and Senate were scheduled to meet Saturday, but it appeared virtually certain that this would be a mere with the two chambers gesture, hamstrung for the rest of the weekend by tiie lack of a quorum. The Senate, under a previous agreement, reconvened at 10 p.m. and promptly adjourned until noon Monday. House leaders had told Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, there was no hope of getting a quorum in ing days, defeat of a major presidential nomination, a tax increase in an election on mandated spendyear, ail about-facclose to home and hit when cuts they ing enactment of some historic legislation. session, two During the public figures. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated; an incumbent President violence decided not to seek other in and the in major capital erupted cities, casualty lists continued to flow in from Vietnam, and two national political i oarinff Like ubilant Astros Aim fo Absentees Block Adjournment sit-o- d d AboI 11 The House couldnt act on the Senresolution because a quorum of 217 members is required to transact business. The fact that there wasnt a quorum developed when Rep. Delbert I,. Latta, insisted that a quorum be on hand to hear a speech started by Rep. Hale Boggs. Only 188 members weie officially r accounted for and after a delay while trying to track down absentees, the House leadership decided to call it quis and return Saturday. The members have three weeks for campaigning before the Nov. 5 elections in which all 435 House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats will be filled. 15 r The session, which started last Jan. and was interrupted by several recesses, was marked by some rare happenings. There was a lock-i- n of House memof senators in the closbers and a Retail departments ads, Associated Press Wirephott Saturn rocket powers astronauts y into orbit around earth. 11-da- a sweeping shakeup of officers who had opposed him in the May elec- - tions. Senators Rejeel LBJ on Ignore Special Session Threats N-Pa- By Carroll Kilpatrick Washington Post Writer - WASHINGTON Despite the tlireat of a special session call, the Senate Fri- day rejected President Johnsons plea to take up tiie nuclear nonproliferation treaty at this time. In a appeal, filmed for radio and television, tiie Piesident said that the treaty was so important lie would "seriously consider calling the Senate into special session if it did no act before adjournment. Shortly after the President spoke. Senate leaders announced tiiat it would be el, His reference to consultation with world leaders led to speculation in diplomatic quarters that he might confer personally with other leaders, but White House informants cautioned teporteis against jumping to that conclusion. last-minu- unwise to try to force a vote in the final .hours of the session. The Presidents tlireat of a special session call had strong political overtones. since Vice President Humphrey has aKo called for an early vote while Rtchatd M. Nixon has asked for postponement. in Warning of "set tons consequences the President ratification, postponing said: "I know that the ptessures of the election aie upon us. But so are the iesxm.sil)ilities that we weie all elected to lull'll. lie said he hoped that the Senate "will act now with the highest interests of the nation in mind. Mr. Johnson said that he would consult with world leaders and Senate leaders before deciding whether to summon the Senate oack into session. If he did so, it would be after the election, it was belie v ed. Hand reds Feared Dead in Sinking MANILA (AP) Fiiday that A radio station a ed d Philippine ferry with 300 to 500 passengers aboard had sunk in inter-islan- shark-infeste- d waters, lt quoted a survivor as saying that hundreds appeared to Imve died. Station DXLL of Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines said the motor launch Dumaguete J went down about 25 miles off Zamboagna province Thursday near Sacol Island. Two Coast Gu.ud ves-eweie dispatched to the scene Friday but Coast Guaid and Navy spokesmen said they knew nothing mure than that there had been an accident involving t'e motor is launch. The sc ivor, Ethylwaldo Angeles. 21, told the radio station tiiat the launch was packed with merrymakers heading for an annual festival honoring the patron saint of Zamboanga City, it ' |