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Show Spacewalk, now? - Spurred HI STUN (LTD t on by the success of most crucial salvage tusk in orbit, the Skvlab 1 their astronauts Sunday proposed a bold spacewalk to free the jammed solar cell wing that defied their initial repair efforts Friday. Combined CPI. AP With Skvlab cooling under the shade of an umbrella, three astronauts settled down in the space station today and began medical testing for a record 28 days in orbit. Skylab Commander Charles Pete Conrad, taking a bieak from the chore of moving into Skylab's spacious living quarters, suggested the renewed attempt to fix the solar cell wing might be made on the 2l.th day of the mission. That would oe June 19. when a spacewalk is planned to retrieve film from the telescopic mount. Charles Pete Conrad, Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz awakened on their fourth day in space shortly after 7 a m. F'.DT ar.d their first chore was to draw blood samples from each other for later analysis. Hello there, our hands are full of bloody medical equipment, but we'll recover," said Weitz when the big space station swept over the Gulf of Mexico at 8:15 a m. Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz have turned the eight compartment assembly inio a liveable house. They cooked breakfast in their Freeing the wing, which converts sunlight into electricity, could double skylab's inadequate power supply and eliminate the only major problem now facing Americas $2.6 billion space station program. 100-to- wardroom for the first time this morning and plan to move into three private bedrooms tonight. "Fve just finished shaving, breakfast is cooking and I think with a little luck at all well get into a good routine," Conrad said. Until now, the fourth day of the mission, the astronauts have dined in their Apollo ferry ship because of high heat in the laboratory. body's circulatory system and how .nans ability to work is affected by the lack of gravity. Despite the stifling heat in the 90s. Conrad. Kerwin and Weitz worked through the day in the workshop area Sunday, checking and activating w ater, electrical and other systems. Whenever it got too hot, they retreated to other rooms of the station, which are cooler because they have been shadowed from the sun. or to the Apollo ferry ship which carried the spacemen to a rendezvous w ith Sky lab on Friday. A televised v ievv beamed to mission control showed the astronauts floating with ease front one point to another inside the huge weight-los- s workshop, which is as large as ? house. flight televised news conference for the pilots. "All things considered. I think we're m incredible shape. said Flight Director Neil Hutchinson after the three crewmen went to sleep late Sunday night in the cool forward airlock module section. "1 think were going to have a real good mission. Were off and running." Doctors reported after talking privately .with Conrad. Kerwin and Weitz that they were in good physical condition with nothirg more serious than stuffy noses to worry about. They used nose drops to remedy that. The first of the astronauts experiments, scheduled just before dinner hour tonight .are two of the most important of the whole mission to see how weightlessness affects the But temperatures dropped another five degrees overnight and w ere around 90 degrees. "Were starting to live up here now, Weitz commented, after asking "how many towels and wash cloths can we use a day?" Things were going so smoothly now' that the space station has been repaired and cooled that flight directors scheduled an in two-stor- y three-bedroo- Founded 1S50 u hen Utah territory lean knou n as the State of Deseret VOL. 379 - NO. MeVy-- c 1 26 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 56 PAGES TEN CENTS WIST MONDAY, MAY 28, 1973 Ik 7 Today in the News j mm Across the nation SI -- series of explosions and fire raged through an eight-bloc- k area of an industrial complex in Chicago, destroying two giant warehouses, a petroleum company plant and a food company. Four persons were injured, none seriously, in the inferno on the citys southwest side. It took more that 450 firemen over 6 Az hours to bring the Sunday fire under control after the exploaion. A 4.4 ait &&A t J i t !?Pim j i v; 4, i JV J T -- 5 iv bj Holiday motorists got their first taste of what some a predict will be commonplace during the summer shortage of gasoline. Ohio and the West Coast states seemed to be hardest hit. Stations closed down or rationed supplies. A service station attendant in Oakland, Calif., was shot and killed by an irate customer to whom he would not sell additional gas after filling the mans tank on tv F'riday. Mayor Sam Yorty, calling Los Angeles the nations major city, Tuesday goes after an unprecedented fourth term as chief of the country's third largest city. The polls indicate his rival, Jdack city councilman Thomas Bradley, is leading. Four year ago, however, Yorty handed Bradley a sound whipping despite a similar prediction from the pollsters. i lest run Raging flood waters killed at least six persons and hundreds of others were being evacuated today as nine inches of rain fell within 12 hours in the mountain of western North Carolina. A number of secondary mountain roads were reported covered by water as normally docile creeks swelled out of their banks. Other roads were covered by mud and nvk slides. In Washington President Nixon, saddened by the drowning death Saturday of one of his secret service agents in a helicopter crash, was scheduled to return to the nations capital later today after observing the Memorial Day holiday with his family at his bayside compound in Key Biscayne, Fla. The President will be in Washington only briefly, flying to Ice-- , land Wednesday morning for summit talks there with French President Georges Pompidou. Deseret News Photo by Chief Photographer Don,jBrayston Veterans gravestones in Salt Lake City Cemetery are sad reminders of reason for Memorial Day, observed throughout nation today. Tributes to family, wor dead Chutes to .freedom J It's a day for reflection By Mavine Mart. Deseret New s staff writer Memorial Day 1973 in Utah was a day for remembering. . . and forgetting. It w as visiting the cemetery and then going to the canyon. It was a time for memories and tributes to the war dead and family dead, and then getting on with living. As the first long holiday of the summer season, it lured hundreds to the outdoors for camping, ontings. picnics and family gatherings. For a few the three-daweekend brought accidental death. Three had died in traffic accidents and one in an motorcycle accident by noon today. The count began at 6 p.m. Friday and y off-roa- d will dose at midnight tonight. One speaker at Memorial Day services this morning touched on the senselessness of war, and another called for a return to the spirit of patriotism and loyalty of the boys of 1898, the Spanisn American War veterans. "Everyone should learn from the senselessness of war, said Prof. Heinz Rahde, Soviet pilot BONN, Germany (AP) A whose jet fighter crashed Sunday in West Germany has applied for political asylum, West German officials said today: The Soviet air force lieutenant, whose name was not disclosed, signed an application for political asylum with the Office for Recognition of Foreign Refugees, authorities said. The office maintains a refugee camp in the Bavarian town of Zirndorf. The pilot told interrogators he was defecting to the West after parachuting .to safety near the East German border. Soviet officers and an official Two from the Soviet Embassy in Bonn visited the wreck site outside Brunswick to direct recovery of the burned-ou- t fuselage, newsmen at the scene reported. William H. Sullivan, the roving U.S. ambassador, re: turned to Washington over the weekend following a swing through Indochina to confer on a peace proposal for the troubled area. He had spent three days in Saigon going over a program worked out in Paris by Henry A. Kissinger and Hanois Le Due Tho and also visited Cambodia and Laos. s University of Utah associate professor of languages, at 10 a.m. services at Ft. Douglas Cemetery. He said human beings are subject to the laws of nature, and living and dying is natural, but it is not an act of nature for those who die during a war, but is due to the cruelties and irresponsibilities of man. are very much against he said, but it doesnt take away from the fact they died doing their duty for their fellowman and for their country, so in that respect they deserve a memorial." The services were in honor of German war prisoners of World Wars I and II. Ken Garff also spoke and music was provided by the German under Chorus Harmonie, H. direction of Ernest Wiemer. ' Around the world g fighter-bombe- We war, Tornadoes, rain wrack South over weekend; at least 31 die By Associated Tornadoes, heavy rains and strong winds marred Memorial Day weekend celebrations front Oklahoma to Florida, claiming at least 31 lives and causing millions of dollars in property damage. Deaths were reported in eight states and destruction hit at least ten states as the storms hopscotched across the Midwest and injured and thousands of homes were eithe. damaged or destroyed. Seven of the victims were killed by tw;st-er- s in Alabama; six died in two accidents in Missouri; five died in a tornado that struck Keefeton, Okla.: three were killed in tornadoes in Jonesboro, Ark.; three drowned in Kansas when a tornado struck their fishing boat; five were reported drowned in Tennessee, a Florida man was killed in a twister and one drowned in Laurel, Miss. The tornadoes left little standing in their narrow and unpredictable path. They began in the Midwest Saturday afternoon and worked and through the South and Southeast Sunday early today. said at least 16 Slate tornadoes touched down across the central and northern sections of the state Sunday were night. Four of the states seven deaths of Brent. Poreported in the tiny community lice sqH more than 130 persons were injured. police in Alabama A homes were destroyed or damaged Saturday evening at Keefeton, a community of 401) in eastern Oklahoma. Four a man, his wife and members of one family were killed in the two of their daughters storm, and another daughter was hospitalized in critical condition. A fifth Keefeton resident was among the dead. An Press v estimated 150 Albert Biorge, state Ameri-Se- e TIME on Page A-- Blaze burns unchecked in sections of Everglades MONROE (UPI) STATION, Fla. that already A blaze has consumed 24.00(1 acres of the Big Cypress Swamp burned out of control in some sections of the Everglades swamp today. The area has been short of rain for the past two years. In addition, forest rangers said by dredging and land developers have drawn off moisture from the swamp. canal-diggin- g As a result, said Ken Black- - er, district supervisor for the Florida Division of Forestry, more than 40,000 acres have been burned so far this year. Waterqate: hot tin roof for political cats - Leaders of the WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic party and of the Senate Armed Services Committee are challenging President Nixon's contention that Watergate investigations threaten to expose sensitive national secrets. Fair Campaign Practices Committee says the campaign tactics of committee set a Nixon's And the nonpartisan low in dirty politics. In San Jose, Costa Rica, meanwhile, an associate of financier Robert. L. Vesco said he and Vesco would like to talk with special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox about a missing link in the case. The associate, Canadian businessman Norman P. LeBlanc, would not elaborate on the link in talking with newsmen Sunday. But he said he and Vesco would like to meet Cox somewhere to tpll their stnrv. Cox was not available for comment. Vesco, former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans have been indicted in connection with an unreported $200,000 contribution to the 1972 Nixon campaign. LeBlanc told newsmen tnat the Central Intelligence Agency is working clandestinely in Costa Rica to "get rid of Vesco, LeBlanc and other businessmen connected with Vesco. lie did not elaborate Chairman Robert S. Strauss of the Democratic National Committee waid Sunday that Nixon is attempting to justify a partial Watergate coverup on the pretext of national security. But he predicted the public wont buy it. Theres a big difference, and I think the public will understand the difference, between national security and Nixon security, Strauss X roil in a tnnv'Miip jri'rvnv Sen. Stuart Symington. acting chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said most of what the panel has uncovered so far has nothing to do with national security. The committee is investigating activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other links between government security agents and the Watergate wiretapping. It seems to me that its very important that we dont consider the effort to bug the office of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee as an effort to promote or defend national security, Symington said. A Mekong River convoy was stalled by an apparent Communist attack some 24 miles from Phnom Penh, and one ship, a South Korean tanker, was hit and burned as guerrilas ambushed the craft taking badly needed supplies to the Cambodian capital. U.S. F4 struck suspected insurgent positions on the river route of the convoy, but the five remaining ships in the convoy were temporarily unable to proceed. The Soviet Union will start paying royalties today on books, plays and records by foreign authors and artists, but Moscows dissident intellectuals warned it actually was a censorship play. The Soviet Union officially became a party to the copyright convention Sunday, 63 members and 18 years after it went into effect. Previously, by refraining from joining the convention, the Russians were able to translate foreign authors, perform foreign plays and issue phonograph records of foreign artists without paying royalties to either the artists or companies. Communist terrorists mined a train, grenaded a ferry boat, blew up a restaurant and shelled two towns in South Vietnam, killing 12 civilians and wounding 35, the Saigon government charged today. A spokesman said the inciviolations in dents were among 97 Communist cease-fir- e the period ending at noon today. It was the highest number of infractions committed since Mar 9. -- More of the same . . . hardly be nicer More of the same through Tuesday, and it could hardly be nicer. Temperature will be up slightly into the upper 70s w ith some light and variable winds. (See weather map on Page ) B-- 5 A3 Our Man Jones A3 Forum A4 t Comment A5 Do-lt-M- an Theater Living A 18-1- 9 Cl 7 -- Face the Symington spoke on CBS Nation," Strauss on NBCs Meet the Press. Also Sunday the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a sm;l, nonpartisan group that investigates complaints of dirty electioneering, e Issued a report entitled Ditty Poli-Se- e W ATERGATE nnace A C five-pag- Jx Comics D6 Storytime D6 TV Today Sports Business Deaths D5 Dl-- B2 B5 Information 524-444- 5 News tips 524-440- 0 Sports scores Ombudsman 524-444- 8 Home delivery problems fCall Monrfnv through Sotttrdhpfnre 364-862- 6 524-284- 0 R p 4 |