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Show a!t Lake City, Utah 'Vol. 203, No. 108 Saturday Morning July 31, 191 Price Ten Cents Rover Rolls on Moon Today er Falcons By andin Paul Recer Associated Piets r"rr The whole surface of the area apto be smooth. he said. Its gently rolling terrain 3G0 degrees around. The largest feature I can see close by aie only six to eight inches. I think well be able to get around pretty well. I'm taking a picture now of that bright fresh crater just south of St. George, said Scott, referring to a Erg crater far to the south of the landing sue. The astronaut found he could not look to the east because of the bright TV Moon Ride - SPACE CENTER. HOUSTON Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. lnun landed safely and accurately in a valley of the moon Friday. Scott opened a lunar module h' eh 1o look at the canyor banks, boulder fields and mountains and around them exclaimed: Oh. boy, what a view! I can see Bluton, Dome and Cham, he said naming ciaters in all duections. St. George, Kimball and Spur , . , Bennett Peak and Eaglenest." The men achte-.ethe landing at 4:16 p m., MDT to begin one of mans greatest scier 'e expeditions, an exploration by car to ! edge of a deep cany on and the base of the highest lunar mountains. Scott said after Okay, Houston, guiding the lunar lander down oer the mountains and onto the valley floor. Falcon Is on the plain at Hadley He and liwin traveled 250,000 miles fiom earth to become the sevemh and peals Heres Saturdays Apollo 15 television timetable. All times aie Mountain Daylight Time and subject to change: Wrapup of Tt ek. Channel 5 a.m. Apollo 1' Brief report ; 11 Lunar Trek ; 10 a m. Brief report; Noon a.m. Brief reBrief report; 2 - 2 30 p.m. port; 1 p.m. Recap of Tiek. There w ill be no coverage of the Apollo 15 on Channels 7 or 11. eighth Americans to make a landing on the alien and an less moon. Scott and Irwin were not aole to descend to the surtace. however until their sp. cemate. Alfred M. Worden, flying Once they did get to the lunar plain, Scott opened the hatch in Falcon about 23 feet off the ground. helHe stood up with his met and the shoulders of his space suit sticking into the vacuum above the moon's surface. Irwin remained inside the small cabin of Falcon, but also woie a spa c t suit agamst Use vacuum. Scott indicated he and Irwin would have no trouble driving the moon car, Rover, over the surtace. 2.30 p.m. 7 am. Channel 2 Total Apollo 15 Lunar Trek. a.m. Channel Apollo 15 Moon Trek; 10:54 - 11 a.m. - Progies Progress report; report; 11:54 - Noon 2 - 2 .30 p.m. 9 sun. along in (he command ship Endeavour, fixed a loose power cable. The connecanother m a series of minor and tion had pretemporary spacecraft defects vented Falcon's fust attempt to separate fiom the mothership, but the second attempt succeeded. Its almost useless lookmg into the sun because it just washes everything out. he said. Later, however, he looked into the sun again and raid, I can see two very large boulders shining there. To the south, said Scott, there was a the lunar peak he big rook mountain and Irwin will search for ancient relics of the moon's first crust. I can see seme young, fresh craters in our vicinity," the moon commander See Page Z, Column 1 gold-visore- d LL By Los Angeles Timet Crevvman ascends ladder to pull D-ri- and initiate deployment Artist RusseM Arasmith of tightly packaged Rover from bay in lunar module. pie-shap- 6 More Railroads Struck; Steel Truce Hopes Fade A suike by WASHINGTON (UPI) tiain crewmen spread Friday to six moie railroads and President Nixon per- sonally appealed for a speedy settlement. steelworkers threatened to give the economy another jolt Sunday with an industry - wide walkout. The immediate outlook on both fronts was bleak despite continued contract neUnion gotiations. The United Transportation Union shut down the sprawling Santa Fe and five smaller lines at 6 a.m. EDT. Tins brought to 10 the number of carriers paralyzed since the UTU began its selective" stoppages 15 days ago to fight an industry attempt to change work ru'es. g The extension of the railroad strike d of iis left the nation without rail freight capacity and most of the 163.000 employes at the 10 lines out of one-thm- woi k. Shipments Piled With shipments of gram, coal, fresh produce and other goods piled up at depots from coast to coast, many companies suspended operations, laid off workers or planned to take similar actions shortly. Among the points hit hardest by Friday's strikes were Southern California, which lost its last rail link for shipment of produce in the midst; of the harvest season, and major industrial facilities in Cliicago, Reject Coalition Offer As the President met at the White House with negotiatois in the rail dispute. Steelworkers Ipaders of the United Union, (USW) bargaining for 350,000 members, rejected an initial contract ofler from a coalition of the nation's nine biggest producers. A union official termed the wage and ftinge benefit pacxege stingy" and said unpiospects for a strike were grim to due current contract, expn less the at midnight Saturday, is renegotiated or extended tenqioraiily. The union refused to accept the tenns even though management included an clause that USW unlimited Piesident I. W" Abel had been demanding. In steelwoikers vice president Joseph P. Molony reported there had been some slight movement in the steel negotiations, but that the companies had made no improvement in an offer he said was Iheir wage offer fir less than settlements this year in other heavy industries. He said negotiations would probably continue through the night. A conference of local union officials is MDT Saturday, he t neduled at noon ,x,ud. and after a report on the talks they will be asked to recommend whether or not io strike when contracts expire at midnight. g Today's Chuckle n Confidence is that feeling you have befoie you really know the problem Ip St. Louis, Houston and ths Pittsburgh area. Governors in 25 states advised the government that the combined elfects of the strike had created conditions ranging fiom ci ideal to dangerous in their regions. But the Piesident told both sides in the complex woik rules dispute that This industry can, should and is able to See Page 4, Coin mil 1 By Second deploy ment tape is used to complete the release. Front House Okays Lockheed Loan. Senate Cloture Flops-Ag- ain - A $250 million WASHINGTON (AP) loan guarantee for the financially troubled Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was approved Friday by tin. House. The vote was 192 to 189. The Lockheed only loan legislation won strong bipartisan support as a compromise for a broader proposal that wduld have set up a $2 billion loan fund for ailing corporations. The bill now goes to the Senate where supporters of a Lockheed loan guarantee faikl for the third time earlier in the day to end a fulibuster against the proposal. Another try may come Monday. manRep. Wright Patman, ager of the House bill, predicted the Senate- would end its filbiuster early next week and take up the House measuie. Patman said the bill was a package deal Russell Aratmitb They hope to prevent enactment of the draft bill before Congress begins a month-lonrecess Aug. 6. The draft law eet Voted Here's how Intermountain Area senators voted on the proposal to limit debate on the loan guarantee bill designed to rescue Lockheed Aircraft Coip. HanFor cloture: Bennett. and Jordan, sen, ; Cannon, Against cloture: Bible, and McGee, Cliuich, Not voting but paned against cloture: Muss, WASHINGTON con- House-Senat- e ferees broke their deadlock Friday and approved a bill that extends the draft for two years and urges President Nixon to negotiate a date for total withdrawal of forces from Indochina in return for release of American prisoners. Semite Armed Service Chanrnan said he would John C. Stennis. try to get the compromise through the Senate next week but conceded is fate is in the Dp of many sen;ito-Antiwar senators have threatened to bj busier any comoiouii.-- e eliminating tile Senate' war deadline. s i nine-mont- Services Chairman F. that at first blush many will Stennis said of the antibe displeased, war senators. But when they thoroughly lock at it they will see theres a lot of meat. He said Senate Democratic leader Mike Man.sf'eld's original language and said the had upheld the House negotiators' position to work out a compromise on the war amendment so that "the President's hands will not be tied. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has said special authority to draft from a pool of five million men with expiring if dralt deferments may have to be Congress does not renew the diaft by had been kepi even though war deadline was cut out of the amendment. Thp conferees' report must he approved by both the 'louse and Senate. Sienpis said he behoved the Senai would prove it. Only ihe actual authority to draft expued; all other Selective Service maDirector chinery remains in operation Curtis the 1972 . Tarr has scheduled dia lottery for Thursday. who has .am. Mike Giavel, g expired June 30. I realize philosophy Mansfield's nine-mont- h - Press artist's eonceefteft Irwin riding away from lunar module to tour moon spots,' James B. J , ; Chicago Daily News Service lead-er- a Although it authorizes only the 2250 million loan guarantee sought by Lockheed, the bill sets up the machinery for See Page 3, Column 2 House Armed Artists eon- Officials Abandon Hope for 162 After Worlds Worst Air Crash - tration. Fdward Hebert, auay we go! ception of Astros David R. Scott, It LONDON may not equal down-to-eart- high-see- d ., con-lere- d By Geoffrey Murray Hie thrill of journeys to the noon, bit team of British debtors and engineers now has solved one of man's more h mysteries: What makes knuckles crack? The team, from Leeds University, rounded up 17 volunteers, rigged up a finger - stretching machine and took pictures as they cracked the voiuners knuckles. What they found is that when the two bones of a finger joint aie pulled apart, a thm fluid from the cartilage sm faces moves into the gap and a situation causes gas bubbles to foim and y e collapse. (Copyright) Conferees End Deadlock, Okay Draft Extension Bill By Jim Adams Associated Press Writer Associated And Knuckles Pop? An Win- Kot? put together by congressional of both parties and the adminis- How Los Angeles Times Artist wheels unfold into position. Telescoping tubes guide jeep dear. threatened to filibuster the diaft bill regardless of the war pullout amendment, wrote Tarr Friday that evpn the lottery has no legal authority and itself should be cancelled. The compromise legislation includes a S2 4 billion military pay raise to attract a volunteer army. It also provides authority for President Nixon to abolish student deferments but not retroactively as he had planned. Divinity students would still be draft exempt but they would become diaft eligible if they did not go into the ministry after graduation Conscientious objectors would continue to txyequired to serve two years of civilian iervue. Reuters Ne',- - Agency In historys worst air dipassengers and crew members were given up for dead Friday night after an All Nippon Airways Toeing 727 collision with a crashed after a mid-ai- r Japanese jet fighter. The only survivor was the pilot of the F86 Saber jet, Yoshimi Ichikawa, who parachuted to safety and was taken to a TOKYO saster, The saber jet piloted by Ichikawa was on a training flight with another fighter from Hokkaidos Matsushimi air base a force installation. Japanese 162 hospital. Police said they weie investigating the cause of the collision 28,000 feet above the mountain town of Shizukuishi on the northern island of Hokkaido. The Boeing was en route to Tokvo fiom the Hokkaido city of Sapporo with 155 passengers and a crew of seven, including flight engineer Don Michael Carpenter, 30, Miami. There were no other foreigners aboard. Breaks Ip, Tumbles Trailing White Smoke The pilot of the second saber, Taraot-s- u Kuma. later told officials he saw the Boeing approaching from Ichikawas left. I told him to climb and turn right, he said. I looked for him again, but the front half was spinning and then broke into pieces. The commercial aircraft was southward trailing white heading smoke." the crash Fnday's previous surpassed high death toll of 154. recorded March 16, 19, when a Venezuelan Viasa airlines DC9 plowed into a ullage on takeoff from Maracaibo, killing all 87 on board and at least 67 on the ground. Inside The Tribune According to witnesses of the collision the Boeirg burst into flames and began to break up as it tumbled wildly to earth. The last communication from the stricken airliner was a radio message from one of the cockpit crewmen, who screamed: Emergency this is All Nip. unable to control. pon For Tribune telephone numbers, see Page 3. .. The r disintegration of the plane made the task of locating bodies extremely difficult in the rough country around Shizukuishi. Debris was scattered over an area of at least 10 miles, and by midnight only 72 bodies had been found. Reamers with mirera lamps continued the search in the dark but an aiilme spujsman said there was no hope of finding survivors. mid-ai- Saturdays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Pauly cloudy, sight chance of ihunuei show era, li:e Pfge temperatuie chmge. Weather riup, 11. |
