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Show Men Of Apollo 9: The ' Cool-Thinkin- Scott g By WILLIAM BARRY FURLONG David Scott is a young jnan with prominent eyebrows, a high forehead, and an expressive wrinkle between his eyes. He helped conquer one of the most desperate emergencies in space and now, at the age of 36, he is going into space again on the upcoming Apollo 9 flight. Scheduled for blastoff on Feb. 28, this argosy wilt be the first complete rehearsal of the moon landing mission. All parts of the Saturn 5 moon rocket and tne Apollo spacecraft will be flown together for the first time. But there is a counterpoint to Scotts life that supplements his tasks in space. "There's always something happening, he says. As a youth, for instance, he was so terribly plagued by allergies that he suffered severe cases of asthma. "I spent a week in an oxygen tent once," he says. He never completely conquered the problem because he didnt know everything he was allergic to, "and they didnt have all the exotic tests that they have now." But time took care of the problem. "I grew out of it and I havent been bothered for years," he says. After he got out of Air Force flight school he was assigned to Europe. To sell his car, he went to an automobile dealer friend. "I thought, 'Gee, hes got a daughter. Maybe if I took his daughter out, it would help me. So I took his daughter out a couple or three times. That was the practical man in David Scott, but the emotional man intervened. The first thing he knew hed fallen in love with Lurton Ott and was commuting back frcm Europe to date her. He solved that problem by marrying her and now they have two children, a boy and a girl. "Incidentally, says David, "her father did help me sell the car. Even Davids abortive flight aboard Gemini 8, with Neil Armstrong, had an unlikely dimension. Gemini 8 started out in brilliant fashion. Armstrong and Scott quickly accomplished their first goal; to find, rendezvous with, and dock with an unmanned Agena vehicle already in space. But 27 minutes after docking, the coupled vehicles began to roll and tumble. No matter what Armstrong and Scott did and they sent electronic orders into the system to correct the problems things got progressively worse. clean-limbe- DESERET y Cheyenne' By HARRY JONES Clint Walker came through our beautiful Valley of Salt the other day . . . took a deep bivath and smiled. And when Mr. Walker takes a deep breath, he vacuums an area a square. He has a chest as big as Con Harrison. the city commissioner in charge of the airport not as big as Con's chest as big as Con. "Good air," said Clint. He must have inhaled all the good air west of town from under that scum of pollution . . . his head may have been sticking 'hrough it! Clint had been to Denver to take part in the premiere of a motion picture called "Sam Whiskey." Its a good light movie and not nearly as bad as the name would indicate. Clint was en route to Idaho to visit his mother. He got into the cinema and out of television to keep from being typed. He wanted the public 3 know him as Clint Walker and not as Cheyenne Bodie. At breakfast, the waitress almost her tray. "Oh, you are dropped Cheyenne! "See what I mean, Clint said to the half-bloc- k. Nixon Moving Slowly In down to the Pacific Ocean and began wondering if hed improved his position much by going from space to sea. For there were five-foswells at the time, and when a destroyer, the USS Macon, came alongside to rescue the astronauts the spacecraft began banging violently to against Its side. Getting from deck-levbegan to look like the toughest part of the trip, for the destroyer did not have a hoist that could lift th spacecraft swiftly and swing it on board. "We'll throw a Jacobs ladder down to you, called somebody on deck. "Neil had been In the Navy, and knew what this meant, says Scott. "But I'm not a sailor and had no idea what they were talking about. He knew the evacuation procedure of sea-lev- Top-Lev- the mission dictated that he follow Armstrong. His job was to secure he right hatch the one over his seat then climb over into the left seat and get out through the left hatch after Armstrong. Scott went about his duties. "By the time I got out the left hatch, Neil was already on deck and I didnt see how hed done it," he recalls. As the waves and swells heaved the spacecraft up and the destroyer down occasionally in harmony It looked like it would be possible to leap for the deck. But David had no real taste for the chance of missing and getting caught between the spacecra t and destroyer. So he just stood there uncertain, "looking rather dumb about the whole thing, Im afraid. Appointments el ... ... Force. On the chance that there was something wrong with the Agena propulsion That system, they decided to only caused them to spin faster. At one point they were whirling around 60 times a minute in their own spacecraft. The only way they could regain control was to use precious fu! from the system Intended to get them back to Earth safely. When that happened, the flight had to be ended: that was an Inviolable rule of NASA. And so the flight came down without the walk in space scheduled for David Scott. As it turned out, an electric short circuit caused a thruster in the spacecraft to begin firing at the wrong time and it wouldnt shut off. But Scott didnt know that until he got 5 They Know Him Best As He still considers this among the most disconcerting moments of the mission. Flying is in the tradition and blood of David Scott; his father was a pilot in the Army Air Corps. The elder Scott gave up a career in the motion picture industry and signed up as a flight cadet one day after going to an airport and watching the buzzing biplanes of the era. "It was sort of a spur - of - the - moment thing, says David, "but he was never sorry for it. He really enjoyed flying. David was born at Randolph Field, Texas renowned as the "West Point of on June 6, 1932. He grew up the Air at air bases all around the country. It was inevitable that hed be in the air some day. Scott put in one year at the University of Michigan. Then he won . an appointment to West Point, and after earning his commission, transferred to the Air Air Force Li. Col. David R. Scott, command module pilot for Apollo 9 mission, relaxes at home with children Douglas William, 5; Tracy Lee, 7, and Mts. Scott. His role is a critical one In space flight. J Wednesday, February 26, 1969 Then he looked up and "saw the biggest hand Ive ever seen." It belonged to a butlv bosuns mate who was reaching over the railing and saying, "Ill help ou, sir. They timed themselves for the moment when the two vehicles would heave enough to close the gap. "Then I grablied his hand and that bosun's mate simply picked me off the spacecraft and set me on the deck all in one motion," says Scott. d NEWS, It was inevitable that he would have close calls, but Dave was never overly aroused at the emergencies of flight. One time a jet engine flamed out as he was landing and he managed to set the plane down on a golf course. "It was a very convenient golf course just short of the runway, Scott says. Still another time he lost an engine while flying over the North Sea and just barely made it to the runway of an airport on the coast of Holland. "That was kind of interesting, he says laconically, became- - there was no place c lse to go." Except for a very cold swim. otlieis at the table. I wanted Clint to meet Wendell In his personal, as well as bis professional life, Scott tends to look ahead. He and his wife bought all their furniture in Copenhagen, for instance, before being transferred back to the United States. They fell in love with Danish modem and they had it ready when they started building their home near Houston. In fact, they built the home around the furniture around the furniture and among the trees, says David, gesturing towards the trees on the lot that were saved during construction. During his five years as an astronaut, David Scott has built a reputation as a superb pilot. That's why hes been assigned to Apollo 9, a mission which requires the most exacting space-flyinto date. Scott will play a key part in piloting the spacecraft during what he calls "the beautiful maneuver of transposition and docking. First, the astronauts separate the spacecraft they are in from the lunar module, which is in a protective metal sheath attached to the third stage of the rocket behind the spacecraft. They maneuver away, turn around, then case up to the !"nar module. The vehicles are docked nose-i- o nose and the pilots pull the lunar module out of the open sheath and away from the rocket stage. Its like opening a crackerjack box and reaching In to take out the surprise. On the fifth day of the flight, astronauts James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart will crawl into the lunar module and separate from the mother-shiAt that point they become the first two astronauts to fly in a craft which cannot bring them back to Earth. They must rendezvous and redock witn the command module, just as the first two astronauts who land on the moon must do on the first part of their return trip. If they cannot get to the command module, Scott must bring it to them, or they will perish. A big responsibility, but everyone has faith in Scott's cool temperament and proven flying skills. Ash- ton. Wendell is the ad executive who pounds on empty milk cans to draw attention to the A m erican Dairy A s s 0 c i ation of Utah. Wendell likes anyone who drinks milk he would have really liked Clinf. Clirt drinks milk like it is going out of style. He must keep two cows going overtime. Clint is so healthy that everyone else at the table looked like they were convalescing. He doesnt drink coffee or eat the caloried stuff no hard stuff. Clint got to talking about basketball and the high school kids who play it. "It wasnt too long ago when a boy six feet tall was the center . . . someo would come along, times a kid said Clint. has a hard time "Now a getting on the squad on account of the tall guys who go up to seven feet," said Clint. And the reason, he said, is on account of the good high grade milk that the youngsters have available to them. Then he threw the bombshelL "If elephant milk was available, the next generation would go 74 up to 74!," he said. And he wasnt kidding. Because Clint has such a big and tanned chest, every director makes him take off his shirt somewhere in the film. So one day, Clint got a medal and with a piece of tape, "pinned" it on his skin. And sure enough, the director had him shed his shirt. They did about 15 minutes of filming before it dawned on the boss that Clint had a medal pinned to his bare chest. They let him keep his shirt on for the rest of the picture! Clint likes the great outdoors and old mines. So you know where "Cheyenne" will probably be when he has a minute off from his busy schedule. Right up here in our mountains lookthe ing at the different world of Utah area with old mines. Hes mude a lot of gold in television partment's Tax Division. This Is one of and movies, but is looking forward to the most Important political posts in govfinding just a bit of gold up in them thar ernment. It gives Walters the power to hills! decide who shall be prosecuted for Income tax evasion and who shall escape End ... ... f if g By GORDON ELIOT WHITE OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON Deseret News Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration has been in office five weeks now; the new President is off to Europe for his first foreign policy initiative: and it is time to ak how the new leadership Is shaping up. The N i x o n Adcame ministration to office with an unusually heavy unrof legacy esolved Western questions. How has tiie GOP attacked them? the record. Lets look at First to be noted is the fact that after five weeks in office, the President left for Europe with only a skele n crew in charge in Washington. Not more than 300 jobs have been filled In all of government, and only two of nine top officials at the Interior Department are on the job. At the State Department, at the Pentagon, and at most of the Cabinet departments, the GOP ranks are still too -- policy-makin- g thin to give the new administration effective control here. A year from now the slow start may be forgotten, but at this writing it looms large. For the voters who expected a rapid reshuffle of the deal in Washington, it comes close to being a disappointment. By comparison, the President himself has taken hold at the White House in an effective style, reminiscent of the grasp of John Kennedy, eight years earlier. Faced with much greater problems at home and abroad, and without the charisma of a Kennedy, Nixon has proven an unusual politician, better as President than as a candidate. Spiro Agnew and Strom Thurmond have been deftly removed from view. The Alger Hiss past has been laid to ret. The black community in Washington has been neutralized. Red-baitin- g This is admirable, and, hopefully, style will conquer the lack of timely But, for a comparison, appointments. John Kennedys talent search stood, in early December, 1960, about where Richard Nixons stands today. Sargeant Shriver set up a search for policy level appointees that created an administration ready to step into office Jan. 20, 1961. Mr. Nixons Hotel Pierre headquarters in New York produced little but task force papers in the two and a half months after Nov. 5. The appointment of Gov. Hickel as Secretary of Interior now looms unfortunate at least as much for the West as the thought it was for their cause. A more thoughtful man, familiar with the problems of the West, stepping carefully and attracting little attention, might have been able to quietly resolve some of the truly difficult questions, without attracting immediate cross-fir- e from all sides. Mr. Hickel, no matter how fair he seeks to be, seems doomed to suspicion from conservationists forever. Development contracts for oil drilling In Alaska were written but not signed by outgoing Secretary Stewart Udall. Hickel will be suspect if he approves them. Grazing fees were raised drastically six days before the Johnson Administration left office; if Hickel alters them as he MUSICAL WHIRL Deseret News Editor SEE! HEAR! Julian Bream, the celebrated lutenist and internationally classical guitarist, makes his only Utah appearance season at the Harris Fine Arts Center at BYU in Provo Wednesday (26) . . . This is also the date when Ballet West ends Its long this tour Nevada, (Utah, Califor- nia, New Mexico, Texas) at the of Eastern Utah (CEU) in Trice . . . And the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Ardean Watts, its associate conductor, continue their wonderful work with Utah students with concerts in Manti and Fillmore Wednesday (26) and Delta Thursday (27) at 10 a.m. . . . The Repertory Dance Theatre's local winter season begins Thursday (27) for tin ee - performances (February 28 and March 1) and will feature many new works some of which were criticized dancrecently in Los Angeles though the ers themselves received the highest praises. Two new performers in three distinctive programs will be given duiing the three-nigh- t run in Kingsbury Hall, beginning at 8:30 p.m. nightly. "Encounters," a new ballet by John Butler will be performed to an electronic score Thursday (27) and Saturday (1). Richard Browne and Gregg Lizenbery will per-fo- i m ns company newcomers . . . A PPOGG1ATURAS The annual Symphony Guild benefit, the Symphony Ball, .will be held Friday in the Terrace Ballroom . . . And this department College - st gressional second-guessin- At the Capitol itself, there is some growing unhappiness among Republicans over the slow filling of jobs, and over some of those named, though much of the complaining Is griping over the unreturned telephone call and the failure to properly touch base on an appointment. All of this will be forgotten in a month or two if the slow and careful start pays off. But the White House needs to recall one thing: The small slip, repeated often enough, started Lyndon Johnson down from the heights of 1963-6- 4 to the depths of 1968. In Washington, no less than anywhere else in the world, major events often hang on an Insignificant horseshoe nail. By DREW PEARSON MERRY-GO-ROUN- D and JACK ANDERSON brings best wishes to the Guild for a successful ball from Mrs. Oma Wagstaff, former president of the Symphony Guild. Unexpectedly, I met her last Friday and Saturday in Baton Rouge with her husband, who is serving as president of the LDS Gulf States Mission. Gracious Mrs. Wagstaff was also excited about the recent visit of Gina Bachauer and Princess Irene of Greece to Utah which she had followed wi.h great interest, in - what - dally . Journal . . . Rand Conger and Peter Danner of Menlo Park, California, will present a concert of guitar and lute music at the First Unitarian Church. 569 South 13th East, Friday (28) at 8:30 p.m. The concert will cover the history of fretted instruments from earliest times to the present. Adults $1.50 . . . The Hart Brothers Music Store in Sugar House is moving from its present location to the corner of Highland Drive and Simpson Avenue. It will open at the new location Saturday (March 1). your-kno- - WASHINGTON The hot breath of Sen. Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina Dixiecrat, is bothering President Nixon even on his trip to Europe. The senator, who made Nixons nomination possible at Miami by corailing southern delegates, now wants his friend to urge textile Import restrictions on the countries he visits. The new Fresl- Sen. Thurmond dent has done his best to placate the stubborn South Carolinian to whom he owes so much. When he heard that the pet dog of the children of a Thurmond aide had been killed, he even sent them a brand new puppy, which they promptly named "Richard. He has also placed more of Thurmonds friends in key positions inside the Nixon Administration than that of any other senator. The roll call of Thurmond appointees Is Impressive: Harry Dent, Thurmonds former administrative assistant, has been given a job as a special assistant right inside the White House where he can serve as a private watchdog for the South Carolina senator. J. Phil Campbell, intimate friend of Thurmonds, has been made undersecretary of agriculture, despite the fact that as commissioner of agriculture in Georgia he led the fight against the new meat inspection bill which he will now have to enforce. Fred Buzhardt, former assistant to Senator Thurmond, has been appointed general counsel rf the Defense Department, where he can rule on housing and defense contracts that discriminate against Negrops. Johnny McKeiver Walters of South Carolina has been made assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice De- - I CAN'T UNP&3STANP IT WHAT'S HAPPSNEP TO THAT Kip? 6-- KNOW. HE WAS SUCH A $ p. K i ... i ' Wit' prosecution. Richard Kleindienst, new deputy attorney general, while not a Thurmond r appointee, is an Arizona who has received Stroms hearty approval. Kleindienst's job will be to pick all federal judges, and Thurmond hasnt forgotten thM In his June 1, 1968 meeting The city parks people have been feeding buckshot to the ducks at Liberty Park . . . keeps em from blowing away. right-winge- BIG TALK with Nixon ir. the Riviera Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., the then candidate promised that If elected president, he would give Thurmond the right to pass on ail new federal judgeships for the South and all new justices to the Supreme Court. Richard V. Allen, new member of the National Security Council, is also a friend of Sen. Thurmond, though not a South Carolina appointee. Allen is the fa- vorite of the right wing Young Americans for Freedom, of which Thurmond is "Kingmaker Thurmond now wants to cash in further for the southern delegate support he gave Nixon in Miami. In addi- ICtoN'T ye i six-foot- guiding light. by Brickman the small society V six-tw- Thurmond's Demands Follow Nixon Week For Lutenists By HAROLD LUNDSTROM would like to do, he will be attacked giving away a national resource. He was tossed his hottest potato In the form of the oil import battle between high-coNew Engl-.n- d and the rest of the domestic oil industry, which has been handsomely rewarded for the last decade by a protective oil quota restriction. Desert land entry decisions are pending in to name only a few problems Idaho Mr. Hickel must now decide under the glare of pitiless press scrutiny and con- for GocV AS- Y4 tion to modifying southern school segregation, he wants the new President to place import restrictions on textile imports in order to help Dixies giant textile mills. Furthermore, he wants Nixon to talk tliis over with the heads of state he is visiting on his present trip. TV Tariff Commission is opposed to a taiiif hike, so Strom wants voluntary import quotas such as we have worked out with the Japanese in the past. Specifically, the senator wants them worked out with West Germany, England, Italy and Belgium. "Have- you noticed, the smaller the world becomes, the more we have to worry about a blown-u- p version of it?" Prom photo token by Lionel V. McNttly for ft Deseret Newt popular daily Baby Bhihdey leaturo. ) , |