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Show "Z fr i. j a f ' " sP y-- mi i r f Our Phone Numbers Nice Weekend News, News Tips Hone Delivery Fair and warmer through Sunday. See details, weather map on B-- Page 524-440- 0 524-284- 0 Information 5 5 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 3l E. 1st South 524-444- 524-444- 5. 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL. 371 NO. 10c PAGES 4 6 8 1 1 MOUNTAIN THE WEST'S NEWSPAPER FIRST SATURDAY, MAY 1969 17, ... ,, 'i 1 1" I7- ,4 4i - o Ena v tfcw ;;T: & S' '' ill ,1 m.i,p 1&. ijg . , frfiF rin t- I I .ik-- i S& 1 rJ i t J! uJljLufc5f' (ut.Bak.HrS. ' s ' . gf Jk I ?? T P- -. FLA. KENNEDY, Another nagging problem developed in tiie Apollo 10 command ship tocLy, but experts said they felt it could be corrected in time to launch three astronauts toward moon orbit on Sunday as scheduled. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan were eager to start their voyage of discovery, during which they are to orbit the rroon 2',$ days. They are to ride into space at 12:49 p.m. EDT Sunday atop a Saturn 5 rocket. eral times this morning, he said, but the wicks have not The latest trouble was in a system designed to remove moisture from the oxygen supply used for breathing and cooling in the life support system. the moisture Explaining problem, George Low, Apollo Apollo 10 flight coverage will begin at 9:30 a.m. Sunday on Channels 2 and 5, and 10 a.m. on Channel 4. CAPE (AP) technical ,4 or- npfeH - ' v. -- ' - 3r n ! called wicks. Low said the wicks must be wetted before the launching by pouring water over them. Weve tried to do this sev-- We do not know now why are not properly serviced," Low told a news conference. Until we find out we they cannot proceed with the launching." Hu said he hoped the problem could be corrected sometime this afternoon. There was concern for sev-- But the troubleshooting teams traced the problem to a loose electrical connection. It was tightened and the countdown continued. The astronauts are to fly a pathfinder mission intended to clear the way for two Apollo 11 astronauts to land on the moon in July. Apollo 10 explained Com- mander Stafford, is designed to tie together all the knots, to try to sort out all the unknowns and pave the way for a lunar landing to do everything exactly as on the landing mission except the final descent to the lunar surface." The trio planned to spend the day in the crew quarters five miles from the launch pad, reviewing the complex flight plan and keeping track of the countdown. They will have dinner at 7 p.m. tonight in the quarters with Vice President Spiro T. Apew and Dr. Thomas O. Paine, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apew is chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, which advises the President on space matters. t It's No. 2 For Russ tH A It was the second problem to crop up in 14 hours. A small leak in the spacecrafts fuel system was corrected early today. spacecraft program manager, said that during flight the moisture is absorbed by a series of porous metal plates been able to hold sufficient water. eral hours Friday night and early today that the flight might have to be postponed because of a suspected leak in the spaceships fuel system. .... ' Y' jt '. ( jtXm, Ig - t f. ' T 44 f fit1-- 0 On Venus z - MOSCOW The (UPI) Soviets today dropped their second space capsule in as many days into Venus atmo- AP Wirt Photo Cope Kennedy tourists stop to look at towering Apollo 10 vehicle. sphere and hailed the accomwonderful plishment as a to science. contribution Western experts said some- APOLLO FLIGHT PLAN Here're Highlights CAPE FLA'. KENNEDY, Here are the high(AP) lights scheduled for the eight-da- y journey by Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan, based around-the-moo- n liftoff Sunday at 12:49 times Eastern Day(all p.m. on a light). Sunday, May 18' Air Force Col. Stafford and Navy Cmdrs. Young and Cernan blast away from Cape Kennedy at 12:43 p.m. atop a INSIDE THE 1, 2 National, Foreign City, Regional Do-I- t Man 3 3 3 7 .8, 9 10 11 I Theater Worn ns Paeps Editorial Page sfpttov r ".J.12 1, 3, 4, 5 City , Regional TV Highlights 3 Obituaries Weather Map jj ..5 Action Ads 7 Financial 13 SECTION to hook ship, do an about-fac- e module to lunar (LEM) up nested atop Saturn rocket stage. Docking to be telecast live in color beginning at 3:49 p.m. Linked commandship-LEcombination to spring C Church News 6 An free of Saturn upper stage at 4:58 p.m. Fuel dump from Saturn stage later kicks it away from moon and into orbit around sun. North Viet- TOKYO (AP) nam said today President Nixons Vietnam peace plan reveals U.S. intentions to keep South Vietnam as a neo- colony, and repeated its demand for unconditional withdrawal of U.S. troops there. While not saying that North Nixons rejected entire plan outright, a com- mentary in the Communist party newspaper Nhan Dan saj,j jjixon remained obdurate fundamental questions on an(j ignored the Vietnamese peoples fundamental national rights. yam 51 minutes, Venus - The sources, at outposts along the Cambodian frontier west of Saigon, said at least three stratofort strikes hit the neutral nation in the past several days, all of them planned In advance. In each case, the sources said, officers in the U.S. border camps had been alerted that the B52s would be dropbombloads ping their 20-to- n onto suspected Communist positions just across the border in Cambodia. is from this particular west and northwest of Saigon, that the Communisis have sprung their latest offensives, according to U.S. intelligence officers. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese gunners during the night shelled 41 Allied bases and towns sending two rockets into the edge of Saigon that wounded one woman. Overall damage and casualties were described as light in the sixth day of stepped-usalvos. In one of the few barrages against major U.S. bases, three rockets slammed into the air base at Da Nang, killing one American Marine and damaging two warplanes, military spokesmen said. Some 30,000 Allied troops around Da p 1 WiaMW1!' 6 back vital scientific data about the earths nearest planet neighbor, just as Venus 5 had done for 53 minutes. Then, like Venus 5, todays capsule went dead following its 160 million-mil- e journey. Westem experts said the two capsules might not have landed softly on the surface as planned, perhaps damagrelayed Monday, May 19 Main spaceship engine may be fired three times, Monday at 12:22 a.m. and 3.23 p.m. and Tuesday to perfect flight path to moon if needed. Young performs several navigation exercises using stars and earths horizon as reference points. Live color telecasts Monday at 4:04 p.m. for 10 minutes, showing earth and LEM attached to command ships nose as seen from command ship window. Additional firing of main en- gine at 6:35 p.m. if needed to adjust flight path to moon. Live color telecast at 6:49 p.m. for 10 minutes showing views of receding earth, moon and sun. Wednesday, May 21 color tele1:09 p.m. showing moon as Apollo 10 approaches lunar orbit, and another at 9:34 p.m. showing moon as seen from moon orbit. Main command engine Fifteen-minut- e cast, at triggered for ship six minutes at 4:35 p.m. to kick into lunar See FLIGHT PLAN, Page A-- 2 equiping communications ment. The Tass announcement did not mention a soft for either capsule, landing , only they saying reached the Nang were on full alert for a Communist attack. B52 The raids against followed by six Cambodia weeks another report from U.S. sources in Saigon that the American command had asked President Nixon tor permission to begin bombing Cambodia. Military spokesmen, refusing comment on the report, said 10 flights of B52s raided bivCommunist suspected ouacs around Saigon and in the Central Highlands overnight, many of their bombs dropping within earshot of Cambodia. The strikes against Cambodia apparently had the tacit approval of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who has expressed concern publicly over the Utah State Sen. and Mrs. Dixie Leavitt view during Utah legislators' trip to Lake Powell, named for Maj. John Wesley Powell who preceded Mormons' historic descent by 10 years. ck had planet. They made & wonderful contribution to the science of the universe, Tass said. Venus 5 and Venus 6 were launched six days apart four months ago with the mission of improving the accuracy of previous Venus flights. With Venus 4, Tass had announced immediately that it soft landed on the surface. No such announcements for the latest capsules indicated possible problems. Venus 4, in October of 1967, failed to continue sending back data. For the first time, studies of the Venusian atmosphere were carried out practically simultaneously in two of its areas, Tass said, referring to the Venus 5 and Venus 6 missions which began in early January. it Cambodia Targets U.S. B52 SAIGON (UPI) bombers for the first time have begun raids against neighboring Cambodia in an effort to deprive Communist Soldiers and sanctuaries within 35 miles of Saigon, U.S. military sources said today. J $ announcemnt from the Soviet news agency Tass said the Venus 6 space capsule parachuted into the planets cloud bank 180 miles from the point where Venus 5s capsule hit the atmosphere a day earlier. For -- PUP thing might have gone wrong. Tuesday, May 20 A SECTION Church Page five-minu- te Colonialism, Red Charge NEWS Calndar Saturn 5 rocket and cruise into earth crbit 12 minutes later. At 3:23 p.m. over Australia, during second orbit, Saturn 5s Upper stage with spacecraft still attached bum restarts for to kick Apollo toward moon. Thirty minutes later, astrocommand nauts separate If presence of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops in his nation. Guerrillas from Vietnam until now have been free from U.S. bombs and pns in Cambodia, although small teams of Allied troops sent in to chart their n'.o',ements have occasionally clashed with the Communists there. The U.S. sources said the raids touched off no secondary explosions that they could see from their vantage points. Today's Thought Courage in danger is half the battle. Platus SAGA OF THE WEST Trek Info The Unknown By JAN PADFIELD and MAXINE MARTZ Deseret News Staff Writers ago on May 24, man and nine companions set out to explore the great unknown the Colorado River area. And with that expedition was born one of the great adventure tales of all time. A century 1869, a d John Wesley Powell, a few seasoned trapleft pers and Green River, V.yo., in four small boats to begin the last peat exploration of unknown country in the continental United States. This year Utah will join with Wyoming, Arizona and Nevada in celebrating the centennial of the conquest of the Colorado canyons. Events will extend over the summer, often coinciding with original dates and places. (See separate schedule on this page.) The 1869 Powell Expedition, called suicidal by many authorities, was to chart the river area from the Green down the Colorado to the Rio Virgin. What was believed to be a canyon proved to be a series of canyons more than 1.000 miles long, with walls irom a few hundred feet to 6.000 feet high. Few points of access or escape broke those formidable walls, and only a vast, empty wilderness stretched for hundreds of miles on both sides of the except at Illinois State Normal University, where Powell had taught, and in Green River. Yet, Powell had brilliantly planned, and single--h a n d e d 1 y organized and equipped the expedition. With only little financing, and that by private sources, including $2,000 of his own funds, he had desiped the boats, gath ered the Army-typ- e provisions of flour, dried apples, beans, bacon and coffee, and generally made ready for the rapids, cataracts, whirlpools and deep, forbidding canyons of the Colorado. Powell, veteran of the Civil War where he lost an arm in the Battle of Shiloh, actually headed two expeditions down the Colorado. The first, of duration, became a race against starvation and death. The second, from May 1871 to December, 1872, produced a wealth of scientific data of lasting value. Despite to grueling work, keep from being dashed to bits against the fighting See POWELL on Pap A-- S Maj. 35, with 300-mil- e river. Their assault on the treacherous river was unheralded Nixon Honors 2 Viet Heroes, Visits Carrier Force At Sea WASHINGTON -P(AP) Nixon flew by helicopter to an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic today to observe U.S. seapower in action after presenting Medals of Honor to two Vietnam war heroes. The visit to the carrier Saratoga some 45 miles off Norfolk, Va to see a demonstration of naval firepower and air warfare by a resident attack carrier strike group was the second phase of his observance of Armed Forces Day. cereAt the mony on the South Lawn of the White House, Nixon placed the nations highest award for gallantry around the necks of two Army men, Frederick E. Ferguson and Spec. Thomas J. Kinsman. CWO Thank you for being such great Americans under fire, . . . What a great example you have set Nixon told them. for us. He said the heroism of the two men reminded Americans the nation sometimes goes to war because it is devoted to peace. In Vietnam, he said, not American forces fight for glory, not for conquest, not for an inch of territory or but for the a concession cause of peace and freedom. The commander in chief said the United States pursues a great and unselfish goal in the world and realizes that what happens in Vietnam will affect not only the future of that country but the future of America itself. It was a colorful ceremony complete with honor guard some wearing Revolutionary and the Army uniforms band and Its herald trumpets. Ferguson, 31. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Ferguson of El Centro, Calif., earned the nations highest award for gallantry on Jan. 31, 1968. While commanding a resupply helicopter, he flew through mortar heavy and small arms fire to rescue passengers and crewmen of another helicopter downed conwithin the Communist trolled city of Hue. t, Kinsman, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Kinsman of Onalaska, Wash., then a private first class, saved seven comrades from injury or death when he threw himself on an enemy grenade during an engagement at Vinh Long on Feb. 6, 1968. Kinsman suffered severe head and chest wounds. 7 . K.'VV, |