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Show u iqpMpqfHjptapaVHIaqqptoqp Of Apollo AAen (Editor' Note Nell Alden Armstrong, St, the rst human who will walk on the moon, has been he was 15. As e boy training tor the lob inee arewing up In Wapakoneta, Ohio, he earned enough to take flying lessons and learned to pilot could drive a car. When someone a plane before he If he was Interested In the fantastic ajlied him .Lcrships flown by Buck R09ers, he answered: Tyynat's fantastic about Buck Rogers?" Although he us been shot up In e let fignter In Korea, test this country's hottest planes and piloted some of bought a wildly spinning spacecraft under control the hero Image. He Is e private shuns Armstrong bovish and Introspective. In this Inter-S- i, "son-qui- et, with World Book Science Service Editor William Cromle, he reveals his personal feelings about gw upcoming adventure end his place In history.) Lty Q. How do you feel about being the first man to set foot on another part of the universe? A. I really do feel and hope that the public will recognize the thing as a group effort Who the individual happens to be take the first step is happenwho gets stance.' Thats just the way things fell out. It could just as easily have been someone on the next flight or the one before.-It depended on how the cards fell, so I see it as a group achievement. Q. What kind of training ere you undergoing to prepare fcr the landing on the moon? 2 hours a day, A. We are spending days a week, in simulations of the flight at the Kennedy Space Center. of We practice the mission in mock-up- s the vehicles which are controlled by computer. The computers present various nomi al and emergency situations and problems, and we react just as we would in space. The computers respond the way a spacecraft would. You can look out the window of the LM simulator, for example, and see the moons surface just as you would before landing. Moving controls in the simulator changes your position in relation to the landing site just as it would on the moon. Q. What have you learned from Apollo 10 and the previous Apollo flights? A. We were concerned about communications at lunar distance. The Manned Space Flight Network on Earth has the for navigation to prime responsibility and from the moon. That implies we will always have communications with them. If not, we must do the navigation on our own; and then there is no backup or alternative. As you remember, on Apollo 8 and 10 communications were much better than we expected, or at least much better than I expected. We were very pleased with that. The second thing of real significance was the onboard navigation capability. A lot of people really didnt believe that this business of taking sextant measure u 10-1- five-si- ,v, x Block Armstrong, The 11: time? I was very pleased. I shouldnt say that I was wildly elated because I'd be elated at getting any flight. Theyre all good flights, but this one really is special. We hoped it would be a landing A. 'If Lights By GORDON ELIOT WHITE Deseret News Washington Correspondent her reaction? A. She was very pleased about it. She wanted to know if I was, too. I said I - was. Q. Is she going to the Cape to watch it go off? A. Probably not Q. If you were not an astronaut, what profession would you choose? A. I would like to go into any other profession which for me the opportunity research and for, making a iv Z 'y .' ' vyv.tf , ! . i , Symphony Orchestra blossomed following their performances in Seattle a year ago, has been en-- j gaged to conduct a work- symphony at BYU this hop summer. , The Seattle con- certs were a part of the Na-tnn- Music Edu- cators Conference convention in which Mr. Nelhybel conducted a public session of one of his compositions. Radio Lugano, Holland; Hilversum, Switzerland; Radio Vienna, and in the United States by the Cincinnati and Minneapolis Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Nelhybel was awarded the first prize by the Ravitch Music Foundation of New York in 1954 for his opera entitled A Legend. His ballet, Tree, was a teaching or would give independent contribution The Original 'How To.. Travel Guide By HARRY JONES ' 'a.A.SXUW- $ '. 3s flight at the time. Now I have every confidence that it will be a landing flight. But you know, it could turn out to be something else, in which case Ill still be very glad to fly. Q. When you learned you would lead the world to the moon, did you pick up the phone and call your wife immediately? A. No. Q. Did you wait until you got home that night to tell her? Sen. Moss, deeply insulted, called the which of course it political, was, though not his political decision. In a statement here he went on to suggest that his bill was still necessary because a future solicitor (or secretary) might change the Interior Departments change Republicans about the decision, and they proudly issued a press release proclaiming the victory. Sen. Moss was not amused. He was left holding a bill that had been upstaged and no one had bothered to tell him about the change of mind at Interior until he read it in the Deseret News. The crowning insult was that Congressman Laurence J. Burton, had been told first. The U., Sen. Moss noted, is not in Mr. Burtons district. Sen. Moss firmly believes that Mr. Burton will oppose him next year in the Utah Senate race. Any sop to Burton is ashes and wormwood to Sen. Moss. Now, Rep. Burton has not said he would run for the Senate. In fact, of late he has seemed reluctant to challenge Sen. Moss. The congressman and the senator have generally worked together as well as could be expected for members of opposite parties, and have not, in the memory of man, directly attacked each other on a personal basis. But now, with the 1970 Senate race only ten months away, political sensitive ties are beginning to rub raw and the switch in rulings over the block U caused a little tempest. mind. There was more, but that was the gist of Sen. Moss reaction. The KSL Washington correspondent, Wes Vernon, heard the Moss blast and called Mr. Burton. Himself politically hypersensitive, Rep. Burton launched into a lengthy reply, calling Sen. Moss, a political among other things, crybaby. The and counterstatements went on and on, proving nothing at all about the block U decision, but perhaps indicating that Rep. Burtons cool reluctance to run may have slipped a bit. It is beyond belief that a future Interior Department would try to take back the property on which the U lies, once it has approved the lights. To go through the cost of passing an act of Congress to put the lights up seems to be a ponderous duplication of effort, but to the politician-watcher, last weeks little row seems almost certainly to be the first skirmish in what will be the battle for Ted Moss Senate seat 16 months from statements now. A Bountiful couple and their five children have just returned from the wilds of California in their pickup truck and camper. Their story is related here as a possible handbook for camper owners who might be heading down that wa. The Bountiful gang didnt seem to have too much trouble en route to sunny Cal through Nevada. In Las Vegas, they had to pay only $3 for a trailer court Q. Last year, you narrowly escaped over-nigspot. All the others cnarged death in the crash of a lunar module the people make their That $5. proves increase this ycur training vehicle. Does money from tourists in other ways than fears about the flight? parking in Las Vegas! A. I dont have any fears for myself. I But even $3 is no bargain. The camphave a greater concern that if we had er is complete with all the comforts of some kind of problem not only the space home plus no lawn to cut! program, but the country would feel that Anyway, the trip as far as San Diego tragedy. was without incident. But down that way, were trailer parks were far between. The famQ. These training vehicles grounded for a time because of the acciily drove around and around without sucdents, so you were not able to obtain the cess. flying experience you had planned. How Finally, they pulled into a supermarwill this affect the mission? ket parking lot while the mother of the A. I have about 20 flights in that type brood shopped for milk, bread and other vehicle now and Fd like to have maybe staples. that many more. If I dont get them Ill When she came out, two of the perform with less confidence and there younger ones had gone to sleep. It had will be a higher risk of aborting the misbeen a long day. sion during the descent to the lunar surAnd why not? face. So the rest sacked out for Q. Are you going to have any navigation problems, particularly when you the night. have to leave the lunar surface at preIt was very cisely the right time and attitude to renquiet after the dezvous with the command module? store closed, and not a soul disA. Yes. There are a couple of things that we need to prove yet We dont know turbed them. They if we will be able to see the stars we operated from the lot while need for navigation during the lunar day. parking the,- took in the Star sights are used to align the navigation reference system to be sure we get sights of San Diego. so near to And it was convenient back to the command module. If we cant use the stars we hope to use lunar the store! There are ample state parks up the gravity. Aligning the system with Earths gravity is often done, but its coast They had no more trouble again never been demonstrated on the moon. until they got to the Los Angeles area. However, I think we have enough options They drove around and around until they available to use that we can certainly pick ran out of gas. The gas station attendant one thats satisfactory. offered to let them park In the rear of Q. What is the most critical part of the station. the flight? It was at the intersection of two busy streets, and noisy! No one got too much A. We have uncertainties in the navigation, and we have less fuel margin sleep. The next day was slated for a visit to than youd like to have for the landing part. I would consider the critical hurdle Knotts Berry Farm. It was dark by the time they were leaving the famous berry is to get over the possible transition from automatic to manual control as we reach patch. Searching for a trailer park is difat night impossificult in daylight feet from the landa point some ble. we are be will site. critical until It ing sure that the vehicle responds the way So the family pulled into the parking we want it to. Once we get in that situaarea of an LDS Chapel. It later turned tion then well know whether we can get out to be the replica of Independence it on the surface safely with the fuel Hall that everyone should see when at remaining. As soon as we get past that Knotts. hurdle and the vehicle is responding, I But they figured it was a chapel. It think well feel pretty good about it. was Friday and they didnt expect too much traffic. If the fellow kept a log, all Q. Then landing is more risky than he had to say was quiet and peaceful the takeoff? night. A. The landing is more complex beEn route north, they parked overnight cause the system is more complex But if in the driveway of an aunts home. (They something should go wrong on the way didnt know she had moved.) down you can turn back by using the on the the of lunar ascent In the Bay Area, trailer courts don't engines stage module. On take-off- , however, you have happen to be on every comer. It was fewer alternatives. You leave the descent early in the morning, so they decided to stage behind, so if the ascent engine visit Fishermans Wharf in San Francisquits youre in serious trouble. But the co. They pulled into a stall marked r ascent system is simpler, so I'd say parking. No one disturbed them. So they stayed theyre about equal. If we get only a partial burn the ascent engine ought to put two days in the same stall. us high enough so that the command did in Wells, Nev., they have Only module can come down and rescue us. parking problems. Wells Isnt too far from the Utah border and Wendover. Temnwrewi Tht Ltnfii'vg Ifiwxiwg. They couldnt find a trailer park with any space. They couldnt even find a parking stall or a market parking lot They had to park out in the outskirts . . . frightening! ... ... 600-70- 0 two-hou- two-ho- Interest Probe Faces Heavy Weather Symphony Workshop Set I '..V Astronaut Neil Armstrong rehearses one of mankind's most historic moments setting foot on the Tioon. By DREW PEARSON Czechoslovakian distinguished composer and conductor, Vaclav Nelhy- -' bel, whose great friendship with the BYU OUR MAM JONES to society. The employer is less important than the opportunity for independent thought and activity. Q. What has been your most satisfying experience during the preparations for the first lunar landing? A. Those times when your idea, however small, is included as part of the program and demonstrates its merit as a contribution to human knowledge. MUSICAL WHIRL The 17 Wednesday, June 18, 1969 Q. What was OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON - Walker DESERET NEWS, A. Yes. Spawn A Small Tempest WASHINGTON The seemingly' smallest things sometimes create the was sent for final clearance to Secretary most- trouble. Take, for example, the Stewart Udalls desk. sniping over the From papers in the departments issue, of all things, files, Mr. Udall said nothing doing, of putting some scrawling out a note to the effect that he electric lights on thought the lights would be a ridiculous the big block U on the Salt Lake City nighttime travesty unthat has risen, skyline. lighted, above the Sen. Moss was, to say the least, University of Utah unhappy. for many years. The department eventually ruled that Alumni of the the lights would be unacceptable for sevu n iversity have eral bureaucratic reasons. Sen. Moss wanted to put up moved to settle the matter by the only the lights for sevact of eral years but have been blocked by a remaining route: A to bill allow a the Congress; private proviso in the deed to the property that lights to go up, despite the adverse rulsays it would revert to the federal government if anything is done on it not of a ing from Mr. Udall. After the change in administration, recreational or educational nature. Some Utahn Mitchell MeUch became the Interilawyers have suggested that the U solicitor. The three qualified as neither and thus the lights or Departments Utah Republicans at the capital renewed certainly would violate the deed. the request for a favorable ruling on thz The suggestion was taken to Washingtlights. Mr. Melich decided that there was on, where Sen. Frank E. Moss, asked the Interior Department to clear really nothing about the lighting that was antithetical to recreation or education. the lighting project. Tim Monroe, a former assistant to Sen. Moss, piloted the This time the secretarys office agreed with the lawyers and Mr. Hickel raised idea through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. It won administrative approval no objection. in the department solicitors office, and Melich, quite naturally, told the three By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor Moon - ments and computing them in a digital computer would produce a good navigation job. But of course that came through with flying colors, too. It gave us a lot of confidence not only in that particular job, but also in all the related jobs you do with the same equipment. Apollo 10 gave us confidence concerning those things that we havent done yet in space. We now feel that we have a lot better chance of doing them because of the performance of the systems on that mission. I always wonder about propulsion systems in this kind of work. But the propulsion people are really able to test their system on the ground and give you good assurance that the engine is going to work in the air. Thats not so true with a guidance system. A computer operation you can check on the ground, but there are questions about the optics. Can you see stars, can you measure them, can you tell where Uie horizon is? All those things were completely unknown. We had no way of finding out through analysis. When everything worked so well on the two previous moon missions it bolstered our confidence. Q. I guess the things that bother you must are the things which you must do for the first time. A. You always worry about the things that havent been done before. Thats why we build programs the way we do so you dont take too many new things on any one flight. You have a limited number of new maneuvers that you can prepare for. You have to learn these a lot more deeply than something thats been looked at before. After a thing has been demonstrated to work preUy well, you sorta take it for granted that its going to work and you dont worry so much about a lot of possible side effects. Q. When and how did you find out that you would command the first flight to land on the moon? A. About three or four days before It was announced (on Jan. 9). Deke Slayton (chief of the astronauts) said it was being proposed to use our crew for Apollo 11. 1 had no objections to that. I was glad not to be out of a job. Q. What were your feelings at this wjmn'V"wv srWWtargynsta In The Shadov of a Lime at International Festival of Music and Dance in Copenhagen in 1947. Another Nelhybel ballet, FOtes de Feux, was also featured at tne same international festival. His The Cock and The ballet - opera, was first performed at Hangman, Pragues National Theatre in 1947. prize-winn- Sirce 1957 Vaclav Nelhybel has lived in New York. He is now a U.S. citizen, and is now kept busy composing, conducting, and lecturing. During the past five years he has conducted his music and lectured at the invitation of universities in more than 30 states. Mr. Nelhybel studied composition and conducting at the Prague Conservatory of Music and musicology at the universities of Prague and Fribourg, Switzerland. An accomplished he APPOGGIATURAS The American musician, possesses diverse virtuoso skills in traFederation of Musicians (AFM) is workditional as well as contemporary musical ing on a program to protect Herman from exploitation, musicians techniques, and his works have been Played by the major symphony orchesKenin, the AFM president, said at their tras In Europe and America. .convention now being held in Las Vegas . . . His Symphony No. 1 was given its When the Royal Ballet from Covent first performance by the Prague Philharmonic and his other works have been inGarden, presents its concerts in southern California during July, it will give pertroduced by such orchestras as the Vienna Symphony; Orchestra de la Suisse formances of La Bayadere, which Ballet West will include as a part of its Romande, symphony Geneva; the orchestras and chamber groups of Radio program this fall in Kingsbury Hall . . . rock-n-ro- ll not want and could not afford . . . Even Congressman Rivers, No. 1 protector of the military, will learn a few things from this book. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D and JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON Rep. Wright Patman of Texarkana, Tex., plans to dig into a very important, little known factor behind the 8 per cent prime interest rate charged by the big New York banks. Patman, who has been a lifelong foe of high interest rates, points out that the zooming rates have increased the national debt to a point where it costs the taxpayers $15 billion more per year. But, in this case, Patman has tracked down the fact that the big New York banks had complained to the Federal Reserve Board that its measures were hurting them more than smaller banks. The big banks found it difficult to raise the money required by their blue-chi- p customers, So rather than risk a drop in their own profits, the big banks upped their interest rates to the highest point in American history. They have also warned privately that there will be more rate increases if the Federal Reserve Board continues the n pressure. Patman proposes to probe this. He is worried over what higher interest rates tight-mone- y will do to the instalment buying of homes, automobiles, refrigerators, TV sets, and other appliances. It could, he thinks, lead to a serious recession. Whether Patman can stage a probe, however, will be interesting. It so happens that at least 100 congressmen own stock in banks. Several others conceal banking interests in the name of relatives. Even more congressmen collect legal fees from financial institutions. A spot check of 50 congressional law firms revealed that 40 of them represent banks. In addition, the American Bankers Association, Mortgage Bankers Association, American Industrial Bankers Association, the U.S. Savings and Loan League, have been quite generous in handing out lecture fees to members of Congress. The U.S. Savings and Loan League, for example, paid Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen a whopping $3,500 fee for a speech. Patmans own Banking and Currency Committee is also stacked with members who own stock in banks. It will be interesting to see whether he is able to get his investigaton off the ground. Reading For Rivers Recommended reading to Rep. MenThe new book The del Rivers, War Business by George Thayer. It reveals how the USA has fomented war by dumping $50 billion worth of arms around the world in the last 15 years. The Pakistan-Indiawar was fought with American equipment on both sides. When an embargo was placed on arms to Pakistan, West Germany sold Pakistan 90 furnished it by the USA and with USA blessing . . . In many cases, nations got the wrong weapons, such as Saudi Arabia which purchased Lightning jets, though it had no pilots to fly them; and Guinea which guns, though purchased mobile none of its neighbors operated tank units to threaten Guinea . . . Peru purchased two old cruisers for $5 million each, though it had trained personnel to operate only one at a time . . , The demise of Chd. i' ellor Erhard's government in West Germany in 1966 was due largely to his purchase of American military equipment which Germany did not need, did n F-8- anti-tan- k ' Merry-Go-Roun- d Dean Acheson, the of State, has a forgiving memory. He is about the only Demociat supporting Nixon in Nixons criticism of the military In the 1950s Richard Nixon, critics then vice president, described Dean Acheson as presiding over the college of Wit's End ... Sir Tax is no From what I hear knight in shining armor! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiHiiiiiiiinnia BIG TALK ... cowardly Communist containment. Sen. Stephen Young, the Ohio Democrat who says hes not going to retire at the age of 80, has a sharp memory. He is probably the youngest member of the Senate in point of vigor and courage . . . Sen. Tom Dodd has a long memory. When the big Belgian-Frenc- h copper interests were trying to separate Katanga from the Congo, Dodd delivered canned speeches which appeared to have been written for him by the Katanga lobby. One man who opposed him was McMur-ti- e Godley, U.S. ambassador to the Congo. Last week Dodd held up the confirmation of Godley to be U.S. ambassador to Laos. A trek of Washington socialites to Mississippi to celebrate the inauguration of Charles Evers as the first Negro mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction days is exactly what wont help Evers in Missisippi. Nevertheless, a lot of Washingtonians, headed by Ethel Kennedy, are planning to fly to Mississippi in special planes . . . Speaker John McCormack, scion of large and struggling family in South Boston, never dreamed he would have a school named after him. But the other day he addressed by telephone the graduating class of the John W. McCormack School in Boston. "A study shows that ABM will cost about $13 billion instead of $8 billion. 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