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Show Our Phone Numbers More Sunshine News, News Tips Home Delivery Sunny days ahead for most areas. See details, weather map on Page B-- Information Sports Scores N O . 43 0 524-284- 0 524-444- 5 524-444- 8 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 521-353- 5. VOL. 372 524-44U- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 42 PAGES 10c THE WEST'S MOUNTAIN FIRST NEWSPAPER SATURDAY, 5 26, 1969 JULY The Trip To The iWoon T Devices On Market, More On Way Down-To-Ear- th Editor's Note: Deseret Newt Science Writer Hat Kmght, wtio reported from Houston on the Apollo It mission, row writes of the benefits we on Earth cen expect from the exploration of space. By HAL KNIGHT Deseret News Staff Writer HOUSTON It's too early to say, but the U.S. space program may turn out to be one of the biggest bargains this nation has ever had. Many of the techniques and devices developed for manned space flight will prove valuable for more uses which help ordinary citizens. Arthur C. Clarke, noted British science writer, said that the technical skills acquired by U.S. industry in making the moon exploration possible down-to-eart- h repay the $24 billion cost of the moou program Many times over. Discoveries made in the space program already are apserving mankind and pearing in the market place, and others are on the way. In the future, they will affect the clothes we wear, the homes we live in and our medical care. Some of these include: Communication and weather satellites, the foremost of the spade devices. They have cut the cost of transoceanic broadcast channels by 80 per cent, compared to underwater cables, and are proving a boon to geologists, map makers, oilmen and fishermen, to name just a few. would Tho Great Triumph mans greatest achievements ... trip to moon and One of a safe return . was achieved this week in a umphant splashdown in the Pacific. . . the tri- What this trip offers to all people in the way of benefits will be answered completely in years to come. But, today there are obvious benefits which Hal Knight, Deseret News science writer, tells about in accompanying story. Other articles on the moon voyage in todays paper include: The splashdown is always exciting . . . story, pictures The lunar lab where astronauts wall live until Aug. 12.A-Apollo 12 and its planned moon trip Daily log of Apollo 11 fabulous moon trip Some people have erroneous view on trips cost 2 Scientists anxiously await examinations of moon rocks A-- 3 3 A-- 3 A-- 2 A-- A-- 2 Thin, lightweight materials which hold heat. One result is a camping blanket that weighs only ounces and can be folded rp to carry in a pocket. Fireproof cloth or clothing and furniture. Thermal paint, which protects against temperature change. Walls could be painted so that a house would be cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. HEAT SENSORS hammer Electromagnetic and shapes that smooths metal without weakening it. Its already being used in commercial fabricating industries. sensors Small remote which can measure temperatures in inaccessible places. Television camera w'hich fits in the palm of one hand. Its being sought by industry to monitor manufacturing processes. LIFE SUPPORT Life support equipment for exploring and mining operations deep in the earths oceans. The list could go on and on. and its bound to grow longer in the future. Many of the new processes and devices have not yet filtered down to private industry. But the greatest potential for earthly benefits comes not from material for equipment, but from the very method of See BENEFITS on P-2 ge America's moon team, Apollo A-- astronauts, from left: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldriru 1 1 More Fly Out, But Action Stays Kennedy Puts Future On Line, Offers To Resign From Senate SAIGON (UPI) Another American soldiers flew out of Vietnam for home IN PHILIPPINES r . Nixon Sounds; Self-Hel- p Note: 530 HYANNIS PORT, MASS. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has put his political future on the line before a divided public after a pretty secretarys death that left haunting still unanswered questions today Kennedy announced Friday night he may resign from the U.S. Senate if Massachusetts voters have lost confidence in him because of the car accident which killed his young blonde passenger on a lonely isiand road a week ago. The first swelling tide of telegrams and telephone calls in his home state ran strongly in support of the senator. But across the nation, the doubts lingered. I still trust him. But I dont think a lot of people do, said a college student in Pittsburgh. an unprece Kennedy, dented national television appearance, said there is no truth whatever to ugly rumors of immoral conduct that shadow the accident. Nor was I driving under the influence of liquor," he added. But nowlmre in his speech did he make any mention of why his car was on the deserted dirt read that led to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, on Chappaquiddick Island in around midnight July 18. A Memphis, Tenn., man said, To me, its about as big a mystery as it was before. I still dont know what to think. Kennedy told a dramatic story of a night of tragedy and horror in which he iwice brushed against the very brink of death, of nearly becoming the third brother to die in sudden calamity while at a pinacle of American political power. And in those terrible moments, lie said, lie questioned whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." Like Nixon 17 Years Ago, - career. Sept. 24, 1932, Nixon, then a Republican senator from Calitornia told the nation in his Checkers speech he bore no blame for his use of a controversial $18,233 trust fund donated by California supporters. He branded hints he had enriched himself as a political smear. The result of the speech was On a huge outpouring of support that resulted in his retention as the GOPs vice presidential nominee. Friday night. Kennedy, until the party strongest Democratic possibility to face President tiixon in the 1972 election, told Us story of the accident in last weekend considered which Mary Jo Kopechne died. Kennedy asked the people of Massachusetts for help in deciding whether he should resign. The results of that appeal are not yet known. Nixon, saying the final choice of whether he remained as Dwight D. Eisenhowers running mate was up to the party, Republican appealed to voters to let the party know how they stood. Wiro or write the Republi-- c Committee National a n whether you think I should stay on the ticket or whether I should get off, Nixon asked. And whatever their decision is, I will abide by it." Four days later the GOP said an estimated two million persons had expressed themselves in telegrams, letters and telephone calls and that the ratio was 330 to 1 in Nixons favor. the a Soon again as he swaip across a channel from the island to the vilL ge where he had been staying. This was the first explanation of how Kennedy got off the island in the nine hours between the accident and the time he walked into the police station in Edgartown to report the death. And the swim seemed to raise more new questions instead of quieting old ones. INSIDE THE there iter I ... extra ers. He said he did nol believe he should resign from the ticket, because he said, I'm not a quitter." A nine-hou- period. In Berkeley Heights, N.J., the mother of the victim, Mrs. Joseph Kopechne, came out See KENNEDY on Page A--2 KENNEDY, FLA. new commercial comm unications satellite, blasted aloft by a three-stagDelta rocket, was mute and CAPE National, Foreign Sports Church Page TV Highlights (AP) 7 8 Theater 8,9 8 City, Regional Editorial Page 10 SECTION B 1, City, Regional Comics Financial Calendar Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads Womens Page 2 3 3 4, 5 5 16 SECTION C. Church News na- Space 'Bird' Mute, Lost NEWS announcement was made. Nixon would remain on the ticket. His political career, which some had thought ended, was saved. In his much shorter speech, I underKennedy said: stood ' full well why some might think it right for me to resign. . . . I seek your advice and opinion in making the decision. I seek your prayers. For this is a decision I will have to make on my own. Nixon's pleas outlined his reasons for the expense fund, denied he had enriched himself, produced an audit of his personal finances, mentioned his wife's respectable Republican cloth coat," and said there was one gift he intended to keep: A cocker spaniel named Check- on tional television on the same day he pleaded guilty in court to leaving the scene of an senaccident. A tence was suspended and he was placed on probation for one year. The senator said his failure to report the accident imme- indefensible. diately was He said he was confused, tor- tured, tired. He indicated he still did not remember all that r happened in the two-mon- And lie said he nearly drowned SECTION appeared Kennedy water rushing into his lungs as he fought to escape his sunken car after it plunged off a bridge into an estuary. Kennedy Went To People WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, like Richard M. Nixon nearly 17 years ago, chose to go before the people on television at a critical point in his political senator told The of the A e missing today. At 6:30 a.m., about eight hours after the launching, officials said tracking stations in Australia and Italy up to this time have received no signals to confirm that the Intelsat spacecraft is in the programmed orbit." The spacecraft had been programmed for an initial orbit ranging from 195 miles high to 23,300 miles. Plans were for ground controllers to trigger a rocket on the spacecraft Sunday to kick it out of its loop into circular d 6 Today's Thought orbit. What a jathcr says to his children is not heard by the world but it will be heard by posterity. Jean Paul Rirhti r , Intelsat 3 was designed for an orbit matching the rotation of the eauth so it would hang permanently 22,300 miles over the Atlantic Ocean and function as a radio relay station. the battlefields Allied forces reported killing 234 Viet Cong and North Viet- -' namese troops in scattered On today. fighting. The men who boarded huge Starlifter jet transports today were from the U.S. 9th Infantry Division. They left Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon for a flight to McChord AFB, Wash. Their units were to be deactivated at Ft. Lewis, Wash.- - Their departure brought to 6.000 the number of American troops withdrawn under President Nixon's plan to remove 25.000 U.S. troops by the end of August. TWO BRIGADES Two brigades of the 9th Division, which has bee operating in the Mekong Delta, are being reassigned. In the biggest ground action reported Friday, Viet Cong guerrillas attacked an outpost at Nha Si, 110 miles southwest of Saigon. Saigon government spokesmen said South Vietnamese militiamen killed 20 Communist troops at a cost of four South Vietnamese dead and 20 wounded. U.S. spokesmen said Communist gunners shelled 12 allied targets with rockets and mortars overnight. There were no American casualties. TERRORIST BOMB Terrorists killed a subprecinct police chief today with a grenade tossed into his station house in Saigon's Chinese section of Cholon. The U.S. command said an Air Force F100 Supersabre jet r was shot down by Communist ground fire 16 miles northeast of Saigon on Thursday. The pilot parachuted to safety. It was the 373th U.S. plane lost to hostile causes in the war. fighter-bombe- - MANILA (AP) President Nixon launched his effort to Asian leaders persuade toward greater efforts today self-hel- p in talks with President Ferdinand E. Mar- cos in the presidential palace. dem- Outside, onstrators burned a U.S. flag. While half a million Filipinos gave Nixon a warm and friendly welcome on his arrival from Guam, a relatively small band of youths outside the palace chanted Yankee go home." They threw stones and placards over the main gate and scuffled with police. sounded the Asian theme publicly on his arrival at Manila airport on the first leg of his round the world tour. He departed from his prepared text, however, to pay warm tribute to Marcos and to the warm relations between the United States and the Pacific island nation which was once an American colony. Nixon self-hel- p The crowd responded and people applauded Nixon along the more than five-mito I the route motorcade 1 le presidential palace 'where he was' to spend the night. The people wanted to express their admiration Spanish-styl- e for the successful U.S. moon of landing, the completion which Nixon had just witnessed. The twa chief executives talked at the palace for nearly two hoursfirst alone and then with aides, including Secretary of State William ' P. Rogers and Philippine For eign Minister Carlo? Romulo. Nixon will confer with Marcos again Sunday. Nixon then took a boat across the river that flows by the palace and went by helicopter to a hotel suite meeting with Gen. Sergio Osmena Jr., who opposes Marcos in this year's presidential elections. Russ View Nixon Trip As Tension Sharpener - MOSCOW (UPI) President Nixons trip to Asia can only sharpen tensions in that part of the world, a Soviet newspaper said today in tne first comment here on the tour. The United States is following a line only to render the situation more acute," the weekly Za Rubezhom (Life Abroad) said. This is precisely the explanation of President Nixons tour of Asia together with Secretary of State (William P.) Rogers, it said. . ... Za By way of proof. Rubezhom cited the Times of London which it quoted as saying The object of the trip is to place new burdens on Americas allies in Asia. The Nfew York Times, according to Za Rubezhom, said that it is clearly a question of miposing new burdens on the economies of the Asian countries. The newspaper concluded, new' military Nourishing plans, the U.S. at the same time is seeking to escape the isolation in which it find itself at home and abroad. V |