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REPORTER Weathervan Pair tonight with a low In the 60s. High Tuesday In tht 70s. Cloudy and warmer Wednesday, Your Eyes for Today's News Today I TELEPHONE DOVER- NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO, MONDAY, JULY 21,1969 10 CENTS VOL. 67. NO.

8. 28 PAGE3, Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin (L) deploys a solar wind experiment on the lunar surface as Astronaut Neil Arm- strong walks toward the LEM. (UPI TELEPHOTO) Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were scheduled to remain on the lunar surface until 1:53 p.m. EDT today when they were to fire up their ascent engine and rock- et aloft to rendezvous with the command ship.

Artist drawing depicts ascent stage of LM rocketing from lunar surface, leaving descent stage. (UPI Telephoto) 'One Small Step for Man, Moon men Due for Lift After Walk One Giant Leap for Mankind' By HOWARD BENEDICT SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Two Americans, who strode the moon's surface for the first time and raised their nation's banner above it, hold the world in suspense again today with a perilous blastoff for the long journey home. A successful liftoff and rendezvous with their orbiting command ship would climax an epic expedition in which Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

fulfilled a centuries-old dream of men everywhere. There is only one liftoff engine on the landing craft they call Eagle. It must work, or the astronauts would be stranded with only 15 hours of oxygen left and no hope of rescue. They are confident it will perform AN EDITORIAL flawlessly as have millions of other parts of Apollo 11 hardware during the incredible journey that earned man's quest for the unknown tti his first landing on another celestial body. The launching from the moon was scheduled for 2:55 p.m.

EDT. A successful liftoff would shoot them into lunar orbit to chase down Michael Collins, orbiting some 65 miles overhead in the Apollo 11 command ship. For at least six critical minutes, this engine must fire. There's no way to pretest, on the moon, whether this ascent engine will work as it's supposed to. The engine, which cost $250,000, must carry the two men straight, up for 14 seconds, then tip over to an angle of 52 degrees to place them in an egg-shaped orbit ranging from 11 to 52 miles above the moon.

It is programmed to fire for 7 minutes, 18 seconds. If it failed after six minutes, the astronauts could use small thruster rockets to push on up into their orbit. But if it failed before six minutes elapsed, the little rockets couldn't finish See ASTRONAUTS, Page 3 July 20,1969 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." That comment by Neil Armstrong as he made his first movement on the moon Sunday will remain forever in world history, overshadowing the words of all other famous explorers. Since man first saw the moon he has wondered what it is like. Now he doesn't have to wonder, to wit: "The surface is fine and powdery; adheres like charcoal to shoes, and you go down only about an inch." Also, "there seems to be no difficulty moving around." Ohioans, as Gov.

James A. Rhodes remarked yesterday at the Ohio Outdoor Drama Assn. program, can be quite proud in view of Sunday's historic achievement because Armstrong has added another first to the state's many firsts, including the electric light and the airplane. As Americans it is a great thrill to have the Stars and Stripes planted on the moon, together with a plaque signit'ying that we were there first despite our nation's youthfulness in the world of nations. Because of our history, it also was quite proper that the plaque reads: "We came in peace for all mankind." While we rejoice and hope Armstrong and Aldrin will have a successful liftoff and reunion with Mike Collins in their command ship, let us also offer a fervent prayer that the moon, now that we know it can be occupied, never will serve as a springboard from which men will aim destructive devices at each other.

We have always linked the moon with romance. Its image now may change. But never may the day come when we will have to look upon it with fear. If that happens, the world will wish that the "priceless on July 20, 1969, had never occurred. They Started Slow, Finished Strong By SAUL PETT SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) They took their first steps onto the moon cautiously, like prudent boys testing the first ice of winter on a country pond.

When first they walked, they walked carefully and slowly, leaning forward, plodding heavily like tired old cops on a beat in Staten Island. As they acquired confidence, they walked faster, now with a slow bounce in the one-sixth gravity of the moon. And then they ran and their stride was longer than on earth and their shoes seemed suspended off the strange lunar surface, with something of the floating quality of figures on slow motion film. When they were still, they seemed very still, as if frozen, and they leaned forward like puppets to be at a lunar form of attention when the president spoke to them from earth. All the while, the earth was "bright and beautiful" above them.

In this first incredible clay of an incredible new era one needs to repeat that: the earth was above them. In the distance, the lunar surface looked pocked and leathery like the back of a dead alligator. Closerup, it looked like rubble, like earth levelled roughly after a disaster, dead. They looked ghostlike on the soundless, airless, mostly colorless moon. Over the curving horizon, only one and a half miles away on a planet smaller than earth, there was the blackness of space and infinity.

The foreground was starkly lighted by the sun and the men and their vehicle cast long shadows. It was dawn on the moon and a dawn in the history of man. Other stories and pictures on the historic moon venture are on Pages 3, 9 and 10, Neil Alden Armstrong, formerly of 601 West Benton Wapakoneta, a town in Ohio, a state in the United States, a country on the planet earth, extended his left foot orrto the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," he said. The first words were fine.

History would be content. Now for the scientists: "The surface is fine and powdery. It adheres like charcoal to the soles of my shoes. You go down only about an inch." And for the doctors: "There seems to be no difficulty in moving around." And for the geologists and the biologists and the others seeking the age of the solar system and the secret of life he immediately began collecting "contingency" samples of rock. "Contingency" in case he had to leave in a hurry.

And Buzz Aldrin came down, the second man on the surface of the moon. And together they walked and ran like kids at recess and then like men with the responsibility of the ages they went to work. They gathered rocks, they set up a foil panel to measure the solar wind, they installed a seismometer to probe the interior of the moon, they set up a small mirror to reflect laser beams from earth, to measure the quarter million miles between the two planets to an accuracy of six inches. And they planted the flag of their country on the still face of the moon. Finally, Aldrin to Earth: "Anything for us before I head up?" Earth: "Negative.

Head on up the ladder, Buzz." Buzz was first up. ArmsU'ong stayed a few minutes longer, carefully guiding the hoisting of the rock boxes like the last pirate off an island with a load of gold. Then Armstrong climbed up, the caplain being the last to return from alien land. And now the moon was motionless ajjain..