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i TIT 17 JlJCi urn Vi MM They re Really ome 717 ir'tfi amines YOll illi The plane carrying the astronauts, James A. Lovell Fred W. Haise Jr. and Swigert landed only moments after Air Force One bearing the President and their families. Some 2500 spectators gathered at sunny Honolulu International Airport to welcome them all.

"I hereby declare that this was a successful mission," President Nixon said. "I think I can truthfully say that never before in the history of man have more people watched together, prayed together or rejoiced together," he said. In a crowd well laced with children and military uniforms, the astronauts in their blue flight suits and caps heard the President say it was "the individual that counts, that in the crisis the character of a man or men will make the 9 fob Tornado Left Little To Be Recognized this aerial view shows wrecked Sherwood Shores trailer park near Clarendon, Tex. Tornadoes Slam Texas In Clusters; 26 Killed The three astronauts standing at attention to his left, the President said, "This sate return is a triumph of the human spirit, the special qualities a man can rely on and rely on all those things that machines cannot do." He turned and hung the nation's highest civilian honor, the Modal of Freedom, around the necks of each of them. LOVEI.L, first, then Haise, then Swigert.

Their wives joined the men on the podium, wearing white leis. Earlier, President Nixon, stopping in Houston, praised the Apollo ground workers. They, too, were designated for the Medal of Freedom award. Before reaching Hawaii, Lovell, a veteran who has logged more hours in space than anyone else, said: "Coming back from Apollo 8 at Christmas In 1968, I remembered how much we don't realize what we have on Earth until we leave It. "Looking back at all the color in the world, at the ocean and the Earth, the blues and the browns of land and sky, you realize that the Earth really is unique," Lovell said, echoing the comments he made on the Apollo 8 flight around the Moon.

"This time, looking back and feeling just that much father out, was not too sure where we would end. To him, the Moon seemed endless thousands of miles from Earth on this flight. "I have been there before, but never have I been quite that far away before." Othor Apollo itories. Pago IQA IT! Goodwill Dags In today'i Enquirer, you will find a bag to uied for the annual United Clothing Drive for the benefit of the Good-w i 1 1 Industries Rehabilitation Center. The bags should be filled with clothes that still are usable.

They should then be placed on your porch to be picked up next Sunday, April 26. Please have the bags ready when the collection men make their rounds next Sunday. HONOLULU (B The American space pilots who spent four perilous days feeling so far away from Earth returned to the arms of their families Saturday and a heroes' welcome from their President. Marilyn I.ovell met her astronaut husband on the steps of the plane that brought the three men from Tago Pago and rushed to his arms. Mary Haisc, seven months pregnant embraced her husband too.

And bachelor Jack L. Swigcrt hugged his mother and father. Everyone was smiling and the President beamed at the scene. Day Of Prayer President Nixon, who declared today a national day of prayer and thanksgiving1 for Apollo 13, will attend special services this morning at Honolulu's historic Kawaihao Church. The church was founded by missionaries from New England who arrived here April 150 years ago.

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"I found my wife 100 yards from the trailer. She was still alive. I decided to get some help. I got back 20 minutes later," he said. "I touched her.

She was cold. Tears started streaming because I knew she wasn't breathing anymore." More than 60 were injured. Tornadoes howling with the roar of a fleet of jets ripped through Clarendon, Whiteface, Whitharral, Cotton Center, Plainview, Lazbud-die, Claytonville, Silverton, Hedley, Pampa and Kress. Besides the dead at Clarendon, victims included two each at Silverton, Claytonville, Cotton Center and Plainview, and one at Lazbud-die. Another was pronounced dead at a Tulia, hospital.

Clarendon is 59 miles southwest of Amarillo the largest town in the Panhandle area. Unknown hundreds were injured from the Red River Valley to the tip of the Panhandle. CLARENDON, Tex. (UPI) Clusters of tornadoes, striking in the blackness of night, stabbed time after time at a 200-mile stretch of the Texas Panhandle early Saturday. At least 26 persons were killed, Including an electrician who was fatally shocked while working on a downed powerline.

Hundreds more were injured and damage climbed into the millions. The twisters, too many to count, darted in and out of a vicious thun-derhead from the tiny cotton village of Whiteface, population 378 near the New Mexico border, to Pampa, an oil town of 26,961 near the Oklahoma line. "Damage is estimated in excess of $5 million," said C. O. Layne, coordinator for the civil defense and disaster relief.

"Eleven towns have been damaged and have dead or injured." Hundreds were homeless along Texas' tornado alley. One of them, Mrs. E. A. Parham, lost the front of her house to a twister and across the street a woman died.

"I had some thoughts that I should have been a little better person," Mrs. Parham said. A crossfire of tornadoes struck a sleepy resort trailer park four miles north of Clardendon, a town of 2250 population. Fifteen persons were killed in and around Clardendon, 13 of them in the trailer park. BETWEEN 150 and 300 house trailers were tossed around like toys and destroyed.

Cars and boats were twisted into balls. A line of cottonwood trees, were mowed off two feet above the ground. W. T. Robertson, 70, lost his wife and his home.

He said he had fled the trailer park on the shores of Green Belt Lake when tornado warnings went out but returned home after midnight. "We hadn't been back long enough for a coffee pot to get hot when we heard it coming," Robertson said. "We ran for the door. I was in the trailer when it hit. The only thing that saved me was Pres.

Nixon Accused Of Tear Appeal' SALT LAKE CITY t.V) Sen. George S. McGovem accused the Nixon administration Saturday of "appealing to our basest Instincts and fears, Instead of rallying the nation behind a new commitment to peace and Justice." Speaking at the Western State Democratic Conference, the South Dakota Democrat denied that a "silent majority" supports Mr. Nixon's policies. "Millions of Americans who may be silent are nevertheless ready for a leadership that would unite them with their dissenting fellow Americans in a common effort to face up to the nation's need.s," he said.

McGovern said Mr. Nixon's "pledge 'bring us together' now appears a determination to bring the right people together." "And the right people, presumably, are those who arc content with things as they are and hostile to those who would change them," he added. Flights over the Soviet Union Was Oswald Key To Downing Of Powers U-2? Jrl I ''V, If I I XT' On May 1, I960, five Soviet soldiers manned their post at an antiaircraft station 1200 miles inside the Soviet Union. They were Sqt. A.

Fedorov, Pvt. A. Baiborodin, Lance Cpl. A. Kuznetsov, Pvt.

V. Turkin and Pvt. B. Kondratyev. They activated their anti-aircraft weapon and brought down a foreign plane from an altitude of several miles.

Their marksmanship, plus other factors, helped set off one of the most explosive international incidents of the decade. The pilot, who parachuted to safety, was Francis Gary Powers, conducting a surveillance 7nission for the V. S. Central Intelligence Agency. His capture not only exposed to the ivorld some of the most secret espionage activities of the United States, but also put a crucial strain on U.

S. relations with its Western The incident put the United States in the embarrassing position of having to acknowledge after it had denied that overflights of the Soviet Union were part of a national policy. It also disclosed that the U. S. was spying on its allies in some instances.

President Eisenhower, who was planning a visit to the Soviet Union, was suddenly not welcome. A summit conference of the Big Four powers was planned in Paris in early May. It collapsed before it could begin. Meantime there was a serious question in Powers' mind: how did the Soviets learn the secret of height-finding Flights over Soviet territory had been going on for four years and, Powers is sure, the Soviets were aware of them. But, until I960 they had not had the key information which the United States did have concerning height-finding radar and the intricacies of the U-2, the plane in which Powers was flying.

In the research for his book, "Operation Overflight," he developed the following possibility of how the Soviet Union could have learned about the secrets of the U-2. His book, excerpts of which will follow, is the first time Powers has spoken out publicly concerning the details of that flight. By Francis Gary Powers In September of 1957 a 17-year-old Marine Corps private was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron No. 1 (MACS-1) based at Atsugl, Japan. MACS-1 was a radar unit whose duties including scouting for incoming foreign aircraft.

Its equipment Included height-finding radar. The private, a trained radar operator, had access to this equipment. He remained in Japan until November, 1958, at which time he was returned to the United States and assigned to Marine Air Control Squad-don No. 9 (MACS-9) at the Marine Corps Air Station at EI Toro, Calif. El Toro was not a U-2 base, but U-2s frequently flew over this portion of Southern California.

At El Toro he had access not only to radar and radio codes but also to the new MPS 16 height-finding radar gear. In September of 1959 he obtained a "hardship discharge" from the U. S. Marine Corps. The following month he defected to the Soviet Union.

ON OCTOBER 31 he appeared in the American embassy in Moscow to state his intention of renouncing his U. S. citizenship. According to Richard E. Snyder, the second secretary and senior consular official, (first Of A Series) i owers Is sure that the Russians knew of them but had been helpless to do anything because they lacked certain secret data about the U-2 and height-finding radar which the United Stales possessed, hi research for his book, I'owers has come up with a theory-thouRh unprovable which could point tlit Kremlin's source of Information: one of the more infamous American defectors to the Soviet Union.

Towers documents the possibility of his theory with both published and still-classified II. S. government reports. all bases In the West oast area, all radio frequencies for nil squadrons, all tddKrtl call signs, and the relative strength of all squadrons, number and type of aircraft in a squadron, who was the commanding officer, the authentication code of entering and exiting the ADIZ, which stands for Air Defense Identification Zone. He knew the range of our radar.

He knew the range of our radio. And he knew the range of the surrounding units' radio and radar." Oswald's conversation with Is mentioned at least three times In the "Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy" (page references are to "The New York Times" edition, published by McGraw-Hill, October, 11)04). Page 018: "Oswald told him that he had already offered to tell Soviet official what he had learner! as a radar operator In the Marines." I'AGi; "Oswald slated to Snyder that he had voluntarily told Soviet, officials that he would known to them all Information concerning the Marine Corps and his ialty there, radar operation, as he possessed." Page 3fi9: "He stated that he had volunteered to give Soviet officials any Information that he had concerning Marine Corps operations, and intimated that he might know something of special Interest." During the six months following the October 31, lO.V), embassy meeting there were only two overflights of the USSR. The one which occurred on April 9, was uneventful. The one which followed, on May 1, lftliO, wasn't.

Here the trail ends, except for one tantalizing lead, discovered during the research for this book. Among the Warren Commission Documents In the National Archives in Washington, D. is one numbered 931, dated May 13, 1904, CIA National Security Classification Secret. IN RKSrONSK to an Inquiry. Mark G.

Eckhoff, director, Legislative. Judicial and Diplomatic Records Division, National Archives, In a letter dated October 13, 1909, stated "Commission Document 931 Is classified and withheld from research." The title of Document No. 931 is "Oswalds Access to Information about the U-2." TOMORROW: Powers' rnnncv.Uon with the CIA: Dir. latest equipment, Including the "Silver and apprehension about the upcoming flight. from n.

bonk, "Op.tnlion Ov.tllnhl," by f'lnui Gtry Por nd Curt Cmtry. PubliiM by Holt, R'nhrl I Winvton, Ine, Copyright (c) 1970 by Fundi Gary Pownti and Curt Gentry. Photo by John Bryion Former CIA Pilot Powers Looks Hack holds model of high flying surveillance aircraft shot down over Soviet Union 10 years ago. specialty, radar operation. He also intimated that he might know of "special interest." His name was I.ce Harvey Oswald.

Six months later my U-2 was shot down. Oswald's familiarity with MPS 16 height-finding gear and radar and radio codes (the latter were changed following his defection) are mentioned in the testimony of John E. Donovan, a former first lieutenant assigned to the same El Toro radar unit as Oswald, on page 298 of Volume 8 of the "Warren Commission Hearings." According to Donovan, Oswald "had the access to the location of and John A. McVickar, Synder's assistant, who was also present, during the course of the conversation he mentioned that he had" already offered to tell the Russians everything he knew about the Marine Corps and his.