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gfts Highlights? Baltimore Colts, rout Cleveland 3' caPtufe NFL championship, page IB. I passes New York championship ylo RaidersV Page IB (Complete sports, i4B). Monday, December 30, ,1968 i JL Florida's Space Age Newspaper Published in Brevard County, Florida Next Space Shot An Orbiting Solar Observatory will go on a Delta rocket Jan. 22. TODAY'S Weather Generally fair with high of low 70s and low of high 50s.

Northerly winds five to 15 mph. (Complete weather Page 2A) 10 Cents MONDAY Headlines Inside TQDAY Use of satellites In nrnvide more detail ed mapping of earth is urged by expert. (Page 7A) Families Greet Astronauts; Debriefing Starts SPACE CENTER, (AP) Less than 12 hours after their early morning arrival home, Sunday, the Apollo 8 moon mariners began a concentrated debriefing on what they saw, felt and heard during six days of traveling whore man never before has been. Air Force Col. Frank Borman, Navy Capt.

JamS A. Lovell Jr. and Air Force Lt. Col. William A.

Anders arrived 'in Houston shortly after 3 a.m. EST Sunday and were back on the job at the Manned Spacecraft Center by 2 p.m. EST. The trio went through a two hour detailed medical debriefing with NASA flight surgeons and then sat down with experts for a two hour session of tape recording answers to technical questions a their flight to the moon. The astronauts will continue to debrief into tape recorders for eight hours daily for the next 10 to 14 days, going through their 147 hour mission minute by minute.

Borman and his crew arrived at Ellington Air Force Base here just 10 hours after they left the USS Yorktown, the aircraft carrier which directed the recovery opera tions Friday in the mid Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. More than 2,000 persons, many who waited for more than three hours, jammed the runway reception area at the air base to get a glimpse of the moon travelers. Borman, Anders and Lovell raced down the ramp of the Air Force C141 and fell into Vthe embraces of their waiting Each of the crewmen had red and purple flower garlands from Hawaii for his wife and children. Borman, his face smeared with lipstick, then led his crewmen to microphones and told the crowd, "Thank you for coming out so early in the morning to welcome us." Lovell and Anders also spoke briefly, thanking the crowd for its warm welcome. "We're proud," Anders said of their half million mile flight to moon orbit and back, "and I hope you are." Air police were unable to control the crowd and it surged forward, surrounding the astronauts and their families.

All three were beseiged with autograph seekers and they stopped repeatedly on the way to waiting cars to sign slips of paper thrust at them. Apparently surprised at the size of the welcoming group, Lovell quipped, "At two in the morning, I expected to get in Continued Back Page This Section South Vietnam Rangers battle enemy troops for fourth straight day nar Da Nang. (3A) Two Israeli jets fly over Beirut to survey damage done to airport in Saturday raid. (3A) Istanbul police refuse to let U.S. authorities question American girl friend of killer.

(8A) Former President Eisenhower most admired man by public for 12th time in Gallup Poll. (2A) Saigon believed hindering peace solution at Paris, according to Harris Poll. (2A) Arctic air brings temperatures of 45 below zero to Midwest and ice storms to Atlantic coast. (2A) Pueblo crew members given liberty In San Diego, half going with their families overnight. (2A) President and Mrs.

Johnson go to church. He tells pastor he will try to live up to "new man" sermon. (2A) Food and Drug Administration rules that six antibiotic containing prescription drugs ark. worthless. (8A) NS Report recommends consolidation of 33 sparsely populated counties into 12 school districts.

(14C) A bill designed to help control sales of pep pills in Florida has been pre fiied for 1969 Legislature. (14C) Weekend highway fatalities set new record as 1968 toll already 293 more than last year. (14C) The legend of a house of midgets ends in death for youth who wanted to play a practical joke. (14C) lTWi IVBBBBBBBBBBH IHbA JKi WVSrBsRshSbIbbbbbbbi 4BvK SVbbIbbIbBBBBBBBBBBBBi 1 1 L.MAnari' linmpctpnd MemD urevaru Luureonuu. tion forms prepared for mailing by Tax Assessor Clark Maxwell.

(1C) Eau Gallian breaks through official red tape to bring bride home from Philippines. (2CMelboume cHy manager Richard Simmons prepares action list of road priorities for multi million dollar city project. (2C) BMMtS FSU'S FOOTBALL TEAM IS mi the flu bug (including star passer Ron Sellers) shortly before its battle with LSU at the Peach Bowl. Page IB. COUNT MARCO OPENS THE MAIL bag and finds letters from a Marco hater, a Marco lover and a husband complaining about his mother in law.

Page 6D. MARY FEELEY MAKES HER NEW Year's resolutions in the form of changes toe U.S. consumer would like to see during 1969. Page 6B. Everyday Features Amusements, 4 5D Bridge, 7D Business, 6A H3C, Comics.

7 8D Conversation, '6D Crossword! "TO Datebook, 83 Earl Wilson, 4D Editorials, 6A Four Family. 1 JD Horoscope, 7D Jack F'Qwers, IB 7A Movie Times, 5D television, 4D Sports, 1 4B State News, 4, 14C Weather, 2A Sections TCMAY jAP Wlraphoto VIEW OF THE MOON'S SURFACE FROM APOLLO 8 SPACECRAFT oblique photograph looks northwest into Sea of Tranquility Earth 'Sapphire Disc In Astronaut Photos SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) To a man orbiting the moon, the earth is a glowing sapphire blue half disc on a field of black velvet. This is the scene the Apollo 8 astronauts caught on tilm and brought back to earth. It's the scene that caused one of the astronauts, Navy Capt. James A.

Lovell to describe the earth as "an oasis in the big vastness of space." The space agency released nine prints from film taken by the astronauts during their 20 hour orb.t of the moon and during the coast to theimoon. One scene shows the earth half disc glowing blue in the background with the horizon ot the moon in the foreground, a view very similar to one the trio showed the world via television. Continents on earth had a brown tint in the pictures. One view clearly showed the1 Western Hemisphere, from the St. Lawrence River south to the tip of South America.

Florida, the Gulf TODAY'S Chuckle If you can't find it In the dictionary, the atlas, or the encyclopedia, don't' be discouraged. Ask for it at the drugstore. Page of pictures on 8A Coast, Central America and the Andes Mountains area of South America are shown plainly. The western hump of Africa can also be seen. Clcuds appear as white wisps whipped cream, swirling over the surface of the earth, fine view shows a whirlpool like pattern clouds over the Atlantic Ocean.

Views of the moon surface show its stark terrain In g. sat detail, and make it plain wty another Apollo 8 astronaut, Air Force Col. Frank Borman, called the lunar surface a vast, "forbidding" area, "not a very inviting place to work or live." The astronauts got pictures of craters of all sices during their 10 orbits. Many craters appear erroded, with crumbling sides. Others are clear, smooth indentations on Continued Back Page This Section Sophia Loren Gives Birth To a Boy, Fulfilling Goal GENEVA (AP) Actress Sophia Loren gave birth Sunday to a 7 pound 11 ounce boy, fulfilling what she said was her greatest desire to have a child.

Her doctor said mother and son were in perfect health. The child was named Carlo Jr. after Miss Loren's husband, producer Carlo Ponti. Ponti interrupted a trip and Hew to Geneva Saturday night. for the birth of the long awaited child.

Since, her marriage to Ponti In ,1957,, the 34 year old Italian actress had had four miscarriages, the latest early in 1967. Ponti visited his wife after the delivery, emerged looking relaxed and. later smilingly posed for photographers as he lunched with friends. U.S. Condemns Israeli Attack Israeli jets survey damage, 3A.

By Th. Associated Prtss UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The United States and the Soviet Union strongly condemned Israel before the Security Council Sunday night for its commando attack against Beirut International Airport. U.S. Ambassador J.R.

Wiggins and Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik denounced the Israeli Saturday night raid at an urgently called council meeting. Lebanon called on the 15 nation council to impose sanctions against Israel, which defended the raid as retaliation for a Palestine commando attack on an Israeli airliner In Athens. 'Wlggms called the Saturday night Israeli attack a "most regrettable Israeli a i o'n which my government strongly condemns." He said the Thursday attack on an Israeli airliner at the Athens airport was "an outrageous disregard of the laws of nations," but no evidence been oroduced to show that the Lebanese government was responsible Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik joined in the condemnation, but blamed the United States for encouraging Israel in her alleged aggression.

He noted that Wiggins had taken what he called a new turn in U.S. policy by condemning Israel. Britain's Sir Leslie Glass expressed his country's profound concern at the "dangerous" events in the Middle East and the "terrifying trend." The French delegate, Claude Chayet, deplored the Israeli action. Malik not only insisted on speedy condemnation of Israel but asserted that the council must require Israel to punish those who took part in the Beirut attack. Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol bbHP BbbbbB IBF em' i' 1bbM of fm SOPHIA LOREN mother and child well folhwed up the Israeli raid with a declaration Sunday that Israel will defend itself against aggression "in the place where it is planned and carried out." Eshkol reviewed the latest developments of the Middle East crisis in a speech recorded in Jerusalem for broadcast over the state radio.

Eshkol said in his broadcast that "We have no interest in worsening our relations with LeVinon. Israel is interested in delimitation of the Continued Back Page This Section Peter Johnson Dead at 40 Cocoa Beach public relations executive Peter Johnson, 40, died Sunday afternoon at an Orlando hospital. Johnson, president of Peter Johnson Associates and husband of Brevard's State Sen. Beth Johnson, succumbed six days after suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his Cocoa Beach home. Johnson was prominent in both civic and business activities in Cocoa Beach since moving here in 1903 but was perhaps best known for i near successful jai alai campaign in 1967; and as i ial" campaign manager for his wife's three successful elections.

In directing the jai alai campaign, Johnson guided the "pro" forces within a few hundred votes of success the closest of any previous bid. He and his wife were friendly foes in that referendum. She opposed it as a threat to industrial growth. Johnson was considered an important behind the scenes force in boosting his wife from a political novice and unknown in 1966 to an influential power in politics in 1968. Johnspn was vice president of Brevard County United Fund, an active member of the Cape Kennedy Area jKji.

5H PETER JOHNSON Cocoa Beach civic leader Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the University Club of Cocoa Beach. He was born in Watertowr N.Y. He attended school ana began his public relations and Continued Back Page This Section Cunard Line Won't Accept Faulty Queen Elizabeth 2 ABOARD THE QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (AP) Britain's new pride of the seas, the Queen Elizabeth 2, sailed through sea of troubles Sunday with her maiden voyage to New York canceled and swarms of workmen striving to make the liner shipshape. The Cunard Company announced it had refused to accept delivery of the trouble plagued liner because engine failures and the amount of uncompleted interior work on her current shakedown cruise to the Canary Islands. Sir Basil Smallpeice, Cunard chairman who is on board the liner, said the QE2's maiden voyage to New York scheduled Jan.

17 had been canceled because repairs Continued Back Page This Section ifilaiUUIMMM The Dropouts Look at the black and white comic page In this issue for the debut of the new comic strip THE DROPOUTS, featuring Sandy and Alf. These two captivating castaways will provide many laughs. Meet them on PAGE 7p mt i A.

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