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1 i i i 11u Wt IftlHfc WOI16 t6 Continuous Publication Since 1899 Single Copy 10 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS 76667 MONDAY, JULY 21, 1969 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE NUMBER 170 AMERICAN FLAG WAVING ON MOON Apollo 11 Highlights SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)- Highlights of Apollo 11 's fifth and sixth days in space, all times Eastern Daylight: The day ahead (Monday): After a seven-hour rest period, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. trigger lunar module (LM) ascent engine for crucial seven- minute burn at 1:50 p.m. to put LM into initial lunar orbit ranging from 11 to 52 miles high.

Smaller maneuvering rockets fire several times to propel LM into 69-mile-high circular orbit with command ship for docking at 5:26 p.m Armstrong and Aldrin join astronaut Michael Collins in command ship two hours later. Command ship's main engine fired at 12:52 a.m. Tuesday to propel Apollo 11 out of moon orbit and start return trip back to the earth. The day past (Sunday): Astronauts awakened by mission control at 7:02 a.m., report spaceship in excellent condition. Aldrin crawled into LM at 9:20 a.m.

Armstrong joined him an hour later. Together they activated and checked out LM systems. Mission control told Apollo 11 at 1 p.m., "You're go for undocking." Eagle (lander) and Columbia (command ship) uncouple behind the moon 45 minutes later. "The Eagle has wings," Armstrong said as they came into range of earth tracking stations at 1:47 p.m. LM's braking rocket fired first time behind moon at 3:09 p.m.

to send them on a path less than 10 miles from the surface. Final 12-minute burn of braking rocket began at 4:06 p.m. Armstrong and Aldrin touch down at 4:18 p.m. "Houston Tranquillity base here. Eagle has landed," were Armstrong's first words after touchdown.

Armstrong requests permission to start the moon stroll early and mission control agreed. Astronauts don life-supporting backpacks and open LM hatch at 10:40 p.m. Armstrong crawled out, climbed down ladder and stepped onto surface at 10:56 p.m. saying, "That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." Mexia Lions Will Hear Mrs. Slubbs Mrs, George Stubbs will be the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Mexia Lions Club Tuesday in the Fellowship Hall of the First United Methodist Church.

The speaker will give a report on the progress of the Fine Arts program in Limestone, Freestone and Leon counties. Howard Campbell is program chairman. Armstrong took photographs and picked up first sample of lunar soil at 11:05 p.m. "It's a very soft surface, but appears to be very cohesive," he reports. Aldrin steps onto surface 11 minutes later, saying, "beautiful, beautiful desolation." After testing their stability in one-sixth gravity and discovering it's easy to maneuver, Armstrong moves television camera to about 30 feet from LM for better view of it and astronauts working around it.

Astronauts plant American flag in soil at 11:40 p.m. President Nixon calls and tells them: "Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world." During a two-hour, 14-minute moon walk, astronauts successfully inspect LM, photograph surface around them, load boxes full of rocks and deploy scientific experiments. Astronauts climb back into Eagle landing craft and shut spaceship hatch at 1:10 a.m. Monday, repressurizing cockpit. Cabin depressurized at 3:45 a.m.

again so crew can toss out unneeded equipment onto lunar surface. Astronauts begin seven-hour rest period at 4:15 a.m. Taken There By Spacemen SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Two Americans, who strode the moon's surface for the first time and raised their nation's banner above it, held 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. Apollo 11 Wives Excited As Husbands Walk Moon MAN ON THE MOON Astronaut Neil Armstrong stops on the surface of the moon Sunday night to become the first human to set foot on the planet. Armstrong said it was a very level surface where the lunar module landed. Kennedy Is Charged EDGARTOWN, Mass.

(AP) Police today filed a formal complaint charging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident The complaint stems from a weekend wreck on Chappaquiddick Island, adjacent to Martha's Vineyard on which this small resort town is located. A young woman was killed and Kennedy injured, though apparently not seriously. The complaint was filed by Police Chief Domenic J.

Arena with the District Court Clerk Thomas A. Teller. Arena said that an Edgartown lawyer, Richard J. McCarran, had informed the clerk he is representing Kennedy. McCarran asked for a hearing, to which Kennedy is entitled before any summons is issued.

Teller set July 28 for the hearing, which will be held in the Edgartown courthouse. A crowd of several hundred persons, mostly tourists, filled the street outside the red brick, century-old courthouse as Arena crossed the street from his headquarters in the Town Hall to visit the clerk. Arena said. Sunday he is "firmly convinced there was no negligence involved" in the accident. "But the matter of the time period after the accident.

Arena said. "There is, in my opinion, a violation concerning going from the scene, leaving the scene," The mishap occurred between 11 p.m. Friday and 1 Saturday as Kennedy was driving Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, of Washington, to a landing to catch the ferry back to the Vineyard. The car skidded off a narrow bridge and landed bottomup in eight feet of water. Kennedy escaped with what a physician said was a mild concussion.

Miss Kopechne, former secretary to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was trapped in the vehicle and drowned. Kennedy went to the police 10 hours after the accident. The car had been found by then; two boys going fishing saw its wheels beneath the water.

In a police statement, Kennedy said he was left dazed by the accident. He said he tried repeatedly to rescue Miss Ko- pechne, but was not able to find her. The 37-year-old Massachusetts Democrat and Miss Kopechne had been at a dinner party at a private home on Chappaquiddick attended by several of Kennedy's friends and political associates. Kennedy said he returned to the home after the ac- Thundershowers Partly cloudy and continued hot with widely scattered thundershowers. Low tonight in the 70's.

High Tuesday near 98. cident and climbed into the rear seat of a car parked outside. "I then asked someone to bring me back to Edgartown," he continued. "I remember walking around for a period of time and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning I immediately went to the police." The time was 10 a.m.

Saturday. Arena said Sunday he already had sent Kennedy notice via registered mail that a complaint was being filed against him. He said that would be followed by formal notice of the complaint, after which Kennedy would have 24 hours in which to request a hearing. If no hearing was sought, Arena added, a formal summons would be issued automatically. Kennedy and his wife Joan remained in seclusion Sunday at his home on Squaw Island, a short distance off Hyannis Port on Cape Cod where the Kennedy family compound is located.

A contingent of police kept newsmen and sightseers at a distance. In Washington, a spokesman for the senator said he would have no statement to make in connection with the accident for the time being. Dr. Robert D. Watt of Hyannis Port, who saw the senator at his home Saturday afternoon, said Kennedy received "a blow on the head, but he seems to be AMP UP IT COMES Senator Ted Kennedy's car is pulled from the water at Edgartown.

where it careened off of a bridge tarly Saturday. The body of Mary Jo Kopechne, of Washington, was drowning. found in ttte rear seat, Death was attributed to all right." He said heprescribed a few.days of bed rest and added that he had spoken by telephone with Kennedy Sunday and believed him to be improved. Meanwhile, Dunn Gifford, a Kennedy aide, obtained the necessary release papers Sunday and arranged to have Miss Ko- pechne's body flown to Pennsylvania for burial Tuesday in Larksville. There was no autopsy, but blood samples were taken from the victim and sent to the state police laboratory for analysis.

In Berkley Heights, N.J., Mrs. Joseph Kopechne, the victim's mother, said her daughter's "admiration of the Kennedys was what took her to Washington to begin with. "She was pretty well wrapped up in politics," Mrs. Kopechne added. In Washington, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said he had deep sympathy for the Kennedy family.

Mansfield added that he had every confidence in Kennedy, He said of the tradegies that have beset the Kennedy family: "They have some kind of star, I guess." Kennedy, last of the four Kennedy brothers, narrowly escaped death once before. Five years ago, he suffered a broken back in a plane crash. Mexia Minister Will Preach At Revival Service An old time revival will be held at the Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church near Kirvin beginning tonight and continuing through July 27. The services will be conducted by the Rev, M.L, Bradford, pastor of the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Mexia. The Rev.

J.E. Morris is pastor of the Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church and invites everyone to the services which will be held each night at 7:30. Theme song of the revival is "The Old Time Religion That Me Love Everybody." POOL FAMILY NIGHT PLANNED TONIGHT Family Night will be held at the Jaycee swimming pool in Mexia tonight from 7:30 to 9:30 and everyone gets in for half price. Children, however, must be accompanied by their parents to take advantage of this price reduction. "Come on down and have fun tonight," Jaycee Larry Hill said.

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 flawlessly as have millions of other parts of Apollo 11 hardware during the incredible journey that carried man's quest for the unknown to his first landing on another celestial body. The launching from the moon was scheduled for EOT. 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 1 Once linked up, they plan to fire themselves back toward earth early Tuesday, ending a space odyssey in which they etched their names beside those of history's great explorers, Columbus, Balboa, Magellan, da Gama and Byrd, Through the magic of television, an estimated 500 million people around the world had a ringside seat to man's greatest adventure.

It was unforgettable. Armstrong climbed through the LM hatch and started backing down a nine-rung ladder. On the second rung from the bottom, he opened a compartment, exposing a television camera. The picture was black and white and somewhat jerky, but it recorded history. Among scientists, there was elation that the crew had landed in an area with a variety of rocks, a treasure that held at least the hope of a rich payoff in the search to learn more about moon and earth.

As Armstrong planted his size 9 left boot on the powdery surface at 10:56 p.m. Sunday, he spoke words that will be remembered for all time: "That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." The camera trained on Aldrin as he stepped on the far shore 20 minutes later and exclaimed: "Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation." There were other memorable utterances during the day of high adventure. There were and words from the See Apollo Page 8 SPACE CENTER, Houston different from the rest of the nation, the proud Apollo 11 wives struggled to find enough adjectives to express their feelings for their men on the moon. "The evening has been unbelievably perfect," Mrs. Neil Armstrong said today after watching the moon explorations of her husband and Edwin E.

Aldrin Jr. "It is an honor and privilege to share with my husband, the crew, the Manned Spacecraft Center, the American public and all of mankind this magnificent experience of the beginning of lunar exploration." Earlier, Mrs. Armstrong expressed her feelings much more simply. "I was tremendously excited," she said. "It was hard to think it was real until the men actually moved," said Mrs.

Aldrin. "I felt I was looking at another simulation;" After the moon touchdown Mrs. Aldrin said she wept "because I was so happy." "I thought it was fantastically marvelous," said Mrs. Michael Collins whose husband flew a moon orbit in the command capsule while the two other crewmen visited the lunar surface. "Don't you think he is with them there in spirit?" Mrs.

Col- replied when asked if her husband was disappointed because he was not in the landing party. All Apollo families planned to sleep late today before the next critical phase, blastoff from the moon. Tuesday night, if everything goes right, the three wives will be honored at a presplashdown party given by astronaut Bill Anders, "The splashdown will be the best part of the flight," Mrs. A'drin said Sunday at a news conference. And Mrs.

Armstrong did not consider the moon landing the greatest moment of her life. "That was when we were married," she said. The astronauts' children shared in Sunday's excitement, and in the praise of their thers. "It was pretty exciting," said 12-year-old Ricky Armstrong. "I'm proud of daddy." "It was very exciting," said 11-year-old Andy Aldrin.

Had Andy any ambitions to become an astronaut? "Oh Lord, I couldn't go through this twice," Mrs. Aldrin answered. Mexia Policeman Given Dismissal Orlin White has been dismissed from the Mexia Police Department, City Manager Gerald Yarbrough announced Saturday. Yarbrough said he missed "for a breach in departmental policy and operating procedure." More specifically, the young police officer was relieved of his duties by Chief Albert Leonard for failure to arrest a suspect at the scene of a crime and for not making a sufficient report to the department. The alleged misconduct came when a truck contained cigarettes and candy was discovered by Officer White near a hangar at the municipal airport on the night of July 10.

A case of cigarettes was reported found by the officer in a nearby field. Chief Leonard said a polygraph test cleared White of any criminal action concerning the panel truck and the theft of the cigarettes. Meanwhile, White has requested that he be permitted to appear before the City Commission, and Mayor Bill Pittman has called an executive session of the Commission for 5 o'clock this afternoon. Woman Spends 26 Hours On Desert Without Water BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) A 30 year old woman who spent 26 hours in the Southern California desert without food or water as temperatures reached as high as 100 degrees said a pack of coyotes tried to attack her during her ordeal.

"They circled around me and my fire during the night," Norrna Smith told Imperial County sheriff's deputies and state border patrolmen who found her. "Finally one of them came at me. I picked up a big stick and hit him. He ran away and the others went with him." Mrs. Smith, a mother of two young boys, was found Saturday digging frantically for water in a sun-seared canyon 22 miles from her home at Pajo Verde, a little desert community 35 miles southwest of Blythe.

She refused hospitalization, saying, "I'm fine." She told her rescuers she lost her way while trying to find shelter from a summer cloudburst on her way from a neighbor's house a mile outside of town. City Beat By JOHN MOSS Miss Ann Pendleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pendleton, will celebrate her birthday in Paris tomorrow. She boarded a jetliner at Love Field Sunday and left on an American International Tour.

In addition to Paris, she will visit Madrid, Lucerne, Rome, Venice, Copenhagen, Berlin, London and Cork. Miss Pendleton teaches school at Richardson. a card today from Arthur Harrison, Mexia State School business manager. The card was from Florida and thur wrote that "Dorothy and along with about a million other people, watched the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon. It was something to see.

We are enjoying the trip very much." L.J. Eslick is real happy that there are still honest people in the world. A week ago Sunday he lost his billfold, it contained his credit cards, various papers, and $101 in cash. He ran an ad in the Lost and Found column of The Mexia Daily News. Blackmon, who runs the Humble service station at the corner of Highway 84 and Bailey Street found the billfold on the driveway of the station Saturday and took it to Mr.

lick. All of the cards and papers were still in the wallet. So was the money. Methodist Minister Bill Fisher, speaking at the Summer Crusade service at the First Baptist Church Sunday night, called the moon landing the greatest event in the history of mankind since the coming of Christ. It is something we certainly never expected to see in our lifetime.

Now, we will be surprised at nothing, Tourists may be going to the moon or to other planets in the next few years. This is one tourist that isn't going though. There's too much on this planet we haven't seen yet. First Lt. Jerry Kinsey, who arrived in Vietnam on July 4, would like to have all the forts of home and he's going to get some of them, He wrote his wife, Barbara to send him an air conditioner for the hut he shares with another officer.

She is going to take the air conditioner to Fort Hood and it will be transported to Vietnam. He and this other guy have a maid who comes in every day except Sunday and she keeps their boots shinecl and does their laundry. Jerry is with the 45th Medical Company and his job is to cuate wounded from the combat areas. He made his first sion five days after arriving at Long Be in air base near Saigon,.