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There Are People Who Still Don't Know Of Men On Moon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) Laplanders pastuting their reindeer listened on transistor radios, Japanese stayed up all night to watch on television. Millions around the world hung on every word from the two astronauts walking on the moon, In some countries many tnained unaware, Communist China, with one quarter of the world's population, did not broadcast hews about Apollo 11, nor did North Vietnam or North Korea. As Neil A. Armstrong's boots scuffed the lunar dust, it was just before sunrise in most of Europe and a crowd of 2,000 still clustered around a giant television screen in London's Trafalgar Square. At the Jodrell Bank radio observatory, Sir Bernard Lovell, Britain's leading space expert, stopped tracking the progress of the Soviet craft Luna 15 over the moon to watch Armstrong.

"I'm just speechless with amazemen Lovell said. "There is nothing more I can say than that it is absolutely fantastic. One can scarcely believe it is taking place as one sees it." Crowds in front of TV screens at Paris sidewalk cafes and bars in Rome cheered as Armstrong bounded over the moon's surface and Buzz Aldrin began his descent. There was no word from the Vatican on whether Pope Paul VI stayed up to watch the walk, but when the astronauts landed the 71-year-old pontiff hailed them as "conquerors of the moon." He said man faces "the expanse of endless space and a new destiny." In Venezuela, today is a tional holiday, and the bells of hundreds of churches pealed during the walk, A Japanese girl in Tokyo said as she watched a streetside monitor, "It's like a dream, although I know it's not a dream." One Yugoslav teen-ager sounded a dissent: "They have stolen the romance out of the moon and it will never be the same again. Now the moon is real, and lovers won't have it for themselves alone anymore." In arctic Norway where the midnight sun kept skies bright through the night, Laplanders sat around their campfires composing sing-song folk poems about the astronauts as they listened to their transistors.

Poles jammed the lobby of the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw while hundreds applauded outside. Soviet media reported the landing without fanfare, but many Russians undoubtedly stayed up to listen to Western broadcasts about the exploration. Pravda, the Soviet Union's leading newspaper, gave the U.S. moon triumph only a small headline above a small story near the bottom of the front page.

In a more prominent place at the top of the page was a larger story on the shift of Luna 15, the unmanned Soviet spacecraft, closer to the moon. Pravda still gave no hint what Luna 15's mission was. At headquarters bases and other rear areas in Vietnam www Jerry's Sinclair Service On Red River at Milam JERRY LEE KENNEDY, Phone 562-6331 Mgr. wwwww Come By And Register For FREE U.S. Savings Bond To Be Given Away Saturday, July 26th NO PURCHASE NECESSARY Americans gathered around dios at midmorning to hear the broadcast of the walk as did the staff at the Embassy in Saigon.

More American Defectors Get Swedish Asylum STOCKHOLM (AP) The Swedish immigration and alization board announced today 16 more U.S. military defectors have been granted the right to stay in Sweden for humanitarian reasons, Thus 247 defectors from U.S. military units have now been granted permission to remain in Sweden by the board, earlier called the aliens commission. Another 20 cases are pending, a spokesman for the board said. The 16 defectors granted a stay in Sweden include: Richard Moore, born Feb.

19, 1947 in Dallas, Tex. father, Cecil Moore, lives in Houston, Tex. Two Youths Share Room While Their Countries Fight GAINSVILLE, Fla. (AP) While their countries fight a war, Karl Fick of Honduras and Jaime Salazar of El Salvador share a room at the University of Florida and get along fine. "We're good friends," Salazar, 26, said.

"We have nothing to complain about. I think it is senseless and there has to be another solution, not only war." Fick, 24, said, "We don't really know what's happening. We'd have to be there to know the facts and which country is right." Both are graduate students in the university's college of agriculture and met while attending college in Honduras. FREIGHTERS COLLIDE ON THE MISSISSIPPI NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Coast Guard said two freighters collided near the mouth of the Mississippi River about 75 miles south of New Orleans Sunday but no injuries were reported. Television Programs In the warworn Middle East Cairo Radio broadcast news about the first steps before viewing Sunday's fierce air tie with Israel.

One night club owner in rut stopped a striptease act to tell the audience, "We've made it." In Australia it was lunchtifne when the astronauts stepped onto the moon, From the cities to the lonely cattle stations in the Outback, ians regarded the lunar tion with awe. Australian newspapers highlighted their "kangaroo" movements, For many people in the Asian Woman Recovers Cash That Went Down The Sewer CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) A housewife has recovered a roll of $230 in bills after it traveled 13 days in a sewer. Mrs. Rose Mary Sotelo told city officials she was cleaning her toilet July 3, and when she reached to flush it, the money dropped from her bra and was flushed down the drain.

Officials said she had one chance in five million of recovering the money. Wednesday, Harvey Swearingen, a sewage employe, happened to turn off the sewage chopper at the disposal plant three miles from Mrs. Sotelo's home. He found the neatly rolled $5 and $10 bills, with rubber band still intact. GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ATTENDANCE UP WEST GLACIER, Mont.

(AP) More than 325,000 persons have traveled to Glacier National Park this year, a park official reported recently, and 10,000 are passing through the famed park each day. Supt. Keith Neilson said the number of visits is 5.22 per cent ahead of last year. Preachers Not As Poor Anymore As Churchmouse Monday Evening IS 2 ni iM 141 3 2 J. 5 tW 6 2 7 40 ill 8 9 3 101 us 19 8 WFAA ABC Newlywed Dating Gimt Gentril Hospital Lift To Live Shadows "Love 0 5 OThan Ever" pE.

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Average compensation for pastors in churches of 500 to 749 members was shown to be $11,157. Rental allowances, car expense, utilities, insurance and other fringe benefits, where provided by churches, were included in the annual compensation figures. Considering base salary only, 90.6 per cent of the pastors in the smaller churches are earning less than $8,000 yearly, but nearly -three-fourths of their counterparts in the largest churches have an annual base pay of over $12,000 In middle-sized churches, with 1,000 to 1,499 members, 62.6per cent of the pastors earn more than $8,000 annual base pay. Churches with fewer than 500 members were not included in the survey, Nearly all of the churches- 97.6 per cent-provide a home pastors and 70 per cent pay their utility bills as well. Other fringe benefits reported by a number of churches were car allowances, retirement benefits, social security, life and medical insurance, and nearly half pay as a Christmas bonus.

The researchers sent questionnaires to 547 representative churches earlier this year to make the survey, TEXAS Gl IS AMONG DESERTERS JN SWEDEN HOUSTON (AP)- Richard Cecil Moore, III, 22 is among 16 American Vietnam War desert' ers granted asylum in Sweden, the National Immigration Board said Friday, Moore, a Dallas native, is one of 247 service and others of draft age who have been allowed to stay in Sweden since early 1968. Zionism Not all Jews are Zionists. Zionism is the word for the movement which, in the late 19th century, was led by Theodore Herzl, who worked for the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine. subcontinent and Africa, the Voice of America broadcast was the only means of hearing about the two astronauts. Thousands of Europeans out TV sets spent the night at friends' houses to follow the nar adventure, In Fife, Scotland, a boy born Sunday night was to be named Neil Edwin the second child in Britain to be named after all three astronauts.

On British television Sunday night David Threlfall, who bet $24 five years ago that man Would set foot on the moon before 1971, received a check for $24,000 even though Armstrong hadn't left the lunar module yet. A spokesman for the London bookmaker William Hill, with whom Threlfall placed the bet at odds when he was 26, said the touchdown was "good enough for us." As newspapers prepared special editions with huge headlines, world leaders went on television to express their admiration and sent congratulatory cables to President Nixon. Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain called it a "most historic scientific achievement in the history of man" and told his audience: "Above all we must pay tribute to the heroism and fortitude of the men who are out there and to the men who have Thirty Persons Die In Accidents During Weekend At least 30 persons in Texas died violently over the weekend. Traffic accounted for 16 of the deaths, shootings took five lives and the rest died in mis- ecellaneous violence. Timothy McCoy, 24, and Luther McDaniel, 77, died Saturday when their cars crashed headon on FM 1195 near Mineral Wells.

Both resided in the Mineral Wells area. Larry Rodgers, 17, of Azle died Saturday when the car he drove turned over on a curve on U. S. 87 near Brady in Southwest Texas. Two San Antonio men died Saturday in the crash of their light plane in Jacksboro in North Texas.

The victims were identified as Raymond Leroy Jefferys, 39, and his son, Raymond Larry Jeffreys, 20, both of San Antonio. Ivory Douglas Smith 31, of Hearne, was killed Saturday in a car-truck collision near Hempstead, Tex. Harold Goforth, 20, of Grand Prairie was shot to death early Sunday when gunfire erupted in a Grand Prairie restaurant. Brian Hickcox, 9, of Tempe, was killed Sunday when he fell from a ladder at the Take-It-Easy Ranch near Kerrville. Police said the boy was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Hickcox of Tempe. Vera Keith of Kerrville was killed early Sunday when she was struck by a car as she walked along Texas 27 within the Kerrville city limits. Police questioned the driver of the death car gone before them." President Guiseppe Saragat of Italy said: "of all the sentiments that stir us, gratitude toward the American people dominates, that people formed by innumerable immigrants from every country, that has given humanity so great a victory." Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said: "The moment of triumph and achievement is also a moment of humility and self'search Let usdirect this power of man which soars star- ward into strengthening the bonds of peace and brotherhood on earth." Not all the reaction was favorable. In Havana, where the Voice of America broadcast went jammed, one Cuban industrial worker, Luis Sosacotilla, 43, said: "Their experiment does nothing to benefit humanity." He "aid the money should have been used to wipe out poverty and misery in the United States, a reflection of the government view on Apollo.

K'aus Bahnke, president of West Germany's Radical Socialist German Students Federation, said he and his colleagues were avoiding the news "because they are only trying to cover up the real goals of the United States." iatly Mexia, Texas-Monday, July 21, 1969-Page 7 Honduras Makes Charge Against El Salvadorans TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduras that El Salvador broke the cease-fire in their undeclared war with the capture Sunday of five more towns or villages. El Salvador replied with a charge that Honduran troops opened fire with machine guns on President Fidel Sanchez Hernandez of El Salvador while he was inspecting Salvadoran troops Inside Honduras. The cease-tire, which supposedly went into effect at 10 p.m. Friday, calls for the withdrawal of all Salvadoran troops from Honduras by 10 o'clock tonight. But El Salvador said it would not withdraw until it received "satisfactory" guarantees for the safety of more than 275,000 Salvadorans living in Honduras and their property.

Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan chairman of the peace commission of the Organization of American States, said that if El Salvador does not pull its troops back, It will be "considered an aggressor and subject to the sanctions specified in the Rio de Janeiro Charter." According to Honduran nouncements, the Saivadorans have now captured a sizeable piece of western Honduras since they invaded the neighboring country last Monday. The dorans said they went to war because the Hondurans were persecuting the Salvadorans in Honduras and because Honduras was preparing to invade El Salvador. Fine Violins To produce the perfect resonance of a fine violin, wood of the silver fir of Kurope is used for the top of the instrument and Kuropean sycamore is used for the back. Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, founded in 1856, is the oldest Negro university in the United States. Men In Service FORT WORTH (Spl.) Thomas E.

Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. O.C. Stone of Rt. 1, West, Texas, has been promoted to staff sergeant in the U.S.

Air Force, Sergeant Stone is a radio repairman at Carswell AFB, Tex. He is assigned to a unit of the Strategic Air Command. The sergeant is a graduate of West High School. His wife, Frances, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

W.B. Bond, Rt. 3, Teague. WICHITA FALLS Sergeant Bobby Murphey, son of Mr, and Mrs. John Murphey of Rt.

1, Mexia, has graduated from a Air Force technical school AFB, Tex. He was trained as an air freight specialist and assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces at Tan Son Nhut, AB, Viet' nam. The sergeant is a graduate of Mexia High School and ed Navarro Junior College. U.S, ARMY, VIETNAM (Spl.) Army Specialist Four Foreman, 31, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James Foreman, Mount Calm, recently received the Bronze Star Medal in Vietnam. Spec. 4 Foreman received the award, for heroism in connection with military operations against a hostile force while serving with Company 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. His wile lives in Coolidge. closeup of a crater on the moon's Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 astronauts will make historic FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON Never again will there be a first landing on the moon.

And never again will there be such a volume as this. Written by John Barbour, an outstanding journalist who has been helping cover the thrust into space from the start, its text includes much new material and is complemented by more than a hundred of the most dramatic color pictures ever taken. To make sure that you get your copy of a first edition that doubtless will become a collector's item, you should make your reservation now. You and your children and your children's children will find it a volume to treasure. IFOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON The Mexia Daily News I Enclosed is Sand me copies of Footprints on the Moon, Cily State i lu'cks payul'lv to The (Rfjtrv? yotir copy now for dvlivvry alter I i.

t'rini or plainly supply vvinplctv ORDER YOUR BOOK NOW AT THE SPECIAL PRICE OF $5 The book contains: 224 pages, 9VV 12Vz" hard-bound edition, with dust- jacket. 70,000 word manuscript by AP space specialist John Barbour. More than 100 full color illustrations, from the first space efforts in 1960s through to Apollo U. Edited and produced by the largest news-gathering organization, The Associated Press,.

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