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rlanbo enttnel Sentiinl Slar Chai-iliri Footlmll WWJini Wsffl Trl City (Mich.) Apollos Va Kfcpj FINAL Late Baseball Ti8 a Privilege to Live in Central Florida TANOIIINI OWl AUO. Milt Vol. 85 No. 78 Orlando, Florida, Wednesday, July 30, 1969 1 19M Seminal Star Company Cropduster Dies As Plane Hits Near Leesburg Airport Area Plane Crashes Take 5 Lives Nixon Trip News Under Blackout 4 Persons Killed In Polk Mishap Two light airplane crashes killed five persons in the Central Florida area late Tuesday. The dead included four unidentified people who died in a crash near Auburndale in Polk County and a Leesburg cropduster pilot.

The Auburndale Police Department said it was believed the plane down there contained Polk County residents and had taken off from Gilbert Field near Auburn-dale. Police said the wreckage was in a citrus grove about a mile north of the airport and 150 yards off Lynchburg Road between Lake Alfred and Auburndale. The craft was badly smashed but did not burn, police said. Police were still working to remove the bodies early today. EARLIER, A 31-year-old Lees-burg man was killed when his single-engine cropduster plane crashed just after takeoff from Leesburg Municipal Airport.

The burned body of Richard Darcy, 7401 Silver Lake was pulled from the wreckage after the craft apparently developed engine trouble, crashed and burst into flames in a wooded area just 200 feet from the end of the runway, Leesburg police reported. DARCY, who had recently moved from Orlando, was piepar-ing to spray a large farm near Eustis. Matt Tutton, who had just loaded the cropduster's hopper with 160 gallons of spray, said Darcy had only flown the airplane a few times, "and never with that heavy a load." The plane crashed nose up in a cypress swamp. A Ti jT, 1 i A th'j-Vj 4 r-. rry 1 1 STARS AND STRIPES STAND OUT Photographs taken from Inside IN GLORY ON SURFACE OF MOON lunar module by Apollo II crewmen First Mars Pictures In A A NA, Calif.

(UPI) Mariner 6 sent back pictures of Mars Tuesday night to earth more than 60 million miles away in the beginning of a space epic to determine whether there was life on another planet. The little spacecraft culminating its five-month journey through space, transmitted television pictures of the red planet from a distance more than 200 times greater than that traveled by pictures from the Apollo 11 mission on the moon. THE first pictures from outer space rolled slowly across the television screens and showed the south polar ice cap of Mars. The commentator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology said the first shot was "rather disappointing" in that it compared with pictures of the planet taken through telescopes on earth. Mariner 6 and 7, however, will close in much closer and show distances as small as 900 feet.

VICE President Spiro T. Agnew had been scheduled to come to Pasadena here to view the first pictures but his trip was cancelled because of pressures in Washington over the extension of the surtax. Mariner 6 was only 99 seconds late in its date with Mars after its 241 million mile voyage through space and gave the United States another epic success to add to the laurels of the Apollo achievement. The Soviet Union has sent seven spaceships near Mars but has never been able to transmit back information. iJl 'tMi'rY I'll lit iT Ascent Sequence Accidentally Knocked Out 2 Almost Left On Moon Cork limra Ditpatch To The Sentinel BANGKOK, Thailand Presl-dent Nixon took off early today for a secrecy-cloaked one-day trip to Vietnam, where a blackout was clamped on outgoing news dispatches from Saigon.

The blackout was expected to continue until the President was on his way back to Thailand. The traveling White House refused to reveal Nixon's destination, but it was known to be somewhere in the Saigon area. Mrs. Nixon accompanied the President. EARLIER, NIXON defined his do-it-yourself doctrine of Asian defense to a nervous ally here and won what he took to be approval of his concept.

As explained to the Thai leaders, the still developing Asian policy that Nixon has brought along on his visit to five Asian nations, Romania and Britain offers help against insurgencies only where the threatened government helps itself and when it can manage with its own combat troops. UNDER THIS concept, designed for the period after the end of the Vietnam War, Nixon is giving firm pledges of help to allies and even some nonaligned countries against external threats, especially any that might come from Communist China. At the same time, however, he is serving notice that Asian governments must devise their own political and military defenses against subversion. And in so doing, he is said to be telling them that they may count on American advice, training, technical assistance and equipment but probably no combat forces. This is being described by the traveling White House as a major shift of responsibility to the threatened countries, similar to the shift by which the President hopes gradually to withdraw American forces from South Vietnam.

SOME REPORTS suggested Nixon would lunch with President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and then address some of the troops preparing to leave the war zone at the Bien Hoa airfield near the capital. Traveling with the President will be Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. ambassador in Saigon, and Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the commander of American forces.

Bunker was one of eight ambassadors to Asian nations not on the President's published itinerary who briefed him here Tuesday afternoon. (Continued On Page 2-A, Col. 1) Moon-Landing Doubter Nibbles Old Straw Hat ATLANTA, Ga. Vasker Mc-Kinney wrote a letter to a newspaper seven years ago in which he said he would eat an old straw hat if man ever went to the moon and returned. McKinney was hoping no one would remember the letter, written in 1962.

BUT WHEN the moment of truth came, someone remembered it and waved a copy in front of him. McKinney dug out the old straw hat, looked at it somewhat accusingly and tore at it with his teeth. Czechs Stone Russians PRAGUE Angry workers stoned a Soviet Communist Party delegation arriving to visit a factory outside of Prague Tuesday, Czechoslovak informants said. JE'D RATHER SWITCH THAN FIGHT OKLAHOMA CITY U) Troy Still, service station operator, knows a bargain when he sees it. Troy started a gas war with a neighboring station Monday by cutting his gasoline price to 21 cents a gallon.

His competitor, Ed Pemberton, axed his price to 11.9 cents a gallon. And Troy? "I took my truck across the street and had him Jill it," he said. BtLLETffJV Negro Candidates Win EUTAW, Ala. UP) Negro can-didates swept a special election Tuesday to win political control of rural Greene County in a possible prelude to black gains in surrounding counties of Alabama. The Weather Variable cloudiness with 60 per cent chance of mostly afternoon showers.

High in low or mid 90s. West and southwest winds 5 to 15 m.p.h., briefly gusty near some showers. Sunrist Sunset 1:11. Moonrist p.m., Moonset 9:16 a.m. Thursday.

Morning Start Venus, Saturn. Evening Stars Mars. Jupiter, Mercury. for Hours Ended I p.m. Yesterday: Temperatures, Hiih n.

Low 7, Mean 13, Normal U. Relative Humidity 7 a.m. 17 per cent; I p.m. S4f 7 p.m. 75.

recioitetion, Month's Total l.7 Normal for July, i.M Year's Total U.St deficiency through June 30, 1.92 In. Highest Wind Velocity, 17 m.p.h. at p.m. from southwest. iarometer, 7 a.m.

29.9( 7 p.m. n.t? Its. (Map and Other Reports on Pa. 11-C.) Index (AP) World Views Moon Films SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The world got a spectacular color look Tuesday at the first human step on the moon, and the trampled footprints, the Amer ican flag and two little scientific experiments the Apollo 11 astronauts left at their Tranquillity Base. These scenes dominated the first release of pictures taken by Edwin D.

Aldrin and Neil A. Armstrong during man's first visit to an alien world. There were four extremely sharp color transparencies and 150 feet of color movie film in the first batch made public. MOST WERE shot by Aldrin from the windows of the Eagle moon lander. The space agency said the pictures were the first of many to be released this week, including pictures taken by the astronauts of each other walking and working on the lunar surface.

Scientists in an $11.5 million quarantine laboratory in Houston, meanwhile, started tests to see if the lunar surface harbored any kind of life before the men of Apollo 11 landed there July 20. LABORATORY TECHNICIANS ground up pieces of the black moon soil brought back by Aldrin, Armstrong and Michael Collins and mixed the powder with sterile water, preparing to inject it into germ-free mice and six different types of tissue cultures. The four color transparencies were the best pictures in Tuesday's batch. The movies, which included Eagle's descent to the surface, were not quite as clear and at times looked washed out. (Continued on Pg.

3-A, Col. 1) A SECOND problem cropped up in the ascent. The computer handling the normal ascent program erred, and the abort computer, trained to detect and override any such error, began fighting the first Armstrong reprogrammed the first computer, and the ascent continued without incident. "But you can bet we will have a switch guard on that circuit breaker for Apollo 12," the launch boss said. White Mice To Test Moon Dust Effects SPACE CENTER, Houston Wl White mice born by Caesarean section and pampered like the children of royalty will become Wednesday the first earth creatures with moon dust in their veins.

Bred for generations for this fate, the rodents will be injected with pulverized lunar material by scientists hunting for possible moon germs hazardous to humans. SOIL FROM a core sample collector jammed five inches into the moon by the astronauts were prepared for the injections and to mix with the mices' food and air. If the mice get sick, it could mean the Apollo 11 astronauts' quarantine period would be extended. Al Fatah Threatens U.N. By United Press International The leading Arab guerrilla or ganization Al Fatah Tuesday said U.N.

truce observers stand in the way of the liberation of Palestine and occupied Arab territory from Israel and warned they will be treated as enemies. By CHARLIE JEAN SMtintl Stiff CAPE KENNEDY Lunar astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were in graver danger of being stranded on the moon than the public has been told, a ranking launch official said Tuesday. "There have been stories about what happened, but none delve into the extent of the emergency," he said. And because of that, a one-inch switch guard has become one of the most important considerations of the Apollo 12 lunar mission. "IT'S GENERALLY been reported that when Armstrong returned to the lunar module after the moon walk, his backpack broke a circuit breaker switch," said the source, an employe of North American Aviation who is one of the last to see Apollo astronauts before they are locked in their spacecraft.

"When that happened, it knocked out the normal ascent sequence firing ogram. Armstrong reactivated the circuit breaker, using a pencil on the broken part of the switch, but if he hadn't been able to, that would have thrown the whole ball of wax over to the abort guidance sequence. "AND UNLESS he could have activated it there is no backup for it they would have had real problems. The only hope would have been the 16 little jets of the reaction control system. And I doubt if that could have taken them back to the command module.

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