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Slayioii Says Management Picked First 'Mooiimaii9 Report Denies Armstrong Pulled Rank On Aldrin decided that Armstrong would be first. "PRECISELY why the change I do not know," Haney said. "But I do know it caused quite an upset." He said he believed Armstrong "exercised his prerogative as commander and made the change." CAPE KENNEDY tf A spokesman for the astronauts Friday denied a report that Neil A. Armstrong had exercised "the commander's prerogative" to become the first man to set foot on the moon. Astronaut Donald K.

Slayton, chief of flight crew operations, said the choice of Armstrong to be the first on the moon's surface on next month's Apollo 11 mission was a mangement decision. He said Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. had nothing to do with the defision. ARMSTRONG, Aldrin and Michael Collins are to start the moon-landing journey July 16 from Cape Kennedy, with Armstrong and Aldrin flying a lunar vehicle to the surface four days later.

Early on July 21, Armstrong, the Apollo 11 commander, is to step outside, followed by Aldrin. Earlier Friday, Paul Haney, who resigned recently as director of public affairs at the space agency's Manned Spacecraft Center, said in a telephone interview in New Yorli that Aldrin originally had been slated to make the first step on the moon. Haney, once known as the "voice of Apollo," said Aldrin had practiced "several times" the maneuvers required of the first man on the moon. But then, Haney said, it was Monkey Selected', For' 30-Day Jury Expected To Begin Perjury Deliberations rMm A i i BONNY DOESN'T Being picked vn Young Lawyer To Become Submerged Land Manager tMCitl T( hnllntf MIAMI Perjury charges against Howard Edwards and Max Diamond are expected to go to a criminal court jury Saturday for deliberation after closing arguments by the state and defense attorneys. Defense attorney Ellis Rubin rested his case late Friday after a last minute attempt to get Judge Jack Turner to order the sheriff to bring a defense witness in to testify, "THIS IS not a fake.

It is not a grandstand play. This witness' doctor has told her not to leave her bed because she is on the verge of a stroke. If she can't be brought here, then I think the jury should go to her bedside," Rubin pleaded with the court. 1 But the judge ruled be would neither send the jury to the witness, Mrs. Lillian Sharder, who was once Gerstein Salfi Edwards' bookkeeper, nor have her hauled into court.

"This request comes at the 11th hour and I'm going to have to deny it," Judge Turner said. IN HIS opening statement, Rubin said he did not believe the state had proved that Diamond and Edwards committed perjury. The state has already told the judge it will ask for the maximum sentence of 20 years. Wriaht To Ask Venue Chance Kenneth Ray Wright's attorney Will ask Wednesday that Wright be tried in another county on the first degree murder charge in the death of Camellia Jo Hand. Meredith Cohen, Wright's court appointed attorney, will also ask Circuit Court Judge Claude Edwards to delay the trial from the scheduled July 14 starting date.

COHEN, in a motion filed with the court, claims that widespread newspaper publicity about the sex slaying of the 8-year-old girl makes It impossible for Wright to get a fair trial in Orange County. It is expected the trial will be held In Fort Myers if the change of venue is granted. State Attny. Robert Eagan will prosecute Wright. Camellia Jo, of Ocoee, was kidnaped on the morning of April JO.

Her body was found several days later in a woodland grave. 1 J--h Orbil Apollo 11 Crew Preps In Trainers CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) While Apollo 11 underwent a crucial countdown rehearsal Friday for man's first moon landing flight, scientists selected a monkey named "Bonny" for launch Saturday night on a 30-day earth orbiting research mission. The space agency said the 14-pound male "Astromonk" was picked from five candidates. His backup, another 14-pounder, was named "Mouse." THE monkey, named by his laboratory trainers, is expected to yield more information on how prolonged spaceflight affects life than all America's manned spaceflights put together. It is scheduled to be launched at 11:10 p.m.

EDT Saturday in a biosatellite designed to maintain an air-like atmosphere at sea level pressure, provide day-night lighting and duplicate most other conditions the animal is used to except for the pull of gravity. Sensors painlessly implanted in the monkey's brain and heart and other body parts will see how weightlessness affects the animal's mental, emotional and physiological processes. This, said Dr. W. Ross Adey, the principal investigator, may well tell whether men would have trouble flying in space for up to a i j' TEN miles north of the monkey's launch complex, technicians put the 36-story Apollo 11 space machine through the first day of a six-day countdown trial for the July 16 launch of Neil A.

Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin. The exercise, last major pre-launch test, began on schedule at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday and is scheduled to wind up with a simulated blastoff at 9:32 a.m. Wednesday.

The test is designed to uncover any problems that might stall the real countdown and because of that virtually every launch step will be taken, including pumping 784,000 gallons of frigid liquid hydrogen and oxygen into the booster. MOST of Friday's operation was devoted to checks of individual systems in the towering rocket-spacecraft combination. A spokesman said the work was proceeding smoothly. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin worked out in their moonship trainers again rehearsing critical portions of the eight-day expedition. The monkey for the $92.1 million biosatellite mission has been undergoing training with several en other monkeys here for months.

The field was narrowed to five potential flight candidates Tuesday. THE monkey, an adolescent male captured in the jungles of Southeast Asia, was scheduled to be inserted into his capsule between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday. If all goes as planned, he will be recovered at the end of his 469th orbit July 28.

Data on the primate's condition will be radioed tack to earth continuously and the animal will undergo intense study after, recovery. Two games, with food pellets for rewards, will test his memory and coordination during flight and a camera will photograph him every 20 minutes. Aldrin To Practice 'Landing' On Moon HAMPTON, Va. (J) "Practice makes perfect" is a proverb almost certain to occupy the thoughts of Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Saturday during rehearsal of the epic lunar landing attempt scheduled for next month.

Aldrin's earthbound moon landing is to be accomplished at the national space agency's Lunar Landing Research Facility better known as the 1-6 Simulator, the only facility of its kind in the United States. The two defendants are accused of lying under oath when they said they sat at a table in the 600 Lounge with State Attorney Richard Gerstein nine years ago. Edwards and Diamond gave the sworn statements to special State Attorney Dominick Salfi, who was sent to Dade County by Gov. Claude Kirk to investigate bribery allegations against Gerstein. WHEN HE took the witness stand, Gerstein denied knowing either Edwards or Diamond and swore that neither of them had ever given him any money.

The defense Friday put on two witnesses who testified they had seen at the Vogue Apartments, formerly owned in part by Edwards. Peter Cooney, a former maintenance man at the Vogue Apartments, testified that he had seen Gerstein on the premises "several times in late IS" 1 or early 1956." BUT ON cross examination, the prosecution revealed that Cooney had been confined in the Broward County jail and a Marine Corps brig between July 1955 and March 1956. Another defense witness, Marilyn Dewease, testified she saw Gerstein at the swimming pool at the Vogue Apartments in the spring and summer of 1955 when she was 14 years old and babysitting for Edwards' children. The prosecution is expected to offer into evidence Saturday Miami building department records that will show the pool had not been built when Mrs. Dewease said she was swimming there.

Gov. Claude Kirk sent Gerstein to Leesburg two months ago to exchange jobs with Lake County State Atty. Gordon Oldham. Parley To Map Insurance For Sinkholes Set St nlintl Tillihll lurtiu TALLAHASSEE Representatives of fire and casualty insurance companies will meet here Wednesday to discover a plan for providing sinkhole damage insurance for homes. Insurance Commissioner Broward Williams reported Friday he had set an Aug.

1 deadline for the carriers to adopt a sinkhole damage insurance program. Williams said he'd invited representatives of 300 companies to the meeting, that he would propose two alternate plans: Provide the extra protection at no additional cost in regular homeowner policies. Establish an insurance pool to share the losses, charging a minimum premium for the coverages. 7 3 1- 1 Principals Scoff At Hubcap Toss By D. G.

LAWRENCE StnliMl TallahiiMt lurut TALLAHASSEE The Orlando chamber's effort to put the state's political leaders on the spot wnicn one win can a special road financing session will be without its honor guests. Gov. Claude Kirk can convene the legislature, so can the senate president and house speaker jointly but none of them will at the Monday hubcap tossing ceremony in Orlando. CHAMBER officials originally intended to toss a coin to select who they would press for the session, but on Friday they decided a hubcap would be more appropriate. The legislative leaders demand that Kirk spell out the specific financing plan for the state road department's 16-year highway building program.

Kirk has declared he won't convene the legislature until he has a written commitment from a majority that they'll support either new gasoline taxes, bonding, or a combination of both. Kirk will be attending a Miami luncheon when the hubcap is tossed at noon at the heart of downtown Orlando, Central Boulevard and Orange Avenue, "THE GOVERNOR recved his invitation but there will be no comment," an aide said. John Mathews, senate president, said he would not be attending. "I wouldn't participate in any contest like that, on what Is supposed to be a serious decision," he said. Fred Schultz, house speaker, could not be reached but his office said he had no plans to be in Orlando Monday.

MATHEWS SAID the only session the leaders planned is a "quickie" some time in the autumn to set the date for the 1970 session which, unless changed by statute, will convene April 6, only a month before the May primaries. Former Sen. Bob Elrod, Orlando Chamber legislative affairs director, said the toss will go on as scheduled despite the absence of the leaders. "It's important that we keep stressing the importance of implementing the road plan," Elrod said. "We have a saying around here now that by 1972 every day will be like a home football game day at Gainesville." On University of Florida home game days traffic is bumper to bumper for miles in the vicinity of Gainesville.

New Printers Provide Saving Stntintl TllhtMt lurtau TALLAHASSEE Changing printers cut legislative printing costs nearly in half, the joint legislative a a gement committee reported Friday. Ending the monopoly enjoyed by Tallahassee's Rose Printing Co. for many years, the contract this year was awarded to St. Petersburg Printing Co. ROSE fought the contract award in circuit court here on grounds that1 the St.

Petersburg firm did not maintain a permanent printing plant in the capital. The court ruled against. Rose. A month before the session the firm installed equipment in a vacant building and was ready at session start for the big job of printing daily calendars and journals for both houses, the hundreds of copies of each bill introduced. Total printing cost for the 60-day session was $374,414, less $5,500 assessed against the new printer for various delays in delivering printing.

If the same amount of work had been done by Rose under the prices charged for the 1967 session printing by Rose, the bill would have been $673,979, the committee reported. iV, if- 4 SEEM TOO HAPPY to roar into space rlanbo Saturday, June 28, 1969 4 A planner. Three cabinet members have to concur in the governor's choice of an Internal Improvement board staff director. ''This, is the toughest, most controversial job we have to fill under reorganization and I'm convinced it requires a lawyer if a proper job is going to be done," said Williams in refusing to go along with the Landrum choice. AFTER the vote was taken Kirk said he would resubmit Landrum's name at next Tuesday's meeting but later Reed observed: "If it's a lawyer they want, a lawyer they'll get." The governor's office was reported to have considered three nominees: Smith and two assistant attorney generals Arthur Canaday and Stephen M.

Slepin. Like Smith, both have concentrated on submerged land and conservation matters and are considered conservationists. State To Close With Surplus JACKSONVILLE tf Florida will close its fiscal year Monday with $62 million in the bank, State Comptroller Fred O. Dickinson said Friday. He credited the surplus to the economy minded State Cabinet members and the elected cabinet system.

"This is an example of what may be done by keeping officials elective," Dickinson told the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention. "Appointive officials lead to the formation of a bureaucracy," he said. "Don't let them take away from us the power to hire and fire at election time." He said out-of-state visitors contributed 25 per cent of the sales tax collections, which provide the biggest share of the state's operating funds. It 4 I Stntlnal TillahiMtt Bureau TALLAHASSEE Tentative agreement on James Smith, a young attorney who has concentrated on conservation work, as manager of the state's submerged land has been reached by Gov. Claude Kirk and the cabinet, it was learned Friday.

Smith will get the appointment to head the internal improvement trustees staff at Tuesday's cabinet meeting. A 1967 graduate of Stetson University's Law School, he joined Secretary of State Tom Adams' office as counsel a year later. "It was April Fool's day," he recalled Friday. Since then he has advised Adams on conservation and submerged land matters and was instrumental in getting cabinet action to crack down on illegal fill activities in the Florida keys. AS submerged land manager he'll succeed conservation director W.

Randolph Hodges, who's been wearing two hats since Jan. 1 when Internal Improvement trustees staff manager Robert Parker was forced to resign. Hodges Tuesday becomes executive director of the natural resources department at $27,000 a year. Smith's salary will be $21,000. He is reported to have won the approval of Nathaniel Reed, Kirk's conservation aide.

REED'S candidate was Ney C. Landrum, director of the cabinet's outdoor recreational planning council. They worked closely together in the major park land acquisitions of the past two years including the Orlando area's Wekiva-Rock Springs Park near Orlando. Kirk's nomination of Landrum was turned down by two the four cabinet members attending this week's cabinet meeting education commissioner Floyd Chrstian and treasurer Broward Williams, although both praised his work as park PlXid byWoM ru 17 V. VS.

S5 I Think You're Cute, Too When Elizabeth Christie of St. Petersburg -puckered up for a cute pony, the pony puckered up right back. The animal not only showed horse sense but proved he has taste as well. (AP).