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wwrr VOL. LXII, NO. 183 TWO SECTIONS 26 page TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1969 PRICE 10 CENTS Apollo Zips Toward Earth After Breaking Moon Orbit fir 41 in i' 4 Trio Sleeps Soundly After Thrilling Feat By EDWARD K. DELONG UPI SPACE WRITER SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) Leaving their footprints in history, America's Apollo 11 ml' on the moon and their mark astronuats broke free of lunar where 18 days of isolation will United again in the command ship Columbia, Neil A. Edwin E.

Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins slept soundly as tend funeral services for drowning victim Mary Jo Kopechne. Miss Kopechne, 29, died in an auto mishap from which Senator Kennedy escaped Saturday night. The senator is wearing an orthopedic collar. (AP Wirephoto.) KENNEDY'S ATTEND FUNERAL.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy follows his wife, Joan (foreground) and Mrs. EthLl Kennedy, widow of slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy, shown walking with eyes lowered, from rectory into St. Vincent's Church in Plymouth, to at SsM.

If rC ft 'J? Grim, Haggard Kennedy Attends Kopechne Rites of the late senator, and other members of their party occupied a pew at the left front of the altar in St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church. Hundreds of persons, many of them there for a glimpse of the Kennedy's filled the red brick church to overflow. Hundreds of others stood outside. Most of those inside sat with PLYMOUTH, Pa.

(AP) A grim and haggard Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, his neck encased in a light nylon brace, offered prayers today at the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne, the pretty blonde secretary who died when a car driven by Kennedy plunged off a bridge. Kennedy, his wife, Joan, and Mrs. Robert F.

Kennedy, widow U.S. Demonstrates Superiority In Space orbit today and headed home be their initial heroes reward. they sped away from the moon after 60 epic hours on and around it. At 7:30 a.m. EDT, they were 20,993 miles from the scene of their triumph and traveling home at 3,016 miles per hour.

Ground controllers promised to let the crewmen sleep as long as they wanted after Armstrong and Aldrin safely left the moon in the Eagle lunar module, rejoined Collins and fired the big rocket engines to jar them out of lunar orbit. "You'll have to open up the LRL doors," Collins radioed as the engine fired at 12:56 a.m. EDT. He referred to the lunar receiving laboratory, an $11 million building here where the three pilots will be quarantined on their return to guarantee that no moon germs peril the earth. A little over 7 hours earlier, Armstrong and Aldrin, flying "right down U.S.

1," piloted their Eagle lunar module to a rendezvous and docking with Collins' command ship Colunv bia. "How does it feel to have some company?" ground con trailer Charles M. Duke asked Collins after Armstrong and Aldrin crawled back aboard. Flies 28 Hours Alone "Damned good, I'll tell ya," said Collins, who flew the Columbia in a lonely, 70-mile orbit for 28 hours while Armstrong and Aldrin took Eagle to a moon landing and Armstrongs first human step there. At a news conference after midnight, Wernher von Braun, director of the space center at Huntsville, that built the astronauts' Saturn rocket, said historians would mark Apollo 11 as important a milestone as the first time aquatic life crawled onto land.

Dr. Robert Gilruth, associate National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) admi nistrator, noted the technique of dropping Eagle to the lunar surface and launching it back to rejoin Columbia again for the trip home. "This is the way to go to Mars when the time Gilruth said. "Get Some Sleep" At 12:51 p.m. EDT Thursday, with President Nixon watching from the waitmg carrier USS Hornet, tne astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean 1,040 miles south of Honolulu.

At 2:30 a.m. EDT, Donald "Deke" Slayton, chief of the astronauts, told Armstrong and his crew, "You've had a busy (Turn To Page 12, Col. 1) Columbus, Ohio. More than 1,300 troops were called to help police put down disturbances. One man was killed and 25 persons injured while police arrested 130 persons in the trouble area.

(AP Wirephoto.) STORE BURNED DURING RACIAL DISORDER. Ohio National Guard troops stand guard today outside a grocery store heavily damaged by fire at the height of racial disorder Monday night on the near east side of Goodbye, Most Exciting Bird In Auf Wiedersehen And Major ICC Overhaul, Nixon Plea WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Nixon proposed today a major overhaul of the 82-year- old Interstate Commerce Com mission, including authority for the President to select a chair man who would have strength ened administration powers. In a message to Congress, Nixon said the 11-member com mission is hampered by "lack of continuity" and "lack of leadership" and said his plan would result "in more efficient operation" of the nation's oldest regu latory agency. In the meantime, he said, I shall continue to explore other ways to make the commission's structure more effective." Noting that the ICC chairman ship is rotated annually among the 11 members, the President said he knows of no other modern business that would tolerate such a practice. To provide the necessary continuity in the conduct of the commission administrative affairs," he said, "I propose the President be authorized to designate the chairman from among its members.

"This principle of good management has already been taken with respect to all other regulatory agencies. The time has come to apply it to the Interstate Commerce Commission." In proposing greater statutory authority for the chairman, Nixon said the present system allows the administrative powers to be 'dispersed among all 11 commissioners. "As a result," he said, "there is no firm, clear legal responsibility for the management of the commission's day to day affairs." The President added that his proposal contains safeguards to insure that the ICC "retains full control over policy and the direction of its regulatory programs." Although recent reports had indicated the President would seek to reduce the number of commissioners from 11 to 7, Nixon made no mention of this in his message. ICC membership was increased to the present number in 1920. The President made his proposal at a time when the ICC has come under increasing criticism of failing to draw up new policies for maintaining a nationwide transportation system.

The ICC regulates more than 17,000 carriers, including railroads, truckers, express companies and freight forwarders. Crous Eat Crow! LEAMINGTON, England (UPI) Employes at a factory complained to the parking lot guard that a vandal was breaking off their automobile windshield wipers. Guard William Barber hid one night and saw two crows flying into the parking lot and tear the wipers from the cars, dropping them on the ground. Two days later, Barber returned with a shotgun and killed the crows, company spokesmen said Monday. Today's Index A "Want to Buy" ad will find that unusual item you're seeking! 457-7711.

Regular Page Features No. Classified 20 25 Comics 14 Editorial 25 Markets 15 Obituaries 12 Personals 4 Show Time 20 Society 10-11 Sports 18-20 Television 8 Timetable 14 miles, through the blackness of space, you gave us a sense of our bigness and our small-ness, Eagle. A vision of living creatures, more alike than unalike, hanging by their thumbs to the one warm blue sphere we yet see in the lifeless void. Salaam and shalom, Eagle. Try to forgive and understand us, Eagle, but you had to be left behind; you were expendable.

You weren't designed to get back through the By SAUL PETT AP Special Correspondent SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Ave atque vale, Eagle. See you around the old cosmos. You surely were the most exciting bird in history, Eagle, and for a few singing hours you made a family of man. Now we go our separate ways again, but we'll remember, we'll remember. Dos va-danya and so long, Eagle.

From a quarter of a million heads bowed as the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Burchill, celebrant of the requiem mass, asked that the soul of Miss Kopechne "be given eternal rest." The 28-year-old Miss Kopechne drowned Saturday in the accident on an island off Martha's Vinyard on the Massachusetts coast. Express Sorrow She was born near here, but moved to Berkeley Heights, N.J.

with her parents 25 years ago. The girl's father, Joseph, told reporters Kennedy had called him after the accident to ex press his sorrow. "I wish it had been me, instead," Kennedy was quoted by Kopechne as saying. The Kennedy party, which later joined the 25-car cortege to the burial site in St. Vincent's Cemetery in nearby Larksville, flew here today in a private plane from Hyannis, on Cape Cod.

The 37-year-old senator had been in seclusion since the accident. Others in the Kennedy party were his two closest friends, Reps. John V. Tunney of California and John C. Culver of Iowa.

The plane landed at nearby Wilkes-Barre at about 8:50 a.m. after a smooth flight. Kennedy said nothing to reporters as he left for the plane, but waved a brief greeting to three newsmen he knew. RFK Secretary Apart from the neck brace, a lighweight nylon affair, there was no other evidence of physical difficulties stemming from the accident. Below the neck brace, of course, Kennedy still wears a light back brace as a result from a near fatal plane crash in 1962.

The senator was dressed in a dark suit, while his blonde wife (Turn To Page 12, Col. 7) city was wide open to a federal court suit because of the ex emptions, similar to the Board of Education's suit by an expelled student, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. "We currently have one case where a considerable amount of money may be involved." Even though Sheboygan's fair housing ordinance includes the two exemptions, violations of discrimination in-housine (Turn To Page 12, Col. 8) JODRELL BANK, England (AP) Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell said today the Apollo 11 and Luna 15 moon maneuvers demonstrated American superiority and sharply increased the chances of U.S.-So-viet' cooperation in space. "This is the first time the United States has been demonstrably superior in a vital part of the space program," Lovell said.

"American approaches for collaboration may be received with sympathy in the Soviet Union as they can no longer regard themselves as masters." Lovell tracked the unmanned Soviet Luna 15 on a radio telescope during its nine-day flight to an apparent crash landing on the moon. He said Apollo 11 has shown that "the American nation can do almost anything if it wishes to do it." An associate of Lovell said Luna 15 showed a new ability to change lunar orbit but that the Russians probably intended that it should do something more. Lovell suggested that the Soviet Union, however, is not as far behind in space as Apollo 11 success and Luna 15's apparently unsuccessful hard landing would make it appear. Lovell told reporters it seemed clear that the Russian space effort was concentrated same two who have strenuously opposed deletion of the two exemptions to the fair housing law Vernon Schauer and Karl Keil. Schauer Charges Bias Schauer declared that could not "in good conscience vote for these appointments." "All or most of the people you nave appointed are hiatprl Schauer told Mayor Schneider, on recovering Lunar samples by means of a remote-controlled unmanned vehicle.

He said it appeared possible that the Rus- sians could achieve that "within a matter of months." But he said the Soviet Union was "quite a lone way" behind in putting men on the moon. Lovell said Luna 15's mission was clearly indicated by its moon landing Monday and "we think it dead." He refused to say that the So viet probe had ended in failure, but commented: "It does not make sense to take the thing out of orbit when it is working per fectly and destroy it on the moon." Lovell raised the possibility that Luna 15 might have been part of a space rendezvous exer cise involving two launchings, one of which did not go off successfully. In that case, he said, the Russians might have deliberately crashed the probe on the moon. For Lovell, Luna 15's flight remained mysterious to the end. "As a scientific mission in contrast to Apollo, it remains rather strange," he said.

"I find it extremely difficult to believe that the contrast between Apollo 11 and Luna 15's apparent failure really represents the cur- (Turn To Page 12, Col. 3) Schauer, to pointed out: which the mayor "That is your pre- rogative. After Aid. Bernard Kistner suggested that the council get on with the action on the ap- pointments, Aid. Keil added his ODjections.

"I have some personal feelings myself" abnut the ap- puniiet'N ne'smu, diuiuuiiimg lie WUU1U vua The mayor warned that thel i Carl J. Kohler Jr. Sells Kohler Stock Some 3,850 shares of stock in the Kohler Co. went on sale today for $215 each and were sold out immediately. It was the first public sale in the history of the 96-year-old plumbingware manufacturing firm.

The Associated Press reported that Marshall Co. a Milwaukee investment firm, acted as the selling agent for Carl J. Kohler the selling stockholder. Kohler, 42, a great-grandson of the founder of the Kohler firm, is a member of the family which, with related trusts, retains 86.6 per cent of the company's stock. Kohler now lives in Chicago and is a former Milwaukee restaurant operator.

Mayor Denies Bias History, An Revoir earth's atmosphere but only to fly around the moon. Sorry, Eagle. Au revoir and auf wiedersehen, Eagle. Santa Maria Wrecked Take comfort, Eagle, if it is you who needs comfort more than we. Columbus's Santa Maria didn't make it back either; it was wrecked far from home.

They brought Lindbergh's plane back to the Smithsonian and the tourists gawk at it every day. His was called the Spirit of St. Louis, but you, we like to think, were the spirit of all of us. Sayonara and ciao, Eagle. You were strictly a moon bird, Eagle, and to the moon you will return.

Remember, Robert Falcon Scott lies buried in the Antarctic and John Keats died in Rome, Lord Byron in Greece, all three far from that "sceptered isle" called England. And you, Eagle, will circle the circle of your glory for months and slowly the circle will grow smaller and you'll fly lower and, finally, back to the moon. The Sea of Tran-quality would be a nice touch, don't you think, Eagle? You looked like no bird that ever flew, Eagle, but you had a soaring grace and a thrilling style all your own and 'we'll remember, we'll remember. We'll remember when you took life of your own and singing down from the stars came the message: "The Eagle has wings." And we'll remember, we'll remember that mountain top of our lives, that crescendo of the ages: "The Eagle has landed." Happy landings, Eagle. Adios and goodbye, Eagle.

We'll never be the same. Hard To Forecast NEW YORK (UPI)-When day turned into dark in New York City Monday afternoon, the weather bureau insisted the threatening skies indicated just dark clouds not rain. After the rain, a spokesman explained: "You can't forecast these things exactly." Council Confirms Appointees To Fair Housing Commission He is the eldest of four sops of Mrs. Dorothy Kohler of Kohler and the late Carl J. Kohler, who was secretary of the company at the time of his death in 1960.

Kohler formerly was vice president of Kohler-G a 1 Sheboygan Falls, and later operated the former Saxony Supper Club on Highway 32 in Bayside, a Milwaukee1 suburb, from 1966 until he sold the business last October. The public sale of the Kohler Co. Ftock resulted in a mandatory disclosure of sales and profits, something the company has never done. According to papers cleared by the state securities commissioner's office, the firm had sales of $107.22 million and profits of $3.36 million or $19.89 per share. Over the past five years, sales averaged million (Turn To Page 15, Col.

5) Weather WISCONSIN Partly cloudy, thundershowers likely north and chance of thundershowers south half tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, chance of thundershowers southeast half, warmer southeast half tonghit. Lows tonight in the 60s, highs Wednesday in the 70s northwest to the 80s southeast. Sheboygan Temperatures (Official Temperatures By U.S. Weather Bureau) Yesterday's high 73 Overnight low 60 I a.m.

temperature 64 Sheboygan Skies Today Sunset today 8:25 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow The moon, at First Quarter today, sets tonight at 11:56 p.m. Today Mercury, the smallest planet, is almost directly beyond the sun. With a diameter of 3.100 miles. Mercury is about the same size as the largest moon of Jupiter.

(All Times Central Daylight) Computed For The Sheboygan Press By Bailey ft. Frank, Rutland, Vermont Charges of bias have been leveled against the City of Sheboygan's first Commission on Fair Housing Practices by an alderman even before the commission has met. The Common Council Monday night confirmed Mayor Roger Schneider's appointments of the five-member unit which will ad minister the city's fair housing ordinance prommting discrimination in the sale, lease or rental of housing because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin. Named to the commission for terms ranging from one to five years, respectively, were: Alderman Elsie Brager, Postmaster Kenneth Kunde, Realtor Robert Ballschmider, Mrs. Alfred Grube and the Rev.

William Redeker, pastor of Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Two aldermen Voiced objections to the appointees the adding that he feeJs all or most federal civil rights laws "have their own reasons" for; At this point Mayor Schneider which do have those ex. opposing the two exemptions. 'reminded the aldermen that emptions could be tried in Schauer was obviously refer- the he- Pened thls! federal court, ring to the fact that three of the of. worms b' a "It is my hope that we appointees Miss Brager, Kunde fair housing law vwtn ex- strajghten out our laws our-and Mrs.

Grube have in the emptions. selves," the mavor concluded, past publicly opposed the ordi-: He took the occasion to again Schauer-S Keil-S nance's exemptions. urge sPied' co'jncl1 acf10" dH votes were the only ones heard Mavor Schneider denied the leting the exemptions which ex-iin vojce vote conirrnjng 6 bias charge. He emphasized elude from the terms of the that his choices were motivat- dinance the owners of owner-oc-, Under the tprms of the ocaj ed bv the very fact that thecupied, two-iamuy nouses annointees were not biased. Religious organizations.

"I disagree," maintained' I.