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Lovell Fred W. Haise and John L. Swigert a bachelor, were safely aboard the recovery ship. "Wonderful. just wonderful." said Swigert's mother in Denver as she and her husband passed out champagne to one and all.

Each of the three women got a personal call from President Nixon in addition to specially arranged telephone calls from the astronauts via the Manned Spacecraft Center's communication network. "I'm just very thankful and very humble." said Mrs. Lovell, smilingly broadly. She wore a chic black. red and white striped knit dress.

Beside her were three of their children: Barbara, 16. Susan 11, and Jeffrey, 4. Mrs. Lovell talked by telephone with son James III at his school in Wisconsin. Mrs.

Lovell was asked about her husbands announced plan to retire from space flights after Apollo 13. "I have always gone along with what he wants to do but selfishly I would not want him to Make another flight." she said. She said that in her talk with Lovell after splashdown he gave no indication the Apollo 13 crew ever feared they might not return. "I have never experienced anything like this in my life and I never want to go through it again." Mrs. Lovell said.

I I' 'I ABOARD USS IWO JIMA AP Days of cold and peril behind, three tired 1 American astronauts splashed down to a happy, on-target landing in the Pacific Friday, safe at last in the warmth of their home planet. A doctor who examined the spacemen only minutes after their return to earth reported that astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr. was suffering from a mild urinary tract infection and had a low grade fever of 100.6. Dr.

Keith Baird of the space agency, said however, the astronauts were "all in good health." "They were considerably more tired than the other crews I have been associated with," said Dr. Baird. "Except for being tired, I think they are all in good health." Haise went right to bed after a medical examination and a meal. Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr.

and John L. Swigert Jr. re-visited the space craft which had carried them back from a near-tragedy in space. The command ship was placed on the deck of this carrier and the two astronauts spent a few minutes inside its cabin. Dr.

Baird said all three of the astronauts complained that it was too cold for them to sleep in space and that was why they were exhausted. All had lost five to 10 pounds of weight. Haise received an antibiotic, Dr. Baird said, after an above average increase in white blood cells was discovered and went to bed immediately. The doctor said he recommended rest for Lovell and Swigert and noted: "I didn't hear any objections to my advice at all." The astronauts will tell their story to the world at a news conference Tuesday after they return to Houston.

The Apollo 13 spacemen dropped out of a partly cloudy sky, their orange and white chuts billowing in the South Pacific sun. They were within sight of the cheering sailors on this ship, testimony to the courage and expertise that rescued them from space. The astronauts, smiling and walking steadily on the carrier deck, an hour later avoided the set-up microphones. The only word from them was 'relayed by a helicopter pilot from Lovell who said they felt fine. They were back from moments of extreme danger, from long hours of discomfort, chilled by cabin temperatures in the thirties, tired by the constant battle to keep their battered ship going.

Those trials began Monday night when an oxygen tank in their service module burst, exploding with it hopes for a lunar landing, and putting the astronauts' lives in jeopardy. But their safe return was as if the prayers of a planet were answered. There were cheers in Mission Control, cheers at Grand Central Terminal in New York City where crowds had gathered to watch on television. The President announced he would fly to Hawaii today to present the astronauts with the Medal of Freedom. But first he will stop in Houston to pick up the wives of astronauts Lovell and Haise so that they can meet their husbands in Hawaii.

On his stop in Houston he will present the Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 13 ground crew. The President proclaimed $unday as a day of national prayer and thanksgiving. He paid tribute to the astronauts' courage and also to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of those on the ground who helped transform potential tragedy into a heart- stopping rescue. The faithful, spidery moon lander Aquarius, deprived of its moments of glory on the moon, found a glory of a different sort. It alone stood between the astronauts and disaster.

Its electricity, itspxygen, its water, its fragile shell were the margin of survival for Lovell, Haise and Swigert. In flight they ejected the craft at 11:43 a.m. Friday. Their only words were, "LM Jettison." "Okay," said Mission Control as the craft floated away. Then, as if something else needed to be said, Capsule Communicator Dr.

Joseph Kerwin in Mission Control added: "Farewell Aquarius. And we thank you." Since Monday night, Lovell, Haise and Swigert had traveled more than 300,000 miles to get home again safely, their planned exploration of the moon's surface only so much lost history. But the happy ending Friday came with an amazingly accurate landing considering the crippled nature of the command ship. For the first time in any American space flight a television camera in a recovery helicopter caught the main parachutes opening over the plummeting spacecraft and flashed that picture to millions watching on earth. Just three minutes after splashdown, a helicopter was overhead.

Within moments frogmen dropped into the water, attached a sea anchor to prevent drift and a flotation collar to stabilize the charred spaceship in the water. The hatch opened at 1:33 p.m. EST and The family of astronaut Fred liaise meets with newsmen. With Mrs. liaise are Steve, Frederick, 11, and Mary, 14.

Fred Haise, Jaities Lovell helicopter on the carrier Astronauts See other stories and pictures on Pages 2, 3 and 19. in ten minutes all three astronauts were safe in the helicopter. The pilot radioed, "I'll make a wide circle to allow the passengers to get into their flight suits." Fifty-four minutes after splashdown the helicopter carrying the three men landed on this aircraft carrier's deck. The door opened, and the astronauts emerged. The decks of Iwo Jima were jammed with cheering sailors in short-sleeve dress whites.

Members of the crew took pictures of the astronauts home from space. The ship's band struck up "The Age of Aquarius," in honor of the lunar 'ander. The astronauts chatted briefly with the ship's officers, including Capt. Leland E. Kirkemo, who said, "This undoubtedly has to be one of the particularly happy moments." He commended them on their navigation.

They walked steadily but slowly, pausing for pictures, to the elevator which took them down for their medical checks and telephone calls to their wives and parents. There were nine doctors waiting for them. The astronauts talked more before reentry than they did afterbut even then their words were terse. Of Aquarius, their lifeboat during the last four days of the mission, Lovell said only, "She was a good ship." Apollo 14 -PACE CENTER, Houston AP The scheduled October launch of Apollo 14 appeared in doubt Friday as space agency officials began the difficult job of pinpointing an oxygen tank rupture that canceled the Apollo 13 moon landing. "It's not definitely off for October but it certainly isn't definitely on for October," space agency administrator Thomas O.

Paine told a news conference. He said a review board will study the problems that imperiled the Apollo 13 moon flight. "And we're going to have to look very carefully at the whole Apollo program and decide just what fixes we want to make," Paine said. He said it was "too early to speculate" on the launch date of Apollo 14 until the source of the oxygen tank rupture is determined. Scientists and engineers must find the cause of the rupture and then answer the question: Can men safely go to the moon again? Truckers By The Associated Press Wildcat strikes by truck drivers continued unabated in key cities throughout the country Friday, forcing several manufacturers to curtail production and lay off employes while awaiting new supplies.

In Chicago, the Association of' Commerce and Industry warned that as many as 350,000 persons would be out of work by Monday if the truckers' strike continued, and in Cleveland 13,000 workers released since the walkout have applied for unemployment compensation. The Motor Carriers Council of St. Louis, representing about 80 trucking firms, filed a $17 million damage suit against Teamster Local 600, alleging the work stoppage was unlawful. A similar suit seeking $600,000 in damages was filed in Akron by the Associated Transport, against four members of Teamsters Local 24. In other labor disputes, striking teachers voted 274-50 to return to their jobs in Muskogee: Monday, ending a weeklong dispute over the school board's integration policies.

Other teachers remained off the job in Los Angeles and Minneapolis in nearly deadlocked disputes over wages and working conditions: In New York, where the threat of a citywide newspaper strike remained, new and John Swigert (left to right) leave Iwo Jima after recovery. Of capsule communicator and medical doctor Joseph Kerwin, Jack Swigert said. "You have a nice bedside manner." "That's the nicest thing anybody's ever said about me." Kerwin replied. It was Mission Control that carried the burden of conversation in those busy minutes before the spaceship's signal was blacked out by the fiery re-entry. Even before the Apollo 13 splashed down, the space agency announced it was setting up a high level review board to study the flight, seek the cause of what went wrong, and whether the next flightApollo I4in October is endangered.

The astronauts were to stay aboard the Iwo Jima in two comfortable suites Friday night. When the ship is within helicopter range of American Samoa, they will be flown to Pago Pago and returned to Houston and their homes Sunday morning. The President also called the wives of the astronauts to offer his congratulations. He told Mrs. Haise, "Everyone in the world and the country was pleased with their return.

The faith you had and the faith the children had was an example for us all." Mary Haise told him, "That's the most beautiful sight I've ever seen." "I'm so relieved," said Marilyn Lovell. "It was beautiful." Both watched on television in their suburban homes, while the parents of bachelor-astronaut Swigert watched at their home in Denver, Colo. Uncertain Dr. Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced Friday the creation of an APollo 13 Review Board to direct the inquiry into the oxygen tank rupture last Monday night that almost cost three lives. The astronauts were forced to use the lunar lander as a space lifeboat.

Without the lander's life support systems and engine to fall back on, when they had to abandon the command ship, astronauts James Lovell Fred Haise Jr. and John Swigert Jr. would have been stranded in space. Paine appointed Edgar Cortright, director of Langley Research Center in Virginia, to head the review board. "The board will consist of senior NASA individuals and experts from other parts of the government," he said.

"The special competences that we need will be provided both inside NASA, within other parts of government and also from industry arid the academic community," he said. Still Out labor problems- loomed Friday when union craftsmen launched a three-day strike against New York Telephone in Manhattan. the Bronx, and Brooklyn. The walkout stemmed from a long-simmering dispute over security for workers in areas of high crime. The truckers' strike, called April 5 in defiance of a tentative nationwide contract settlement increasing wages $110 an hour over three years, has slowed production in key heavy industries in many cities.

The truck drivers, who presently earn an average wage of $4 an hour, were on strike in Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland and Akron. Ohio. Inside The Journal BERR1GAN attends 'his' weekend Pages 8, 9. ALCINDOR leads Bucks over Knicks Page 13.

Ann Landers 16 Barbara Bell 17 Bridge 16 Churches 8 Comics 23 Crosswords 23 Editorials 6 Financial 18,19 Home, Garden 12 Horoscope 16,23 Obituaries 3 Sports 13-16 Want Ads 20-22 Weather 7 Women's 4, 5 Youth 11 Enter. AP More South Day cried. "I'm ecstatic." She said the high point of the flight came when the spaceship "hit the water" at splashdown. The past week, she noted, "was a very trying and difficult time in a lot of ways." But at this particular moment, with her husband safe and her three children at her side, she declared: "I feel marvelous. I've never felt better in my life." Cambodia American advisers are assigned to the government units, but a U.S.

military spokesman said: "No U.S. advisers have gone into Cambodia." In an exchange with newsmen, the South Vietnamese spokesman insisted his government was not trying to hide anything. He said newsmen were not permitted to go along on the border operation -for the safety of our troops." No contact with the enemy has been reported in the past two days in the area where the operation is under way. hearings April 29 on Blackmun, the third choice of President Nixon for the seat on fi the high court. Judge Clement F.

Haynsworth the first of two Nixon nominees rejected by the Senate, was criticized for ethical insensitivity in a federal court ruling involving a firm in which he held stock. Blackmun said he had disclosed his stock holdings to his senior judge before ruling on the first and most important case involving Ford Motor Co. 10 years ago. Blackmun decided against Ford. A Justice Department report, based on information supplied by the judge himself, showed he had 100 shares of Ford stock and 22 shares of American Telephone Telegraph, which figured in a later decision.

Blackmun said he gave this information to Atty. Gen John N. Mitchell during private sessions with him and the President in Washington last week before the nomination was announced. Blackmun declined at the news conference to apply any labels to his legal philosophy. but said.

"I guess in a way Um brought up in the Frankfurter a reference to a legal philosophy considered as strict constructionisni. Discussing the Apollo 13 power failure Monday night. Mrs. Haise said: "Once the first initial shock was over, I felt more confidence I was not as panicky as I though I'd be." Moments later, she added. "It was a long nightthe longest there's ever been." In discussing conversation with her husband aboard the recovery ship, she Three battalions of the U.S.

25th Infantry Division. about 1,200 men, moved up to the border area. One battalion took over an outpost to relieve South Vietnamese entering Cambodia. The other two battalions took up blocking positions. Informed sources said a task force more than 2,000 South Vietnamese troops, with hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers.

has been operating inside Cambodia in recent days. South Vietnamese planes have bombed enemy positions in Cambodia in support of the task force. Listed Stock Ties SAIGON Vietnamese troops streamed into Cambodia Friday ready to battle the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. U.S. forces took up blocking positions on South Vietnams side of the border.

At a news briefing. a government military spokesman said it was possible that some units of squad or platoon-size, had gone 500-700 yards into Cambodia by mistake but insisted no large units had crossed the border. Associated Press correspondent George Esper reported from the Highway 1 border crossing 45 miles northwest of Saigon. however. that he saw scores of South Vietnamese trucks and jeeps moving into Cambodia and helicopters landing across the border.

Cambodian Battalion Lost TAKEO. Cambodia AP i Enemy forces have overrun three towns south of this provincial capital and an entire Cambodian battalion is missing. high military officers said Friday. The sources. who asked not to be named.

said the enemy has taken the border post at Phnom Edn. Tonleap and Kirivong. the latter 18 miles south of Takeo. Enemy forces estimated at more than 5.000 were in the vicinity of this provincial capital 54 miles south of Phnom Penh. the sources said.

They reported a major force is nine miles south near Phnom Prey Sandeck. This town is the site of a demonstration last month for ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk in which Cambodian troops killed 30 demonstrators. Sources estimated 200 more enemy troops moved north parallel with the highway linking this town with the capital. Asked about the whereabouts of a battalion that was defending Kirivong the sources said they did not know. ROCHESTER, Minn.

1AP Judge Harry A. Blackmun said Friday he told the White House about his minor stock ties in three court rulings before he was named to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court. "I specifically myself brought these up." he said. "It is only fair. I think the Senate committee should be aware of them." Blackmun said he took part in three decisions by the U.S.

8th Court of Appeals between 1960 and 1967 involving firms in which he held stock. The cases came before the recent uproar over stock holdings and offcourt activities of judges. "Of course." he said, "in retrospect. in the more tense atmosphere of recent years. we just don't do this." The gray-haired, 61-year-old judge discussed each of the cases freely at a hometown news conference Friday and volunteered details about a fourth case in which he bought stock shortly after his ruling.

Blackmun said he had sifted the files of 900 cases in which he has participated as a federal judge in the last 11 years and had asked that any stock links be placed before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel is scheduled to npen its i4 1.