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Eighty ninth Year Reporter Serving Allegany, Potter Counties WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK, Wednesday Afternoon, July 16, 1969 10 Cents Per Copy OAS Cease-Fire Drug Firms Hit Apollo 11 Begins Historic Bid Fails; War Federal Move By WILLIAM BARTON fraudulent patent to monopolize Associated Press Writer sales of a leading antibiotic. WASHINGTON (AP) The The government, in a three- Nixon administration, trying to count civil suit, also demanded lower spiraling drug prices at least 25 million in damages By ARY MOLEON ernment casualty reports were through vigorous antitrust en- much SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador available from either side. forcement, has charged seven two of the companies, Charles Rocks Honduras -r I I I vJ I fVlOl I Bulletin (AP) Ignoring a call from the Fighting was reported savage Organization of American and often hand-to-hand along States for a cease-fire, El Salva- the border. A report from Tegu- dor pressed its invasion of Hon- cigalpa said university students duras today and demanded that were ready to man hospitals the Honduran army "surrender and medical centers to aid the before being defeated on the wounded expected to arrive to- battleground." day from the battle zones. Diplomatic sources in San Sal- Honduran planes on Tuesday vador said Salvadorean forces bombed the international air- appeared to have penetrated as port outside San Salvador and a much as 20 miles inside Hondu- Standard Oil of New Jersey refin- ras.

The Honduran government cry 25 miles away. El Salvador Committee Sits Tight On Surtax Pfizer Co. Inc. and American Cyanamid Co. The action marked the second time in a week Justice Department antitrust enforcers moved against drug patents in a concerted drive for more competition in the industry.

In Tuesday's suit, filecQn federal court here, Pfizer was accused of obtaining a fraudulent patent in 1955 on the drug tetra- By JOE HALL Associated Press Writer im 0 WASHINGTON (AP) Chair- ycline the claimed that it's troops "are admitted several gasoline stor- man Russell B. Long nas moi- i ng broad spectrum antibiotic) fighting valiantly pushing age tanks were hit, and the col- cated he will not go along with a Broad spe ctrum antibiotics back the enemy attack." umn of smoke could be seen in Republican move to force the a re popularly known as "won- A seven-nation peace keeping the capital. bill out of the der drugs for their ability to committee dispatched the The war began Monday night ate Finance counteract and cure a broad OAS arrived in San Salvador when Honduras reported two Thursday. range of illnesses and diseases. Tuesday night to seek a cease- stabs into its territory from El Republican Leader Everett The department claimed Pfi- fire in the two-day-old war, "but Salvador.

The Salvadorean gov- Dirksen, a Finance Commit- zer go the tetracycline patent there was no immediate indica- ernment said its invasion was tee member told newsmen he withholding information and tion of success. launched to prevent an attack was pefu pan makin fa lse and misleading Salvadorean government by Honduran forces massed on send the embattled legislation to statements" to the U.S. patent sources said the army was driv- the border for an invasion. nat flo for debate at Office. ing toward the Honduran capital The council of the OAS in Th day se ss 1 a nln doing so, the suit alleged, of Tegucigalpa in two columns Washington approved a resolu- Asked about this, Long told 3 pf lzer gained support from Cy-one made up of tanks, artil- Uon calling for the two nations reporter it was up to the com- anamid, holder of a patent lery and motorized vehicles to suspend hostilities and settle lit to decide how toKhandle Aureomycin, the first wonder moving along the South High- their differences peacefully.

It th se pa f' rta druug marketed in this country, way, part of the Pan American asked the peacekeeping com- JtBl he added nave not In- he government said Cyanamid Highway, and the otlfcr an in- mittee to report its findings and ited se ato to i made deceptive statements to fantry force marching through recommednations "in the short- form) amendments to this bill back Pfizer's patent claim in the mountains. est time circumstances may al- and promised to hold hearings exchange for a licensing ar- Tegucigalpa is about 40 miles low." on them next week without in- rangement that allowed the two from the Honduras-El Salvador The undeclared war climaxed CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) a jolting burst of rocket power, the Apollo 11 astronauts today shot ou Earth orbit to propel the ship toward the moon and man's first landing on another celestial body. By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Reaching for a dream, America's Apollo 11 astronauts soared into earth orbit today and passed the vital first milestone of the voyage of the ages, an attempt to land men on the moon.

Civilian commander Neil A. Armstrong, Air Force Col. Edwin E. Aldirin Jr. and Air Force Lt.

Col. Michael Collins started the journey on the awesome power of a Saturn 5 super-rocket that thundered from. Cape Kennedy at 9:32 a.m. EOT with a roar heard round the globe. "Houston, be advised the visual is go today," one of the astronauts said shortly after the spacecraft left the ground.

"They finally gave me a window to look out." Armstrong's first words on achieving orbit were very businesslike. as their symbol the drawing of In all they are to be an eagle swooping to the era- moon less than a day. tered surface, its talons ping an olive branch. As is the manner of on the area with a dazzling sheet of flame as its five first-stage en- grip- But in that time they will gines flashed to life and sent an have opened the limitless fron- unearthly howl rolling across men, tier of space a bit farther. The the scrub and swamplands of Armstrong and Aldrin will plant rocks they bring home may pro- the moonport.

an American flag on the surface vide clues to the origin of the ne monster screamed on its as a symbol of conquest. But moon, the Earth and even the pedestal for 8.9 seconds as a they will not claim this territory solar for the United States. To make probe this clear they will leave behind course for future expeditions to a plaque bearing these words: present imagination. "Here men from the planet If all goes well, much of the Earth. world will watch the entire lu- "First set foot upon the moon nar surface activity beamed "July 1969 A.D.

live via television from a came in peace for all era the astronauts are to mount mankind." 30 feet away from their landing They are to gather precious craft. set the computer system made certain the universe beyond a engines ignited properly and built up full total thrust of 7.7 million to the power of more than 500 jet planes. When the computer sensed all was right, it commanded four steel restraining arms to flip back to release the pulsating giant. Gulping fuel at the rate of 15 rocks from this new world, de- Television provided millions tons a second, the rocket 'BTazed ploy scientific instruments and with a ringside seat for the blaz- to the heavens. Its millions of determine how well man in a ing start of the momentous mis- bulky space suit can operate in sion.

Much of the world stood the unfamiliar one-sixth gravity field on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin are to still as the 363-foot roared into the sky. The most powerful Saturn 5 spend about hours outside, ever built sprayed the launch A Hometown Prays For Neil Armstrong By STEVE DRAKE WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) more calm and- collected than The people of Wapakoneta, his mom and dad." parts meshed, pulsed and interacted flawlessly and all three stages fired with precison to boost Apollo 11 to its first orbit- machine a i plateau. Among the thousands who watched today's launch at'the scene were the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leading group of poor people who would rather see space funds used to fight pov- about the journey.

"He (Neil) is erty The group was camped "The booster has been con- tucked deep the hinterlands Neil called this morning and firmed for orbital 'flight. Both of northwestern Ohio, sent their we had a good chat, Mrs. Arm- em(M from the House outside the gates of the spaceport. President Nixon phoned the Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, the leader, has ther Inc frontier, but nearly 75 miles by years of tension between over- CJ biotic sales highway from El. Amatillo, crowded El Salvador and fer- where the armored column re- tile, sparsely populated Hondu- ininP a inna lut nf npmnpratip portedly crossed the border. ras next door. Some 300,000 Sal- have Tcepted pr oducer -Briston-Myers The capitals of both countries vadoreans have moved across were under curfew and blackout the border in recent years, and Tuesday night, but rain ap- El Salvador says hundreds have peared to have temporarily returned recently reporting they halted air attacks by the World were victims of atrocities. The War II vintage planes-of the two Honduran government has de- Central American republics.

nied these charges. These include a minimum tax Twelve planes, eight of them The tension was heightened for the wealthy, reduction in the eve their launehin and drug charged with TracydiL teiracycune trade. That unt stemmed, the gov- spacecraft are looking good," hopes and prayers with their strong said Tuesday evening he said. He referred to the still hometown hero-Astronaut Neil Its a wonderful, tremendous and toW them; carry attached third stage of the Sat- Armstrong-as he embarked to- experience. urn 5 which was to ignite later day on a trip to the moon.

Most stores here display Arm- to boost Apollo 11 toward the For eight long days this com- strong's picture, townsfolk fly moon munity's 7,000 residents will be the flags of the United States The astronauts were to circle concentrating on the space ad- and Ohto, street banners pro- the globe for hours to make venture of Armstrong and his claim God Speed Neil and lcan with certain the spaceship's thou- fellow astronauts, Edwin Aldrin the Armstrong family church- sands of systems were function- Jr. and Michael Collins. Jt Paul's United Church of ing Then at 12-16 (EOT), For Armstrong himself, it will prayer vigils they were to restart the still-at- be a dream come true when, if during the crucial periods of the landing craft and tached third stage of the Saturn all goes well, he becomes the flight. lunar land mg craft and Qn greatest adventure man has ever undertaken I want you those of all Amer- If Apollo 11 succeeds, Arm- Honduran, reportedly have been by a series of clashes in late oil depletion allowance, more Cyanamid and Bristol shot down. June at championship soccer tax relief for low and middle in- medical personnel games between Salvadorean come reform of the Teven ffrms couW reported civilian and military and Honduran teams, and 'the capital gains system, and modi- fn dosLe casualties were heavy on both broke, off dip- fication of the taxation sides of the border, but no gov- lomatic relations.

Lull In War Continues; May Slow US Operations jomplaint also me privilege on state and local court to cancel the pfizer patent SJ u. and Prohibit the firm from col- Long said he thought Finance lecti ng royalties on tetracycline. might accept three or four of antitrust task Kennedy's amendments, but not pointed fomer PresidePt the oil depletion allowance pro- Lyndon Johnson recommend- said President Nixon top the vinced surtax patent abuses, extension Since taking office the Nixon SAIGON (AP) A lull contin- more than 3,000 tons of food, ued across South Vietnam's bat- 1,002 tons of ammunition, and tlefields today as Gen. Earle G. more than 9,000 weapons.

6 ure AU Wheeler, chairman of the U.S. The us Command said the usi be enacted soon-before administration's antitrust chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew here convoy was the ss lt the battle Asst. Atty. Gen. Richard W.

from Washington to assess the 65 miles north of Saigonywhen McLaren has taken the task four-week-old slowdown the North VletnameJe twoim torce advice and directed IT ened fire from both sides o' 10 er cent income surtax for Pr beS S6veral Ucensin The U.S. Command reported thft rnflH The trucks raced l' a AJ or rangements. rocket grenade and 16 Communist shelling attacks Tuesday night and early today rifleTirVand reached their des- ce none of them resulting in sen- tinati some vehid ous casualties or damage were damaged) S0 urces 7 One American was killed and six wounded in the only report- sa i Long The tetracydine suit involv flwt ste mmhs ing 3 Pr dUCt With annual sales wel1 over $10 miUion fo1 A lowed a complaint last week he agreed "the against Ciba and cpc Jn A J2 pressing business now is to ternational Inc challenging ed ground action, the ambush of Armored troops guarding the maintain the fiscal integrity of restrictive licensing agreementf a U.S. truck convoy north of Saigon Tuesday. In hellcopter unshi the federal government and 0 ndgs known as benzo enzo th enemv osi give the President the tools he a es hi ch are used as di- to contain infla Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday that U.S.

forces are still under orders to maintain maximum battlefield pressure on the enemy. But under senatorial prodding, he said: "This whole matter is under review." This was taken in Washington to mean that the Nixon Administration is considering the possibility of scaling down U.S. offensive operations in response to thtf slack-off in enemy action. The U.S. Command has shrugged off the possibility that the lull, which began June 21, might represent a de-escalation by the enemy or have other political significance.

U.S. officials in Saigon say the slowdown more likely is for regrouping and reorganizing before another "high point" in the Communists' summer campaign. Captured documents and other intelligence data suggest strongly that another "high point" will occur before the end of July, officers say. Allied field operations have continued at their usual levels. The sources said U.S.

strategy is one of "pre-empting enemy battlefield" by conducting many small-scale patrols and searches to find arms and supply caches while keeping the enemy moving and off-balance. Informed sources said re- operations and stirring up the emptive operations in the first six months of 1969 have netted ABM Foes Seek To Halt Multi Warhead Testing By WALTER R. WEARS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Senate foes of the Safeguard missile defense plan are campaigning on a second front, seeking a halt in testing of multiple warhead offensive weapons. While the Safeguard debate rumbled on, that companion issue was before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. The Weapons involved: multiple, inependently targeted reentry which the nuclear warheads on one missile could be aimed against several different targets.

Three scientists were called to testify on the MIRV controversy. The committee is considering a resolution proposed by Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R- which urges that the United States halt MIRV tests so long as the Soviet Union does the same. Brooke has enlisted 40 cosponsors for his MIRV resolution, thus bringing it within 10 votes of a Senate majority.

His aides say private pledges of support from other senators put the total past a majority. Brooke's resolution asks that President Nixon propose an immediate U.S.-Soviet moratorium on MIRV tests. The Pentagon asid June 13 the United States is going ahead with the testing of MIRV warheads for Minuteman and Poseidon missiles. The MIRV issue has come up repeatedly in the Safeguard debate. Senate sources said the administration has thus far maintained a noncommital attitude toward the Brooke resolution.

In the Safeguard contest, President Nixon was said to be firmly opposing any compromise. Republican leaders said their lafest count shows at least 50 votes, and possibly 52, lined up for deployment of the system Nixon seeks to defend U.S. offensive missile installations. "Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen said of the President: "He's confident that we have the votes, and so am The next key phase of the Safeguard debate is due Thursday, when the Senate is expected to hold a secret session, with both sides hoping to buttress their arguments.

(Regional Forecast) Sunny and warm this afternoon. High near 90. Generally fair tonjght. Low about 70 in urban centers and in 70s in rural or valley sections. Warm and more humid, some increase in cloudiness Thursday.

Chance of isolated showers or thundershowers, mainly in the afternoon or evening. High 85 to 90. Southerly winds, 10 to 20, during the day and 10 at night. High 96, Low 57 (Local Report) Sun bathers had a field day yesterday as temperatures soared into the mid-90's. Water and Light Dept.

reported a high of 96 at 5 p.m. yesterday and a low of 57 at 6 a.m. during the 24- hour period which ended at 11:30 this morning. No precipitation was reported during the 24-hour period which ended this morning at 8. At the pre-noon reading, the barometer registered 30.31 inches' and falling.

The temperatures were: Yesterday noon 83, 3 p.m. 88, 6 p.m. 95, 9 p.m. 77, midnight 66. Today 3 a.m.

61, 6 a.m. 57, 9 a.m. 76, 11:30 a.m. 84 5 to start toward their target, 250,801 miles away. Barring problems, these three Columbuses of the Space Age are to sail outward across a quarter-million-mile ocean of space for three days and fire themselves into orbit just 69 miles above the moon on Saturday.

They are to follow the trail blazed twice in the last seven months, by the pioneers of Apollo 8 and 10. Sunday afternoon, Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin are to detach a lunar module anl fly it down to a landing at the Sea of Tranquillity. Early the next day they are to fullfull a centuries-old dream by on and exploring the lunar landscape. Civil defense officials estimated more than a million persons, the largest crowd ever to witness a Cape Kennedy launching, cheered as the great rocket lifted away from Earth. Thousands had camped overnight on beaches and other vantage points.

Roads were jammed early in the morning. Among those who watched the start of the moon mission from Cape Kennedy were former President Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Armstrong's wife, Janet, and their two sons, Eric, 12, and Mark, 6. Also watching the start of the moon mission were Armstrong's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Stephen Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Mrs. Armstrong told newsmen she talked to her son the morning before launch. "He was happy," she said.

"His usual self. Just like he always is." As the astronaut's parents spoke, one of the spacemen in the capsule told Mission Control: "It sure is clear down there. It's like sitting in your living room." The astronauts go to the moon as men of peace, bearing the flags and messages of many lands. They may not make it. For Apollo 11 is not only man's most ambitious space adventure hut also the most dangerous.

The astronauts and space officials warned in advance that the flight might have to be aborted at any time, even up to the moment of lunar touchdown. And if the two astlonauts do land, there is a remote chance they could be stranded on the moon, with only two days of oxygen and no chance of rescue. The astronauts have chosen will be no major celebration here immediately. first man to step on the moon. His Stephen and Viola and grandmother, planned to watch the entire flight on television in their home Charles Brading, chairman of at 912 Neil Armstrong Drive, named for the astronaut after fly it to a touchdown in the moon's Sea of Tranquillity, "I don't think wild demonstra- leavin Collins to orbit over- tions are in good taste," said head.

At 2:21 a.m. Monday, Armstrong is to step onto the surface and for the first time man the homecoming celebration, We'll hold the excitement until his successful flight in Gemini 8. everything is all right," and the will walk on soil that is not of "I haven't had time to think astronauts return to earth July his world. It will be an imprint of it," said Stephen Armstrong 24. on history.

Nothing Can Prepare A Wife By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL ed, "is the beginning." Mrs. Armstrong took 12-year- SPACE CENTER Houston And, if having her man wait- old Eric and 6-year-old Mark (AP) Nothing ever prepared to go-to wasn't along. a wife for a time such as this. derstood that "Neil wanted to devote his life to what doing now." Not Joan Aldrin, who learned enough, Joan Collins had to wor- Joan Aldrin commented that rm strong a Vhrun- ry last night about a tree in their sons, 13-year-old Michael Not Jan Armstrong, who un year old and he's pled by a storm.

It was all daughter Janice, who will be 12 right, though. Nobody was hurt, next month, are becoming Wives being wives and today aware of the meaning of this J.1V/I. JKAVIA. nn thp amatpur stage to lose her being an important occasion, flight. owrL identity Pat a Joan went Tuesday to The Collins children, 10-year- Not Pat Collins when she have their hair done.

Jan Arm- old Kate, 7-year-old Ann and 6- promised, like women the world strong, whose husband to be year-old Mike, probably aren't nvpr "tn havp and to hold from the first man on the moon, was at that stage yet. tWs day Sard the only wife who went to Cape Their fathers are going to the Thpv havp lived with it for Kennedy to see her man off. No moon. totaTthlfone toy comment, she said through a Nothing ever prepared a wife man will go the moon. This was space agency spokesman.

for a time such as this, the day. The men were their JF- Like Wait For Firstborn, men. Astronaut homes cluster around the Lakeland area near the space center. In those homes, half a hundred wives know what Jan and Joan and Pat are going through. LBJ Says of Space Launch to antipoverty CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.

(AP) tion compared "It's kind of like standing programs. But not quite like the wives of around the hospital room before Paine promised Abernathy 10 the Apollo 11 crew. Nothing ever your first baby is born," former VIP passes and' said if it would prepared a wife for a time such Lyndon B. Johnson solve the problems of the poor as this. said as he and 500 other special by withholding the Apollo 11 "I feel fine about it," said guests marked time before the shot no button would be pushed, Mrs.

Collins on the day before. Apollo 11 launching. but it wasn't that simple. "Everything seems to be going "You must be prepared to ac- President Nixon wasn't here just fine." cept the worst, but you hope for to join the 40 mayors, 19 gover- They always say such things the best," Jo-hnson explained. nors and 275 U.S.

business lead- to newsmen on the day before. Vice President Spiro Agnew, ers on the VIP list, but he tele- But the lights and the television like Johnson, arrived in the phoned best wishes to astro- sets go on early in the space- jam-packed Cape Kennedy area nauts Neil Armstrong, iMichael made communities of Nassau on the eve of the flight to the Collins and' Edwin Aldrin Jr. Bay and Seabrook and Clear moon and attended a private Nixon originally was to have Lake and El Lago. dinner party given by Dr. dined with the Apollo 11 astro- And as an electronic clock Thomas 0.

Paine, administrator nauts on the eve of their depar- 1,040 miles away at Cape Ken- of the National Aeronautics and ture from Earth. But he can- nedy, strangely counts Space Administration. celed this plan when space backward to zero, there sudden- Not all the VIPs had housing agency doctors expressed con- ly are no kids on the street and in the immediate vicinity of this cern that Armstrong, Aldrin and no housewives going for the pa- cape midway down Florida's Collins might catch a cold or per or a street chat, and news- east coast. Dr. Lee A.

Dubridge, other germ from the President. men wait outside three homes to President Nixon's science advis- Nixon plans to be on the air- hear what the wives have to say er, stayed overnight in Orlando, craft carrier Hornet July 24 when the clock starts going for- 50 miles away. when Apollo 11 splashes down in ward and everything is well. Sixty-nine ambassadors of for- the Pacific. Jan and Joan and Pat all have ei 8 governments flew in this The Apollo 11 crew had steak gone through it before.

But morning, as did many other vis- and mashed potatoes with seven nothing ever prepared a wife for itors. a time such as this. Ten representatives of the other astronauts. The most important visitors of "Gemini was the end of some- "Poor People's Campaign" of all, to Apollo 11 commander thing," said Joan Aldrin, the Rev. David Aber- Armstrong, were his wife Janet "Buzz" was on the last flight of nathy were added to the VIP list and sons Eric, 12, and Mark, 6.

that series and left his space- after a meeting with Paine. They were assigned a private craft for hours, establishing They protested the nation's site on the cape to watch the a record. "This flight," she add- high spending on space explora- liftoff..