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atkijarjf Vw- V'' "5 "tr kwi. v. 4 EH-- i N. ft I Nixon replaces Commerce chief '-'o-Storr on Page A-12 Margaret, Bess at bedside i i ruman JKf PAGES fVVOL 31 235 HE 5-1161 -Classified No. HE 2-5959 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7,192 Home Delivered Daily and Sunday $3.50 Per Month i I Combiied Xews- Services KANSAS CITY, Thursday Former President Harry S.

Jlriiman, fighting against congested lungs with a weakened heart, remained in critical condition early today after passing through what his doctor called an ultracritical period An early morning statement by spokesmen at Research Hospital ami Medical Center said the 88-year-old former chief executive was responsive to voice and touch stimuli." The statement quoted Dr. Wallace Shot perfect-- Graham, Truman's longtime personal physician, as saying it was difficult to differentiate between medically induced sedation and actual unconsciousness or 3 houfs late coma." Two hours earlier, the former President had been described as being to a deep stupor but responsive to painful sfr muli." Trumans only child, Mrs. Clifton Daniel, arrived at the hospital shortly after midnight from Washington and went im- By AL ROSSITER JR. DPI Spaee Writer Apollo 17s astronauts sat calmly on the Cape Kennedy launch pad through a technical delay of nearly three hours and then thundered into dark- ened space at 9:33 PST Wednesday night, embarking on Americas last planned mission to land men on the moon. My father is asleep and resting," Margaret Truman Daniel said eariy.

today after a half-hour hospital visit. I am optimistic of his recovery. lies gotten over worse things." The failure of a computerized sequence system to pressurize a liquid oxygen tank on the third stage of the frost-coated Saturn 5 rocket resulted in an automatic halt in the countdown 30 seconds before the scheduled liftoff at 6:53 p.m. PST After a series of holding delays, ground engineers succeeded in pressurizing the 'fuel tank manually and circumventing the problem to permit a fiery night-time blastoff 2 hours and 40 minutes late. Apollo 17 was the 11th and last mission in the bold Apollo series that unlocked the secrets ofthe moon.

mediately to the former president's sixth floor room, where Truman's wife, Bess, had spent the night at his bedside. THE HOSPITAL said special therapy to aid his breathing was no longer indicated since his respiration is adequate at present." Truman was placed on the critical list late Wednesday, and a hospital spokesman said then he had suffered a temporary relapse. The spokesman said Trumans condition later stabilized, however. Mrs. Daniel, whose biography of her father was recently published, flew here in a jet loaned by the White House.

She was met at the Kansas City Mu- HARRY S. TRUMAN FLAMES SPEWING FROM the giant rocket turned night to day for an estimated 500,000 spectators on the Florida beaches below as astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and their civilian scientist companion, Harrison H. Jack Schmitt soared away at 12:33 a.m.

EST. This night launch is something to behold, Schmitt told Mission Control. Kissinger-Tfw talks The astronauts swung into earth orbit 12 minutes later, and then fired the rockets third stage the focus of the problem that delayed the launch again to kick away from gravity and tsart the quarter-million-mile journey to the moon. imminent accord GENE CERNAN, commander of Apollo 17, waves to those on hand to see his departure for. the mom rocket.

Following him are astromates Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt, also dressed to go Thelr goal, to be reached Monday afternoon, will be a mountain-ringed valley in the Taurus-Littrow region on the southeastern rim of the vast Sea of Serenity the left eye of the Man to toe Moon. -UW Scientists believe Cernan and Schmitt will find there some of the oldest as well as the youngest moon rocks yet sampled to the Apollo program. Evans will circle overhead in the command ship4 America'. Wind-packed storm hits By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH PARIS Henry. A Kissinger and North Vietnams Le Due Tho had an apparently cordial 5 labour meeting Wednesday on the third day of their current round of secret peace talks, but they gave no hint of their progress.

President Nixons security, adviser, and. the Hand Politburo member shook hands warmly at the start and end of their meeting in the suburban villa of a French-born American jeweler. They and their advisers lunched together ONCE LAUNCHED, the flight was flawless. But there were tense moments on the ground when Apollo 17 for toe first time in toe 11 Apollomi sipna'Cxperienced an interruption of the countdown for technical reasons. continues The hundreds of thousands of spectators took up a midnight vigil as the three astronauts sat perfectly calm in their floodlighted spaceship atop the 36-story Saturn rocket Cernan mused that the delay afforded a good opportunity to discuss literature.

(Turn to in toe villa in suburban Neuilly, and later walked in the garden in. seemingly friendly conversation. The two peace negotiators maintained their agreed news blackout. There was no comment from either side on rumors that agreement might be imminent The White House announced Kissinger and Too would meet again this afternoon. French press speculated that Kissinger and Tho may be working on the filial wording of a cease-fire agreement.

Sai- American Air Force mechanics, 35 civilians and 19 government troops were injured, military spokesmen said. The attack on Tan Son Nhut served notice that Saigon sits under Communist guns, although at least one Intelligence officer predicted that the capital itself would not be a Viet Cong target so long ar peace talks are going onX. Hundfeds-of-tons of American Back Page, Col. 1) rumored gon newspapers predicted a cease-fire agreement )y Christmas. But in Hanoi, tho official newspaper Nhan Dan said there, can be no peace until the.

Saigon government agrees' to release its political prisoners. The outline of the drait agreement published in Hanoi on Oct. 26 provided for the release within 60 Postwar relocation of Indochina refugees top Nixon list of priorities for peace. Page A-14. days of military "prisoners held by both sides, but left the release of other prisoners to subsequent direct talks between Saigon and the Viet Cong: The draft contained no provisions for the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam.

The Saigon government has insisted that a withdrawal provision must be written into toe agreement. Hanoi has said -repeatedly it will reject such a demand. Wife of Marcos stabbed in park MANILA, Thursday I President- Ferdinand E. ed in fair condition. Indepehdeut light sprinkling began over the Southland Wednesday night preceding a storm which is expected to bring more snow to- toe mountains small craft warning along the coast and up to an inch of rain before skies dear early Friday.

Forecasts of the National Weather Servicf called for showers heavy at times -to begin before dawn today continuing sporadical In the VIP area, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew watched television monitors intently. Charlie Smith of Bartow, a 130-year-old former slave and honored guest wearing a 10-gallon hat and an Apollo pin on his lapel, declared: if may be going somewhere but it aint going to the moon. Reds pressing attacks After feverish maneuvering and recalculations at Launch Control Center, the Saturn rocket took off only 58 minutek before the deadline beyond which the flight would have had to be delayed until tonight Once aloft and climbing through partly cloudy sides over the dark Atlantic, Cernan radioed; Were looking good." The smallcraft warnings extend from the Monterey area to the Mexican border, said toe spokesman. Seas were- reported calm late Wednesday night, following the first drizzling to the Long Beach area, but -the spokesman added that offshore winds are expect-ed to grow stronger as the storm heightens today.

The Showers will add at least three-quarters of an inch of rainfall to the Southlands season total of more than five inches according to forecasts. Temperatures today'' to the Long Beach area will follow the cold pattern set earlier tills week with todays high reaching only 58 degrees said the. spokes- man. WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with a few fight showers. High today 58, low 45.

Complete weather Page A-43. 2 union aides slain A ROAR LIKE THUNDER nrapt Florida rant-line, and the large booster stagf fell away 2 minutes after launch to full view of the astronauts. Yells of delight broke out to the spacecraft. There goes the tower! shouted Cernan. Hey, there she goes! Youre, going right down toe pike, 17, said Mission Control.

Wevrieeint'ainrJgnltion, itagtagand tower (jetti-- son), replied Cernan. Ten minutes after blastoff, Mission Control sent word that you are go for orbit. MafcoswfferimeldaT was notary supplies repeatedly by a rushed in to beaa cease- man today at aa anrase-fire deadline are stored at meat park in neighboring sprawling Tan Son Pasay CUy and was report- 5 ly from the Inland mountains to the shoreline. A weather service spokesman said the storm will be accompanied by continued chilly temperatures. In mountain areas, said' the hravy snow warnings were being posted above 4000 feet." He said a foot-deep layer of new snow Is expected to blanket the Southern California Slopes by tonight Police identified the dead as Roger Ekar, 34, of suburban Carmichael, an international representative of toe Stationary Engineers and John Duncan, 31, of agent LocaL No.

39. BotSi had been shot with what detectives first assumed was a firearm of about .38 caliber size. By LOU GODFREY Staff Writer Veteran Assemblyman Cariey. Porter, architect of the nation's IMdllion California State Water; Project, died Wednesday to the nations capital The Compton Democrat, 66, was attending a conference of retired teachers in Washington, D.C. When he foiled to attend a meeting Wednesday morning, associate went to his Statier Hilton Hotel room and found him dead, victim of an apparent heart attack while he slept Porter had served 22 years toe Legislature, (Turn to Back Nhut base.

SAIGON. (UPI) Acting under orders to step up their attacks, in order to force the United States to sign a peace pact. Communist troops bundled the heaviest rocket attack near Saigon since the 1968 Tet Offensive Wednesday and struck at government troops throughout South Vietnam, military spokesmen said. The Coirtmunists fired 53 huge Soviet-built rockets at the Tan San Nhut airbase on the edge of Saigon in broad daylight One American, three South Vietnamese soldiers and five civilians were killed. Two dies budget.

He was traditionally one of the three assemblymen appointed each year to toe joint Senate-Assembly Budget Conference Committee. Porter was the second member of the Assembly to die in toe past week. Republican Frank Belotti of Eureka, who was retiring after 22 years in the Assembly, last Thursday, the day before ad-' of the regular session toe 1972 Legislature. Porter was a businessman after coming to California from Chicago in 1917. He also taught histo- blyman Porter SACRAMENTO Two labor union officials, were found shot to death to toe unions local offices here Wednesday, police Union associates -said -ytoera was nothing" to to.

dicate to killings were connected with union and police investiga- tors tentatively ruled out robbery as a motive. CARLEY PORTER Dead in Washington, D.C. 27 YOUTHS arrested on drug charges at Los Alamitos High School. Page A-3. Stoles leaders join to paying tribute to Assemblyman Caiiey Porter.

Page A-5. REAGAN leaves open 76 door to White House. Page A-6. Page, CoL 1) mental legislation in California and other states, He also authored toe Gean Water Bond Act in 1970. Porter was chairman of the Assembly Water a post he had held since toe committee was first organized in 1959.

He also was a member of too powerful Ways and Means Committee. He was elected chairman of the 45-member Los Angeles County legislative delegation in 1957 and subsequently was re-elected to that office five times. Porter was known as the Assemblys leading authority on water and water quality issues and as an authority on the state ORANGE COUNTY police officer, dep-Hffyounded by Page A-8. KITTY HAWK'S black executive officer denies friction with captain. Page A-13.

1973 Legislature from 51-29 to 50-29. The veteran legislator gained stats recognition in 1960 as coauthor of the Burns-Ptoter Water Bond Act, a 81-75-billion issue which launched construction of toe State Water Project He was also coauthor of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act of 1968, a landmark antipollution measure which Porter described as toe toughest antipollution measure in toe nation. That act became a standard for later environ- representing the 38th District covering Compton and surrounding communi- ties. He had been re-elected Nov. 7 by a 68 per cent majority for a 13th two-year term beginning Jan.

8. Porter was the third-Hhiking member of toe 80-seat Assembly in terms of seniority. He was first elected in a special election in 1949. His seat will be filled by special election at the direction of Gov. Reagan.

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