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The weather Mostly fair tonight and sunny tomorrow morning. I Trades 15 to 25 miles per hour. Expected high today 87, low tonight 74. Details on Page 2. Home Complete Stocks on page C-H 10e Hawaii Greatest Newspaper HONOLULU, HAWAII Wednesday, July 1 6, 1 969 Vol.

58, No. 197 Four Sections 64 Pages Nixon wants Monday a national holiday I i I tional Day of Participation," give the day off to non-essential federal employes, and asked the nation's state and municipal governments and employers to do the same. A spokesman for Gov. John A. Burns said that the President's recommendations will be given "all the weight and consideration they deserve," but no decision can be made until after the offi the successful conclusion of Apollo ll's mission and the safe return of its crew." Nixon proposal for holiday studied here If President Nixon gets his wish, Hawaii will observe a holiday Monday in honor of the Apollo 11 astronauts.

The President today declared Monday a "Na cial White House message is received. City Hall officials met today to discuss a possible holiday. The Retail Board of the Chamber of- Commerce of Hawaii was also caught by surprise today. A spokesman said holiday arrangements are difficult on such short notice, and markets would have an especially hard time, due to their perishable goods. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon today urged that all Americans be given a holiday Monday to celebrate the scheduled first landing of man on the moon v'a moment of transcendent drama." Because Nixon's legal powers to declare an extra national holiday are limited, he issued a proclamation declaring Monday to be a "National tablishments, banks, stock exchanges and other places of private employment would close their doors on Monday so all Americans can "share in the significant events of that day." NIXON ALSO declared: call upon all of our people, on that historic day, to join in prayer for Day of Participation." EXCEPT FOR essential employes in national security and public service areas, all federal workers will be excused from their jobs on that day.

And Nixon urged the authorities of states and cities and private employers to make similar arrangements. "In past ages," Nixon's proclamation said, "ex ploration was a lonely enterprise. But today, the miracles of space travel are matched by miracles of space communications; even across the vast lunar distance, television brings the moment of discovery into our homes, and makes all of us participants." White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said it was Nixon's hope that industry, retail es it 1 i i -t 'S A perfect launch an orbit of the earth and then off to the moon JJ -s for the moon Apollo 1 1 heads 1 0M AjmLJ ml (51 b) IT(o i SPACE CENTER, Houston fAP) Three Americans today rocketed away from earth on a voyage of the ages the first attempt to land men on the moon. The astronauts performed their maneuvers flawlessly.

They shot into earth orbit, boosted free on a path to the moon, disengaged from their launch rocket, docked with the moon lander vehicle ga- ,4 raged inside the rocket hull, and pulled it free for the long voyage. Everything was perfect. They blasted off from Cape at 3:32 a.m., a shade over Kennedy, Fla. Hawaii time, Soviet moonship Ok. Page A-2 The world paused and prayed.

Page A-2 late. half a second Two and a half hours later, a final rocket burst broke the grip of earth's gravity and sent civilian Neil A. Armstrong. Air Force Col. Edwin 73 )i A CHEERFUL CREW -Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin Jr.

appear in cheerful mood as they head for the transfer van that takes them to the spacecraft pad and the liftoff to the moon today. Associated Press Photos. DEEP IN THOUGHT-Astronaut Neil Armstrong stares into space during suiting activity at Cape Kennedy today. Inside the E. Aldrin and Air Force Lt.

Col. Michael Collins toward the moon, a scant 100 hours away. "You're on your way new," said mission control. FOUR HOURS after launch, they completed the job of joining with the lunar lander, and moved clear of the last stage of the Saturn 5 rocket. By radio command from the ground, the rocket was boosted out of the way and into orbit around the sun.

The astronauts had a changing view of the shrinking home planet below them. Said Armstrong almost dully, "Out my window right now I can observe the entire continent of North America, Alaska, over the pole, down to the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, the northern part of South America, and then I run out of window." Armstrong gave an instant weather report. It was clear over the Greenland icecap, clear over most of the United States, but a weather front crowned by clouds extended across the center of the nation. "I don't know what I was looking at," added Collins, "but the view was pretty good." SO ACCURATE was the Apcllo 11 course that the first planned correction in its flight path was skipped. The only trace of worry came with a faulty indicator light on the spacecraft control panel.

A check of the system straightened it out. The crew was concerned slightly because they had used more maneuvering rocket fuel than was programmed, but mission control told them to forget it. It was net a problem. The speed of the Apollo 11 changed with its purpose. It took a minute to cover the first 100 miles of the earth's surface after launch.

Minutes later it was doing better than 17,500 miles an hour in earth orbit. Then it boosted to some 25,000 miles an hour to build up momentum for the coast to the moon. Now it slows gradually as the earth's gravity wears Turn to page A-4. col. 3 McWayne Marine Is 146 Years Old-Andy Jones Is 35 But somehow the 111-vear Jim Becker C-7 Business C-8-9 Classified C-ll-19 Stock list C-8 Comics Dave Donnelly Daily Magazine C-6-7 Editorials A-18 Family B-l-5 Food Kokua Line A-2 Pulse C-10 Sports C-l-5 gap doesn't make a difference.

McWayne and its new young president go together like hook and line. Together they've built Hawaii's biggest, most complete, most "SksJ exciting marine center. Even if you don't know port from starboard you'll enjoy visiting ricwayne at Kewalo Basin oome on down Letter from Kahuku the THE EYES OF TEXAS-AND THE NATION Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, stretch to watch the Saturn 5 rocket with Apollo 11 crew aboard lift off this morning at Cape Kennedy.

Associated Press Photo. 'water's fine! ANDY JONES McWayne President Hawaii peaceful so 29th got the call DEAR MR. EDITOR: The eyes of the world are on the moon today. Not just the eyes of young lovers, but the eyes of all who love and admire the courage of brave men who dare the Supply, tCtii. sonnel activated during the Pueblo crisis were from Hawaii which has less than one per cent of the nation's total population.

Inouye has just received a letter from Vice Imiral W. P. Mack, the Defense Department's acting director of manpower and reserve affairs. It discloses that during the early months of 1968, there were only three infan-Turn to Tage A-17ol. 1 was picked for mobilization last year.

To put it bluntly, the Hawaii Army reserves were called to active duty mainly because there was less dan-5r of riots in the Islands than in Mainland areas with comparable combat-ready reserve forces. INOUYE HAS been trying lor a year to find out why 17 per centf all the Army per By Frank Hewlett Stnr-Rulletin ff tiler WASHINGTON The Army has finally explained to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye just why Hawaii's 29th Brigade KUKU.