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Weather Showers SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE 254 Likely NO. 2471 Telephone 433-4241 ALLENTOWN, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1969 Post Entered Office, 2nd Allentown, Matter 18105 SECTION A Spacemen Check Out Moon Taxi Stage Is All Set Ch For Lunar Walk SPACE CENTER, ing craft in lunar Sunday. Air Force Col. UNITED STATES Eagle, and turned Kennedy four days "Everything While commander in the command taxi. Houston (AP) The Apollo 11 astronauts tested their moon landorbit Saturday and found it ready for a rendezvous with history FIRST UNITED STATES Aldrin (left) and Armstrong gather rocks in moon activity simulation.

(AP) Kennedy Escapes Injury, Companion Dies in Crash EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP)Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- escaped injury but a former secretary of his late brother, Robert, was killed when their car plunged into a tidal pond and sank about midnight Friday. The accident went unreported for several hours.

The incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island at Martha's Vineyard, about 17 miles across the bay from the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport on Cape Cod. It was the second time Kennedy was nearly killed. He suffered a broken back in a plane crash five years ago. All three of older brothers met violent death. Worked for Brother Killed was Mary Jo Kopechne of Washington, a 29-year-old slim blonde who had worked as Tragedies Haunt Kennedy Family WASHINGTON (AP) The involvement of Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy, in an auto accident fatal to a former Kennedy secretary, is the latest in a series of tragedies for the Kennedy family. The accident occurred early Saturday off Martha's Vineyard, an island in the Atlantic off the Massachusetts coast. Police said Kennedy was the driver of the car. Police in Edgartown, identified the victim as Mary Jo Kopechne, about 29, a resident of Washington, D.C.

Police said she was a former secretary to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Four of the nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy have died violently.

Edward Kennedy suffered a broken back in a plane crash June 19, 1964. Here is a listing of the tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family. Joseph P. Kennedy -born July 25, 1915, killed Aug. 12, 1944.

A Navy pilot in World War II, he volunteered for a mission that involved parachuting from a bomber loaded with 10 tons of explosives before it hit a German V-2 rocket site. The bomber exploded prematurely from an unknown cause with him aboard. John F. Kennedy--born May 29, 1917, assassinated by Lee Today's Index Sect. General News Sect.

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Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. crawled into the lunar module, nicknamed on all its systems for the first time since it was launched from Cape and 250,000 miles ago. looks super," ground control radioed afterward. "We're ready to go." Neil A.

Armstrong and Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins waited module, Aldrin checked his dozen of gauges and controls in the moon Nothing was overlooked, for the landing module must work to perfection if Aldrin and Armstrong are to land on the moon and return safely to earth. The test took more than two hours. When it was over, Aldrin crawled back into the command module, the tunnel to the lunar machine was closed and the crew began getting ready for an eight-hour rest.

Rest Period The crew's rest period the shortest on their schedule since launch was delayed for about Related News, Photos Pages A-2, A-3, A-4, A-6, B-1 half an hour when mission control reported difficulty in locking on the Apollo 1 radio signals. Mission control sent signals to the craft to alighn its antennae automatically and asked the crew to monitor the procedure. Apollo 11 rocketed into moon orbit at 1:22 p.m. EDT Saturday and almost immediately passed tantilizing close to the spot where Armstrong and Aldrin will land Sunday. The spacemen beamed the moon into the living rooms of the world via television during the second orbit and then conducted the moon machine tests during the next two orbits.

Collins conducted landmark tracking while Aldrin was checking the communications equipment that will carry the word and pictures to earth of man's on the moon. historic exploration is to Continued on Page A-10, Col. 1 Luna 15 Is Still Circling the Moon Filipino Girl Is Named 'Miss Universe 1969' pened I immediately called the police." Medical Examiner Donald Mills quoted Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis's office as saying an autopsy would not be Police Chief amesdArena said: "The tragedy is strictly accidental," and he added that apparently "excessive speed" the cause.

"Mills said cause of death was He said he body about "completely obvious." 9:30 a.m. The woman was clothed in a white blouse and slacks. The body is to be flown to Plymouth, Miss Kopechne's hometown, for funeral services. Berkley Heights, Mrs. Joseph of Kopechne, of the victim, said that as far as her daughter was concerned, Continued on Page A-10, Col.

7 JODRELL BANK, England (AP) Apollo 11 and Luna 15, American and Soviet ships in space, circled in lunar orbit Saturday as the Americans prepared put the first man on the moon. Luna 15, the unmanned probe with a purpose which the Russians have never revealed, was in its third day around the moon, after a slight midafternoon course change that lengthened its path just before the MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPI) Pert Miss Philippines, Gloria Diaz, won the Miss Universe contest Saturday night, defeating 60 other girls for the global beauty title. The 18-year-old blackhaired, blackeyed beauty, with vital measurements of gasped as her victory was announced. She said she had entered the beauty pageant to "make friends, meet people and foster better relationships with other countries." First runnerup was Miss Finland, Harriett Eriksson.

Second runnerup was Miss Australia, Joanne Barrett, followed by Miss Israel, Hava Levy, and Miss Japan, Kkuyo Ohsuka. A panel of 12 judges reviewed the girls on the edge of the runway. They included Broadway producer David Merrick, Belgian actress Monique Van Vooren, portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, and a former Miss Universe, Norma Nolan of Argentina, who won the title in 1962. In preliminary judging last Wednesday night 10 of the girls were chosen "best in Contest sponsors claimed that any of the other 51 entrants had as good a chance as the 10 bathing suit beauties to win the beauty pageant. Five Seconds For Decision Of a Lifetime a secretary for Robert F.

Kennedy, and Sen. George Smathers, D-Fla. She was currently employed with Matt Reese Associates, a Washington political consulting firm. Kennedy was unharmed but said he was in a state of shock for several hours before report- Related Photo Page A-10 ing the accident to police about 9:30 a.m. "I have no recollection of how I got out of the car," Kennedy said.

A medical examiner ruled Miss Kopechne drowned. Kennedy said he dove several times attempting to rescue her from the car. Police said her body was found in the back seat. The bridge is an isolated area approached by a narrow dirt Kennedy gave police this written statement regarding the accident: "The car turned over and sank in the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and window of the car but I have no recollection of how I got out of the car.

"I came to the surface and repeatedly dove down to see if the passenger was still in it. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. "I was exhausted and in a state of shock and I recall that I was able to get back to some friends who had a car parked in front of a cottage. I asked someone to bring me back to Edgartown. remember walking around for.

a period of time and when 1 suddenly realized what hap- Diaz, 18-year-old brunette Islands, is crowned Miss titleholder Martha Vascontopped the ceremonies at (AP) SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) It is one more Sunday afternoon. You are one. human being. Your name: Neil Armstrong. Then at this one moment in all of man's existence, one number- 99-flashes on the instrument panel of one spacecraft.

It is a code asking you a question. Now, you must make one decision. Push one button, marked meaning "proceed," and you commit yourself, your life, your nation's flag to the audacious attempt to land id upon and walk the face of the moon. 5 Seconds to Decide You have five seconds to decide. Don't push the button, and you remain safe, relatively safe anyhow in lunar orbit, fairly well assured of making a safe return home.

The day is July 20, 1969. You are standing in the cramped cockpit of a moon ferry, the LM, which a from the outside looks ridiculous, silly, even ugly. Inside, standing on your right is Edwin Aldrin, occupatior: astronaut, age 39. Like se you, he concentrates on the instrument panel which reflects the wizardy of a computer, radar and other fantastic mechanism brought together over a decade to function at this point in time. For the next 12 -if you decided to push the "PRO" button--Aldrin will be reading numbers and information from the instrument panel, while you, the pilot, making ever more critical decisions.

99 99. 99 the panel light insists. Flying Upside Down You fly 50,000 feet above the surface of the moon, not quite 10 miles high. You are really flying face down, pointed feet first in space, travelling at 3,500 miles an hour. You are 245 Networks List TV Moon Time NEW YORK (AP) Following is the television schedule of major networks for Apollo 11 coverage all times EDT: Sunday: CBS and NBC, 11 a.m., beginning of 31 hours of continuous coverage.

ABC, noon, beginning of 30 hours of continuous coverage. miles from the pre-selected spot for a moon landing. 99 99 99 the light insists. If you don't push "PRO" you will hurtle past the moon, curve around it, and be able after two such orbits to rejoin the command ship piloted by Michael Collins. You know that your fragile moon ferry can't take you home.

You know that if you do land, it must later rocket you up to rejoin the waiting Collins. Five seconds now to make up your mind. All instruments say everything looks You hit the "PRO" button. The computer, still working in p-63, program 63, begins putting on the brakes when the five seconds are up. The brakes are the descent rocket at the bottom of your spacecraft.

Firing, it acts as a retro to start taking you down. MARY JO KOPECHNE Highlights Of Next Three Days Harvey Oswald in Dallas. Nov. 22, 1963. The President Mrs.

Kennedy suffered the death of two children, a daughter stillborn and a son who died two days after birth from lung disease. In World War II, Kennedy a PT boat commander, suffered a severe back injury when his boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Rosemary Kennedy--born Sept. 13, 1919. In an institution Continued on Page A-10, Col.

7 MISS UNIVERSE Gloria from Parnaque, Rizal, Philippine Universe of 1969 by outgoing cellos of Brazil. The crowning Miami Beach. three Apollo astronauts went into moon orbit. Officials at Jodrell Bank, the West's chief listening post on secretive Soviet space shots, and at Houston have scoffed at suggestions Luna 15 might interfere with the Americans. Theory Advanced In addition, American officials have said that there are only remote possibilities that the two vehicles could collidemuch less come in sight of each other.

Luna's orbit change came during its 27th trip around the moon and Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, said his 250-foot-side electronic dish picked up Luna's signal again while it was halfway through its 28th orbit. He said he could give no reason for the change and refused to speculate on what Luna 15 might do next. "It could still do almost anything," he said. Unofficial sources in Moscow had predicted all or part of Luna 15 would try a remote controlled moon landing to retrieve a soil sample-a task set for the Apollo astronauts during their moon walk. Another theory was that Luna 15 was the first of a new series of Luna vehicles not meant to land until later and that it would be brought out of moon orbit back to earth- feat Soviet space scientists have not yet performed.

Change Made Lovell said he could not exclude the possibility that one new feature of Luna's performance, apparently continuous low-power radio transmissions behind the moon, indicated it might be communicating with a capsule already placed on the moon surface. The length of the new orbit was given as 2 hours 3.5 minutes, an increase of three minutes. The maximum altitude was given as 137 miles and the minimum 59 miles. The previous orbiting time had been given as two hours and three seconds. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Here are highlights of Apollo 11's fourth, fifth and sixth days a all times Eastern Daylight: inspace, The day ahead (Sunday): Astronauts Neil A.

Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins awake at 7:02 a.m. after a nine-hour rest period and eat breakfast. Hatch separating lunar module (LM) landing craft and command ship is removed.

Aldrin crawls into LM at 9:17 a.m. and switches on electrical power. Armstrong follows at 10:16 a.m. He checks out LM communications and astronauts hook pressure suits into LM life support systems. Landing Legs LM landing legs deployed at 12:25 p.m.

Mission control gives go-no-go for undocking at 1 p.m., followed by a checkout of LM maneuvering jets. Command ship piloted alone by Collins undocks with LM at Continued on Page A-10, Col. 1 Reading for Sunday The civilized world is gripped by excitement and apprehension on the eve of the first man on the moon. For Lehigh Valley reaction see Page B-1. And speaking of the moon, the ideal of sending a man there isn't exactly new.

In fact, an article published 79 years ago discusses the possibility. Page B-14. Read the amazing story of how Allentown's GAC Corp. has grown from a second floor office to a $1.5 billion diversified business on Page D-1. But all the news isn't good.

As of last night it appears that the end of this week will mark the final curtain-falling of the struggling Allentown Summer Theater. Page B-1. In one way or another the war in Vietnam has reached into almost every home. In the Lehigh Valley alone there have been more than 100 servicemen killed in the conflict. Page B-1.

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