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SECOND CALLCHRO SUAY 433.4241 Weather Sunny, Mild 2 5 UN II NO. 2509 ALLENTOWN, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1970 Enteral lnd Clan Matter Post Ollice, Alienlown, Pa. U105 SECTION A Moon Toward Racing Ap Faulty Engine Mars Launch By PAUL RECER SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Three American astronauts sped smoothly toward a risky moon adventure Saturday, their spacecraft spinning slowly through space and the earth receding slowly behind them. Apollo 13 astronauts James L. Lovell Fred W.

Haise Jr. and John L. Swigert Jr. rode quietly but firmly on the path to the moon despite a launch marred by a premature rocket cut off. They watched as a spent rocket hull was sent fleeting ahead toward the moon.

A rocket firing on command from the ground set the booster toward a powerful lunar. collision which scientists hope will reveal secrets about the moon's interior. llllISlllli Kirk Faces $10,000 Daily Fine Federal Judge Hands Down Contempt Ruling TAMPA, Fla. (AP) A federal Judge found Florida Gov. Claude Kirk in contempt of court Saturday and said he would fine Kirk until the governor pulled down his barriers to school Integration in Manatee County.

The contempt ruling came after Kirk assumed control of the Manatee County school system and blocked an Integration order In defiance of U.S. Dlst. Judge Ben Krentz-man. "Claude R. Kirk Jr.

is in civil contempt of this court and such contempt is continuing," Krentzman said in the ruling. Kirk shall pay a fine to the United States of beginning April 11 unless on or before Monday he shows this court that he is in compliance with the orders of this court." At the governor's mansion in Tallahassee, a Kirk aide said, "We have no statement." Two Kirk aides who sided with the governor in the school takeover were also found in contempt and Krentzman fined them with the same conditions of the ruling against Kirk. Manatee County Sheriff Richard Weitzenfeld, who backed up Kirk aides in a confrontation with U.S. marshals earlier in the week was ruled in contempt but not fined. Krentzman set no date for a hearing in the cases of six Manatee deputies who were involved in the face-off with the federal officers.

Krentzman set a deadline of noon Monday for compliance with his orders of last week telling Kirk and his forces to refrain from hindering implementation of a January desegregation order. The judge also instructed the U.S. attorney to investigate all actions taken by Kirk and local officials in connection with the court orders. Krentzman said he would "make provision for appropriate proceedings" if federal officials felt the orders were not being followed. ill mi Swigert, a last minute substitute on the crew for another as- tronaut who is suspected of being infected by German measles, was complimented by ground controllers for his flying skill.

They told the civilian spaceman he had used 20 pounds less fuel in rocket firings than had been predicted. Cancel Correction So accurately was Apollo 13 on its path to the moon, mission controllers cancelled a course Related News, Photos A-i correction rocket firing that had been scheduled for early Sun-, day. Another correction is planned Sunday night, however. Lovell, Haise and Swigert took pictures of the earth on given signals from mission control. The pictures will later help meteorologists study the earth's weather patterns.

Speed of the spacecraft, which reached 24,000 miles an hour just after Apollo 13 rocketed out of earth orbit, slowly declined as it started up the "gravity hill" toward the moon. Its speed had fallen to 6,100 miles per hour by 11:13 p.m. EST, eight hours after launch. The moon and the earth will play a game of gravity tug of war with the spacecraft until lunar gravity gains control Monday afternoon. The craft will then pick up speed.

The astronauts set their spacecraft into a gentle spin early Saturday night. The spin, called the "barbeque evenly distributes the heat from the sun. hi Saturn rocket carrying Apollo 13 spacemen to moon lifts off launching pad at Cape Kennedy. (AP) Mattingly: Frustrated Spaceman HighSchool Scientists At Blastoff (EDITOR'S NOTE: Three local high school students, recent winners of national honors in science, were on-the-spot witnesses yesterday to the launch of Apollo 13. Accompanying the group was Call-Chronicle Executive Editor Edward D.

Miller. Here is his report). CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -Thirteen has to be a lucky number for three young men from Allentown. Kirk A.

Shinsky, Peter Fried-land and Ronald Amey, three Allentown boys who took top honors in the recent West-inghouse Annual Science Talent Search, were among the dignitaries who witnessed yesterday's launch of Apollo 13 as guests of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). They joined Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Secretary of State William Rogers in the VIP grandstand 2Vi miles from the launch pad. Their odyssey actually began about three weeks ago when Joseph A. Barrett, principal of Dieruff High School, was planning a community testimonial diriner for the three winners.

Shinsky, a Dieruff senior was named national winner in the Westinghouse contest and Fried-land and Amey, both seniors at Allen, were among the top 40 finalists. Rooney Contacted Prior to the March 22 dinner, Barrett had contacted Rep. Fred B. Rooney to see if somehow the three winners could attend the blastoff. Rooney immediately teamed up with Mack Trucks Board Chairman Zenon C.R.

Hansen to provide both invitations and transportation to Cape Kennedy. The announcement of the trip was made at the dinner and was a complete surprise to the boys and, in part, to Barrett himself, who was invited to go along. The three boys, along with Hansen, Barrett and this writer, left Allentown-Bethlehem-Eas-ton airport at 7:15 a.m. yester- Continued on Page A-4, Col. 1 Author John O'Hara Dies; Missed Out on Top Awards Friday that backup pilot John L.

Swigert Jr. would replace Mattingly for America's third voyage for a moon landing. Exposed to Measles Mattingly was exposed to the German measles by another member of the backup crew, Charles Duke. Extensive tests revealed Mattingly, 34, was not immune to the disease. Officials said it would be too risky to permit him to make the 10-day flight.

"I for one don't concede I'm going to get sick," Mattingly, a Navy lieutenant commander, said. But he added: "It's personally very frustrating and quite a disappointment." JOHN O'HARA i By MIKE COCHRAN SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II said Saturday he was frustrated and disappointed when grounded from Apollo 13 as a measles threat but admitted it was "the only decision that was available." And, the balding, freckled command module pilot added, "I would hope that were I the manager, I would have made the same decision." Mattingly spoke briefly to newsmen Saturday evening after watching the launch of Apollo 13 in mission control at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Space agency officials ruled O'Hara was born Jan. 31, 1905 in Pottsville, the first of eight children to Patrick and Katherine O'Hara.

His father was a surgeon. O'Hara's literary career grew out of newspaper work. One of his first jobs was on the New York Herald Tribune. During the 1930's, he was a regular in where he became acquainted with the rackets and the entertainment world. O'Hara's drinking ability became legendary, but he was said to have quit entirely after almost dying of a massive stomach hemorrhage in 1953.

He and his wife, Katharine, had a 10-room house on a 2'i-acre tract in Princeton, N.J. Mattingly underwent two years of extensive training for the mission, which would have been his maiden space- adventure. Not Superstitious He was asked in a preflight interview if he felt the number 13 to be unlucky. "No," he replied. "It was sport in the beginning to find jokes that would go with it, but I think Apollo 13 is just another number in sequence." Mattingly said Saturday that even if he has contracted the measles, doctors tell him he is in a "period of incubation" and not yet contagious.

"We really haven't decided how to handle it," he admitted. "I want to be in as much of the mission as I can, and at the same time we're trying not to start an epidemic especially among our friends. "So we're gonna have to play this one a little by ear. There are some signs which they believe valid for detecting the time when the actual disease will break out. But at the earliest we're talking about is next week sometime, which was the big concern in the mission.

"The fact is that should it occur it would occur at the most inopportune of tines." Asked how astronaut boss Donald K. Slayton broke the news of his replacement, Mattingly replied: "It was one of the few times Duke asked me to come in to his office and close the door. He didn't have to say much beyond that. I think all of us really didn't believe it was going to happen. It took awhile to sink in." As command module pilot, Mattingly was ticketed to orbit the moon in the command ship Odyssey while James A.

Lovell Jr. and Fred W. Haise Jr. roamed the lunar surface. Confident in Swigert Mattingly said he had no doubts whatsoever about Swi-gert's ability to step in at the last minute and make the risky flight.

Today's Index Sect. A General News Sect. Local News Sect. Sports Sect. Finance Sect.

Women's News Sect. Features, Building Arts Page F-3 Deaths C-1S Editorial B-12, 13 Market Report D-4 Outdoors C-ll Theater 15 TV Log F-15, 16 Today's Chuckle Some people are wiling to give the Lord credit but no cash. "We've shared our training time right up to the end," he said, adding that they spent about the same amount of time in space training simulators. The fact that Swigert could take over in such an emergency was a "tribute not just to Jack but the type of program we are running," Mattingly said. Asked if he had talked to Duke since the replacement, Mattingly said, "I'm the only one who feels worse than Charlie Duke and maybe I don't even feel worse than he does." Launch Crowd Nowhere Near July's Total CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.

(AP) It was a warm, sunny day. A Saturday. The Kiwanis convention was in town. And a rocket carrying three men was going to the moon. So the crowds came to watch estimated at 100,000, on Route 1 alone jamming the main highway to Cape Kennedy with 25,000 cars.

Despite the crush, the crowd was nowhere near the total of last July when an estimated one million people came to see the first men leave to the moon on Apollo 11. Continurd on Page A-4, Col. 1 Nixon Viewed Apollo Launch From Yacht WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, an old Navy man, decided to go aboard a Navy yacht Saturday to watch television coverage of the Apollo 13 moon launch. Accompanied only by his friend and neighbor from Key Biscayne, C. G.

"Bebe" Rebozo, Nixon flew by helicopter to historic Mount Vernon to board the yacht Sequoia for launch-watching and a luncheon cruise up the Potomac River. After the cruise, Nixon and Rebozo were to go by helicopter to the President's Camp David retreat near Thurmont, where they will remain until Sunday afternoon. p.Ir'ost ground home, turn, came Mattingly was then took over. (AP) PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) -John O'Hara, author of at least 35 novels documenting the foibles of the rich and the heartaches of the poor, died Saturday at his home after a heart attack.

He was 65. While never winning the recognition of a Pulitzer Prize or Nobel Prize, his novels were widely read and made into motion pictures. Among the more celebrated books were "Appointment in Samarra," "Butterfield "Pal Joey," "Ten North Frederick," and "From the Terrace." He won the national book award for "Ten North Frederick" in 1956. O'Hara wrote "Pal Joey" in 1940 from articles about a rakish night club crooner and hoofer he had been writing about in the New Yorker magazine. Broadway Hit The musical version' was an instant Broadway success.

His first novel, "Appointment in Samarra," the story of three days in a man's life that ended in his suicide, won critical acclaim for the hard-boiled brilliance of the writing. It was published in 1934. Author H. Allen Smith, using the language of Joey and his pals, once wrote: This John O'Hara is a big guy six foot over that writes books all the time he is not hitting the sauce in the 52nd St. traps." Comparison Made He was often called a second Ring Lardner and compared to Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway.

Adv. L.V. Flower Garden Show Last Day 2-9 Agricultural Hall Allentown Fairgrounds ICE SKATING AT ALBETH Reading for Sunday Lehigh Valley anglers are eagerly awaiting the opening of trout season Saturday. For a preview and roundup see Page C-l. What's been happening at Lehigh University last week Is confusing to many.

For an ln-depth clarification of the situation see Page B-l. "Earth Day" on April 22 is going to be a big deal in the Lehigh Valley and elsewhere throughout the entire nation. Page F-l. 1 1 Imvmmai V. Ism I Springtime is rattlesnake time.

A noted ecologist reports how the dangerous reptiles come out with the warm weather. Page F-2. This is National Library Week and spotlights the wealth of books throughout the Lehigh Valley. At an estimate there are more than 1,500,000 volumes available to the public. Page F-l.

THRILL SUFrLAXTS MEASLES Paul House, 2 years eld. rlr Jie Apcib 13 spaceflight to a halt, watches blastoff from his TIjvs Paul passed the German measles onto Charles Dr'i contact w.i. Command Module pikt Thomas Mattingly and forced to be removed from the prime crew. John Swigert Jr.