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Index Classified 4 7D Radio-TV 4D Comics For Women 1-3B Crossword 8 Sports 9-11A Editorials 4A Til eaters 2D 4 Sections 40 Pages Vol. No. 230 3Th Hflonroe Full AP, UPI, AP Wirephoto Monroe, Louisiana, Thursday Afternoon, April 16, 1970 Telephone 322-5161 Final Edition Chance of Showers Highs today 74 to 79 Lows tonight 60 to 64 Weather Map. Page 5A Ten Cents Apollo 13 Crew Gets Set For Dive To Earth Nixon Cuts Postal Rate Hike Request Senators Told Of Blackmun's Stock, Rulings WASHINGTON (AP) Back tracking, President Nixon asked Congress today to raise the cost, of mail a letter to cents instead of 10 cents as originally proposed and called for establishment of a new United States Postal Service rnent which is asked that Judge Harry A Blackmun In a special to Con- ratify would give postal took part in three court cases qrrss, Nixon laid out thr terrm an per cent pay boost, involving companies in which he of an agreement between neco over and above the govern WASHINGTON (AP) Thr Justice Department has advised the Senate Judiciary Committee Justice W. O.

Douglas House Move To Impeach Douglas Gains WASHINGTON impeachment tesolution and call for a spinal investigation of Supreme Court Justice William have reached the House in the wake of the 71 year-old Jurist mav be unfit for nis post House Minority Leader Gerald Ford touched off a vt nolic, parliamentarv rangle Wedne-day night after averting Douglas may be unfit to arrve a justice because of st on- able outside interests and ble with held stock tiators for government and the ment-wide inrrease of mx per Deputy Atty Gen postal unions that couples high rent which Nixon -igned into Kleindienst said, in er wages with a revised plan to only Wednesday. In addi reorganize the Post Office De- tion. postal service part men! ould reach top salary in eight Nixon also retreated a bit on years instead of the present 21 his recommendation that years the postal service be trans "In the Interest of making formed into a corporation In realistic progress toward the ob he said it should be re jective of bringing postal ex vamperi as an independent ex- penditures into balance with controlled by nine postal he said, public members of a bipartisan now propose to: commission who would hire the price of the postmaster general cjajW stamp by one-third. The postmaster general S1X cents to eight cents would no longer be a member of r- the price of the air the Cabinet, under this 1 4. mai stamp at ten cents, al.

said Nixon. and the postal servile would be insulated from -Increase the average see- direct control bv the President. class postage rate by one- the Bureau of the Budget and half the Congress Increase third class bulk and A key provision of the agree- single piece rate' by one-third threw his ippor? tr creation of a House com mittee to study the Douglas to see if there cause for impeachment of a resolution proposed today, thr special investigative panel would be re quired submit its report fcn 90 When Ford finished hi speech Rep Andrew of Indiana, a liberal Democrat, said the GOP leader had a dutv to ftte an impeachment resolution since he stated that he impeachment of Justice Douglas Since he i Ford refills to do so and Since he raises prase questions the answers to I do not know, but every Ameri can entitled to Jacobs told the House, introduce at this time the resnlution of im pearhment in order that a proper and dignified inquiry into this matter might be held Jacobs' resolution was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, beaded by Rep Kmanuel iler, It obviously triggered the defeat of Judges Har rold Cinsdl and (Clement! Havnsworth said Celler of attack The Judiciary Committee would be considered friendlier toward Douglas than the House Rules Committee to which resolution goes Ford said Douglas twice was on the dissenting side when the Supreme Court ruled against magazine publisher Ralph Gmz burg He said that while the second case was before a federal court, "clearly on the to the high- court in the land one of Ginzburg magazines. "Avant Garde Douglas for an artule on folk singing Ginzburg, in a statement is sued Wednesday, said he hoped Ford's speech would he met with the contempt it de serves The investigation resolution charged that Douglas published writings, speeches res and state declared a personal position on issues to come tie fore the court of a prejudiced and non judicial atti tude a book on Feb which statements eouraging, aggravating and in citing violence, anarchy and civil unrest semd and reportodly still serves as dnector aod chairman of the executive com mittee of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara Calif The resolutions call this polilical- lv-oriented action organization which has organized national conferences designed to seek dc tente with the Soviet In ion and openly encouraged student radicalism repeatedly engaged in political activity while an incumbent of the high court Today Chuckle Young chap to friend just doesn't plan for the future at all He getting married next month and hasn't even found her a U.S., Soviet Open Arms Race Talks VIKWA (AP) The United States and the I nmn opened ta ks today to see if can check the nuclear arms race President Nixon told the Russians he hopes nuclear missile arsenals of the super powers can be first limited and then reduced The two delegations open ed the substantive round of the limitation talks at a ceremony the tone Belvedere Pa had arranged the ne at a preliminary Helsmki dunng the SALT ornate, round in winter Chief I Smith read a message from pledging his firm com mitment to the search fnr an early, equitable. verifiable agreement The President he had given Smith to approach the issue in the most comprehensive manner Richard a letter to Eastland, employes Miss that the holdings of the federal appeals court judge were insignificant.

Heads Off Critics Kleindienst acted Monday in an apparent move to head off any criticism when the committee starts considering Black nomination to the Supreme Court. Kleindienst said Blackmun asked the department to submit the record of his financial hold mgs. biographical data and a review of his opinions while a member of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Two of the cases involved the Ford Motor Co. shares of whose stock was purchased by Blackmun before he assumed the federal bench at a total price listed as in excess of In the department Blackmun wrote an opinion in favor of a man who had sued Ford and won a jury verdict of 124,500 onlv to have the district court set the judgment aside Four years later, the letter said, Blacknun upheld a district court which had set aside a jury verdict of $12.500 in favor of another plaintiff against Ford.

The department said the judge also acquired 22 shares of American Telephone Tele CORfcEC bURN OKAY SEPARATION RE-ENTRY SPLASHDOWN APOLLO 13 Experts Work On Techniques For Re-Entry legate Gerard Twin Cities CHIT CHAT At Seminar Album of titene a Podiatry Friday through at Ixmi.sian* State Dr nie will Se minar Sunday of in Biton The seminar is the oorr plete short courses and conferences of the Dtvtsion of Continuing Education Rehabilitation and the Louisiana State Podi- Association Nixon said he hoped So viet Union would into the Vienna meetings the samf de termination to bring about a mutually acceptable agreement Deput Foreign Minister V'adimir Semenov head of the Soviet delegation, said his gov ernment welcome a rea sonahle accommodation this sphere and in any case will do its best for these negotiations to be Semenm said the Soviet Un ion favors peare but intensjfica- SPACE CENTER, Houston TAP) Apollo astronauts recharged a weak battery today and prepared other systems of their crippled rommandship for the return to earth Friday as confident specialists on the ground worked to perfect the critical, unique re-entry procedures Donald Slavton. chief of the astronauts, said that once the re entry procedures are perfected later today, are not concerned about getting the crew home Mission Control experts ran several procedures through computers and the Apollo 14 astronauts practiced them in spaceship simulators. Slayton said the solutions would be radioed to James A. Lovell Fred Haise Jr. and John L.

Swigert whose 13 ship was back on toward earth after a 15- second engine firing Wednesday I night. have a lot of work to do because we have an unusual Slayton said. We want I to get rid of the serv ice module as soon as possible and keep the lunar module as long as possible. It gets a little sticky at times, hut we re going to try to make the re entry as normal as and been run- ninjr through a lot of things on Ithe An oxygen tank ruptured in SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Jim Lovell, phe service module Mondav who expected to be standing on the moon today, looked draining power and oxv- at it instead from a spacecraft window 70.000 miles fPn inHT ship and forcing the astronauts to rely on I i life saving water, oxygen and Well, there the old Businesslike, crisp, muted-like powcr thr whlch at a seven-month high for the terminator in Fra human computers giving read-j was to have taken Ixiveil and second successive week with 141 he said quietly would outs. Haise to the moon, raph Co for about $1.350 Americans killed in action last have been landing there about Power is the scarcest com Slayton said Mission Contro! and and subsequent- week, the S.

Command re two hours ago moditv so what is a to jetti- took part in a case involving ported today. And that is all he said about the service module some an subsidiary The toll was three nrnre than must have been the great- can ar four hours before re entry and In a decision, the court of the number killed the week he est disappointment of his life It UP ad of time for the lunar craft one hour appeals upheld a lower court fore and the highest since the was sunrise on the moon's high- there fear there eould be a before. The astronauts then which had dismissed a com- week of last Sept. 1-7, when 143 lands where he would have gone communications cutoff, plaint against Northwestern died in battle. exploring today but he was Bell Telephone Co The Three Harried Apollo 13 astronauts rocketed back onto a true course for home Wednesday night, blasting out of a perilous orbit that would have left them stranded in space Remain ing stages in the flight include the separation, reentry and splashdown currently scheduled for Friday afternoon.

(AP Wtrephoto Diagram) U. S. Combat Deaths Rise Second Week SAIGON (AP) The Com mu nist Command's spring offensive kept American battle lossps Apollo 13 Voyage Is Joyless Affair Personal Income, Housing Starts Continue To Rise The number of Americans wounded fell by more than half, For Lovell, 457. The decrease a'tnhut jofin ed to a decline in the number of rot ket and mortar attacks, which had increased sharply as enemy forces began their offcn fcive on April 1. The Saigon government said the before.

The astronauts would rely on auxiliary battery in the command ship- The ground reads news items power normallv used for re-en- and one is about the 6 per cent pay raise for federal employes, jhe difference this time is Well, says that the command big en Lovell, a Navy captain who'll gine is dead and cannot be used as full of dashed hopes as it think eon for any of the preliminary was of danger sidcr this for flight jneuvers. In the conversations between They cold and weary. Slavton the the ground and the crew of needing a flashlight to see in the In Shepard Ed- Apollo 13, too, there has been no darkness of the command ship Mitchell, and Stuart Roo- and astronauts have heading hack to earth. Hopes Dashed Fred Haise and ert it has been a vov- WASHINGTON CAP) The nation personal income contin ued its iteatfj use in while new housing starts rose for the consecutive month the Commerce Depart- 542 South Vietnamese troops No jokes, no laughter No bu- were killed and 1.336 wounded gle wake up calls, no whistles, las! week compared wuh 754 No mu up, no puns sent March and the down attempts to lighten situations in the simulator around the much of that part of Apollo the Monday acci- Medi turn of the strategic arms race ment reported todav serves the interests of at sivr imperialist circles. Communist term usually plied to the United States week before.

Enemy casualtie rose to 3 killed from 3.3«« the previous week, the US Command said In battle action Wednesday, S. said. American They are pilots who take com fort in guidance systems working vanou pressure readings and the like Bu 13 is powered down. There are attempts to lighten efficient and sleek space the gloom. craft has become a make-do af- How would you like to spend notebook covers em- aircraft carrier; ployed to block off vents, tape an fighter-bombers attacked North answers Li Honor Roll Excelling as a scholar at Southern Methodist I niver- Mty in Dallas is Nano Garrett, daughter of Mr and VIrs David I Garrett Jr 315 Lakeside Dr Monroe She has made the Honor Roll, a list which cites stu dents with SMI highest grade point averages TTie talks are expected to continue for three m-'hths in ten na.

then move to Helsinki after a summer pause Both sides have indicated ro agreement is expected for months and per haps for years Nixon and Brezhnev, Soviet Communist party chief, both have underlined the dangers of continued escalation of the nuclear missile race and expressed hope for an accord i settle res figures gave some mdica a tion the housing construction in- ap- dustrv may be recovering from its yearlong slide into deep trouble, although the newest figures only brought the indicator province to about where it last De cember Personal wages before taxes, although it stroyed. the Americans said, in also includes dividends, rental (he sixth reported retaliatory and interest strike into Cambodia bv $78? billion during March at a planes and artillery this seasonally adjusted annual rate The United States and South In other words the per- Vietnam claim an "inherent sonal income would be 1782 fi right of self defense" to attack a week on get tins asks Jack Ixni ma from Houston And Haise Vietnamese mortar positions in side Cambodia after a Vietnamese outpost in Chau Doc in the western Me kong Delta, was hit by several The mortar site was de hit (hat spell out bill if eveiv months was the across the border when ide has indicated it would for some rough form of This wa H. I I I I I balance of terror, hut the diver- from February, which in turn Allied rerorled killing and complexity of nuclear rose about $4 billion from Janu 333 enemy troops Wednesday weapons makes this dilficuit to arv In March 1969 the figure them in three engagements March forces are fired on from outside up about $4 billion Vietnam $730.7 billion involving South Vietnamese fortes the Mekong Delta But 14 Americans were killed and 32 were wounded when a Viet Cong booby trap made from a artillery shell exploded and trig gered further blasts among stockpiled mortar shells Weather Pattern Remains Same If I can get on that aircraft carrier, 1 don't care how long it takes. With their situation so perilous is it joke or This flight is serious business On Apollo 8. at Christmastime, the tensest moment was waiting for the spaceship to come around the moon and into radio contact Be advised there is a Santa said Jim Lovell and there couldn't have been a more perfect tension easer.

There is little to ease the ten sion on this flight, nor there be until successful splashdown Friday The talk is numbers and switch settings. orders and Camden questions, chei ks and ret hecks Monroe dent Lovell asked that thr proce dures lie passed up to the spacecraft as soon as possible, He also reported ne and his crew- mates had donned extra underwear to help ward of the chilly 50 decree temperatures when in the commatid holding themin place much as a schoolboy might put up posters. In the fkdgtilkf days of space they worked flight, when success was not yet ship cabin taken for granted Scott Carpen- They were headed for a ter was serenaded in earth orbit splashdown in the Pacific Ocean bv a broadcast of his favorite after the engine firing Wednes- song Bird "On Gemi dav night shifted them off a 5 it was Drifting and course that would have left Dreaming On Apollo 8: them stranded in space Me to the Moon With the veteran Lovell af the For Apollo Haise controls, they triggered their lu- and Sw one sound is nar module engine 15 seconds wanted and successfully changed The sound of the whistle that course Had that firng and later pipes them aboard the recovery course corrections failed. Apollo ship River Stages Hood stage 40 5 5 298 4 fall The weather pattern for Northeast Lou siaaa looks if will be cloudy to partlv cloudy as it has been all week Skies will be cloudytopartly cloudv again today and through Fridav with a chance thundershowers No important temperature changes are ex peeled for the area Highs dav will be 72 to 76 degrees lows tonight will be 56 to 62 degrees. The FAA at Selman Field in Monroe recorded a high Wednesday of 75 decrees with a low this morning of 66 Rainfall total for Wednesday and tnis morning is bringing the total this month to 1 20 inches Drvmg conditions will be fair to locally poor through Fndav 13 would have missed earth by 104 miles and skipped off into space.

Wuh that hurdle cleared, the spacemen turned all attention to stage chanue re-entry and landing, 4 rise scheduled for 1 07 m. EST Using flashlights to find their way in the dark and chilly cabin. the astronauts checked the three batteries in the command "hip that will provide the power for the blazing dive through the atmosphere. They found two of them at full 40 amp-hour strength, but the third with only about half that power available. a normal re entn tbey would require 70 to 80 amp LONDON The Apollo melted Ah the poet an hours So Mission Control told 13 crisis space toda.v contin- swers, But a reach them to hook up a cahle to the ued to di'mratc British newspa should exceed his grasp, or pow'er svstem of the lunar pers as no story has done since what is a heaven And Fate Of Apollo 13 Top British News the first moon landing It was the main story eight nationally circulated newspapers, with columns of of and lv spreads of entire pn-g's dcvot ed to the plight of the astro nauts.

calm clipped words of the as- in all tronauts give us their own swer a message of high courage and even The Daily Mirror- have three men carried with them the hopes and prayers of so nianv millions all over the ule and recharge the weak batten Tins process will take about 15 hours and draw ei-ht amps from the fateful hours bannered world America and Apollo 13 the tabloid Sun could rnav not have to call on the heLp miss warned the Sketch that has been offered But the grim struggle." an desire to help, the admiration nounced the Mail The Guardian foi human heroism and endur headlined Apollo limping home ante, have transcended ideoio gies and frontiers In this epic of space, there iire no politics The Daily Sketch nothing we can do But the mind refuses to concentrale for long Jeffrey Lovell, 4, plays with lanuly pet. hristie, in front of the Lovell home near the Manned Spacecraft Center. Houston, today While the little boy was romping with his collie, his dad, Apollo 13 commander James A Lovell and other crew mem bers, Fred Haise and John L. Svu gert were bringing their crippled space ship back toward earth (AP Wire photo) in hope and fear Editorials highlighted thf courage of the imperilled space men. The Daily Mail: safe and comfortable our own on an thing The political with drew points mostly in the lives, the restless daring of concerns of this planet seem to and 60 Sun-hine v.

ill ht which the human spmt is fade into Invo to 30 per (cnt todav Fn ble must touch us all Some will luntarilty-pointlessly, for there day Winds will be mostly south that man has overreached cwn he to find easterly at 6 to 16 mph Proha mmself, that the Almighty ourselve up at the bility of precipitation will be 50 would have given ui wings if he skies So we wait and woi per cent today, 30 per cent to had meant us to fly So though ry and will the safe return of night, and 20 per cent on Fri the ancients when Icarus flew our world fust wrecked day. (too near the sun and his waxen explorers PROBLEM: Don vow me or room only ip way SOLUTION: trH pena on World qo Clofftf's AqvftrtiMI yotj'V through a want ad PlfcCF Off Camas up houlefy M4 US-04' To Wont Ad your getting DIAL 322-5161 The Wont Ad Number I OU If 10 doy Witt'.