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LM DAILY OPTIC Wetoetfey October Candidate A native Las Vegan, Gilbert Gold, is candidate for San Miguel County sheriff on the Republican ticket. Gold was born in 1935, attended West Las Vegas schools and served in the U.S. Army. He -lists as his goals law enforcement, especially in the rural areas, closer coordination and cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and assignment of deputies to some rural areas. Gold is married, has five children, all of whom attend West Las Vegas schools.

(Optic photo by Eileen Hardgrave) Auto workers vote on strike agreement Murder, kidnap charges dropped TISHOMINGO, Okla. (AP) Associate District Court Judge Tom Shaw dismissed Tuesday charges of second degree murder and kidnaping against three New Mexico men in the death of a 4-year-old boy. Lawyers for Phillip Wallen of San Jon, N.M., and Charles Goetz of Truth or Consequences, N.M., and John Lee Sanders of Winston, N.M., successfully argued for a' motion to quash evidence against the trio. Shaw sustained the motion, and dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. The three men were charged in July after the abduction and subsequent death of Cody Cain, 4.

The child and his father, Steve Cain, died in an automobile accident July 23 while being pursued by the boy's mother and her uncle. The New Mexico men were accused of helping the father take the boy from his mother in Tishomingo. The parents were divorced. In dismissing the charges, Shaw ruled that no kidnaping look place Grand opening Price Ilfeld Home Furnishings will hold a grand because the boy's father had been opening celebration tomorrow with prizes and given the child by a court in New Mexico. festivities.

The new enterprise is housed at-the corner of Sixth and Douglas in the building formerly, occupied by Newberrys. The business will offer a complete line of home appliances and decorator items. (Optic photo by Eileen Hardgrave) International Space Hall of Fame dedicated as New Mexico's tribute DETROIT (AP) The 22-day-oId strike against Ford Motor Co. is expected to last at least another week while workers vote on a ten- 'tative agreement which puts union members on (he road toward a four- day work week. The three-year accord, reached late Tuesday, must be ratified by 170,000 United Auto Workers members who struck the No.

2 auto maker in 2 states at midnight Sept. 14. Union officials say it could take a week to 10 days to win ratification and end the walkout, which has shut Ford assembly and manufacturing plants and halted the firm's North -American production. The agreement made it seem likely that the strike week to preserve current jobs and create new ones. The idea is to force the industry to hire more workers to replace those taking time off.

Sources said the additional time- off provisions are tied to attendance requirements a worker -must be on the job the day before and after his scheduled extra day off to get paid for it. Other provisions, sources said, include general wage increases averaging about 3 per cent a year, an additional first-year increase ol about 20 cents an hour, continuation of a cost-of-living protection lor- mula, special cash supplements for retirees and improvements in fringe benefits. Currently, Ford workers average nearly $7 in hour in straight wages ALAMOGORDO AP The International Space Hall of Fame is described as New Mexico's tribute to science and to the men and women who challenge the unknown. Through it, said S. Rep Harold Runnels, "(We) do homage to scientific research and to probing the secrets of the universe." The glass-and-concrete structure dedicated Tuesday amid the road of jet fighters woosh model Space pioneers enshrined -damage, the 'nation plu fringe enefitsestimatedtocost 4-about an nour 'said the walkout could have serious By ROBERT LOCKE Associated Press Writer ALAMOGORDO (AP) They led the way.

They went where no one had ever gone and they dared to do what no one had ever tried. The 3B pioneers, enshrined Tuesday in the International Space Hall of Fame at Alamogordo include the first man to orbit the earthV the first to walk space flight aboard Vostock on April 12. 1961. The flight lasted one hour and 48 minutes and circled the earth one time. --Neil Armstrong of the United States, who was (he first man to step on the moon's surface.

Millions on television as Armstrong made that step, July IK. in the Sea of Tranquility. --Dr. Wernher Braun. impact if it lasted longer than month.

UAW President Leonard Woodcock said details of the settlement would not be announced until after it is reviewed today by the union's international executive board and on Thursday by the union's National Ford Council. But sources said a key element in the pact is a provision for 13 more paid days off spread over the three years, in addition to 33 holiday and vacationdays Ford workers now receive each year. The union had demanded more paid days off as a first step in its long-range goal to shorten the work $17 million fine put in pollution RICHMOND, a A --Fines totaling more than $17 million against two firms and two individuals for dumping the pesticide Kepdne into a river "clearly signaled that polluters will be held accountable," says the environmental officer. Russell Train, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, hailed Tuesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert R.

Merhige as a "landmark decision." AHied Chemical Corp. was fined $13.2 million the maximum allowable after the firm pleaded no contest to WO separate counts of discharging Kepone and other highly toxic chemicals into the James River. It was believed to be the largest fine ever levied for pollution of the nation's waterways. Before fining Allied, Merhige called' pollution "a crime against every citizen," and said, "The word must go out. "We are not going to pollute the waters." Life Science Products took over Kepone production from allied in 1974, was fined $3.8 million.

Since the firm is not defunct and has no assets, however, there's no way the fine can be paid. Two former Allied employes who founded Life Science Products, William P. Moore and Virgil Hundtofte, were each fined $25,000 and placed on probation for five years. They were also allowed five years to pay the fines. Life Science was closed by the state Health Department in July 1975 after a score of workers developed symptoms of Kepone poisoning.

JSome expressed concenflHat the settlement may be rejected by the 25,000 skilled tradesmen at Ford, who are being polled separately this year. If the tradesmen reject the pact, UAW bargainers may return to the table before putting the pact before production The dual vote is in response to a revolt in 1973 by the independent- minded skilled tradesmen, who rejected the last settlement but were overruled by union executives. As a concession to the tradesmen, the new pact is said to contain a special wage boost for them, starting at 25 cents an hour and depending on classification. An. end to the walkout resumption of normal production also could be held up by unresolved disputes over local working agreements.

Only 37 of 99 Ford bargaining units have reached accord on local agreements, and company officials conceded Tuesday that the walkout likely will not end until the remaining disputes are resolved. on Jihe, moon, and the -first wn Ger and launch a liquid-fueled "rocket; 'and later be-l Brocket, They pushed mankind's frontiers to nndreamed-of limits. Then they went farther. Nine of the first 35. people honored for their contributions to the conquest of space are from the Soviet Union.

Eight are Americans and eight more are from Germany. Austria contributed three and Franc'e produced two. One each came from Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain, Rumania and Hungary. They were nominated by the International Academy of Astronautics, with headquarters in Paris, France. Final was made by the New Mexico Governor's Committee of the International Hall of Fame.

The 35 nanies were announced during ceremonies dedicating the concrete and glass Hall of Fame at Alamogordo. Among them are the well known names: --Yuri Gagarin, the Russian who made the first manned came one of America's top space'program scientists. --Aleksey Leonov of the Soviet Union, the first man to leave the security of his spacecraft for a walk in space. Leonov floated from a tether, thousands of miles above; the earth-, for 10 minutes on March 18, --Robert Hutcliings Goddard, who launched the first liquid- fueled rockets 50 years ago, first at Auburn. and in the Eden Valley near Roswell, N.M.

Many of the rocRet- oriented patents he developed in the 1930s and HMOs, resurfaced in the 1960s as America moved into space. William Randolph Lovelace II, an Albuquerque surgeon who' founded the field of space medicine, and developed medical tests and requirements 'for America's first astronauts. In future years, a spokesman said, no more than threV persons will be inducted annually into the Space Hall of Fame- Other inductees, each honored Certificate Leroy Sanchez (left) displays the certificate he won for completion of training in pest management control, first aid, fire control and fire prevention at NM State University. He, attended the university expressly to take the training in safety Sanchez, an employe of New Mexico State Hospital is shown with Bennie Gallegos (center) and Dr. Jim Trost, acting clinical director.

by Eileen Hardgrave) with a marble plaque bearing his likeness, were: From the United States--Dr. Robert Gilruth, former director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston; Dr. Charles S. Draper, president of the International Academy of Astronautics and developer of inertial guidance systems for rocket flight; Dr. Hugh L.

Dryden, instrumental-in development of -jthe X-15 rocket plane and the JMercury and Gemini- space- Waft; Andrew G. of the Academy "of 'Astronautics; and James H. Wyld, who developed the regenera- tively cooled, liquid-fueled, rocket motor. From the Soviet Union--Valeriy Kubasov, who performed the first orbital experiments in industrial processes; Anatoli A. Blagonravov, a leading spokesman for international cooperation in space; Nikolai I.

Ki- balchich, who invented the rocket' airplane; Sergei P. Korolev, a chief designer of the Russian space program and developer of the Sputnik, Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft and launch vehicles; Mikhail K. Tikhonravov, a pioneering rocket research engineer; Fridrkh A. Tsander, who built the Soviet Union's first liquid-fueled rocket -motor in 1930; and Konstantin E. Tsiolkovski, described as the "father of cosmonautics." From Germany--Hermann Ganschwindt, conceived the first rocket-propelled manned space ship; Walter Hohmann, theoriticiah in orbits, trajectories and celestial mechanics; Ley, founder of the German Rocket Society; Klaus Riedel, who designed and built Germany's first liquid- fueled rockets; Walter Thiel, designer of the world's first large rocket motor for the V-2 rocket; Valier, who applied rockets to automobiles, railcars and sleds in the 1920s; and Johannes Winkler, who built and flew the first liqaid-fuled rocket in.

Europe in 1931. From Austria--Eugen Albert Sanger, developer of winged-recovery space vehicles; Frank Oskar Lee Elder von Hoefft, inventor of the mail-delivery rocket; and Guido von Pirqnet, who conceived the idea of orbital assembly of space stations. From France--Louis Dam- blanc, first engineer to patent multistaged rockets for space flight; and Robert Esnault-Pelt- erie, an early aviation pioneer. Also inducted were: Artnro Gaetano Crocco, one of Italy's leading rocket and space pioneers; Hermann Oberth of Rumania, a theoretician of astronautics; Archibald M. Low of Great Britain, founder of the field of radio guidance systems; Theodore von Karmen of Hungary, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States; and Fritz Zwicky of Switzerland, who designed the first experiment to propel particles beyond the earth's gravitional field.

rockets. About 3,000 people went up the Sacramento Mountain foothills' on Alamogordo's northeast fringe to' attend the ceremony. Prof. Lubas Perek of Czech-, oslovakia, the keynote speaker, said, the facility represents "anothen important step in international cooperation in outer activities." Perek. head of the United Nations', Outer Space Affairs Division, "The men and women who have been honored by inclusion in this" hall of fame will clearly reflect the grand international charactar of participation in outer space re-i search." The first 35 members of the hall of fame were announced during the As each name was read by Frederick C.

Durant III, of the Smithsonian Institution, a model rocket was launched. The rocket 1 i--area---was -by' enthusiastic youngsters turned loose" from school for the day. Among those honored were nine Russians, eight Americans, eight Germans and others Austria, France, Italy, Rumania, Great Britain, Hungary and Switzerland.) Included were such space pioneers as Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut, who made the first flight into space; American astronaut Neil Armstrong, who left the first human footprint on the moon; Wernher von Braun, a German who helped guide the American-space program; and Robert H. Goddard, who launched the earliest liquid-fueled rockets from the southern New Mexico desert in the 1930s. Several speakers credited former Alamogordo Mayor Dwight Ohlinger with conceiving and nursing the project.

They cited the" citizens of Alamogordo for contributing time and money since 1973 to bring the project to reality. The New Mexico Legislature appropriated $1.8 million to build the facility. Mayor Mike Glover said it is "something we can share with the rest of the world," 'ceremony began with a flyover by four jets from nearby: Holloman Air Force Base. It ended, nearly two hours later, as astronaut Robert, Parker and local, state and federal officials symbolically planted a moon treev-y. The American syscamore, barely inches high, was grown from a seed taken to the moon in 1971 aboard Apollo 14.

5 The tree was removed from they hard clay soil after the ceremony. It is to be replanted when the area is-' landscaped. Parker said the tree represents America's continuing commitment: to space "not just the spectacular vistas of the moon and Mars, (hat will benefit us here on When the dedication ended, 1 visitors crowded around the building: for the first public tour of its floors of exhibits. Gov. Jerry Apodaca said the' facility encourages New reflect on the past and the many; ways our state contributed to it.

"But we can always look to the future," he said. "New Mexico is a state of the future with so many things to dedicate to mankind." Sen. Joseph, announced that the Senate Space Committee planned a hearing in Alamogordo next January on his resolutions to nrovide about $7 million for the hall..