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and Register, Beckley, W. Va. Sunday Morning, April Couple Held After Trying To Sell Baby To Buy Auto JCAIRBORN, Ohio (UPI) -An Arkansas couple was held by police here Saturday after they tried to sell their 10-month-old be by to pay for a car. Police said that James W. Davidson, 25, an employe of a traveling carnival, and his wife, Helen, 23, were held on $250 bond each pending arraignment in municipal court Monday.

They were charged with illegal placement of a child. Detective Sgt. James Heid, who arrested the couple Friday, Police Quell LA Outburst PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) Police in this Los Angeles suburb quelled an outburst of violence early Saturday in which a mob of nearly 100 Negroes attacked officers with rocks, bottles and a fire bomb, in apparent retaliation for the shooting of a burglary suspect by police. No one was seriously injured in the two-hour melee and property damage was confined to patrol cars and a few broken windows.

Police mob, which ranged in age from said they had Florida license plates on their car but gave their address as Hot Springs, Ark. Heid said tJiat the Davidsons ride at the carnival and only makes $60 per week. They life for a child, but it was his life. Then they took out papers had sold him and a policewom- which showed that they had an, posing as his wife, their daughter, Carolyn Sue, for $200 of which $100 was actually paid. The couple told the detective they needed $200 to" finish paying for a car.

Heid said he was informed about the Davidsons by a drug store clerk whom they approached Thursday. When they returned to the store Friday, Heid in the guise of a prospective buyer was summoned. 'I talked with them," the policeman said, "and Davidson told me: 'I don't want you to think we're trying to sell flesh and blood, but anything you could give us would be "He explained that he runs a Jackie (Continued From Page 1) Spain's top aristocrats, Sevillanos, and gypsies. He is expected to show Mrs. Kennedy said the attacking some of the colorful aspects of 15 to 30 years, officers: "We're back for Willie.

screamed at paying you This is for Willie. Stand. by, whities. We just got started." Officers said the reference was to Willie Gates, who was seriously wounded when he fled from police during a burglary attempt at Thursday. a market early The incident here came after a day of record-breaking, 99- degree heat.

Two officers were sent to disperse a large, unruly crowd gathered at an intersection shortly after midnight The crowd hurled bottles and rocks at the striking one of them in the face and felling him. The officer, Jerry Gardner, suffered a nose injury. The two officers fought their way back to the patrol car and radioed for reenforcements. Another 50 officers arrived to help put down the disturbance. Police said that at one point over a fence into a group of officers.

It exploded and burned but no one was injured, police said. Marines (Continued From Page 1) dead had been dragged away by their comrades. Marine casualties were described as "moderate," but many of the Marines wounded were able to return to duty after treatment. The Marine counter-attack was aided by one unit of the 9th Marines, which ambushed a segment of the Viet Cong attackers and kept them pinned down during the close-quarters fight. Equipment Abandoned The effectiveness of the Marine counter-attack was underscored by the fact that the Communist troops left behind eight major weapons- grenade launchers, submachine guns and carbines--along with almost 100 hand grenades.

One Marine veteran of World War II and the Koren conflict described the Red mortar barrage as the most intensive he had ever seen. U.S. military spokesmen said the new Air Force strike against Mu Gia Pass caught and "ruined" 42 trucks, surpassing the previous record of 39 trucks destroyed or damaged in a raid March 23. One flight of Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs found a convoy of 20 Communist truck drivers frantically trying to find a way through the pass--a gateway to the Communist Ho Chi Minn supply trail to the south which was closed Tuesday by giant landslides touched off by the B52 bombing. The American pilots, using bombs and rockets, wiped them out.

the festivities. Garrigues, a lawyer, is a member of a leading Spanish family. He was legal adviser to the allied purchase commission in Spain in World War II and assistant attorney general before his appointment to the embassy in Washington. He has been ambassador to the Holy See since 1964 and is president and director of numerous commercial a industrial firms. The former First Lady flew to Madrid on a commercial airliner with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castilla Maiz, has been visiting the United States.

She will be met Sunday by her official hosts in Spain, Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke and his blonde wife, Robin. Duke, of the tobacco family, was the late President Kennedy's chief of protocol. Guest of Duchess From Madrid the party will fly directly to Seville, noted for its cathedral and the legend of Carmen, the cigarette girl of opera fame. They will be tihe guests of the 40-year-old Duchess of Alba, Europe's most titled woman and one of its wealthiest, at her celebrated palace, Casa de Pilatos, built in the 15th Century. A debutante party for, 60 girls from European and North and South American society will be held in the tiled and arcaded courtyard of the palace Sunday night for the benefit of tihe Red Cross.

The debs will make their bows to Prince Rainier and Princess Grace Monaco and Mrs. Kennedy. 'You see, we have three members of royalty attending," said one of the organizing officials, including in her comment the former First Lady. It was not as flip a comment as it seemed, since the interest in Mrs. Kennedy is as great in Europe as it is in any European queen or Princess.

State Woman To Face Embezzlement Charge PARKERSBURG (AP) Arrest of a Parkersburg woman on charges of embezzling $1,395 from the Ohio Valley National Bank in nearby Vienna was announced by the FBI Saturday. Ian D. Mac Lennan, special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh i i i said Mrs. Beatrice 0. Bryan, 48, was arrested at her here late paid $40 on an automobile and still owed $200.

"About that time I told them I would have to talk to my wife. I went back to tiie police station and got Policewoman Louise Brown to pose as my wife." When the two police officers rejoined the Davidsons, Heid recounted, "I told them I didn't feel we should pay them for the child. "But Davidson told me, 'I don't feel that way, I'd consider you were doing us a favor by giving us money for this "I gave him five marked $20 bills, saying I'd give him the Deaths And Funerals Mrs, Willie Gobble Services for Mrs, Willie Ellen Gobble, 59, Stickney, will be held at 2:30 p. ra, Monday in the Armstrong Funeral Home in Whitesville with Lowell Al- ternal grandmother, Mrs. Flattie Ward, Hinton.

The body is at the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton. (RNS) Mrs. Eliza Owens Rev. D. F.

While Rev, F. White, 63, Canvas, died at his home Saturday morning after a long illness. A member of the Ward Road Free Will Baptist Church he was a son of the late Andrew White, and Mrs, C. J. Holstein of Setli.

in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Surviving are her husband, Calvin; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Gunnoe, Chicago, two sons, Eugene, Rock Creek and Bill, Ravenswood; her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Anthony Dye, Holstein, five sisters, Mrs. Beulah Little and Mrs. Margie Eldreth. both of Saltsville. Mrs.

Clara Scypfarus, Holstein, Mrs. Bitha Kite, Abington, and Mrs. Beortha Cole, Meadow View. seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The body will remain at the funeral home where friends Meadows Funeral Home in his mother, he is survived by his wife, Lucille, Hinton with the Rev.

J. F. At- 0ur sonSi Farrada, Donald, and kins in charge. Burial will a iph, all of Chicago, 111., and in the Hilltop Cemetery. Ray of Wonder Lake, sev.

ft other $100 later, and Mrs. Dav- may call this afternoon. (RNS) idson gave Policewoman Brown the baby. were, and said they were under arrest. Davidson was dumbfounded, but his wife started crying and said, 'Why didn't you tell us who you were, then you could have helped The Davidsons were charged on a misdemeanor.

Under Ohio law they could each receive a maximum fine of $300 and six months in jail. Visit (Continued From Page 1) through initiatives of chiefs of state." As other outgrowths of Johnson's whirlwind "neighborly call" in Mexico City, which lasted from 6:30 p.m. EST Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday, Movers announced: --Lady Bird Johnson is hoping to make a goodwill trip to several countries in Central and possibly in South America. No time has been set, but at a luncheon Friday, she "gathered information" about the prospective trip from Diaz Ordaz, who recently made a Central American swing.

--Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz had agreed to meet on the Texas border to survey the Amistad Dam, a joint Mexican-American project under construction on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, as well as to tour the Big Bend National Park. -Agriculture Sec. Orville L. Freeman will visit Mexico to consult with his Mexican counterpart on questions of cotton marketing and production, matters about which Moyers said Johnson told Diaz Ordaz "we had much to learn from tiie Mexicans." -The two presidents "agreed to intensify visits, north and south, of stage and screen stars, symphonies, etc." And otherwise promote cultural exchanges between their countries. Moyers relayed to reporters the reactions he said he obtained from Johnson in lengthy conversations Friday night, after the President's arrival back at his Texas ranch, and Saturday morning.

Mrs. Johnson flew back Saturday after attending other ceremonies arranged when she ihad 'been scheduled to make the trip without her husband, to dedicate a $150,000 statue of Abraham Lincoln. The Texas White House said she was heading on to the ranch from Randolph Air Force Base, after a stop there by a presidential craft which was to carry Secretary of State Dean Rusk and otfcer members of the U.S. delegation on to Washington. Johnson, who anived at bis ranch 10 days ago for an extended Easter stay, was not Friday on a complaint author- expe cted to return to Washing- ized by U.

S. Attorney John H. ton wti i early next week Kamlowski. The a a charges Mrs. about Reviewing Johnson's feelings Mexico City trip, Bryan, until recently the bank highlighted Thursday night by a head bookkeeper, with embezzl- motorcade in which he was ing funds in the period from greeted by cheering throngs March 30, 1965 to Dec.

21, 1965. officially estimated at two Mrs. Bryan was released un- juj on Moyers said: der $2,500 bond after arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Walter T.

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Rose Quesenberry Funeral Chapel TELEPHONE 253-4461 BECKLEY AMOS I. QUtSENIEMV.OWNEI "To say that he was pleased is an understatement. He looks at the accomplishments of tiie visit not only in personal terms. He was impressed and gratified by the intensity of the response --and more importantly, perhaps, as a significant step forward in our relations with Mexico and the people of Latin America Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Mrs. Mae Cooper, about 75, who died in an Orlando, hospital Friday.

She been a patient there since October, 1965. A former Wyoming County resident, she was a postmaster at Marianna. Her husband, Alvah, preceded her in death in 1961. Surviving are three sons, Grin and William, both of Orlando, and Omar with the U. S.

Army; a daughter, Mrs. Oza (Roma Jean) Stewart, of Delaware; a sister, Mrs. Ethel Elgin, Northfork; a brother, Willie Howry, Detroit, two foster sisters, Mrs. Fred Stewart, Windon and Mrs. Sam Dickerson, Bishop, and six grandchildren.

The body is being returned to Wyoming County for completion of arrangements. (RNS) Mrs, Anna B. Cole Mrs. Anna Belle Cole, 70, a lifelong resident of Gauley Bridge, died Saturday morning in a Montgomery hospital after a long illness. She is survived by three sons, Tom, Walter aad Harold 1 all of Gauley Bridge; three daughters, Mrs.

Grace Cole, Gauley Bridge, Mrs. Reba McClain, Jacksonville, and Mrs. Virginia Stull, Louisville, a brother, Bill Taylor, Gauley Bridge; two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Thompson, Man and Mrs. Pearl Keenan, Gilboa; a stepson, Earl Cole, Gauley Bridge; two stepdaughters, Mrs.

Gladys Blankenship, Chicago, and Mrs. Mamie Smith of California; 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Combs Funeral Home at Gauley Bridge with the Rev. E.

A. Whitt in charge. Burial will be in the family' cemetery on Cain Branch. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon. (RNS) Mrs.

Laura Moore Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Mrs. Laura Mae Moore, 78, Summersville, who died Saturday afternoon at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Wavie Wiseman, Mt. Nebo, after a long illness.

A native of Roane County, she and Elizabeth Larch Rucker. Also surviving are three other daughters, Mrs. Grace Clutter, Persinger, Mrs. Freda Taylor, and Miss Audris Moore, both of Summersville; five sons, Delbert, Lanty, Lawson, Joe and Ralph, all of Summersville; two sisters, Mrs. Lelia Moore and Mrs.

Leota Moore, both of Walton: and a brother, William Rucker, Walton. The body is at the Howard White Funeral Home in Sum- mersvUle. (RNS) Mrs. Owens died Friday at en daughters, Mrs. Ruth Pitsen- 11 p.

m. after a two-year ill- barger, Beliburn, Louise Ward, ness. Canvas, Amy Tingler, Charles- Born at Raleigh, March, 1880, on Mrs. Sara Layton, Mrs. she was a member of the Hin- Virginia Pugh, Mrs.

Grace ton Community Christian drossier, and Mrs. Janet Hayes, all of Chicago, two brothers, Jack, Tyler Mountain, and Church. She is survived by a brother, Robert Bennett, Hinton and a sister, Mrs. Leona Ballard, Huntington. (RNS) Olin of Seth; two sisters, Mrs.

Mayme Runion, Whitesville, and Mrs. Myrtle Runion, Comfort; and 35-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held TT Monday at 2 p. m. at the Ward Final rites for William H.

Lax- Road Free yfa Baptist Church William Laxlon ton, 72, Matoaka, will be con-j with Rev Quade Arbogast ducted at 1:30 today in the; officiating Burial will follow in Giatto Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul Hall in charge. Bur- 61-YMf-OU Hit A Heavy firttr Mexican Goes From 290 To 600 Pounds PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) the year he weighed 290. "I started to 1 he recalls.

Since he is a comparatively light eater, doctors want to ger. Today Apodaca says he tips the scales at 600. That is, when such scales can be found. At the Maricopa County General Hospital, officials couldn't find anything on which to weigh Apodaca when he arrived for a checkup Saturday. No wheelchair or stretcher could move him to his ward.

He ial will be in the Lusk Cemetery at Herndon Heights. Laxton died at 7:30 p. m. Friday in a Bluefield hospital after a short illness. A native of Wyoming County, he was a son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Tad Laxton. Survivors are three sons, Herman, Clyde and Aldie, all of Matoaka: three daughters, Miss Eileen Laxton, Kansas City, Mrs. Norma Jean Graham. Matoaka and Mrs.

Maxine Rogers, Lashmeet; a brother, Manley, Beckley; two sisters. Miss Virgie Laxton, Philadelphia, and Miss Lucinda Laxton, Welch. The body is at the Bailey Funeral Home in Princeton. (RNS) Mrs. Lula B.

Turpin Funeral services for Mrs. Lula B. Tunpin, 73, Eccles, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday in the Shady Grove Baptist Church, Eccles, with the Rev.

B. F. Ferguson officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Me- the church cemetery. The body will be moved from the Waters Funeral Home in Summersvill to the church one hour prior to the service.

John Piziak Funeral services for John Piziak, 49, Stanaford, will be conducted at 1 p. m. Monday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with the Rev. Omer Williams officiating. Burial will follow in the Legion Cemetery, Beckley.

Born July 9, 1916, at Glen White, he was a son of the late Mike and Elizabeth Bak Piziak. A retired coal miner he was a member of local union 5822 at Cranberry, and a veteran of World War H. Surviving are a son, Eugene, Passiac, N. three brothers, Joe, Stanley, and Lee, all of Stanaford: and one sister, Mrs. Harold (Mary) Hancock, Beckley.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 3:30 p. m. Sunday. morial Park. Mrs.

Turpin Jied Wednesday after a long illness. The body will be taken from the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the church one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Keller, 73, of 110 Fulton Ave. died in a local hospital at 7:15 p.m.

Friday after an extended illness. Born at Pineville, Nov. 22, 1892, she was a daughter of the late Riley and Rose Bell Hash Tilley. A resident of Beckley for the past 50 years, she was a member of the Church of Christ on Neville St. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs.

George Alibrittain of Marburry, Mrs. Paul Holland of Hatcher, Mrs. Wildon Holland of Dewitt, and Mrs. Wfflard E. Meade of Beckley; three sons, Howard and An- Cave (Continued From Page 1) spotlights on a bluff above the mouth.

"It's a matter of time. Newark Hotel guests more were forced to flee early today as' a smoky fire burned in a third-floor room at the Hotel Carlton. SP4 James Laird, 21, of State College, home on leave from Turkey but about to be shipped to Viet Nam, suffered bums of both hands and the face and smoke inhalation. Milton Tatle, 58, whose home address was not given, suffered eye injuries. He was treated and released at City Hospital, and Laird was admitted in fair finally was mounted onto two mattresses and carried to the ward by forkllft.

The 61-year-old patient was deposited iu two beds welded together especially for him. A native of Mexico, Apodaca, lives in Peoria, and, worked as a truck driver until his weight began ballooning in 1952. He has seven children, but can't find work now that his bulk permits him to perform. "I've never been a heavy eater," he said. "But, I'm strictly a meat eater." Apodaca is unable to walk more than a few feet at a time without stopping for rest.

He uses a cane and hasn't been able to fit into an automobile for some time. His discomfort has become acute that he knew something must be done, Apodaca said, adding: "Without any warning, in 1952 I started to gain--and I gradually got bigger, I don't think the doctors know why." Apodaca will undergo tests for hospital spokesman Army Chief New Iraq President BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) -condition. The 4.1 acting army chief of staff and guests credited prompt bro of the late Preside nt action by firemen in keeping the injuries down at the 130- room hotel. Ladders and a snorkel unit were used to evacuate guests from the upper floors. Acting Deputy Fire Chief Thomas a said the smoky fire started when a guest fell asleep while smoking in bed.

The fire fed on the bed mattress and furniture. Leonard identified the guest as Ernest Hirscncff, 32, of Glen Ridge, who escaped injury. Elevator operator Roy Cannon fought off tiie smoke on the third floor to bring guests downstairs until the firemen arrived. The fire burned but the contents of tiie room where it started, devastated the door and transom to the hallway, aad spread also to the hallway. of Beckley; five brothers, Byrn Tffley of Beckley, Eddie Tilley of Virginia, Ezra Tilley, of Ohio, Freely Tilley of Bolt and Hershel Tilley of Bud; one sister Mrs.

Willialm Browning of Pineville: 24 grand'childen and 12 great grandchildren. The body is at Melton Mortuary where friends may call after 5 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be conducted in the Melton Mortuary Chapel at 2 p.m. Monday with Minister Fred Cline officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers are James Long, W. D. Griffith, W. H.

Smith, R. E. Short, Albert Pruitt, W. W. Naff, Jesse Davis and Arnold Holdxen.

William R. Sweeney Funeral services for William strength and good shoes," said a rescue worker standing near the six-foot wide hole in the mountainside. One rescue worker said men inching their way through the deadly cave found "flashlights, caps and gloves scattered all through there." An explosion from an undetermined cause apparently ripped a pocket of gas, which killed two youths who rushed into the cave to try to save the Scouts. The dead were identified as Rusty 21, of Forest Park, and Benny Giliey, 19, of Trenton. Scout leader Mike Moss of Explorer Post 76 said he was hurled 100 feet by the explosion.

"It was a big one," he said. "It blew out gravel, bats, "The explosion looked like it came up out of the cave floor or right out of the wall," he said. The blast came as the party of Scouts was going down into a 40-foot pit near the end of their exploration. It was suspected that the explosion might have been caused by a reaction from gas seeping out of a pocket with an open carbide lantern. Moss said the Scouts were carrying three such lanterns.

Another group of explorers, the "West Georgia Grotto" cave exploration group mostly college students --was Home Peace Chapel with the Funeral arrangements are in- Rey clarenC Griffith and Eld- complete for Denzil Dale Adkins, 18, Hinton. who died at 11:10 a. m. Saturday in Hopemont Sanitarium where he had "been a patient for ten years. Born in Summers County Nov.

16. 1947, he was a son of Frank Adkins, Wilmington, and er U. G. Nichols officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity.

Russell Sweeney, 63, 213 Hub- nea rby when the explosion bard St, Sprague, will be held i ppe( the cave. They rushed in at 2:30 p. m. Monday Jn the immediately and were overcome by the gas. Four of the Scout party were removed alive from the cave, including 16-year-old Buddy Norris of Atlanta, who was badly burned on his legs and face.

A number of the rescuers were removed before the gas killed them. Rescue directors said the four trapped in the cave were apparently not caught behind landslides. However, they said, it was possible they were unable to get out of the pit, and were tricia" Lewisburg and -home; two daughters, Mrs. John! overcome by gas. Officials was a son of the late John and Lottie Lilly Sweeney.

A retired mining engineer for Winding Gulf Coal Company, he Juanita Ward Adkins, Hinton. was also a member of the AF Also surviving are three broth- and AM Lodge No. 95 in Beckers, Randall, Charles and Frank all at home; three! Survivors include his wife, sisters, Mrs. Wilma Meadows, i Roxie Hubbard Sweeney, Beck- Clifton Forge, Miss Pa-jley; one son, Tommy Joe, at Deborah, at home and his ma- SEARS MONUMENT CO. "West Virginia's Largest Memorial Dealer" SELECT NOW FOR MEMORIAL DAY See This And Other Outstanding Values! Choose A Loving Tribute! THERE A SEARS MEMORIAL THAT WILL FULFILL YOUR MOST CHERISHED THOUGHTS FOR YOUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES.

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Below the bridge and pilot house, the wave ripped out 20 staterooms which had been abandoned by their occupants at the urging of ship's officers only 10 minutes before. Passengers said one of their mimber returned to his stateroom "to watch the waves from his window" and was killed instantly by the big one. The rim of the ship's bow, made of heavy steel plate, was crumpled like tinfoil. However, at least two passengers claimed they did not notice the storm. They were Umborto Somaini, 25, of Milan, Italy, and his bride of 14 days, Angela.

"I'm almost to admit it," said Somaini. "JBut we didn't realize anything out of the ordinary was going on." Luna 10 (Continued from page 1) could come from a belt of meteorites through which the moon might be passing and not represent a normal condition, he said. Vinogradov said lunar rocks were comparable to those on the surface of the earth, Abdel Salarn Aref, has been elected president of Iraq, informed sources said Saturday night. The report of Gen. Arefs election came shortly after tiie late president was buried with full military honors Saturday in an emotion-packed ceremohy in a small mosque outside the capital.

Thousands of Iraqis wailed their grief as the body of Aref, who was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday, was lowered into a grave beside that of his father. A 100-gun salute boomed out and jet fighters screamed past overhead. Gen. Aref returned from Moscow Friday aboard a special Soviet plane. He was in the Soviet capital on an arms buying mission when his brother died.

Under the Iraqi constitution, the president is chosen by an 18-member national defense council. The sources said Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, who automatically became acting president in Aref's death, would retain his premiership in. the new government. Bazzaz and other government officials led funeral procession through the streets of the formation of the core of the planets of the earth group apparently have the same mechanism." MikhailoV told Soviet the burial site. foreign newsmen that moon, in receding from and the the earth, had moved from 93,000 to 238,000 miles away from it other planet Describing its lopsidedness, he said: "The center of the moon mass does not coincide with the lunar center itself.

This is due to the moon's irregular shape. "The moon consists of heavy mountain-type rock," he said, "and therefore it will keep its present shape." Less Radiation According to Grigorov, the Opera To Close After 83 Years NEW YORK (UP) --The Metropolitan Opera Company rang down the curtain Saturday night on 83 great years of music at its old opera house with a sentimental farewell program featuring 60 leading artists and 11 conductors. The closing climaxed an unprecedented, months competition for tickets motivated by both snobbery and devotion to were sold music. All six weeks seats ago, intensity of the particles in the radiation belt surrounding thep eavi ng Park Avenue socialites moon was 100,000 times opera commuters from the than in the deadly Van Allen 5, onx the mercy of the belt which surrounds the earth. Keldysh said this meant that spaceships constructed like the Soviet Union's much-used Vos- tok and Voskhod earth orbiters black market.

Scalpers were reported to have sold some $200 orchestra seats for as much as $500. Nearly 40 of the Met's retired would give adequate protection stars, including Lotte Lehmann, against radiation for cosmo-: Giovanni Martinelli and Marian nauts circling the moon. i Anderson, were seated on the Keldysh also told the news sta for ar of the 4 1-2 hour conference that: including highlights of --The Soviets will not try to operas and the triumphal bring Luna-10 back to earth. scene from "Aida" with a cast --Luna-10 did not carry i of 20 cameras because Soviet scientists gave higher priority to its gravity and magnetic feld and other measuring tasks. --Soviet cosmonauts are already in training for moon landings and the assembly of spaceships in space.

--One of the toughest jobs ahead is to bring a spaceship The venerable Leopold opened the evening with Wagner's brilliant orchestral processional from "Tannhaeu- ser," a work guaranteed to dampen the eyes of the nostalgic. Basso Jerome Hines sang the last word in the doomed theater "codnemned." It is Mephisto- back from the moon without pheles' diabolic cry in the final burning it up on re-entry into moment of Gounod's "Faust," the earth's atmosphere. --Repeated trips through the earth's Van Allen radiation belt "did not have any serious effects" on spacedogs Blackie and Breeze, but added, "the effects of this experiment require prolonged observation." the opera that opened the house in 1883 and provided the final musical number at the closing. Demolition of the Met will begin next month to make way for a 40-story office building. The opera company will move to Lincoln Center.

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