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THE DAILY TRIBUNE Fifty-Fifth Year No. 15,783 I I A A I I Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, 54494, Monday, July 21, 1969 Single Copy 10 Cents Apollo 11 makes space history Moon walk followed by successful blastoff and lunar orbit By Howard Bcnedic'. -AP Aerospj'-p SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

blasted off safely from the rnoon and into lunar orbit today, beginning the complex maneuvers to link up with their mother ship. They left behind their footprints in the lunar dust and in the history of man. Their liftoff began 69 seconds after the command ship, with Michael Collins its lone passenger, passed 69 miles above Tranquillity Base. Seven minutes later, they entered orbit and a hour chase began. If all went well, the two ships would link up at 5:32 p.m.

EOT. and head for home at 12:57 a.m. Tuesday. Their thrust lander, which settled them onto the surface Sunday for a hour stay, served them, too, at liftoff. They left behind the spindly-legged lower stage, their launching platform, as a permanent memento of July 20, 1969 the day man landed on the moon.

Tt was the first time a rocket had lifted anything from the moon. Mission control awakened the moonmen shortly after 11 a.m. following a six-hour rest period. Instruments which monitored Armstrong during the night indicated he slept fitfully. There is only one set of biomedical instruments in the cabin so Aldrin was not monitored.

Sleeping in the cramped quarters the LM is difficult and Aldrin reported: "Neil has been lying on the engine cover and I curled up on the floor." Checking of systems and switch settings for the critical liftoff was the No. 1 priority after wakeup. A successful liftoff would shoot them into lunar orbit to chase down Michael Collins, orbiting some 65 miles overhead in the Apollo 11 command ship. Once linked up, they plan to fire themselves back toward earth early Tuesday, ending a space odessey in which they etched their names beside those of history's great explorers, Columbus, Balboa, Magellan, da Gama and Byrd. Through the magic of television, an estimated 500 million people around the world had a ringside seat to man's greatest adventure.

It was unforgettable. Armstrong climbed through the LM hatch and started backing down a nine-rung ladder. On the second rung from the bottom, he opened a compartment, exposing a television camera. The picture was black and white and somewhat jerky, but it recorded history. Among scientists, there was elation that the crew had landed in an area with a variety of rocks, a treasure that held at least the hope of a rich payoff in the search to learn more about moon and earth.

As Armstrong planted his size 9 left boot on the powdery surface at 10:56 p.m. Sunday, he spoke words that will be remembered for all time: "That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." The camera trained on Aldrin as he stepped on the far shore 20 minutes later and exclaimed: "Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation." There were other memorable utterances during the day of high adventure. There were Armstrong's words when Eagle separated from the command ship to start the dangerous descent: "The Eagle is flying." There were Armstrong's and man's first words from the moon's surface after touchdown at 4:18 p.m.: "Houston Tranquillity base here. The Eagle has landed." Or when Aldrin, a deeply religious man, relayed this message to the world shortly after the landing: "This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening, whoever, wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." They planted an American flag and saluted it, but made it plain they came to the moon as ambassadors for all mankind.

They unveiled a stainless steel plaque bearing these words: "Here men from planet earth first set foot upon the moon, July, 1969. A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." They left on the moon a disc on which messages from the leaders of 76 nations had been recorded. They will return to earth with them the flags of 136 nations, including Russia. And they left behind mementos for three Americans and two Russians who died for the cause of space exploration.

The theme was carried through when President Nixon placed an extraordinary radio call to Armstrong and Aldrin as they strolled the surface. As they flanked the American flag, Nixon said, "I can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done for every American. This has to be the proudest day of our lives. "For people all over the world I am sure that they too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done the heavens have become part of man's world "For one priceless moment in the whole history of man," the President continued, "all of the people on this earth are truly one.

"One in their pride in what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth." Although at times it appeared they were on a romp in the park, Armstrong and Aldrin carried out a true exploration of the moon. Several times they tested their ability to move about in the one-sixth gravity field of the moon, loping like antelopes, and bouncing like kangaroos. "It's not difficult at all moving about in one- sixth 'G'," commander Armstrong reported, as he flashed before the camera like a graceful gazelle. The camera was mounted 40 or 50 feet away from the LM so that earthlings could watch their entire period outside 2 hours, 14 minutes for Armstrong and one hour, 44 minutes for Aldrin. One of those who could not watch on television was Collins, flying the lonely vigil overhead, awaiting the return of his companions.

He checked with mission control occasionally for a progress report See--Apollo--page 2 Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Keep cycle rally from getting out of hand Possible showers The Wisconsin forecast is mostly sunny with highs 75 to 83 in the east and in the 80s in the west, with a chance of brief showers late tonight and Tuesday morning in the west and over most of the state by Tuesday afternoon. The low tonight is expected in the 50s north and 55 to 63 south. The five-day forecast calls for temperatures near normal in the east but 2 to 4 degrees below normal in the west. A high of 78 degrees in the north and 86 in the south is forecast, with a northern low of 56 and southern low of 64. A warming trend is expected midweek, but a little cooler the last of the week.

Rain is expected to total near one inch in showers by midweek and again near the end of the week. Wisconsin Rapids had a high temperature Sunday of 85 degrees and the overnight low was 57. BERRY'S WORLD 1969 by NEA, A "show of force" by Central Wisconsin law enforcement officers apparently was instrumental in preventing a recurrence of last year's rioting during the motorcycle rally in this area Saturday and Sunday. In contrast to 1968, when fights, thefts and general disorder marred the rally, there was only one major disturbance over the weekend, that in Wisconsin Rapids. A fight which erupted shortly after midnight Sunday in The Place tavern, a block from the police station on W.

Grand resulted in one arrest and injuries to at least two persons. Three motorcyclists, two of them from Wisconsin Rapids, were injured in a traffic mishap in Portage County early Sunday morning. Aside from these incidents, there were only scattered reports of disturbances or mishaps connected with the rally. Saturday night city police stationed their auxiliary police van outside of The Place, when it became obvious that this was the scene of the largest concentration of motorcyclists in the city. Six members of the police department and two auxiliary policemen were assigned to the van.

Shortly before midnight a fight broke out in the tavern between a local cyclist and a member of "The Avengers" club of Milwaukee. The fight was broken up quickly by officers and no arrests were made. About 20 minutes later a larger brawl broke out and additional law enforcement officers were summoned. At one time, according to police reports, there were at least six separate fights going on at once in the tavern. It took 14 officers to quell the disturbance and the establishment was ordered closed by Det.

Lt. Donald Knuth. Arrested and charged with disorderly conduct was Jerome Today's chuckle Man, who claims full credit for most of the good things in the world, promptly labels any disaster an "act of God." "Rocky" LaRocque, 25, Milwaukee, one of the participants in the fight. He was taken to the Wood County sheriff's department where it was discovered that LaRocque was armed with a pistol. He was then charged with carrying a concealed weapon and jailed.

He was scheduled to be arraigned today, on the charges. Injured in the fracas were Kenneth Falkosky and Alfred Cleveland, both of Wisconsin Rapids. Falkosky received outpatient treatment at Riverview Hospital for cuts and bruises sustained when he was slugged with a piece of logging chain. Cleveland did not require hospital treatment. Police blamed "local punks" for starting the disturbance.

According to investigating officers, the out-of-town club members were behaving themselves with no sign of any disturbance, until persons from the Wisconsin Rapids "egged them into a fight." A city squad car parked outside the tavern was dented and scratched, with damage estimated at $40. Michael Parks, Waukegan, TIL, reported the theft of a $75 helmet from his cycle while it was parked at Lyle's Bar, 4410 Sth St. S. Saturday morning, and William Mehls of the Siesta Motel, 3010 Sth St. reported that a group of cyclists staying at the motel had broken a $25 mirror and left without paying for it.

Sheriff Thomas Forsyth said his department prevented any disturbance at the rally site, south of Nekoosa, by having a large compliment of men sta-. tioned there. He said at one time 'there were 43 officers at the rally site. There were no reported cycle thefts and only two of the machines were found to be illegally equipped and ordered off the road. Conservation wardens made one arrest for littering at the rally site.

Most law enforcement officers at the rally site praised members of the sponsoring Rapid Angels Motorcycle Club "making an all-out effort to conduct a quiet rally." Portage County police reported three motorcyclists were in- See--Rally--Page 2 Americans laugh pray in reaction to historic hour First man on the moon Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is about to make history as he climbs down the ladder from the lunar module, ready to set his foot on the moon. The photo was taken during Sunday night's telecast back to earth of the history-making achievement. (AP Wirephoto) Luna 15 makes moon landing JODRELL BANK, England (AP) Russia landed Luna 15 on the moon's surface today, 500 miles from where America's Appollo astronauts were ppre- paring to take off on their journey back to earth, Jodrell Bank Observatory reported. Signals picked up at the giant radio-telescope here indicated that after tour days of moon orbit the unmanned probe landed on the moon's Sea of Crises. Jodrell Observatory, headed by 55-year-old Sir Bernard Lovell, stood by for any sign that Luna itself might be preparing to return to earth.

Prof. John G. Davies, Lovell's aide, said at 12:05 p.m. EOT: "Luna has landed." The last signals received from Luna were "appropriate ro a soft landing," he added. Unofficial sources in Moscow had predicted when Luna 15 took off July 13 that it would attempt a remote-controlled lunar landing to retrieve a sample of moon soil--a task already performed by the American astronauts.

Try to bounce laser beam off reflector fails SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -Scientists at Lick Observatory atop nearby Mt. Hamilton tried unsuccessfully a bounce a ruby laser beam off a reflector placed on the moon's surface by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Joseph Miller, assistant astronomer, said wrong coordinates from Houston's Space Center caused the laser to be beamed 50 miles away from the reflector. The experiment is designed to measure precisely the distance from the earth to the moon by the radar-like method of measuring how long the quick burst takes to reach the rnoon.

By the Associated Press They were shining hours. Americans landed on the moon and walked its rocky surface while millions of their countrymen locked their attention on television and radio sets on a July Sunday that will live in history. It was also a Sunday on which hippies romped nude in a California stream, American GIs fought on in Vietnam, babies were born, highways took their toll, cheers rose from excited crowds, a Wyoming woman laughed uncontrollably, Indians broke into a victory dance. For others, there were periods of reflection and prayer. In her home at Worcester, the widow of rocket pioneer Robert H.

Goddard sat alone and watched television as man stepped on the moon for the first time. When a newsman phoned she said, "I'm sorry I'd rather be by myself you understand." A soft rain fell at Auburn, where Goddard fired his first liquid fueled rocket in 1926. In New York, some 3,000 people watched the moon landing at a huge television screen at Kennedy International Airport. Hundreds crowded in front of another big screen at the Time-Life Building across from Radio City Music Hall. An estimated 4,000 watched the three huge TV screens erected in Central Park.

Across the nation, in Anaheim, 80 members of the Soviet Union's track and field team saw the moon landing on Disneyland TV screen. In Burbank, an ice cream company, moments after Neil A. Armstrong first stepped on the moon, started dishing out a new flavor called Lunar Cheese Cake. In the Nevada gaming cities of Las Vegas and Reno, qam- blers were asked to halt the action briefly. In Las Vegas, a stripper at the Silver Slipper Casino peeled a simulated space suit, and at Reno's Harrah's Club, they pushed a new drink, the Moonshot Cocktail.

iNEWSPAPERl At Farragut State Park in northern Idaho, Boy Scouts were gathered for their 7th annual jamboree. They huddled around radios and a few television sets for news of the exploits of two former scouts, Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. In Philadelphia, a huge crowd gathered in front of historic Independence Hall and cheered when Eagle reached the moon's surface. In Seattle, pregame ceremonies before an American League baseball game the hometown Pilots and the Minne- st-ts Twins were interrupted by an announcement of the moon landing.

The fans cheered, stood up and sang "America the Beautiful." At Meriden, a man called the Morning Record and complained he couldn't find a single baseball game on radio or television, ending a five-minute harangue that the moon landing was "a lot of nonsense." In San Quentin Prison, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the convicted slayer of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, watched the televised account of the moon landing in his death row cell. In the Tennessee State Prison at Nashville, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King did not see the moon landing.

There is no television in his maximum security cell. Only 4,000 persons took the Kennedy Space Center tour at Cape Kennedy, where an estimated crowd of one i i were on hand when the Apollo 11 blasted off last Wednesday. Barbara Guilford, a 29-year- old Cheyenne, schoolteacher, laughed and laughed. "I was exhilarated and started laughing," she said. "I couldn't understand exactly what had transpired technically, but I was excited over the fact that man had made it to the moon.

I laughed for five minutes." A crowd so dense "you couldn't even walk" jammed into Chicago's Alder Planetarium to watch the moon landing. SFAPERfl HIV.