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1 Stlt5 rally 4- on U7 7' In On Moon Apollo i hat. ftt) Cu. area." Mitchell scooped sample of rocks and the rim of a small cratoi feet from Antares. This it gency sample was stowed 1 in case the astronauts were forced to leave the moon ahead of schedule. When the astronauts panned the television camera a round the spacecraft, viewers suw a gray lunar surface heavily pocked with small craters.

In May, 1961, Shepard launched America's era of space expiration with a 15-minute, 3(H) mile trip from Cape Canaveral (now Cape Kennedy) in the tiny Friendship 7 space capsule. I lis moon landing a decade later fulfilled a dream 4iur ATrlrotn kVav shot the moon lander back into a safe orbit instead of dropping it down to the lunar surface. Shepard, oldest American astronaut, cnoly touched down at "the flattest point around" after hovering at 170 feet for several long moments looking for the best site. "We're on the surface," exclaimed Mitchdl, a rookie spaceman, "We made a good landing." said Shepard. On the ground, the astronauts' families and ground controllers whooped with delight as Shepard and Mitchell reported touchdown.

"Good good, they're down safe," cried Mrs. Louise Shepard at her Houston home. "They cant call him 'Old Mose' anymore. He's Ibund his promised land." litter, when Shepard stepped onto the moon, Louise jumped up and clapped her hands in mission control. The astronauts spent almost five hours between the landing and moonwalk getting the Antares shipshape, eating lunch and donning their bulky white moon suits.

They were 55 minutes late getting out of the lander because of trouble with their backpack communications. "I think they put champagne instead of iodine in the LM (lunar module) water this time," Mitchell said as the astronauts struggled into their bulky garb. Shepard's descent to the gray, dusty surface was telecast by a camera mounted on the lander. He then put a cover over its lens to avoid the sun damage that rubied Apollo 12's telecasts 15 months ago and moved it to a tripod 50 feet away. Shepard aimed the camera at the silver and gold spacecraft then bounded back into the picture to help jab the flag into the ground.

"Mobility is very great under this crushing one-sixth (gravity)," Mitchdl told ground control. Bv AL ROSSITKR JR. 'iTI Space Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPD-Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchdl outsmarted a balky computer for a bullseye landing today and then bounded across the dusty moon, unfurling Old Glory on the first color telecast back to earth.

"It's been a long way, but we're here," said Shepard, America's first man in space a decade ago, as he stepped off a ladder from the Apollo 14 landing craft and became the fifth man on the the moon. Mitchell jumped to the rough, crater-pocked surface of Fra Mauro Valley five minutes later. "It's great to be coming down," he said. Ground controllers radioed to the moonwalkers the congratulations of President Nixon. Like millions of people all over the world, he said, he is an astronaut watcher today.

"I wish the entire Apollo team well Godspeed," Nixon said, and invited the astronauts and their families to the White House for dinner upon their return and to Camp David for a Devoted To The Progress of Acadia Parish and Southwest Louisiana CROWLEY, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1971 10c 72nd YEAR SHREVEPORT MEDIC I jt gygiTr avfi a I J1KArf' ftf i Memo Committe Lawmokep In onfleirnpi CONTINUE IN EARLY ADMISSIONS PROGRAM Now in their second or more semesters at LSU-E through the Early Admissions program are the four Crowley High students shown above. They are, left to right, Julia Dilly, Becky Kirk, Kay Faulk and Kyle Jones. These students earn college credits while still in high school. SALE ALSO SLATED Annual Junior Livestock Show Scheduled Feb. 19-20 to a position where he could see the Fra Mauro area and the shadow cast by the lunar lander.

The successful landrig erased the stigma of Apollo 13, which had been headed for the same site when an oxygen-tank explosion in space forced the astronauts to return home last April. Shepard Dew Antares to a near-perfect landing between two rugged ridges, setting down in a cloud of dust only 130 feet from the target the most precise landiig yet of the Apollo missions. The accurate landing payoff of the trouble-plagued $400 million mission was made with a makeshift computer control procedure radioed to the astronauts at the last moment. Shepard and Mitchell discovered a faulty abort switch two hours before landing. They took manual control of Antares shortly after the firing of its big descent engine to avoid an "electronic spook" in the computer abort switch.

Without the emergency technique the computer would have in the Beef, Dairy, Sheep, and Swine divisions. Trophies will be awarded for the champion market animals in the Steer, Lamb, and Barrow divisions. Competition will be limited to Acadia Parish 4-H and FFA members who are eligible to compete in district and state livestock shows. District and state show rules will apply to the parish show. All animals sold at the parish sale must attend the district show.

All qualified breeding animals exhibited show or all premiums and awards will be forfeited. Animals that are disqualified from sale at the parish show, but later qualify at the district show, will be sold the district sale. Soybeans Prices CROWLEY, La -Thursday's quotations on No. 1 soybeans for immediate delivery to Baton Rouge ranged in price from $3.10 to $3.20 per bushel, according to Louisiana Market News Service. Futures quotations on the Chicago Grain Market were: March $3.06 to $3.07 to July to $3.13 August $3.10 Juveniles To Face Burglary CROWLEY, La.

Five arrests were ade Thursday by the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department with four of the persons arrested being juveniles and another being picked upon a trespassing charge, according to Sheriff Elton Arceneaux. Two juveniles were arrested Thursday morning in Iota and charged with burglary and simple damage to property and were released to their parents pending juvenile court action. Two more juveniles were arrested by the department for burglary of the West Church Point Junior High School in Church Point. The Church Point Police Department assisted in the arrests. Kenneth Fontenot, 24, of Branch, was picked up by deputies Chester Romero and J.D.

Simon Thursday on a trespassing charge in Branch. Bond was set at $500.00 by Judge Carol Spell. weekend. Shepard, the old pro of U.S. astronauts grounded for six years by ear trouble walked with a slow, cautious gait at first.

But soon Shepard and Mitchell were hopping over the surface "like kangaroos on man's first excursion into the hilly uplands that scientists believe may hold the key to the secrets of the moon's creation. They were deploying a $25 million, atomic -powered scientific observatory on the gentle slope near the Antares after planting the Stars and Stripes. They had to move the flag several times so it would show better on the vivid color telecast. Shepard, 47, and Mitchell, 40, the third team of American astronauts to reach the moon, bounded around taking each other's pictures during the flag-raising ceremony. The third member of the Apollo 14 crew, Stuart A.

Roosa, 37, orbited the moon alone in the command ship Kitty Hawk during the moon-walk. He maneuvered his ship general livestock and dairy judging contest will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, with the actual contests set to commence at 8:30 a.m. The livestock sale will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Prizes of $10.00, $8.00, $6.00, and $4.00 will be offered in the Steer, Beef Breeding, and Dairy divisions. Prizes of $5.00, $4.00, $3.00, and $2.00 will be awarded in the following divisions: Market Lams, Sheep Breeding, Barrows, and Swine Breeding. Rosettes will be awarded t6 the champion and reserve champion in the Steer, Lamb, and Barrow divisions. All exhibitors may compete for showmanship trophies awarded News and announced a public meeting would beheld Saturday at the Evangeline school for the purpose of hearing views on assessing the necessary taxation to support a fire district. Lawrence refuted the claim in the notice that the Jennings department would not answer an Acadia Parish call.

"This is simply not true," he said. "The Jennings Fire Department received four calls in the past 12 months to Acadia (Continued On Page2) Set Registration For City Cyclists CROWLEY, Crowley Area Safety Council met Thursday afternoon in the lxard room of the Chamber of Commerce and an announcement was made Al Gibson, chief of police, that Bicycle Registrat ion Day will be held on Saturday, Mar. 27. An Announcement was also made at the meeting that the Louisiana Department of Highways has informed the safety council that no traffic light is needed at the corner of 9th St. and Parkerson Ave.

and that the safety council's request for a light has been turned down. In other business concerning traffic lights in the city, the safety council requested and was granted a survey on the traffic light situation in front of the Northpark Shopping Center. t)ve him hack into tin. migram after lesk. are in fact in a lnw Shepard said "There seems to be a general swell, wide valley, between triple and Doublet (craters).

"It's a very uneven landing area here. And it 's pock-marked by a tremendous amount of craters." After planting the flag. Siepard and Mitchell gingerly unloaded the plutonium 23H nuclear fuel which will power the automated observatory for years. They carefully handled the graphiteencased cask on the end of the rod because of (ContinuedOnPage2) copv NUMBER 81 sent letters to all shareholders of the radio station offering $400 per share on the condition he (Continued On Page 2) New Members Join Chamber CKOWLEY, La. The Greater Crowley Chamber of Commerce has recruited 34 new memberships, thus far, in the organization as a result of its current drive to sign up new members, according to Bill Williams, manager, The report on the status of the current drive was made public Thursday.

Petty Officer Second Class Jt-rry A. Mouton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mouton of 325 E. 15t Crowley, wfll participate in the recovery of the Apollo 14 astronauts when they return from man's third visit to the moon.

Mouton is serving aboard the IVarl Harbor, Hawaii, based fleet oiler USS Ponchatoula which will provide logistic support for the primary recovery vessel USS New Orleans. CROWLEY, La. Crowley fw)lice reported that a prescription bottle containing 15 blue and white capsules was lost Thursday somewhere between (Irem ill ion's Drug Store and The Crowley Daily Signal shortly after noon. The number on the bottle is 432189 and anyone finding this prescription bottle is asked to turn it over to the Crowley Police Department. Holds By RAFAEL BERMUDEZ BATON ROUGE (UPI) -The Louisiana Mafia investigating committee has instituted contempt proceedings against Rep.

James Strain of Shreveport and has set a Feb. 15 court hearing for the lawmaker to show why he has not violated state law. Maximum Denalties for con viction of contempt of the legis lature are a $1,000 fine, six months in jail or both. In a move to avoid having to appear before the committee Thursday, Strain called a meeting of a legislative committee which he said he chaired. He said he would not be compelled to honor tht subpoena and cited state law which gives lawmakers immunity from sub- 40-Degree Drop CROWLEY, La.

Temperature in the Crow-Icy area ranged from a high of 75 degrees Thursday afternoon to a low of 35 last night, according to the Rice Experiment Station. At 8 a.m. today the reading was 39 degrees. During the 24-hour period, the station measured .32 of an inch of rainfall. Lightning Hits Cattle Shed CROWLEY, La.

The Crowley Fire Department answered a call at 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the farm of George Domingue that is kicated approximately one mile east of S. Highway 13 after lightning struck the cattle shed and hay barn. Due to the shortage of water, firemen were unable to save the hay barn, but with the help of a small water well and garden hoses they saved another bam that was about 15 feet from the burned one. Approximately 275 bales of hay burned in the wood and metal structure.

poenaes while they are conducting official legislative business. But the anti-Mafia committee said Thursday the committee of which Strain claimed to be chairman was legally disbanded by the legislature almost a GERALD CRADEUR Name Cradeur As City Clerk CROWLEY, La. Gerald Cradeur, a native of Crowley, will become Crowley city clerk on February 15, upon the retirement of present city clerk Talmadge Hoffpauir. i Cradeur is a graduate of Crowley High School and attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He is a member of the Crowley Jaycees, and is currently serving as treasurer.

He has served eight years in the National Guard. He is married to the former Sondra Graham of Crowley, and is the father of two sons, Timothy, age 3, and Phillip, 11 months. In the past, Cradeur has been employed as bookkeeper by the Acadia-Vermilion Rice Irrigation Company and by T.L. James, Inc. year ago.

hi other action before the probe committee Thursday Rep. Chris Faser of Baton Rouge and Revenue official Sam Fein bl urn denied they had any connection with alleged payoffs in the revenue department. Two revenue agents testified to the committee last year that they had evidence Feinblum was the recipient of an alleged payoff in which taxes owed the state by a Baton Rouge grocer were substantial- Continued On Page 2) Weather Forecast Acadia Area Partly cloudy through Saturday. Low tonight 40-42. High Saturday 52-51.

North-northwest winds 12-25 niph turning northeast and diminishing Saturday. Iota High Gets Accreditation IOTA, La A certificate of accreditation of the Iota High School by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges was presented to J. M. McCrory, retired principal of the school, by Dr. John A.

Bertrand, superintendent of Acadia Parish schools, during an assembly at the school on Wednesday. Ward 4 school Ixiard members Louis Simar and John D. Sittig were also in attendance as Ray Bruchez, principal of Iota High, presided over the assembly after Miss Velma Gauthier, president of the student Ixidy, reliquishcd the gavel to him. In accepting the certificate, McCrory praised the work of the principal, faculty, and students of the school, and that of Simeon Marcotte, elementary sup-pervisor. He ulso gave credit to the citizens of Iota who have given the financial assistance and facilities necessary to provide the students with a better education.

LADY AND GENTLEMAN OF (IIS Kay Faulk and Frank Dunphy were limed to the two top honors (if Lady and Gentleman of Crowley High School by their fellow classmates, The two en lore were chosen by an election held ut the school recently. HEAVY OPPOSITION CROWLEY, 1971 Acadia Parish Junior Livestock Show and Sale will be held Friday and Saturday, February 19-20, in the Rice Festival Livestock building on west Mill Street in Crowley. The show is sponsored by the Acadia Parish police jury, the Acadia Parish school board, the Acadia Cattlemen's Association, the Greater Crowley Chamber of Commerce, and the Cooperative Extensive Service. Tagging and weighing of animals will begin at 7 a.m. on Friday.

Judging is scheduled for lp.m. All entries must be in by 9 a.m. for tagging and weighing. Registration for the 4-H Crowley Group Gives Up On KROF Control JENNINGS FIRE CHIEF Refutes Claim Fire Aid Request Denied CROWLEY. control of Radio Station KROF in All- licvillo is once auain in the control of local people, ac cording to a news article ap-nearinit in the current issue of the Kaplan-Vermilion News published by Alvis Abshire oi Kaplan.

The newspaper quoted Marcus Broussard, an Abbeville attorney, as making the announcement. The newspaper gave the following account of the efforts by Crowley interests to obtain controlling interest of the KROF stock: "In October, 1070, William C. Broadhurst, Crowley attorney, NEWS IN BRIEF JENNINGS, La. Jennings Fire Chief Liso Lawrence Thursday responded to a public notice calling for an Evangeline fire protection district in which it was noted the department here "will not answer a fire call in Acadia Parish." The notice was carried in Tuesday's edition of The Daily Artie Richard Rites Saturday LYONS POINT, services for Artie Richard, 76, of Lyons Point, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Lyons Point Catholic Church.

Burial in the Abshire Cemetery will be under the direction of Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home of Crowley. Mr. Richard, a native of Vermilion Parish, died at 2:20 a.m. today in his home. Survivors include his wife, the former Desilia Landry of Lyons Point; three sons, Adres Richard of Lyons Point, Oday Richard of Kaplan, and Ovey Richard of Crowley; three daughters, Mrs.

Oran Smith of Welsh, Mrs. Francois Abshire of Kaplan, and Mrs. Victor Lebouef of Crowley; one brother, Dermas Richard of Kaplan; three sisters, Mrs. Gladiest Trahan and Mrs. Belizair Thiljodeaux.

both of Kaplan, and Mrs. Valsin Abshire of Crowley; 14 grandchildren; and five iiiiiaippililil M4 mm mm essm jwhmmwm. LA, I MAXIE, La. The friends of Mr. and Mrs.

Waller Arceneaux of the Maxie community of Acadia Parish are raising funds to help with the payment of hospital expenses incurred by the illness of Mrs. Arceneaux. Mr. Arceneaux and his late wife have been lifelong residents of Maxic. Persons who would like to make a don at kin to aid this family can call Mrs.

Albert Smith of Maxie at 783-89(3. CROWLEY, La. Project Educational Theatre, a non-profit corporation approved by the Louisiana Stale Board of Education, will present Ihe National Theatre Company production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" at the Lafayette Municipal Auditorium on Thursday, March 4, at 1:00 p.m. for students of Acadia Parish schools. CROWLEY, La.

Navy EARLY ADMISSION STUDENTS NAMED Named to participate In the Early Admission program offered by Louisiana State University at Eunice are the Crowley High student shown above. They are, left to right, first row, Cindy Faulk, Millie Black and Sue DeKellevue. Second rnw, same order, Paula Bergeron, Juris on VanFossen, Edna Williams, and I lie Jean Wright. It ark rnw, same order, Conrad Bercier, Kill D'Aquin, Randy Bo rill, and Chuck Fulkerson. Not present for the photo, but included in the program are Mike l.elilunc, Tony l.ampson, Tony Douget, John Lambert, and Debra Heaver..