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The Leader-Post, Regina, Monday, November 19, 187 ft 1 Tent9 fresh, food deliffht troops men saywith straight faces they prefer good food to good drink. A special officer has also been appointed to. provide recreation facilities for the Canadians and hopes are high for a 1 tour of nearby pyramids and tourist sites. The lack of proper accommodation, including washrooms and a method of combatting the hordes of flies, is an extreme irritant tor the troops but the fact that some are beginning to move out towards the ceasefire lines to start their assigned task as communicators seem to be keeping morale high. About 30 men now are engaged In the communications role and as convoy drivers in the area near the Suez Canal where the Israeli and Egyptian armies face each other across the truce zones.

There is still a degree of optimism among the Canadians that they may be assigned the task of supplying the whole United Nations force, which may reach 7,000 men, with food and other requirements, in addition to their communications responsibilities. Their hopes received an added boost Friday when the UN requested a Canadian aircraft to take 60 Finnish peacekeeping troops to Cyprus for leave and bring another 60 men back to Cairo. Bill Earl, a native of Winnipeg and a regimental sergeant-major, says the troops can take on any job assigned them. "Just give me the order, sir, and I'll move these guys out of here so fast they'll never know what hit them." By KEVIN DOYLE CAIRO (CP For Canada's military police, never distinguished fpr their gentleness or knack of winning friends, the end of the week held Joys that, but for their profession, might have brought tears to their eyes. As it was, they took It all with admirable stoicism and indulged in only a restrained display of exhuberance.

"Our cups are flooding over, sir," exclaimed Cpl. Donald Thorson of Calgary as he described their latest delights. The blessings included the promise of a tent to live In after nearly a week of sleeping outside on a cement platform during the chilly Egyptian nights. Added to this was the first fresh food roast beef, potatoes, gravy that any of the Canadian peacekeeping troops have enjoyed since arriving a week ago and setting up headquarters at a disused racetrack. On top of that, a Canadian ac- auaintance had promised to let le military police use his downtown hotel room to take showers which they haven't had since leaving Canada.

"Little things mean a lot, see," mused Cpl. Jack Peder-sen of Calgary, "How soon can I be there?" The troops now are beginning to receive movies from home as well and, although beer supplies are running low, most of the Arab states to hold summit CAIRO (Reuter) President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Syrian President Hafez Assad have called an Arab summit meeting in Algiers on Nov. 26 to deal with the Middle East crisis. An Arab League spokesman, announcing the meeting here Wednesday, said foreign ministers of 18 Arab states will meet two days earlier to prepare for the summit. They will consider how effectively the six-point ceasefire agreement is being implemented, and map out their position for a peace conference on the Middle East which may be held in Geneva.

The newspaper Al Ahram said the Arab ministers will discuss a four-point agenda during their meetings'. One factor common HAPPY ASTRONAUTS: The Skylab astronauts were a happy lot as they went through a solar physics review Thursday at Cape Canaveral, In preparation for their scheduled launch Friday. From left: Pilot William R. Pogue, Commander Gerald P. Carr and science pilot Dr.

Edward G. Gibson. (AP Wlrephoto) to all space rookies Now in Regina 7 flit V1H Pogue, the Skylab 3 pilot. Is the oldest rookie to be launched Into orbit by the U.S. space programs.

The Okemah, native will celebrate his 44th birthday Jan. 23, a few days before the 85-day mission is scheduled to end. Pogue, selected as an astronaut in 1966, has an outstanding flying record. He flew 43 combat missions in Korea, served as a member of the air force Thunderbirds precision flying team, is a graduate of the famed Empire Test Pilots' School in England and is qualified to fly more than 50 types of U.S. and British aircraft.

Pogue earned a bachelor's degree in education from Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee in 1951. After his Korean tour, Pogue earned a master's degree at Oklahoma State University and then spent three years as a math Instructor at the Air Force Academy. Pogue is married to the former Helen J. Dittmar of Shawnee and they have three children. Gibson, Skylab 3's scientist, is an intense, dark-haired man who shook off the effects of a boyhood bone disease to become an athlete, a brilliant scientist and, finally, an astronaut.

Between the ages of two and eight Gibson spent months in hospitals, suffering from osteomyelitis, a disease which causes bones to develop soft spots. "They were going to saw a leg off," he said in an interview. "But penicillin had just come out. They tried it and arrested the disease." Gibson said he turned to athletics, especially swimming, to strengthen his leg. He played football in high school and college.

Gibson, 37, was bom in Buffalo, N.Y.. and grew ut in Kn-more, N.Y. His father, Calder Gibson, owns a manu acturin-? firm there and Gibson started at the University of Rochester with plans' of joining the family company. "I concluded I was just not cut out to be a businessman," he said. He said he was granted a National Science Foundation fellowship and earned master's and doctorate degrees from the California Institute of Technology.

Gibson was working for a California electronics company when he was selected as a sci- entist-astronaut in 1965. He was taught to fly jets by the space agency. The astronaut is married to the former Julia Ann Volk, a Tonawanda, N.Y., gir'. he met when they were teen-agers. They have four children.

He has conducted extensive research into solar and plasma physics and has published one book, The Quiet Sun. By PAUL RECER HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) The men of Skylab 3 are three different personalities welded together by a single thread they are all space rookies on the longest space mission ever attempted. Mission commander Gerald Carr, pilot William Pogue and scientist Dr. Edward Gibson will be learning together the intricacies of living in weightlessness for weeks on end.

The adjustment during the 85-day mission said Carr, might not always be easy, "I think we'll have to. adjust to certain things that we don't understand and don't have the experience to understand right now but I don't see anything major," said Carr. Carr, a 41-year-old marine lieutenant-colonel, was born in Denver. and grew up in Santa Ana, Calif. He caught flight fever as a boy, joined the U.S.

Navy reserve, attended University of Southern California on a navy scholarship and took a commission in the marine corps. Carr served five years as a jet fighter pilot, then earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at Princeton. Carr was selected as an astronaut in 1966. TTie Skylab commander is married to the former Joann Ruth Petrie, his high school sweetheart. They have six children, including, two sets of twins.

A new way to buy paint and wallcoverings Patient wait for pilot Srvi 1 (c) 1973 New York Time Newi Servlca Before he went aloft on his first space flight for eight or more weeks as the commander of the Skylab 3 crew, Gerald Paul Carr, a close-cropped lieutenant-colonel in the Marine said exuberantly: "I'm looking forward most to sticking my nose against the wardroom window and watching earth go by." The 41-year-old pilot had to be patient in waiting for this view, which sweeps by' round window of the orbiting workshop 16 times a day. Carr has been an astronaut for seven years, during which 11 of the 18 pilots selected with him as astronauts have already flown in space. There were two astronauts each from the class of 1966 on ApolloS 13, 14, 15 and 16, one on Appollo 17, the last Find an idea we'll turn it into action ii r- 1 1 i ivm i He has had to wait more than eight years for it, even since the day he was sitting, with his wife at breakfast in his home in San Clemente, and his wife, the former Julia Ann Volk, showed him a newspaper article telling of a search by the national aeronautics and space administration for scientist-astronauts. Gibson is a specialist in plasma physics, the study of ultra-hot gases. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1959 and a doctorate in engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology in June, 1964, and went to Philco Corporation's applied reach laboratory In Newport Beach Calif.

In June, 1965, Gibson was one of six men selected as scientist-astronauts, and he reported to Williams Air Force Base in Arizona for a year of pilot training. "The sun Is just one big ball of plasma," Gibson said excitedly in an interview as he looked forward to the Taking readings with the bat-iery of telescopes on the Apollo telescope mount attached to the Skylab orbital laboratory, he said, "requires so much human judgment." Gibson said he did not consider that the scientist-astronaut was engaged in a struggle, despite the fact that none of the scientist-astronauts selected in 1967 two years after he was chosen has been assigned to a space flight and five have resigned. "The question is simply, 'what are the opportunities?" Gibson said. "There kept be- ing opportunities, so I stayed." Speaking on other scientist-astronauts, Gibson said: "Fve got to admire the people who have stayed here with a largely positive attitude." He said the future for them was "a little Indefinite, but development of the space shuttle late In the 1970's would produce a need for pilots, scientists and "mission specialists" that could employ all the scientist-astronauts now in NASA. lunar flight, and one each on the first two Skylab crews, launched in May and July.

None of the three men now aboard Skylab has flown in space before. It is the first time since December, 1965, when air force Col. Frank Borman and navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr.

spent two weeks aboard Gemini 7, that all members of an American astronaut crew are "rookies." William Reid Pogue of the air force has run hundreds of miles this year to lose 20 pounds and otherwise prepare himself for the weightless conditions of space in his Skylab 3 mission. Pogue said in a preflight interview at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, that he wanted to do feverthing he could to minimize the loss of muscle tone and the blood-pumping ability of the heart. This "deconditioning" accompanies long periods away from what he calls "so many subtleties involved In walking and standing in 1 the force of gravity experienced by an earth-dweller. He was born 43 years ago in Okemah, east of Oklahoma City and is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alex W. Pogue of Sand Springs, near Tulsa. He Is married to the former Helen Dittmar of Shawnee, Okla. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Franklin L. Dittmar, live in Hugo, Okla. Col. and Mrs. Pogue have two sons and a daughter.

After he joined NASA, Pogue plunged into work' on a program for the adaptation of Apollo rockets for long-duration flights around the earth. This was Skylab's predecessor. As did many of his astronaut colleagues, Pogue then shifted to duties with the Apollo program, which conducted two tests in earth orbit, three flights around the moon, and six lunar landings. To Dr. Edward George son, the 37-year-old civilian scientist-astronaut and author of a book called The Quiet Sun, the chance to spend eight weeks or more aboard Skylab, operating an array of solar telescopes.

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