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Saskatoon Star-Phoenix Monday, July 21, i3u Canadians make moon landing special day on earth Tk cansdiu prw An additional 16 normal-sizf Man and his World and watched Austin Wyse of Montreal said They drank moon Juice in To- TV sets were set up among the the event on a huge screen at man now will "probably put ronto and lessened their liquor crowd for the event. the French Pavilion. slums on the moon." intake in Montreal. Mini-skirted girls pushed Said Carlos Lopes, assistant The Belleville Intelligencer, Most of them cheered, but a themselves through the crowd, manager of the Queen Elizabeth an afternoon newspaper, put out few of them booed. banded out soft drinks whic Hotel: "I havent seen our lobby a special morning edition at 8 Some called it mans greatest they 03116(1 moon Juice so empty for a long, long time.

a.m., its first since 1834. While most Canadians were Lucien Coalher, an enthusias-enthusiastic about the landing, tic amateur astronomer from one person in Montreal kept his Laval, claimed he saw the sprinkled confetti which they referred to as moon dust. Yorkville hippies from Torontos coffee-house district meanwhile staged an outdoor ceremony to celebrate the end of the "virginity of the moon. At Montreal, the downtown area was unusually quiet as residents stayed home to watch the landing and the walk. Bars reported less business than usual for a Sunday night and blamed the moon landing.

While there was no official adventure, others said it was a waste of money. But millions of Canadians were glued to television sets at 10:56 p.m. EDT Sunday when Neil Armstrong became the first man. to set foot on the moon. Newfoundland declared today a holiday.

In Toronto, where an official downtown celebration was held to mark the event, some 35,000 people crowded in front of city back to the TV screen in a bar because he had "other problems to think about. The cops are looking for me, he said. Two other men in Montreal questioned the wisdom of having spent $24,000,000,000 to put man on the moon. Said Glenn Bradley, an entertainer from Detroit: "Emotionally, the moon landing is an ball to watch mans first step on viewing spot in downtown Mont the moon on a 30-by-4Q-foot TV real, nearly 80,000 persona cape. Lets correct crowded through the grounds of down here." screen.

JUl If Ik uUt? mm, utfiai i a -it i iL ifl 1 1 i shadow of the lunar module through a telescope, although officials at Houston had earlier said it is impossible to see any spacecraft at that distance. In Ottawa, a police spokesman said there wasnt a soul on the streets during the walk and movie theatres reported attendance down by about 50 per cent. Prime Minister Trudeau watched the walk at his Harrington Lake cottage. A spokesman for the prime minister said he would not make a statement. External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp, watching the event at home, said he was 'absolutely entranced.

1 "I never thought I would live to see men on the moon, he said. "It is a great tribute to world science. In Newfoundland, Premier Joseph Smallwood declared the holiday saying he did it in recognition of one of the greatest events in human history. Mark OConnor, a Dartmouth, N.S. real estate agent, said he would like to open a branch of his business on the moon to 'make "sure his customers get the best deal.

Downtown areas of cities in CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE MAN ON THE MOON 4i 1 (fHH tl SiM it tbUifl 'till! trdfWItfffi tIHIUMI' Mitijl ill i.Uf i JM uiW ITiTiA' .1 atlSlUji iht WktS Tf.1 'V -tifcUfgr (PM or 50 feet away from the LM so that earthlings could watch their entire period outside. Armstrong and Aldrin collected two boxes of rock and soil One more formality remained to emphasize the magnitude of the first lunar landing. President Nixon picked up a telephone in his office in the White House and spoke directly to the astronauts. The president gave his congratulations and those of the world and assured prayers for their safe return. Carrying a portable television camera to beam back pictures of uncanny clarity, the astronauts took stock of their exclusive domain.

Armstrong, the 38-ytear-old mission commander, gazed around at the stunning lunar landscape, and Radioed back to earth: It has a beauty of its own. Its very pretty up here. Armstrong likened the moonscape to the high desert country in his homeland. Later he and Aldrin dragged the television camera around in stages to ssured them of worldwide Western Canada were generally quiet during the landing. In Edmonton, storekeepers planned to set up TV sets in show windows to give persons attending the annual Klondike landing.

The four-legged machine sank only one or two inches into the dust boding well for future moon lahdings. With oxygen life packs strapped to their backs, the as- samples which they will return tronauts went about their work to earth for analysis, with the calmness of a Sunday The moonmen also deployed afternoon gardener on earth, two scientific instruments on They set up on moon instru- the moon to relay data long ments that will continue to give after thev left. Thev were scientists on earth information for some time to come. Through the magic of television, an estimated 500,000,000 people around the world had a ringside seat to mans greatest adventure. 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 very fine grained, Arm- share the panoramic view with 92 left boot on the powdery sur- liwf nnwripf earthbound watchers 250,000 face, he spoke words that will miles away. be remembered for alltime: lLrtdlTA. hne layers The two Americans walked "Thats one small step for man, 1 6 wtr slowly and warily at first, a giant leap for mankind. in aware that one false move could The camera trained on Aldrin mAioMk Tf fnaV bring instant death on the air- as he stepped on the far shore inL! less, grey desert of the Sea of 20 minutes later and exclaimed: see the ftprints of my boots "Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnifi- and the treads the fine, sandy cent desolation particles. There were other memorable and a small mirror to reflect earth laser beams fired from California back to earth.

The sensitive seismometer, monitored on earth, picked up the footsteps of the astronauts Tranquillity. But as their confidence mounted Armstrong and Aldrin He focused the camera over Days promenade the chance to watch the landing, but the event was washed out by rain. In Vancouver, members of the Vancouver Living Theatre, celebrated the event by wearing make-up showing the different faces of the moon and danced on the beach. CP Wlrephoto HUNDREDS OF RAPT MONTREALERS WATCH LUNAR LANDING, MOON WALK on giant screen set up at Man and His World exhibition Earthlings see groping exploration jumped, bounced and kangaroo-hopped in front of their landing craft, taking advantage mailing V.IL, lanu.g auvtn.mg was still clustered giant TV screen in Square at dawn. around a walk on a giant TV screen.

ule in my telescope. I give you had ever lived through they Trafalgar In St. Johns Premier the time 2:29 to 2:46 Green- felt like a half an hour. Smallwood announced his gov- wich time. Soviet media did not drama- estimated ernment has declared today a Coallier, 57, an astronomer tize the landing.

Reports of the utterances during the'da'yof thoun 5013,1 crat6ra bat high adventure. pocketed the surface and at the There were Armstrongs AccBeknuated against a first groping exploration of the of reduced gravity one-sixth words when Eagle separated moon Sunday, that on earth. from the common shin to start reported the surface was Then, as the a a the dangerous scoured the moons surface, the Eagle is flying, secrets came tumbling out. There were Armstrongs and from the command ship to start He r6pon6(I tn Most watchers in the the dangerous descent: "The soft, and chesive but Cas did not have to stay up that he occasionally hit a hard y0nd their normal bedtimes to spot when probing with his see Neil Armstrongs size 9 collector. 29 000 spectators let out a "huge public holiday in Newfoundland for 42 years, said before the touchdown were buried In Soviet Ameri- whFpn nuhiic address svs- in honor of the three astronauts, launching he was "the only Ca- television and radio newscasts be- Jarrv Park announced- The premier said the declara- nadian station in a network of behind other news of the day.

te ar.p tion is "in recognition of one of have lust leaned the two shovel-like sample 'boot scuff into the lunar dust. American astronauts have suc- In Western Europe, millions cessfully landed on the moon, stayed up all night to see the In Halifax, police reported show. that traffic slackened considers With television trained constantly on the astronauts, the dream of centuries became the greatest history. Amateur Montreal astronomer Lucien Coallier, from his hand-built observatory in subur- 30 around the world- observing the Apollo 11. Man-on-the-street comments in Montreal included: Student nurse Georgina dEustachio "No, I think its But individual Muscovites cheered and expressed congratulations to Americans in the Soviet capital.

Armstrong reported: mans first words from the surface is fine and powdery. It moons surface after touch- jjan Laval, said he coud see the frightening. Man has advanced module's shadow with a magnif- too far scientifically, ication of 450. "It was fantastic, he said. "I could see the umbra of the mod- AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS' edheres like powdered charcoal to my boot I go in only an eighth of an inch.

With television trained constantly on the astronauts, the dream of centuries became almost matter-of-fact routine as Armstrong and Aldrin dug into the moons surface, scooped up dust and rock samples, and reported their findings back to earth. Aldrin reported the lunar surface appeared rather slippery and when he drove a tube into ESTER almost matter-of-fact routine, -Aldrin reported the lunar sur- message" to "the1 shortly face aPPeared rather slippery -py screens in the streets, eryone had planned after the landing: "This is the and when he drove a tube into Countless others watched in front of a TV set in ti LM pilot. Id like to take this lhe ground to get. their homes. A crowd of about the landing, opportunity to ask every person deep sample he said almost 600 in a beer parlor called the Scores of smiling U.S.

sailors, listening whoever, wherever looks wet- Aldnn said he found Red Banjo jumped to their feet off American warships in port they may be, to pause for a mo- a purple-colored rock. an(j cheered as they saw the as- on a routine call, strolled down- and contemplate the Aldrin described various tronauts moving on the lunar town Halifax streets, gathering events of the past few hours and rcks for geologists stationed at crust. in clusters and asking civilians to give thanks in his or her own mission control. Pope Paul watched telecasts for news of the moon landing. way The samples Apollo 11 brings on he Apollo mission earlier In Vancouver, a group of art- They unveiled a stainless steel home could provide clues to ori- from the papal observatory, but Ists known as intermedia inter- the ground to get a five-inch plaque bearing these words: gin of the moon, the earth and there was no word from the viewed people at the city deep sample he said "it almost "Here men from planet earth pe.Ibap3 tbe unlv6r.s,e Vatican on whether the pontiff planetarium, getting their reac- finst set foot upon the moon, The bulkV multi-layered spa- stayed up all night t0 see the tion on landing.

They also July, 1969. AD. We came in cesuits, which cost $300,000 moon walk planned a series of skits includ- peace for all mankind. each, protected Armstrong and The Queen, Prince Philip and ing one in which a live cow They left on the moon a disc Aldrin frm extreme tempera- their children stayed up to jumps over the moon, on which messages from the tures wbich from 243 de- watch the moon pathfinders on In Toronto, thousands gath- In Rome, hundreds of Italians bly while the lunar landing craft and tourists clustered around made its descent as though ev- looks wet. The astronauts reported seeing a great variety of rocks around them and worked hard to gather up as many samples on wnicn messages irom me which me iuiimunj mi are too many problems here at home.

Housewife Nora McKay "If Columbus hadnt sailed, we wouldnt be here. Its the same sort of thing. Of course, its worth it. Man and His World stayed open all night so thousands could watch man on the moon on a huge television screen erected outside by the exhibition and the French Pavilion. For most of the world, the moon walk was the second sensational television show of the day.

Millions earlier watched as the lunar module from Apollo 11 me uuai 1.,. Luna XV confounds observers JODRELL BANK, England AD. YV 76 nations including f.r6es. above Z6? in tsunllghl t0 television at Windsor Castle. In ered in Phillips Square outside (Ap) -Luna XV spun into its on the moon.s sur.

279 below in shadow the fifth day around the moon -wamw iivsrnn aznzsir degrees London a crowd of about 2,000 city hall, to watch moon and from tiny micrometeorites which bombard the moon from space. The moon walk excited the world as few events have, and It Weather Prime Minister Trudeau been recorded. They to earth with them of 136 nations, including And they left behind for three Americans today, still with no certain sign of the spectacular feats Western observers had expected from the Soviet unmanned probe. Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell Banks radio telescope observatory, said signals from the probe were picked up shortly after moonrise about 1 p.m., when Luna was in its 50th orbit. Among the manoeuvres that had been predicted for Luna were a moon landing and retrieval of lunar rock and a face.

But hundreds of millions missed the big show in Russia and Communist China because the landing and lunar walking were not broadcast there and elsewhere because of no TV sets. I Washingtpn, President Nixon watched television for an hour before the astronauts landed on the moon and said it was "one of the greatest moments of our time. The president commented that the last 22 seconds before Tuesday. Isolated showers or thundershowers todav. Winds northw-est 15.

High-low Uranium City and Cree Lake regions 80-50. as possible to bring back to earth. Aldrin said he found a "purple-colored rock. As Armstrong lugged 20-pound boxes of rocks aboard the lunar capsule his heartbeat rose as high as 160 beats a minute compared with an average of 90 to 100 the remainder of the moonwalk. Aldrins heartbeat never went above 125 a minute.

Space doctors at mission control jubilantly declared the astronauts in "great shape. During his spell outside the lunar landing module, Aldrm made a close check of the outside of the spacecraft. He told ground control the spider-like Eagle apparently suffered no damage during a crucial landing time. The astronauts, standing up- ute walk, right in the tiny moonbug, flew leaders of Canadian had will return the flags Russia. mementos and two cause Nearly ing, the hiicv DUSy samples Armstrong ceived lunar stroll Aldrin the capsule two hours dering in spacecraft Aldrin Russians who died for probably had the largest televi-the of space exploration.

8103 audience history. nine hours after land- Headlines around the astronauts were still screamed the news. fillinn containers with gathered London Trafalgar sive disturbance 1U linger for another lining containers wun lrnllnj day or o. creatine cloudy periods and from mans new world. Square and in cities arouna tne lome thundershower activity tor today asked for and re- world to cheer word of the great well.

permission to extend his by 15 minutes but was ordered back into on schedule. The achievement. The day that will be recorded for all time started at 7:02 a.m. when the astronauts were awak-mission commander spent about ened bY mission control, and 14 minutes wan- Three hours later, Armstrong the area close to the and Aldrin had climbed through before going back in. -i took a one-hour, 44-min- and were meticulously checking ueford Me.dow Lk.

so-so. its intricate systems. weybirn -vorkton At 1:47 p.m., behind the moon prince albTj carrot river Kamloops Prince George Prince Rupert Vancouver Victoria Calgary Coronation Edmonton Fairview Jasper Lethbridge Medicine Hat Estevan Moose Jaw North Battleford Prince Albert Reeina Swift Current Yorkton Brandon Dauph'n The Pas innipeg Fort William Ke nora Ottawa Toronto White River Montreal Quebec City Saint John Halifax huago Miami Lnrs Angeles Minneapolis New York round trip to earth from lunar tke ianding were the longest he orbit. According to another theory, Luna was engaged in close-up reconnaissance of the Apollo astronauts that could conceivably help the Russians to get their own cosmonauts to the moon. None of these theories was confirmed, and the latest word from Soviet spokesmen in Moscow was only that Luna was functioning normally while exploring near-moon space.

Lovell had said earlier he was puzzled by Lunas mediocre per-fdrmance in contrast to the "absolutely fantastic" American moon landing. Dr. M. M.B., B.S., Wishes to announce over the Dr. M.

S. Dr. M. At 937 East Phone Consultation E. James MRCS, LRCP that he has taken practice of Moss and Netscher Centre, Saskatoon 374-2438 by appointment.

down to the lunar surface coo- son to be pleased with the EVA Vchnd 't ho i boiated 'thund-rshowe today sunny trolling Eagle manually. Thev extra-vehicular activity part tw astronauts aetacnea meir Wllh occasional cioudv intervals Tues- knocked off computer control of their program. They went out spindly legged vehicle. Minutes when it appeared they would ahead of schedule instead of re- later they appeared arounatne Reetna. Fstevan and Yorktoi touch down on a boulder-strewn maining cooped up in the moon rim of the moon and Armstrong area.

They landed on a smooth- bug and performed every as- flashed the good news: The and OUt of radio contact, the Generally Cloud mth showers and afternoon High Yorkton 80 55. 80.50. LA RONGE FFTVDEER WOLLASTON Clear with a few cloudy periods Th fin sripntifir nrnoram thv At 3:09 D.m. Eagle descent Tuesday Seasonable temperatures, ine one scienunc program mey winds southeast is HieMnw La Ronee. fired start it er area some four miles farther than originally selected.

The moon surface easily with- skipped was a minor sample engine surface was to toward the Reinder and Wollaston regions 70-50. CREE LAKE URANIUM Sunny witli a few cloudy periods stood the shock of the Eagle's gathering experiment, space swooping 6 and a dangerous and difficult agency officials said. The hair-raising descent of the Eagle capsule and the fly-by-wire manual control touchdown was a peak in mankinds descent. Just 9.8 miles above the surface, Armstrong fired the braking engine and for 12 heart-stop- CO-OPERATIVE TRUST REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT technological achievement. But ping minutes Eagle dropped to nothing could detract from the ward the surface, drama of the eerie moonwalk In the final minutes, Arm-and the first pictures from the strong and Aldrin skimmed low -u kAettU rrotare hostile craters.

BINGO Tuesday, July 22 8.00 p.m. Ave. Auditorium 1 Block OK Rlvmdalc Bui Line PROCEEDS TO CHARITY over the moons Suddenly they were over the closely connected with the mis- targeted landing site and in for sion missed seeing the epic ad- a big shock, venture on TV. Michael Collins, third member of the lunar mission team, continued routine orbits 60 miles As Armstrong reported later: "the auto targeting was taking us right into a football field, a football field-sized crater with a I am I above the moon with only radio larger number of big bloulders coverage of the event. The mothership, which was waiting patiently for a reunion in orbit with Eagle, carried no TV receiver.

Armstrong and Aldrin earned out a true exploration of the moon. Severa times they tested their ability to move about in and rocks for about one or two crater diameters around us. It required flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area. With the commander in firm control. Eagle upped to a point four miles beyond the targeted area.

It was close, for when the astronauts touched down they the one-sixth gravity f.eld of the had only 49 seconds of hovenng moon, lopmg like antelopes, and rocket fuel left, less than half bouncing like kangaroos. the 114 seconds worth it was "Its not difficult at all mov- supposed to have, irg about one-sixth With the world hoidirg its Armstrong reported, as he breath. Eagle made a safe land-flashed before the camera l.ke a fall on the moon at 4: IS p.m. graceful gazelle. and Armstrong and Aldrin were The camera was mounted 40 assured their place in history.

A. Wagner, General Manager of Co-operative Trust Company of Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of new personnel to the Real Estate Department. To serve you better our Real Estate Department now consists of (left to right) Dave Hanna. Real Estate Consultant; George Claggett, Sales Manager; Fred Wyatt, Salesman; Elsa Barnes, Saleswoman; Alf Champagne, Property Manager and Salesman. These people bring with them many years of experience in the real estate field.

The Real Estate Department, due to Us growth, is moving to 221 25lh Street, East. The telephone number wnl be unenanged. For professional real estate service, call 242-1241. i Jt.

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