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'f fc The South Bend Tribunt, Thursday, February 28, 1974 5 w-jp-yr i Balloon Sighting: lf i -W 4 V- "Vr-f TV I I I I -i-' Qptrcdl-lllusion? .3622 WESTERN AVENUE, SOUTH BEND jjf TOWN COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER, MISHAWAKA 611 UNCOLNWAY WEST, OSCEOLA A I ti i t1 i I 4 y. yrf. Mt .9 OPEN EVENINGS AND 1 to five days. 1 The bachelor balloonists rig included 10 helium balloons but he lost one almost imme--jdiately after takeooff. On Feb.

22 sailors aboard the Liberian-. freighter Meridian reported 'they- saw Gatch drifting to ward the African coast and j. apparently headed for the bor- der between Morocco and the Spanish But searches of that area as well as of the i1 Atlantic off the Azores failed to turn up a trace of Artist-Writer Dies -v NEW YORK (UPI) Marjorie Barkentin, a painter and the author of Ulysses in Nighttown, a dramatization of James Joyces Ulysses, died at her home Wednesday. She was 83. $ljf Soul!) Until Stritnmr published Afternoon and Sunday Morning The Tribune Building, Colfax Ave of Lofayette Blvd South lend, Ind 46626 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS: Dofty and $undoy by corner In Saint Joseph County (Indiana) per week 70 per year $36 40 AH other car aA; XW a M- A PAPOOSE CABOOSE The gasoline shor- on the way to nrusery school; J.

P. is along I ta8e is no problem for Mrs. Donna Leichner just for the eight-mile ride. I of Hyattsville, Md. She hauls her children, Associated Press Wirephoto Paige, 4, and J.

in a bike buggy, Paige is -J lApollo 1 3 Movie Irks Lovell We could never have gotten a straight documentary on the network, he said. -Sp what we did was take the basic facts and add fictional drama on top. How would you keep people in suspense, otherwise, when they all know the outcome of the story more accurate recounting of the story. Herman Saunders, executive producer of the film for Universal Studios, Hollywood, said he made it clear from the beginning that the story would be fictitious. He said disclaimers were added to the film to emphasize the fictitious nature of the movie HOUSTON, Tex.

(AP) -former Astronaut James A. Lovell, commander of the flear-tragic Apollo 13 space flight, says a TV movie based bn the 1970 mission is "fictitious and in poor taste. I Lovell aired his complaints about the ABC-TV movie, lovell "Houston, Weve Got a Problem, a letter to Dr. James Fletcher, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA did a disservice to the flight crew and ground personnel connected with Apollo 13 by co-operating fully with this film, Lovell said I resent the mixing of fact and fiction If NASA wanted exposure of this nature, the story should have been based on a fictitious space flight The movie, to be shown Saturday (Channel 28, 7 30 is billed as a tnbute to the men of Mission Control who helped get Lovell and fellow astronauts Fred Haise Jr and John Swigert Jr.

back to earth Explosion Crfppled Craft The mission was launched Apnl 11, 1970 After an explosion in the service module, a planned moon landing -was canceled and the crippled space craft limped back to earth It is not necessary to resort to soap opera plots to enli-en the Apollo 13 story, Lovell said. It is a sad commentary of the times when we have to fictionalize the truth to make it palatable to the public If one is to believe this story, it was obviously more traumatic to be in Mission Control than to be on board the crippled space ship NASAs Finest Hour The safe return of Apollo 13 was one of NASAs finest hours The people who made that feat possible deserve a SANTA RUfc DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) Spanish news agencies say a weather bal-r loon or an opti-l cal illusion may have been responsible for a flurry of reports Wednes-7 day that missing American balloonist Thomas Catch Jr. had been sighted, catch jr. The Cifra and Europa Press agencies had reported that thousands of people saw Catchs balloon about 8 a.m. over the Oratava valley, on the island of Tenerife.

The reports said the balloon, described as both blue and rose colored, was heading south-southwest at 3,000 to feet. But government authorities, police and communications stations in the Canaries denied receiving an official report of the sighting and no search was launched. The islands are about 150 miles off the northwest coast of Afnca. Gatch, a 47-year-old retired colonel from Alexandria, Va. lifted off from Harrisburg, Pa.

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