Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 7

Dennis W. White Funeral Wednesday Friday, Dec. 1972 springs, Colo. Garetie H' STUFE By JERRY GREENE Washington Back in the waning weeks of spring 1961, when he was bedeviled by recession, unemployment, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, world hunger, and Gen. Edwin Walker, the late President John powered flight of the Wright 1 of Tranquility in a little less brothers at Kitty Hawk, the than 69 years is a relatively far Armstrong-Aldrin landing on piece for man to travel in a the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 those will be the landmarks long and well remembered as worthy achievements of a people who refused F.

Kennedy sounded the bugle to quit on the side of the moun- call that will echo very short time and there were those in the time of Orville and Wilbur Wright who think they had accomplished much either beyond Funeral services were held of Canon City. He never mar- Wednesday in Canon City forlried. He was born Oct. 2, 1950! Dennis Wayne White, victim of in Canon City and was a gradu-i a fatal auto crash Saturday in ate of Canon City High School! Florence. with the class of 1969.

He joined! A Canon City native and Naval Reserve in 1969 and; eran of the Vietnam war, I went on active duty in 1970. He' White, 22, of 520 Greydene stationed on the U.S.S. was killed when his car and was in Vietnam out-of-control and struck a tree five times. on West Third St. in Florence.

Also surviving are A passenger in the White and sisters, hide, Mike Miller, 29, of of Elizabeth; more, was hospitalized in St. eight Jean Betty messing up box kite flying Hospital, less than a Jo Schmidt, Patricia Marlow and Sondra Whisler, Florence; new-fangled ideas. But the speed of conquest manned flight itself, the ex- of block from the fatal crash site, i Marvin White, Anne Lee Witz history. The moon landing came believe that this nation swiftly but not easily, within should commit itself to achiev-itime span fixed by the youthful jceptionally rapid development ing the goal, before this decade President Kennedy, whosejof aviation as a commonplace is Kennedy said, land-! words shook even the experts in I part of the way of life off the right side ing a man on the moon and re-the National Space Agency. to obscure, for and crashed into one Navy chaplain.

Burial was turning him safely to the; por the jpded sophisticate still dancing challenge ofjgevgrai jarge trees beside Lakeside Cemetery, vvho now professes boredom unknown in space, according The car was westbound about Robin White, 7:20 p.m. traveling at a highjColeen Payne, rate of speed when the driver grandmother, lost control on a left curve, of the Canon City; Pueblo; his Jennie Dye of Canon City. Services were conducted by a now professes In those testy days when the with all space flights, who sees to Florence nation wrestled continually most the same problems of social in-iploratory justice, sub-standard housing, poverty, inadequate education, street crime, and aimed conflicts in far-off places that intrigue sociologists of the dramatic of all ventures yet conducted as a waste of time on the tube, it should be recalled that Kennedy spelled out the dream and laid down the challenge to the people less than 30 decade, Kennedy called for, and days after the first American got, the money for the moon I astronaut qualified for his landing project. Now we are coming to the! We as a people were last of the moon flights that for cheering Alan Shepard a time lifted the spirits of a na- climbing to the top of a tion above and beyond the mud stone Army artillery-type mis- and mire of issues which haveisile and soaring to a height of been around in one form or miles in a Mercury cap- ther for several thousand sule when Kennedy fixed the years. The Apollo missions Ken-; moon-landing goal.

That little. still Red- reachable star yet to be brought Policeman Dennis Hines. within the orbit of intimate knowledge. Already the poor mouths cry and they have thrown sufficient weight upon the governmental scales that Apollo is ending three missions shy of the goal once set. The space people are preparing a night launching for Apollo 17, the final shot, on Wednesday, and when the giant Saturn rocket ignites with a thunderous roar and soars aloft' trailing a fiery ex-j haust the people for 500 miles around will witness one of thej greatest man-made fireworks displays.

It will be a fitting climax. But White is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. M.

Grilled apple rings make a delicious accompaniment to baked ham. nedy never lived to see have poopy 15-minute ride that Shep- gone far beyond his exuberantiard took from the Vision; not one in a million can flats at old Cape Canaveral name all of the men who have gone to the moon and come home again. The professors who have been most critical of the space pro- gave the nation a hero to cheer about. In those days now so shortly gone we were still killing rattlesnakes on the sandy, rutted gram and who have lamented to the press-viewing site at the love affair with the Canaveral, technological age have missed; That $20 billion or $25 billion the bus. It technology the space program has cost that lay behind the Kennedy gone down into the sand, vision, nor the power of indus-inor been blown off to the moon, trial empires; it was the capa- nor been burned in the roaring bility of man to expand his own flame of the giant rockets pow- works, to search out the un-e i the spacecraft.

Apart known and reveal its secrets all of the fallout mankind for future purposes. ducts coming out of the mis- Neil Armstrong caught the sions of the last decade, the message, and he spoke the, critics should be reminded that words as he gingerly eased almost of the money was paid to foot down onto the surface: small step for heard estimates that man. one giant leap for man-' more than 300,000 individuals have been employed in the pro- The hellish wars of this centu-i duct ion of space equipment, the ry will be reduced to a few money they were paid went in paragraphs in the history for housing, for food, cloth- of a later day as have been'ing, for education, and yes, for ir predecessors. But the' taxes. splitting of the atom, the first From Kitty Hawk to the Sea For there are those among us who have shared the Kennedy vision and who will be passing it along and one day we expect to be heading back for the cape the rattlesnakes are gone now to watch another astronaut still heading, ever, for the stars.

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