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Redding church may buy radio station said the Bethel station probably would broadcast religious programs 24 hours every weekday with more religious broadcasts on Sundays And the greatest of the station's music would be religious recordings he said The Rev Mr Johnson said he also would consider a talk with discussions and telephone comments aimed at problems and topics that concern young people The station would continue broadcasting United Tress International wire service news and local the minister said By GAIL HAYES Bethel Church may buy Red-dng radio station KVIP and convert its contemporary music and news programming to religious music and 24-hour blocks of religious broadcasts each day The church has an option to buy the radio station and the option expires next week said the Rev Earl Johnson pastor of the church The minister said the church is negotiating the purchase Members of Bethel's congregation will decide at a meeting Tuesday night whether to exercise the option to buy the station the Rev Mr Johnson said 'Td be very presumptuous to say he said The major obstacle to buying the station is getting enough money he added He declined to name the purchase price Although Bethel Church is affiliated with Assemblies of God the radio station would be operated and owned solely by the Redding church the minister said He said the church would buy the radio station not as a business venture but as a ministry outreach of the church in Northern The church-owned station would sell commercials he said He said according to a budget he has prepared the church would lose $7000 the first nine months it would operate the station I hope it would break the Rev Mr Johnson said If the church ever did operate the radio station at a profit the profits would go into the ministry of the and for repairs maintenance and replacement of station equipment he said If the purchase goes through studio would be moved to a new annex of the church on Bechelli Lane the Rev Mr Johnson said Along with the move would come a change in the station's programming He casting Co the owner of radio station KAIIR in Redding The FCC approved the purchase by California Northwest of KAIIR but directed McConnell to divest himself of stock in KVIP before assuming control of KAIIR The Associated Press reported today The former licensee of KAHR High Fidelity Station Inc has been in bankruptcy since 1064 California Northwest submitted a bid of $55500 after the court approved a plan for sale of High Fidelity's assets McConnell also owns stock in Shasta Telecasting licensee of KJEO-TV in Fresno The Rev Mr Johnson said he had previous radio broadcasting experience with the Bethel Temple in Sacramento where for seven years he produced 18 half-hour radio broadcasts a week for the church He said he also produced a weekly half-hour television show for the church communication is a wonderful method of outreach for the he said The sale of KVIP is apparently planned because of a Federal Communications Commission order to one of its ex-slockholders Carl McConnell who is also president of California Northwest Broad Redding (Founded March 13 1852 as the Sliasta Courier) And the Gurier-Free Press VOL 117-NO 183 FRIDAY OCTOBER 11 1968 21 PAGES $235 PER MONTH 16 CENTS TER COPY Apollo like a as 11-day space trip begins UPI Tcltptwto COMMAND PILOT WALTER SCIIIRRA A moon suit with a bubble helmet for a long journey By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) The three Apollo 7 astronauts rode the largest manned spaceship into orbit on a perfect flight today said they were a and succeeded in a docking maneuver vital to a man-to-the-moon flight Although no actual link up occurred Nacy Capt Waller Schlrra Jr Air Force Maj Donn Eiscle and civilian astronaut Walter Cunningham steered Apollo 7 to within 4 or 5 feet of a target circle painted on top of the second stage of their Saturn IB booster rocket absolutely beautiful Schirra said as he steered Apollo 7 toward the target have a lot of loose chaff up here It seems to be between 3 and 6 and 9 and 12 Cunningham interrupted with a screamed apparently referring to some chaff getting near the spacecraft He referred to small bits of free-flying matter outside the ship possibly debris resulting from the separation If the planned 11-day flight continues successfully it could clear the way for sending another Apollo crew on a moon orbit flight in December and put the United States firmly on the path to landing men on the moon next year The simulated docking maneuver occurred shortly after 2 pm (EDT) after the astronauts separated Apollo 7 from the second stage called the S4B to which they had been attached for two orbits of the globe after their 11:03 am (EDT) blastoff from Cape Kennedy Commander Schirra fired On the inside Page Grape workers charge US undercuts boycott small jets to scoot Apollo 7 about 50 feet ahead then turned around to face the 58-foot-long S4B He gingerly pulsed his thrusters to jockey his ship to within 4 or 5 feet of the target as both vehicles raced along at 17500 miles an hour more than 150 miles above the earth On an actual moon mission the Apollo craft will separate from the S4B turn around as Apollo 7 did today and dock with the Lunar Module stowed atop the stage The module is the vehicle which two astronauts will ride to the surface of the moon Before the separation from the stage the astronauts were flying a massive spaceship which measured 113 feet 3 inches long and weighed 69034 pounds After separation the Apollo 7 ship was reduced to 33389 pounds and a height of 33 feet 4 inches still four times heavier than any previous US manned space vehicle and about two tons heavier than largest After conducting the simulated docking Schirra gave his jets a short burst of power to place Apollo 7 in a slightly different orbit calculated to move the astronauts out about 83 miles in front of the S4B by Saturday Then the pilots will conduct a series of maneuvers intended to bring about a rendezvous of the two vehicles about 5 pm (EDT) Saturday Power failed for 60 to 90 seconds early in the flight at the Mission Control Center in Houston but officials said it had no effect on the computers receiving telemetry from the spacecraft The only circuit out they said was one controlling the consoles monitored by flight controllers Among those watching the spectacular liftoff of America's first manned flight in nearly two years was wife Lo Ella She and their two children Brian 8 and Kimberly 5 watched from a boat floating on a river near Cape Kennedy The families of Schirra and Eisele watched on television at their homes near the Manned Spacecraft in Houston Tex UPI TdtplNt By FRANK PORTER Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON Farm labor leaders have charged that the Johnson administration is seriously undercutting a nationwide boycott of California grapes by a fivefold increase in government grape shipments to Vietnam The boycott is warmly supported by Vice President Humphrey and numerous Democratic members of Congress Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon has been critical of it A Pentagon spokesman acknowledged Thursday that the Department of Defense buys about $1 million worth of table grapes annually from California vineyards where a bitter strike against growers has been in progress since 1965 This is about six-tenths of 1 per cent of the total domestic crop he said Agriculture Department figures suggest that the big increase in what labor leaders call grapes going to Vietnam may not necessarily be destined for American troops Excluding all government shipments for US armed services and civilian personnel these figures still show a rapid rise for shipments of grapes to other government programs in Vietnam The tonnage figures are for crop years ending June 1: START OF A MARATHON JOURNEY Spaceport workers watched Apollo 7 roar into the sky days ago and have been relaxing for the most part as launch teams prepared their rocket and spacecraft for first man-in-space flight in 23 months Their job will be to circle the earth 163 times in 10 days 20 hours and 9 minutes to check out the complex systems in the Apollo craft It has nearly two million functioning compared to about 2906 for an automobile The countdown to launch of the marathon flight was near flawless A brief hold was called at 6:15 to permit proper chill down of the second stage rocket engines but the problem was quickly corrected Schirra 45 the oldest man to fly into space and the first for a third trip Eisele and Cunningham essentially completed their training several of the prime requisites of this Cunningham said "is to come back with the feeling that all of the spacecraft systems are capable of supporting a flight duration that would take you to the moon and Project officials admit the flight may not go the full route because of the complexity of the equipment Ann Landers 4 Classified 14-19 Comics 11 Crossword 7 Editorial 12 Entertainment 11 Family 4 High school news 6 Markets 20 Obituaries 20 Sports 8-10 Weather: Rain Details 20 1966 122 tons 1967 299 tons 1968 667 tons These figures check roughly with Commerce Department statistics showing 12 million pounds (about 600 tons) worth $214000 going to Vietnam in calendar 1967 compared to only 331000 pounds in 1966 and 245000 pounds In 1965 But these Commerce figures not only exclude shipments for US military and civilian personnel but military assistance cargoes as well in the case of 1967 a Commerce official said This permits the Inference that the bulk of grape shipment increases are In aid or other economic assistance programs and that the grapes may wind up In the Vietnam civilian market Eugene Boutilier Washington director for the National Campaign for Agricultural Democracy believes that the government Is being used by the struck California growers who account far 90 to 95 per cent of domestic production suspicion is that the growers faced with mounting surpluses and lower prices because of the farm boycott are unloading their excess he said In Delano the Rev James Drake national boycott coordinator for the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee AFL-CIO was far blunter statistics raise the fear that race again the federal government may be acting to break snr shrike and crash the farm workers' movement" he said The Pentagon spokesman stressed that the government maintains a neutral stance Barbecue postponed A barbecue sponsored by the Shasta County Democratic Central Committee in Lake Redding Park has been postponed until next Saturday because of rain Barbecued beef pork and chicken were to have been served from 12:30 to 5 pm tomorrow with proceeds going to the Shasta County Community Action Project Rep Harold Johnson D-Roseville was to have been a guest Worker falls from Cypress bridge A 62-year-old workman who had on the job only a few hours plummeted Into the Sacramento River from the Cypress Avenue bridge just before noon Thursday and apparently drowned Searchers and divers were probing the river today The workman Jack Smith of the Pacheco Trailer Court 8050 Chum Creek Road fell from a pier that was being constructed in the bridge-widening project Shasta County Sheriffs deputies said Francis Ward supervisor for the Hen-sel Phelps Construction Co told them he had just talked to Smith atop the pier and was walking away when he looked back and saw Smith face down on the edge of the structure Ward said he shouted to another man Ralph Dickson of Bella Vista and then ran for Smith but Smith toppled into the river before he could reach him Deputies said Dickson told them he ran to the edge of the pier and saw Smith motionless being swept downstream Ward said Smith had been called to work from the Operating Engineers Union only Thursday morning and his job was to operate a pump that was being used to pull water from inside the pier being constructed in the river channel Deputies said Dickson told them he had just finished priming the pump with a bucket of water and Smith was attempting to start the pump Dickson said he had turned and was walking away when he heard Ward's shout that Smith had fallen After he ran to the edge of the pier he said he last saw Smith about 100 yards downstream from the structure Deputies said Ward told them he was about 15 feet away when he looked back and saw Smith lying face down on the pier The office brought a boat up from Balls Ferry and also used a private boat in a search but it was unsuccessful wife Alma 64 was taken to Shasta General Hospital and treated for shock She was reported to be in satisfactory condition today but her sister Mrs Knight of Paynes Creek said she was in bad She said Mrs Smith had been under treatment for a heart condition Mrs Knight said accounts she was given of Smith's fall indicate that he suffered some sort of painful seizure before falling say he grabbed his chest or stomach not sure she said then toppled into the Mrs Knight said Mr and Mrs Smith had been married 37 years and moved to Shasta County about 12 years ago from the Long Beach area She said her brother-in-law worked on the Pacific Gas Electric Co project at Big Bend and later as a welder in the Redding area Smith leaves two stepsons Thomas and Robert Pratt of Coquille Ore a brother Homer Smith of Downey and a sister He didst salute.