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SOWEST FILM SERVICE 1302 YANDELL El Pas oiTEXAS -79902 189 fwh Alamogordo, New Mexico, Tuesday, August 3, 1971 10 10 Air Might Obliterates Two Villages Blastoff For Return To Earth Scheduled Tomorrow Red Strong Astronauts Sleep Rise To Mapping Duties Points Hit in SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Refreshed and in good humor after sleeping late, the Apollo 15 astronauts operated a flying physics laboratory in moon orbit today, mapping a large area of the lunar surface. slept nine hours and in great David R. Scott reported. Wih all spacecraft systems working well. Mission Control Center let Scott, James B.

Irwin and Alfred M. Worden sleep nearly six hours past their intended 5:16 a.m. EDT wakeup time. The spacemen were weary from a night of stowing moon treasure and a brief scare that forced them to a real-life test of a precaution ordered after the deaths of the three Soviet cosmonauts in June. As a precaution, they wore pressurized space suits for the maneuver that jettisoned the lunar module Falcon.

The separation was delayed when the astronauts suspected leak in one of their spaceships. But checks showed there was no leak and Falcon was kicked awav two hours late. The viet cosmonauts died when a pressure leak developed as they executed a similar separation, and just a few weeks ago, the U.S. space agency decided the Apollo 15 crew should wear protective suits as a safeguard. Upon awakening, the astronauts had a light-hearted exchange with capsule communicator Joe Allen and then began operating a $17 million array of scientific instruments which are chemically and photographically charting nearly 20 per cent of the surface.

They will continue the orbital science tasks until late Wednesday when they are to fire out of orbit to head for a Saturday splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. They were nearly hours late going to sleep and chief astronaut Donald K. Slayton told Scott and Irwin, who had walked the moon, to take some sleeping pills you can really power down for the But Scott reported today that sleeping pills were not necessary. There were a few anxious moments Monday as the nauts were about to jettison the lunar lander Falcon. Worden noted a higher-thajj-normai rise in pressure in the tunnel connecting the two ships.

This indicated a possible leak, with oxygen flowing into the tunnel through either the command or lunar ship hatch. Mission Control told the astronauts they were in no danger and advised them to delay the Falcon jettison while they looked for the potential problem. The astronauts vented some of the excess pressure down to 1.6 pounds per square inch. They watched it as they swooped around the backside, out of radio contact. When they reappeared, they reported the pressure in the passage and in both ships holding steady.

Mission Control ther. decided there was no leak and Falcon was kicked loose at 9:05 p.m., two hours later than planned. The reason for the recorded pressure rise was not known. It may have been a faulty sensor. TOTAL DESTRUCTION Just a pile of rubble is all that remains of the vintage residence hall at New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped which is being razed in a campus renovation program which will see the reduction of another building and several items of construction under a project now going forward.

This building was reduced by means of the wrecking ball after salvageable materials were removed. OJalL WIIHN' WIU.lt Laugh Lines These are the days when two can live as cheaply as one large family used to. Sad Duty My wife, Louise, has been beck in Oklahoma, beside her critically ill mother, for more than three weeks, and is set to return home tonight. Her mother is stilt quite ill, but we felt it was time that Louise had a break from the vigil. It is a sad duty to have to sit beside one who apparently is losing the battle, but it has to be done.

Back Home Mr. and Mrs. Don Woolsey and Mrs. Thelma Mrckey are back home from their very extensive trip to the Orient, tried as can be, but thrilled to have seen so much of the world. Thelma and Mrs.

Woolsey are sisters. Ms. Mackey is in the hospital here, but her illness is probably a case of extreme fatigue, in the opinion of Mrs. Woolsey. She expects to be released within a few days.

They visited nine countries, got stops in Djakarta and Saigon but they were only airport stops. They had the time of their lives, and took so many pictures, and we know from experience that they'll be most happy to tell you about their trip. While on the trip, which took thorn 30,000 miles and 35 days, the Woolseys and Mrs. Mackey sent postcards and letters to keep us informed of their whereabouts and the interesting time they were having. While in Tokyo, the Woolseys were able to enjoy a brief visit SM Column 1, Past Community Concert Drive Set Officers and board members for the Otero County Community Concerts Association are announcing drive dates and plans for the upcoming fall membership campaign.

Ray Kissiah, organization president, announced today that the annual membership drive this year will be conducted over a nine-day period rather than the five-day campaign of previous years. The drive will open with a banquet at the Desert Aire on Friday evening, Sept. 17. and continue through Saturday, Sept. 25.

A three-member campaign committee headed by Mrs. Darwin Moses will spearhead the drive. Serving with Mrs. Moses are C. H.

Smith, Jr. and Mrs. Jack McGee. Memberships through the drive will be offered for renewal to past members as well as to new members. Board members of the association serve as for the drive and will be assisted by some 1U0 or more workers who will be active throughout the county offering memberships to anyone interested in good music.

will be $5 for students and $10 for adults for a four or five-concert season ticket. The memberships are usuable not only at the Alamogordo concerts but at any Community Concert in the nation, there being more than 800 such associations in the United States alone. Neighboring associations which honor local memberships are Roswell, Las Cruces, and El association leaders noted. Concerts is the oldest cultural association in this area of New Mexico, having brought top-quality concerts to the county for the past 21 years. Prior to the closing of the old two story building on Tenth Street, all concerts were held IM One Dead, One Wounded Man Sought In Budville Slaying BURBANK, Calif.

drank champagne in a union hall, and on the assembly line scattered cheers and mild applause greeted the word that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was assured of the government backing it says it needs to stay in business. The predominant reaction at the nation's largest defense contractor Monday was quiet relief, however. LONDON ijfi Forty thousand British workers breathed easier today because of the U.S. vote to save Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

from bankruptcy. The Senate action also saved their jobs building engines for TriStar jetliner. DENVER, Colo. ifft-A British Overseas Airways jumbo jet bound from Montreal to London with 380 persons aboard, landed here early today after a altitude bomb" was reported aboard. The craft, a Boeing 747, and luggage were searched for more then two hours but no bomb was found.

Draft Action May Wait Until Fall WASHINGTON The bill to extend the military draft has hit a House snag that apparently ices any chance of congressional approval before September. The bill was tentatively pulled off House calendar because of a parliamentary tangle over opening up the House-Senate compromise measure to specific challenges. Congress begins a vacation Friday and be back until Sept. 8. Antiwar senators are set to filibuster the bill when it clears the House.

The old draft law expired June 30, and draft officials say if a new law is not enacted soon they will have to use their remaining authority to call up some men who were deferred under the previous statute. BEIRUT, Lebanon Syrian air controllers forced a Lebanese airliner with 105 persons aboard to land in Damascus today but released it a short time later. A spokesman for Middle East Airlines said the Syrians claimed the Boeing 720B strayed from its prescribed route and they wanted to question the pilot. WASHINGTON (ft Sen. Joseph Montoya, has prepared legislation designed to place Indian education primarily in the hands of local school boards selected by Indians.

Under provisions of the bill, an Office of Indian Education would be established within the Bureau of Indian Affairs with line authority over the federal school system for Indians. GRANTS, N.M. (AP) A California man was shot to death in front of the Budville Trading Post east of Grants about midnight Monday. The victim w'as Phillip Atkinson, 29, Oxnard, Calif. He was shot to death at the same spot that the former owner of the trading post, H.N.

Rice and a clerk, Blanche Brown, 81, were shot to death in November of 1967. Max Atkinson, 31, current operator of the trading post and brother of the victim, was wounded in the leg in the shooting incident, State Police said, and was reported in good condition at Cibola General Hospital in Grants. Budville is a small community 20 miles east of Grants. State Police said they were seeking a man wanted in connection with the case and had established roadblocks around the area. They said the man sought was a Mexican national.

Max Atkinson is married to the former Mrs. Bud Rice. Mrs. Atkinson said she thought the shooting resulted from a bar State Eases Quarantine Against Horses By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A quarantine against horses from Texas and three other states was eased today in New Mexico. Lee Garner, director of the New Mexico Livestock board, said horses who have been vaccinated against Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE) and undergone the 14-day waiting period will be permitted to cross into New Mexico.

think safe in accepting vaccinated Garner said. vaccine has proved very Garner said there have been Column fight shortly before. She said her husband and his brother came home from a bar about a block from the trading post and told her they had been in a brawl at the bar. A short time later, she said, she heard dogs barking and horses neighing in the hack yard, went to quiet the animals, then went to the front of the trading post, where she saw her See Column 1 Steel Makers Fall In Line On Price Rise Cambodia PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) The ninth ranked maker, Wheeling Pittsburgh, today lined up behind five other major producers and announced price hikes averaging about 8 per cent.

More companies are expected to follow later. The hikes, which apply to almost every kind of raw steel product, seem certain to trigger subsequent price jumps in a wide variety of consumer items ranging from keys to cars, though probably not for at least a few months. The White House said it was questionable whether the price hikes were in the steel run but made no immediate move to force a rollback of the increases. U.S. Steel, the No.

1 steel producer, said the increases announced Monday were required to offset the near-record cost of the new contract with the AFL-CIO United Steelworkers of America. The union had accepted the contract, which calls for a 30 per cent pay increase spread over three years barely 12 hours before. Within hours of U.S. announcement, four more of the to largest steel producers posted almost identical price hikes of their own. The four were second-ranked Bethlehem Steel, third-ranked Republic, fifth-ranked Aimco and eighth ranked Youngstown Sheet Tube.

SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese fighter-bombers and U.S. helicopters virtually wiped out tw'o enemy-held villages in eastern Cambodia today in a raging, day-long battle. Rangers attacking the villages were held up by intense enemy rocket, machine-gun and small-arms fire, losing two killed and eight wounded, field reports said. Then South Vietnamese fighter-bombers and helicopter gun- ships were called in. Associated Press photographer Huyen Cong Ut, with the rangers, said the villages were left in flames after the fighter-bombers unloaded canisters of napalm.

Witnesses said Cambodian civilians had long fled the villages. By dusk, the rangers had seized one of the villages and the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were reported fleeing under the heavy pounding by bombers and helicopter gun- ships. The fighting swirled in flatlands in the Beak sector of Cambodia, south of Highway 1, the Saigon to Phnom Penh route. A 3.500-man South Vietnamese task force is on a sweep aimed at destroying enemy staging areas and curbing infiltration into the Saigon region. Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the United States has increased aerial reconnaissance and electrical censor activity along a 230-mile stretch of the Cambodian border in efforts to check North Vietnamese infiltration into South Vietnam during the coming national elections.

The withdrawal of 66,000 American troops has left a big gap in the collection of intelligence, field commanders report. a lot of these big jungle areas, nobody there any more so you really know what the hell is going said one commander. increased aerial reconnaissance but pretty tough in a triple-layer Column 3, White Oaks Studied For Preservation SANTA FE (AP) The National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded a $1,000 grant to finance a study of the preservation potential of the White Oaks Historic District. The State Planning Office announced the grant award today. The study will be made during the next year.

The Planning Office said that after a plan is developed for preservction, substantial funds may be made available through the National Park Service preservation grant program for development of the area. The ghost town of White Oaks is located in western Lincoln county, a few miles northeast of Carrizozo. It is the site of several rich gold claims worked between 1879 and 1915. Most of the remaining structures arc made of brick or stone. 24 Junior 4-H Members In District Contests Thursday FLIP! Anne Elizabeth Hammond of 241 I Tolies was unhurt this morning after her car did a flip onto its top one-half mile of the Holloman gate on way 70 when Miss Hammond lost control in swerving to avoid another vehicle.

State Policeman Bob Evetti issued a citation for an improper lone change. Twenty-four Otero county junior are on the program for the annual Southeast District 4-H contests to be held Thursday, Aug. 5, in Lovington. Other counties participating will be Lea, Eddy, Chavez, Curry, Roosevelt, DeBaca and Lincoln. In order to compete in the day-long events.

4-H members first must have been winners in their own contests. (Jiving demonstrations or illustrated talks in the presentations categories are: agriculture, Wanetta Stanbrough, Out for and Larry Sheffield, from a clothing, Robin and Ronda Parker (team), Loving and Sharon Fambrough, and for engineering, Mark Rathgeber, Light, Better general, Robert Potolicchio, and home improvement, Teresa Clark, Table and Shari Alexander, Made and livestock, John Oliver, Room The junior livestock judging team will be Ronnie Grisak, Nilda Trammell, and Debbie and Bobby Blankenship. Girls to judge in the home economics 3m Column MiiitUMuaiiiiiiniuiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiuniuiiaiauwaituuuiiiutuiiuiui Weather Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Occasional afternoon ami evening thundershowers. Slightly warmer.

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