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Honor America's Apollo Moon Astronauts Fly Our Flag Daily From Blastoff to Splashdown THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE toa in mrxsr mints DIAL COMPLETE WIRE SERVICES OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Vol. 44. TBS CENTS FINAL EDI 1 Tern Haute, Momiav. Julv It. CRUCIAL DAYS FOR APOLLO Crew Ready For Blastoff Wednesday By AL ROSSITER APE KENNEDY (UPI) Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo vital generators today and rolled toward the start in two days of climactic moon expedition.

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong. Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin got in some final brush-up practice in spacecraft trainers. From all appearances, they are ready to set out at 9:32 a.m.

(EDT) Wednesdav on first attempt to land on the moon. is going along a space agency official reported. The ship's fuei cell power benera- tors were activated before dawn and some parts of the countdown were running ahead of schedule. llPiirini? Launch Director Rocco ivm aaao A. Petrone warned before the final 48 hours of the countdown INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

began. got some big Rail Safety Plans Told at Harkte china Does puli Marine About-Face With Russia unit Leaves War Front A proposed eight-point railroad safety program was outlined today by Federal Railroad Administrator Reginald N. Whit- steps ahead of Spaceflight weathermen predicted satisfactory conditions for launch time and the AS 11 crowds jammed the Manned Spacecraft Center grounds in Houston, get a look at the at 18 10 the moon. Here a group of visitors to the inani facility look at a mode! of the lunar module near the auditorium Many of exhibits base been moved from the auditorium outdoors so the hall can be used to accommodate newsmen from all over the world Houston to cover the flight. ap Wire photo July 24, is now toward its Pacific Ocean splashdown station The three astronauts, now in man at a Senate subcommittee Defense Department reported hearing conducted here by Sen.

its global force of 6,000 support Vance Hartke, Ind. personnel was deploying on Whitman listed the recom- schedule. The aircraft carrier mendations of Task Force on Hornet, set to recover the moon Railroad Safety, established by 0 a rs Transportation Secretary John steaming A. Volpe and composed of rep resentatives of railroad management, railroad labor and the strict stages of a pre-launch state regulatory agencies. quarantine, plan to brief news The principal a mmule lions press conference carried out 1.

That the secretary of trans- portation, through the .7 Railroad Administration, have Wind Ip Training authority to promulgate rules They wound up their last full and regulations in all areas of of training Saturday and railroad safety. took Sunday off and went 2. That there be established They Plan to rest some a Railroad Safety Ad more Tuesday and make a final visory Committee to make rec- of preparations for their ommendations to the secretary million lunar landing on all fields of railroad safety. 3. That evistjng rail safe 1 m00" tv laws and regulations remain force and unless prc LV Jn undisclosed mission.

I au- a Th regulatlons; thonties speculated the robot commit- woujd attempt to land on the tee study the present delegation inoon scoop up some soil and of authority to the Bureau of fly back t0 an parth ianding Explosives of the Association of Mv belief would be that the American £ailroads its rela Russians fullv realize the tion to the law governing trans- impact of the space program on Continued On Page 2, Col. 7. Continued On Page 5, Col. S. Teachers Voting On New Contract The Vigo County Tteachers As sociation (VCTA) is voting this week on a new school contract which was unanimously approved Sunday by the Vigo County Federation of Teachers (VCFT).

The new contract between the teachers and the Vigo County School Corp. increases salaries about 7 per cent for the 1969 70 school year. The VC FT okayed the pact during a meeting in the Temple The VCTA members are voting by ballots mailed to them The votes are to count ed when all are received later this week. A spokesman for the TA said he expected no opposition from his organization The board of school trustees meets at 8 Monday, but not known whether the contract will be okayed by the board at that time Campbell Explains Before taking the salary to a vote, (Jlenden I) Campbell, president of the igo Vigo County Federation of Teachers, explained the snua tion to the members He said the proposed salary schedule in corporates a $6,226 base with a $6,407 beginning salary for the 1969 70 school year, as compared with a present base of $5,800 This represents an in crease of $426, plus a number oi fringe benefits The fringe benefits, ampbell noted, include $3 a month paid to school employes on group surance including hie, health and accident policies Retiring teachers with 15 years of exper ence, he added, also are entitled to 50 cent of the accumula tion of sick a severance Feachers are allowed to at cu mulate 110 days of sick tease Teacher Rights nder the agreement, Camp bell said, school employes have Continued (In Page 5, Col. I.

Lynne Topping Named Miss Florida Th daughter of a Terre Haute orthopedic surgeon is the new Miss Florida, and will rep resent the Sunshine State in the Miss America pageant in Sep tember at Atlantic City Miss Lynne E. Topping. 20. daughter of Dr and Mrs Topping of 75 Gardendaie Rd was crowned Miss Florida during a colorful pageant Saturday night in Orlando. Miss Topping is a junior at the University of Miami, She represented Dade County in the Miss Florida pageant The queen is a 1967 graduate of Wiley High School.

Dr. and Mrs. Topping were present to share in their glory Mrs Topping remained Florida for a visit, but Dr Topping returned home Sunday afternoon Miss Topping, who is 5 feet. inches tall, and weighs no pounds, was first runner-up in the Miss Florida competition Iasi year also as ike representative of Dade County Her talent in the contest this year consisted of a ballet perform a nee She formerly studied the Erne-tine Myers School of Dancing in Terre Haute Guest at Launching Miss Topping will undoubtedly steal some of the glory from the ApoUo 11 astronauts when appears as a guest of honor Wednesdays scheduled launching at Cape Kennedy The queer's career started when she was crowned Miss Vigo County Fair That year also marked bet Page Col. 1 TERRE HVlTE GIRL REIGNS AS MISS 1 vane Teppisti 4lefti.

daughter ef Dr Mrs. ML C. Topping of Terre Haute, tries to her jubilance after being crowned Florida durimi a beauty pa Saturday might Orlando oda Fitts, the rrtirimg Miss Ftorida, prepar surremder her crown Miss wha represent the state the America pageant in tUantic 4P Wirephwto Grand Jury May Be Called In Clay County Rv MARV ANNE PIERCE Tribune Staff Writer BRAZIL Ind (Special) A Clay Countv grand jury may be called to hear evidence sui rounding an accident that claimed the life of a 19 year- old Bran! youth Clav County Sheriff Glenn Van Horn sa.d Monday he ex peeled to riteel with John Rau munk ounty later If, the to diSCUsS Die fa 1 it lit Fhe youth George Smith Jr 759 Myers St died at 1(1 55 a rn Sondev Hospital four after the ear in which fie was riding crashed a tree a rural county road Van Horn said he wd! discuss with (be pros editor arid rea ask for a grand jury hearing Smith reportedly d.r-d result of brain damage re reived the crash mat injured five other Brazil men He had been taken to I mon Hospital Thursday morning after reiving emergency treatment Clay County Hospital Wednes dav night According to 5 an Horn htnmary investigation Curtis ft ass 28 Brazil v.a» driver of the automobile owned by Karl Van Ness. 21 was treated and released over weekend from Clay Countv Hospital Van Nest remains fair condition at the suffering Horn extensive lacera twins and a shattered arrr in ijr condit on Gerald Kinder. 17 H- reportedly ontmued On Page 5.

ol 3. The Weather U. S. Weather Bureau (Heather Map om Rage 2 si 14 UttiMf jux si os'Dtrwti H.gwr« ti win MM v-f Hair, vs I rt u. sx Bwrtiy mmm it prl IIJUVill pmtPf Imtf I I ali mai if tfcrtvfh naUlf Um mm Bh ft tmttmr MOS( iApt The hi Communists said they would return to the table with Soviet negotiators to day after a walkout of onlv two days from the talks on navigation along their disputed Asian border.

After nearly ia month of meet mgi the Soviet bonier town of Khabarovsk, on the Amur Ro cr, the negotiators reached an impasse last wvek and walked out Saturday the Soviet news agency, announced Sunday ihe i delegation had told the Soviets that It. its statements of July 12, it has de cided to remain in Khabarovsk Reach The Chinese said they were ready to resume work todav on plans for traffic maintenance I work and the new wording of shipping regulations affecting Soviet and Chinese forces have been clashing with growing fre i queney A Soviet representative replied that his delegation was both sides of rivers forming part of the border acroas which iSoviet and forces have been clashing with growing fre queney A Soviet representative replied that his delegation was ready to oniinue the talks lass ieporled earlier that the Chinese had walked out because the Soviets would not discuss claims to laige aieas inside the Sov mi Union's Asian bolder The said the commission could only border river shipping, not as territorial claims Since the current senei of border iiegan last March, the Kremlin has offered to diacuss the broader a sprits of the border questions, but Chi na has not replied to this offer lass charged that a lash on July 8 on Uie Amur about 70 of Khabarovsk tnr Chinese to oufer ontinued (In Page 2, ol NOW YOU KNOW By VLTER WHITEHEAD SAIGON tl Pic- A Marine battalion that weathertni the greatest North Vietnamese shellings of the war left for Okinawa today, its 1,300 men wearing yellow and red victory miniali ions around their necks The 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment -one of the first Leatherneck units to arrive in Vietnam, on June 16 1965 was the fits! full Marine unit to leave under President withdrawal plan In ita 1,490 and 15 campaigns in Vietnam, battalion defended Thun Saiih when NmOi ietnamese unleashed i heaviest shellings the against the two northern laeuthrrnei losses costly band played ami Vietnamese girls the men I SN Paul Rrvcte in hr (he two-clay Ok a A Una) ooo I the entire 9th Reg ill ire pulled out of Vietnam by SpeW'tnber, VC Ur Selle City In Saigon, ihe I Military Command light combat. A top officer within the command sawj Vtcl ong planned seize Ninh northweet of Saigon gov emme ni Vietnamese go Is hung victor' arouml Mantles' -yellow am! ha South national colors I tu- government Hie northern (ien Hoang Xuaii Lam, told (be departing troof Local Business Leader Dies In Tokyo 1 Weis bet of rey Ave a civic am! le here for rdf an Staid a morning i heart a Tokyo Hctsbergcr who fa: yea old i rv 11 ea sui er i he eitberger orj which I eviniwin ha native of lechoatovakr tl I young bo m.n«•<! to i.iii liante ago from Vdrtan Mich and became with local corfroraUofi He a member of th will never forget the ist Club, tf of the 0th Marine Inmntown I assure you that all! was jmst vice (rrer ontlnu.d On Page 5, ol. 2, On Page 1, 7 New Post Office Site Picked Here I mied international Dir new E'r milhoo The easternmost will tert an the nial ruted a between and 12ih is at I.ube« Me where a streets on north bridge stretches Io Ute aba Ave cording to an home of Franklin belano unofficial Monday from Roosevelt on ampobeiio the of Senator Mand Hartke NEWS DIGEST Bv THE PRESS the 15 4 (rf i pause rung to la I the nation teievniton how tre going to moon Kn interview th the three aeronauti w.IJ tre cari imi ali three leltvtMon at 7 pm EDT OW unmanned qurethtp headed for the moon today mission ni the tpoUight from 11 by getting of the surface an) them to earth SAIGoN The 1 ommand loda of nor skirm enemy on 'he in the north weal of Saigon where American officers say there I gnt new posh ta in the making t. iel a nnm nice mem the (0 lie Uijih Sfi KCrfi It f.

bv the Depart ed last Novem -i selection the new build mg might made after January 1. but postal of have to make a state In a Sonate committee approved building at a coot of a ted poet tor the city. Preliminary Preliminary atudiea made ear an eight to ten ere site is needed to construct 1 ccmifriex offo ia! target for completion ai the new been set at July. 172 according to powtai offi The new will include renter for after operatalo its gauge will i ail vehicles of ie lo- ai department, plus ve Sulhvan, ontinued (in Page 2, 4 f. (ountrv Pardon ATdilTCX HES, I.a terrorized by "hi armed i' and dot a third wi otgbt to end an hours da ng man uomr family convida held two of them i his own submachine hundreds of A YORK Viwrth 1 be to the Arner an Mi-dical a lion ur.

the to with draw its endwsemertt of fcdrriiitiit meditmid programs WASHINGTON Senators search of a compromise sn the closely fought battle over President Nison Safeguard miiftde defense system looked hopefully today to Vermoot Sen. Winston Prouty for support Prouty put forth posi on the program a Senate speech and many feel be will tome out in fa vor of compromise MOSCOW The Chinese Communists said they would return to the wub Soviet 'legotiators after a walk out of only two dav from tne on navigation along (heir church that simply clings tu its old traditions will rot away unnoticed in a changing.