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Water Leak Repaired, Apollo
15 Enters Moon Orbit Today
NORTH COMPLEX .
By AL ROSSITER JR.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) -The Apollo 15 astro-
nauts reached the outer ap-
proaches to the moon with
unerring accuracy today and
unveiled a $17 million science
laboratory in their spacecraft equipped taboratory was jet-
to begin man’s most ambiti-tisoned in space a few hours
ous lunar exploration. , before the three-man ship re-
The cover of the specially ached the point to begin or-
bit of the moon, preparatory
to a landing on the surface
Friday.
All was reported well by '
the trio-David R. Scott, Al-
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David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
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Tickets On Sale Volleyball Tourney Firm Aug. 2
Members of the-Brenham Fire-The Eben-Ezer Luther-Lea-e
Department will be selling gue is planning a volleyball FAAss
tickets to the Firemen’s Fi-tournament for Aug. 1, begin-19
esta door-to-door in the do-ing at 2 p. m. Refreshments Sisieonn
wntown business district this will be served and the public a
fred M. Worden and James B.
Irwin-in their fourth day of
the elaborate, 12-day mis-
sion.
The astronauts first cor-
rected their course witha pre-
cise rocker burst and then
triggered a string of explos-
ives that discarded the door
to the laboratory 13,200 miles 1
from the moon. .
“We felt a little shudder, but -
not too much,” Scott report- *
ed as the door fell away. 1
This was an important, si- ,
gnificent step in the $445 mil- .
lion mission. It opened up the |
command ship's new moon
mapping cameras, and radia- 1
tion sensors. 1
The three American space- 1
men then prepared their 1
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Saturday. The tickets are $2 is invited.
each. L A-------Recovering
Scholarship
107,000 pound craft for its cri-
tical swing into orbit around
, the moon at 4:06 p. m. EDT.
' With an inflight plumbing
| problem behind them, the th-
I ree space voyagers awoke at
- 7.37 a. m. EDT with “all
systems normal” as they be-
gan their busiest day since
launch Monday, approaching,
the climatic phase of their trip
to the moon.
APENNINE FRONT
Claims
Jane s
Report
LONDON (UPI)-The Soviet
Union will havethe nuclear
puner by the miu-r is to
destroy virtually all Ameri-
can land-based missiles and
bombers in one surprise at-
tack, the authoritative Jane's
Fighting Ships said today.
It said this leaves Ameri-
ca's 41 Polaris and Poseidon
submarines as “the most sur- *
vivable" U. S. strategic det-
errent forces for the foresee-
able future. .
The 1971- 72 edition of Jane's
painted this grim picture of
declining American and boom-
ing Soviet naval and ballistic
missile strength:
-The size and relative ca-
s pabilities of the U. S. Navy
continue to decline “at an
alarming rate.” The Soviet
fleet now represents “the su-
per-navy of a super-power.”
-The Soviet navy hasalrea-
dy exceeded the United States
in active surface ship and
submarine numbers. It has
near parity in nuclear sub-
Marcus Gayle Grisbee, a gr-
aduate of Brenham High
School in Brebham, was aw-
arded the Moody Foundation
scholarship of $4,000 by the
Texas Inter scholastic League
Foundation. Grisbee qualified
for the grant by competing in
the University Inter scholastic
League Informative Speect
contest for the past three
years, winning third in state
in 1969 and 1970 and second
in state in 1971. Gayle will
attend Lamar University in
Beaumont and will major in
general business.
Weather
Twenty per cent chance of
rain through Friday. Low ex-
pected tonight mid 70s. High
expected Friday mid 90s.
Readings for 24 hour per-
- tod ending at 7 a. m. Thurs-
day: Max. 98. Min. 74. 7a.m.
74._____________________________
Today's Verse
Landing site for Apollo 15, shown in relief photo from previous orbital mission, is
one of the most geologically interesting areas on the moon—approximately one mile
east of the Hadley Rille, a half-mile wide, 60-mile long, 600-foot deep miniature
Grand Canyon in the foothills of the Apennines, a major lunar mountain range. Using
their moon buggy, the Lunar Rover, in a three-mile radius from the landing point,
the astronauts will explore the base of the mountains and the South Cluster, a jumbled
But he, willing to justify. . . . . ,___=.. .
===-mmso,ena,-ad as oomy sontewk.d. ME. 2m.m
neighbor? ” - Luke 10:29.
A popular but foolish pas-
Mrs. Howard Zuch of Rich-
ardson, daughter of Mrs. H.
L. Steinbach of Brenham, is
recovering satisfactorily fol-
lowing major surgery at Gar-
land Memorial Hospital. She
is In room 146, Garland Me-
morial Hospital, 2300 Marie
Curie Drive, Garland, Tex.
Club Picnic
The Tri- Community Home
Demonstration Club will hold
its annual family picnic, con-
sisting of a covered dish sup-
per at Fireman’s Park on
Wednesday, Aug. 4, beginn-
ing at 7 p. m. All members
and their families are invit-
ed to attend, — .
or - . . here on Aug. 2. _ ing water fixture that the
Schola nn Ip Dusek, who has bee n a st u- astronauts fixed with a wr-
. dent at the Institute for two ench Wednesday night.
Jack Dean aldrop, a grad- years will receive an AS de- “We don’t have any real
uate of Brenham High School gree in civil engineering te- concern about that at this
in Brenham, was awarded the chnology and surveying. time,” Flight director Glynn
Clark Foundation Scholarship He is a 1969 graduate of S. Lunney said this morning,
for Students of $750 by the Vanderbilt Industrial High Apollo 15‘s schedule called
Texas Inter scholastic League School near Edna, Texas, for a swing into lunar orbit
Foundation. Waldrop qualified Dusek is unmarried. He will .at 4:06 p. m. EDT, with a
for the grant by competing in liye in Brenham, - 6 1/2 minute braking blast
the University Interscholastic --------------------------- from the main engine of the talks, r. = and said the United, States
- League Persuasive Speaking Brenham Youth command ship End-rgrrunone. Bruce.-73.599:-partParisieasJet forth some-generar
contest- insloare * • 3 The report from the Mission Sunday to make way for Wil- - * " *
Control Center was “all sys- 11am J. Porter, the former
(Continued on page 6) . U. S. ambassador to South
Trailing their space craft by . field of fresh-looking craters to the southeast. And they may be able to answer the .
several • thousand miles was question whether the moon’s rilles were formed by water or some other fluid.
the spent last stage of the
Saturn rocket that started
marine strength and a large
nuclear submarine building
program.
-The only category of war-
ships in which the U.S. Navy
now and for the near future
maintains a decisive advan-
tage is the aircraft carrier.
-The Soviets have gained,
superiorly over the United
States in number of intercon-
, tinental ballistic missiles and
time is to try to justify our-
selves when we know that we
are wrong.
AVEHIP NERAMKE them toward the moon from
Cape Kennedy. The Saturn was
A TIKI on a collision course toward
TIT IITSTIN the center of the moon’s sur-
T 1 » 11 face facing the earth, with im -
1 II Kill pact late this afternoon.
|| B IIAMAIEII As David R. Scott, Alfred
- - M. Worden and James B. Ir-
JOHN L. DUSEK win neared conclusion oftheir
John L. Dusek, who will three-day lunar flight, their
graduate from Texas State cabin bad the look of a house-
Technical Institute at Waco wife’s laundry room. It was
on Aug. 5 will join A. A. Hodde the aftermath of Apollo 15‘s
& Associates surveying firm fourth problem-a leaky drink-
here on Aug. 2.
Dusek, who has been a stu-
dent at the Institute for two
years will receive an AS de-
won first place in district On Honor Roll
and regional competition and ,
fourth in state. Jack will at- At Waco School
tend Sam Houston State and
will major in music educa-
tion. -
Around !
Town 1
By WILLIAM O’SHEA s
Good luck to the Little Leaguers tonight in that all im-
portant battle against Columbus set for La Grange and a
- big crowd of tans will be thereto root them home to another
successful defense of their state championship...Happy
birthday to DONNA STOELKE as she enters the teen-
agers and to celebrate her Houston cousins KENNETH
and MIKE STOELKE are spending their vacation here...
CHUCK ELLISON is looking forward to the Seguin trip
where. he will be among more than 400 young people
taking part in the Texas Youth Conference...Congratula-
tions to PETE BILSKI on being chosen for another term
to head the Knights of Columbus...Same to WILBERT
FALDYN and other KC officers installed to guide this
fine organisation for the coming year. LAWRENCE NOW-
IC KI, shaping up a good looking display of goodies for the
customers... Kind of sad to see the stately old GARDNER-
ROBERTSON gingerbread home about to pay the price of
progress and those sentiments were expressed by owners
MR. and MRS. PAUL BURGESS, who dread the demolish-
ing...Get well wished to E. W. (FLUKJE) PFLUGHAUPT
who is sure to be missing all the Little League play now
going on of which he was so much a part for many years...
MRS. FREDDIE KLUSSMANN reminding folks about the
last Farmers Market sale of vegetables and other fine
food come next Saturday...BILLIE NIEMEYER stacking up
.......some interesting displays of merchandise for the weekend
shoppers...
U.S. Peace Negotiator
David Bruce To Retire
- the megatonnage that can be
delivered. Current Soviet con-
struction of six submarines
PARIS (UPI) -U. S. Am-
bassasor David K. E. Bruce
today ended his role as neg-
otiator at the Paris peace
talks with an appeal to the
Communists for immediate
negotiations on a five-point
cease-fire throughout Indo-
China.
In addition remarks not in-
cluded in his formal speech
Bruce accused Hanoi of violat-
ing the accords that led to the
Korea, after serving for a
year as head of the American
delegation to the Vietnam
talks.
In his farewell speech the
white-haired diplomat said
North Vietnam and Viet Cong
rejection of previous propo-
sals for a standstill cease-
fire was ‘absurd.”
“I see nothing absurd about
trying to end the killing now,”
Bruce said. “This is a ser-
Bruce's expected resigna-
tion was accepted by the White
House Wednesday night. The
White House said Bruce was
resigning for “imperative"
health reasons. He will be
temporarily replaced by Am-
bassador Philip C. Habib, Br-
(Continued on page 6)
a year could give the Soviet
Union parity if nor superior-
ity in Polaris type submarines
by 1975.
“Soviet progress in the st-
rategic weapons area is of
utmost concern to U. S. de-
fense leaders," Jane’s said,
“because improved guidance
and multiple warhead techno-
logy (MIRV) could permit the
predicted Soviet strategic for-
ces of the mid-1970s to des-
troy virtually all U. S. land-
(Continued on page 6)
talks, including road building
in and around the Demilitar- • deserve such a callous res-
ixed Zone separating the two ponse.”
Vietnams and said these act-
ivities could threaten the
Ohio Man Held Here
On Murder Charges
Billie Wayne Noerenberg
majoring in automobile mech-
anics is on the Vice Presi-
dent’s honor roll at James
Connally Technical Institute
of Waco,. . -
SS: ======
in the Heart of Texas Coll- pted murder in South Caro-
seumatWaco. --
Open house will be held from Dennis Dale Davis, 23, is
2 to 4 p. m. at the Student in the Washington County jail
Center of James Connally awaiting return to Aikens Co-
Campus. He is the son of unty, South Carolina, where
Mr. and Mrs. Wille Noeren-he faces twortharges of mur-—
berg of Brenham. der, two charges of attempted
—------------------------murder and two charges of
e armed robbery.
Hermann Davis was picked up at the
— L . Children of God Colony just
Membership Drive southeast of Brenham on U.S.
290 by Deputies Elwood Gold-
* 0UBB 1 otalte berg and Howard Sommerfeld.
SAN ANTONIO- A “New He had reportedly been a
Horizons” membership cam- member ofthe colony for about
paign will be conducted by one month.
The Order of the Sons of Her- He offered no resistance to
mann in Texas from Aug. 1 arrest, according to Goldberg,
through Oct 31. • Lawmen here said they were
Henry Riemer, grand pre- acting on an undisclosed tip
sident of the order, reported to Davis whereabouts when
' that 161 lodges across the they went to the colony Wed-
state will participate. nesday afternoon and retrie-
The Hermann Sens Lodges ved him.
In Brenham are BrenhamLod- The numerous charges ag-
ge No. 6 and Brenham Sister ainst Davis in South Carolina
Lodge No. 11, in Meyersville, reportedly were the results of
Johannes Lodge No. 124; in a violent gang-fight there.
Gay Hill, Lodge No. 193, in Goldberg said the man faced
Burton Lodge No. 11, and in no charges here and had been
Washington Lodge No. 178. In no known trouble in Wash-
ington County.
Law enforcement officials
from Aikens County were due
within a few days.
Davis lifted his home as
West Carlton, Ohio.
Viet
Nixon Deficit
Is $30 Billion
_ WASHINGTON L=The-eertanmyn) denoi isover-
. _ "government has tallied up its $30 billion.
principles it thought should -fiscal 1971 spending and re- So, how did the government
apply to such a cease-fire, ceipts, and with a straight come up with the $2.5 billion
He said these included super- face announced a $2.5 bil- “full employment surplus.”
vision by international obser- lion “surplus’'-even though Conally and Schultz ex-
vers as well as the parties it acutally went $30 billion plained that “if’ every worker
themselves, in the red, were working-and “if” unem-
Bruce said a cease-fire sh- In a statement, Treasury ployment wasn’t running about
ould not be used by either side Secretary John B. Connally 6 per cent of the work force-
to build .up its strength and Jr. and budget manager Geo- then there would be nearly
should cause “all kind of war- rge P. Shultz announced not $26 billion more in tax re-
fare and violence to stop,” only a “fullemployment”sur- ceipts, and therefore a sur-
It should cover the fighting plus, which everybody admits plus.
in all of Indochina, he said, is a fiction, but criticized Nixon’s real deficit of $30
and it would be part of a the Johnson administration for billion was the highest in his-
general move to end the war running up three vears of tory except for a period dur-
there. deficit. X ing World War IL His $23.2
The government said rev- billion "unified budget" defic-
enues in the 12 months ended it, counting the social secur-
July 1 totalled $188.3 billion ity loans as revenue, notdebt,
and outlays $211.6 billion, for would be second only to the
a deficit of $23.2 billion. Sin- $25.2 billion for the fiscal :
ce $7-plus-billion of the re- year that ended JuneW' 1968.
venues were borrowed from . Imports exceeded exports
social security trust funds, forthe third consecutive
and must be paid back with in- (Continued on page 6)
lous proposal which does not
He called for Immediate
negotiations on a cease-fire
ar Kills
13 GIs In Week
SAIGON (UPI) - The U. S. dents.
command today reported 13 South Vietnamese deaths
American battlefield deaths rose sharply from the week
in Indochina. Another 88 GIs before with a total of 295
were wounded.. government soldiers killed
U. S. Spokesmen saidthatof and 574 wounded. Totals for
the battle deaths nine actual- the previous week were 202
ly were killed in fighting and killed and 490 wounded.
three were added to the list The South Vietnamese death
of killed from those previous- toll for the war stood at
ly listed as missing and one 124,675.
man died of wounds suffered Allied commands said 1,389
previously. Viee-bong and for th Vlet-
It brought to 45,397 the nu- namese were killed last week
mber of Americans killed in for a total of 760,942 Com-
lndochina since Jan. 1, 1961. munist troops killed in the
The battle deaths last week war.
were two more than the 11South Vietnamese troops
men killed the previous week backed by fighter jets and U.
and the wounded toll was up by S. helicopter gunships killed
seven from the week before. « Communist soldiers to-
Another 11 Americans died day in day-long fighting in
last week from nonhostile cau- Cambodia, where a govern-
ses such as illness and acci- (Continued on page 6)
Vietnam Drug Raid
Brings 60 Arrests
SAIGON (UPI) -South Viet- a tight security cordon.
namese National Police said U.S. military sources said
today they arrested60 ST' Ambassador Ellsworth C.
sons and seized $3.6million Bunker was shocked when the
in narcotics during the past situation was reported to him
two days in what they called in Saigon- Wednesday
the biggest dry roundup iny.
Southeast Asia. The South Vietnamese Na-
At the same time, United tional Police Force said it
Press International learned rounded up 26 persons Wed-
narcotics are being smuggled nesday in connection with the
into the U. S. Army’s new drug traffic, and by this morn-
drug detoxification center for ,
GIs at Cam Ranh Bay despite Continued on page 6)
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