Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1972 Page: 2 of 28
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THURSDAY, APRII. 20, 1972 TIIE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 2
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TVo Debates
FUTURE IIOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA—The Rio Grande City chapter of the Future
Homemakers of America carried out one of their projects recently. The occasion was
their yearly Easter party for the youngest special education children on the campus. The
FHA girls met the previous night and prepared a basket for each child. They also pre-
pared the refreshments which consisted of cupcakes decorated with sugar chicks, cand-
ies, cookies and punch. The party serves as a learning experience for the girls as well as
a source of fun. For a few hours they get to see and take part in caring for these chil-
dren.
There is not going to be a
public delate among Democrat-
ic gubernatorial nomination
candidates, so it is lack to the
long shots from safer positions
on the Texas political battle-
field.
Most candidates in the race
for the nomination said in pub-
lic they were willing to delate.
But a group of students at
North Texas State University
who lad offered the school's
main auditorium for the delate
said that they could not get a
clear agreement from the can-
didates.
So they dropped the offer of
their school forum.
Meanwhile two of the top
Democratic candidates for the
nomination— Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes and Uvalde rancher
Dolph Briscoe — exclianged
hard-hitting campaign blows.
Speaking in Victoria, Barnes
said that "the very least
Briscoe can do is to come out
of hiding and tell us what his
net worth is."
At Nacogdoches, commenting
on another charge by Barnes
supporters that a 13-mile state
road built to his Dimmit County
hunting lodge "does not go any-
where but to Briscoe's house,"
Briscoe said:
"It is regrettable that mem-
bers of the state Senate would
allow themselves to be used by
the Barnes campaign to spread
a malicious lie."
He added that Barnes is "a
desperate man who knows he is
of these ridiculous stories."
Another Democratic guberna-
torial nomination candidate,
Mrs. Frances Farenthold,
opened her campaign head-
quarters in Midland and called
her campaign a "political phe-
nomenon."
Meanwhile on the Republican
front, two candidates for gover-
nor who claim they are the
only ones who can beat the
Democrats in November were
active in Dallas.
Dave Reagan dismissed his
opponent, Sen. Henry G rover,
saying he is "avoiding the
paramount issue of ethics and
has negative and narrow views,
an obstructionist record and
limited attraction for the neces-
sary broad-based support."
Also in Dallas, Tom McElroy
told a group of doctors' wives
that he is "new blood" and that
his objective is to "make our
party grow to new size and
strength under the conservative
banner."
Apollo
Orbits
SPACE CENTER, Houston
— The Apollo 1G astro-
nauts, firmly in the grip of lu-
nar gravity, snapped pictures
of their cratered target today
and sped on toward an after-
noon orbit of the moon.
The problems of flaking
paint, a locked guidance sys-
tem, plumbing troubles, a tal-
king dock latch and a tiulty ra-
dio antenna were liehind them
and their spaceship was run-
ning smoothly.
John W. Young, Cliarles M.
Duke J r. and Thomas K. Mat-
tingly n awoke an hour early
today to begin their own <«un—
clown for the engine-firing that
would thrust them into orbit to
start six days of scientific ad-
venture in the vicinity of the
moon.
In midmorning, about 17,000
miles from that alien world,
Mattingly used a camera
equipped with special film and
filters to take pictures of the
moon.
They were not ordiiary tour-
ist snapshots, but scientific
photos to ol>tain information on
the lunar atmosphere and radi-
ation emitted from the surface
The moon took gravitational
control of Apollo 16 at 12;07
a.m. when the astronauts
passed through a so-called
"twilight zone" in which the
gravitational influence of the
earth and moon is equal.
They zipped through a Rep-
ealled "twilight zone" in count-
the gravitational influence of
the earth and moon is equal at
12:07 a.m. EST.
Wlien Apollo 10 crossed this
invisible line, the moon won the
gravitatioial tug-of-war and the
spaceship's speed accelerated
after slowing from 24,500 to 1,«
600 miles an hour on the long
outward journey from the
earth.
The speed was to increase to
alx>ui f>, 700 m.p.h. as the astro-
nauts loop behind the moon and
out of radio contact with earth,
they were to fire the engine of
the command ship Casper to
whip into lunar ortbit.
After a day of checkout,
Young and Duke are to board
the lunar Ship Orion on Thurs-
day and at 3;41 p.m. r^uide it to
a landing on a mountain-rim'ed
plateau in the moon's southern
highlands.
The touchdown point is near
the 'rater Descartes in the
hi'hest topographical area on
the front side of the moon.
see ORBITS page 1
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1972, newspaper, April 20, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194351/m1/2/?q=Birth+of+a+Nation: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.