The Weekly Summer Edition Vol. 69, No. 141 associated press mniiiiiinummumu New Scope The World . Wheeler Assessing Vietnam Fighting Lull SAIGON Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived yesterday. arousing speculation that improvement in South Vietnam's armed forces may allow further U.S. troop withdrawals this year. Officially, Wheeler came for a four-day visit to assess the four-week lull in the fighting and to learn more of the progress of the South Vietnam Armed forces in taking over more com bat duties from U.S. soldiers and Marines. - - - - - He was met at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport by Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, and Adm. John S. McCain Jr., the commander in chief in the Pacific. McCain had arrived earlier from Honolulu. All three left for Saigon without making statements. McCain last month headed a military and civilian task force that worked out details of the 25,000-man pullout of U.S. forces that President Nixon ordered to be completed next month. A U.S. Command spokesman said he did not know if McCain's arrival was part of a similar assignment. But he emphasized it was not unusual for the admiral to come to Vietnam to meet Wheeler, since they will be talking about matters in McCain's area of responsibility. All the 25,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines involved in the initial withdrawal will be out of Vietnam by Aug. 31, leaving a total strength of around 513,500 Americans in , Vietnam. Wheeler's visit may well be prompted by Nixon's avowed hope of exceeding an end of year withdrawal of 100,000 U.S. troops. Pacifists Journey to Hanoi for Prisoners PARIS Seven American pacifists, including two women, passed through Paris yesterday on their way to Hanoi to receive three U.S. war prisoners, freed by the North Viet namese. The prisoners, still unnamed, are being released in Hanoi in what North Vietnam has called a "goodwill gesture" to mark U.S. Independence Day. The pacifist group. led by Rennard C. Davis, 28, was in vited to Hanoi to•escort the three prisoners back to the United States. Davis is under indictment with seven other persons in the United States on charges of inciting mob action during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Federal Appellate Court Judge Otto Kerner in Chicago gave Davis special permission Tuesday to leave the United States for three weeks in con nection with the prisoner release. The seven Americans arrived at Orly Airport from New York and left almost immediately on another plane for Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where they will take the weekly flight to Hanoi of the International Control Commission. The North Vietnamese invited the group to escort the three prisoners home to avoid them being interrogated en route by military authorities. The Nation Navy Maintains Watch on Soviet Flotilla WASHINGTON Without being too pushy about it, the U.S. Navy is maintaining its close surface and air surveillance over the first Soviet flotilla to penetrate the Gulf of Mexico. The Pentagon said yesterday the U.S. destroyer escort Thomas J. Gary, an electronics-packed radar picket ship, is following five of the - Soviet vessels at a point about 250 miles west-northwest of Key West, Fla. In addition, Navy P 3 antisubmarine warfare planes make periodic checks on the Soviet formation. Three Soviet support ships two oilers and - a sub tender= have anchored about 75 miles west of Key West and 98 miles west-northwest of Havana. The Soviet group built around a cruiser, destroyer and frigate, all with guided missiles is due to participate in ceremonies in Havana July 26 celebrating Fidel Castro's revolution. The Navy isn't saying how it will continue surveillance once the Soviet ships dock in Havana but high flying U 2 recon naissance planes are based in Florida only minutes from Cuba. A 1.12 could easily photograph the formation from a high altitude without actually penetrating Cuban air space, officers say. The Navy says it plans no communication with the Soviet ships either at sea or through the Marine base at Guan tanamo. White House Opposes Wage, Price Controls WASHINGTON The White House ruled out wage and price controls "under conditions that are now foreseeable" yesterday as Republican leaders continued to press for Senate passage of the income surtax bill. Declaring that President Nixon and his administration are opposed to wage and price controls as an anti-inflation device, White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen: "This administration is pursuing a course of action to cool the economy and the strategy which this administration is following does not include wage and price controls." Zeigler, seeking to end confusion over the administration's stand. said he spoke after talking with Nixon and some of the President's chief economic advisers, including Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy. Ziegler said Nixon has consistently been opposed to wage and price controls and added: "Looking into the future with the knowledge and experience that this administration and projecting the various alternatives that could be used in the foreseeable future, wage and price controls would not be considered." Some of the confusion arose when Secretary Kennedy told a congressional committee recently that wage-price controls might have to be considered if Congress did not extend the in come tax surcharge. Kennedy suggested this possibility under questioning and said at the time that he did not favor such controls. At a news conference Wednesday, Kennedy stressed that Senate action on the income surtax extension is needed before Congress starts a summer recess on Aug. 13. "I think it would be very bad to have the surtax in doubt beyond the recess," Kennedy said, adding that "until the legislation takes effect" there will be some doubt about the administration's commitment to curb inflation. The Senate's Democratic Policy Committee has voted to hold up the surtax extender until tax reform measures are also ready for Senate action. The State Shapp, Casey Square Off on Endorsements HARRISBURG The Democratic State Committee open ed hearings yesterday on party reform and almost im mediately the old wounds of the bloody 1966 gubernatorial primary were re-opened. The first witnesses included the two candidates in that primary, industrialist Milton J. Shapp and the now state Auditor General, Robert P. Casey. The two squared off over the issue of party endorsement of primary candidates with Casey, who got the party policy committee nod in 1966, supporting continuation of the idea in a somewhat revised form. But Shapp, who whipped Casey in the primary on a "man against the party machine" campaign he financed with his own millions, urged: "Wherever there is a primary fight, let the party organization keep its hands off." Casey agreed with Shapp that the policy committee the 80 or so Democrats who actually run the party be abolished but added: "It power to recommend candidates should be granted to a state committee elected on the 'one-man, one vote' principle." The auditor general said: "We should require that all can didates who desire party endorsement appear before the state committee in an open public meeting so that they can speak and present their views for the consideration of the state corn mittee." Shapp, who cashed in his Sl2 million holdings in an elec tronics firm he founded to finance his political career, blasted the policy committee because it "has no special standing" yet "endorsement by the policy committee has loosened party purse strings in a primary for some candidates." Casey said "consideration should be given to financial sup port for candidates endorsed for nomination by the state com mittee." This, he said in an apparent reference to Shapp's millions, would help "a qualified member of the Democratic Party, regardless of his financial means" to run for office. On party reform., both agreed the policy committee should be abolished and some method of applying the "one man, one vote" principle to committee membership be established. Offlr Daily Totirgi 6 Pages Major Maneuvers Successful Astronauts Relaxed, Ready Three men wearing American flags on their left sleeves rocketed away from earth yesterday to take mankind's most daring step into the unknown, a walk on the moon. Their major maneuvers went off without a hitch. From the minute they blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., at 9:32 a.m. EDT a shade over half a second late their troubles were all small. Civilian Neil A. Armstrong, Air Force Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.. and Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins tried but failed to televise pictures to earth. The cause wasn't known, but the trouble seemed to be on earth. On the other hand, the course of Apollo 11 was so accurate that a planned correcting maneuver was skipped. By launch time more than a million people had flocked to beaches around Cape Kennedy. Television via satellite and ground relay beamed the launch to an estimated 528 million people in at least 33 nations around the world. His confidence buoyed by the smoothness of the flight, President Nixon urged all Americans to make Monday a holiday so they could watch the first,men walk on the moon in the early hours of that day. His announcement came with the flight barely six hours old. "In past ages exploration was a lonely enterprise," he said. "But today, the miracles, of space travel are matched by the miracles of space communications; even across the vast lunar distance, television brings the moment of discovery into our homes, and makes all of us participants." Discovery could come sooner for a Soviet spaceship. Luna 15, unmanned, and with the barest of information available on its mission, was nearing the moon. Britain's Jodrell Bank Agnew Views Mars S PACECENTER, Houston (AP) Among the very im portant persons invited by the space agency to watch the launch from bleachers a safe 3 1 / 2 miles away was Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who heads the nation's space coun cil. In an interview, he said he believed America should plan to put a man on Mars. "Someone is going to do it." he said. "I think we shouldn't be too timid to say by the end of this century we're going to put a man on Mars. That's my judg ment." Agnew is a member of the special presidential committee that will recommend America's future goals in Apollo 11 Flies in the Spirit of Columbus CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. (AP) At 4:45, a half-hour before sunrise, Aug. 3, 1492. in the harbor of Palos, Spain, Christopher Col umbus ordered the anchors up. "And with' sails hanging limp and no sound but the slow splash of the long oars and their rattle and creak in the ports," the three ships moved out on the ebb tide on a windless morning. A sea breeze finally filled the sails and the ships picked up speed, to four knots. Un " til sunset, they remained within sight of the land. And in this manner, Samuel Eliot .Morison tells us. Columbus set out "on a conquest for the Cross that would outlast all worldly empires." At 9:32, three hours after sunrise of another windless morning. July 16. 1969, three men of the New World discovered by Columbus set out to explore the moon "in peace for all mankind." They set out, as he " did, at a time of confusion and changing values and pessimism among men. They rose from the earth on a rocket , five times the length of his ship and soon flew at a speed more than 5,000 times faster than his. Their voyage would cost $355 million. His cost $14,000. He found a new continent, which profoundly shaped history. What would they find? They rose from the earth with a roar ' and flame and were followed into the sky by the eyes of men everywhere. If anyone saw Columbus off, it is not recorded. Queen Isabella didn't come. President Nixon didn't either, but watched on television with untold millions around the world the greatest audience for a single event in the whole New Trustee Reflects on Duties By RENA ROSENSON Collegian Staff Writer For the first time in many years, a pro fessional educator has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Penn State. In her own words, Mrs. Helen Wise said, "I was very honored to be elected. My election is an in dication that people think that there is a place for a professional educator on the Board of Trustees of a large university. Penn State hasn't had one in a long time, if ever." Mrs. Wise has a doctorate in education, teaches social studies at the State College Junior High School and is president of the Penn sylvania State Education Association. She said she feels that those qualifications, which result in a long term association with students of all ages, should be beneficial to her as a trustee of the University and in turn to the students and faculty of the University. She said that she will probably look at things a bit differently than the other members of the Board since she is a classroom teacher. Mrs. Wise said it is early to say much about what she can do as a trustee since the Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Thursday Morning, July 17, 1969 By The Associated Press * * * space in September. He admit ted his viewpoint on Mars was a minority opinion on the com mittee. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was also in the VIP stands. A prime mover in space affairs from his days as senator and later as President Kennedy's expert on space af fairs, this was the first launch he had seen first hand. When the rocket rose from the pad and the shock waves shook the spectators, he shouted, "Come on Baby. . . Go Baby." Later, he reviewed the decisions and the effort of the last 12 years that ha d culminated in this launch. ''lf we can do all that in such a short time," he said, "I won der why. we can't put the same effort into peace for all time." Radio Observatory reported a burst of signals from the Soviet spaceship just before Apollo 11 roared into space. Some believe Luna 15 is to soft-land, scoop up lunar soil, and bring it back to earth. Everything was perfect for Apollo 11. after a countdown that t% as always on or ahead of schedule. Two and a half hours after launch, a final rocket burn broke the grip of earth's gravity and sent Armstrong. Aidrin and Collins toward the waxing crescent moon. a scant 100 hours away. "You're on your nay now," announced mission control. An hour and a half later. the astronauts disengaged from their launch rocket, docked with the lunar lander garaged inside the rocket's hull and fetched it. ready for the long coast to the moon. Radio commands from the ground sent the now useless third stage of Saturn 5 into a long orbit around the sun, to get it out of the way. Below them, the astronauts had a shrinking view of earth. —Photo by Associated Press MODEL OF the lunar module, called "The Eagle" by the astronauts. The Eagle will carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon. The lower portion of the module with its four landing legs will be left there and the upper stage will be used to carry the astronauts back to their spacecraft. history of man. 1492 wasn't much of a year for superlatives. It was hot and humid and almost clou dless over the scrubby sands of Florida where a million people had tome to watch. And now the seconds were'ticking down and everything was coming together on Launch Pad 39A the nine million separate pieces of hardware, the 300.000 people in volved, the eight years of effort, the 524 billion of treasure, the daring promise of a young president. Converging, too, on Pad 39A were the living and dead Neil A. Armstrong and Christopher Columbus. Mike Collins and Charles A. Lindbergh, Buzz Adlrin and Or ville Wright. John F. Kennedy and Isabella of Spain. Wernher von Braun and Isaac Newton, Robert Goddard and Archimedes. Two minutes and 10 seconds and count ing and the moon at this precise second was 218,986 miles away . Forty seconds . Twenty-two seconds . . . Eight . . seven . . six . . five .. four .. three . . two . . one "And we have lift off." The flame spread in orange and white and blue fans and the earth shook with unearthly sound and the huge rocket with those small men on top rose and hovered as if reluctant to leave the planet and then gathered speed straight up and people watching from the stands applauded and shouted, "Go!" and many wept. And soon rt was lost in the sky, leaving behind a huge mushroom cloud and a flock of birds and. one felt, people everywhere pushing With their minds and their bodies and somehow reverent in this moment in the story of man. Students, Facult first Board meeting is not until the end of July and since she really is not aware of the entire scope of the job. She added that she realizes that one person cannot initiate changes himself, but that "one person can bring different views to the Board. There is always the need for a fresh outlook." Mrs. Wise does recognize some changes that must be made at Penn State. She said, "First, there is the definite need of the Board to meet more frequently— quarterly if not every month. As it is now the members of the Board don't really, know what is going on. More frequent meetings would allow them to get closer to the situations they are involved in and to know more about them. "Secondly, there is a need for legitimate ways of involving the students and faculty in .the decisions of the Board of Trustees. If the way is not by giving them voting power. then it could be by having the Board act as a sounding board for the students and the faculty." Mrs. Wise cited Colloquy as a good exam ple of invoMng the student body and the facul ty with the Board. She said that although few members of to Board took part in the pra t. El Salvador Ignores Conditional Cease-fire (AP) Honduras accepted yesterday a conditional ceasefrre in the war with El Salvador, a peace committee of the Organization o f American States announced. But Salvador troops thrusting deeper into Honduras showed no sign of halting • Instead, the Salvador army demanded that the armed forces of Honduras "surrender or be destroyed on the bat tlefield" on the third day of the war between the tixo small Central American nations. It was understood E I Salvador demanded as part of a ceasefire a guarantee for the property and rights of the 300.000 Salvador people who live in Honduras. one of the causes of the outbreak of the war. El Salvador accused Hon duras of committing atrocities against those people. A spokesman for the OAS peace committee,. which arriv ed from Washington in San Deserve Representation gram, every member knew about it and the problems it involved. Mrs. Wise said she feels that more of the Colloquy kind of thing" is necessary, even if it is on a more informal basis Mrs. Wise said that there is always the ten dency toward a kind of provincialism in a large university, partly due to the yearly turnover of Board members and the small number of members. "But a great university has to be willing to change—not just for the sake of change. though. We must look at the problems of all people, not only those of the University, and see how we can help through the University. "There is a tendency of the University to rest on its laurels—to react instead of acting to changes. We can't do that. In fact, we should seek out changes for the good of the whole society," she said. Mrs. Wise said she considers the election of Jesse Arnelle to the Board of Trustees to be a step in the right direction. "I think it's tremendous. It is a really good sign that people realize that there is a need for att Said spacecraft commander Armstrong. "Out of my window right now I can observe the entire of North America, Alaska. over the pole. down to the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, the northern part of South America. and then I run out of win dow." lie also beamed a weather report cartimard: Clear over most of the United States. except for a cloudy front moving aCTOFS the center of the nation, clear over the Greenland "I don't know what I was looking at," chuckled Mike Col lins at the other window. "but the view was pretty good." After their maior maneuver=, the astronauts concentrated on navigating by the stars, picking out their pure light in the blackness of space. Then came an eating period, a series of routine tests, and another meal, culminating in a nine-hour rest period. The only trace of worry came \ ith a faulty indicator light on the spacecraft control panel. A check of systems straightened it out. Flight controllers said there were a num ber of small aberrations they called "funnies" that would be chased down during the night. The crew was concerned slightly because they had used more maneuvering fuel than expected. Mission control said to forget it, it was no problem. Meanwhile Apollo 11 was moonward bound at something like 25.000 miles an hour. It will slow gradually as its momen tum is nibbled away by earth gravity, but then it will increase again as the spacecraft goes over the gravity hill and falls into the spell of the moon. The stoic attitude in the spacecraft contrasted with the thrills the flight created around the world. Eight hours after launch, Armstrong and Collins doffed their heavy pressure suits. Aldrin had an hour earlier. As the astronauts began getting their house in order for the night. they put the Apollo 11 spaceship in what is called a barbecue mode. In this position. it turns slowly on its axis like a hot dog on a spit, changing the sunside constantly to control tem perature. Luna 15 Nears Moon JODRELL BANK. England (AP) The 250-foot radio telescope at Jodrell Bank traced the Soviet Luna 15 three quarters of the way to the moon yesterday. Sir Bernard Lovell, director of this observatory, said the observatory received signals from Luna 15 until a few minutes before the Apollo 11 liftoff from Florida. An aide said no more signals were expected today, as Luna 15 was below the horizon of the Soviet Crimean tracking station where they would be received. With Luna 15 nearing the moon. Sir Bernard said the un manned Soviet probe was as much a puzzle as ever. "We simply do not know what Luna 15 is going to do." he said. "But I have no doubt it is the beginning of a series to bring back lunar soil. "Whether it will be done with this one I don't know. But if it were, it would be a remarkable achievement." Lovell's aide said Luna 15 would reach the vicinity of the moon Thursday between 10 a.m. and noon 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., EDT. Salvador Tuesday night, said Honduras responded to its call for a cease-fire by agreeing, provided Salvador troops withdraw to their own ter- Salvador tanks and troops were on th e march toward Tegucigalpa, Honduras' capital, after crossing the eastern frontier and it ap peared the heaviest fighting raged around Nacaome. Nacome is 33 road miles deep into Honduras and is near a highway that leads 75 miles north to Tegucigalpa. Although Honduras denied it, El Salvador's army repeated its claim of capturing Nacaome and said heavy casualties were inflicted. It asserted 25 0 prisoners have been captured. A Honduran communique said its army had "moved from the defensive to the of fensive and is pushing back the aggressors" on this front. In Tegucigalpa, the govern ment called on the civilian population to be ready to "go Choir: Starting Out in England --see page 2 * * * to the place assigned by the government to defend the fatherland and fight the ag gressor." El Salvador has an army of 6,600 men to 2,500 for Honduras. The war between the two countries, both members of the Central American Common Market—already a bloodied victim of the conflict—has been labeled the "soccer war." But although the conflict was sparked by violence during and after soccer matches between the two countries' national teams, the roots of the pro blem are social and economic. El Salvador, overpopulated and five times smaller than Honduras, has seen more than 300,000 of its citizens emigrate to Honduran territory. The two countries also have had ter ritorial disputes that date to the days of Spanish domination. Honduras resents the massive Salvador immigration and has made attempts to stop different types of people on the Board," she said. She explained that it is not only the racial part of it that is important, but the youth part of it, too. "Most members of the Board of Trustees of a university are older—in their 50's and 60's. Jesse is a younger man with fresh ideas and a tremendous understanding of peo ple. He has been in the Peace Corps for a few years in Turkey and India. That experience gives him an understanding of world problems that many of us don't have." Concerning the responsibility a university and its Board of Trustees has to its students, Mrs. Wise said, "The university has to be a place where a student sets his values and goals in and out of class. It is a place where a person should be able to learn as much as he can in order to find himself. "He must have the opportunity to interact with all kinds of people. We need the skills that we learn in college, but we also need room for other's ideas. Whether or not a person likes or agrees with Al Capp or Muhammad Ali, he should still experience interaction with him in order to be able to find his true self." Seven Cents
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