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'Prudent' measure, but mission continues
Skylab 2 rescue prepared
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Preparation of a
rescue ship for the Skylab 2 astronauts started
yesterday as a “prudent” measure after a very serious
Droblem developed, space officials said. Unless more
trouble occurs, the record 59 day mission will con
tinue normally.
“We agree 100 per cent with what you've just an
nounced,” said Skylab 2 commander Alan L. Bean
after being told of the decision, “everybody’s happy up
here."
Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C.
Kraft told the astronauts “we feel fairly confident”
despite a failure which has caused 1 half of a rocket
-System aboard the Apollo command ship to be shut
down. •
“To be prudent, however,” Kraft said, accelerated
preparation for launch has started on the Skylab 3
rocket and Apollo craft which can be used to rescue the
men of Skylab 2.
Skylab 2 astronauts Bean, Dr. o\yen K. Garriott and
Jack R. Lousma were in no immediate danger and
continued experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The problem is in two of four Tocket propulsion
systems which steer the Apollo command ship the
craft which ferries the astronauts between earth and ,
the Skylab space station orbiting at 271 miles. The
Apollo craft is docked at one end of the Skylab.
One of the rocket systems developed a leak
Vandals strike Beaver phones,
University investigates damage
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
Vandals struck again in Beaver Hall
causing an estimated $250 damage to
telephones on several floors. .
This incident is the latest in the series
of vandalism which has occurred in
Beaver Hall this summer. A
set and a cigarette machine on the
ground floor of Beaver were destroyed
during the weekend of July 20 with
damage accessedht $5OO. The machine’s
replacement was destrhyed last
weekend. The automatic defrosting unit
of the ice cream machine in Beaver was
ripped out and the ground floor flooded
with water last Saturday afternoon. All
vending machines now have been
removed from the ground floor of
Beaver.
Luther Robb, head of the Telephone
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Service at the University, said, “The
matter is currently under investigation.
These are the facts we have at the
present time based upon information we
have received.
“Sometime between 11:30 ,p.m.
Sunday night and 1:30 a.m. Monday
morning, one or more individuals went
into Beaver Hall and smeared black
shoe polish, vaseline, toothpaste and
stick deodorant into the receiver set of
telephones on the first, second, third and
sixth floors of Beaver Hall. ;
“So far,- we have identified some 24 or
25 telephones that have had this treat
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“As of right now, the'estimated total
amount of damage done is s2so.’’
Robb said housing workers on the
affected floors reported thel damage to
the housing office, which reported the
incident to the telephone office. .
Robb said, “We have a number of
leads, all of which we are following up
actively.”
' Robb, said dormitory telephones have
armored cord handsets, and the cord
and the handset are one unit. On these
telephones, the receiver and transmitter
dust covers are anchored. When a
substance is smeared into the holes in
the dust cover and it can not’be cleaned
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yesterday morning and had to be turned off. A leak
earlier knocked out another of the thrusters, leaving
only two rocket steering systems in operation.
“We feel fairly confident that we’ve got two quads
rocket systems for attitude control should we have a
problem with anything that would result in an im
mediate need for re-entry,” Kraft told the astronauts.
Bean said he felt that even if new problems occurred,
“we’d still have plenty of capability to return home
safely.” -
T A-rescue craft, another Apollo ship piloted by two
Skylab 3 astronauts,- could not be ready for launch
before Sept. 10,15 days bef<se the scheduled end of the
59-day Skylab 2.
Officials earlier did not express the same confidence
Kraft showed when he was talking to hte crew.
“At this point, it looks like the rescue mission is the
direction we are heading,” flight director Charles
Lewis told newsmen. “Right now, we have no con
fidence in the command ship.”
“It’s a very serious problem,” said Glynn S. Lunney,
operations manager of the Apollo spacecraft program
office at the Johnson Space Center. “If we did not have
a rescue capability, we would be moving in the
direction of getting the spacecraft down as rapidly as
we could.”
An Apollo spacecraft is currently being prepared at
Cape Kennedy, Fla., for the planned launch of the
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Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
out from the outside, the entire cord and
handset must be replaced, he said.
Robb said, “What I am sure many
students do not realize is the University
leases its phones from Bell of Penn
sylvania, and my office is responsible
for ariy lost or damage of .the.telephones
and we must reimburse the phone
company.
The Telephone Service must pay
Bell 1 for cleaning ' and replacing
telephones, Robb said. -
“Our goal is to recover for the
University the damages which it paid
Bell,” he said.
“What \ye attempt to do is to try to find
out who is responsible for the damage.
We then meet with Donald I. Suit,
Director of the Office of Conduct
Standards, to discuss what action should
be taken,” he said.
Robb said there are two ways of
handling the matter:
“Under the Pennsylvania' Law
Code; we could bring a charge of
criminal mischief. In this particular
case, the loss appears to be at the
present time under $5OO. It is therefore a
summary offense, for which the
maximum fine is $3OO and-or a
maximum of 90 days in jail, plus
restitution.
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Skylab 3 astronauts who were scheduled to spend 56
days or more aboard the space station starting Nov. 9.
That craft could be converted to a rescue ship by
removing some equipment and installing two extra
couches.
A rescue mission would involve launching the
spacecraft atop, a Saturn IB rocket with Skylab 3
astronauts Gerald P. Carr and William R. Pogue on
board. They would guide the craft,to a rendezvous with
the Skylab and dock in an extra port on the laboratory.
Bean, Lousma and Garriott would board the rescue
ship for the trip back to earth.
Lunney said the main concern is' that should the
astronauts board the troubled Apollo and try to come
home, there is a possibility that the third and fourth
rocket thruster systems could fail, leaving the
astronauts with no way to steer the spacecraft while
rocketing out of orbit.
A master alarm warning of the thruster leak
problem awakened the astronauts 25 minutes early
yesterday. Bean scurried up to the Apollo command
ship, linked to one end of the space station, to turn
valves and isolate the leak.
Officials said the leak was allowing a chemical,
nitrogen tetroxidfe, to escape into space. During normal
operation of the rocket, this chemical ignites on con
tact in the rocket chamber with monomethyl
hydrazine, another chemical. This provides jet thrust.
“We could bring charges through
the Office of Conduct Standards.”
“If we can’t find out who is responsible
for the damage, we bill the Department
of Housing. They will then assess the
damage to the residents of ‘the dorm
where the damage took place,” he said.
Robb said, “This type of behavior with
telephones at the University, especially
in the residence halls, is serious.”
He said there are other i kinds of
telephone abuse which occur. (Breaking
of telephones, removing handsets, and
removing the phones from the walls are
other methods of telephone destruction
which occur, he said.
Suit, who handles the disciplinary
action resulting from misuse of
telephones by students, said last year
there were approximately 40 cases of
telephone misuse reported. ~
He said most of the incidents occur in
batches. Suit said once the matter is
investigated most of the people involved
are discovered.
Students often misuse the telephone
system by calling long-distance from
dorm telephones that break down and
charging die call to a false University
number, Suit said.
He said all of these incidents are
violations of the Pennsylvania law as
well as University laws. Charges can be
pressed if damage is done to the
telephones, he said.
Former CIA director discloses
retainer tp Watergate larcenist
WASHINGTON (AP) Richard Helms, former director of
the Central Intelligence Agency, disclosed yesterday that one
of the men arrested in the Watergate break-in was being paid
a $lOO monthly retainer at the time.
And Helms’s onetime deputy told the Senate Watergate
committee that John D. Ehrlichman denied to him that he had
sent E. Howard Hunt to get CIA assistance for a White House
“plumbers” assignment. Hunt later pleaded guilty to his
involvement in the Watergate break-in.
Gen. Robert E. Cimiman, a four-star general whois now
commandant of the Marine Corps, said Ehrlichman’s denial
“shook up my recollection,” but that a transcript of his tape
recorded meeting with Hunt confirmed it again.
“There is no question in your mind as you appear before this
committee?” asked Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn.
“No sir,” said Cushman.
The committee; driving to .finish the current phase of the
hearings and go on vacation by the end of next week, polished
of its questioning of Helms and Cushman in a day. Not since
the third week of the nine-week old hearings have two wit
nesses come and gone in the same day.
“The agency had no involvement in the break-in, no in
volvement whatever,” said Helms, pounding his palm against
the table.
Helms, now ambassador to Iran, said he resisted White
House feelers to get the CIA involved in the Watergate
coverup, saying “I want to lean heavily on the fact that I was
trying to keep the agency clean and that I did not succumb, as
long as I kept it clean I felt I was doing my job.”
Cushman, who appeared in uniform with rows of ribbons on
his chest, said that when Hunt came to see him July 22,1971,
he tape-recorded the conversation because Hunt requested
they meet alone in his office. =
The transcript of that conversation, given to the committee,
showed Hunt saying “I’ve been charged with a highly sen
sitive mission by the White House to visit and elicit in
formation from an individual whose ideology we aren’t en
tirely sure of.” -
Hunt asked for “flash alias documentation” and “some
degree of physical disguise” and Cushman ordered it done.
Hunt was given “notional pocket litter documentation,which
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included false identification cards, as well as a wig, a voice
altering device and a camera hidden in a tobacco pouch.
The key point of the transcript, however was a partial
quotation from Hunt that began “Well, Ehrlichman said ...”
and Cushman’s'reply, “Yes, he called me.”
Cushman said on last Dec. 13, almost a year after he
became : Marine commandant, he was told by CIA official
William Colby that the agency needed to prepare a summary
of their contacts with Hunt.
“He refreshed my memory on the Ehrlichman phone call. I
couldn’t remember in December who phoned me from the
White House. I thought it was Ehrlichman but I wasn't sure.”
Cushman said he &ctated a memo on Jan. 8, but because he
wasn’t certain enough about the source, he wrote that it was
either Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson or John W. Dean 111.
Ehrlichman telephoned and said, “Look, I can’t recall this
phone call prior to the 22nd of July, in fact my records show I
was out of town,” Cushman recalled. “This shook up my
recollection even worse.”
He said Dean, then the White House counsel, also telephoned
to deny sending Hunt over.
Cushman said he then rewrote the memorandum, leaving
out all names. Then, when he got the transcript of the tape, he
went back to his original thought that the call came from
Ehrlichman, he said.
“Is it your testimony Ehrlichman put no pressure at all on
you to have his name removed,” Cushman was asked.
“No, sire... he didn’t ask me to tear it up.”
Both Cushman. and Helms testified Hunt’s demands
mounted to the point where they cut of f CIA help.
Cushman said he learned of the 1971 break-in of the office of
Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in May, while he was in Europe
and long after he had left the CJA-
Helms said that his preoccupation in the months following
the June 17,1972, breakin of Democratic Party headquarters
“was to keep the agency at a distance from all these
problems."
He said he did not tell President Nixon of the pressure being
put on him because “since we stood firm, it seemed to me to be
adequate under the circumstances.”
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