I6—The Daily Collegian Monday, September 13, 1976
Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' to be diOlayed Friday
PALMDALE, Calif. (UPI) The
space agency will take its first step in a
new space venture next Friday when a
strange, black and white space machine
with wings, named "the Enterprise," is
rolled out of its hangar at this desert
airfield.
Making its public debut will be the
Space Shuttle rocket plane that the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration is counting on to make
Earth orbital spaceflight less expensive
and more routine.
The Shuttle will be an orbital trans
port, hauling men and women, lab
oratory equipment and satellites to
and from orbit with a regularity that
Kissinger embarks on
African peace
WASHINGTON (AP)
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger today heads for
Africa, aiming to get
warring blacks and whites
to put away their guns and
begin talking peace.
On the eve of his
departure via Zurich where
he will stop overnight,
Kissinger received from
aides an up-to-the-minute
appraisal of the political
and security situations in
the first three countries on
his itinerary. These are
Tanzania, Zambia and
South Africa.
U.S. administration
officials acknowledged it
was an appraisal that
'Jersey Wolfman' truck king
YORK, ( AP) Jim Wenzel, a young
trucker who's cb radio handle is "Jersey
Wolfman" let his tractor-trailer engine do
the howling in drag race competition
yesterday at the Truckers' Rendevous.
Wenzel, 21, a Lakewood, N.J., resident
who's been driving for a living-since he was
18, was declared "King of the Hill" among
more than 100 race entrants at a nearby drag
strip. .
His relatively small engine had only 175
horsepower, while most other entrants had
upwards of 600 horsepower. But the winner
was.declared on the basis of a handicapping
system.
"I think some of the other drivers got
nervous because they had to spot me two or
three seconds," said Wenzel, whose rig
Saturday, Sept. 25
space officiali hope someday will ap
proach airline-type operations.
The key to the Shuttle is its reusability.
It is designed to make at least 100
roundtrips to orbit it without major
modifications. Today's multimillion
dollar rockets are dropped in the sea
after only a few minutes' work.
The craft is a cross between an air
plane and a rocket. It will take off
vertically ' like a rocket from Cape
Canaveral, Fla., and land like an air
plane on a new three-mile long runway
at the Cape or at Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif,
It is scheduled for its first flight in
1979, from Cape Canaveral. The shuttle
made somber reading,
particularly in the case of
South Africa. In that
republic, led by Prime
Minister John Vorster's
Afrikaner government,
violence and riots have
swept major cities since
June with Pretoria, the
capital, as the latest setting
for shooting.
Vorster has ordered the
most stringent police
precautions to be taken,
hoping to insure that
Kissinger, when he arrives
there Sept. 17, will not have
to witness either spon
taneous or staged
demonstrations of non
white discontent.
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journey
Quite apart from the
procedural and political
substance involved in his
mission of peace, Kissinger
seems certain to be beset
by another controversial
problem when he reaches
Pretoria.'
, The secretary told a
news conference Saturday
he wants to meet not only
with leaders of the black,
the colored or mixed-blood
and the Asian communities
who make up the country's
nonwhite majority of 17.7
million.
Presumably he already
has cleared this with
Vorster,
covered the quarter-mile track in 26.21
seconds in one its runs. '
On Saturday, Virgil "Weed Patch" Weed
was judged "King of the Hill" in skill driving,
obstacle course competition in the weekend
event sponsored by Alcoa. .
Weed works for a New. Stanton, Pa.
trucking firm and shares driving chores on
the road with his wife, Debby, whose handle
is "Wacky Tobaccy."
About 30 truckers, driving the same new
rig, negotiated pylons and barricades before
docking their rigs, unhooking the trailer and
parking the tractor.
The judges, who included two time
Indianapolis 500 winner Roger Ward, scored
on speed and form.
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will circle Earth 22 times with two pilots
and glide to a' landind at Edwards. On
later flights it can stay up seven days
and will have the capability for month
long flights.
The main part of the Shuttle is called
the orbiter. Its 78-foot fuselage is
massive and more like a flying boxcar.
It can carry as many as seven people
and up to 60,000 pounds of payload into
orbit.
For launch, the orbiter will be aided
into orbit by two large solid propellant
rocket boosters which will be recovered
by parachute and a big, disposable fuel
tank.
The first orbiter dubbed' by
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa
(UPI) Mounting backlash
from white civilians to
lingering racial rioting took
the lives of two blacks and
two colored in three separate
incidents during the weekend,
police said yesterday.
Police Maj. Gen. David
Kriel, who heads South
Africa's riot control units,
said police also killed three
others, pushing the weekend
deaths to seven in the Cape
Town area.
Security police arrested
three colored= a former
"Miss Africa South," a school
principal and a gynecologist.
A white resident at
Matroosfontein, on Cape
Town's western suburb, shot
to death two knife-wielding
KKK leaders jailed
NEW ORLEANS (AP)
Two leaders of the Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan and three
men attending its convention
have been arrested after a
shouting match with lawmen,
sheriff's deputies said.
Officers arrested David
Duke, national director of the
group, and Dr. James
Warner, Louisiana Grand
Dragon, at midnight Satur
day, near a cross burning
ceremony in St. Bernard
Parish outside New Orleans,
charging them with inciting
to riot.
Warrants had been issued
earlier in the day after three
persons at the KKK national
convention were booked in
what Lt. Bob Lindsey called a
"verbal confrontation" with
"It is rare that
even our most favorite
groups captivate us on
a first listening.
Hall and Oates do so
sublimely."
President Ford "The Enterprise" in
response to a spate of requests from fans
of the television space show, "Star
Trek" is taking shape at the Rockwell
International Corp., plant at this desert
aircraft center.
The tan scaffolding that surrounds it in
its assembly hangar will be removed
and it will be rolled out at 12:30 p.m.
EDT Friday, marking as major
milestone in the four-year-old program.
The delta-winged craft with its tall
swept-back tail will be moved by trailer
from Palmdale to the Dryden Flight
Research Center at Edwards 36 miles
away next January for a year of at
mospheric flight tests.
weekend rioting in S.
blacks. A third black was
captured by a yelling crowd
after a chase down a street.
Police said the
Matroosfontein - killing
reflected a growing white
backlash to the rioting that
has spread from Cape Town
to 18 surrounding - farming
communities. Vigilantes have
begun guarding white schools
and whites have staged a run
on gunstores.
The nationwide death
toll in 12 weeks of anti-
government violence reach
ed 338 at the weekend. It
included a black shot dead by
police Saturday in a
segregated black township at
Attridgeville, near Pretoria,
1,040 miles north.
Yesterday's violence broke
parish intelligence officers. ,
The three were identified as`
Charles Bilquist, 27,
Chalmette, La. • Kenneth
Parshall, 71, Valencia, Pa.;
and Michael Breda, 34,
Pasadena, Tex.
Duke said they were among
delegates who got angry when
police photographed them as
they entered the klan meeting
at a Metairie hotel.
"That's a form of in-
timidation and harassment.
Our people went over and told
them they were traitors to'
their race," said Duke shortly
after he addressed a small
rally yesterday.
"This is , just political
harassment," Duke said.
There were cheers of "White
Power."
Yet
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Worchester, Mass.
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For those flights the Shuttle will be
carried on top of a
,747 jumbo jet NASA
purchased from American Airlines.
The plan is to first test the Orbiter on
the ground and in the air attached to the
747 without a Shuttle crew. Starting next
May, there will be a series of five flights
on the 747 with two pilots in the orbiter.
Then, next July, astronauts Fred
liaise and Gordon Fullerton will make
the flight in the 'orbiter. They will be
carried to an altitude of 28,000 feet by the
747 and released 'for the first time. The
Shuttle will glide back to a landing on the
vast runway later. "
Eight such' flights are planned with
Haise, Fullerton, Joseph Engle and
out .in the segregated Cape
Town suburb of Elsies River.
Colored threw rocks at
passing cars and smashed
windows of white-owned
shops in a business district
still littered with rubble from
last week's riots.
On Saturday, one colored
man died and another was
wounded when a white
Lebanese
Syrian president tries to
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)
Syrian President Ha fez Assad
summoned Lebanese Moslem
Premier Rashid Karami to
Syria yesterday in the latest
effort to end Lebanon's civil
war.
However, fighting flared on
all major war fronts
. despite
'the stepped-up peace talks.
Lebanese Moslems and
Christians launched dozens of
probing ground attacks along
the front line'dividing Beirut,
officials on both sides said.
Tanks and armored cars
were used in day-long attacks
and counterattacks between
Moslem slums and Christian
suburbs at Chiyah and Ein
Rummaneh.
Each side also accused the
other of starting random
shelling at a neighboring
mountain front that includes
a dozen fashionable summer
resorts once favorite holiday
spots for Arabian oil princes.
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motorist fired three shots at a
gang that forced his car off
the road in the white suburb
of Crawford and attacked the
automobile with a hail of
rocks.
At the mountain village of
Franshoeck 40 miles north
east of Cape Town, police said
three whites shooting,
simultaneously , killed a
terminate civil
Hospital spokesmen
estimated nearly 80 killed and
Karami received an
"urgent" invitation from
Assad to discuss the war, his
office said. It was the latest in
a long series of pilgrimmages
by Lebanese Christian and
Moslem leaders to
Damascus.
Syrian air force com
School board to discuss
jr. high recreation area
The proposal to develop
Haugh tract into an all
purpose recreational area for
Park Forest - Junior High
School will he discussed at a
meeting of the State College
Area School Board at 7:30
tonight at Fairmount Avenue
Elementary School, 131 W.
Nittany Ave.
Rec Hall
Richard Truly sharing flying time. Then
the orbiter will be flown on the 747 to
Marshall Space Flight Center, Hunts
ville, Ala., for vertical vibration tests.
The first spaceflight will be made by a
second orbiter, not yet named, now in
the beginning stages of assembly. The
original orbiter will be refurbished after
the atmospheric tests and readied !or
space missions in 1981.
Three more orbiters are planned to
make their first flights in 1982, 1983, an:.!)
1985.
For the initial tests at Edwards, the
Enterprise orbiter is equipped with
simulated space parts including dummy
heat protective tiles made of styrofoam
Africa
colored man who emerged
from a crowd and began
pouding a parked car with a
brick.
Security police meanwhile
arrested former beauty queen
Lydia Johnstone, 22, colored
school principal Joe Titus and
gynecologist Dr. L. T. Van
der Poel "in connection" with
the unrest.
mander Maj. Gen. Naji Jamil
held two secret meetings over
the wekend with senior
leaders of Yasir Arafat's
Palestinian guerrilla
movement at the Lebanese
mountain resort of Saufar.
The town, 12 miles east o.f,
Beirut, is the closest position
to the Lebanese captial held
by the Syrian forces.
The board will consider
plans to build tennis courts, a
ballfield, wildlife preserve s 1
an orchard and garden plotbli)
on Haugh tract.
The board also will discuss
the benefits and hazards of
providing soft water to State
College area schools.
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help