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VOL. 7 3 — N O . 78 Plattsburgh, N . Y., 1 2 9 0 1 , Saturday Morning, November 12, 19©4 10 14»AGB "li

Astronauts hurtle toward space rendezvous CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. iAP)

—Gemini 12 s two skillful astro­nauts wheeled around the world Friday toward a lofty rendez­vous with an Agena rocket, their taxi to success in the four-day finale of a historic man-m-space program.

Command pilot James A. Lov-ell Jr., a veteran of the Gemlm 7 mission, immediately became the free worlds champion space flier by logging more Urne in crbit than any other human.

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The two hunter pilots, Lovell and Edwin E. (Buz) Aldrin Jr... roared flawlessly off an ocean-side launch pad at 3:47 p.m. EST, marking the last blastoff of America's Project Gemini.

The target had preceded (hem 99 minutes earlier with equal smoothness.

Three and one-half hours deep into the mission, Gemini 12 was to whip into a 17.500 mile-an-hour formation flight with the Agena near the end of a space night about 185 miles over the Atlantic, setting the stage for a link-up a few minutes later.

Before going to sleep the as­tronauts planned to crank the 16,000-pound-thrust engine of the target latched to their space ship's nose to propel them into a high-flying orbit of 460 miles.

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Ahead for Lovell and Aldrin is

a bold adventure that will whip j them 16 million miies through space and more. than _ 5$ times around the world. Aldrin plains * about five hours of activity ex- * posed to the hostile environment outside his spaceship, including a two-hour stroll.

What they learn could go a Jong way toward determining man's physical limitations in!

orbit. ; Gemini 12's rendezvous was

designed to match in many; ways the one men must perform ' to return safely from a trip to the moon. Under America's-moon travel plans, two astro-j nauts wilt be boosted off the j moon's surface in a small space , cab to a rendezvous and link-up i with the orbiting mothership. i

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The flight suffered two frus trating delays this week—a total of 4S hours—but Friday's count-! down went off without a hitch. ;

''All data looks good on the • Gemini 12 mission." Mission; Control reported as the giant Titan 2 rocket built up 8.8 mil­lion horsepower arching the spacecraft into pursuit of the Agena. .

*'You're steering right downj the pike" The astronauts vvere j told just a few minutes into the! air. - * j

"Man! this is pretty good; visual simulation," came the i

reply from Lovell, referring to the months of simulations and training sessions they: had hejd in preparation for the flight.

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Lo\ell set the new space en­durance record the minute he got up there becau*e he shared the old record of 33U hour and 35 minutes with his flying partner on Gemini 7 — his only other space musion.

Minor problems cropped up at two stations in the worldwide tracking network, neither of which was expected to affect; the mission. The Bermuda sta­tion reported radar problems, and the Canton outpost in the Central Pacific had a faulty high-frequency transmitter.

This was a nostalgic day for the Gemini launch teams who work at Pad 19, starting point for some of man's boldest ad­ventures. Pad 19 now will be closed.

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When Lovell aod AWrio walked to the base of the rocket to mount an elevator for the slow ride to the 100-foot level, the pad crew handed each a piece of cardboard shaped like theater tickets. Signed by hundreds of technicians, they "admit one/'

And, once at the door of their spaceship, they were greeted with another sign: "Notice. Last

chance. No reruns. Show will ' close after this performance."

The astronauts had a joke of their o*n. Lovell wore a sign on" te biRk tfc*; *a*d in red letters;

The*' and .Aldrin had one that read "End "

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The 7,&09-poiiXKl Agena target was drilled into orbit on the up of a 10-story Atlas rocket that glinted brilliantly m the Florida sun splashing the rocketport flatiands with SO-degree weath­er

Amid a stream of fire and a thunderous roar, the Atlas rose gracefully, true on course and precisely on time, at 2:08 p.m. It could be seen for miles in the bnght, blue sky, dotted only by a few clouds.

This was a great Atlas!" declared the flight director, Glynn S. Lunney.

Lovell and Aldrin could not see it, even though they were only 6,000 feet away, but they heard radio reports of the Age-na's flight. The astronauts1

hatches had been shut about 15 minutes eariier. Strapped in their cramped seats, they could not lean up to Gemini 12's two small windows to spot the rock­et.

A long night's work ahead, Navy Capt. Lovell, 38, and Air

Force Maj. Aldrin, 36, slept un­til 10:30 a m. after going to bed about 1 a.m., then ate a hearty breakfast before slipping into their spacesuits. They had 10 fellow astronauts in their quar­ters for <* meal of steak, eggs, toast and coffee.

All preparations went like clockwork, a departure from the frustrating problems that plagued the flight. during the week. Twice, technicians had to replace faulty automatic pilot systems in the Titan, and twice, they had to call a 24-hour scrub.

Tucked away In a special spot inside Gemini 12's crowded cockpit was a picture of pretty Barbara George, 14, of Houston, Tex., a friend of the Lovell fami

Barbara suffers from an incu­rable disease called ulcerative colitis, a disease she has battled half her life. Lovell promised to take the picture into space and return it to her — as a souvenir of the lofty adventure,

Gemini 12, the final two-man mission before the start of three-man Project Apollo flights early next year, basically had three primary objectives: ren­dezvous, link-up and an exten­sive investigation of the prob* lems that have plagued Ameri­can spacewalkers.

Elizabeth St. School to be closed next week The old Elizabeth St. School;

building will have no more! classes in it after Nov. 17.

School Supt. Dr. Antonio M. j Lancione said Friday the 37 j children who attend special

Kiesinger's | Nazi past j miniinized BONN, West Germany (AP)—i

In a bid for public support of the dominant Christian Democratic party's candidate for chancel­lor, the government moved Fri­day to play down Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Nazi past and to praise his contribution to Euro­pean unity.

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While Kiesinger's supporters worked behind the scenes to line up votes in Parliament, the gov­ernment spokesman, Karl-Guenther von Hase, told a news conference people "who know what Kiesinger has done for French-German relations and for the free world would not be influenced by bombast about his record."

Kiesinger. 62. for the past eight years minister-president (prime minister) of the state of Baden- Wuerttemberg, helped run the Foreign Ministry's radio section under the Nazis. He has been criticized because of this.

Kiesinger's state government released a document which said Kiesinger had been denounced by a coworker m the Nan For­eign ttHustry in IHi because he had opposed anti-Jewis* propa­ganda. No acton was taken oc the denunciation, however, add Kiesinger was aot removed from his }ofc jntil the war end­ed

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classes in the building will stay home Thursday and Friday so school maintenance crews can move out the classroom furni­ture.

All the children will be trans­ferred to other school buildings, he said — the Oak St, Bailey Ave. and Junior High Schools.

The school board this week gave Lancione authority to dis­pose of "excess furniture no longer of value to the school system/'

He plans to auction off the equipment remaining at the Elizabeth St. building, which

I was erected before the turn of | ! the century. j Squeezing the children into j : the other schools will cause j some hardship, said Gilbert Du-1 ken, the city's special educa- \ tion director, "but to be very!

honest, to keep the children in ;the (Elizabeth St.) building , could perhaps cause a very ser- j ious tragedy/'

Regular fire drills are held at the old wooden-floored, three-

. story building. But school offi-! cials still are dissatisfied that I it takes at most 45 seconds to j \ empty the structure. They want I the school closed—permanently. \

U.S. in biggest Viet drive SAIGON, South Viet Nam j have penetrated, but never

(AP) — Another U.S. brigade j found the manpower to occupy. jumped off Friday in War Zone j Announced American aircraft C, enlarging Operation Attlebo- i losses in the war rose to 774. ro into what spokesmen said is • the largest American drive of j T T % 1 -the war. B52 jets made a fresh j J H l l I l t e r S D O u V saturation bombing of enemy i ? I • -»* • base camps within the zone. l O U l l t l H I M a i n e

About 25,000̂ Americans are WLNN, Maine, (AP) —The now committed* against the Viet! body of a Connecticut hunter, Cong's already bloodied 9th Di-, Who had been missing since vision, which they probably out-; Wednesday, was found by number 5 to 1, in that jungle i searchers * Friday in woods at territory centered 65 miles: nearby Lee. northwest of Saigon. j

Though the day's contacts j A medical examiner said Ros-were minor, the count of enemv j <** Young, 51, of Bristol, Conn.! W p n / l l f w i l r dead in more than a week of,had died of a coronary occlu- «C>C11XX1>VIV fighting rose to 900. Some! s^oa-

ALL ABOARD! - James Lovell leads Ed Aldrin from the crew dressing room near Friday as they head for the Tttao-II rocket launch complex 19 at Cape Kennedy, Fla., and the Gemini-12 spacecraft atop Its nose.

Court rules on Georgia

American infantry units have been hit hard, but over-all U.S. losses were still officially called light in this restaging of battle over land the allies previously

Young had not been seen since he left the camp of a fel­low townsman, Searie Rideout, around 2 p.m. Wednesday to go hunting for deer.

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ATLANTA, Ga. <AP)-Threej federal judges said Friday they j will not allow election of a gov-1 ernor by the Georgia legislature J to decide the deadlocked race { between Republican Howard H. I Callaway and Democrat Lester G Maddox.

This raised the prospect of a ;

runoff election within the next' month —either by state action . or court order.

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The court delayed its formal \ order until next Tuesday. But the judges rr-ade plain their in-: ten tion of vending the state cocv! atitutior's provision for a leg-, islative decision i

Neither Callaway nor Maddox receded a majority in the gen­eral election Tuesday because of a strong write-in vote for former Gov Ell̂ s G. Amail. a Democrat Maddox. a segrega­tionist, had defeated ArnaiL a : moderate, earlier for the Demo­cratic ^ominauor!

Chief J^dgt Eibert P Tuck of the 5tu. Circuit Cour. of Ap-

News in brief Our men in Viet Nam praised

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Act-, ing for President Johnson, j Marine Gen. Wallace M. Greene j Jr. placed a carnation-studded1

wreath before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as the nation paused to honor its veterans Friday.

Moments later, in a Veterans Day speed in the open air am- * phitbeater at Arlington National Cemetery, the commandant of

the Corps singled out tor special praise the young men serving in Viet Nam.

"Never in past wars have we asked so much of our young servicemen as we are asking In Viet Nam." the short, trim gen­eral told an estimated 3,700 per-sons seated in the arena. "And never have they responded wKb so much professionalism and understanding.**

Admits subwav slaving NEW YORK ; AP - A Bronx

metal worker Friday pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the slaying a year ago of a subway passenger who had come to the aid of two elderly women.

Jose Antonio Sakiana. 20. en­tered his pita after ten ;urors had been chosen &r his first degree murder tnai in State Supreme Coon

The knife slaying cf ArtVjr

Collins helped to bring about a city la* which provides pay* ments to the survivors of per­sons slain while coming to the aid of crime victims.

The measure is known MS the Good Samaritan Law.

Collins. 28. was stabbed to. death in the presence of his wtffc and infant daughter.

Police said he had sought la protect the two ekterty WQBMH from abuse by Saldana.

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