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W*dnMday, May 16, 1973

WORRY GLINIG George W. Crane, Ph.O., M.D.

Experts Seek To Salvage Skylab’s Three Manned Missions

CIA’s #2 Man Implicated In Scandal

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main experiment areas — medical, solar astronomy and earth resources surveys. He raised the possibility that the Skylab 1 launch might have to be delayed beyond Sunday if an acceptable plan hasn’t been readied by then or if something else should go wrong with the Skylab station. The launch time Sunday was set for 11 a.m. EDT. The three astronauts flew back to the Johnson Space Center near Houston, Tex., yesterday to continue their prelaunch medical quarantine and to work out new rendezvous procedures that will be required because of the solar panel problem.

The Bible says God slew a man who used a contraceptive device! But it apparently was not because the Almighty opposed birth control itself. Note the religious-legal debate about abortion! Heed my advice to such wives as Marcia. A baby gives you more education than college does!

(AP) — Voicing their opinions, frustrations and anger at “double fast time,” more than 400 persons gathered here Monday night to tell the Department of Transportation why they think Southwestern Michigan should go on Central Time. Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties, which occupy Michigan’s extreme southwestern corner, have appealed to the

CASE X-509: Marcia M., aged 25, is a worried wife. “Dr. Crane,” she begged, “I need some advice quickly. "For we have been married 2 years but have avoided pregnancy, because we wanted to buy our home and a new car before we started our family. "Now, however, I find that I

change. “Double fast time” refers to Daylight Saving Time added on to Eastern Standard Time. The emotional issue is tied largely to agriculture in the region, which produces grapes, apples, peaches and other crops. “This time deal raises hell with the fruit growers,” one farmer testified. “We have to wait an extra hour to Harvest (on DST) due to the dew prob-

am pregnant.

"Since I am only 2 months along, wouldn’t it be wise for me to have an abortion?

Hark back to the Bible and you will find that God killed a man named Onan for using a

Onan didn’t want to give a child to his sister-in-law, for the baby would then be credited to

her dead husband.

Today we hear an interesting debate over abortion Many clerics and kindly folks say abortion is murder Legally, however, unless a baby is born and takes at least one breath, it is not an heir and thus can’t inherit any of the

parents’ estate.

For the law maintains that a baby must be able to function on its own power (at least for one breath i before it can claim membership in the human race. I’nless it has taken at least one breath, it is legally just an appendage of its mother, with no more individuality than her vermiform appendix or tonsils, both of which derive their food

and oxygen from the mother. The pathologist places a dead baby's lungs in water to determine if it took even one

breath after birth

If so. its lungs float

If it never breathed, they sink. So it might make an interesting debate between clergymen and lawyers as to whether abortion means murder. Technically, is it murder to remove an appendix from its maternal supply of food and oxygen? Or tonsils or the uterus or a

gall bladder? But young wives like Marcia must be on guard about worshiping idols called automobiles, suburban homes, color TV sets, etc. Psychologically, it is much better for married couples of good I.Q. and healthy background, to invest in a few babies than in new cars and new residential sites. Moreover, if a young wife submits to an abortion, as in Marcia’s circumstances,

4y HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE KENNEDY Fla. (AP) — The crippled Skylab space station, short of electrical power, circled the earth as experts sought ways to salvage three manned missions in America’s first orbiting laboratory. To give them time to ponder, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration delayed the launching of the three Skylab 1 astronauts until Sunday, perhaps longer. Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz were to have ridden a Saturn 1B rocket into space yesterday to link with the 85-ton laboratory for a record 28-day stay in orbit. “We still have high hopes that they can stay up 28 days, but during the last few days their activity will have to be curtailed because of the power shortage,” explained Skylab program director William C. Schneider at a news conference late Monday. “Everybody seems to be holding a post-mortem on Skylab,” he said. “But we think we can achieve a lot of our objectives.” And he said there is still a possibility that the Skylab 2 and 3 flights, each scheduled for 56 days later in the year, might be fulfilled. He said that assessment probably can’t be made until after the Skylab 1 voyage. The laboratory, as large as a three-bedroom house, was lofted into a perfect 272-mile-high orbit Monday by a Saturn 5 rocket. Everything was going so well during the first orbit that a flight control official called it a “superbird.” But trouble began even before the Skylab reached orbit. Just 63 seconds after liftoff, a paper-thin aluminum overcoat designed to protect the lab from micrometeorite hits apparently was ripped from the side of the spacecraft, Schneider reported. This failure apparently damaged two winglike solar panels that were to have extended from the sides of the spaceship to convert the sun’s rays to electrical power. The two 30-foot panels deployed only partially and are useless. efforts to dislodge them by radio command failed. The mishap with the shield occurred 40,000 feet up while the 33-story-tall Saturn 5 was subjected to maximum pressure from high altitude wind shears. “There are severe vibrations at this point in the flight, and they might have caused pressure to build up under the shield, tearing it off,” Schneider said. “We haven’t broken down the data yet to determine exactly what happened." Loss of the two panels reduced the amount of power available on the $294 million spaceship to about half its average usage of 8,000 watts, he said. The other 50 per cent is being provided by four other solar panels that did deploy on another section of the vehicle. To help carry the load on the Skylab 1 flight, about 1,200 watts of power will be transfered from the Apollo command ship that will ferry the astronauts to the station, he said. Fuel cells aboard Apollo combine oxygen and hydrogen to produce electricity. Schneider said the oxygen and hydrogen would last about 17 days and would enable the spacemen to conduct a fairly active schedule. After 17 days, work would have to be curtailed severely because of the even greater

suppose her husband should be killed in an auto wreck before she ever got pregnant again? Suppose she also found it impossible to have another baby, even if her husband remained alive and well‘ > And such wives secretly worry thereafter, for they usually have a guilty conscience. so they subconsciously will have a constant dread of cancer, often of the womb! It’s far better to have your babies while you are young, even if you must buy a used car

power shortage. But valuable data could be obtained on medical affects of long space flight, a prime goal of the mission. He said specialists were assessing power requirements of every experiment and piece of equipment aboard the spaceship in an effort to draw up a new flight plan for the astronauts. “It will have to be a curtailed mission,” he said. “There will be some experiments we won’t be able to accomplish. But he said Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin, who is a physician, should be able to do considerable work in the three

By BROOKS JACKSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 man in the Central Intelligence Agency reportedly has accused former White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean III of trying to enlist CIA help in a Watergate coverup. CIA Deputy Director Vernon A. Walters testified in secret Monday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Later Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., said Walters had testified that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean were “heavily involved” in efforts to misuse the CIA. Another source said one effort had been a Watergate coverup. The account dovetails with statements by former acting FBI chief L, Patrick Gray III. He testified before Senate Watergate investigators last week, and The Associated Press has obtained an official written digest of his remarks. Gray said Walters got the , FBI to postpone interviews with two Watergate witnesses last year on grounds the CIA had “some interest” in them. Walters later conceded under pressure that the CIA actually had no interest whatsoever in the two, Gray said, but not before Ehrlichman personally ordered Gray to cancel a meeting set up to straighten out the matter between the CIA and FBI. Gray said he and Walters agreed this “confusion” was “not normal,” and the two agreed that Gray should tell President Nixon. Gray talked to Nixon by telephone that same day, July 6, blamed the matter on “either carelessness or indifference” by White House aides, and warned Nixon that “this could be injurious to the agencies and could wound the President." The witnesses are two men whose names appeared on checks that passed through the Nixon campaign headquarters and landed in the Miami bank account of Bernard L. Barker, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators. The witnesses arc Mexican lawyer Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre and Minneapolis attorney Kenneth H. Dahlberg. The checks eventually furnished a link between the wiretappers and the Nixon re-election committee. The fresh reports of White House misuse of the CIA came after a day of rapid-fire developments Monday. Missing FBI records of wiretaps on 13 government officials and four newsmen were found

in Ehrlichman’s White House safe, acting FBI Director William Ruckelshaus announced Ehrlichman said he hadn't known in detail what the documents contained. Ruckelshaus said the taps had been ordered in 1969 after presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger told the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover he was “extremely concerned” about news leaks affecting foreign policy. One of the taps picked up conversations of Daniel Ellsberg and figured in last week's dismissal of charges against him in the Pentagon papers trial. Dean, meanwhile, turned over a batch of classified documents to federal court officials after Chief U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica agreed to accept custody. Dean had stashed the documents in a Virginia safe-deposit box, saying he was afraid someone might destroy them He said they relate to the Watergate case, but otherwise gave no indication of what the documents say. Haldeman was called by the Watergate grand jury for a five-hour repeat appearance and Ehrlichman testified briefly. On Capitol Hill, convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt was interviewed for three hours by Senate investigators. The Senate Watergate committee continued gearing up for the start of public hearings, which begin Thursday. The Senate Judiciary Committee went into its third day of hearings on the nomination of Defense Secretary Elliot L. Richardson to be attorney general. Richardson said he has narrowed his choice for a special Watergate prosecutor to four men: U.S. District Court Judge Harold R. Tyler of New York, former New York state Judge David Peck, Colorado State Supreme Court Judge William Erickson and former Deputy U.S. Any. Gen. Warren Christopher of Los Angeles.

WOMEN HAVE BLUES OR ADMIT IT MORE NEW YORK (API - Twice as many women as men dial a special New York telephone number to reach a sympathetic ear, a crisis-intervention center reports. H. Leslie Christie, executive director of Help Line Telephone Center, said women callers outnumber men two to one, and he said 50 per cent of the calls are from persons under 30, most of them female. Help Line, which averages 50,000 calls a year, was started in February 1970 by Marble Collegiate Church at the direction of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Christie said about 35 per cent of the calls concern men-tal-health problems, while 16 per cent involve marital and family difficulties. Just plain loneliness is the reason for many of the calls to 686-3061, and Help Line maintains a “CheeRing” corps of volunteers who regularly telephone shut-ins and aged lonely people to boost their morale.

Michiganites Protest A 'Double Fast Time’ BERRIEN SPRINGS Mich, department for the time

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It nearly breaks our hearts to see our Merchandise GO ON SALE at the ridiculously low prices you see advertised here! But our ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD in the shortest possible time! SO WE GAVE THE ORDERS! CLEAR THE SHELVES! CLEAR the Stockrooms! CLEAR out Everything! Strip the Store to the Bare Walls. WE WANT ACTION . . . SELL OUR inventory . . . Even IF WE SUFFER A LOSS . . . FORGET PROFITS and give the People of this community Real Bargains . . . We know they’ll respond to an Honest, Legitimate QUITTING BUSINESS SALE!

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lem in the morning and by then I can barely make it to market in time. How many states are two hours ahead of the sun?” The area is tied largely to Illinois and Indiana for commerce and transportation, instead of the heavily populated Southeastern Michigan area. “Everything we do depends on Chicago and South Bend, not Detroit,” said one. “Detroit should secede from the state. Why should we let Detroit rule

us?”

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"For what is the difference between use of contraceptives to prevent a baby versus having abortion after one is

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But God slew Onan, not because of any stated Divine veto of contraceptives, but because of Onan’s selfishness.