The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1968 — Page 10

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, October 24, 1968

LIGHTS THE WAY--This courthouse lawn sign was erected Tuesday afternoon on the southside of the Courthouse to give county residents an up to date account of the county’s United Fund drive porgress. The proposed goal this year is $31,193. -The BANNER Photo, Dennis Abell.

By JOSEPH L. MYLER UPI Senior Editor WASHINGTON (UPI)—At the moment everything is gung ho for the moon— round it in December, on it next summer. But “You can be sure," says Dr. Thomas 0. Paine, that Apollo astronauts never will be committed to any mission—this year or any year—unless the responsible officials Involved are as certain as they can be that the mission will be safe and is likely to succeed. Paine is acting chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was as pleased as everybody else that "our confidence in the Apollo spacecraft was so well confirmed" by the 260-hour flight of Apollo 7. But, he told United Press International, NASA has no intention of allowing Itself to be pushed into hasty decisions by any pressures of any kind. The maiden manned flight of Apollo 7, along with many previous unmanned spacecraft and rocket tests, proved that the United States has the kind of spacecraft, astronauts, and space power it must have to fly to the moon and eventually make a landing there. No Decision Yet But that doesn’t mean a

LeMay’s home state shows Nixon winner

By RICHARD E. LIGHTNER COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI)Ohio politicians said a month ago support for third-party candidate George C. Wallace would drop off as the Nov. 5 election drew nearer. Now they point to polls which show Wallace’s support in Ohio, the home state of his running mate, Curtis LeMay, has dropped about 8 percentage points. Top Republican leaders predict Richard M. Nixon will carry the state as he did in 1960

when he took Ohio’s 26 electoral votes by 273,000 popular votes. This time they predict a landslide. State Democratic Chairman Eugene (Pete) O’Grady claims Hubert H. Humphrey will “win in a horse race” which he now considers “dead even” in Ohio. In the race for the U.S. Senate. Republican William B. Saxbe clings to a slim lead over Democrat John J. Gilligan. One television network said Gilligan would win. If present trends hold, Ohio

PEKING PUTOUT Word from Peking is that the regime of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung (left) has deprived President Liu Shao-chi (right) of all official posts. They’ve been split for years.

would cast its electoral votes for Nixon and elect Gilligan to the Senate. Humphrey trailed Nixon by 6 to 8 points Sept. 27 but two polls now show Nixon’s lead has dropped to 2 points. One of the polls gives the former vice president the lead on a 35-33 count while the other shows his lead at 36-34. The two polls show Wallace at about 20 per cent. The Democratic National Committee poll gives him 19 per cent while a private pulse taker gives him 17 per cent. One Democratic source told United Press International the former Alabama governor would get 20 per cent of the vote, with 12 per cent of it at the expense of Humphrey. However, a Republican said the addition of LeMay, former Air Force chief of staff, to the Wallace ticket would hurt Nixon more than Humphrey. O’Grady said, “the strong hawk vote which Nixon was getting will now go to Wallace” because of LeMay, often described as “a hawk’s hawk.” Republicans cite splits in the Democratic Party, what they feel is a bad television image for Humphrey and a return to the GOP ranks by Negroes. They predict a rise from the 5 per cent Negro vote for Barry Goldwater to 15 per cent. O’Grady credits Humphrey’s campaigning, television and his programs with the success the vice president has had in pulling nearer to Nixon.

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decision is possible now about the nature of the next Apollo missions. Paine said “a high level review board here at headquarters” will study detailed reports of the Apollo 7 flight before the NASA management decides whether to make the Apollo 8 mission, scheduled for late December, a manned flight In orbit or around the moon. This decision, he said, cannot be made before Lt. Gen. Samuel C, Phillips, Apollo program director, has gone through “all the tapes” from the Apollo 7 flight and made his recommendations. This will be around mid-November or a little before. Apollo 7’s has been described as "a perfect performance.” But It nevertheless generated a number of questions that have still to be answered—among them the why of astronauts’

susceptibility to cold infections in space. Fears have been expressed that NASA, whose funds have been cut by Congress this year, might feel impelled to bring off a stunt of some sort— such as a circumlunar flight with men—to “improve its budgetary position.” No Hasty Maneuver This is silly, according to Paine. A hastily contrived space spectacular which ended In disaster would be the worst possible thing that could happen to the NASA program, he feels. Whether December’s Apollo 8 mission goes as far as the moon or Just drifts In earth orbit, It will be one of the most critical flights In the lunar landing program. It will be the first manned mission of an Apollo spacecraft boosted into orbit by the Saturn 5. This is America’s moon

rocket, a monster nearly five times as powerful as the Saturn 1 rocket which carried Wally Schirra and his Apollo 7 teammates Into the skies. Actually, no final decision about a flight around the moon for Apollo 8 can be made until the moment when, shortly after launch, Saturn 5 proves Itself In Its first performance with a manned spacecraft on top. Test Lunar Module Even if Apollo 8 turns Into a successful lunar orbit flight and return, the most important mission prior to a moon landing will still have to be flown. This is Apollo 9, scheduled for February. This will be the first test in earth orbit, with men aboard, of the "lunar module" designed to lower two Apollo astronauts to the surface of the moon and hoist them back to space on the great day when a lunar landing is attempted.

The moon lander, according to Paine, “is the most critical piece of equipment” in the Apollo project. Until it is tested

in flight, no one can say when it will be possible to put astronauts on the moon. But by the end of March, Paine said, “We should be in good position to say whether a moon landing is possible in 1969 or whether It will have to be postponed until 1970.”

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