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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, September 25, 1967

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Part 24 the stars and stripes monday september 25, 1967 Surveyor shut Down for night Pasadena Calif. A Surveyor 5 was shut Down Sun Day for the two week Long lunar night after televising 18,006 Pic Tures More than the combined output of two previous Surveyor  s a so achingly successful Climax to a Mission we once thought was ruined said or. Leonard Jaffe project scientist As he studied photographs the three legged Craft took of itself the lunar terrain and the Sun s Corona. Sprang a leak the 600-Pound spacecraft landed gently in the sea of Tranquility sept. 10 despite a fuel pressure leak in flight which threatened to let it crash out of control. Throughout the two week lunar Day it was kept Busy by con trollers at the Jet propulsion Laboratory taking pictures and Radi oing data from a device i lowered to the surface which analyses soil by radiation. Re sults from this Experiment the first chemical analysis of the Moon s surface Are expected to be announced late this  5 is the most successful yet in a series designed to examine potential astronaut Landing Sites at close  1, which landed in june 1966, took 11,150 pictures and Surveyor 3, which landed last april televised 6,319 for total of 17,469some 500 less than the output of Surveyor 5. Surveyor 2 crashed Surveyor 2, launched in sep tember 1966, failed to make steering Man Euver properly and crashed on the Moon. Surveyor4, launched last july 14, stopped sending signals seconds before it was scheduled to land and its Fate is still a  of Surveyor 5 s Clear Sharp pictures show its undamaged legs and Landing pads and the crumbly Rock littered Oil around it. Some of its last pictures taken at Sunset Are among the Best Ever taken of the hot gaseous envelope around the Sun. Shortly after Sunset Engineer from Hughes aircraft co., which built the spacecraft be Gan sending signals to turn on Heaters in an attempt to keep Surveyor 5 warm during the lunar night when temperature drop to 250 degrees below Zero  the spacecraft survives it May be asked to resume Send ing pictures after the Sun rises again on the Moon in two weeks. Algeria frees Tshombe pilots Algiers up the two British pilots forced to Fly kid naked former congolese Premier Oise Tshombe to Algeria on june 30 were set free saturday night by the algerian govern ment. Only one moving the truck at leftist the Only vehicle Able to move on this flooded Street in Sinton Tex. Heavy rain accompanying Hurricane Beulah drenched the South Texas Plains flooding most of the area. Another picture Page 2. A marines beat Odds of 25-1 continued from Page v selves also hit the enemy gun positions. North vietnamese counter freon the Marine outpost at con Thien Droppel sharply. It appeared the intense barrage had knocked out some communist gun emplacements and sent some of the North vietnamese gunners into the cover of their deep fortifications. A communique from the  in Saigon sunday afternoon said North vietnamese artillery and mortar fire wounded 76 More american marines but the marines defending con Thien reported Only 120 incoming a big drop from the 400 to 600 shells that have hit the for Tress every Day for the past 14  North Vietnam the air War was severely hampered by bad weather saturday for the second straight Day. Monsoon storms limited . Air Force strikes to the Southern part of North Vietnam and just about washed out . Navy missions. Buddhists join vote critics continued from Page 1 namese affairs and arrange for cessation of the bombing of North  charged that the sept. 3 elections were1 rigged and pre arranged by the americans in their attempt to legitimize a previously chosen  Tri Quang said he approved the student demonstration. Two unsuccessful presidential candidates runner up Troung Dinh Dzu and Vul Hong Khanh who placed eighth in the elec Tion appeared with Tri qua Ngat his press conference. Dzu branded president elec Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao by the vice president elect  political bloc As Long As they stay in Power we shall have no peace an democracy said Dzu a Saigon lawyer who was recently convicted by a criminal court on charges of illegal Money manipulations and sentenced to nine months in  vietnamese Legal procedures Dzu will be free from jail for at least five or six months. He and five other Defeated presidential candidates 8 in family among 9 killed in California crash Hollister Calif. A nine persons including eight members of a san Antonio,Tex., family were killed Satur Day in a two car Headon Crushon a Rural California Road. Two children survived offi cers said. The dead in the family Range Din age from 4 to 61. Their bodies were found in the wreckage an strewn on a two Lane Road about eight Miles Northwest of Hollis Ter 70 Miles South of san fran Cisco. A Highway patrolman said the vehicles crashed together so violently that they bounced apart nearly 15 feet and were scarcely recognizable. Prune Harvester the two survivors were from the car in which their Mother father and six Sisters died. The Lone occupant of the second car also was killed. The family members had been driving to ranch near Hollister for four years to Harvest  dead were identified As Isidro Martinez. 61, his wife Sitio 45, and Mary 20, Sara 17, Rosa 15, Gloria 9, Santa Juana 8, and Marjorie 4. The occupant of the second car was identified As Ysidro c. Luna 30, Gilroy  survivors Norma Marti Nez 17, and her brother Isidro,14, were in fair condition and satisfactory condition respectively. Deputy Coroner Leonard pol Letti said Luna was driving on the wrong Side of the Road. Have joined forces in a unite political bloc against the Thieu  Quang was asked if he was aligning himself with Dzu s opposition group. Could buddhism Cut itself of from the majority of the peo ple the Monk replied. His answer although enigmatic was taken to mean that he was go ing along with the dissident gis widows May get Aid Philadelphia up the administrator of veterans affairs suggested saturday that Job training or education Bene fits should be made available to widows of servicemen killed in Vietnam. William j. Driver said it would be a big help to the widows if they were eligible for educational benefits to provide either secretarial training Job training or a College education so they May support their  Driver told a news conference that the average age of service men killed in Vietnam is 23, lower than in other wars and their widows Are even younger. Driver was Here for the open ing of a two Day meeting of the . Veteran s commission which will hear views on Veter ans benefits from residents of Pennsylvania new Jersey Mary land Delaware West Virginia Virginia and Washington . . Holds St cuban Parade new York a the 10thannual Steuben Day Parade led by gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller and mayor John v. Lindsay marched along fifth Avenue sat urday in Honor of new York s German american population. Presidential candidates who claim to have the support of the majority of the  said Thieu and by should be overthrown by Legal an peaceful Means. By overthrow we do not mean violence he said. Tri Quang joined Dzu and the student protesters in urging the provisional National Assembly to invalidate Thieu s election and set new elections under a transitional government which would replace Thieu s  Assembly which has the constitutional Power to throwout the election results has until oct. 2 to vote approval or Dis approval of Thieu s election. An Assembly committee has Bee studying charges of irregularities in the  was Tri Quang s first Public statement since he failed to topple Thieu and by s regime in rioting and disorders that verged on civil War in the Spring of 1966. He had appeared at another press conference last month but let another Buddhist Leader Dothe talking for him that time. Baseball . Pennant race to w u . Play Minnesota 90 67 5boston 90 68 % 4 Chicago 89 68 1 5detroit 8 08 h4 it sunday s result Minnesota 9, new York i Chicago 15, Cleveland 1washington 5, Detroit 4 Boston 11, Baltimore 7 pro football sunday s pro football results by the associated pres National league Detroit 31, Cleveland i Baltimore 38, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 28, Pitt Bui go Green Bay 13, Chicago 10 Dallas 38, new York 24washington 30, new Orleans 10 american league Boston 23, Buffalo 0  
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