European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuday october 17, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 i la ins reunite scattered family Bremerton Wash. A the motto of the Western coun try cousins net a group of 335radio hams is help to All night the members tune in relay messages and help locate friends. It did help Floyd Tex Youngf St. George Utah find his Long lost Brothers and sister recently. At Bir Hyoung s Mother had died when Floyd and a twin Lloyd were born in 1918. Over the years the twins and three olde Brothers and a sister became twins were adopted into separate families and were Given different last names. Young got infrequent letters from som of his own family until 1949, when he lost All night through Ham Rob Ert l. Klepper in Everett,Wash., Young located one brother Noble Erickson now 62 an living in Everett. Klepper phoned Erickson and relayed his conversation with Young Over the Ham who was listen ing in Floyd e. Gossard country Cousin in Crescent City calif., heard Young men Tion another brother Harold or knew a Man in cres cent City by that name. He phoned but Erickson 65, was at work. Erickson s wife Vivian confirmed that her husband was Young s brother. Gossar patched mrs. Erickson on the Telephone into the Ham network and she gave Young More de tails of his Washington he Learned his sister Martin 59, lives in Custer Wash. Brother Ralph 56, Livest Stan Wood Wash., and the twin Lloyd Peppett 50, is re covering in the los Angeles area from head injuries suffered in an Auto Accident nearly a year were exchanged and plans started for a next night Young was reunited on the air with his brother Harold in Crescent City. Harold s son Bill who Myoung had last seen As a baby and Young s wife Vivian also joined the broadcast. Death Chase three persons were killed an three seriously injured at this Harlem inter Section when a car pursued by police smashed into a station Wagon right. Police said Theca was going the wrong Way on a one Way Street up photo Hope fades for meeting Moon trip deadline by Edward k. Delon Houston up six years ago the late president John set a challenging National goal a round trip tothe Moon s surface by . Astronauts before Jan. 1, 1970.little Hope remains today of meeting this the decade nears its cipro however astronauts May come tantalizingly close. It now appears one or two Apollo Crews might Fly within a few Miles of the Moon without Landing during the last months of 1969. The soonest an actual .Moon Landing appears possible is mid-1970. The National aeronautics an space administration Nasa has not officially abandoned the goal set by Kennedy. In theory at least it might still be Many Nasa officials say in private they feel a Moon land ing before the end of the decade will prove has been reflected publicly in recent statements myspace Agency administrator James e. Webb and others who have said the chances of a Moon Landing in this decade Are growing Slimmer All the time. Others have said they believe the goal remains barely Possi ble but that it depends on the unlikely Prospect of perfect Suc Cess in All missions leading to the lunar think it s a better than 50-50 Chance of getting a Success Ful round trip to the Moon by the end of 1969," or. Edwar Welch chief adviser to the pres ident on space Agency activity said recently. We Don t know How much the Jan. 27 Apollo fire set Back the timetable because we Don t knowhow successful each of the com ing flights will they Are All successful we can make s problems with a de creasing budget have Little of rooting for Ronnie mrs. Vera Vander Laua left of West Newbury it. F and Bunn Kop of South Egremont mass., join sunday in Concord n.h., in singing the praises of Cali fornia gov. Ronald Reagan. The girls termed him a modern Paul Reagan s new Hampshire backers formally opened a presiden tial primary Campaign office in Concord. A feet on the lunar Landing sched ule. Most Apollo equipment Al ready is paid for and of All Nasa programs the Apollo Al fort has been least hit in umm Oney Pinch. The major Barrier betwee Apollo and its Long standing goal is twofold increasing delays stemming partly from technical problems and partly from the Apollo fir which killed three astronauts last Complete set of equipment untested in space and thus pos Sessing unknown potential for Success or the Apollo space Craft and making safety modifications including the installation of a Quick opening Hatch has taken far longer than the few months predicted in estimates. Behind schedule at the first of this year be fore the fire the first Apoll flight with astronauts aboard was set for feb. 21. Now Apollo is eight months behind that sched ule. And it May be another 10months or More before that flight a 10-Day test in Earth orbit takes place. I wish we were ahead off where we were in the Spring George Mueller head of Nasa scanned flight Effort commented life does t work out that one can predict at this time whether that first Mann Dapollo flight will go smoothly next fall or whether new time consuming problems will arise during the addition the Moon rocket itself and the spacecraft de signed to actually land two Astro nauts on the Moon called the lunar module both represent unknowns. Neither has has been qualified to carry 7.6-Milllon-Pound-thrust Saturn 5 will make its first flight this fall if All goes Well. Space Agency officials say a minimum of one additional unmanned flight next year will be Neces sary before astronauts Are Al Lowed to ride atop it even if there Are no lunar module a Bug shaped vehicle is months be Hind schedule for its first unmanned teat. Leaking fuel Lin Sand problems with the engine designed to lift astronauts of the Moon s surface Are its cur rent difficulties. Officials say they expect the Ernst unmanned lunar module test Early next year. If All goes Well in that test the Craft might then a declared Man rated for astronaut flight. A second unmanned test however is considered Likely before men Fly the vehicle. A general picture allowing foursome delays can be drawn. One official said Nasa currently expects its future manned flight schedule to follow something like this 1967 no manned flights. 1968 the initial manned Apollo flight possibly followed by one manned Saturn 5 flight late in the year for an Earth orbiting rehearsal of the lunar mission.1969two manned Saturn 5 flights. One or both might oper ate at lunar distances per haps even detaching the lunar module and going Down close tothe lunar surface without land ing."1970 the lunar Landing it self probably about midyear. A Dilly Chicago a presi Dent Johnson s problems pretty often put him in Pickle but a Pickle packers popularity poll puts him at the top of the barrel. Miss Pickle poll blonde Model Sandy Wolsfeld took the poll at state and mad Ison streets for the Pickle packers International inc%.,an Industry Trade association in convention get the voters in the mood she gave each of them a Pickle. She asked who do you want for . President the answers were pres ident Johnson 21, Richard m. Nixon 13, gov. Ronald Reagan 10 and sen. Robert f. Kennedy 6.one passing admirer cast his vote for miss Wolsfeld
