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1-21 M-M-69 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OISMASCK, N. OAK. 5 fl SC I I BUNE MAKCK TBI THE BiiTMSck-Hrim FINAL BIS Tht Weather limmk-MtndH Variable elwdlnM Monday niohl and Tuaday. Cftanct thowara or ihundariiorma Monday nkwl and Iimtn, anding oarly Tuatday. V.infli noririwaat 10 ta 15 mpn, Low Aanday night to 62, "Inn Tuatday 0 U.

PracipllalHM prottablMliat 30 par cant Monday rngnl, 20 par canl iVorA Dakota's Oldest Newspaper Established 1873 Bismarck, N.D., Monday, July 21, 1969 Price Ten Centi CaanrttM lt Tm (lunar ok Trtbui Company VOLUME 96 NUMBER 170 '1 Was Surprised They Really Made It' City Gathered to Watch and to Share V- 'I think they are not as Impressed by this as the older generation because they've grown up with it," she said. Her reaction? "I was very Impressed. I wasn't as frightened as I thought I would be. 1 guess I had more confidence than the flight at Christmas time." As local residents watched (he event unfold they brought different backgrounds to the experience. The Rev.

Arnold Spair, pastor of St. Anne's Catholic (See BISMARCK, Page 2) a Bismarck High School instructor, said. "I'm a science teacher and It was pretty much as I expected it to be," Thorstenson said. "I was surprised they really made it" he added. He said his children's reaction was one of amazement "For them there was an element of anticipation," he said.

The Nils Pearsons, who live at 719 Sixth St, watched the event as a family. Mrs. Pearson said their three children, ages 14, 12 and 5, watched the lunar walk. would be laid aside as the historic moment arrived. For many, man's first physical encounter with the moon was a family affair.

For the Dale O. Thorstensons, who reside at 1837 Bell St, it was an event experienced by three generations. Thorstenson and his family watched along with the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Paulson of Webster.

"They never thought it would happen and they would see it in their lifetime," Thorstenson, Ave. and there were few strollers in the downtown area. Only a handful were seen headed for theaters as the magic hour approached. On a bench at Fourth St and Main two elderly men engaged in antimated conversation, perhaps about a past which held more charm for them than the peek into the future that most Bismarck residents were getting. Television sets were on in hotel lobbies and In one a bellhop was engrossed in a book which By BILL TILLOTTSON Tribune Staff Writer Man' first walk on the moon turned Bismarck into a ghost town Sunday evening.

Streets and yards, normally filled with families at play and at household chores, were deserted. Curtains and drapes were closed against the early evening light to make the screens on home television sets show up brighter. The space epic slowed normally heavy traffic on Main Wee Ik MlTu, U.S mdond Shop ifeste iff- 6 Cboni Russia Lands Luna As Apollo Ready to Leave JODRELL BANK. England (AP) Russia landed Luna 15 on Drowns in Kennedy Car Mist Mary Jo Kopechne, 29, of Washington drowned late Friday night at Edgartown, in an automobile owned by Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, which went off a bridge into a deep saltwater pond on Cbappaquiddick Island Sen. Kennedy was driver of the car. Charges Filed Against Teddy In Fatal Mishap the moon's surface Monday. 500 miles from where America's Apollo astronauts were prepar ing to taKe on on weir journey back to earth, Jodrell Bank World Watches Team Explore, Plant U.S. Flag By HOWARD BENEDICT SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Two Americans blasted off from the moon Monday, reaching the relative safety of lunar orbit and leaving their footprints in the lunar dust and the history of man.

It was the first time anything had ever rocketed away from the moon. Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin A. Aldrin Jr. immediately began pursuing the command ship, or-' biting 69 miles above the surface with astronaut Michael Collins at the controls.

"BEAUTIFUL. Very smooth," Aldrin commented as Eagle took off from the moon. "A very quiet ride. There's that one crater down there. "We've a little bit of slow wallowing here," he said later.

Stories on Apollo on pages 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 14 and 22 Observatory reported. Signals picked up at the giant radio-telescope here indicated that after four days of moon or bit the unmanned probe landed on the moon Sea ot crises. JODRELL OBSERVATORY. I 1 ftl Jtl' 1 I vt -rr IT 1 a I frV? i I A. t--, li' vX-A 5 7 Ti.

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John G. Davies, Lovell's EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) -Police Monday filed a formal complaint charging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident The car skidded off a narrow hririue and landed bottomilD in aide, said at 11:05 p.m.

cut, eight feet of water. Kennedy escaped with what a physician "Luna has landed. The last signals received from The complaint said was a mild concussion. Luna were "appropriate to a stems from a Miss Koriechne. former secre weekend wreck on sott landing," ne aauea.

Unofficial sources in Moscow had predicted when Luna 15 tary to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was trapped in the vehicle and drowned. I I Chappaquidd i 'v .1 island, adjacent to Martha's Vine Kennedy went to the police 10 tooK oit juiy it mat wouia attempt a remote-controlled lunar landing to retrieve a sample of moon soil a task already per hours after the accident. The yard on which car had been found bv then: two this small resort formed by the American astro lLj! bovs eoine fishing saw its nauts.

town is located. A young woman wheels beneath the water. Trlbuna Photo by Loo LaLonoo 1 RIIT IN the absence of sienals. TV A POLICE statement. Ken there was no immediate indica nedy said he was left dazed by They Shared It With All of Us tion that Luna 15 was operating the accident He saia ne triea repeatedly to rescue Miss Ko "Shutdown," he called out as the engine stopped.

"Great," Mission Control said and reported Eagle in a near-perfect orbit ranging from about .11 to 54 miles high. THEY HAD TO catch Collins in a 3-hour chase to get back to earth. Their lunar vehicle was not built to take them home. Collins was spring-loaded to speed to the rescue if something should go wrong with the lunar taxi called Eagle. "Roger, understand we're No.

1 on the runway," Aldrin said minutes before the blastoff. A fiery burst from a small en nisi ii has At iha ninoa and tinfoil ho at that took them pechne. but was not aoie to una her. "live" on the moon sunace. Asked about the possibility that the probe could still lift off with a lunar sample for a round trip to earth ahead of Apollo 11, navies said- "It is now possible there; were pictures from the first two inhabitants of one world to their friends on another.

The moon men arrived, and we all saw it happen. The people of Bismarck and the whole world were Joined In awe by the flickering white and dark patches on the phosphorous of television screens Sunday night. The picture wasn't clear, the action was slow but those black and white splotches were pictures of men walking on the moon; were The 37-year-old Massachusetts Kennedy was killed and Kennedy injured, though apparently not seriously. The complaint was filed by Police Chief Domenic J. Arena with the District Court Clerk Thomas A.

Teller. Arena said that an Edgartown lawyer, Richard. J. McCarran, had informed the clerk he is representing Kennedy. McCarran asked for a hearing, to which Kennedy is entitled before any summons is issued.

TP.1J.ER SET Jnlv 28 for the Democrat and Miss KoDechne had been at a dinner party at a nrivate home on cnaDpaquia- that the Russian probe will be back faster than the Americans. There may be savings in time with an unmanned craft with no dick attended by several of Ken-nedv's friends and political as Nation Huddled at TV Sets, Radios sociates. Kennedy said he re docking procedures." turned to the home after tne ac- Americans Witness Historic Triumph riHent and climbed into the rear LOVELL SAID at 11:35 a.m., The signals have stopped. It seat of a car parked outside. hearing, which will be held in has either landed or, we're not "I then asked someone to the Edgartown courtnouse.

A rrnwrl nf several hundred Tn the Nevada gamine cities quite sure what's happening. hrintr me hack to EdeartOWn." We're still figuring it out. he "I remember persons, mostly tourists, filled Lovell said signals from walking around for a period of the probe were picked up short the street outside the red bricK, century-old courthouse as Arena ornsserl the street from his time and tnen going oacs to my hrrtol rmm When I fullv real- ly after moonrise about 7 a.m. when Luna was in its 50th headquarters in the Town Hall hoti what had haDDened this By The Associated Press They were shining hours. Americans landed on the moon and walked its rocky surface while millions of their countrymen locked their attention on television and radio sets on a July Sunday that will live in his-tory- It was also a Sunday on which hippies romped nude in a Cali of Las Vegas and Reno, gamblers were asked to halt the action briefly.

In Las Vegas, a stripper at the Silver Slipper Casino peeled a simulated space suit, and at Reno's Harrah's Club, they pushed a new drink, the Moonshot Cocktail. At. Farragut State Park In northern Idaho, Boy Scouts were gathered for their 7th an gine propelled Armstrong and Aldrin off the moon at 12:54 p.m. CDT, ending man's first exploration of another celestial body. THEY HAD camped at the base named Tranquility for 21 hours 36 minutes, raising the banner of their nation above it and fulfilling a dream of the ages.

Seven minutes, 18 seconds after the liftoff. Eagle's cabin section settled into a low lunar orbit The bottom half of the vehicle, with the landing legs, served as a launching pad and was left on the moon. The command ship, Columbia, and Eagle, had worked in close radio harmony as the critical firing neared. Precisely 69 sec- (See APOLLO TEAM, Page 2) morning I immediately went to the police. to visit tne cierx.

Arena said Sunday he is "firmly convinced there was no negligence involved" in the orbit. Among the maneuvers that had been predicted for Luna were a moon landing and retrieval of lunar rock and a nedy International Airport. Hundreds crowded in front of another big screen at the Time-Life Building across from Radio City Music Hall. An estimated 4,000 watched the three huge TV screens erected in Central Park. Across the nation, in Anaheim, 80 members of the Soviet Union's track and field team saw the moon landing on Disneyland TV screen.

In Burbank, an ice cream company, moments after Neil A. Armstrong first stepped on the moon, started dishing out a new flavor called Lunar CheeseCake. For others, there were periods of reflection and prayer. In her home at Worcester, the widow of rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard sat alone and watched television as man stepped on the moon for the first time.

When a newsman pnoned she said, "I'm sorry I'd rather be by myself you understand." A soft rain fell at Auburn, where Goddard fired his first liquid fueled rocket in 1926. In New York, some 3,000 people watched the moon landing at a huge television screen at Ken THE TIME was 10 a.m. Satur day. Arena said Sunday he already round trip to earth from lunar orbit. m- fornia stream, American GIs had sent Kennedv notice via "But the matter of the time period after the Arena said.

"There is, in my nnininn a violation concerning registered mail that a complaint According to another theory, Luna was engaged in close-up fought on in Vietnam, babies were born, highways took their toll, cheers rose from excited nual jamboree. They huddled around radios and a few television sets for news of the exploits of two former scouts, Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (See AMERICANS, Page 2) was being filed against him. He going from the scene, leaving crowds, a Wyoming woman reconnaissance of the Apollo astronauts that could conceivably help the Russians get their own tne scene.

laughed uncontrollably, inuians broke into a victory dance. THE MISHAP occurred be said that would be toiiowea oy formal notice of the complaint, after which Kennedy would have 24 hours in which to request a hearing. If no hearing was sought. Arena added, a for cosmonauts to tne moon. tween 11 o.m.

Friday and 1 a.m Saturday as Kennedy was driving Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, of mal summons would be issued 'Small Step for Man, Giant Leap for Mankind1 automatically. Kennedv and his wife Joan re mained in seclusion Sunday at his home on Squaw Island, a Pair Looked So Ghostlike on Moons Horizon short distance off Hyannis fort nn Cane Cod where the Kennedy 'v family comnound is located. A mometer to probe the interior of And for the seoloeists and the contingent of ponce Kept news men and signtseers at a ins By SAUL PETT SPACE CENTER, Houston At Thev took their first tance. steps onto the moon cautiously, IN WASHINGTON, a spokes. man fnr the senator saia ne urnulrl have nn statement to make in connection with the accident for the time being.

Wapakoneta, a town in Ohio, a state in the United States, a country on the planet earth, extended his left foot onto the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," he said. The first words were fine. History would be content Now for the scientists: "The surface is fine and powdery. It adheres like charcoal to the soles of my shoes.

You go down only about an inch." And for the doctors: "There seems to be no difficulty in moving around." like the back of a dead alligator. Closer up, it looked like rubble, like earth levelled roughly after a disaster, dead. They looked ghostlike on the soundless, airless, mostly colorless moon. Over the curving horizon, only one and a half miles away on a planet smaller than earth, there was the blackness of space and infinity. The foreground was starkly lighted by the sun and the men and their vehicle cast long shadows.

It was dawn on the moon and a dawn in the history of man. Neil Alden Armstrong, formerly of 601 West Benton nr Rnhert D. Watt Of Hvan- tne moon, tney set up a smau mirror to reflect laser beams from earth, to measure tha quarter million miles between the two planets to an accuracy of six inches. And they planted the flag of their country on tha still face of the moon. Finally, Aldrin to Earth: "Anything for us before I head up?" Earth: "Negative.

Head on up the ladder, Buzz." Buzz was first up. Armstrong stayed a few minutes longer, carefully guiding the hoisting of (See MOON WALK, Page 2) biologists and the others seeking the age of the solar system and the secret of life he immediately began collecting "contingency" samples of rock. "Contingency" in case he had to leave in a hurry. And Buzz Aldrin came down, the second man on the surface of the moon. And together they walked and ran like kids at recess and then like men with the responsibility of the ages they went to work.

They gathered rocks, they set up a foil panel to measure the solar wind, they installed a seis shoes seemed suspended off the strange lunar surface, with something of the floating quality of figures on slow motion film. When they were still, they seemed very still, as if frozen, and they leaned forward like puppets to be at a lunar form of attention when the president spoke to them from earth. All the while, the earth was "bright and beautiful" above them. In this first incredible day of an incredible new era one needs to repeat that: the earth was above them. In the distance, the lunar surface looked pocked and leathery nis Port, who saw the senator at his home Saturday afternoon, like prudent Doys testing we first ice of winter on a country pond.

When first they walked, they walked carefully and slowly, leaning forward, plodding heavily like tired old cops on a beat in Island. As they acquired confidence, they walked faster, now with a slow bounce in the one-sixth gravity of the moon. And then they ran and their stride was longer than on earth and their said Kennedv received a blow on tne head, but ne seems to De ail riant He said he prescribed a few days of bed rest and add JACK HUSEBY Bismarck won the 1969 North Dakota Men's Amateur Golf Tournament at the Grand Forks Country Club Sunday. Story on Page 16. ed that he had spoKen Dy telephone with Kennedy Sunday and believed him to be improved.

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