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Bullseye Predicted
For Apollo Return
Recovery
Site Lonely
ABOARD THE USS YORK-
TOWN (UPI>- John C. Stonesi-
fer, a veteran of 15 manned
spacecraft splashdowns, pre-
dicts a bullseye when the three
Apollo 8 astronauts return from
their moon voyage Friday.
Stonesifer, chief of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) recove-
ry systems branch, said Wed-
nesday he believes the space-
craft will land within easy
range of the prime recovery
vessel, the USS Yorktown.
The landing area is near the
equator, about 1,000 miles
southwest of Hawaii. It is the
most isolated landing spot in
the history of the manned
spacecraft program, but Stone-
sifer said the remoteness of the
area would not hinder opera-
tions.
Possible problems might be
caused by sharks, an off-target
landing and, above all, bad
weather.
However, Stonesifer said in
most cases sharks will leave
swimmers alone if they leave
the sharks alone. Recovery
ships are spread over a vast
area in case the spacecraft
misses the landing area.
The big problem is weather,
and forecasters said the outlook
for Friday was "satisfactory.”
Weathermen said visibility
may be cut during heavy
showers but seas are expected
to be relatively calm when the
capsule splashes down.
Other teams taking part in
the giant recovery operation
Include a 17-man medical crew
which will examine the three
astronauts; an airplane detach-
ment which will search the
ocean for the capsule and
report its location to helicopters
and frogmen.
Dr. Clarence A. Jernigan, a
native of San Antonio, Tex., who
practiced at Lafayette, La.,
before Joining NASA, said the
astronauts should be In good
physical shape.
"I expect them to be
moderately fatigued, but other-
wise in good health,” he said.
Infant Heart
Patient Dies
CHICAGO (UPI)—An 8-day-
old boy, the youngest heart
transplant patient ever, died
early today after a university of
Chicago medical team attempt-
ed to give him the heart of a 2-
day-old infant.
Hospital officials said David
Whipple, whose parents live in
suburban Harvey, had been
suffering "numerous congenital
defects of the heart, non-
correctable by any known
surgical method."
He was given the heart of 2-
day-old Joseph Orbochta, the
child of a Chicago couple, who
died Wednesday evening of
birth defects not involving the
heart, officials said.
Previously, the youngest heart
transplant recipient bad been a
Hi -week-old boy at the Maimo-
nides Medical Center in Brook-
lyn, N.Y., who received the
heart of a 2-day-old mentally
retarded child but died (?.2
hours later.
That operation was the second
transplant ever, coming three
days after Dr. Christiaan
Barnard placed another heart in
Louis Washkansky.
The Whippie infant died five
hours after Wednesday night's
operation began. Because of his
age, he had been sustained by
the intermittent use of a heart-
lung machine before he died,
officials said
THE PRIME PICKUP SHIP for the Apollo x splashdown in the
Pacific i» the aircraft carrier Yorktown. shown before cm-
harking on the mission
Best Gift Ahead
For Apollo Wives
SEABROOK, Tex. (UPl)-
C hr 1st mas day has passed, but
for the wives of Apollo 8
astronauts Frank Borman,
James Lovell and William
Anders, the best gift was yet to
come— the homecoming.
Wednesday, with their hus-
bands on their way home, the
three women sent a message to
Cmdr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bucher
and the crew of the USS Pueblo
saying the reunion of the
families "brought greal joy into
our hearts.”
Bucher and his men, captured
last January, were released
Sunday by North Korea, just in
time for a Yuletide reunion.
Meanwhile, the Apollo fami-
lies were looking forward to a
reunion of their own.
The three astronauts faced
the dangers of fiery re-entry
Friday morning before comple-
tion of an essentially flawless
history-making orbital flight to
the moon.
Valerie Anders had dinner at
home with friends Christmas
day and planned no other
activities except to stay with
the “squawk box” carrying
communication between the
spacecraft and the ground.
Susan Borman headed for
Houston Wednesday evening for
dinner with friends and Marilyn
Lovell spent most of the day at
home.
The Borman family went to
mission control at the space
center, where ground communi-
cator Michael Collins relayed
Borman’s greetings from space.
"I've got a whole row of
smiling faces here right now,”
Collins said. The smiles were
prompted by a "hi, you all,”
from Borman.
Mrs. Lovell, beaming in a
mink coat delivered early
Christmas morning, called it
her "happiest Christmasever,”
and told newsmen Vhe coat
"came from the man in the
moon.”
Pakistani
Students
Protesting
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan
(UPI)— Armed police patroled
the streets today following
v i o 1 e n t demonstrations by
students vowing to overthrow
the government of President
Mohammad Ayub Khan.
In Peshawar, 90 miles west of
Rawalpindi, a gunfire exchange
between antigovernment youths
trying to break up a Muslim
League meeting killed one
person and injured 11 others.
The Muslim League is the
political party of Ayub Khan.
Three persons were wounded
by gunshots in a clash at a
Rawalpindi movie theater after
a procession by about 4,000
students had ended peacefully,
The student action canceled
all planned celebrations for the
birthday of Mohammad Ali
Jinnah, founder of the state of
Pakistan, which coincides with
Christmas Day.
In Lahore, police arrested and
later freed eight political
workers for taking part in an
anti-government march.
A group of 35 women
marched 100 miles from Sargod-
ha to Lahore demanding free-
dom of the press and repeal of
what they called "repressive”
family laws. The women’s
procession was organized by the
pro Mao tse-tung branch of the
Communist party in the Lahore
area.
The students in Rawalpindi
first attended a rally at the
Raja Bazaar and the student
action committee leader, Altai
Pervez told his followers, “we
will stop only when we have
ousted this government.”
Sopulpo (Oklo ) Herald, Thursday, December 26, I96P PAGE THREE
Release For Long-Term
Convict Said Difficult
MCALFSTER (UPI)— A pris-
on newspaper editor says it
isn’t as easy as most people
think for a long-term convict to
obtain his freedom.
The inmate editor, Rex Flet-
cher, also said that persons
who "constantly scream about
the Increasing crime rate" are
contributing to that rate
through vindictive attidues, and
that prisons "emphasize and
perpetuate crime.”
Fletcher, writing in The Eye
Opener, the prison newspaper,
said the average citizsn "com-
pletely fails to understand” the
view that as many inmates as
!>ossible should be released
from prison as soon as possible.
He invited anyone who thinks
it is easy to get out of prison
to "come down here with a 25
or 30 year sentence and find
out at first hand just bow 'easy'
it is to get out.”
Fletcher said most persons
believe that “more people
should be locked up for longer
and longer periods of time — to
’teach them a lesson’ and to
’serve as a warning’ to other
potential offenders."
“Long, painful experience has
clearly demonstrated,” he said,
"that any prison, operated on
a purely punitive basis, will
produce far more criminals
than it reforms.
. . It may be true,” he
said, “that prisons do not
‘make’ criminals, but they do
emphasize and prepetuate
crime — which has the same
effect.
. . Certain authorities who
are sworn to protect and up-
.hold the law , and who con-
stantly scream about the in-
creasing crime rate, are actual-
ly contributing to that crime
rate by their vindictive, re-
vengeful attitude toward pris-
oners,” Fletcher said. "And in
making that statement,” he
added, "we are in no way try-
ing to evade or excuse our own
share of the blame.
"What we are saying is that
when a prisoner becomes con-
vinced that he is being held in
prison strictly out of revenge,
he will become bitter, discour-
aged and terribly angry,” Flet-
cher said. "The chances are
good that when be is finally re-
leased, he will strike back at
society, rightly or wrongly, and
the whole stupid cycle starts all
over again."
Fletcher said that when a
person says prisoners are being
"pampered” or "coddled,”
"you can bet your last dollar
that they know nothing what-
ever about the subject”
He said a prison "protects
society the best when the ma-
jor emphasis is placed on re-
forming prisoners; trying to
change them into law - abiding
citizens, rather than merely
keeping them locked up for
years, then dumping them back
on society in worse shape than
when they entered prison.”
Sacramento Valley Gets
Deepest Snow Of Century
By United Press International
Vast blankets of snow lay
over much of the West today.
Cold air pushed temperatures
below zero from the upper
midwest to the northeast.
A Pacific storm which ra-
vaged the West Coast Christ-
mas Eve dragged itself from
California into the southeast
today. In the Sacramento Valley
behind it were 23 inches of snow
— the heaviest snowfall since
1899.
South of San Francisco, the
storm caused an unusual
electrical storm Christmas Day
which dropped lightning bolts
near Redwood City, smashing a
number of windows and causing
power blackouts.
Four inches of snow were
reported in a six-hour period
ending today at Klamath Falls,
Ore. The new snow raised the
total in south-central Oregon to
eight inches on the ground.
Readings fell below zero this
morning from the upper mid-
west to the northeast. Tempera-
tures were mostly in the 20s to
40s in the deep south.
At 2 a.m., EST, readings
ranged from 14 below zero at
Massena, N.Y., and Montpelier,
Vt., to 65 at Brownsville,Tex.
Boston reported 1 below zero.
Minneapolis, Minn., had 5
ASTBONAUT FARE ENOUGH H. i - what thv V I'.. x
astronaut* cut. tUMl how. S*i I. typiml pcitihe-<
bacon Mjuate*. cinnamon toasted bread cubes, grapefruit
drink No 'l typical lunch com Utuudci chicken and
gravy, toasted bread cube*, cocoa. orange drink No. S.
typical dinner beef and gravy, beet sandwiches, cheese-
cracker cubes, chocolate pudding. orange-grajAefruit drink
Many of the more than bn items are lehydratable. with
lehydiMlioti device attached to the containers
above. Chicago, warmer at 18 Wisconsin had a white Christ-
degrees, had snow. New York n,as> ^ some coldest
City reported 12 above, though iemI*ratures of the young
it was colder in the suburbs. season. The state traffic patrol
In New York, some 200,000 reported a 40 below in Sawyer
persons were in heatless homes 0UDty- Stevens point had 31
on Christmas because of fueloil tielow Christmas morning,
deliveries had not caught up ^ Redding, Calif., the heavy
with orders after a seven-day snows caved in roofs of
strike by drivers. "People are abou> * <*»«> buildings, includ-
dying because of lack of heat,” inS a bowling alley, adrugstore.
City Health Commission Ed- grocery, pool hall and roller
ward O’Rourke said. rink.
AFTER-CHRISTMAS
BIG SELECTIONS! BIG SAVINGS!
Racks and Racks, Sale Groups of
Winter Dresses
Groups of Nationally Advertised Labels trom our
Regular Stock — Coy Artley — Nelly Don —
Morey Lee — Tumbleweeds — Mr. Jock — Corl
eite and Others
MOTHER EARTH looks a bit frowzy in this photo televised
by Apollo X from about 200.1100 miles The North Pole is at
the left, the South Pole at the right.
Cardinal Choice
Delayed By Pope
VATICAN CITY (UPI)-Pope
Paul Vi’s Christmas observance
held up work on his plans to
name new Roman Catholic
cardinals but he still plans to
appoint them early in 1969,
Vatican sources said today.
The sources said the Pope
will call a consistory to name
the new cardinals in the next
few weeks and one of them will
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of New York.
Vatican sources said the
pontiff iiad planned to announce
a date for the consistory and
list the new cardinals before
Christmas but his busy schedule
over the holidays prevented it.
The Pope finished a Christ-
mas observance Wednesday
with a plea for peace and
harmony among mankind in his
noon blessing before 200,000
persons jammed into St. Peter’s
Square.
The pontiff in his Urbi et Orbl
(to the City and to the World)
blessing told the crowd that the
Christmas spirit conquers the
mistrust in human beings that
causes the conflict.
The Pope’s Christmas activi-
ties began Christmas Eve. He
flew to the southern Italian city
of Taranto to become the first
pope to celebrate Mass In a
steel mill.
Pope Paul shook hands with
brawny steel workers as he
walked through the huge
Italslde steel rolling mill then
celebrated Mass before an
improvised altar of steel
erected bv workers of the plant.
Group of
Women's
BETTER
COATS
Mink—Fox-Beaver Fur Trims
Sale Group Ladies SHOES
Red Cross and Cobbies, reg. to $19.50
WINTER
CALFS
$9_$10-$H
ONE
RACK
$C $'
WINTER
STYLES
Reg. to
$13.99
OTHER SHOE RACKS
Connies-Paris Fashion-Jacquelines
$C_$£_$7_$
ONE
RACK
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GLOVES
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OFF
Clearance
SCARFS
All Remaining
WHITE STAG
Rack of
Groups of
Bobbie Brooks and Russ Togs
A-V2-/2 OFF
Includes Current Winter Groups in
Wanted Fabrics and Colors
All Sales Final-No Exchanges
MEN'S SPORT COATS
REDUCED
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MEN S SHIRTS $
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Reg. $6 to $10
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