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just 6.2 miles from the intended landing
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at least 100 years of ownership and
productivity . White said, it is a great
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dedicationto be recognized.' —=
Registration totiils for the "75 program
are far behind those of last year when over
500 families qualified Only 50 applicants
has announced.
The trcthas been in the family since
1860 when ■E.J. Keahey .settled there.
the Empire-Tribune office.
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era in which the world’s two most powerful
nations will cooperate to probe space out to
the planets, a
Leonov and Kubasov were anxious to
come home as they neared the end of their
journey ------------ .
When you travel around the earth you
finally come home, you finally really
realize how good it is,” Soyuz commander
of the chains breaks and swings away with
one of the cowboys clinging to it; as he
swings back into the train, he has his arm
scissored off by the log.
The stunt man who was on the opposite
end of the log while all this was taking
Wage Increase to
Mean Higher Rates
you damn sure pay your dues.” William S:Maillard that the Vnited States
Preston’s dues paying adds up this way: will vote in favor of the resolution
all ribs brpken twice, all fingers..... The special meeting is expected to be
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• detente to a new plateau, tested a common
• docking device that might be used in space
-—rescue missions and perhaps opened an
spectacular first on television. This marked the only time that the world has seen a
Soviet spacecraft land. Not only was it a first in space docking, there was also a first in
—scientific earth observation The man who headed this operation is Dr. Farouk El-Baz
research director at Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C.
El-Baz who was born in Egypt, however, left Egypt to escape the draft. He then came
to the U .S and attended Missouri College of Mines in Rolla, Missouri. He graduated as
Leonov said Sunday.
Apollo and Soyuz drifted farther and,
farther apart and on Sunday passed out of
radio range. . -
We tost them. We don’t hear from them
anymore," Soyuz reported
• But the cosmonauts did speak by radio
with other space travelers. They talked
about two minutes with the crew of the
Salyut 4 space station, Pyotr Klimuk and
Vitaliy Sevastyanov, who wished them a
soft landing.”
Klimuk and Sevasty nov. who had been in
space since May 26, are expected to return
to earth later in the week
Aboard Apollo, Stafford, Brand and
Stayton concentrated on a heavy schedule
of experiments.___________
1974 to honor and preserve the concept of
the family farm.
Families that qualify for recognition are *
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___________By JIM Wll^SON ________,_______
This morning at 5:50 a.m. our time Soviet space craft Soyuz landed
was instituted by Commissioner White in
a geologist andbeganteaching geology after completion of his-graduate work. He-then a stack of logs on one of the ears when one
returned to Egypt three years ago and came back to the U.S. He worked with Apollo
crew two years teaching them how to spot certain land and sea traits from the air This
being done in T38 jets which are the most widely used by the astronauts. He explained
that certain characteristics were easier detected with the naked eye than with cameras
because of the lens deficiencies. He explained what studies were done and why There
Lift Sanctions
received by the booster club are used for the benefit of students. (Staff Photo)
Cosmonauts In Safe Landing
If everything goes as smoothly as we
are planning it, the meeting will be held
here - in San Jose - a day or so after J uly 28
and the resolution on the Cuban issue
discussed and voted in 48 hours," a Latin
American diplomat said.
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CHECK FOR STADIUM - Don Jones, center, TSA Stadium fund drive chairman,
accepts a check for $500 from the Stephenville Yellow Jacket Booster Club for the new
stadium. Presenting the check is Mrs. Beulah Brown. "Top Booster of the Year." and
Tom Hansen, outgoing club president. The money was raised from membership dues,
selling of booster caps, and various other projects. Hensen pointed out that all funds
Bluff Dale Farm
Qualifies For
Program
AUSTIN - The Keahey Farm, owned by
W.L. Keahey . Bluff Dale, has qualified for
the 1975 Family Land Heritage Program,
Agriculture Commissioner John’C. White
★ The Home of Tarleton State University
tribute to. their perserverance
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Sponsors Opera
Granbury Opera House has scheduled
July 24 'Charlie’s Aunt” a farce comedy,
with music.
The Stephenville Empire-Tribune has
agreed to sponsor and sell tickets for this
night.
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broken, jaw broken twice. nose broken 11 held immediately after a July 16-28
times, back broken four times, both wrists conference here finishes reforming the Rio
broken, knee broken and "a whole, bunch de Janeiro treaty of hemisphere mutual
of dislocations." ' defense, which was invoked 11 years ago to
There are. however, some compensa- impose the Cuban sanctions
tions. Preston spent a lot of time on the
settlement, which are subject to
ratification by union members, were not
revealed. Chief federal mediator W.J.
Usery Jr. said ratification would take
"upwards of 30 days.”
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SPACE CENTER. Houston AP - The suits and both gave bearhugs to the rescue
Soyuz cosmonauts, partners in history’s workers and waved at cameramen,
first international space mission. lazed Doctors at the scene rported both were
safely back te-earth today, parachuting to in very good condition."
a pinpoint landing on a flat, featureless Mission Control reported they landed
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Dallas^ TX,
They left the Apollo astronauts behind in point.
space for three more days of exploratien. Ten minutes after landing the cosmo-
Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov rode, nauts were taken to a helicopter for
heir spaceship, dangling under a single transport to a nearby medical facility,
red and white parachute to a touchdown, The astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford,
or a thumpdown” as newsmen here Vance D. Brand ahd Donald K. Slayton,
dubbed it. at 6:51 a m EDT are to splashdown ' in. the Pacificion
For the first time, the world had a Thursday.
televised look at the landing of a Soviet The astronauts were still asleep at the
spacecraft. TV cameras mounted in heli- time of the Soyuz landing, with their
copters picked up the Soyuz as it descend- spaceship drifting along 135 miles above
ed from the skies toward the plain in south the Pacific south of Japan.
central Russia, about 300 miles east of the A short time later Houston mission
Baikonur Cosmodrome, where they were control wakened them with the word of the
launched last Tuesday. • successful Soyuz landing
About eight feet above the surface, small Very. very good, give them my best,
braking reekets fired downward to cushion Glad everything went good.” Commander
the landing, stirring up a great quantity of Stafford said .
dust. Stafford, Brand and Slayton will remain
Within 30 seconds a helicopter had aloft until Thursday to conduct earth
landed beside the bell-shaped Soyuz and a observation, solar astronomy and other
team of rescue workers walked across the scientific experiments. '
plain.toward the capsule The Americans are able to stay up
Within-ene -minute, they had begun to longer because of tjie greater-fuel and life
remove the hatch. Just two minutes after support capacity of their spaceship.
1-eonw and Kubasov stepped Apollo and Soyuz separated Saturday
from the spaeeship in their white space- after two days of tandem flight that raised
LIVnIO DOnocrOUSy SAN JOSE, Costa Rica AP - A document may join the vote in revoking the
— - • • . , signed by 13 Latin .American countries sanctions.
.There's a Tarleton • State University “1 started out when l-was about 12 doing calls for a special meeting of the
student who, has spent davs with the likes a horse stunt called Roman riding where Organization of American States this
in Asia in a of Johnwayne, Marlon Brando, Lee.........you stand on top of two hones while they mouth to lift sanctions on Cuba. diplomatic
Marvin Steve McQueen. Lee Van Cleef, are running abreast of each other," he sources said today.
and Walter Brennan while working in over recalled "I kind of evolved from doing while the United States did not sign the
300 movies. trick riding in rodeos into the stunt document, the informants said they got
He has also lived through harrowing business You don’t just begin doing it and firm assurances from U.S. Ambassador
experiences like this: A train barrels along
at 65 mph with two cowboys climbing over
wants to know how much deep support saying.
there is for his potential candidacy out in Callaway said there was no chance of a
the heartland of America. — meeting between Ford and Reagan to
And he admits that he is thinking discuss Reagan’s potential candidacy, the •
from a sufficient number of people_______ of Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt.
WASHINGTON AP - The Postal Service “If my decision should be yes, then I The Laxalt committee will gather
and its unions agreed early today on a new . have to go the primary route,” Reagan information which will help him determine
labor contract, averting the posibility of a said. “We’re not challenging an elected whether to run, Reagan said.
nationwide -postal strike, officials said. A president. He was appointed to that Many /conservatives who.are dissatisfied
no-layoff clause. a key issue of the office.” - with Ford want Reagan to run. But some
negotiations and one of the last to be The Los Angeles Times in its Sunday say they fear a repeat of 1968. when they
resolved, was preserved in the agreement, edition quoted Ford's 1976 campaign say Reagan waited until too late to launch
one union official said. Other details of the manager as ruling out any possibility of a his campaign
WASHINGTON AP - A new labor agree- Bailar said. The largest possible increase agreement has been reached and we have either buy them at the Opera House or at
ment for the nation’s postal workers isa would be to 13 cents per first-class letter, had a handhake on it," Usery said.
expected to contribute to an increase in the The Postal Service in 1973 asked the The negotiations continued more thap
cost of mailing a letter before the end of independent Postal Rate Commission to two hours past the expiration at midnight serve basis at $3.00 per ticket All
the year. make present postal rates permanent. The Sunday of the old two-year contract. Union reservations must be accompanied by
The new contract, tentatively agreed to commission is expected to approve a leaders had instructed members not to • cash
early today, averted the possibility of a schedule of permanent postal rates within leave their jobs while negotiations conti- The tickets will be available Friday
strike by the nation’s 600,000 postal-work- a few months, and the Postal Service then nued past midnight, and there wers no through Thursday, July 24.
ers. Details of the settlement were not can raise th rates by instituting new reports of job actions The performance will take place at 8
announced but the postal unions won one temporary rates. The Postal Service had said federal p.m.
major victory, retention of a no-layoff The average postal clerk, postman or troops might have been used to move the
clause. The wages which we pay postal pick-up truck driver now makes about mails if there had been a strike
workers is one element of our costs. $13,500-a-year at top scale, plus fringe r F
They’re going to go up." Postmaster benefits. ' . A(sf(yNAdy( )((y"
General Benjamin F. Bailar said at a news Chief federal mediator, W.J. Usery Jr* |\ 11 11 11 | | UJ ( .) .3% • |
conference at which the settlement was called the labor settlement a victory for ■ "" ""UJ E
announced. Labor-related costs are 85 per collective bargaining, a victory for the g gm ■ • I
cent of the Postal Service’s costs. postal unions and a victory for the Postal 4 4—— ma ye 4 ■ e. eg nu f
Bailar also said that the Postal Service Service" ..... ■ ■ < > F l ()I I | 1I I ( I | ■') 11 i % ‘
expects to lose $800 million dollars in the Usery said ratification by all of the four *” N * | | * I l ud • ■ ■ * ■ *2 * 7
fiscal year that began July 1 He said the postal unions would take upwards of 30 I
Postal Service needs higher rates to start davs.” _ - TACOMA, Wash. AP - Ronald Reagan deal with Reagan to keep him out of next
breaking even - We still have a lot of work to do. We says it will take more than cheering year’s Republican presidential primaries.
I’m certain there will be । postal rate) have a lot of language to clean up. But an crowds with Reagan-for-President ban- "We have made it clear this is going to
increases before the end of the year,” ners to make him run against President be an open campaign, and you can’t have
Ford next yeardeals in an open campaign,” the Times
The former California governor says he quoted Howard H “Bo” Callaway as
seriously about challenging Ford in the Times reported
WASHINGTON AP - In contrast with the Republican primaries in 1976 Callaway said he is "operating on the
lawyers and advertising men who ran the But, the 64-year-old former motion presumption that Reagan will run, the i
1972 Nixon campaign, the high command picture actor said in an interview. Sunday, newspaper said.
of President Ford’s developing political he won’t make a final decision until later Reagan says he’s not discouraging
organization has a distinct Pentagon tinge, this year. Meanwhile he has a speaking people who want him to run for President
All three top men in the campaign schedule rivaling that of any declared but isn t encouraging them, either,
fundraising operation served in the candidate. This week he has appearances Instead, he’s asking them to wait.
Pentagon under Ford's old friend, former in six states. Reagan refuses to endorse Ford for
' Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird. And "It’s getting to the keep-you-awake-at- election. He says a vigorous primary
the campaign manager, former Rep. night stage,". Reagan said when asked contest would be good for the GOP.
Howard H. (Bo) Callaway, isa West Point about his presidential ambitions He has no formal campaign committee,
graduate who was Army secretary for the He said. "I’ve neither opened nor Ciused But in June he gave the go-ahead to a _
past two years the door. "Citizens for Reagan Committee" which
__ “You have to feel there is a call to duty was announced last week under leadership
road touring most of the U.S. and Canad Diplomats reported some disagreement
doing stunts with John Wayne and his on whether the special meeting should be
Bat jack Corp. - held in the Costa Rican Capital or in
His 300 movie credits include: Trinidad-Tobago as several Latin Ameri-
Hallelujah Trail", "Bandalero," "Che- can countries want But they said the site
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driven by Darrell Pack, also of Stephen- ‘ Another stunt man luckily happened by. they wyt to . ......... .78m Family land Heritage Program
ville. Doug Conner was investigating saw his hand and pulled him to safety. Not They listed the countries in favor ofit as
officer. - . only could he not breathe, but there was Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecua-
Sunday at 3:29 p m. at the mfewsection of this other problem. Preston never dor. El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,
West Washington and Erath Street there learned to swim. . . " Panama. Peru, the Dominican Republic,
wasanacqident involving a 1973 Chevrolet IM leton ofkers a change of pace As ^'mted States. Trinidad-Tobago and te Fami, tana Hentage
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One of these was the study of red tides. Tiny red plankton too small to be seen with the place was in as much danger as the stunt
naked eye, but when grouped they tend to cause the water to turn a reddish tint. These man who lost his arm. He probably
red tides stretch for hundreds of miles and are extremely dangerous to fish. If enough seriously considered swapping jobs for
- ' of the plankton is taken into the fishes’ system it causes the fish to die. Fish that are something safer immediately after he
eaten with this plankton in their systems will transfer the disease to humatys, causing wiped off a cold sweat. "Hallelujah Trail" J Bandalero, punueswanDuuuuud qualify “fot the program,Mr.
mor ^fanuly had ta have a history oU
hope to figure out why and where the red tide comes from and keep it located so as to a stunt man for the hazards of attending "It's easy to get a distorted idea of consultatiofi meeting by foreign ministe ,
wrn commercial fishermen. . coll«e. ilonly temporarily A stunt nun of working with actors like this, though," he andta two-thirds majerity,’vete20fithe.2
As of yet research has not developed a means to combat the red tide However, on the 20 years, he is studying for degrees in said "But a stunt man is like a plumber nations that signed the Pact to lit t tne
—— other end of the apeetnim which to we at the maM widely Bought Iwd aoureaa of ftah—speech and-theater at FSU.—------------He cemeaia, daaa to jab, and leaves ’ - sanctions. , — —-----——
they hone to find and map these plankton blooms as to direct fishermen to them. As Dr ■ From his early days as a trick rider until But under the treaty s rules, the
F-hazputsit, irwecancaithemwherenottoftsn,weshouidbesableto-teirtnemto No Injuries in cuggay»
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passed over bv these drouths that is again worth reclaiming will be spotted. accidents during the weekend in Stephen- The horse he was riding fell with him - Diplomats said at east 14ountriesuned contact their county judge for the- proper
--- Studies will also be made to help map the Himalaya Mountains. This being done in ville. . . a i into • pool of water. Hisi horse, could _upbehindsg.drattrsoutpoamhammst forms assoon ras possible so they can be '
, cooperation with the Indian government to help with flood control and water Gn Saturday at 7:44 p.m. on North breathe but Preston was completely outnpnyate,mun Asai treaty sure of beng registered in time, or they
restoration The Indian government has only the old British maps that were made Graham near Collins Street a motorcycle underWater except for a hand sticking out. week .The draft would lea ve,min, treaty can write the Texas Department of
during the time that Britain occupied India. One of the most fascinating studies, and ridden by John Moore, of Stephenville, was The horse was on Preston’s leg mid he was nations .free, .to -res W e I h nd Apric"rUFa T.O. Box 12847, Austin,
"IsAShisravoritethat of icet^gs. He said tMt scientists now believe 80 percent of involved in collision with a 1967 Buick unable to come up for air. diplomatic relations with Cuba whenever panoeet
the fresh water in the world is at the southern polar Icecap, in the form of ice and snow “ "Tshhsst k < . - hihn "h i tn
They want to map these regions for use in helping countries that will be having the
. massive. Rouths predicted for the 1980s. It is believed that giant icebergs can be towed
to parts of countries where drouths are occurring. These range as large as 40 miles
Iona 20 miles wide, and 10 miles deep, with an expected loss of water to only that of 40
—percent upon arrival of its destinaten These will Im* ut up ■md towed into large
manmade basins and allowed to melt.-------— — . —
With certain studies such as this the famines and drouths predicted for the 1980s may
be avoided. This is just one of the many reasons why it is important to keep the space
' program alive that great portions of the world may be kept alive. 7 —
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