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J., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1968 22 PAGES TEN CENTS Apollo Sends Moon Photos SPACE CENTER, Houston those of history's great ex- scene to home television sets crater-pocked plains, boulder- Naming unnamed craters Each pass takes about two men of the past, guided them- After a check to make cer- (AP) — The Apollo 8 astro- plorers— Columbus, Magel- with the same camera that strewn plateaus and rugged after astronauts, including hours. selves toward a bright object tain all systems were work- nauts, three space age wise lan; Balboa, da Gama — at Monday had relayed pictures mountains. themselves, Anders turned lu- The spacecraft was inject- in the heaves. ing, the control center asked: men, soared into a Christmas 4:59 a.m. today as they fired of the earth from 200,000 It looked like a most inhos- nar tour guide with such de- ed initially into an orbit rang- After a suspenseful 36 min- "What does the old moon Eve orbit around the moon, miles away. utes in which the astronauts look like?" Apollo 8 into a perfect lunar pitable place, a scene of des- scription as: ing from 69 to 193 miles above today and televised fascinat- orbit. The bright reflection of the "We're passing over crater the surface. were out of contact behind Navigator Lovell replied: ing pictures of a wild and "It looks like plaster of par- sun dulled some of the fea- olation more complete than Borman right now. Lovell's The astronauts are to shoot the moon, where they execut- 'Essentially Gray' wonderous landscape that en- is, or sort of grayish beach tures, but viewers could not any Sahara. right next to it and Anders themselves out of orbit at 1:06 ed the orbit maneuver, Mis- "The moon is essentially abled earthraen to share their sand," was Lovell's first im- ' help be caught up in the ex- As Anders handled the cam- right next to it." a.m. tomorrow and start the sion Control Center excitedly gray. No color ... The Sea incredible adventure. pression of this alien celestial citement of seeing pictures era for the 12-minute telecast The television was beamed 58-hour return to earth. announced: of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on Air Force Col. Frank Bor- body that has awed man beamed live by three adven- from an altitude of about 150 after Apollo 8 a tiny speck in The momentous orbit in- "We've got it! We've got man, Navy Capt, James A. since his beginning. turers 230,000 miles from their miles he described the sur- sertion climaxed a 69-hour it! Apollo 8 is in lunar orbit." (See APOLLO, Pg. 2, Col. 5) Lovell Jr., and Air Force Flashed K Home home planet. face as "whitish-gray, like limitless space, whirled journey that started Saturday Maj. William A. Anders Two and one-half hours lat- Earthlings were treated to dirty beach sand with lots of through its second of 10 at Cape Kennedy in which the etched their names beside er, the astronauts flashed the a bleak, barren landscape of footprints in it." planned orbits of the moon. astronauts, like three wise Pueblo's 82 Released Crewmen Fly Toward San Diego Reunions SEOUL (AP) — The 82 tured the Pueblo Jan. 23, he Christmas presents for the way to thank the band mem- Duncannon, Pa., in whose Bucher looked very sad, keep- freed crewmen of the U.S. was the only fatality. men. bers. arms Hodges died. ing his head down most of intelligence ship Pueblo The planes were scheduled Band Offers Farewell The simple memorial ser- The casket, draped in a the time. winged their way toward San to arrive at San Diego's Mira- A U.S. Army band played vice for Hodges was held in U.S. flag, was carried from Condition: Fair, Good, Diego today for a joyful mar Naval Air Station at 5 "California Here I Come" an open field near the planes a military ambulance by Rosenberg, who accompa- Christmas reunion with their p.m; EST after a refueling and "Anchors Aweigh" as the two hours before they left. It eight Navy men. A platoon nied the crew on the flight, APOLLO 8 VIEWS THE MOON — This television families. stop at Midway Island. men boarded the planes. Clad was conducted by Lt. Cmdr. of sailors and Marines and told i news conference ear- Two Air Force C141s took The Navy said at least 167 in blue Navy fatigues, they Stanton Wilson, chaplain for about 200 American soldiers lier the men were in "fair to view of the moon was transmitted this morning by off with the men and a coffin wives, children, : mothers, appeared rested and smiled Navy forces in Korea, and and civilians attended the good condition." They were the Apollo 8 astronauts as their spacecraft orbited after a memorial service at fathers)'''brothers'and sisters and waved at a crowd of 200 was attended by Bucher, service. given preliminary medical the moon. The angles framing the picture are caused Seoul's Kimpo airport for have gathered at the base. persons seeing them off. Adm. Edwin M. Rosenberg, An eight-man honor guard' checkups and spent the night Fireman Duane ft. Hodges, Many left their homes for The Pueblo skipper, Cmdr. in charge of the Pueblo fired three rounds of salute at the 121st Evacuation Hos- by the edges of the spacecraft windows and the 22, of Creswell, Ore. Injured San Diego in such a htirry Lloyd M. Bucher, 41, was the crew's repatriation, and PO while Taps was blown. pital outside Seoul following lunar horizon. (AP Wirephoto) when the North Koreans cap- they didn't have time to buy last to board, stopping on the 3.C. Ralph E. Eeed, 30, of Throughout the ceremony their release yesterday. Before their departure to- day the Pueblo men were visited by several top U.S. and South Korean officials, Appoint Judge including Premier Chung II- Many Not Home Christmas Eve *#„•..' His face working with emo- By ASSOCIATED PKESS Arab guerrillas inside Jordan More than 2,000 Arabs were Moslem holy month, with rel- ow of the late President John tion, Bucher told Chung he Christmas Eve today means as thousands of pilgrims de- among the travelers who atives in the lands seized by F. Kennedy, was vacationing "hoped at no time did we To Select Jury being away from home for fied Arab threats and con- came to celebrate Christmas Israel from Jordan during the with her new husband and her ever embarrass your coun- verged on the Holy Land. or the end of Ramadan, the- 1967 war. children on- his sunny Greek try" while in North Korean GIs in Vietnam and around Pope Paul planned to cele- island, Skorpios. captivity. the world, for the crew of brate midnight Mass for In the United States, "many "There were methods used Apollo 8, for Christian pil- workers tonight near the roar- northern states were still dig- that made us sometimes In Crime Probe grims In the Holy Land and ing blast furnace of a steel ging out from weekend .snow- ashamed of ourselves," he for Pope Paul VI. mill in Taranto, in the heel storms and assured of a white said. "But we tried to give at TRENTON (AP) - Frank to get under way for another of the Italian boot. Police It was another story for the Christmas. The U.S-. Weather least some evidence that we J. Kingfield, a Superior Court 5 to 6-weeks. • . • were out in force to guard Bureau predicted more snow didn't believe a word of what judge In Trenton, will pre- 82 surviving crewmen of the The existence of the state- against a small band of stu- today over a wide area we were doing." side over the selection of the wide grand jury was made U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo, dents threatening to disrupt stretching from the Northeast Chung replied: "Our expe- statewide grand jury that will possible last week when Gov. homeward bound after 11. the papal visit. The militants to the central Appalachians, rience in the Korean war investigate the activities of Richard J. Hughes signed a months in North Korean cap- accuse the church of 'not pay- the Great Lakes region and taught us the value of free- organized crime in New Jer- bill allowing grand juries to ing enough attention to the through the northern plains. dom more than life." sey. ' . cross county lines. tivity. Most of them were plight of the poor. looking forward to a joyful re- Cool temperatures and clear "Freedom is worth mpre Kingfield was appointed. Replacement Set ,. More than 200,000 miles union with their families in skies were forecast elsewhere than anyone's life," agreed yesterday by Chief Justice J0-, Attorney General Arthur J. from earth, the three Amer- Bucher. • San Diego, Calif., tonight. in the nation. Meanwhile, seph Weintraub to oversee the Sills immediately asked the ican astronauts aboard the Christmastime was accompa- "You have a splendid coun- selection of the panel and su- special panel tp replace a The 540,000 American ser- Apollo 8 spacecraft were, nied by its usual summer try. I hope your republic pervise its activities. But the Mercer County grand jury vicemen in Vietnam were ob- spending Christmas Eve or- weather south of the equator.