Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-24-1972 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1972). Winona Daily News. 1152. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1152 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fair to partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday 117th Year of Publican*© n Fire out of lunar orbit tonight North Viet Astronauts set for return . SPACE CENTER, Houston C AP) — Apollo L6's explorers linkup two hours later with Mattingly in Casper. fire out of lunar orbit tonight to start the Jong journey borne "What a ride! What a ride!" Duke shouted as Orion with a treasure strip of rocks that scientists believe will prove blasted away from the mountainous Descartes plateau at tJlllM C . t VA01I& the moon long ago was wracked by volcanoes. 7:36 p.m . CST ending a 71-hour surface expedition during CllBlW/ . .lIVUp9 'Ihe major finds came Sunday, on the third moon drive which the moonmen set records for the amount of rocks that almost was canceled because Mission Control felt the collected, time on the surface and speed traveled by their astronauts might be tired and pressed for time as a result classy moon buggy. of their late landing Thursday "night. The two ships maneuvered around one another as Mat- tingly took pictures of the effects of the liftoff on Orion's They return -with 245 pounds of materials which repre- gingerly moved together nose-to-nose. sent perhaps the oldest and most significant samples yet thin skin , then they "I believe we got everything we went for ," said Dr. rip highlands collected on the lunar surface. Locked inside are secrets Tony England, a scientist-astronaut who was capsule com- of how the moon was bom more than four billion years ago. SAIGON (AP) - A North down near Dak To, north of M, municator during much of the flight. Geologists are certain that John W . Young, Charles outstanding success — really crowning Kontum , and the four crewmen Duke Jr. and Thomas K'. Mattingly got everything they "It . was an Vietnamese division crushed achievement for the Apollo 16 crew," said flight controller were killed. It was the 22nd sought during man's fifth moon landing mission, primarily the northern defenses of Kon- American helicopter lost since the volcani Pete Franks. in the central high- c evidence. The main goal' was to find volcanic evidence as they tum City the offensive began, the U.S. The astronauts trigger the command ship Casper's big and on and lands today, driving the South Command said. Seventeen engine at 9:16 drove their moon car over the Descartes plateau p.m. tonight to begin the 66-hour . 240,000-milc around Stone Mountain. Experts here believe that evidence Vietnamese into retreat. Air planes also have been lost, and voyage baqk to earth. Splash-down is scheduled Thursday documented sample bags the total air crew casualties are 25 in the is tucked aw ay in the carefully and sea battles erupted deep in- Pacific Ocean. bringing home. Americans killed , eight wound- The three astronauts were reunited Sunday night after astronauts are side North Vietnam , in the Gulf (Continued on page 5a, col. 6) of Tonkin and the Gulf of Siam . ed and 35 missing, the command Young and Duke blasted off the moon in the cabin section Vietnamese 2nd said. of the lunar ship Orion , and skillfully maneuvered it to a Astronauts set The North Division, spearheaded by more The United States sent its Trig than 20 tanks , rolled southward B5:s bombers to within 80 miles across Highway 14 through Tan of Hanoi to attack supply de- Canh and Dak To, the anchor pots, railroads, highways and of South Vietnamese defenses marshalling yards at the big s coastal city of Thanh Hoa. record highlands provin- Many guarding the [;:.On the inside: -I cial capital of Kontum City, For the first time in the war, one of the giant bombers was w -Phil Silvers and Alexis Smith have won Tony :" If said to be the ultimate objec- I T/vtf tive of the enemy 's 26-day-old reported hit over the North , by I - " awards as best actor and actress in a Broadway |; * ' offensive. fragments from a surface-to-air 1 musical while Cliff Gorman and Sandra Thompson were f. one failure missile, but it returned safely I chosen best in straight plays—story, page 4a. |ij A radio message was sent out SPACE CENTER, Houston CAP)—Apollo 16 starts home to Da /Nang with 30 holes in its to the scattered and badly bat- fuselage and a ruptured fuel Sen. Edmund Muslue of Maine today today with a record of successes and one failure. tered South Vietnamese 22nd ^ I^fllttin3)i{yn¦ if s a capsule summary of the accomplishments in tank. There were no casualties *' *¦ " H*>'5"" Here' Infantry Division , which had its | | ' . scheduled a series of television appeals J§ man's fifth moon landing : among the six crewmen. | | to the voters off Pennsylvania , while Sens. George McGov- | forward command post at Tan Another . American plane, an Finding of rocks believed formed by the volcanoes which Canh and a regimental com- I ers of South Dakota and Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota I • moon. Ah Force F4 Phantom fighter- I took iheir campaigns directly to the people—story, page 5a. 1 shaped the early mand post at Dak To, to pull « Most rocks gathered on moon — A total 245 pounds, or bomber, was shot down near . back to a new defensive line at Dong Hoi, 45 miles above; the IP ^T 7 . - i 30 pounds more than the first three moon landings com- Vo Dinh on Highway 14 This is | | C* About 100 ,000 voters ar« expected to go to Jf bined and 76 pounds more than Apollo 15. demilitarized zone, and the two wli Paul¦ dill about ' 15 miles south of Tan I the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor of | Longest total hours exloring the moon's surface — 20 crewmen were pulled from the St. Paul—story, page 9a. § «. Canh and about 10 miles north Tonkin Gulf by a Navy helicop- £ ¦ ¦ ¦ hours, 14 minutes— and longest single excursion — moon of Kontum. Other lesser bases ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ;¦ ¦ ¦ hours, 23 minutes. ter. !- ' . '. - . ¦:: . • . :- ';. ' ' " : ¦ : J drive II which lasted 7 and towns crumbled in the path A debate over usury will keep the . ^'tocr^;; || © Fastest lunar speed on wheels — 11 miles per hour in 1 UcilfV ' ol the North Vietnamese on- Two U.S. 7th Fleet destroyed ¦ ¦ » ¦ Legislature in session this week—story, page i the rover during the third excursion. " I ' ¦ s highlands. The other slaught. Were hit by shore fire. No casu- I - . 10a. ¦ ¦ I ey First landing in the moon' In the air war, the U.S. Com- alties were reported. : ¦' ¦!¦ landings were in maria, or plains, areas of the moon. about 10 surface-to- Nine Americans were ¦:> . "- • . Largest single rock collected on the moon. The astro- mand said, r Rwltie Bofcby Darwin ; slammed another home || # CORE SAMPLE ... Apollo 16 astronaut Charles M. Duke air missiles were fired at B52 wounded and three . buildings I nBe. Will If III ' nauts are bringing home a small boulder weighing 40 pounds. Jr., inserts a hollow probe into the moon's surface (top strategic bombers raiding damaged by a 13-round I run as the Minnesota Twins Sunday won their | Largest lunar crater ever visited, North Ray, three- were I home opener against the Oakland Athletics—stoxy, page 4b. § # photo) and drives it deeper (bottom ) to take a core soil North Vietnam. One of the rocket barrage against the Da quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep. " First major lunar surface experiment to fail. A sample. The various layers of soil extracted in the probe bombers sustained what the Nang Air Base, the biggest in 4 command termed "minor battle South Vietnam from which power cord to the heat flow experiment was broken, ruin- are expected to reveal the . geological history of the moon's ing the device, while it was being deployed. Descartes Mountain area. 'CAP Photofax) damage." raids are flown against North A U.S. helicopter was shot Vietnam. Price board Reds pout into new theater ready fo Neither side fried to win set rollbacks in highlands—until Sun NEW YORK CAP) - The Price Commission will order By PETER ARNETT highlands and send them north . hundreds of millions PLEIKU , Vietnam IB— South Vietnam's rolling, unpopu- "We fought like hell to keep them here," one senior of dollars "Saigon was not interested in us. They thought in price rollbacks and customer lated central highlands used to be a war theater where American said. neither side tried very hard to win , an "economy of force " it was the same war up here, the economy of force war, refunds in the next few weeks, and that the enemy objectives were limited." its chairman announced today, war in military terms. Until Sunday night. Then 20 North Vietnamese tanks roared in along a dirt It took the loss of the coastal district of Hoai An , and Chairman C. Jackson Gray- dirt road from Laos. Heavy artillery guns three fire bases on "Rocket Ridge" above Kontum last son Jr. said the reason is that opened up from hidden mountain positions, i week, to get Saigon 's joint general ¦staff¦ ¦really interested in the commission's limit on profit what was happening.