Apollo 13 Is 'On Course9 for Splashdown
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Hahne Zoning Disappoints Middletown Foes SEE STORY PAGE 19 Sunny, Milder Sunny and milder today. Clear, cool tonight. Cloudy, FINAL Tain possible tomorrow. Red Bank. Freehold Long Branch EDITION • (See Details, Page 3X Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL- 93, NO. 205 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970 ' 34 PAGES , 10 CENTS Apollo 13 Is 'On Course9 for Splashdown By HOWARD BENEDICT their lunar module engine for gine burn later to refine the 'discard two sections of their men back from the brink of ar module jets. be needed for the re-entry groped through the two dark- SPACE CENTER, Houston 15 seconds as the world held trajectory. space train — a powerless disaster. They will seal off the three- and landing sequence. ened spaceships with. flash- '(AP) — Back on coarse to- its breath. Lovell, Haise and Swigert service'modU'le and the lunar A tentative plan "calls for foot-long tunnel between the Wafer for cooling the lun- lights. The command ship, ward earth,-Apollo 13's astro- Had the midcourse firing continued to ration the vital module which has been their Lovell, Haise and Swigert to lunar and command ships and ar module electronics and ox- which had become essential- nauts concentrated today on failed, Apollo 13 would have oxygen, water, power and oth- life-saver since the command enter the command module pressurize it about two hours ygen continued to be the most ly a Tsedroom, had turned unique, critical maneuvers missed earth by 104 miles er resources on which their ship was crippled by an oxy- and power up its systems before the approximate 11 critical supply. Griffin report- cold, with temperatures as needed to steer their disabled and skipped off into space lives depend. They had am- gen tank rupture Monday. about 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. a.m. re-entry and build up ed early today the spacemen low as 35 degrees. Spaceship home. with no rescue possible. ple margins in all to com- Then they must power up Two hours later they are pressure in the tunnel. An had enough for only 19 hours To cope with problems, the James A. Love]] Jr., Fred "You're looking good," Mis- plete the flight. But they the now dead command ship to jettison the service mod- hour later they'll release se- beyond the planned landing astronauts performed what W. Haise Jr. and John L. sion Control called out at the knew a sudden loss of any wjth auxiliary batteries be- ule by exploding connecting curing latches and the pres- time. There was plenty of they termed "shade tree en- Swigert Jr. hurtled toward a 'burn. "Nice work." system would imperil them fore making the blazing dive bolts. sure in the tunnel should push drinking water. gineering," using systems in Friday splashdown in the Pa- After tracking the ship on to the final hours of the abor- back to earth and splash- Because the tank rupture the two nraft anp-' Tb;? iS The astronauts had a 30- non-regulation ways." cific after a suspenseful en- its new path for three hours, tive journey. down in the Pacific at 12:53 occurred in the service mod- another power saving move. hour margin in the lunar For instance, the life sys- gine firing last night in which Mission Control radioed, Barring a major problem, p.m. EST tomorrow. ule it has no power and can- The command snip has, as) module oxygen supply and tems of the moon lander, they shifted off a perilous "You're in the corridor," the next critical period will A team of Mission Control not move away on its own ampere hours of electrical about 500 extra ampere hours handling the greater volume course that would have left meaning Apollo 13 was head- be in the hours before re- Center specialists has been as on previous re-entry mis- power to be tapped at the in the lunar module electri- of air in both ships, proved them stranded in space. ed for the Pacific. entry tomorrow. working around the clock to sions. To avoid a possible start of re-entry. Flight dir- cal supply. unequal to the task, and car- With the veteran Lovell at Mission Control said it was Before re-entering the at- perfect the highly technical collision, the astronauts will ector Gerald Griffin estimat- The spacemen had turned bon dioxide began to build the controls, they triggered considering another brief en mosphere the astronauts must details for bringing the space- move away by firing the lun- ed 70 to 80 amp hours would off most lights and they up in the atmosphere. State Birth Control \ I » \ Program Proposed TRENTON - The chair- program to expand subsi- program conservatively could man of a legislative commis- dized family planning ser- save $104 million a year in sion proposed yesterday an vices in the state. social and health costs by annual $4 million birth con- According to his recom- preventing unwanted preg- trol, program to provide fam- mendation, the state would nancies. ily planning services for3'the eventually provide $1 million "The need for subsidized, poor In New Jersey. annually and the federal gov- voluntary family services in Assemblyman Philip D. ernment would contribute $3 New Jersey is great," he Kaltenbacher, R-Essex, million. said. charged that the state's Initially, he said, the state Limited Group "support for family planning would have to appropriate At present, he continued, JOB ACTION — Approximately 350 civilian employes of the torUown, last night. Representatives of the New York has been passive and inade- $450,000 in the first year and only a few city and county quate." $750,000 in the second year health departments have be- Army Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, turned out to protest U. S. Civil Service Commission, on hand to hear questions wtm The state, with a heavy to be matched by a total of gun birth control programs. ECQM'*. reduciion-in-forca procedures at a rally sponsored by i$h Sanier, left, appeals' examiner, and Gregory Jv M6ri»+li, Roman Catholic population, $4.2 million in federal funds Moreover, he said, the avail- Ft, MorimouTh Local 476, National Federation of Federal Em- in-are* representative. I Register SMffPhotosl has been reluctant to take a in the first two years. able services are distributed ployes in the Monnroufh Shopping Center civic auditorium, Ea- leading role in birth control Based On Ideas unevenly throughout the programs, Kaltenbacher based his state. Kaltenbacher said there are proposal on the recommenda- He sai4 that less than one- 115,000 women in New Jersey tions of the 'Citizens' Com- half of the women in need who need birth control ser- mittee for Freedom of Choice of help reside in the five most vices but are too poor to af- in Family Planning. The populated urban counties in ford them, Of that total, he committee said that a $4 mil- North Jersey and receive 70 Anger Rises at Fort Rally «aid, only 17,000 or 15 per lion annual program, if be- per cent of the state's or- cent "are now provided or- gun immediately, would be ganized family planning ser- ' By DORIS KULMAN sage across loud and clear: with the NFFE' in Washing- compete down and, many empbyes can be interchanged ganized services statewide." able "to offer services by vices. 1 Examined Problems mid-1970 to all needy New "There is a definite role EATONTGWN - Some 350 They are suspicious that some • ton, was applauded when he Iqng-time ECOM employes without unreasonably inter- Kaltenbacher, the chair- Jersey women who desire for positive, state-level ac- • obviously , angry Ft. Mon- of the RIP. procedures,, par- replied with a firm "no!" to • fear, out. rupting the work. ' • man of a commission that family planning services for tion to support local efforts mouth employes turned out ticularly the establishment of the audience query: "Does According to the federal levels Adjusted examined birth control prob- protection from unwanted to develop family planning last night for a rally protest- many narrow competitive lev- the union consider the Army's personnel manual, a compet-' The' competitive levels, at lems in hearings two years pregnancies." services to meet community ing redqction-in-force proce- els, is the command's way position on competitive levels itive level includes all posi- ECOM; by the command's ac- ago, proposed a five-year Kaltenbacher said that the needs," he said. dures at the Army Electron- of "selecting out" the indi- proper?" tions in the same grade or knowledgment,' were "re- ics Command there. vidual workers it wants to A competitive level is where occupational level which are viewed and adjusted" there The rally was sponsored by sack, despite those employes' a dismissed employe with sufficiently alike in qualifica- within the past six months, Ft. Monmouth Local 476, Na- tenure, seniority and veter- seniority first competes for a tions, requirements, duties, without employe knowledge, tional Federation of Federal ans' preference rights. job. If he can't compete at responsibilities, pay schedule They became a major issue Red Bank High's Unrest Employes, and held in the Ben Hinden, an attorney his competitive level he must and working conditions so that (See Anger, Pg. 2) Monmouth Shopping Center civic auditorium, here. Bert Ganzer, an appeals examiner with the New York Explanation Is Blocked Region of the U.S. Civil Ser- DeVita Guilty of One Count vice Commission, one of the the black studies program RED BANK - Clarence last night's board meeting, two CSC representatives on ELIZABETH (AP) - paring a pre-sentence re- ing earlier in its delibera- the parents of white students they are demanding would hand to answer employe ques- a deputy state attorney gen- Gale, president of Red Bank After three days of delibera- port." The Essex County offi- tions that it was at an "im- eral, emphasized the impor- Regional Board of Education demanded that principal Wil- violate state education law tions, said he was leaving the tions a jury has found sus- cials would prepare the re- and that the regional board passe." Five times during tance of a tape-recorded tele- last night said he would not lard Browning explain what meeting braced for an ava- pended Judge Ralph DeVita port.