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Distribution Weather THEDMLY CoMUrnM* suuMoe, milder today high In ». Clear and cool 31,175 tonight low Bear M. Moitly IUD- I Red Bank Area f ny and warmer tomorrow Mgh near 80. Outlook Saturday, fair Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1966. and mild. MONMOUTH COUMTS HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS DIAL 741-0010 Iuued dally, Monaiy Uirouih rria«y. Mcond CUM PoiU«« THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1966 VOL. 88, NO. 238 Pill it RH Bank and at AddlUonl Mallliur O(Ilc«». Jc PER COPY PAGE ONE Lands on Moon in First Try Surveyor Sending Pictures PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -| atively smooth, hard surface that on the craft astronauts will prominences, and some goug- tists that the surface might be •Surveyor 1, defying Jongsihot apparently suitable as a possi- use for a landing later in the ing, as if the surface had been deep dust or spongy lava that odds against a first-try success, ble descent point for future as- decade. struck by objects from space at could swallow a landing vehicle. televised earthward today strik- tronauts. A picture series beginning at an angle. 1 The 620-pound Surveyor plant- ing photos of the lunar land- The successful toudh-down, 5:45 a.m. EDT, using a different The pictures showed no dam- ed its three legs firmly on the scape alter a seemingly perfect executed precisely as pro- TV screen system ll»an that of age to the spidery, instrument- lunar crust at 2:17:37 a.m. gentle landing on the moon. grammed, was viewed as a long two earlier batches, snowed a jammed, craft 10 feet high and EDT, 63 hours and a quarter- The pictures indicated to sci- stride forward for the Unted broad plain devoid of major fea- 14 feet in diame<er. They million miles after its launch entific viewers at the Jet Pro- States' Apollo lunar exploration tures, peppered with either peb- showed its feet resting atop the Monday from Cape Kennedy. pulson Laboratory that the Sea program. Surveyor's rocket bles or pits caused by meteor- crust — important evidence in Its crucial terminal sequence of Storms target area has a rel- braking system is similar to ites. There were several small view of opinions of some scien- — a cartwheel in space to point its feet moonward, then at 18 miles out a blast from its pow- erful retro-rocket engine to stow to landing speed of 8 m.p.h. — GeminiTwins Try Again Tomorrow ended with all instruments ap- parently functioning. CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) They, get another chance Fri- shroud around the docking ap- indeed pieces of the shroud until Thirty-five minutes later, it — Dramatically successful watih day at 9:39 a.m. (EDT) to paratus on one end of the stub- the astronauts go up and take a began televising pictures sent the unmanned Surveyor moon- set out on their 70-hour flight, by, bottle-shaped line-up target look for themselves. natonwide and overseas by ship, but seemingly jinxed in including satellite rendezvous separated as planned once in Without link-up in Gemini 9's three networks, employing the and 2'/2*our space walk after a orbit. flight plan, the entire timetable Early Bird satellite. getting men off Ihe ground, frustrating two-day delay. The target, known as an Aug-in the already revised mission The first batch of three space officials felt confident Engineers pinned the blame mented Target Docking Adapt- might have to be juggled again. showed a leg and other portions, today that Gemini 9's two dis- for the scrubbed Gemini 9 flight er, blasted off a Cape Kennedy However, no matter how the with the lunar surface in the launch pad less than two hours sequence of events finally background. SPAC6CRAFT PHOTOGRAPHS ITSELF ON MOON — This picture, one of a series Wednesday on a faulty signal relay system. It kept a guidance before trouble struck Gemini 9. evolve, the Gemini 9 space There was nothing to hint of Mnt to earth by Surveyor spacecraft on the moon today, shows part of the Surveyor Twice, Air Force Lt. Col. command from reaching a It continued to circle the earth, twins could still accomplish the danger to future manned land- Itself - an antenna and part of the craft. (AP .Wirephotol Thomas P. Stafford and Navy black box for electronic transla- performing normally. trick rendezvous exercises, and ing craft. Lt. Cmdr. Eugene A. Cernan tion to Che spacecraft, Radio signals from the target Cernan would be able to take have donned their flasJiy space A second batch of 10 showed Faulty parts were replaced satellite to earth indicated the his elaborate 2%- hour space suits and climbed aboard their shroud did not separate from walk. more distant terrain — flat and Catholics Offer Him Praise waiting spaceship; but, twice, and preliminary tests indicated featureless, except for a shad- the problem had been solved. the ATDA. All they do in space figures they've gloomily taken the slow But, it may be that no one will prominently in the U.S. plan to ow, apparently that of the elevator ride back to fhe However, flight officials still know for sure if the mysterious land men on tine moon by the spacecraft, in the shape of a Elevate Bishop Hogan ground. aren't certain a protective objects, now unidentified, are end ofthe decade. (See SURVEYOR, Page 31) TRENTON (AP) — The newly Bishop J. Carroll McCormick, hood as a gentle, loving man appointed bishop of the Roman whom Bishop Hogan replaces, left who loved to work among his Catholic diocese' of Altoona- the Altoona-Johnstown diocese to parishioners, Bishop Hogan ex- Johnstown, Pa., is described by go to Scranton, Pa. pressed hope for even closer Ky Forces Calmly Occupy Hue; his current parishioners in the Known throughout his priest- contact with the people in his Trenton diocese as "humble," new position. ' "learned" and a man to whom Acknowledging the demands on "the people: come first." the time of a diocesan bishop, he And ss one of his first acts said, with a twinkle of humor American Bombs Rip North Viet upon receiving word of the ap- and a glint of determination, pointment yesterday, Bishop SAIGON (AP) - Premier Ngu- aircraft and missile sites. They by the Communists since Mon- mained about' the sime. number of wounded to 10,836 and "Still, one can find a happy yen Cao Ky's troops took over also made a spectacular strike day when a break in the weath- James J. Hogan, the auxiliary medium." Casualty Reports the total American dead in the the Buddhist stronghold of Hue on a 20-truck Communist supply er enabled the United States.to The casualty report for the Vietnamese war to 3,553. bishop of Trenton, asked that the A gentle sense of humor too parishioners of both dioceses today without any resistance convoy, U. S. military headquar- step up the air offensive against week ending May 28 listed & A government spokesman said has always prevaded Bishop Ho- from the Buddhist-led mobs and ters reported'today. North Viet Nam, Americans killed in battle, 60S 240 Vietnamese troops were "address a fervent plea for gan's personality. Following his guidance." anti-government troops that have The heavy air raids yesterday On the ground, U. S. forces in wounded and two missing. The killed and 55 missing or cap- consecration as first auxiliary held the northern city in open South Viet Nam made only light, week before there were 48 With characteristic humility. bishop of Trenton six years ago, were carried out at a cost of tured in the week. For the pre- Bishop Hogan said he had been rebellion since mid-March. three more American planes, sporadic contact with the enemy American dead, 820 wounded and vious week, 238 Vietnamese were he stepped out of the St. Mary's yesterday. no missing. "surprised" by the appointment Cathedral into a heavy snowfall, The junta's forces seized Hue's raising the number of U. S. air- reported killed and 84 missing or when reached at St. Catharine's! and said, "This is some kind of radio station and other strong- craft shot down over North Viet U. S. casualties dropped last The casualties brought the captured. Government wounded Roman' Catholic Church Jn the: omen, I think." points in the city 400 miles north- Nam to 54. One pilot was res- week, the U. S. command re- number of Americans reported are not disclosed. tiny community ot. Spring Lake east of Saigon a day after th cued. ported, while those of the South killed in battle since Jan. 1 to Australian, South Korean and In a statement rejeased : where he had been rector tor U through' ftfs#'&enton office this ruling generals came to a po- Six planes hava bam shot *wn Vietnamese, and the enemy re- 1,703 by unofficial tabulation, the (- {8m VBST NAM, Pig* »« years. ' • morning, - Bishop Hogan ex- litical agreement with their Bud- "But these things are always pressed "deep regret In leaving dhist opponents In Saigon. surprises," he added. the clergy, religious and faith- Hue .was the last territorial May Need $400,000 Increase •' Thff 54-year-okl bj«hop*iid he ful of the Diocese of Trenton strosgppjDt. »f the anti-govern- "would anticipate ' very little and in particular my beloved ment forces. Its recapture was a Change following inch a man as major victory for Ky, who has Bishop McCorinick." Bishop James J. Hogan (See BISHOP, Page 2) managed to stay |n power with the support of his fellow generals Aid to College May Cost More By Sparing Jersey Resources and the United States-despite the massive campaign mounted FREEHOLD — The Monmouth aid being offered to students at- County aid has been adequate would be considered as part of against him by the Buddhists.