Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1969-03-15 J. A. Beauchamp PLAY TIME — Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9's "space walker," grins broadly as he watches a radiation counter float in front Of him during a "slow scan" television broadcast from inside the Earth-orbiting- spaceship. Nigeria Biafra Relief Nears 2,900,000 Marks Says Red Cross An estimated 2,900,000 victims of the Nigeria-Biafra conflict are now receiving some food every day through the combined efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), world church groups, and oilier voluntary agencies. Within Biafran territory, relief for refugees is being provided through airlifts operated by ICRC and Joint Church Aid (JCA), an agency established by world religious groups to supply and conduct the nightly mercy flights from the island of Sao Tome into Biafra. The two ICRC airlifts also operate every night from Santa Isabel in Equatorial Guinea and Cotonou in Dahomey, just west of Nigeria. Through some two relief operations some 2,000,000 persons in Biafra are now receiving daily food rations, according, to reports from ICRC and the U. S. Agency for International. Development (USAID). Food supplies being flown into and distributed in the territory average nearly. 6,500 tons a month, 4,000 coming from, JCA and 2.500 through ICRC. In the area held by Nigeria forces, approximately 900,000 persons are receiving at least one meal a day in a relief program sponsored jointly by ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cress. Also assisting with this effort are church and other organizations which form the National Rf Advisory Committee of Voluntary Agencies in Lagos, Nigeria. Some 4,000 tons of food a month are being distributed to refugees in federal territory. ICRC reported in Geneva last week that the coast of its relief activities, in both sides of the fighting line from hist September though February 1969 would exceed $15,000,000. It estimated that almost $20.000,00 will be required to continue this program from March through August of this year. A total of 11,000 tons of food will be needed for its relief work in both areas, the Committee said, with the peak earning in June when an estimated 5,750.000 refugees will need help — 3.500,000 in Biafran territory, and 2,250,000 in the area controlled by Nigerian federal troops. ICRC has appealed for the continuing help and support of national governments. Red Cross societies aid other agencies and organizations throughout the world. A sizable partial of the funds and relief supplies for the NigeriaBiafran program have come from the United States. USAID reported on February 15 that the total value of supplies and funds contributed for the mamouth relief effort came to $56,629,128 came from the United States, with the U. S. government providing funds and supplies valued at $26,067. The remaining $7.268,026 came in the form of cash and supplies in kind from various church and voluntary agencies in this country. The government of other nations, international church and voluntary agencies, and United Nations agencies made available funds and supplies totaling $23,150,809 USAID reported. President Richard M. Nixon, in his announcement two weeks ago that Cla Clyde Ferguson, Jr. would serve as the new American acordinator for Nigeria relief, said the U. S. government would continue its efforts to help the victims of the conflict. Mr. Ferguson said this week that he would go to Geneva soon to meet with ICRC and church agency officials and then go on to visit both sides in the civil was in Nigeria. During the last two weeks, six planes chartered by ICRC made 111 mercgy flights from Cotonou and Santa Isabel to Biafra carry ing 1,116 tons of food, medicines and other supplies. Since the start of the airlift last September, ICRC has completed 859 flights, carrying 8,714 tons of supplies — this in spite of a three-week interruption of the Santa Isabel flights during January. Each of the planes carries acargo of approximately 10 tons of food, medicines and equipment. Lately, the cargoes also have included blankets and heavier clothing to protect the refugees from the cold during the rainy season which is about to start. In recent weeks returning airlift plants also have 'brought out wounded, adults and children whose injuries, many requiring plastic surgery, could not be cared for in Biafra. Forty-eight such cases were flown to Europe oh February 18 in one of the ICRC planes. The Red Cross societies in France, Italy, enmark, Norway and Switzerland have arranged for the treatment and care of the injured. With the inoculation of 304,000 persons against measles and 866,000 against smallpox in Biafra, ICRC reports "measles outbreak decreasing; no more smallpox reported," Much of the vaccine for the inoculations was provided by USAID and UNICEF. In addition to assisting. ICRC with funds, pharmaceutical and medical supplies, the American Red. Cross has leaned disaster relief specialists to the Committee. Presently serving on the ICRC staff in Nigeria are Charles Estill, of Alexandra, Va., assistant regional manager in the ARC Eastern Area office; Gene Nunley, of Atlanta, Ga., director of disaster readiness and emergency action in the organization's Southeastern Area, office, and Wilton G. Gaefe, of Cincinnati. Ohio, who until his assignment in Nigeria was an ARC field director, in South Vietnam. Heart Girl Dies — Shown with her mother, Mrs. Wallace Corhn following the operation in Cincinnati, 6year-old Christine Corhn, the world's fifth child heart transplant patient, died atChildren's Hospital after living longer than the other four children. She received a boy's heart Feb. 8. 100 Million "Green Thumbs" An estimated 100 million Americans will engage in some type of home gardening activity in 1969, according to J. Earl Cook, president, Men's Garden Clubs of America. Cook, riding up on the organization's "mini" garden tractor to officially open the new MGCA national headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, said that the number of Americans engaged in gardening has more than doubled in the past 10 years. "Because garden tractors and other modern conveniences have turned much of the hard work side of gardening into fun," the head of the 250 chapter coast-to-coast organization noted that "home gardening has become the nation's most popular adult hobby." IMPOSTOR ARRESTED — Robert Ervin Brown, who posed as "Dr. Foster" and treated 101 patients before his arrest, is shown in Municipal Court in Santa Ana, Calif., for a preliminary hearing. "SOUL" Treatment for NATURAL HAIR MURRAY'S SUPERIOR HAIR DRESSING POMADE MURRAY'S SUPERIOR HAIR DRESSING POMADE Smarten up your Afro American look. Dry, brittle, dull, kinky hair becomes "alive" With a little dab of MURRAY'S POMADE. Adds sparkling highlights, makes hair feel softer look glossier. Needs seissor-shaping less often. Never greasy or sticky. MURRAY'S contains ingredients highly beneficial to hair and scalp. A favorite for more than 40 years. Only 50c for 3 month's supply. Trial size 25c. On sale at all drug and cosmetic counters. Gibbs To Direct State Health Department Housing James P. Gibbs of Austell has been appointed director of the State Health, Department's Housing Hygiene, and Accident Prevention Service according to an announcement made by Dr. John H. Venable, director of the Department. The appointment became, effective March 1. As the director of the Service, Mr. Gibbs will coordinate statewide programs to promote and improve housing standards and codes which directly affect the health of citizens. The Service works closely with federal and local governmental agencies — through county health departments — to improve sanitation and other environmental conditions in the housing area. Other responsibilities of the Service include prevention and education programs to curtail home accidents and a joint program with the Department ot Safety in the control of automotive accidents. The Service also functions as the state's clearing house for the National Poison Control Network, a service to the medical profession on immediate information, and antdotes on manufactured or na tural products when are accidentally Consumed and would cause poisoning. Mr. Gibbs joined the State Department in 1951 and has served in various environmental health positions including Milk Sanitarian, Chief of the Food Technology Section and Environmental Health Training Officer. Prior to his new appointment, he was Chief of the Environmental Sanitation' Section if the Department. Mr. Gibbs is a Registered Sanitartan and is a member of the Georgia Society of Registered Professional Sanitarians of which he is a past president. Other professional memberships include the American Public Health, Association and the Georgia Public Health Association. The new service director holds a B.S. degree from Auburn University and a Master's degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. He served to the U.S. Army Sanitary Corps during World War II and rose from the rank of private to major. Mr. Gibbs is a native of Liberty, Ala. and is married to the former Jo-Ann Watson of Tuscaloosa, Ala. "Black Woman Has Special Responsibility Says Speaker Because of her unique position, the Black woman has a special responsibility to institute change in a white society that has given blacks the short end of the stick. So said Mrs. Robert Cummings last week to students at WinstonSalem State College, Winston-Salem, N. C., during a program marking the college's annual women's week celebration. Mrs. Cummings, who with her husband will study in Africa this summer, is an English instructor at Winston-Salem State. "Traditionally women have been very dominant features in the black families," Mrs. Cummings said. She said that when black people were brought to America they were put into a completely new culture and that whites did not try to learn nor understand the African's way of life. Whites tried to make the blacks change by ridiculing their culture, she said. "But in the white's attempt to destroy the culture, they practically destroyed the black male," Mrs. Cummings said. After slavery was ended, she said, black women could find work, but black men had only limited employment opportunities, which fur ther weakened his position in the family. "If there were a man around the house, families were denied welfare," she said. "For these reasons men left home in order that their families might be provided for. The black woman then had to become both mother and father." Because women have developed this special position in the black culture, she said. "we are extremely necessary to the movement toward black power." She cited Mrs. Shirley Chisolm, the new congresswoman from New York, and Mrs. Rosa Parks, who helped start desegregation of transportation facilities in the South, as as examples of black women who have already done a great deal. "Black women in influential, powerful positions have, can and must continue to help other blacks change the discriminations practiced in industry, government and life," Mrs. Cummings said. "When this is done, women will have helped greatly in demolishing the existing white society, and it will all be accomplished because you will have dared to expend your energies in the Hack communities." Do's And Don'ts EXCUSE ME, BUB — I'VE GOT AN APPOINTMENT! CONTINENTAL FEATURES WILFUL RETARDATION? HEADING FOR KOREA — Launching a mighty airlift for a five-day exercise in South Korea, a member of the 82nd Airborne backs his "mule" up the ramp of an Air Force C-130 Hercules at Pope Air Force Base near Ft. Bragg, N. C. Centennial Scrapbook 1868 Naturally, along with advancements in 1869 of steam-powered bicycles, steam automobiles, self-propelled steam engines (for field work—the forerunners of tractors), there were ventures with steam flying-machines. Inventions, and Improvements in steam engineering effected by constructors of ships, railway locomotives, mill operators, pumps, hoisting devices, were prompting applications to all forms of transport. Frederick Marriott, a San Francisco editor, made news for his paper in 1869 with an "avitor." He had been in England as associate of John Stringfellow when the latter built a mini-model triplane with light steam engines Stringfellow test-exhibition of these convinced observers of the feasibility of constructing man-sized, heavier than air flying-machines. Marriott departed from the Stringfellow design radically. He combined principles of winged craft and balloon for buoyaney and weight-carrying potential. But the best his "avitor" could do in aerial flight was five miles an hour. This was demonstrably insufficient for headway against Pacific coastal winds. Lacking funds and encouragement for possible improvements, Marriott abandoned the project. (Hiram Maxim was to fly a 3 ½ ton steam airplane in 1893-94.) Frederick Marriott's "Avitor" pictured, 1869. Illustration, from "The World in the Air." by Francis Trevelyan Miller. (pubby Putnam 1930). Marriott's venture was 14 years before another California. Prof. J. J. Montgomery flew tandemwinged gliders Meanwhile a German engineer introduced an internal commonstion engine (coal gas) into a flying machine. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Astronauts Dock Moon-Lander With Apollo In Space Test With a shout or glee, two astronauts docked their spidery moon landing machine with Apollo 9 Friday after flying in tandem 112,000 miles through space in a maneuver similar to a takeoff from the moon. "Whew," shouted flight commander James McDivitt as he eased the lunar lander back to link up again with the command craft about 6 and a half hours after he and Russell L. Rusty Scheickart cut it loose for its first manned space test. The test—its engines, guidance, computers, everything went so well that the ungainly lander was almost certain to be cleared for a lunar flight. "I see you out there in the sunlight," astronaut, David R. Scott radioed from the Apollo command ship as his space chums eased back toward Apollo 9, "You're this biggest, boldest, funniest looking star I've ever seen" The test of the lander — it lasted through more than four orbits of earth — was the most critical of the 10-day flight designed primarily to test out the moon landing machine. As the lander — about half the size it was at the start, of the test because it dropped one of its engines and its long, gangly legs— eased in for the docking with the Apollo command ship, Scott asked: "How dots that sports car handle, Jim?" "Pretty nice," McDivitt answered. Earlier in the rendezvous cha McDivitt had called the lunar lander an "ungainly beast" when it still had the socalled descent engine —the one designed to lower it gently to the moon's surface. But the lander, its two computers helping Schweickart and McDivitt steer it, buzzed around the Apollo, tried out its control rockets and its descent engine twice and its ascent engine — the one designed for a moon takeoff — once. The locks holding the lander light up against the command ship were opened at 7:39 a. m. EST and McDivitt steered it back to a docking at 1:59 p. m. EST. "You're almost there, you're about there." Scott told McDivitt, talking him in during the tense final minutes of the docking. "Great, great .. . easy does it .. . that's too far." Finally McDivitt got his pointed docking probe lined up with the 32-inch-wide funnel shapped collar on Apollo 9. "That wasn't a docking, that was an eye test, he said. During the last 37 minutes of the redezous, Schweickert and McDivitt simulated the climb future astronauts will make from the lunar surface back toward a command craft in moon orbit. Since this was the prime objective of the flight, every part of the mission from liftoff Monday at Cape Kennedy on had been carefully timed to put the two vehicles in the proper rendezvous positions. This was so that the lighting and the argue at which the lander approached the command ship would be like those in a return trip from the moon The lander-nicknamed "Spider" — was 23 miles behind and 11 miles below "Gum " Apollo 9's main cabin — at the start of the lunar takeoff simulation. At that point the command shiphad just passed from darkness into sunlight so it would be most visible to the lander crewmen, who still were in darkness. Inside the lander, Schweickart and McDivitt were looking up at the commandship at the 27.5 degree angleAmerica ns coning back from the moon will use. The crew got up about midnight for the start of their fifth and busiest day in space. They gave themselves a little ex tra time because they and been getting behind do that spacesuits in the mornings. Shartly before 4 a. m. EST Schweickart and McDivitt crawled through a narrow tunnel from the Apollo command ship into the lunar lander. There and a half hours after that the latches holding the two craft together were unlocked. FOUR ORBITS With a shout or glee, two astronauts docked their spidery moon landing machine with Apollo 9 Friday after flying in tandem 112,000 miles through space in a maneuver similar to a takeoff from the moon. "Whew," shouted flight commander James McDivitt as he eased the lunar lander back to link up again with the command craft about 6 and a half hours after he and Russell L. Rusty Scheickart cut it loose for its first manned space test. The test—its engines, guidance, computers, everything went so well that the ungainly lander was almost certain to be cleared for a lunar flight. "I see you out there in the sunlight," astronaut, David R. Scott radioed from the Apollo command ship as his space chums eased back toward Apollo 9, "You're this biggest, boldest, funniest looking star I've ever seen" The test of the lander — it lasted through more than four orbits of earth — was the most critical of the 10-day flight designed primarily to test out the moon landing machine. As the lander — about half the size it was at the start, of the test because it dropped one of its engines and its long, gangly legs— eased in for the docking with the Apollo command ship, Scott asked: "How dots that sports car handle, Jim?" "Pretty nice," McDivitt answered. Earlier in the rendezvous cha McDivitt had called the lunar lander an "ungainly beast" when it still had the socalled descent engine —the one designed to lower it gently to the moon's surface. But the lander, its two computers helping Schweickart and McDivitt steer it, buzzed around the Apollo, tried out its control rockets and its descent engine twice and its ascent engine — the one designed for a moon takeoff — once. The locks holding the lander light up against the command ship were opened at 7:39 a. m. EST and McDivitt steered it back to a docking at 1:59 p. m. EST. "You're almost there, you're about there." Scott told McDivitt, talking him in during the tense final minutes of the docking. "Great, great .. . easy does it .. . that's too far." Finally McDivitt got his pointed docking probe lined up with the 32-inch-wide funnel shapped collar on Apollo 9. "That wasn't a docking, that was an eye test, he said. During the last 37 minutes of the redezous, Schweickert and McDivitt simulated the climb future astronauts will make from the lunar surface back toward a command craft in moon orbit. Since this was the prime objective of the flight, every part of the mission from liftoff Monday at Cape Kennedy on had been carefully timed to put the two vehicles in the proper rendezvous positions. This was so that the lighting and the argue at which the lander approached the command ship would be like those in a return trip from the moon The lander-nicknamed "Spider" — was 23 miles behind and 11 miles below "Gum " Apollo 9's main cabin — at the start of the lunar takeoff simulation. At that point the command shiphad just passed from darkness into sunlight so it would be most visible to the lander crewmen, who still were in darkness. Inside the lander, Schweickart and McDivitt were looking up at the commandship at the 27.5 degree angleAmerica ns coning back from the moon will use. The crew got up about midnight for the start of their fifth and busiest day in space. They gave themselves a little ex tra time because they and been getting behind do that spacesuits in the mornings. Shartly before 4 a. m. EST Schweickart and McDivitt crawled through a narrow tunnel from the Apollo command ship into the lunar lander. There and a half hours after that the latches holding the two craft together were unlocked. PRIME ORJECTIVE With a shout or glee, two astronauts docked their spidery moon landing machine with Apollo 9 Friday after flying in tandem 112,000 miles through space in a maneuver similar to a takeoff from the moon. "Whew," shouted flight commander James McDivitt as he eased the lunar lander back to link up again with the command craft about 6 and a half hours after he and Russell L. Rusty Scheickart cut it loose for its first manned space test. The test—its engines, guidance, computers, everything went so well that the ungainly lander was almost certain to be cleared for a lunar flight. "I see you out there in the sunlight," astronaut, David R. Scott radioed from the Apollo command ship as his space chums eased back toward Apollo 9, "You're this biggest, boldest, funniest looking star I've ever seen" The test of the lander — it lasted through more than four orbits of earth — was the most critical of the 10-day flight designed primarily to test out the moon landing machine. As the lander — about half the size it was at the start, of the test because it dropped one of its engines and its long, gangly legs— eased in for the docking with the Apollo command ship, Scott asked: "How dots that sports car handle, Jim?" "Pretty nice," McDivitt answered. Earlier in the rendezvous cha McDivitt had called the lunar lander an "ungainly beast" when it still had the socalled descent engine —the one designed to lower it gently to the moon's surface. But the lander, its two computers helping Schweickart and McDivitt steer it, buzzed around the Apollo, tried out its control rockets and its descent engine twice and its ascent engine — the one designed for a moon takeoff — once. The locks holding the lander light up against the command ship were opened at 7:39 a. m. EST and McDivitt steered it back to a docking at 1:59 p. m. EST. "You're almost there, you're about there." Scott told McDivitt, talking him in during the tense final minutes of the docking. "Great, great .. . easy does it .. . that's too far." Finally McDivitt got his pointed docking probe lined up with the 32-inch-wide funnel shapped collar on Apollo 9. "That wasn't a docking, that was an eye test, he said. During the last 37 minutes of the redezous, Schweickert and McDivitt simulated the climb future astronauts will make from the lunar surface back toward a command craft in moon orbit. Since this was the prime objective of the flight, every part of the mission from liftoff Monday at Cape Kennedy on had been carefully timed to put the two vehicles in the proper rendezvous positions. This was so that the lighting and the argue at which the lander approached the command ship would be like those in a return trip from the moon The lander-nicknamed "Spider" — was 23 miles behind and 11 miles below "Gum " Apollo 9's main cabin — at the start of the lunar takeoff simulation. At that point the command shiphad just passed from darkness into sunlight so it would be most visible to the lander crewmen, who still were in darkness. Inside the lander, Schweickart and McDivitt were looking up at the commandship at the 27.5 degree angleAmerica ns coning back from the moon will use. The crew got up about midnight for the start of their fifth and busiest day in space. They gave themselves a little ex tra time because they and been getting behind do that spacesuits in the mornings. Shartly before 4 a. m. EST Schweickart and McDivitt crawled through a narrow tunnel from the Apollo command ship into the lunar lander. There and a half hours after that the latches holding the two craft together were unlocked. BUSIEST DAY With a shout or glee, two astronauts docked their spidery moon landing machine with Apollo 9 Friday after flying in tandem 112,000 miles through space in a maneuver similar to a takeoff from the moon. "Whew," shouted flight commander James McDivitt as he eased the lunar lander back to link up again with the command craft about 6 and a half hours after he and Russell L. Rusty Scheickart cut it loose for its first manned space test. The test—its engines, guidance, computers, everything went so well that the ungainly lander was almost certain to be cleared for a lunar flight. "I see you out there in the sunlight," astronaut, David R. Scott radioed from the Apollo command ship as his space chums eased back toward Apollo 9, "You're this biggest, boldest, funniest looking star I've ever seen" The test of the lander — it lasted through more than four orbits of earth — was the most critical of the 10-day flight designed primarily to test out the moon landing machine. As the lander — about half the size it was at the start, of the test because it dropped one of its engines and its long, gangly legs— eased in for the docking with the Apollo command ship, Scott asked: "How dots that sports car handle, Jim?" "Pretty nice," McDivitt answered. Earlier in the rendezvous cha McDivitt had called the lunar lander an "ungainly beast" when it still had the socalled descent engine —the one designed to lower it gently to the moon's surface. But the lander, its two computers helping Schweickart and McDivitt steer it, buzzed around the Apollo, tried out its control rockets and its descent engine twice and its ascent engine — the one designed for a moon takeoff — once. The locks holding the lander light up against the command ship were opened at 7:39 a. m. EST and McDivitt steered it back to a docking at 1:59 p. m. EST. "You're almost there, you're about there." Scott told McDivitt, talking him in during the tense final minutes of the docking. "Great, great .. . easy does it .. . that's too far." Finally McDivitt got his pointed docking probe lined up with the 32-inch-wide funnel shapped collar on Apollo 9. "That wasn't a docking, that was an eye test, he said. During the last 37 minutes of the redezous, Schweickert and McDivitt simulated the climb future astronauts will make from the lunar surface back toward a command craft in moon orbit. Since this was the prime objective of the flight, every part of the mission from liftoff Monday at Cape Kennedy on had been carefully timed to put the two vehicles in the proper rendezvous positions. This was so that the lighting and the argue at which the lander approached the command ship would be like those in a return trip from the moon The lander-nicknamed "Spider" — was 23 miles behind and 11 miles below "Gum " Apollo 9's main cabin — at the start of the lunar takeoff simulation. At that point the command shiphad just passed from darkness into sunlight so it would be most visible to the lander crewmen, who still were in darkness. Inside the lander, Schweickart and McDivitt were looking up at the commandship at the 27.5 degree angleAmerica ns coning back from the moon will use. The crew got up about midnight for the start of their fifth and busiest day in space. They gave themselves a little ex tra time because they and been getting behind do that spacesuits in the mornings. Shartly before 4 a. m. EST Schweickart and McDivitt crawled through a narrow tunnel from the Apollo command ship into the lunar lander. There and a half hours after that the latches holding the two craft together were unlocked. NIXON'S INTERETATION — According to an informed source in Washington, President Nixon's interpretation of the Nov. 1 bombing halt of North Vietnam is that the agreement indicated only the South Vietnamese cities of Saigon. Hue and Da Nang are immune from Communist attack. CIA DEPUTY CHIEF — President Nixon has appointed Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman Jr. (above) deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Cushman, a native of St. Paul, Minn., is commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force in Vietnam and succeeds Vice Adm. Rufus L. Taylor.