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U.S. spacemen
flying for science
HOUSTON (UPI) - With their Russian
comrades safely back on earth, America’s
three orbiting astronauts were flying in the
name of science today to learn as much as
possible before the age of Apollo draws to a
close in two days.
Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and
Donald “Deke” Slayton had a flight plan
filled with experiments ranging from
exploration of the galaxy to studying the
behavior of fish in the world of
weightlessness.
One of the astronauts’ jobs this morning
was to take advantage of the lack of
gravity to use an electric field to separate
red blood cells. This was an experiment
with major practical potential for space
stations.
In a test scheduled this afternoon, the
pilots hoped to find out more about the
strange light flashes astronauts first
noticed on moon flights when their eyes
were closed. Scientists believe these
flashes are caused by cosmic ray particles
passing through the head.
“We’re busier than the proverbial one
armed paper hanger,” Stafford said after
the load of scientific investigations began
Monday.
The three Americans worked well into
the night. Their only disappointment was
Soviets to buy
corn, barley
WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S.
agriculture experts estimate Soviet grain
losses because of drought at about 15
million tons. But with the third recent
purchase of North American grain, the
Soviets now have made up more than two
thirds of their needs.
The latest sale was reported Monday by
Continental Grain Co. of New York, which
played a major role in a much larger U.S.-
Soviet grain deal in 1972.
The Soviets will buy 5.6 million tons of
U.S. com and barley from Continental, in
addition to the 3.2 million tons of wheat
bought from Cook Industries Inc., and
Cargill, Inc., last week and 2 million tons
of wheat from Canada.
Much of the new grain supplies are
expected to go for feeding Soviet cattle to
increase domestic beef supplies.
The Agriculture Department said the
contract allows Continental to supply the
grain from any country it chooses. But
officials said the United States normally
would supply most com shipped to the
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—-It takes 27,440 pennies to fill a 10-gallon jug, brothers Peter,
Donald and Michael Russell of Battie Creek, learned. It took the boys nearly five years of
odd jobs and penny saving to reach the top. On the way to the bank to be counted, the glass
broke and several pots and pans were needed to transport the pennies (UPI)
continuing trouble with an X-ray
telescope. But project officials reported
other instruments were gathering
valuable information.
Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov, the
two Soyuz cosmonauts who opened the
joint Soviet-American flight a week ago
today, were resting at the modern
Kosmonaut Hotel at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome, 310 miles southwest of the
dusty prairie where they landed Monday.
The Apollo was staying up three days
longer than Soyuz to add scientific results
to the diplomatic successes already
achieved.
The Americans’ Thursday afternoon
splashdown in the Pacific ocean will mark
the end of the 15th and final flight of the
ship that carried men to the moon and the
Skylab space station.
U. S. spacemen will not return to orbit
until the space shuttle rocket plane begins
flying in 1979.
The Soyuz landing, shown on live
television for the first time, went so well
that cosmonaut training chief Vladimir
Shatalov indicated the return of the Salyut
4 cosmonauts also may be televised. Pyotr
Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastiyanov have
been in orbit for more than eight weeks
and their return is expected within a few
days.
Soviets.
Com deliveries will begin in October,
after the start of what is expected to be a
record U.S. harvest, and will continue
through August, 1976.
Agriculture Department experts have
said this year’s expected American wheat
and com harvests will be so big that sales
to the Soviet Union could reach 12 to 14
million tons without pinching supplies for
American consumers or other foreign
customers.
In 1972, a Russian purchase of 19 million
tons of American grain touched off a wave
of increases in farm and food prices.
Government sources estimated the
orders placed with U.S. firms this year
would be worth about sl.l billion, about the
same amount the Russians spent in 1972
when prices were much lower.
Butz conceded he was not predicting “a
zero impact” from the sales. But he said
he believed consumers would not resent
some increases in farm prices because
that would encourage continued big crops.
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| Jazzman critical
GARY, Ind. (UPI) — Jazzman Julian “Cannonball”
Adderley was in extremely critical condition today and
was aided artificially in his breathing and heart functions.
Adderley, 47, was admitted to Mercy Hospital July 13
after suffering a stroke which left him paralyzed on the
right side and affected the speech center of his brain.
The saxophonist has been aided with his bodily
functions since last week, officials reported.
Adderley has a history of high blood pressure.
A hospital official said Adderley was being monitored
continuously by personnel. Many of his family and friends
have stayed daily at the hospital.
| Physical exhaustion
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Interior Secretary Stanley
Hathaway is recovering from physical exhaustion at
:g Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Hathaway entered the hospital last week. Capt. Charles
Lambdin, deputy commanding officer at the hospital, said
Monday, “We would like to have him remain in the
£ hospital until he has shown marked improvement. It
g would be unwise for him to resume his intense schedule
g while in a weakened condition.”
“The long hours and vigorous schedule he has kept as
S secretary have contributed further to his run down
condition,” Lamdin said. “The secretary needs rest and
g: an opportunity for his body to regain strength.”
| Approval gained
WASHINGTON (UPI) — David Mathews’ nomination
as secretary of health, education and welfare has been
approved by the Senate Finance Committee.
Both the finance committee and the labor and public
works committee held hearings on Mathews’ nomination
last week, and he appeared to have minimal opposition.
Mathews, 39, has been president of the University of
Alabama since 1969. He was nominated by President Ford
to replace Caspar Weinberger, who resigned.
| Family movies
LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) — Cowboy star Roy Rogers,
getting ready for his first movie in 21 years, says it’s time
for film makers to return to family productions.
“In fact, I wouldn’t want Trigger to see some of the
movies they are making today,” Rogers said Monday.
Rogers flew into Lubbock’s Municipal Airport and
quickly departed for the Pitchfork and 6666 ranches 75
miles east of Lubbock to get ready for filming today.
“A lot of things have changed in making movies since I
did my last one in 1954,” Rogers said. “Walt Disney has
g done pretty good with family-type movies, and we can
make good money putting out the same type films.
“One thing that hasn’t changed over the years is that an
actor must know his lines and must know the action, and
we are looking forward to this challenge once again,” he
said.
Filming of the movie, “Mackintosh and T.J.,” began
Monday. Rogers is scheduled to work 12-hour days, six
days a week for four weeks.
BAIKONUR, U.S.S.R.—Photographers capture the
moment for posterity as Soviet cosmonaut Valery
Kubasov autographs the Soyuz-19 space capsule following
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Leonov, also of the Apollo-Soyuz mission. (UPI)
One of world’s largest
grain dealers indicted
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — One of the
world’s largest grain dealers and 13 of its
officials have been indicted for allegedly
conspiring to steal export grain by loading
ships with less cargo than records
indicated.
The federal indictment returned
Monday named the Bunge Corp, of New
York and one of its vice presidents among
those charged. It was the third indictment
to result from a 16-month investigation of
grain export operations in New Orleans
and other ports.
Walton Francis Mulloy and Clayton
Eugene Wilcox were the highest Bunge
officials indicted.
Mulloy is a Bunge vice president and
regional manager in Kansas City, Mo.
Wilcox, of Hinsdale, 81., is a Bunge
assistant vice president and regional
manager of St. Louis, Mo., and Destrehan,
La., offices.
The investigation has centered in New
Orleans, the largest grain exporting port
in the world and the departure point for
one-third of United States shipments to
foreign countries.
Previous indictments charged federally
licensed inspectors at New Orleans and
Houston with falsely grading and weighing
grain shipments.
Massive oil spill
closing in on Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) — Residents of
the Florida Keys are used to “tar” on the
beaches — tiny blobs of congealed crude
oil which wash ashore daily from vessels
plying the Gulf Stream five miles offshore.
But there’s a difference between that
and the massive spill—estimated at 85,000
to 120,000 gallons of crude oil — that was
closing in on the Keys today.
“I guess I’ll have to put a gallon can of
mineral spirits by the door,” said a
summer resident, figuring that’s what it
would take to wipe off the goo.
Coast Guard officials said the worst of
the spill would hit today between the
northeast end of Big 3 ine Key and Boca
Chica Naval Air Station just east of Key
West.
Pancake-size “glops,” several inches
thick, began washing ashore with the
incoming tide Monday on a 25-mile-long
front of the lower Keys. Right behind were
streamers of the black goo, some 20 feet
long.
“It has broken up into big glops,”
reported Joanne Gladwell from the Big
Pine Key Fishing Lodge Monday. “My
husband Jack just came in from fishing in
his boat and said it was about 200 yards
offshore and the tide is coming in.”
The Coast Guard flew in more anti
pollution “strike team” specialists and sea
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 22, 1975
In the latest indictment, Bunge was
accused of shortweighing ships at grain
elevators in Destrehan, La., and
Galveston, Tex., from 1961-73. The
indictment said company executives and
employes regularly overstated ship
manifests by 2,000 bushels (120,000
pounds) and concealed the practice by
adjusting company records.
The indictment charged the defendants
shortweighed $1.5 million in soybeans and
sorghum exports from 1965-70 at the
Destrehan elevator and altered company
records to show false delivery of 225,000
bushels of com and wheat.
It also said company records were
falsified to conceal the practice from the
U.S. Agriculture Department.
The individual defendants could be
sentenced to as much as five years in
prison and fined SIO,OOO if convicted.
U.S. Attorney Gerald Gallinghouse said
the current phase of the investigation into
the handling of grain at the Destrehan
elevator and six other Mississippi River
elevators in Louisiana should be finished
by Aug. 15.
“Many persons have come forward to
assist our efforts to put an end to dishonest
practices that have troubled the grain
industry in the port of New Orleans and
elsewhere for many years,” he said.
boom equipment from Mississippi and
North Carolina to begin containment and
cleanup operations at dawn.
Environmentalists debated the possible
effects on marine life. Most believed
seabirds would be able to avoid the “globs
of heavy, tar-like goo,” as one Audubon
Society member described it. Some
conservationists said the oil would float
and thus not reach vulnerable coral reefs
on the ocean bottom.
Federal and state authorities have
begun an investigation to find the source of
the spill. Officials believe it came from a
tanker cleaning its tanks offshore.
“Oil can be identified like fingerprints,”
said Lt. Cmdr. George Davis, southern
chief of the Coast Guard’s Marine
Environmental Protection branch.
He said failure to report a spill could
bring a fine up to SIO,OOO or a year in jail.
Florida has the toughest oil spill damage
law in the nation. Failure to report a spill
and failure to try to contain it are felonies
under Florida law, punishable by up to
$50,000-aday fines.
“We can take the culprit to court and
make him pay for everything — damages
to private property, resources, everything
— and we will, if we can catch him,” said
Harmon Shields, director of the state
Natural Resources Department.