Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

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Is 1 -f-'! v' Vs- i 7 s- -fl 1 uufti Elames Race from New IntoOlSer PartBuUig1' Vl See More FirePictures re 3 Glfiiww npliined ilut moki wu ao dirk ind beivy when tM fin department arrived that they could not aee the atrande nan on the eeeond floor Th injured were ldehtiffed ae: Donald Grondin-of Ilf Gayton Ed Lewiiton beinf treated for amdke inhalation an4 flrat defroe bumi Valter Dgrondink pf Jehimettr uinmuui 5r GLEN- BUKGE8S AND HELENE LAPOINTE Are' admitted to CMG after r' At lent four peraona werlhin treated forfracUaand hoapitalJted lata thia morning ana one peraon la miaalng on the beela of a thunderoua a bums Charlss Morris'- tit 12 Mato Auburn for flrri degree bums and abterioft: and it -4 'MwwisS? 1 NiTr -T: IU Vvir v4fd All Urn Photoa By Wardwell plosion end furious fire at the WS Libbey Co on Mato Street Lewiston -vV-' The explosion rocked the area and smoke and dust rocketed skyward on the haeis et the spectacular blast cause of which is unknown v- As maay ai tour prf eeeid 'ho mlsteg hnt autkarltin could uy for curtate that there wu paly At preutlme- the fiery blare Wu atilL not under control but stopped at the Sabelmau Heel Ce according to Lewiston Fire Chief RegtoaU Doucette -v Ousting ertie winds hampered the firefighting effort early this afternoon and' for time threatened the adjacent Central Maine Power Co building and i the Lewiiton Public Works water pumping station Firemen Hurt- i At -tout: one fireman was injured while battling the blare Shortly: after' 1:40 pm LL Charles Berube of the Auburn Fire Department wee rushed to tho Central Maine General Hospital after Suffering a leg 'njusy Hs reportedly fell and nay have sustained a broken i'eg A hospital spokesman wpnrted him in good condition 'Shortly before presstime a teem of phyricent and nurses moved into the area to set up a first aid station It was reported that more than 100 persons had donated Wood at the area blood bank this afternoon the blood to bo used needed for fire victims The Brunswick Naval Air Station wu sending two bus toadi of sailors to Lewiston to donate Wood Bady Reported At ono time this afternoon tt wu rumored that a body had been located in the rubble hid it turned out to ha a falsa report All off duty Lewiston police fleers srere re-called to duty rlreflghtera from South Portland Scarborough and otMr outlying trees -were also diaoatched to the fire scene Many at thar ecene feared there would be bodies found before It wos ell over The injured were token to Chntrtl Maine General Hosptte by some of the eeverai ambulances called to the ecene and were being treated for bums a hospital spokesman gnU i A motorist uid he heA Just creased North Bridge Ms Lewis tee "whea tea whale Iking wut ep" Gerald fflgnere tt Sit Center St heard the exjdestoo tamed uw the baildteg cel lapse (bee heard aereems far help' "1 heard a cry' from the aceond floor window and ran over to era man standing near the window" Giguera uid told the man not to Junlkp and when the fire fighter arrived I directed their tedder to the mania location Gifuere i 9 i er To Report To Nixon taking scores 1 of phqtograiriu and giving careful descriptions of fields they were visiting Robert i Senders 22 jt Newbury B- Auburn ---No Gas -i 5 1) Cause ottha exploriod and thf enauinf blare wu gat immediately' known- hut an employe of the mill said tojja was no guto that section of tho mill Lionel Debase of ll Ohratott SU Auburn aaid he works to the section of tho mill where the explosion occurred -a new department which handles non-woven product "I was at the other end of the mill at tie time of the exoloslon and wu not aware thM anything unusual was going an have been a gai oloon Defosse uid to bis knowledge there is no gas in that section of the building -'-r- Fleer Blew Out -DefeMO uid he spoke to the injured Saadare hetee ha wu transported to ft heapttaL "Ha told me the flaer Mew fremudw Mm ud hd toll tote he hasemeU" Defasu teld the JimiL 51 'mf' Charles Morris of 12 Mato It Auburn Oed the buildtog Buffering buna oyer his face end arms He-told theJournat he wu to the ritop when he heard a "loud bang" and the next thing he knew ho had fallen -into the basement Firemen from surrounding eommuniUas fir iwiy Brunswick New Gloucester Topehara and Monmouth battled furiously to atop Uy bi at a- firewall which separated ha new aection from the old However the Intense heat broke through the brick wail and entered the passageway of tho old buildtog Firemen then concentrated their efforts to lop tho Mare et-ttw end of tote structure There a detect space between fto JAftey ri building end the Sritelman 4 Plastic Hed Co Fireflghtertf sttaeked -tte intense Were from even from above utilising Lewiston's Aerial Trueke tt Including gnorxel Ona' 1 At ona point ae hundreds of spectators crowded to to get a better etow of tha proceedings Lewiiton police Chief Lucien Lengtto ordered his men- to more everyone beds up Mstn Street end across the North Bridge 1 because pf fear of another explosion Chief Longtln told the jeuntal that 10000 gsUons-of naptWha were still Inside the building end could explode at any time Richard Roy manager nf the Sabelmen Plaitie Co Mid he sew the adjacent Libbey building "go upin flamra" and the structure collapse Roy Mid he immediately evacuated aU personnel from hia building' Allied Medical Servicra and the Are AmbuianN Co- hrd emergency vehicles standing tor ae did the Androscoggin Civil Defense Agency See LIBBEY MILL Page 40 1 Served dally Atondey to Friday BUSINESSMEN'S EXPRESS LUNCH NMNMramlsne J-JJ Hd Cams -J NdasMtesdsnNsraase HOLIDAY INN AUBURN 'i 1 'i Ky PAUL EECER AP Aereepaeeiv Writer SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) Two Jubilant American adventurers prepared today for farewell lunar exploration But already aboard their lander Challenger wu new discovery samples of intriguing orangt soil possibly datiiur to the last fiery gups of a dying Shot To jf WILLIAM MOKBISSET Aatodated Preaa Writer "'UANcmesTES Vt (AP) by police to have been attemptr iteburjlri edrug etero poor condition today following aliot deaa Edward Battlck ofMan-2SvUla Police Chief cheater and the New Haven Sanda BnU wounded Conn area also waa wounded -BIW awa Mnorted in boot condl Jm burgUnyto VWUL limi -j He wee reported in poor angles and then took big scoop samples Cernan also drove two ewe tubes into the material to get deeper samples But pressed by time the astronauts were not able to itay longer end find what Schmitt Mid could have been evidence of volcanic action from tho more recast geologic past- The travelers of -Teurue-Lit-trow started their day working space-age auto mechanic! The right rear fender of their million electrie car had been tom off by accident Monday and they wanted to repair It Following instructions from Mission Control and using a design suggested by Apollo commander John Young Schmitt and Cernan clamped 4 taped-together sheet of pleitie-Ifke paper to the piece of the broken fender They were lighted with tiie makeshift repair Job- "That fender Ig really a dearie uid Schmitt "ttoe might say it's Younger fender" punned Cernsn referring td Young He promised to photograph the fender repair and give copy They drove their cv from the lending site across a- gray plain' they hailed a mahtte'i end onto the debrii of ancient landslide which fell from a nearby 1002-foot mountain called the South Mesaif Whep they reached the top of the UndriHe Cernan radioed Mission Control: "Man this has been trip really on of thin thing" Then he took- above him at South Massif ud uid "That ia a Ugh mountain" At one point tho television eemora remotely controlled rrom Mission Control' focused on a point oT light rising in tho black eky over the mountain The view zoomed to and the light' pinpoint resolved Into (he earth a blue half-ball streaked with white Another time Cfcrnan end Schmitt climbed a sleep hill their breath came in labored gaso When they were email Hfuree In' the distance of the television view 'Mission Control railed them back for a rake tool ejected sharply tog it v4 diffirult to rlimb Schmitt objected saying it Fa diffirul red it up with my feet On earth scientists were also excited by the discovery though cautious in their evaluation: They said the orange soil may have originated from "the last gaseous gup of on the moon -Dr Robin Brett chief of the geochemistry branch at the Manned Spacecraft Center said the material possibly could be rust which has been found to other lunar samples in minute quantities or some chemical combination which usumea a reddish color While Cernsn and Schmitt motored on the moon their crewmate Ronald Evans labored to the command ah ip America orbiting overhead Evan ia operating an array of aclence instrumenta which are photographing and probing large slices of the moon ans on a different cycle from hii crewmate awoke from an eight-hour rest at 1:30 am EST Officials said hla exploration from orbit was going smoothly and that he had spotted formations to thrfee to- cations that could be evidence of once-active volcanoes on tho moon If tho Mil is a product of the volcaniim that Brett spoke of it may represent material from as recent as 100 million yeare ago 1 a time that's oolv yesterday in the evolution of the moon Cernan the 2Syear old mis- By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Associated Preaa Writer- PARIS fAP) Henry A Kis-ringer end La Due Tho met' for six houn today at what could be the end of their current ses sion of secret peace talks The US'-' Embassy advised Orly "Airport that Kissinger would leave for Washington tonight airport' officials said His personal piano hat- been tending by since tt arrived from an American baaa in Vest Germany Tuesday night He win report to President Nixon There wee no immediate indication whether Kissinger and Tho have reached agreement or whether they planned to meat again in the near future Before the President's national security adviser and North Vietnam'! Politburo number met in a suburban villa a subcommittee of experts held a 40-minute session to discuss details of a settlement French Repasts French press reports said agreement wu near on the Issue blocking a cease-fire ae-cord the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam La Nation predicted agreement In "a matter of homy" But Humanite the French Communist parte newsnaper said Kissinger was insisting an See PEACE Page 40 CoL T'- attempted ttla resort vilUga erupted into -cun battle HHoag waa reported to bo ip Where to Find It In Today1! Journal Ana Loaders Amuaemeat a 'Classified (Caesewerd 1 Ppeita tv audio Beraaeepr GUluary condl-tlon in nearby Bennington a Putnam Memorial Hospital where Hoag alio waa being treated The other man alleged to have been 1 involved Brian O'Keefe 24 was captured early today at a remote camp owned by a Mrs John Battkk of Connecticut State Police laid Both men were arrested and Bennington County A tty Neil Mobs aid O'Keefe would be arraigned today on a charge -of being an accessory to murder: Charges of felony murder he said -were pending against Bat-tick Moss said Battlck and O'Keefe had been livtag in the Manchester area for some time hut both were born in New Haven Conn See MANCHESTEBP 40 1 Last Trip Astrwiauto Eugene A Cernsn end Harrison Schmitt their test geology field trip to the moon valley of TsurosJUt-trow today I Ire an elfht-mue drive along Uu bauj ri a dgh mountain and at the foot of wrinkled hills using an electric car with a patched fender The astnmaute laying ttuj "like tr cover new ground traveled a mile farther than planned on Tuesday night gathering many bags of lunar samples including scoops of the orange dust never before found on tho moon Orange Material The orange materiel we found during exploration of in ancient avalanche 44 'miles from the lending camp in a e-Littrow valley By coincidence it wee found by Cernsn not Schmitt a geoie-rist and America first professional scientist In space exclaimed Cernsn as hi stumbled into Ihesril st the rim of crater called Shorty a minute there is orange loll" y's ail ever" Genian went excitedly "Orange I'va Ur- to Young as a present from the early stages of Gone Later he' told Mission Control the second exeurfon wu much of the unbridled toy which marked the first The astronauts carried out the geology field trip with the coreful determination of men with important don't stay angry tong" If dimbing'hilla was difficult coming down In the Hriit lunar See APOLLO Page 44 CoL They moved from crater to Ion commander end Schmitt wat gathering rock samples 27 photographed the oranae 5 material in New Wide Clip-on Bows: Flanders Saranac Ski Gloves 12 Flanders Open Tonight AUB AUB Open Tonight Gllick-A-Dee- Just Good Food MEAT LOAF TODAY Clews inruns Omni Frwl) FriMOifMirs PrMMMtneSMUi Enoy Our Take Out Service Holiday Specials For 'December1 CHUCK STEAK LOBSTER' SALAD ROLL JDWJST CHUCKWAGON- RAILROAD REST Parkas! 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