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him to his feet. The astronauts also inadvertently left behind a bag containing still color film snapped in lunar orbit.
After the linkup with Gordon, who had been cruising in lonely orbit during the 32 hours his buddies had spent below.
Yankee Clipper was to circle the moon for another day taking pictures of future landing sites, including one for Appollo 13 scheduled for next March.
America's Apollo 12 moon explorers collected a treasure trove of lunar rock and soil samples early Thursday and examined a $21 \%$ -year-old Surveyor spacecraft they found "cooked brown" in the lunar sun.
Moving across the moon's surface like loping "giraffes," Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan L. Bean ranged more than a half mile from their landing ship Intrepid, following a runabout route to the Survevor.
En route, they picked up nearly 100 pounds of soil and rock samples, which scientists hope may hold part of the key to creation itself, since the moon's surface is untouched by an erosive atmosphere.
Conrad and Bean rested near the Surveyor and took pictures of it on the second of two moonwalks they made. Bean said the Surveyor, launched i n 1967, bounced twice on landing and the imprints of its tripod landing gear were still visible in the lunar surface.
"The engine is still green," Conrad radioed. "We've got a nice brown surveyor here, Houston. The glass is still on the top. Not a bit of it is fractured."
Surveyor was painted white when it was launched, but Conrad said "it's changed color. The sun's cooked it brown." he said.
Scientists are anxious to get parts from the Surveyor to determine how it survived its stay on the moon. It landed on the lunar surface in April, 1967, and flashed back to earth 6,315 television pictures before going dead.
The spacecraft landed about 150 feet down the sloping walls of a crater, and there was some concern whether the astronauts could reach it.
"They, this is so much easier working around than one-G in our practice, it's unbelievable," Conrad radioed as they worked with a long pair of cable cutters to remove parts of the Surveyor for return to earth.
"Don't worry about it, Houston," Conrad told ground controllers when they showed some concern about the astronauts' ability to climb out of the pit. Conrad said the underfooting was fairly firm and there was "no problem."
"OK," Bean radioed, "one shiny tube coming up. It has sort of weathered a little bit in 31 months, hasn't it."
In addition to the tubing, the astronauts took off part of an electrical cable and worked to get Surveyor's TV camera off.
The visit to the Surveyor came during the second moon-walk. In the first excursion onto the lunar surface the astronauts set up a nuclear-powered scientific base that immediately began relaying information back to earth.
For their second moonwalk Wednesday, Conrad and Bean gathered rocks from the fresh-looking craters near Intrepid.
Conrad said he could feel the extra heat from the sun that was higher in the sky. He paused during the excursion to turn up the cooling element in his space suit.
The astronauts had not been
scheduled to make the second moonwalk until 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, but they were anxious to start and got permission from ground control to move up the mission.
Conrad, the spaceflight commander, stepped out on the moon for the second time at 10:01 p.m. CST, one hour and 39 minutes ahead of schedule, and Bean followed him 10 minutes later at 10:11 p.m.
But viewers on earth lost a chance to share the men's moon adventure when they could not fix a balky color TV camera.
During their first moonwalk early Wednesday morning the astronauts set up a nuclear-powered scientific base that immediately began relaying information back to earth. During the day, however, ground control found that one of the experiments was not working properly, and instructed the astronauts to inspect it during their second excursion.
Before the mission, Bean referred to the sample gathering mission as a "rock dance"-a routine involving careful photography and bagging of the samples.
"I'm picking up a rock that has crystal in it," he reported. "One of them is shining very bright and very green like ginger ale."
At another point,贝 said he spotted one rock that "looks almost like a granite." He said it had fairly large crystals, some reddish in color.
Conrad picked up a "grapefruit-sized" rock and rolled it along the lunar landscape like a bowling ball so it could be measured on the seismometer.
"Now it's rolling—roll, roll, roll," Conrad said. "Now it's stopped."
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mainstay financially for many undergraduates in recent years. For us not to receive as much federal money as possible because the state will not provide the matching 11 per cent is to close the door to many deserving prospective students," Chalmers said.
In making specific requests for KU, Chalmers asked legislators for provisions which would enable KU to hire 110 new faculty members in September 1970 in order to meet increased enrollment needs. Chalmers said KU experienced the largest student increase in the University's history last fall, with an enrollment increase of 1200 students. Seventy-five per cent of this increase was due to returning undergraduate students, Chalmers said.
Chalmers also asked for an additional $75,000 to increase the number of books in the KU library. He said the book fund has remained consistent for the last three years, while student enrollment has increased by 4,000.
Under capital improvement, Chalmers requested funds for animal facilities at KU which would comply with federal regulations for laboratory animals. Chalmers also requested that Flint Hall, Fowler Hall and the Strong Hall auditorium be remodeled. He emphasized the need to remodel any useable space in order to meet the pressing need for classrooms.
The construction of sidewalks in residence hall areas and a $10,000 increase in the present $175,000 improvement and repair fund was also requested by the Chancellor.
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Validity challenge may be dismissed
TOPEKA (UPI)—The state attorney general filed a brief in Shawnee County District Court Wednesday asking for dismissal of the case challenging the validity of the 1969 highway construction and motor fuel tax law.
The brief, written by Asst. Atty. Gen. Richard H. Seaton, states that because of Judge William Randolph Carpenter's rulings Nov. 14, there is no longer a "justifiable controversy" or disagreement between the parties.
Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell originally brought the suit Aug. 28 seeking a court ruling to uphold his written opinion that the law's formula for determining highway construction priorities is invalid. The highway commission was named defendant, but in answering Frizzell's petition it attacked the entire law.
The judge ruled the state highway commission had no authority to challenge the constitutionality of the entire law. He also denied motions of the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County to intervene.
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Docking controls the highway commission which brought the counterclaim challenging the entire law.
Seaton said the commission doesn't have authority to challenge the entire law, and both the attorney general and the commission agree the formula is invalid. Therefore, he said, there is no longer any disagreement.
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