Local Student Joins Satellite Tracking Team for Navy
Mike Cervin an 18 year old electrical engineering student from Amarillo joins a seven member team at a Pago Pago satellite tracking station. The group part of the Transit program works with Johns Hopkins and NMSU to develop and operate the Navy contract station on South Pacific island. Training started nine months ago with two weekly sessions near Las Cruces New Mexico State University provides most student manpower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
U.S. Navy
Mike Cervin
David R. Cervin
Adirondack
Pago Pago
Amarillo
New Mexico State University At
Las Cruces
Island
Navy
Dents
NMS
New Mexico State University
NMSU Student Heads to Pago Pago for Satellite Tracking
Mike Cervin, a 1961 Amarillo High School graduate and NMSU sophomore, joins a satellite tracking team in Pago Pago Samoa for eight months. He will work eight hours daily with field data gathering while adult staff perform repairs. Training to Hawaii then Pago Pago, with five days in Hawaii. He plans English study and ham radio links home, earning pay during training and travel. He returns January 1963 to resume studies.
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Mike
Las Cruces
Hawaii
Pago Pago
Young Cervin
University of Wisconsin
Amarillo
Corvin
Amarillo High School
Lambda Chi Alpha
NMS
United States
Graham rails against the pleasure jag of the sixties
Chicago June 5 AP Billy Graham warned that American youth are restless and at a crossroads. He blamed the pleasure seeking sixties for the drift toward godless ideologies and urged the church to awaken a spiritual dynamic. He argued teens imitate elders and urged nonconformist Christian commitment to spark a global awakening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Billy Graham
Graham
Bids Set For Amarillo Overpass With De-ice Plan
Texas highway officials call for bids on the Fort Worth and Denver Railway overpass at Pierce Street Amarillo. The three lane bridge will include a novel de-icing electrical system termed hot lane to keep the structure open during heavy snow and blizzard conditions.
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Austin
State Highway Department
Fort Worth
Denver
Pierce Street
Amarillo
Pierce Streets
South 2Nd Ave
North 3Rd Ave
J. ©. Dingwall
Wichita Falls
Dingwall
Detroit
Chicago
Texas
Old at 40 50 60 Man Get Wise Pop Up
Advertisement touts Ostres Tonic Tablets to boost energy and combat debility from iron deficiency. Claims to revive peppiness for both sexes and lessen age related rundown feelings with a general call to visit druggists for purchase.
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Coxte Little
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City Youth
Allen Hill
Wester
Dia
Brazil
South Africa
Alaska
Australia
Philip. der
New Mexico State
Cervin
Pago
Ntey
Seattle
White Sands Missile Range
White Sands
Graham Raps
Pleasure Jag
Church
Jesus Christ
Sunny Brook
Sunny Brook Distillery Company
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
U. S
America
Mobil
Battenfield Motor Co., Inc
Midland-Odessa
el Paso
Houston
Diamond
Airlines
Polk
Amarillo, Texas
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