Gemini 4 splashes down after 97 hour spaceflight
Astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White landed in the Atlantic about 400 miles east of Cape Kennedy after a 97 hour 58 minute mission covering 1 609 684 miles. They reported everything OK as recovery ships and the carrier Wasp closed in, the crew exhausted but healthy and mission officials declaring the flight 100 percent successful.
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Houston
James McDivitt
Edward White
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Kennedy
Wasp
McDivitt
White
Roger
Earth
Space
Mission Control
Houston Control
Roger Chaffee
Gene Cranz
Dwayne Catterson
Bermuda
Hawaii
Gemini 4
Yuma
Aziz
George Reith
Jets Hit North Viet Nam Radar Site and Military Targets
U S and Viet Nam planes destroyed a military radio station in North Viet Nam and hit a radar site and depot. Pilots reported destroying 10 weapons positions near Hon Nieu Island and damaging 19 Chap Le barracks buildings five miles north of the border. Eight F105 jets attacked the radio center and 15 tons of bombs hit a warehouse complex. ships reported sinking one vessel near Route 1 and two others taking hits. On the ground Marines scored a major victory, killing 80 Viet Cong and wounding 60 with artillery, while eight Marines died in a helicopter collision over the South China Sea.
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South Viet Nam
U. S
North Viet Nam
Hon Nieu Island
Chap le
Route 1
Vinh
South China Sea
Sinai aid debate shifts on two year cutoff and commissions
The Senate moves to a two year cutoff in the $3.35 billion foreign aid bill with a 12 member commission to study options. Chairman Fulbright, favoring separate military and economic aid and lending channels, reluctantly takes floor manager role amid mixed reactions to OAS influence over U S military assistance to Latin America.
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Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Fulbright
Organization of American States
U. S
Thornton Burgess dies at 91 author of Peter Rabbit tales
Hampden Mass former writer Thornton W Burgess died Saturday at age 91. He produced 15 000 short stories for newspaper syndication 100 books and many magazine articles over a long career.
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Hampden
Mass
Thornton W. Burgess
Peter Rabbit
Rabbit
Pressure Mounting On Housing Issue In Ohio Senate
Pressure for Senate action grows on fair housing legislation as the Ohio General Assembly weighs major bills. The Senate may vote on the housing measure before eight Republican fund raising dinners in eight cities. The bill would ban racial discrimination in sales or rentals of four unit dwellings and names Charess W. Whalen Jr. as sponsor. Other items include a capital punishment measure and a proposed 888 million Highway and Highway Safety appropriation.
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Columbus
Senate
Ohio General Assembly
Ohio Committee For Civil Rights Legislation
Senate Rules Committee
Charess W. Whalen Jr
Montgomery
Highway and Highway Safety Departments
Courage in the air rescue ops Viet Nam story
HAL BOYLE continues Viet Nam coverage with a piece on courage in air rescue operations. Editorial insight accompanies the feature on Page 4.
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Hal Boyle
McNamara pushes 4.8 and 2.7 percent military pay raise
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara urged Congress to approve a $446.586 million pay increase as fair to personnel and taxpayers. He spoke to the House Armed Services Committee, which seeks a larger 10.7 percent rise totaling about $892.474 million annually, while noting basic pay is only part of total compensation.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Congress
L. Mendal Rivers
D-S. C
House Committee
McNamara
TV Trials Banned By High Court
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that televising criminal trials violates due process. Justice Tom C. Clark delivered the majority opinion overturning Billie Sol Estes's conviction on Swindling charges from a Tyler Texas trial. Dissenters were Justices Stewart Black Brennan and White.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Tom C. Clark
Estes
Tyler
Tex
New Grad Hunted In Bank Massacre
A 22 year old Kansas graduate is sought on a federal warrant for robbing the Farmers State Bank of Big Springs Neb where three people were killed and a fourth wounded. FBI charges allege first degree murder and bank robbery as investigators tally eight 22 caliber shell casings at the scene.
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Salina
Kan
Kansas
Nebraska
Dvne Pope
Here
Roxbury
FBI
Farmers State Bank of
Big Springs
Neb
Franklin Kjeldgaard
Kjeldgaard
Denver
Andreas Kjeldgaard
Glenn Henrickson
Lois Ann Hothan
R. E. Richards
Duel County
Pope
Richards
Floyd Stahr
Earl Pope
Oklahoma
McPherson
U S Forces in South Viet Nam Top 51 000
U S military authorities report that American personnel in South Viet Nam have surpassed 50 000, with the June 3 total approximately 51 000. Ohio growers fear labor shortages for tomatoes and pickling cucumbers this season. The last U S Marines from the Dominican deployment sail toward Camp Lejeune. Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor arrives in Washington for talks with President Johnson on Viet Nam.
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Saigon
U. S
South Viet Nam
Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Johnson
Viet Nam
Actress Judy Holliday Dies of Cancer at 41
New York where Judy Holliday Oscar winner and star of Born Yesterday died of cancer at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She had been ill for years and underwent surgery in 1961. Holliday age 41 was married to David Oppenheim with one son Jonathan and starred in Belles Are Ringing on stage and film. Cartoonist Vernon V. Greene Dies at 56 in Wyckoff New Jersey.
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New York
Judy Holliday
Junk Dealer
Babe
Miss Holliday
Mt. Sinai Hospital
David Oppenheim
Jonathan
McKinney's Funeral Draws 800 to 1000 People in Portsmouth
Gerald McKinney 42 a Springfield factory worker staged his own funeral at a county fairgrounds service hoping for roses while living, urging applause for performers and giving flowers to singers. He compared the event to his great grandfather's 1896 service and aimed for 5 000 attendees but settled on a crowd of 800 to 1 000 and a grandstand full audience.
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Gerald McKinney
McKinney
Springfield
Lorenzo Dow
Lucasville
Ohio River
Fairgrounds
Uled
MacKinney
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Athens County School Board
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