New U S Moonship Unveiled in Downey California
A three man Apollo capsule mockup unveiled at North American Aviation outlines a shirt sleeve cabin for two week lunar missions. NASA notes emphasize crew judgment in flight with an 8 000 pound craft featuring a full instrument panel, airlock, two periscopes and three windows for lunar operations.
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Downey
Calif
Space and Information Systems Division
North American Aviation
Moon
Earth
America
JFK Plan to Streamline Travel Faces Slow Detour
President Kennedy outlined wide ranging plans to streamline land sea and air transport in a 10 000 word message to Congress. House committees face pre votes and partisan hurdles with some Republicans backing tax cuts but opposing overall action this year.
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JFK
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Rep
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Interstate Commerce Committee
Emperor Hirohi Opens Chry santhemum Throne Talks
TOKYO report says the emperor relaxed ceremonial rigidity and met seven American governors for a half hour chat spanning aquariums to television. Unemployment fell 161000 in March to 4382000, per Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg. In Hastings on Hudson a billionaire businessman's televised death is investigated. Maitland Brenhouse 50 was shot in his den. no gun found. Nora Brenhouse 45, his estranged wife, is neighbor.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Hastings ON
Hudson
N.Y
Maitland Brenhouse
Nora
Prisoner Digging Toward Escape Thwarted in Iowa Jail
Edwin Dunstorff, 20, of Bancroft, attempted to tunnel through a false ceiling in Cerro Gordo County jail. He damaged plaster, hid the hole, and flushed debris before authorities stopped him last Thursday. He faces a malicious injury charge in addition to 30 days for a bad check.
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Mason City
Iowa
Edwin Dunstorff
Cerro Gordo County
Dunstorff
Bancroft
Army proposes to disband 824 Guard and Reserve units nationwide
Sources say the Army plans to cut about 824 small Reserve and Guard outfits as part of a broader 58 000 man reduction. The move targets units as small as two personnel and aims to spread cuts by population and facility availability. The plan accompanies a reorganization into eight flexible brigades and larger ready guard divisions and keeps eight infantry divisions largely intact.
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J. W. Small
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Army
Washington
Guard
Cedar Rapids Firm Buys Karl Keifer Machine Co
Cherry Burrell Corp announces cash purchase of Karl Keifer Machine Co of Cincinnati Ohio. H H Cherry Jr president says terms are cash but amount not disclosed.
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Cedar Rapids
Cherry- Burrell Corp
Karl Keifer Machine Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
H. H. Cherry Jr
Regional contest opens with Glenn film at Austin fair
The Austin High School cafe hosted a regional science fair with its first time in Austin and a premiere showing of the John Glenn flight film released by NASA. Exhibitors arrived to present math and electronics projects while judges decided awards.
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Austin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mattison L. Story
Office of Educational Programs and Services
National Aeronautics, and Space
Mattison
Winona State College
Allan Peters
Charles Rehwaldt
High Court Denies Appeal in Austin Parking Lot Condemnation
The State Supreme Court denied landowners Clarence and Floyd Wright’s appeal in the City of Austin condemnation case. It affirms the city may proceed with a public parking lot across from the First Methodist Church on 1st Ave NW after determining lack of proper notice voids jurisdiction. The ruling also reverses a district judge and upholds a 1957 Cass County board of education law for unorganized territory.
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State Supreme Court
City of
Austin
First Methodist Church
1St Ave
Clarence
Floyd Wright
Wright Brothers
District Court
Wrights
High Court
John T. Galarneault
Aitkin
Board of Education
Cass County
Thompson to Press Berlin Talks With Kennedy in Washington
Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson meets President Kennedy in Washington to discuss Berlin. U.S. aims to secure Western rights in West Berlin and access to the city while seeking Soviet cooperation for a settlement. Previous talks with Gromyko and Rusk in Geneva and Moscow failed to move the Soviet position.
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Washington
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
Berlin
Kennedy
White House
Thompson
New York
Khrushchev
United States
West Berlin
Russia
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Andrei A
Gromyko
Geneva
United Nations
U.S
Glenn first detailed report praises weightless flight and health
More than 1,000 scientists heard NASA’s first detailed scientific briefing on John H. Glenn Jr.’s triple orbit. Doctors said his health remained normal before, during, and after the flight with only minor skin injuries and slight dehydration from heat and reentry. The report confirmed the mission as a major milestone and noted Glenn’s weight loss was minor and comparable to a centrifuge test.
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Glenn
Washington
John H. Glenn J
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth
Space Agency
Space
Noa
Scout Show at Armory Saturday Highlights Eagle Awards
Twenty six Boy Scout troops and Cub packs join the Scout Show at the Armory Saturday with hours from noon to 7 30 p m. Eagle awards go to John Joyce Grand Meadow and David Thompson Austin presented by Orin Bowlby Scout president. Cy Stadler chairs the event as troops display proficiency in pioneering home repairs civil defense first aid astronomy and camping. The top ticket seller wins a bicycle with other prizes for quota achievers. Cub packs compete in events like Sir Walter Raleigh race and a clothespin relay.
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Armory
John Joyce
Grand Meadow
David Thompson
Austin
Orin Bowlby
Cy Stadler
Dwane Krings
Brownsdale
States
Banfield
Sumner
Methodist
St. Olaf
St. Edwards
St. A’s
Adams
Southgate
London
Queens
Moose
Presbyterian
American Legion
Our Savior’s Brotherhood
Lyle
Our Savior’s Church
Grace Lutheran
National Guard
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John B. Bennett
Michigan
Harris’ Committee
Bennett
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Airways
Secretary of Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg
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Shaw School
Mower County Medical Society
Dr. Story
Gus Cordogan
Quiroz
Cordogan
Chicago
AP Photofax
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Paris
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