Pentagon backs Gemini-X manned lab project to orbit Earth
McNamara announced Air Force control of the new manned orbiting laboratory program with aims to launch an initial Gemini-X model in near Earth orbit in 1966 and a full lab within four years. NASA data will be shared, and Dyna-Soar is terminated.
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Defense
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Douglas Aircraft Co
Sinatra Jr. Kidnapping Ends in Safe Return After Ransom
Frank Sinatra Jr. was found unharmed after being kidnapped at Lake Tahoe and held for 54 hours. FBI and authorities pursued clues as Sinatra paid a $240,000 ransom to a gang operating along the California Nevada border. The elder Sinatra greeted his son at his Bel Air home, expressing relief as the boy recovered from the ordeal.
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California- Nevada
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Hollywood
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Nevada
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Stateline
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Investigators reveal second plane saw Pan American 214 crash
Civil Aeronautics Board said a National Airlines Flight 16 crew member witnessed the Boeing 707 explosion at 5,000 feet and radioed Philadelphia that Clipper 214 was going down in flames. The transcript shows a calm, controlled voice as the event unfolded amid a severe electrical storm.
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T.W. Finch
Civil Aeronautics
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Roger
Elkton
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CAB
Melvin Belli Heads Ruby Murder Trial Defense
Melvin Belli, a renowned California trial lawyer, agreed Tuesday night to lead the defense staff for Jack Ruby in the Dallas murder trial. Belli, from Los Angeles and San Francisco, said he would head the defense and oversee its strategy.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Joe B. Brown
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Oswald
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Joe Tonnhill
Jasper
Tex
Tom Howard
Jim Martin
Henry Wade
Critic Awaits NFO Action on Beef Issue
Forrest Nave Jr of Lexington Missouri seeks action from the Staley led National Farmers Organization on beef imports. Nave, defeated for NFO president by Oren Staley, resigns amid beef import concerns and questions vote counting at the Des Moines convention. He calls beef imports a prime underminer of the cattle market and demands Staley state his stance publicly.
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Forrest Nave, Jr
Lexington
National Farmers Organization
Staley Organization
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NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Rea. Mo
Staley
NFC
Stormy U.S. Weather Drives Subzero Cold Across Regions
Arctic air blankets the country as Montana records 21 below in Butte and Bozeman and subzero readings spread through the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. Denver drops from 4 above to 10 below as sleet and rain shift to snow across a wide swath from the Rockies to the Midwest.
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Church of Christ Pastor Moves to California
Dr. Richard P. Thickens and family leave the Austin Church of Christ after two years to begin a new ministry in West Covina California. Thickens, Australian born World War I chaplain, holds a doctorate from Advocate Graduate Bible School and a master from Chicago Divinity School. He previously led churches in Gary Indiana and northwest Indiana and served as a missionary in Honolulu Hawaii. He is succeeded by Walter Blanchard of Fer tile Iowa in January with Gary Greven of Minnesota Bible College serving as interim pastor.
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Royal Australian Air Force
Joy
Perth
Australia
Dr. Thickens
Walter Blanchard
Fertile
Iowa
Gary Greven
Minnesota Bible College
Iowa Feeders Urge Import Limits on Foreign Meat
Iowa livestock feeders adopt resolutions at their convention in Des Moines calling for import quotas of about 5 percent of annual beef veal pork lamb and mutton production and opposing entry of food chains and meat packers into livestock feeding stressing the need to curb concentrated bargaining power while re electing Emery Wenell as president and honoring Erwin E. Duthbert remarks on rising imports.
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Iowa
Iowa Livestock Feeders Association
United States
U.S
Erwin E. Duthbert
Laurens
National Livestock Feeders Association
Association
Emery Wenell Ot Laurens
Bitter Cold Sets In Across Region With Subzero Lows
Temperatures fell to 18 below at International Falls and 19 below at Napoleon North Dakota as light snow flurries move through the area. A new storm will stay southwest of the region with Minnesota lows dropping to 10 below in the north and near 5 above in the south through Friday.
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Napoleon
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Minnesota to mail 1.25 million income tax forms after Christmas
St Paul AP reports Minnesota will mail income tax forms the day after Christmas. Tax Commissioner Rolland Hatfield says 1,250,000 taxpayers will receive forms. Mondale says Virginia city council fluoridation motion may be ineffective under city charter requiring ordinances or resolutions.
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Minnesota
Rolland Hatfield
Defense secretary eyes shipyard closures in major cities
The Seattle Times reports Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara will propose closing naval shipyards in San Francisco Boston and Philadelphia to cut costs. In Minnesota a Stillwater municipal court jury convicts Richard Ramey of driving with a suspended license after a fatal three death automobile crash.
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Defense
Robert 5. McNamara
San Francisco
Boston
Philadelphia
Seattle Times
Stillwater
Iowa Delays Decision on I 35 Routing Through North Central Iowa
The Iowa State Highway Commission postponed for three months ruling on Interstate 35 routing in north central Iowa. Chairman Harry Bradley cited a detailed study of Mason City officials alternate route, west of the Mason City airport, to compare variable costs with the original plan.
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Iowa
State Highway Commission
Commission
Harry Bradley
Mason City
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Clear Lake
Minnesota
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Garner
Forest City
Lake Mills
Albert Lea
Minn
Des Moines
Goodell
Klemme
Iowa-Minnesota
Two Ways To Increase Monthly Social Security Benefits
Miss Leonora F. Hise of the Austin district explains that benefits rise only if Congress acts to raise payments or if a recipient's earnings after entitlement exceed their pre entitlement earnings. For more information contact the Social Security District Office at 308 and 1 M. Office hours are 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m weekdays.
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Austin
Congress
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