Space project displaces residents in Mississippi coast
Gainesville Mississippi and nearby hamlets face evacuation as 2,630 people are moved from a 242,550 acre tract in Hancock and Pearl River counties to clear land for NASA Mississippi Test Operation. The move supports Project Apollo related work at Michoud and Cape Canaveral. Estimated permanent MTO staff reach 2,500 to 3,000 by 1968 with only about 500 local hires.
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Houston
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Launch Operations Center
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Flint To Prehistoric Man What Steel Is To Moderns
Amarillo AP reports on Alibates flint quarries near Amarillo as America’s early mining site. Archaeologists cite 12 000 year use and a 66 room pueblo built around 900 AD by traders, with 16 000 artifacts recovered. Lake Meredith opening 1985 will connect region by auto or boat, and the quarry may become a national monument.
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Texas
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Actor’s Stepdaughter Suspected Of Forgery
Santa Monica California AP actor Robert Taylor’s stepdaughter Manuela Theiss 20 daughter of his wife actress Ursula Theiss is held on forgery suspicions. Police say she and two men Dewey Atkinson 23 and William Fairbanks 22 tried to cash a forged 12 dollar check. Theiss previously received a one year probation May 4 1982 after pleading guilty to being under the influence of drugs in a public place.
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Robert Taylor
Manuela Theiss
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Ursula Theiss
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William Fairbanks
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Yarborough To Give Decision By Dec 1
Dallas AP reports Don Yarborough a Houston lawyer seated last year in a Democratic primary by Gov. John Connally will decide by December 1 if he will run again. Yarborough says the governor's race is the only one that interests him.
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