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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1963
Page
3
Heavy rain battered Buffalo and neighboring Niagara Falls, forcing evacuation of more than 300 people in an eastern suburb. Buses stopped, hospitals pumped water from basements, utilities cut power to prevent shocks, and telephone service was knocked out in many sections as hundreds of motorists were stranded.
Edward J. Powers, 49, FBI official from Norwood Massachusetts, was named to the New Hampshire Sweepstakes director post with a $20 000 salary by Howell Shepard. Powers will assume August 26 and has 22 years with the FBI including the Brinks case confession involvement.
Bulldozers and dredges reshape Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral to form Launch Complex No. 39 for Saturn V flights. NASA plans 87 000 acres and 9 000 workers, with 1 7 billion dollars in three years. First Saturn V test in 1965, Apollo moon mission readiness by 1968.
Tokyo AP reports U S State Department documents reveal unrest and near revolt within Red China’s army in 1960 61, tracing disaffection to Mao Zedong’s 1958 drive to rapid collectivization. Peng Teh-hui and Huang Ko-cheng faced dismissal amid power struggles, with Khrushchev criticizing Beijing in 1960 for sidelining Peng.
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