Gemini 6 launch predicted Sunday for rendezvous
Cape Kennedy reports Lt. Col. John G. Albert said Gemini 6 could launch Sunday to rendezvous with Gemini 7 if final preparations stay on track. Officials noted a 12 hour flight rehearsal must go well, with conflicting dates and a cautious optimism across NASA and the Air Force.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Walter Schirra
Thomas’ Stafford
Col
John G. Albert
The
Air Force
Albert
Page
Otto Ledford
Schneider
Houston
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Two Sailors Die in Kitty Hawk Fire Off Viet Nam
Two sailors killed and 29 injured aboard the U S aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Vietnam after a 3 hour blaze began in the No 3 machinery room during air strikes. Flight operations continued as fire control crews battled the flames. A board of inquiry was convened to determine the cause amid ongoing Vietnam actions.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Kitty Hawk
Viet Nam
Big Flat Top
North Viet Nam
Navy
No. 3
General Quarters
Gemini 7 Circles Earth In 60 Orbits On Way To Rendezvous
Gemini 7 crew Frank Borman and James Lovell, in casual attire, begin their fourth day in a planned 14 day mission, aiming for 60 of 206 total orbits. They report chilly sleep in underwear, plan a more circular orbit for a rendezvous with Gemini 6, and prepare a laser communication experiment while tracking conditions at Carnarvon.
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Space Center
Houston
Gemini Control
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Carnarvon
Australia
Lovell
Borman
Billboard Firm Challenges Shaftsbury Zoning Law
National Advertising Company seeks to erect 4 by 8 feet billboards on U S 7 in Shaftsbury and asks the Bennington County Court for a declaratory judgment. It argues the 1953 zoning vote repealed the ordinance. Shaftsbury says amendments kept it in effect and seeks to uphold the law with defendants including Secretary Cooley and Attorney General Connarn.
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Shaftsubry
Bennington County
U.S. 7
National Advertising Company
Shaftsbury
Sec. of
Harry H. Cooley
Cooley
Atty
John P. Connarn
National Advertising Co
W. Edson McKee
Montpelier
Williams and Witten
Committee Raises Funds To Enlarge School Stage
A Mt. Anthony Union High School committee led by Dr. Julius Manes reports reaching the $15,000 target from 16 donations to extend the auditorium stage from 25 to 34 feet deep. The group seeks further gifts to equip the 750-seat facility for community use including theater, concerts, and cultural events, as the building proceeds.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Julius Manes
Manes
Margaret R. Ellis
Gloria Gil
John G. McCullough
Hamilton Shields
Union School Board
Tri-State
Final Council Decrees Placed Into Catholic Law by Pope Paul
Pope Paul VI placed into Catholic law the final four decrees of the Ecumenical Council including a declaration on religious liberty seen as opening a new era. The ceremony in St Peter's drew 2,000 bishops and cardinals as liberal and conservative factions debated. The religious liberty decree passed 2,308 to 70 amid Protestant approval. The council, begun in 1959 and ending with 16 laws, 168 sittings, and 500 votes, also moves to end the excommunication of Michael Cerularius, tracing back to the 1054 split with Constantinople.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Ecumenical Council
College of Cardinals
St. Peter’s Basilica
Paul
Albert C. Cutler
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Tex
Robert McKaffee Brown
Stanford University
John XXIII
St. Peter’s Square
Michael Cerularius
St. Leo IX
Constantinople
Inside Page Four Editorial On Highway Bonds
On the Inside notes a critical editorial about the difficulties surrounding highway bonds as the paper issues a pointed take on funding debates and policy hurdles shaping transportation finance.
USSR boosts arms budget to 115.8 billion dollars
Moscow announced a 660 million dollar rise in military spending for 1966, a five percent increase, raising the defense total to 14.7 billion and framing the move as a budget of peace amid Viet Nam concerns. The budget, the largest peacetime Soviet plan, also prioritizes industry with 47 billion dollars in investment.
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Ussr
Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Vasily Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Viet Nam
Gorbuzov
Russia
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
Hanoi
Nikolai
Baibakov
Closing of Barge Canal Maroons Canadian Family
ALBANY N Y close to 111 000 to reopen eastern canal half to allow 35 foot yacht to proceed on waterway to Hudson River toward West Indies. Canadian family led by Peter Carr Harris from Kingston plans year in West Indies. vessel delayed, engine broken, furniture sold. They must tie up in Utica for winter or truck to Albany.
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Albany
N.Y
Edward Mładowski
Peter Carr-Harris
Kingston
Ont
Utica
Hudson River
West Indies
Hudowski
Carr Harris
Oswego
Lake Ontario
Troy
Freed From State Hospital After Rutland Hearing
Rutland report: Jeffrey Peter Aldrich, 22, acquitted by reason of insanity in a 1961 murder case, has been released from Waterbury State Hospital following a Rutland County Court hearing. Doctors said he has responded sufficiently to treatment to merit release.
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Rutland
UPD
Waterbury State Hospital
Jeffrey Peter Aldrich
Aldrich
Soviet Luna 8 Moon Probe Fails on Landing
Moscow reports Luna 8 struck the moon and was destroyed on impact after final touchdown failed. Tass said systems functioned until contact. Jodrell Bank observers noted signals stopped one minute 32 seconds after scheduled touch down. The failure robs the USSR of a soft landing to rival Gemini 7.
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Moscow
UPI
Moon
Tass
Jodrell Bank
England
Bernard Lovell
Jodrell Bank Observatory
America
United States
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American Telephone Co
Federal Communications Commission
Ernest W. Gibson III
New England Telephone Co
American Telephone
New England
Toronto
Hubert H. Humphrey
Medford
Mass
Edward R. Murrow
Tufts University
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