Cooper Circles Globe on Historic Mercury Flight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper began America's longest spaceflight by circling the Earth in Faith 7 from Cape Canaveral. Early in orbit one, controllers authorized at least seven of the planned 22 orbits as the mission proceeded with TV coverage and careful system checks.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
America
Mercury Control Center
Atlantic
Pacific
Cooper
Virgil I. Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
Grissom
Roger
Faith 7
Florida-Georgia
Atlas
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Schirra
Cape
Jersey
Canary Islands
NASA
Spaceflight notes Gordon Cooper 22 orbit mission
CAPE CANAVERAL FL A P dispatch details Gordon Cooper 36 Air Force major ninth man to orbit. Launch at 8 04 am EST aims for 22 orbits and 34 hours 19 minutes to study space medicine and human response to weightlessness. Cooper reports excellent capsule systems and stunning sunrises over space.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Air Force
Roundup on Hoff appointments and Vermont employment study
The Vermont Senate planned executive sessions to review Gov. Hoff’s picks including Stella Hackel for employment security commissioner amid opposition. Other nominees were Charlie Shea for tax commissioner and William Burke for the Liquor Control Board. A separate report says many workers aged 20 to 45 left Vermont 1950 to 1960 while unemployment peaks and seasonal declines affect job prospects.
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Social Welfare Committee
Henry A. Milne
Senate
Hoff
Charles T. Shea
William J. Burke
Rutland
Liquor Control Board
Shea
Montpelier
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Employment Security Department
Old Bennington Approves Zoning Ordinance and Sewer Borrowing
At Old Bennington village meeting, voters authorize trustees to draft a zoning ordinance and to borrow 6000 dollars for major sewer repairs. Article 8 to repeal the January 17 ordinance is debated. protectionists fear interim gaps. Planning commission consolidation is tabled.
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Bennington
George H. Plumb
Plumb
Waldo C. Holden
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Hamilton Shields
Bennington Planners Favored Route for U.S. 7 Bypass
State Highway Cmsr Russell Holden told a Bennington Lions Club meeting that local planning should pick a preferred U.S. 7 bypass route by next spring to allow design and right of way work before construction in 1968 69. He stressed no firm deadline and said funds for the Bennington bypass are programmed separately and that plans for a Manchester bypass are suspended. A regional planning commission is forming in Bennington and its villages, with the bypass as a key early issue.
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State Highway Cmsr
Russell A. Holden
Bennington
Highway Department
Holden
U.S. 7
Manchester
Plan to form five member Union High School District eyed
Stewart E. Allen urged Greater Bennington School District directors to consider forming a five member Union High School District excluding Bennington village. He still backs a union high school with six current members as the least expensive option, warning village taxpayers may reject it. If rejected, other districts should plan their own high school, noting rural Bennington will eventually need a new school but cannot fund it alone.
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Bennington
Greater Bennington
Stewart E. Allen
Prudential Committee
Allen
Allens
Vermont Road Reversion Skips Bennington Flats Route
In January the Vermont Highway Department took a three quarter mile section of U S 7 in Bennington Flats. On Tuesday the selectmen received a letter stating the state will reclaim the stretch as legislature freezes state road distributions. The move voids post January 1 highway changes, affecting the U S 7 link from the junction with Vermont 67A to the village line and a nearby Bennington Village segment.
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Vermont Highway Department
Bennington
Bennington Flats
Highway Department
U.S. 7
Bennington Village
Roaring Branch River
Rail Board Recommends Rules to Ease Railroad Dispute
A Presidential emergency board released nonbinding recommendations to settle the railroad work rules dispute. It would largely phase out diesel locomotive firemen in freight and yard service while preserving some jobs for safety and retraining. The panel urged nationwide rules, designation of key jobs, arbitration-led patterns, and continued bargaining. The stalemate risks a crippling strike within 30 days, with Kennedy urging acceptance and railroads signaling support.
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Washington
Nyt
Kennedy
J. E. Wolfe
National Railway Labor Con
Senators seek hearing on transatlantic fare dispute
U S backed down on a five percent fare increase for Europe flights prompts Senate Commerce Committee hearing chair Warren Magnuson to denounce a capitulation. An individual passenger would pay about 27 more dollars for a New York to London round trip, raising the fare to 513 dollars from 486.
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Washington
U.S
Senate Commerce Committee
Warren G. Magnus
Europe
New York-London
State Department
International Air Transport Association
IATA
Civil Aeronautics Board
American Airlines
CAB
Alan S. Boyd
Dean Rusk
Shuttlesworth appeals. Wallace keeps troopers in Birmingham
On the Inside reports Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth urging removal of Alabama state troopers from Birmingham while Gov. George C. Wallace insists they will stay as long as needed. Page 2 covers the stance and context.
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Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama
Birmingham
George C. Wallace
Khrushchev Hardens Stalinist Stance On Nuclear Talks
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told JFK and PM Macmillan that no further concessions would be offered in nuclear test negotiations. The letters, delivered last week, responded to Western messages from April 24 and aimed to break the Geneva deadlock. Details of the Western messages remain unreleased.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
U.S
Foy D. Kohler
Humphrey Trevelyan
Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship Created By NYC Newspaper Club
The New York Newspaper Women's Club formed an international fellowship in the name of Eleanor Roosevelt to aid study and travel for newspaper women. The fund begins with a $10,000 grant from members as trustees seek endowments and contributions.
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NEW York
Women’s Club
Eleanor Roosevelt
Three Men Drown in Parker Pond Fishing Incident
Authorities recovered the bodies of three men after a Parker Pond fishing trip ended in a capsized flat-bottom boat. Names were not released, but two victims were believed from Lyndonville and one from Bath New York. An unidentified witness saw the capsized boat about late yesterday afternoon roughly 100 yards from shore.
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West Glover
Parker Pond
Lyndonville
Bath
N.Y
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Orbit No. 1
John H. Glenn Jr
Perth
Australia
Mercury Control
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Globe
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Pavel Popovich
Buddy
Bermuda
Cora B. Whitney
Comar
Hacker
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Concord
John H. Downs
Rail Board
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Trans World Airlines
Pan American
Trans World
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Page
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George Allard
Newton Minow
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