Gemini 97 Hour Flight Planned For June 3
NASA announced a Gemini-4 mission set for June 3, carrying James McDevitt and Edward White. The 97 hour 50 minute flight aims to test long duration weightlessness, maneuvering techniques, and potential spacewalks, with experiments on bone calcium and heart muscle.
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Cape Kennedy
UPID
Gemini
James McDevitt
Edward White
Earth
Federal Space Agency
United States
Mercury
Virgil Grissom
John Young
U.S
Russia
Valery Bykovsky
Geminid
L. Goredon Cooper
Charles
Pete) Conrad
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Essex Suspends Police Chief in Hearing Set
Essex Junction Village trustees suspend Police Chief Dewey Perry until a hearing is held. Capt. Douglas Fortune named acting chief. Perry, 67, has led the force for four years amid a spate of recent bomb incidents in the town near Burlington. Two teens pleaded no contest to explosive charges and were ordered to perform village work.
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Essex Junction
UPI
Essex Junction Village
Dewey Perry
Douglas Fortune
U.S
Perry
Green Mountains
Burlington
R.G. Garvilla
Clarke Gravel
Garvilla
Opposition Voiced To Vermont Bonding Authority Bill
Vermont lawmakers hear opposition to a proposed bonding authority to fund capital projects. Shelburne industrialist Richard Snelling calls the bill too broad while WCAX president Stuart Martin urges revisions. Proponents say the authority could finance schools roads and municipal projects.
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Wcax-Tv
Burlington
House
Senate
Word Test Wins Case For Driver
Preston England case features Thomas Wareing charged with drunken driving after a collision with a truck. He recited a tongue twisting poem to jurors, saying rubbish to the arresting officer. The 60 year old businessman was found innocent.
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Preston
England
UPI
Thomas Wareing
Wareing
Sam
Hoarders Eye New Issue of Silver Dollars
Washington based report notes 45 million silver dollars minted by order of President Johnson. Congressmen and treasury officials doubt many will reach Western cash registers. Hoovering questions arise about coin content and potential changes to U S coins. Rep Conte says the new dollars likely won’t be used as currency.
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Washington
UPI
President Johnson
Congressmen
Treasury
Johnson
U.S
Silvio O. Conte
R-Mass
Conte
House
Project Head Start aims to give poor preschoolers a head start
From Maine to California communities prepare to launch Project Head Start a federal effort to rescue about 520000 children entering school this fall. The program offers free medical care meals zoo trips and guided learning to help underprivileged children reach kindergarten with fewer handicaps. It relies on community groups funded by the federal government with 90 percent of costs covered and 10 percent in kind contributions while mobilizing 88000 paid staff and 500000 volunteers nationwide.
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UPI
Louis Cassels
Washington
UPID
Aroostook County
Maine
Ventura County
California
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Shriver
Jules Sugarman
Sugarman’s Office
Holmes Brown
South
Sugarman
Wisconsin
Kansas
Nebraska
Church Leader Voices Support for U S Asian Policy
Detroit based report notes Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, urged continued American commitments in South Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. He warned that withdrawing would be naive and argued a world filled with Christian ideals could negate the need for intervention.
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Detroit
API
National Council of Churches
United States
South Viet Nam
Reuben H. Mueller
President Johnson
Dominican Republic
Mueller
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