Space Film Captures White in Historic Gemini 4 Walk
Color footage from the Gemini 4 mission shows Edward H. White II exiting the spacecraft and floating in orbit. The 16 millimeter color film, shot at six frames a second for nearly 12 minutes, reveals White saluting McDivitt and tethering to the craft with a lifeline while Earth looms in blue-green quarters above the blackness of space. Observers praised the footage as clearer and more vivid than the Russian first walk in space.
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Houston
Edward H. White II
Space Agency
White
North American
James A. McDivitt
Splendid Color
McDonnell
Ed White
Pacific Ocean
NASA
Four incumbents seek re election in city board primaries
In a city wide primary ten candidates were nominated for the five districts. District 1 leaders were Simon and Mayor Warden with close votes. District 2 top contenders Lambert and Monaco. District 3 Wilkinson led with 1102. District 4 Wilson and Cook. District 5 Webb and Go forth. voter turnout under 20 percent. The July runoff will determine two nominees per district.
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Henry F. Warden
Fred Simon
Angelo Monaco
O. Judson Lambert
John C. Wilkinson
Leland H. Carter
Woodrow Wilson
Lewis H. Cook
Henry C. Webb Jr
Henry C. Goforth
Simon
Mayor Warden
Lambert
Monaco
Frank
Jack) Allen
Wilkinson
Carter
Horace H. Hill
E. A. Honeycutt
Wilson
Cook
Paul Myles
Webb
Goforth
Warden
Myles
Allen
Lightning Kills 12-Year-Old in Athens Yard
A 12-year-old Danville girl Martha Ann Marty Smith was fatally struck by lightning in the back yard of Vermillion Street Augusta Barbery home in Athens. She was visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs T A Barbery with her mother and sisters. Survivors include her parents Barbara Ellen 16 Toni Louise 11 and grandfather Charles Ross Smith. The body is at Seaver Mortuary in Princeton.
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Athens
Martha Ann
Marty) Smith
Charles C
Nettie Fae Barbery Smith
Smith
Danville Memorial Hospital
Vermillion Street
T. A
Jim Gatherum
Soviet unmanned Moon lander launches amid space race
MOSCOW reports an unmanned lunar lander launched aiming for a soft landing, with Luna 6 set to reach the Moon late Friday night Moscow time. If successful, the mission could outpace the United States and provide better moon surface data for a future manned flight. Tass said all instruments were functioning normally aboard the probe.
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Soviet Union
America
Earth
Sea of Clouds
Lunar South Pole
United States
Tass
White and White Return After Space Flight
Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II roamed the USS Wasp after a four day weightless mission. Medical checks continued aboard the carrier as both men rested and adjusted to gravity, with notes on sleep patterns and a brief nosebleed for McDivitt.
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WASP
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Uss
Harrison Backs Right To Work
Governor Albertis S. Harrison Jr told a House Labor Subcommittee he opposes revealing section 14 B of the Taft Hartley Act without reservation. He defended the right to work as essential to individual rights and noted Virginia’s 1947 law does not ban collective bargaining. He said a man should freely join or withdraw from a union.
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Washington
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
House Labor
Harrison
Virginia
Power Line Kills Man In Buchanan
A Buchanan County Virginia man was electrocuted and a co worker burned at a coal mine on Looney's Creek on Tuesday noon. Clayton Brown 54 was killed instantly when his steel tape touched a high tension wire. Alfred Justice 47 suffered head hand and foot burns and was listed as in satisfactory condition at Grundy General Hospital. Funeral arrangements set for 1 p m at the Church of Jesus on Looney's Creek with burial at Green Hills Memory Garden Claypool Hill.
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Looney’s Creek
Clayton Brown
Grundy
Alfred Justice
Looney's Creek
Grundy General Hospital
Burl Rife
Q and G Coal Co
Church of Jesus
Greenhills Memory Garden
Claypool Hill
Grundy Funeral Home
Injured Consul Wanamaker Out Of Danger In Argentina
U S Consul Allison Temple Wanamaker 46 of Seattle was wounded when his car was machine gunned in Cordoba Argentina and is out of danger after surgery for facial and hand injuries. Washington officials say Castro followers may be involved. Wanamaker has faced prior threats including a bomb incident near Cordoba in May 1964.
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Cordoba
Argentina
U.S
Allison Temple Wanamaker
Wanamaker
Washington
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Seattle
Wash
Summers Woman Charged In Killing
Mrs. Gladys Carter Treadway, 43, of Beech Run Summers County, was charged with murder in the Memorial Day slaying of C. Ray Farrow, 58, of Beckley. Farrow was shot in the back of the head and found May 30 in a Beckley apartment maintained by Treadway.
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Beckley (Ap
Gladys Carter Treadway
Beech Run
Summers County
Beckley
C. Ray Farrow
Treadway
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Alvin and
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Richlands, Va
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