Gemini 5 Opens Eight Day Flight From Cape Kennedy
Gemini 5 blasted into orbit from Cape Kennedy with L Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. aboard to set a planned eight day mission and attempt a first rendezvous with the Little Rascal satellite. The ship reached 100 to 217 mile altitudes and planned 121 orbits, aiming to approach REP within 20 feet using radar and jet thrusters.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
United States
REP
Valery Bykovsky
Cooper
Conrad
Mission Control
Titan
U.S
Mexico
Space Agency
Mission Control Center
Houston
Africa
Conra
Weekend Kansas Weather Forecast Warm and Humid
Topeka AP reports pleasant weekend across Kansas with mild temperatures and light scattered rain. Showers today and Sunday affect about 20 percent of the state. highs in the 80s, and nightly lows around 60 to 70. Rainfall reports include Con cordia airport 3.01 inches and downtown 1.31 inches, with other locales listing varied totals.
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Topeka
Kansas
Concordia
Axtell
Bancroft
Downtown
Huscher
Beloit
Clifton
Haddam
Blue Rapids
Howard
Longton
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Senators defer on restricting publication of criminal case info
Washington report states investigators will not push bills to curb publication of details from criminal cases for now. A four day joint hearing wrapped with Sen. Joseph D. Tydings noting Congress should wait on studies by the American Bar Association and American Law Institute. Baltimore City State's Attorney Charles Moylan Jr. warns Morse’s bill could create a Frankenstein monster.
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Washington
Joseph D. Tydings
Dmd
Congress
American Bar Association
American Law Institute
Charles E. Moylan Jr
Baltimore City
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Johnson Pardons Caudle in Tax Case After 14 Years
President Johnson pardoned T Lamar Caudle a former head of the Justice Department Tax Division who served six months in 1960 for a tax conspiracy. The clearance wipes a $2 500 fine and allows him to practice before federal courts. Caudle said he is very happy and described living under scrutiny since Truman era.
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Washington
T. Lamar Caudle
Harry S. Truman
Johnson
Caudle
Justice Department
White House
Wadesboro
N.C
Harry Truman
Truman
Eisenhower
Matthew J. Connelly
St Louis
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Log Summary
Topeka AP reports a 24 hour traffic death tally through 9 am Saturday, showing 40 fatalities for August 1965 and 403 for the 1965 period overall, compared with 402 in 1964.
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Topeka
Kansas
Nominees Named for Kansas Supreme Court Seat
The Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission forwarded three candidates to Gov. Avery for one of two vacancies. Earl O Connor Ola the, Robert Kaul, and Ford Evans Jr are the nominees. Avery has 60 days to act. if he fails, Chief Justice Parker will appoint. The seat must replace retiring Justice Wertz. The commission paused after narrowing nearly 200 names and will fill Robb's vacancy later.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission
William H. Avery
Earl E. O'Connor
Olathe
Johnson County
Robert H. Kaul
Wamego
36Th
Ford Edward Evans Jr
Wichita
Jay S. Parker
Avery
William Wertz
Clair E. Robb
Pipeline Blast Fatal to One in Rural Ohio
A natural gas pipeline exploded as a freight train passed, killing 9 year old Nancy Anna May Rigdon and injuring at least eight others. Fire fueled by gas burned for two hours nine miles south of Van Wert, destroying about 100 acres of trees and crops as deputies reported a distant fireball seen along U.S. 30.
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van Wert
Ohio
Here
Nancy Anna May Rigdon
U.S. 30
Pop cases slide from Coffeyville bottling truck
Thirty nine cases of pop slid off a Pepsi Cola Bottling Co truck as it rounded the US 169 corner at 7th and Lincoln about 9 am today. Eleven cases broke. It took over an hour to clear the litter and the street was washed down by a fire department truck. No traffic was interrupted.
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Pepsi Cola Bottling Co
Coffeyville
US 169
7Th
Lincoln
Sophomore Orientation At Chanute School Monday
Chanute Senior High School announces a sophomore orientation assembly at 8 a.m. Monday led by Principal Wendell McMurray. Incoming sophomores should attend. fees are due next week. Locker rental 50 cents. book rental 7.50. activity fee 5. Textbooks available next Thursday. An additional orientation at Royster Junior High runs 8 to 10 a.m. for non Chanute students.
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Chanute Senior High School
Wendell McMurray
McMurray
Ior College
Chanute
Royster Junior High
Vietnamese Marines clash with Viet Cong on Van Tuong peninsula
Vietnamese marine battalion joins U S Marines on Van Tuong peninsula near Chu Lai for a mop up after a major operation. Four Viet Cong killed, four captured, Marine losses described as very light. High casualties totals cited by Gen Krulak, with 564 Viet Cong killed reported as incomplete.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
van Tuong
U.S
Chu Lai
Victor Krulak
Pacific
Korea
Krulak
Harry Kinnard
Washington
1St Cavalry Division
Riot at Job Corps Camp Breckinridge Sparks Federal Involvement
A 45 minute riot at the Camp Breckinridge Job Corps center in Morganfield Kentucky involved about 80 trainees and left at least 11 injured. Authorities cited a protection racket and burglaries drawing FBI attention. A firetruck was attacked. one firefighter was hospitalized in Evansville Indiana with injuries. State police and federal agents prepared to intervene if needed.
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Morganfield
Camp Breckinridge Center
Charles Preston
FBI
Edward T. Breathitt
James Bassett
U.S. Atty
William Rivers
City Officials Order Cushman Police Scooter for Metering
City Manager R. J. Hayes and Police Chief Lige Matlock selected and ordered a Cushman police scooter in Wichita for meter enforcement. Delivery expected in about 30 days. The scooter supports expanded metering for three new lots and two widened blocks on Ist Street.
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R. J. Hayes
Lige Matlock
Wichita
Cushman Police
Hayes
Ist
Lincoln
Evergreen
Man Charged with Murder in Alabama Civil Rights Slaying
Tom Coleman, 55, a part time deputy sheriff and father of a highway patrolman, turned himself in and was charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Jonathan Daniels, 27, a white theology student. Father Richard Morrisroe, 26, was critically wounded. The incident occurred after Coleman visited a gravel lane near a weathered grocery store in Lowndes County. The FBI and Justice Department opened probes and a grand jury was expected to consider the case in September.
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Hayneville
Ala
Tom Coleman
Lowndes
Fort Deposit
Jonathan Daniels
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Cambridge
Mass
Richard Morrisree
St. Columbanus Church
Chicago
Montgomery
Frank Ryals
Coleman
Ryals
Ruby Sales
Columbus
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Johnson
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Justice Department
FBI
State Highway Department
Astronauts Cooper and Conrad Alleged to Bring Crib Board
An intercepted letter asks whether astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad carried a cribbage board on their eight day space mission. The note suggests curiosity about gaming during spaceflight.
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Cooper
Conrad
Brisbin Named First Division Engineer for Highway
Lyle C. Brisbin, division main maintenance engineer for the Kansas Highway Commission, is named First Division Engineer at Topeka effective Sept 1, replacing J C Adams who was promoted. Brisbin, a 1932 Kansas State University engineering graduate, has served in Council Grove Pittsburg Chanute and, after Army service, returns to Topeka. The Brisbins reside at 1105 S Tennessee.
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Lyle C. Brisbin
Kansas Highway Commission
Topeka
Addison H. Meschke
Brisbin
J. C. Adams
Chanute
Highway Commission
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Council Grove
Army Engineers
Pittsburg
Brisbins
S. Tennessee
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Charles Conrad, Jr
Associated Press
Cape Kennedy, Fla
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Cmdr
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Jerry Guenther
Ribune
Lois Erickson
Brian
Kenneth Guenther
Benedict
Seymour Bryson
Stuart Lovell
Evansville
Ind
Scooter
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
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