White Describes View During Stroll in Space
Astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White enter day two of the Gemini 4 mission with the craft on schedule for a 97 hour 50 minute flight. White described the Gulf waters as blue from over 100 miles up and noted seeing Houston Galveston Bay and Clear Lake.
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Houston
Tex
James McDivitt
Edward White
Mission Control Center
America
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean
Galveston Bay
Clear Lake
Hodge
McDivitt
Bank Holdup Fatal to 3 in Big Springs Neb
Three bank employees were shot dead and a fourth wounded in a holdup at the Farmers State Bank of Big Springs Nebraska this afternoon. Sheriff Harry Shaw said the victims include two men and a woman and that a male employee was wounded. No details yet on suspects or stolen money. Big Springs is a 500 resident town near Julesburg Colorado. The bank had about 1.78 million dollars in deposits.
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Neb
Farmers State Bank of
Harry Shaw
Shaw
Nebraska
Julesburg
Colo
Miss USA Contest Finals Held Tonight in Miami Beach
Fifteen contestants vie for the Miss USA crown and the chance to represent the United States in the 1965 Miss Universe Pageant. The winner will be crowned on CBS telecast and receive 5000 dollars in cash plus a 5000 dollar year-long appearance contract.
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Miami Beach
Fla
West Cheers Space Walk as Gemini Makes Front Page News
West European papers lead with the Gemini space flight as Edward White II walks in space longer than Alexei Leonov. Headlines hail the American achievement while Moscow and Brussels note a failed rendezvous but praise open televised mission.
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London
Edward H. White II
Alexei Leonov
Sun
Britain
Moscow
New York
Europe
Brussels
Het Laatste Niews
Tornadoes, High Winds Hit Rural Kansas South of Howard
Two tornado funnels touched down near Moline and south of Howard causing farm and service station damage with no injuries reported. Heavy winds and rains disrupted telephones and power as Kansas endured widespread storms and flash flooding across multiple counties.
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Sheriff's Office
Fall River
Elk- Greenwood
Moline
J. C. Wiseman
Dave Magers
Joe Bell Jr
Deerfield
Kane
Lakin
Garden City
Dodge City
Greensburg
Hutchinson
Hill City
Cawker City
Mankato
Kansas
Healy
Cimarron
Ness City
Jetmore
Independence
Virgil
Pittsburg
Draft call shows July total at seventeen thousand one hundred
The Defense Department issued its largest July draft call since 1961 Berlin crisis totaling 17 100 for Army induction, slightly above June. Enlistments fall and a year long study on draft need and alternatives is expected to favor continued draft to 1970 with costs of converting to all volunteer system cited at up to 5 billion.
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Washington
Defense Department
Selective Service
Army
Johnson
Intercepted Letter Describes Hair Change Meeting
A fragment notes an intercepted letter mentioning meeting a light blonde youth who had previously been known with brown hair. The line hints at a surprising physical change and prior recognition.
Deadline Approaches for Tribune 100-Degree Guessing Contest
Tomorrow is the deadline to mail guesses for the day and hour of Chanute’s first 100-degree temperature. Postcards must be postmarked by then and include the entered date and hour, the guesser’s name and address. First prize is $10, second $5. ties share prizes.
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the Tribune
Chanute
Tribune
Warehouse storage project breaks ground at Southeast Kansas TB Hospital
Elmer Dobbs hospital business manager announces a new 40 by 89 foot cement block and brick facing warehouse to store food supplies and maintenance shop space. Total cost 33884.30 dollars with 29837 for general work and 4047.30 for refrigeration. Berthot Construction Company leads the project with completion planned for August.
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Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Tribune
Bill Jenkins
Elmer Dobbs
Milton Dorris
Altoona
State Architect
Topeka
Berthot Construction Company
Marines kill 19 Viet Cong in Da Nang area
In Da Nang-Phu Bai area US Marines report 19 Viet Cong killed and 11 wounded. Two Marines died and 19 were wounded as ground fighting across South Vietnam continued. Government casualties for today and Thursday rise to at least 239 killed wounded or missing.
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U.S
da Nang-Phu Bai
Leathernecks
South
Viet Nam
Extradition Waived in Mississippi for Louisiana Murder Case
Er nest Ray McElveen 41 a laboratory technician at the paper mill waived extradition in Mississippi today and agreed to return to Bogalusa Louisiana to face murder charges in the slaying of a Negro deputy sheriff McElveen was stopped by a marshal at Tylertown forty miles northwest of Bogalusa an hour after the deputy was shot and killed by persons in a black pickup truck with a Confederate flag decal on its bumper
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Ernest Ray McElveen
Mississippi
Louisiana
Associated Press
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Tylertown
Here
McEveen
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka Log Update
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 to 9 a.m. Friday for 24 hours. June totals reach 2 with 237 fatalities recorded for 1965, compared to 238 in the comparable 1964 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ask Udall To Cutback Oil Imports
A group of southwestern Congress men urged Secretary of the Interior Udall to order a cutback in oil imports. They met in Rep. George Mahon’s capitol office as the House was in session and said the final order due July 1 has not yet been reached. Attending were Ed Edmondson John Jarman Tom Steed and Jed Johnson of Oklahoma.
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Stewart L. Udall
Udall
Capitol
George Mahon
D-Tex
Mahon
Ed Edmondson
John Jarman
Tom Steed
Jed Johnson
Oklahoma
Governors Discuss Ozark Ouachita Region Economic Plan
Four governors from Missouri Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma met in Springfield to discuss a regional development plan tied to the Little Appalachia program. The plan would create a regional commission to define project boundaries and use federal funds totaling 15 million for initial planning with later matching funds.
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Springfield
Ozark- Ouachita Mountain
Warren E. Hearnes
Missouri
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
William H. Avery
Kansas
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Little Appalachia
Congress
Senate
Appalachian Mountain
Eastern
Seaboard
Johnson
Ozark-Ouachita
Appalachia
West Virginia
Fedeal
Doctor Population Slightly Higher at Start of Year
In Chicago the AP reports the U S physician population rose to 284 271 licensed doctors at the start of the year despite fewer new physicians joining the ranks in the prior year.
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Chicago
Five airmen dead in KC135 crash near Walker AFB
ROSWELL N M AP five airmen were killed when an Air Force KC135 tanker crashed near Walker Air Force Base during a routine approach to the runway. Names of the dead were withheld pending next of kin notification. The base has two tanker groups at Walker a Strategic Air Command installation.
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N.M
Air Force
Walker Air Force Base
Walker Afb
Walker
Strategic Air Command
Treasury seeks coin reform to block hoarders and melt downs
Treasury Secretary Fowler told the House Banking Committee that Congress should approve President Johnson’s plan to replace silver in dimes quarters and half dollars with copper and nickel alloys. He warned against hoarding, pegged silver at about 1.29 per ounce, and noted meltdowns become profitable near 1.38. Lawmakers from both parties supported action though some silver states opposed the measure.
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Treasury
Congress
Johnson
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
Administration
House Banking and Currency Committee
Patman
A. Willis Robertson
Dva
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
House
William B. Widnall
New Jersey
House Banking Committee
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