ERTS Space Vehicle Launches To Watch Earth From Space
Lompoc California AP reports the 176 million ERTS satellite launched from Vandenberg into a 500 mile circular polar orbit. Controllers at Goddard will test systems before the first photographs, expected Tuesday, as the 1900 pound craft circles every 103 minutes taking global images every 18 days to study crops forests water and mineral resources.
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Lompoc
Calif
ERTS
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Earth
Earth Resources Technology Satellité
South Pole
John Clark
National Aeronautics and Space ™ Administration
Goddard” Spaceflight Center
Greenbelt
NASA
Clark
Goddard
Canada
Missouri
Mississippi
Pennsylvania to issue reflector plates for school buses
Pennsylvania school buses will carry new reflectorized license plates at the start of the September school year. The aluminum alloy plate features blue numerals on an orange field and must be visible at night for at least 100 feet. The plates, mandated by the legislature, replace the current plates expiring July 31, with auto plates updated after the bicentennial plate expires in 1976.
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Jim Smith Society Hosts Third Fun Festival In Hamburg
In Hamburg New York AP report a man founded the Jim Smith Society after being tired of name jokes. The group held its third annual Fun Festival with 50 men named Jim Smith and nearly 300 others named Smith joining the picnic and softball game. Founder from Camp Hill Pa attended. the society now counts about 340 members in the United States and British Commonwealth. LOYAL TO GARDENERS LONDON 70 year old widow Dorothy Pierson sold and repurchased her Ipswich area Tudor mansion for 80000 pounds to avoid losing gardeners. She plans a bungalow in 25 acres with 14 bedrooms and six baths while hoping to sell the house.
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Camp Hill
The
Harrisburg Patriot
United States
British Commonwealth
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Ipswich
Philadelphia workers seek 10 percent reward for sewer find
Two Philadelphia Water Department workers who retrieved 92,400 in old Federal Reserve bills from a sewer nine months ago press for a reward. They say honesty deserves compensation and cite IRS finder's fees as precedent. Twelve bank employees face U.S. trial over the 1.4 million theft.
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Water Department
Louis Lagana
Federal Reserve Bank
U.S. District Court
Anthony Baratta
Lagana
Cardwell Williams
Baratta
Internal Revenue Service
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