Ranger 7 Launch Aims to Map Moon Landing Sites
Cape Kennedy announces the Ranger 7 mission to photograph potential Apollo landing areas. An Atlas Agena rocket lifted off at 11 50 a m EST sending a 138 ton 104 foot tall booster toward a quarter million mile flight. The craft will transmit more than 4000 close up pictures from 1120 miles altitude as it nears the Sea of Showers Mare Imbrium and other maria to aid landing gear design and site selection.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Flight Control Center
Goldstone
Calif
Moon
Mare Imbrium
Apollo
Pip Pean
Gemini Crews Named For Second Space Flight
Capt James A McDivitt 35 of Chicago will command the second Gemini mission with Capt Edward H White II of San Antonio as copilot. The crew was announced by Paul Haney at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Backup includes Maj Frank Borman and Lt Cmdr James Lovell Jr. with Borman as spacecraft commander.
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Houston, Tex
James A. McDivitt
Chicago
Gemini
Edward H. White
San Antonio
Tex
Paul Haney
Manned Spacecraft
Center
Project Mercury
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Mercury
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cooper
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Borman
Young Man Given Suspended Sentence In Erie Court
Richard Wesoloski, 19, of 14% South Center street, had a 28 month jail sentence suspended yesterday when fined $100 and sentenced by Judge Elmer Evans in Erie County court. Wesoloski appeared in court to plead guilty to a charge of driving after the Bureau of Motor Vehicles had suspended his license. The charge was not drunken driving or reported yesterday.
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Richard Wesoloski
South Center Street
Elmer Evans
Erie County
Wesoloski
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
U S Plans Major Reinforcements For Viet Nam
Four U.S. servicemen were killed in South Viet Nam as Washington prepared a large manpower buildup. Up to 3,000 more advisers and training personnel may be sent, swelling the force to about 19,250. No expansion of combat roles was planned. The South Vietnamese government announced the move after a Nguy\nen Khanh and U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor meeting. A U.S. spokesman said arrivals would be active and subject to change as needed. The notice framed the aid increase as a warning to Hanoi.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Nguyen Khanh
Maxwell D. Taylor
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Khanh
Fidel Castro attacks U S in 34 hour Cuba press marathon
Fidel Castro accused the United States of murdering a Cuban sentry at Guantanamo and warned of a shot for shot response if another Cubans man is killed. He said the Soviet Union knows their position and rejected U S denial while vowing to keep ties with Moscow despite U S efforts to curb Cold War tensions.
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Santiago, Cuba
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
U.S
Guantanamo Naval Base
Santiago
Castro
Guantanamo
Soviet Union
Chiang planes crash near Taipei in Formosa training disaster
Three Nationalist China air force transport planes with 18 aboard crashed last night during training maneuvers in southern Formosa. The planes flew in close formation and crashed on 24400-foot Mt. Kuei Chung, authorities said.
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Chiang
Taipei
Formosa
China Air Force
Mt. Kuei Chung
Southern Democrats walk tight line in Johnson era
AP report notes 21 Southern Democrats, including Herman E. Talmadge, maneuver to retain party loyalty without aiding President Johnson’s campaign. Talmadge asserts continued Democratic stance, vows to vote per judgment for country and state. Among the 21 were Byrd, Gore, Stennis, Holland, and West Virginia’s Byrd as seats in play this year.
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Johnson
Herman E. Talmadge
Dgu
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Richard M. Nixon
Virginia
Byrd
Talmadge
Senate
Robert €. Byrd
West Virginia
Albert Gore
Tennnessee
Spessard L. Holland
Florida
John Stennis
Mis
Solons Balk On Pay Data
Washington AP The Senate rejected proposed rules to disclose outside financial interests of members and top employees, opting instead for a 17 member commission to study ethics. The move came after a Rules Committee probe into the Baker fortune and improprieties. The panel’s recommendations urged annual disclosure by those earning over ten thousand dollars but not holdings or income.
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Washington
Senate
Sion
Study Commission
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate Rules Committee
Bobby Baker
Baker
Route 6 Crash Injures Warren Family In Three Vehicle Collision
A three car crash seven miles west of Corry on Route 6 at 7 PM injured Mrs Pring and her daughter Debbie. Paul Pring and Gerald Casler escaped with minor damage while Harold Spoon cited for brake failure. Total damage about 2850 dollars.
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Warren
Corry
John Evanko
Gerald Casler
Paul
Pring
Casler
Harold Spoon
Clymer
Pring Machine
Debbie
Union City Memorial Hospital
Evanko
Caster
Rail Disaster Toll in Portugal Drops to 89 Victims
Recheck of hospitals and morgues lowers death toll from 183 to 89 in Portugal's worst rail disaster. Nearly 100 others were injured after a rear car uncoupled on a curve, plunged down an embankment and struck a stone abutment as passengers crowded aboard a late arriving train.
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JK Loyeureugar Yay
Morgues
Portugal
Rochester Faces uneasy calm after weekend violence
Rochester, New York faced a tense pause after a bloody weekend of race rioting described by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as extremism. Police, National Guardsmen, and officials feared further unrest as factories closed and workers dispersed. Four people were killed, at least 350 injured, and millions in property damage were reported.
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Rochester
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York
Harlem
Brooklyn
National Guardsmen
Boy sparks melee causes bus incident and riot in Meadville
Police say Richard Gayle Haas from Van Nuys fired at a patrolman aboard a Pittsburgh to Erie bound bus during a disturbance. Meadeville officers disarmed the suspect after a tense confrontation. no charges were filed immediately. The report also recounts a neighborhood dance and ensuing street clash with officers, leaving onlookers unsettled and money raised for a playground.
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Meadville
Richard Gayle Haas
van Nuys
Calif
Pittsburgh
Erie
Hans
Howard Stewart
Stewart
Meadvile
John Holt
Two Teens Die In North Kingsville Crash
Two Ashtabula teenagers died in an auto accident about a mile west of North Kingsville. The victims were James Presciano, 15, and John G. Hyslop, 17. The driver, Michael Steven Troilu, 18, was admitted to Ashtabula General Hospital.
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upHlAvans
Umv Yard
Ashtabula
North Kingsville
Ohio Highway Patrol
James Presciano
John G. Hyslop
Michael Steven Troilu
Ashtabula General Hospital
IGA Grocery To Open Here In North Center Street
The Independent Grocers Association will open a new 6440 square foot IGA supermarket on North Center street by November 1. Construction starts next week. George O of Corry is general contractor. Bondy and Stone of Erie own the building under lease to IGA. The store will be air conditioned, self service, and similar in size to locations in North East and Erie. Ownership to be announced within a month.
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Independent
Grocers Association
Thay
North Center Street
George 0
Corry
Bondy and
Stone of
Erle
IGA
Robert Kendziora
North East
Erie
Kendziora
Infant Killed as Fire Sweeps Camping Tent
A six month old girl Patricia Gydosh died when a camping tent at Aurora Lake caught fire from a nearby smoldering log fire. Parents Alfred and Mrs Gydosh of Cleveland were on the trip and heard campers’ shouts but could not rescue their daughter.
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Ravenna
Unio
Patricia Gydosh
Alfred Gydosh
Cleveland
Aurora Lake
Airfields Attract Industry To Small Communities
Willard F. Rockwell Jr. told Civic leaders in New Castle Pa that private airfields aid economic growth. He cited more than 6000 small fields nationwide and warned many are inadequate. He said small communities with a jet airport gain a major edge in drawing new business.
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New Castle
Rockwell Standard Corp
Willard F. Rockwell Jr
Rockwell
Raise Still More Beefs To Pennsy Train Stoppage
The Public Utility Commission reports three additional objections to Pennsylvania Railroad’s plan to drop the last daily Erie to Emporium train. Objections come from Erie County the St Marys Industrial Council and State Rep. William F Renwick of St Marys. Hearings on August 17 and 18 in Erie.
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Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Erie
Emporium
PUC
Erie County
St. Marys
Genevieve Blatt Eyes General Election After Court Win
In Harrisburg AP dispatch Genevieve Blatt secures the Democratic Senate nomination as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules machine ballots blank under an opponent’s name may not be counted. Blatt, 50, vows more planning while Musmanno weighs an appeal, and Blatt recalls her historic statewide post as a first woman in PA.
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Harrisburg
Genevieve Blatt
Senate
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Miss Blatt
State Secretary of Internal Affairs
Michael A. ‘Musmanno
State Supreme Court
Musmanno
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Musmanne
Pennsylvania
William W. Lexanton
State Democratic Organization
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