Saturn Shot Puts U S Out Front In Moon Race
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP America moves toward the moon with the Surveyor 6 mission atop an untested rocket. The successful landing and transmissions from Sinus Medis boost morale after the January 27 disaster. President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey offered congratulations as NASA officials caution the moon is still forthcoming.
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America
Space Agency
Johnson
Humphrey
Moon
Robert C. Seamans
NASA
Sinus Medis
Seamans
Hold Hearing On Local RR Crossing In Erie County
The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission conducts a hearing on signals at the Shady Avenue crossing of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in Erie County. City Council prompted the session after a 1966 fatal crash involving a local woman. Officials from Corry Jamestown Corp and local union groups present traffic count data showing usage by CJ employees.
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Shady Avenue
Erie Lackawanna Railroad
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Erie County
Corry Jamestown Corporation
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Corry Evening Journal
Moon Probe Finds Fourth Possible Landing Area
Surveyor 6 sent vivid images from a rugged lunar surface after a successful soft landing, enlarging landing site options for manned missions. Benjamin Milwitzky cited the triumph as a major step toward Apollo in 1969, noting pluses in choosing safer, equatorial sites like Sinus Medii.
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Surveyor 6
United States
Pacific
Surveyor
Benjamin Milwitzky
Milwitzky
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Medii—Central Bay
Milwiteky
Sinus Medii
Johnson kicks off coast to coast tour to rally support
President Johnson begins a two day barnstorming journey to boost war policies and his image. He will visit Army Rangers and paratroopers in Georgia greet Vietnam pilots in California and observe operations aboard the Enterprise in the Pacific. He travels to four states and on the high seas to March Veterans Day and shore up voter backing amid polls showing him as underdog in 1968. He delivers a tougher stance on fighting aims insisting progress at home runs parallel with Vietnam.
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Pacific
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George Meany
15 Per Cent Boost Planned In Social Security Hike
The Senate cleared a 3.6 billion measure for a 15 percent boost in Social Security benefits amid a party line vote. The plan would start benefits next April, fund tax changes later, raise the minimum payment to 70 dollars, and widen the taxable wage base to 8,000 dollars next year. Future years would see tax rate and base increases. House and Senate versions differ on welfare work rules, Aid to Dependent Children, and birth control counseling funding, needing a conference committee.
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Cally
John J. Williams
Delaware
Finance Committee
House
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
Rubber Stamp Voting Raffles Columbus Aide
A Columbus polling place sparked a heated dispute when a watcher, appointed by each party, watched a man and his wife remove rubber stamps from stamps provided for write-in candidate James Marshall. Officials rushed from Warren County to calm the scene as Marshall, running for county commissioner, lost.
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Warren County
James Marshall
Marshall
Warren
Youth, 17, Lifted From Power Line
Los Angeles report says Brian Latasa, 17, survived after four city firemen risked electrocution to rescue him from a 230000 volt line in Griffith Park. He touched a live wire while climbing an 80 foot pole, was jolted into the air and landed across the line. He was taken to Los Angeles County General Hospital with burns covering about 40 percent of his body and near total paralysis except for his eyelids.
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Los Angeles
Brian Lalasa
Brian
Griffith Park
Latasa
Los Angeles County General Hospital
State OK Co op Dairy Stores To Give Customer Profits
In Western Pennsylvania consumers could share in cooperative dairy profits if farmers form a nonprofit retail co op. The C D Cooperative Association proposes customers buy shares and receive monthly dividends tied to their purchases.
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Co-op
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
C&d Cooperative Association
Ernest Hayes
United Dairy Farmers
Hayes
United Dairy Farmers Cooperative
C&d Budget Dairy, Inc
C&d Budget Dairy
Commission
Simmons
Sim
Three More Planes Lost In 26 Hour Battle Near Da Nang
U S Marines and Army infantry clashed with dug in North Vietnamese troops within five miles of Da Nang in two fierce battles. Four Marines killed and 64 wounded in the coastal valley fight while 10 dead and 46 wounded in the 1st Air Cavalry and 4th Infantry clash. Thirty five Vietnamese reported slain as U S aircraft flew 153 missions despite monsoon conditions and a Viet Cong attack sank a U S river patrol boat 97 miles south of Saigon.
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U.S
da Nang
1St Corps
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Mekong Delta
1St Air Cavalry Division
4Th Infantry Division
Fire destroys small frame home on Railroad Street
Harold Thayer’s small frame home on Railroad Street burned completely after an overheated stove pipe ignited a wall. Firemen arrived at 6:07 p.m. with 12 men from Engines 1 and 3 Truck 4 and Emergency Truck 5, laying 1500 feet of hose from East Main Street to douse the flames. Loss is estimated at 1500 for the building and 500 for contents. Jurist Frederick V. Follmer retires from the U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, effective December 30.
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Railroad Street
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Johnston
Harold Thayer
Durham
Thayer
East Main Street
Jerome Davis
Washington
Johnson
U.S. Dist
Frederick V. Follmer
Federal Court
Middle District
Hansylvania
Lewisburg
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