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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1971
Page
6
Red Blanchard of Villa Park Illinois and WGN Chicago performed a fast paced act dispensing humor as medicine. He avoided preaching and drew laughs with one liners about absent minded wives, doctors bills, and everyday quirks. The crowd of seed firm dealers enjoyed his wit and a tease about Rocky Bridges.
Gov George Wallace faces a move to reopen one or more all black schools closed by federal courts. He has said he would act on a freedom of choice basis amid a national debate over busing and desegregation policies.
A man notes that the opinion he expresses should remain his own, urging personal views to stay individualized and not assumed as general truth. The remark emphasizes personal responsibility in sharing beliefs.
Kansas officials appointed a governor's committee to study three proposed shuttle bases in Western Kansas. Hearings were held in Garden City with 300 attendees. another session was planned in Russell for the Hays-Russell site, with Goodland area also considered. Cape Kennedy and Edwards AFB cited as leading site contenders amid NASA's and Congress's support for a reusable two-part shuttle program.
The Telegram KIUL straw poll reports 120 Yes 116 No on locating a space shuttle station northeast of Garden City. In Finney County 66 Yes 60 No for the primary question with rural and city splits. Scott County totals were 54 Yes 56 No with 21 Yes 35 No on a western Kansas site.
KU graduate Ronald E. Evans and Air Force Col. Joseph Engle, both 1955 KU alums and part of the 19 astronauts named to the spacemen team in April 1966, were selected for Apollo 17. Evans, an electrical engineer, and Engle, an aeronautical engineer, were previously backup for Apollo 14. Evans to speak at Highland Park High School reunion. weather: partly cloudy, low mid 60s, high near 82.
NASA ends months of dispute by selecting Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt, Harvard-trained geologist, as scientist astronaut for Apollo 17. He will fly with Cmdr. Eugene Cernan and pilot Ronald Evans. Evans will command the ship from lunar orbit while Cernan and Schmitt land on the Moon. Backups include Apollo 15 crew members Scott, Irwin, Worden. Apollo 16 crew Young, Duke, Mattingly. Apollo 17 planned for December 1972 alongside Apollo 16’s March mission. The decision reflects push from NASA science community to include geology expertise on lunar surface.
William Smith, 21, a cousin of Doyle Hester, entered an 18 inch diameter pipe in an old well on D. W. Hester property to reach a dog that had fallen into the pipe. After descending about 20 to 25 feet he ran out of breathable air and passed out. Firemen pulled him to safety with a rope. he was taken to St. Catherine Hospital in stable condition. The dog was not seen again and the owner is unknown.
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