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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1963
Page
4
Los Angeles officials pursue a dam collapse investigation while planning a NASA satellite launch. Reports detail crack-induced damage, water release, and a proposed inflatable satellite mission to study reservoir geology from polar orbit, with multiple federal agency participants.
AP reports from various cities describe plans for a satellite mission and a 7 year old girl Vicki Wray who will have her left eye removed after malignant tumors. Doctors say the monk life offers transcendence and detachment from money as death nears. The piece mixes weather notes and scattered human interest elements.
Washington AP reports federal officials considered binding a copy of the Revised Standard Version Bible for Vicki Wray and her family. Vicki, a child of textile worker Robert Wray and his wife, faces a life expectancy of four to six years without a medical breakthrough. The operation was deemed necessary to prolong her life and she and the family were connected to the new library at the White House. Edles Wray is the youngest of nine children. In Wichita Kansas AP notes mechanic John Crow found a new aquake when checking a customer’s car. He dismantled the generator and found a mouse trapped in the mechanism.
Appalling blast hits a central Utah coal mine near Castlegate. Nine miners die as responders race to reach the shaft entrances and account for missing workers. Families wait while officials identify the dead and review methane danger reported at the Carco mine.
A collision near Clovis New Mexico involved a train ramming a manure truck and derailing ten cars and engines. About 25 of 200 passengers were hospitalized for checks. Local rescue teams reported no fatalities and described a widespread wreck with smoke and dust, with tracks badly damaged.
The weekly event is sponsored by the parent teacher group and City Recreation Division. The Franklin gym will be open on weekdays during Christmas season except Christmas and New Year’s Days for use by local children.
Tomorrow night in Greeley at the Community Building a 7 man Russian Roulette Battle Royal headlines a wrestling card. All seven enter at once with top rope eliminations. the first two and next two return to one fall matches, the fifth and sixth return in a 2 out of 8 fall bout, and the last man wins a $100 bonus. Ringside chairs set back for safety. four bouts follow at 8:30 p.m. Prices 1.40 ring side 1.00 general 0.50 kids.
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