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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1962
Page
5
At Howards Air Force Base California a triangular guided bomb will drop from a aircraft to simulate a brush fire with flame retardants. The Firebird device 13 feet long and 11 feet wide will be tested over a Mojave Desert range with radio control from plane or ground.
Evanglist Billy Graham left Fresno for Montreal after an eight day Central California Crusade that drew 144000 attendees in seven meetings. He urged that humanity seeks only food and drink while warning against date setting for Christ's return.
In Maco North Carolina a Charlotte radio WWOK crew failed to capture Old Joe Baldwin the ghost near the Atlantic Coast Line track outside Wilmington during an all night vigil. The team says they will return next Saturday with improved equipment in another effort to explain the mysterious flashing light.
NASA pressed ahead with a second Venus mission after the Atlas Agena B booster failed and the Mariner 1 payload was destroyed 290 seconds after launch. The $8 million rocket and $4 million Mariner 1 sank in the Atlantic as engineers study the error and prep the pad for Mariner 2 during a 50 day favorable window through September 10.
An explosion in a Titan missile silo near Rillito Arizona caused a fire and injured 20 workers Sunday night. Five Tucson men were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. others were treated and released. Damage estimated at $2000.
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