Rockets Fired From Cape Canaveral and Wallops Island
Three rockets were launched Wednesday by U S forces from Cape Canaveral and Wallops Island Virginia. The Jupiter intermediate range missile rose from Antigua and a sodium vapor research rocket produced a visible trail along the Atlantic coast. A fifth stage experimental rocket Strongarm II failed to ignite its third stage and fell into the Atlantic off Wallops Island after reaching about 19 miles.
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Atlantic
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Eivian Fight
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Antigua
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River Protection Agreement Reached Over Gaston Dam
VEPCO and North Carolina reached a pact to protect Roanoke River users below the Gaston Dam after conferences. VEPCO seeks a Federal Power Commission license to build a 50 million dollar power plant and will release minimum flows to safeguard fish and wildlife and downstream industry.
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Gaston Dam
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Arm Almost Severed Restored After San Antonio Crash
San Antonio waitress Ella Jung, 24, kept full use of her right arm after a surgical team repaired a shattered bone and reattached a severed artery. Doctors restored circulation by the end of the operation, aided by two orthopedic surgeons and a heart specialist.
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San Antonio
Tex
Ellie Jung
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Small-Size Nuclear Reactor Developed
Washington AP reports a 220 pound small nuclear reactor the size of a five gallon can has been ground tested for space use. The device designed to generate about 3000 watts for at least a year would be an auxiliary power source for radios and TV transmitters in space vehicles not a propulsion unit.
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John McCone
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
McCone
American Rocket Society
John A. McCone
Prison Unit Officials Quit Over Cash Shortages
Two prison unit superintendents resigned after an audit found shortages in prisoners cash boxes. Prison Director William Bailey said reports would go to the attorney general for possible criminal action. Ennon Mann, 36, formerly head of a Cabarrus County unit, quit amid the probe into sales of toilet articles and snacks to inmates funding recreation facilities.
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William F. Bailey
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Ennon Mann
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Linoleum Invention and Early Materials
The article outlines the origin of linoleum from a process by Walton using oxygen with linseed oil combined with resins and gums to create a rubber substitute. Ground cork was added to form the material, which was pressed onto burlap backing to become the familiar floor covering.
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Hall Expects Dinner Out as Doctors Boost Recovery Outlook
North Carolina Congressman David M. Hall, a paraplegic Democrat in a wheelchair, seeks a brief hospital leave after X-ray treatment at Sloan Kettering for bladder cancer found during surgery. Doctors say cancer could be completely removed by surgery with a 3 to 4 week convalescence, and Hall hopes to dine out soon.
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New York
North Carolina
David M. Hall
Sloan- Kettering Institute
Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
Memorial Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Hall
Tasman Discovers New Zealand in 1642
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman mapped New Zealand shores in 1642 while leading a voyage for the Dutch East India Company. The discovery marked the first known European contact with the region.
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Abel Janszoon Tasman
Judge suspends sentence in hit and run manslaughter case
In Lexington North Carolina Kenneth Craig Gibbons a 43 year old Charlotte trucking executive pleaded guilty to manslaughter hit and run driving while intoxicated and received a four month suspended sentence a 100 dollar fine and license revocation The incident killed 23 year old Thomas Dallas Harris as he knelt beside U S 29 70 near Lexington Gibbons faced character witnesses including church civic and business leaders and U S Representative Charles Raper Jonas Judge Hubert Olive noted the life Gibbons led and warned that if all defendants lived such a life few would go to prison
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Pris
Superior Court
Hubert E. Olive
Kenneth Craig Gibbons
Shay
Gibbons
Thomas Dallas Harris
U.S
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Charles Raper Jonas
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Olive
Seaway Sees 20 Million Tons Moved This Season
Massena New York 1 AP report notes that 20 million tons of cargo will have moved through the St. Lawrence Seaway by its first full season’s end in 11 days, administrator Lewis G Castle says.
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Massena
St. Lawrence Seaway
Lewis G. Castle
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