Astronauts Describe Apollo 15 Moon Voyage Findings
Apollo 15 crew David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden recount the lunar mission in a Houston briefing showing moon films and fielding questions. Scott and Irwin spent 19 hours on the surface collecting 175 to 185 pounds of samples and drove 17 miles in a car to explore Hadley Rille and surrounding terrain while Worden orbited three days.
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Arkansas Weather Report Forecast Through Friday
Weather Experiment Station reports four hour period ending 7 am Thursday. High 93, low 67 with inches of rain. Forecast: Arkansas fair to partly cloudy through Friday with scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers in extreme west and south today and widely scattered thundershowers Friday afternoon mainly west. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s today and Friday. Lows tonight in the upper 60s to low 70s.
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Weather Elsewhere Tidbits and July Traffic Toll
A fragment notes July tolls with 57 traffic deaths in 49 fatal crashes. State troopers logged 1,149 accidents in July across the state. The speaker cites one major summer holiday left and urges defensive driving.
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Artificial Heart Boosts Detroit Patient in Major Procedure
A 63-year-old Warren security guard undergoes a 10 hour operation at Sinai Hospital and receives a six inch patch booster artificial heart device implanted in his aorta to aid his failing heart. Surgeons led by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz report the patient is progressing as expected. The device is powered by a waist worn battery pack with eight hour recharge intervals.
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Singing at Shiloh Church Falcons Arkansas
The Hope Arkansas State Singing group will perform at Shiloh Methodist Church located four miles northwest of Falcon Sunday afternoon August 15. The public is invited to attend.
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Big Four Near Berlin Accord After Three-Day Talks
In Berlin the Big Four ambassadors to divided Germany wrapped a historic trio of meetings within three days amid brisk speculation they near a Berlin accord. Soviet envoy Pyotr Abrasimov said the four would reconvene in West Berlin on Monday while American ambassador Kenneth Rush noted a news blackout on the talks.
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Little Change in Weather Through Weekend Arkansas
The Associated Press notes light overall weather shifts with scattered showers possible Saturday in parts of Arkansas. Sunday and Monday look mostly fair with high temperatures in the upper 80s to mid 90s and lows in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Thunderstorms earlier in the week dropped heavy rainfall in Pine Bluff 1.49 inches and Calico Rock 0.91, with hail reports across central Arkansas and wind damage near Pine Bluff and Damascus.
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Woman Leaps 1000 Feet to Death at Hancock Center
A Chicago woman, Lori Kowalski, 29, fell nearly 1000 feet from a 90th floor window of the John Hancock Center while visiting Marshal Berlin's apartment. Homicide detectives treat it as a possible suicide. Berlin said Kowalski arrived at 3 14 a.m. after an angry exchange and a broken window was found. The Hancock Center rises 1017 feet on North Michigan Avenue.
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Public hearings on waste plants license procedures
About 50 people attended two public hearings Wednesday on procedures for licensing operators of waste water treatment plants as required by a 1971 law. A separate note instructs cattlemen to mail larva samples to Dr Henry Martin at the Arkansas National Stockyards in Little Rock for screwworm confirmation and to contact the County Extension Office for details.
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Little Rock
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Little Kook
Arkansan Found Shot to Death Near Weigh Station
Sanford Wedgeworth a 54 year old truck driver from Augusta Arkansas was found dead with his hands tied at a weigh station under construction two miles north of Campbellsville Kentucky He was shot once in the left side beaten and his wallet was missing His suitcase had been rummaged and dumped over a nearby embankment The body was discovered Wednesday and authorities are unsure how long it had been at the site.
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Prime Minister Fires Predecessor Over Memoirs Controversy
In Sydney, Prime Minister William McMahon dismissed former PM and Defense Minister John Gorton after five days of dispute over Gorton’s memoirs. McMahon claimed the writings breached cabinet solidarity and questioned ministerial integrity. Gorton’s first installment accused ministers of unreliability in handling government secrets.
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John Gorton
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