Cooper sails into orbit on Faith 7 for 34 hour flight
CAPE CANAVERAL AP Gordon Cooper lifted off in Faith 7 aboard an Atlas booster at 8:04 am EST and began a 22 orbit mission, aiming for about 34 hours aloft, the longest U.S. manned spaceflight to date, with Walter Schirra monitoring from the control center and praise for the mission as it launched.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Faith 7
Cooper
Walter M. Schirra
Globe
Schirra
Air Force
Atlas
Earth
Mercury Control Center
Conner
U.S
Pacific
Midway Island
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Pannvich
Bermuda
Cooner
Sim Mart
Trudy
Houston
Tex
Camala
Tanita
Hattie Cooper
Tecumseh
Okly
Orena Herd
Coover
John H. Glenn Jr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil J. Grissom
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moon
Bryant Embraces Secretary of State Duties Like Newsroom Life
Kelly Bryant, after five months as secretary of state, compares wielding the Great Seal to running a newspaper. He recalls his Hope Journal days, shows a scarred finger from a press, and says both roles require honesty and serving the people amid changing times and broader awareness of world news.
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Little Rock
Kelly Bryant
Arkansas
Old
Hope Journal
Bryant
Journal
The
Hope Star
Secretary of State
Hope
State
Arkansas Sheriffs Association
Arkansas Almanac
Dorothy Dix Advice Column Reflects Family Dilemmas
Dorothy Dix answers readers about a teen wedding under church rules, a 16 year old joining the service and parental control, and genealogical cousin terms. Helen Worden Erskine offers guidance on behavior, discipline, and maintaining family roles within 1950s social norms.
Accident Ends FBI Seekers Hiatus for Harold Walker
Junior Harold Walker once the subject of a nationwide FBI search lost his freedom after an automobile crash near McGehee Arkansas The car he rode in collided with a vehicle driven by Assistant U S Attorney James W Gallman Walker faces a federal charge of interstate transportation of a stolen automobile and is also charged in Benton County Circuit Court with armed robbery tied to the March 22 1962 theft of a gun and police car from State Trooper James Morgan near Siloam Springs Walker is a Wort Smith native listing Fresno California as his address
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Little Rock
Harold Walker
FBI
Asst
U.S
James W. Gallman
Walker
PBI
United States
Benton County
James Morgan
Siloam Springs
Wort Smith
Fresno
Calif
McGehee
Hoover aims second stakes win with Sky Gem at Debonair Stakes
In Inglewood California AP reports Fred W. Hoover rides Sky Gem seeking a second stakes victory after Win’s success in the $22,550 Premier Handicap to kick off Hollywood Park season. The Debonair Stakes offers $25,000 added and runs Saturday.
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Shoote Snn
Inglewood
Calif
Fred W. Hoover
Sky
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
John Reynolds Tottern
Ecousing
Totten
Dorothy Dixie
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Arkla Gas Central
Arkla Gas
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