Boeing wins record US space contract for Saturn V boosters
Boeing Co. received a 415 million dollar contract for 10 first-stage Saturn V boosters and one ground-test booster, largest ever awarded in the US space program. Work spans Michoud Louisiana and Boeing plants in Seattle Wichita Huntsville and Cape Canaveral with NASA Marshall Center testing locations Pearl River and Mississippian sites. The 330 foot high, 33 foot diameter boosters will use five Rocketdyne F-1 engines producing 7.5 million pounds thrust each as NASA aims for a moon landing before 1970.
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AEC Seeks Overhaul of Savannah Before Sailing
The Atomic Energy Commission advisory panel calls for a full ship review and extensive overhaul before any further operation of the Savannah. The gas cooled reactor ship remains tied at Galveston for propulsion system work as the commission awaits the panel’s report next month.
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AEC
San Quentin Death Causes' Cons Strike
Black Muslim inmates at San Quentin staged a brief work stoppage after a guard fatally shot fellow inmate Booker T. Johnson. About 70 prisoners gathered outside the yard office to demand the guard's arrest, a demand officials refused. The incident followed a separate attack in the yard between Black Muslims and white inmates.
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Plotter Antoine Argoud Delivered to Paris Police
Paris police received ex agent Antoine Argoud hand and foot by the Seine after a dramatic capture. Authorities suggested he was dumped in France by Secret Army colleagues following his botched attempt on President De Gaulle. The case sparked wild theories of kidnapping or underworld vengeance.
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Army Reducing Ole Miss Force at Oxford
The Army said its troops at Oxford Mississippi will be reduced slightly and moved to a single tent location about a mile from the University of Mississippi. Consolidation will cut about 40 men, leaving about 300 soldiers on duty in the area, from the group sent last Sept. 30 amid rioting over James Meredith's admission.
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James Meredith
3Rs Advocate Runs for Education Board
Arthur P. Moore a 40 year old real estate salesman and Navy veteran announces candidacy for one of three Long Beach school board seats in the April 5 election. He highlights fundamentals of education the three Rs and cites service in WWII Korea and the Byrd Antarctic expedition. Moore and his wife Sarah have three children and have lived in Long Beach since 1954 apart from two years in Honolulu.
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Shipping disasters push toll above one hundred worldwide
Reports from Rome say 21 of 22 crew members of the Greek freighter Fgli are missing feared dead after capsizing off the Sporades islands in the Aegean. Nine dead and 38 missing after a collision in the Scheldt off Antwerp. In Kobe a Japanese ferry Tokiwa Maru with 6 aboard sinks after colliding with Richmond Manz. Also missing are 13 crew of No 18 Kompira Mar south of Korea. In Taipei a nationalist steamer with 10 officials is missing en route to Orchid Island. Baltic ice and cold slow shipping around Gotland and Stralsund as ice covers sea lanes.
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Iowa Plant Closes in Labor Disputes
Sioux City Iowa Swift and Co meatpacking plant ends beef cutting department indefinitely after seven workers refuse 12 hour day and a labor dispute spreads, reducing operations and idling all 650 employees as the clash grows.
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Sioux City
UPI
Swift & Co
Venus Revealed Hot Lifeless Desert by Mariner 2
Washington reports Mariner 2 data show Venus as an extremely hot barren world with surface temperatures near 800 degrees Fahrenheit. No life is evident on the surface, though speculation exists about possible microscopic life in the cooler upper atmosphere.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Doctor Reappointed to State Board of Medical Examiners
Los Angeles physician Dr. J. M. Debes Reyes of Glendale was reappointed to the State Board of Medical Examiners for a four year term, with the announcement made on Tuesday by state officials.
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J. M. Debes Reyes
Glendale
State Board of Medical Examiners
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