Carpenter Named Next Project Mercury Pilot For Space Flight
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 36, Navy commander, selected to orbit the Earth in the next Project Mercury capsule. He replaces Air Force Maj. Donald K. Slayton after Slayton disclosed heart trouble. Carpenter, Boulder born, vows to risk life for space conquest and prepares for a May flight. he backed John Glenn and plans a mission similar to Glenn's three orbits. He and his wife Rene, both from Colorado, have four children and a long history of training and family letters amid NASA duties.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
America
Space
Carpenter
Navy
Mercury
Air Force
Donald K. Slayton
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Mark Scott
Robyn Jay
Kristine Elaine
Candace Noxon
Rene
Patuxent
Boulder
Colo
Colorado College
University of Colorado
Yellow
South China Seas
Formosa Straits
Air Test Pilot School
Langley Air Force Base
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Arrest Two Top Reds In America Hearings Set
The U S Communist party faces suppression with Gus Hall and Ben Davis indicted under the McCarran act. John Abt says both will plead innocent as hearings are scheduled before U S Commissioner Earle N Bishopp with possible removal to Washington for arraignments.
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Kennedy
John Abt
Hall
Davis
Communist Party
Gus Hall
Ben Davis
Labor and
Negro People's Movement
McCarran
Indictment List Names Addressed in Warrants
Count indictment references warrants listing Davis at 710 Riverside Drive Manhattan and Hall at 230 Van Cortlandt Park Ave Yonkers N Y with detailed location identifiers.
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Davis
Riverside Drive
Manhattan
Hall
van Cortlandt Park Ave
Yonkers
N.Y
Slayton Out As Next US Astronaut
Slayton was disqualified from the next Mercury space flight though still a Mercury program member. Carpenter 36, Navy pilot backup, will fly and be backed up by Walter M. Schirra Jr. The news drew mixed reactions from Slayton’s family in Wisconsin and Carpenter’s mother in Boulder.
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Slayton
Allegheny Grand Jury Indicts Man in Church Poor-Box Theft
Pittsburgh AP reports an Allegheny County Grand Jury indicted Robert Angel on charges tied to a church poor-box theft. The case centers on alleged red handed stealing during the incident.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Robert Angel
Pianist Emma Barrett Loses Savings Twice in New Orleans
New Orleans pianist Emma Barrett, 64, known as Sweet Emma the Bell Gal, lost $2,500 in December when a thief grabbed her money bag. After a benefit, she faced another robbery Thursday night, with $1,000 cash and two checks totaling $225 taken.
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New Orleans
Emma the Bell
Emma Barrett
Blonde on Chicago church roof rescued after hourlong ordeal
Miss Caral Lee Conte, 26, spent about an hour on the sloped tile roof of Fourth Presbyterian Church on the near North Side. After shouts went unanswered, she climbed from a loft to a high window, then to the roof and signaled for help before firefighters lowered her to safety.
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Chicago
Hremen
Caral
Lee Conte
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Near North Side
Miss Conte
Arthur Lir
Desmond
Miss Conter
Kennedy sails the Ganges in Benares visit
Jacqueline Kennedy rode a 65 minute motor launch up the Ganges past pilgrims water buffalo and burning pyres watched by thousands as she toured Benares Then she visited a silk factory and Sarnath before staying at a hotel and continuing to Udaipur The trip included purchases of silk and a royal reception plan with officials and reporters in attendance
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Frances Lewine Benares
India
Jacqueline Kennedy
Ganges River
Mrs. Kennedy
Heaven
America
Benares
Sarnath
Buddha
Kennedy
U.S
Agra
Ganges
Lee Radziwill
John Kenneth ‘Galbraith
Beneres
Taj Mahal
Physicians To Attend Clinic Day
Altoona Hospital hosts Clinic Day on March 24 1962 inviting physicians from a 20 county Central Pennsylvania area. Cleveland Clinic specialists in Gastrointestinal disease will discuss surgical gastroenterology and radiology with Dr Rupert B Turnbull Jr Dr Charles H Brown and Dr Thomas Meany. Registration at 9 00 a m sessions start 9 30 luncheon 1 00 p m. Event supported by the R S Magee Memorial Fund and the Committee on Continuing Medical Education.
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Altoona
Altoona Hospital
Pennsylvania
Cleveland Clinic
Suregon
Rupert B. Turnbull, Jr
American College of Surgeons
Turnbull
Europe
South America
Charles H. Brown
Frank E. Bunts
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Brown
Wesleyan University
Connecticut
Thomas ¥. Meany
American Board of Radiology
Meaney
Bedford Ohio Municipal Hospital
Committee On
R. S. Magee
House Passes Welfare Bill Boosting Relief Payments
The House approved a $325 million welfare measure including a $140 million boost, not sought by President Kennedy, with changes to federal state programs. The vote was 1319 to 69, sending the bill to the Senate despite Republican objections to increasing relief funding and federal matching grants.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
Another Flight At DuBois Field
Allegheny Airlines will start an evening service from Pittsburgh on April 1 with a stop at DuBois Pa The route leaves Pittsburgh at 815 p m arrives DuBois at 852 then continues to Philipsburg Williamsport Wilkes Barre Scranton and Newark New Jersey
Quadros Says US Sought Latin Aid
Former Brazilian president Janio Quadros said a U S State Department official implied United States interest in joint action by Latin American nations against Cuba. He recalled March meetings with Adolph Berle Jr and later discussions with Ambassador John Moors Cabot.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Janio Quadros
U.S. State Department
United States
Cuba
Quadros
Adolph Berle Jr
Berle
State Department
Berte
Osmar Cunha
South America
Visi
U.S
John Moors Cabot
Cabot
Poland
Nis
Khrushchev announces new Red Satellite in orbit
Khrushchev said a new Soviet satellite had been launched and was already in orbit amid optimistic tone yet lingering tension. He noted Western powers oppose disarmament, pledged patience on German questions, and highlighted contrasting US and Soviet economic trends and unemployment figures while addressing a crowd in the Kremlin.
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Khrushchev
Kremlin
Alexander Ushlinsky
Tass
Academy of Science
U.S
Soviet Union
United States
Imany
Nations press Kennedy and Khrushchev on disarmament talks
The 17 nation group urged Rusk and Gromyko to pursue a path toward disarmament as the Soviet Union rejected Kennedy’s test ban terms and insisted on national inspection. Tsarapkin stated Moscow would accept a ban only with its own inspection regime, while Western diplomats warned the deadlock risks resumed atmospheric tests next month.
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Soviet Union
Kennedy
U.S
Moscow
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Tsarapkin
Arthur Dean
Joseph Godber
Andrei A. Gromyko
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Rusk
Gromyko
4Talian
Antonio Segni
India
V. K. Krishna l Menon
Menon
United Nations
U.N
Obituaries from West Lebanon area March 1962
A string of obituaries reports Earl R Holstein Elsie E Gibbons Alice Patterson Sharpa Caylor Louis Morandi. Details include birthplaces Indiana County Michigan Toledo Ohio and Italy plus churches funeral homes and interment at local cemeteries.
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Earl R. Holstein
West Lebanon
Indiana Memorial Hospital
Armstrong Twp
Indiana Co
Alexander C
Eleanor E. Rosensteel Holstein
Methodist Church
A. Hamilton Holstein
Maude B. Patterson
Robinson- Lytle’s
Indiana
Harry G.winsheimer
A. Dwight Manners
Alice Patterson
Dixonville
Indiana Hospital
Taylorsville
Jacob
Caroline Couch Lydie
Two Sick Baptist Church
James
Philadelphia
Marion Davidson
Edward Nash
Clark, NJ
Bence
Clymer
Ivan Matthewson
Greenwood Cemetery
Louis W. Morandi
Water Street
Homer City
Italy
Lous, Jr
Pittsburgh
Margaretne
Witn Marchaese
Alice
Robert Taylor
Chester
Vai Neil
Pairmont
W. Va
Katherine
Ward Hilliard
Homer
St. Louis Roman Catholic Church
Ucernemines
Tida
George Askew
P.m
Aim
Itn
St Louis RC
Vnurch, Lacernemiies
Hoa
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South Pacific
U.S. Communist Party
Earth
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Charles Slayton
Sparta
Wis
Florence Carpenter
Scott
Layton
Germany
Japan
Marjorie Lunney
California
Houston
Tex
Jacqueline
Toyland
New York
Eldon Industries
Hawthorne
Calif
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
DuBois Field
Elsie E. Gibbons
James J. Gibbons
R.D
Johnstown Memorial Hospital
Lulu
Michigan
William G
Julia Traub Gensler
William
Ida
Vern
Toledo
Ohio
Kenneth
Ottawa Lake
Mich
Alton
Ypsilanti
Hattie Herbst
Maybee
Robinson-Lytle's
St. Louis
Lucernemines
Henry Podoweski
Gibbons
Ansburg-West Mortuary
Union Cemetery
Erie
Punxsutawney
I. Arnold Ohl
Circle Hill Cemetery
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