Shepard notes flight was not long enough during capstone spaceflight
Apollo era booted heroes Shepard and six astronauts return from Cape Canaveral to Grand Bahama Island. Shepard says the 15 minute ride felt short and beautiful as engineers review flight tapes. Medical tests show excellent health and high spirits as Washington honors loom with Presidential Medal and possible Medal of Honor discussion.
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Scott Carpenter
Shepard
Project Mercury
Cape Canaveral
Washington
Kennedy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Congress
Navy
U S Forces Ready for Quick Viet Nam Move
President Kennedy weighs direct military aid to South Viet Nam as U S forces stand ready across sea air and ground. Strategic Army Corps three divisions plus Marine and Seventh Fleet elements could be mobilized within hours to days depending on needs and location.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
United States
South Viet Nam
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Strategic Army Corps
3Rd Marine Division
Okinawa
Viet Nam
Seventh Fleet
Southeast Asian
Philippines
Guam
Japan
U.S. Air Force
County tour surveys county resources by bus
About 40 people including 35 La Crosse County Board members toured the county to study industrial agricultural and recreational resources. They visited Wedgewood Shelby Goose Island Mormon Coulee and Bohemian Creek areas noting flood control park development erosion and trout habitat work and limestone prospects for agriculture.
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse
Northern States Power Co
Vernon County
Badger Sportsmen's Club
A. J. Francour
Newburg Corners
Bohemian Valley
Bohemian Creek
Glenn Voskuil
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Crisis Control Center Formed In Washington
The State Department disclosed a new 24 hour crisis operation center in Washington under Theodore C. Achilles head of Special Operations. The center, two weeks old, focuses on Cuba and South Vietnam with staff to ensure rapid recommendations reach the secretary and president. Stephen E. Smith was named special assistant to Achilles amid a Kennedy family connection.
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Washington
State Department
Foreign Service
Theodore C. Achilles
Dean Rusk
Achilles
Department
Cuba
South Viet Nam
Stephen E. Smith
Kennedy
Soviet proposal at U.N. seeks right to nationalize wealth
The Soviet Union proposed at the United Nations that nations have the right to freely carry out nationalization expropriation and other measures to strengthen sovereignty over natural wealth with no mention of compensation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U. N. General Assembly
Power Focus To Fight The Cold War
The Kansas City Star argues post war government reform is needed to win the Cold War. Roy A. Roberts calls for more presidential authority, faster action, and secrecy in world policy. He suggests re examining the presidency, executive organization, and executive Congress relations.
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Kansas City
The
Kansas City Star
Roy A. Roberts
Star
Roberts
Executive
Congress
Shepard to receive hero welcome in Washington parade events
President Kennedy will lead a White House welcome and Capitol reception for astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. after his space flight. The day includes a televised news conference and a ceremonial trip along Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol, with extensive security and public attendance anticipated.
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Washington
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Kennedy
Space
Pennsylvania Avenue
Navy
White House
Capitol
America
Executive Mansion
Shepard
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Grand Bahama Air Force Base
Andrews
Alan B. Shepard Sr
Derry
N.H
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Supreme Court
Congress
State Department
Senior Art Exhibit and Music Recital at Viterbo College
The Viterbo College Art Department hosts a Senior Art Exhibit and Fine Arts Tea from 2 to 5 p.m. followed by a Student Music Recital at 7:30 p.m. in Viterbo Music Hall.
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Viterbo College
Viterbo Music Hall
Nixon rallies GOP in Midwest for 1964 campaign
Nixon assails Kennedy agriculture policy calling farm prices unfair and warns of a frontier without freedom in a speech at Des Moines Iowa. He criticizes quotas and controls and urges better organization as he campaigns through Detroit and Columbus. He denies running for governor or president in 1964 while signaling a 1964 White House bid.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Richard M. Nixon
Midwest
Kennedy
Department of Agriculture
Nixon
Congress
GOP
Detroit
Columbus
White House
California
Los Angeles
Truce Commission Set to Depart Laos Mission
The Laos cease-fire verification panel will leave New Delhi on Sunday for Laos. The 30 member team from India Canada and Poland seeks aircraft after orders to depart. Over 100 military guards assist communications supply and inspection tasks. The commission appealed to the Indian and British governments and to commercial airlines for planes.
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New Delhi
India
Laos
Canada
Poland
Rusk Seeks Unity at NATO Strategy Conference Oslo
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived in Oslo for a three day NATO Council strategy session. He urged European leaders to boost conventional forces and funding, signaling U S support for NATO efforts amid Communist bloc threats and possible Berlin tensions. Rusk aims to spark broad allied resolve rather than seek immediate decisions.
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Oslo
Norway
Dean Rusk
Atlantic Alliance
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Alliance
Rusk
Kennedy
U. S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Council of Foreign Ministers
Andrews Air Force Base
NATO
Europe
United States
Berlin
Minneapolis Man and Three Merrill Boys Die in Plane Crash
A Minneapolis man Robert J. Bertrand 31 and three Merrill area youths Timothy 15 and David Nuerhring 12 plus a third unidentified boy died when a four place Piper Comanche light plane crashed into farmland under a heavy overcast sky. Bertrand rented the plane Friday at La Crosse. The craft did not burn and little remained to study.
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Merrill, Wis
Minneapolis
Merrill Area
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
Robert J. Bertrand
Pasadena
Calif
Timothy
David Nuerhring
David
Merrill
Nuerhrings
Bertrand
la Crosse
Defense Chief Urges Sea Power for Peace
Capt. Harry H. Greer Jr. of Great Lakes told the Wisconsin ROA banquet that acts of war without atomic weapons require vigilance today. He urged a balanced defense with Navy, Army, and Air Force to deter aggressors, stressing sea power to protect freedom of seas and allies, and that only people remain the essential maritime asset.
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Harry H. Greer Jr
Great Lakes
Ill
la Crosse
Navy
Reserve Officers Association
Wisconsin Department
Greer
NATO
SEATO
LA CROSSE BOY DROWNS IN MARSH AREA
Steven Schulze 22 year old son of Mr and Mrs Donald S Schulze 1011 Redbird Court drowned in a marsh area on the North Side Saturday evening. Police said he was found by his mother and pronounced dead at St Francis Hospital.
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Steven Schulze
Donald S. Schulze
Redbird Court
St. Francis Hospital
Schuh Homes
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Crisis Control Center
U.S.S.R
Alan Shepard
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John Bosshard
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Gerald L. Cobleigh
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ROA
Joseph J. Lingle
Milwaukee
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Bristol
Lyle R. Coates
DeForest
Richard J. DeBruin
Lee G. Egloff
R. J. Eagle
Everett A. LeGath
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Leo R. Weinshel
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