Astronauts Cancel Space Dock Walk After Fitful EVA
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP hard luck hit the Gemini 9 crew as it abandoned the angry alligator satellite and postponed the 2 hour space walk to Sunday. Fatigue and high fuel use during the rendezvous pressured mission controllers to delay the EVA. Ground teams tried to free the satellite shroud with thrusters but the jaw like clamshells remained stuck.
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Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
Stafford
UPI
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Eugene A. Cernan
Thomas P. Stafford
Mission Control Center
Houston
Tex
ATDA
Cernan
William C. Schneider
Agena
Apollo
U S May Ration Grain To Foreign Markets
U S farm officials foresee wheat rationing for foreign buyers as a swelling surplus dwindles from a July 1961 peak of 1.411 billion bushels to an expected 555 million by July this year, with possible further drops and potential export limits to safeguard U S supplies.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
U.S
Orville L. Freeman
Soviet Union
Fewer Army Enlistments Prompt Draft Revisions
The Defense Department quietly increased May and June draft calls by 9 500 due to weaker Army enlistments. Pentagon officials said revisions are routine and reflect lower expected volunteer enlistments, with changes ongoing since last year.
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Washington AP
Defense Department
Pentagon
Department
Army
Director of Selective Service
Selective Service
Surveyor 1 Nears 2000 Moon Transmissions in Space
Pasadena AP reports Surveyor 1 with a 10 foot camera has reached 2000 lunar transmissions from a quarter million miles away. Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes the craft landed on the moon Thursday and released about a dozen black and white photos. The camera can view the feet, surface, and distant horizon but likely cannot image the Earth. Power comes from a solar panel and the mission ends when the two week lunar day ends.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor
Earth
Wisconsin lawmakers approve pay hike to $9600 a year
Wisconsin legislators voted to raise annual salaries from 5400 to 9600 dollars with leadership boosts to 12050 for 17 leaders. The Assembly advanced the measure attached to a bill on administrator salaries amid bipartisan criticism and a late session vote.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly
Senate
Allen Busby
Milwaukee
Frank Panzer
Brownsville
Weather forecast and political vote on storm control
Sen Gerald Lorge and five leaders tried to curb storms with hail and curb rising wind after 6 p m Saturday but the bill failed. Temperatures were to vary with a 40 percent chance of precipitation and Sunday look for variable clouds.
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Gerald Lorge
Fhve
Sit
Turncoat's Return To U S Is Delayed
A U S consulate spokesman in Hong Kong said lack of funds and travel documents delay the departure of Korean war turncoat Clarence Adams and his family from China to the United States. Adams, a Memphis Tennessee native, his Chinese wife, whom he married in exile, and their two children may need another week to finalize travel paperwork.
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Hong Kong
Clarence Adams
United States
U.S
Adams
Memphis
Tenn
Red China
La Crosse Area Senators Back Accelerated Highway Bill
Two area state senators voted with the majority on the accelerated highway construction bill. Republicans Raymond C. Rice of La Crosse and J Earl Leverich of Sparta supported the measure.
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Madison
la Crosse Area
Raymond C. Rice
la Crosse
J. Earl Leverich
Sparta
Five Die In Winnebago County Car Crash
A two-car head on collision on Highway 45 north of Oshkosh killed five people in Winnebago County. Among the dead were Anthony W. Ehm and Orlando V. Raatz both 22, with additional victims Dia Ann L. Wyzlic 20 Sarah G. Ehm 57 and James R. Estabrooks 18. Injured were four others from Oshkosh and surrounding areas. An eight year old Dorchester boy Ronald Younker was also killed in Dorchester Clark County on Thursday.
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Winnebago County
Clark County
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Anthony W. Ehm
Orlando V. Raatz
Rt. 1
Fremont
Dia- Ann L. Wyzlic
Lake Tomahawk
Sarah G. Ehm
James R. Estabrooks
Raatz
Passeng
Ehm
Kathleen M. Ehm
Anthony J. Manicke
Darlene Block
Robert Vail
Ronald Younker
Dorchester
Norbert Younker
Wisconsin approves accelerated highway plan to finish I 90 I 94
The Wisconsin Legislature passed Gov. Knowles accelerated highway program boosting gas tax by one cent to seven cents and authorizing a $26 million bond issue to speed I 90 from Tomah to La Crosse and I 94 from Tomah to Eau Claire. The plan relies on 90 percent federal funds with 10 percent state match.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Senate
Milwaukee County
Tomah
la Crosse
Eau Claire
Knowles
Casimir Kendzierski
Milwaukee
John Reynolds
Schreiber
Henry Dorman
Racine
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
State Commission On Higher Educational Aids
Public Welfare Department
Industrial Commission
Wisconsin Senate approves speedup bill for highway projects
The measure lists interstate and state highway work proposed for rapid completion. Projects include I 94 from Tomah to Eau Claire and I 90 from Tomah to La Crosse, plus multiple state routes and bypasses across Walworth Dane Jefferson and other counties.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
Warren P. Knowles
Tomah
Eau Claire
St. Croix River
Hudson
la Crosse
Delavan
Janesville
Walworth
Rock Counties
Lake Geneva
Jefferson
Dane
West Allis
Beloit
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Washington
Butte Des Morts
Oshkosh
Green Bay
Stevens Point
Marquette
Waushara
Portage
Marathon
Chippewa, Falls
Chippewa Falls
Superior
Chippewa
Barron
Washburn
Douglas
Mequon
Sheboygan
Ozaukee
Columbus
Columbia
Reformatory Escapee From Hokah Caught
Everett Allen Johnson, 22 of Hokah, escaped from the St. Cloud reformatory for the second time in three months and was caught near Rochester. A reserve officer and about 40 posse members found him hiding in brush after a six hour search conducted near a wooded area along Highway 63. He had been brought to Rochester to face March escape charges and had previously been sentenced for aggravated robbery in Houston County.
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la Crosse
Tacoma
Wash
Hales Corners
Walter Redfern
Tribune
Rochester, Minn
St. Cloud Reformatory
Rochester
Everett Allen Johnson
Hokah
Olmsted County
Daniel Valli
Rochester Reserve
Johnson
Mile Square
Reformatory
Houston
Lanesboro
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