Longest Flight Primate Benny Aims for 30 Days in Space
A 14-pound pigtail monkey named Benny from Thailand is set to launch atop a Delta rocket at 10 10 p.m. CDT for a 30 day orbital mission in a flying laboratory to study memory and behavior in weightlessness with brain and vital-body implants sending data to Earth. Separate Cape Kennedy tests prepare for the Apollo 11 moon mission with Armstrong Aldrin and Collins training for a July 16 liftoff while a separate report questions who will be first to walk on the Moon.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Benny
Thailand
Earth
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Armstrong
Collins
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Aldrin
Langley Air Force Base
Donald K. Slayton
Space Agency
Paul Haney
Haney
Bonny
Fresh Troops Start Sweep At Ben Het
Fresh South Vietnamese troops, 1,500 strong, began new sweeps around the besieged Ben Het Special Forces camp to ease pressure. Viet Cong claimed Ben Het doomed, vowed a decisive fall as U.S. air strikes and B52s pounded targets while supply routes to the camp remained disrupted.
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Ben Het
Saigon
United States
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Laos
Missouri Sheriff Drowns In Red Wing Slough
Nodaway County Missouri sheriff Fred L. Newton, 50, drowned in 12 feet of water near Red Wing after their boat overturned in rough water. Two fishing companions, Frank Lin Adkins and S. H. Adkins, managed to reach shore as deputies recovered Newton's body about four hours later.
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Red Wing
Minn
Nodaway County
Fred L. Newton
Maryville
Goodhue County
Franklin Adkins
Graham
S. H. Adkins
Newton
Adkins
Pettibone Park Proposal To Be Heard By City Panels
The Pettibone Park donation offer will be reviewed by the City Plan Commission and Common Council Grounds and Building Committee next week. Plan Commission meets Monday at 4 p.m and the committee Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. The transfer includes land protection terms and a ban on sale. A Church of Christ annexation petition and Aviation Board request for FAA land release near Fanta Reed Road are also on the agenda.
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Pettibone Park Commission
Pettibone Park
City Plan Commission
Common Council
Plan Commission
A. W. Pettibone
Council
Church of Christ
28Th Street
Birch Street
Council Judiciary Committee
The
Aviation Board
Federal Aviation ‘Agency
Fanta Reed Road
Nixon Plans Six Country Tour Including Romania Visit
President Nixon announced a globe girdling trip starting July 23 with a Moon mission splashdown view near Johnston Island then Manila Indonesia Thailand India and Pakistan before Bucharest Romania. Secretary Rogers accompanies to Philippines Indonesia and travels separately to Japan Korea Taiwan Australia and New Zealand.
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New York
Nixon
Romania
Ronald L. Ziegler
mid-Pacific
Hornet
Washington
Johnston Island
Pacific
Manila
Indonesia
Thailand
India
Pakistan
Bucharest
William P. Rogers
Philippines
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Australia
New Zealand
State Council
Nikolai Ceausesu
Kenosha Boy Drowns While Aiding Air Mattress Rescue
The drowning toll rises to six in Wisconsin as 12 year old Antonio Mesoraca drowns near Kenosha while trying to recover an air mattress. An unidentified youth who attempted the rescue was also presumed drowned. Nearby, two Green Bay men and a Milwaukee man perished in separate squalls, and other drownings include a La Crosse youth and a Watertown girl.
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Associated Press
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Antonio Mesoraca
Lake Michigan
Green Bay
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Watertown
Mesoraca
Pike River
Morris Carey
Nelsonville
Portage County
Carey
Wisconsin Historical Society
Curfew Declared as Kokomo Violence Surges Again
Kokomo Indiana Mayor orders 10 30 p m to dawn curfew as state police aid patrols after cross burning and rioting tensions. Four armed whites on a rooftop charged with riotous conspiracy and gun possession. 14 arrests. Fire damages reported at four businesses and a residence.
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Associated Press
Kokomo
Ind
Omaha
Neb
Cairo
Ill
John Miller
Dave Levendowski
Robert Barton
Vivian, Strong
James Loder
James Strong
Egeberg Awarded Nation's Top Health Post
President Nixon named Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, dean of the USC Medical School, as assistant secretary of health and scientific affairs. The choice ends a five month fight over Dr. John H. Knowles amid opposition from Dirksen and the AMA. Egeberg will oversee nearly 15 billion in health funds and previously served as MacArthur's physician.
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New York
Nixon
Roger O. Egeberg
University of Southern California Medical School
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Ziegler
Romania
Knowles
Massachusetts General Hospital
HEW
Finch
Dirksen
American Medical Association
Egeberg
Congress
AMA
USC School of Medicine
Cornell University
Northwestern University
Army Medical Corps
Douglas MacArthur
University of Oklahoma Medical School
Massena
N.Y
Montreal
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Weekend Weather Outlook With Rain Chances
Increasing clouds Saturday night bring a chance of showers late. Sunday turns partly cloudy with likely showers. High near 80.
Convicted Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd Nabbed in California
Police capture the fugitive Winnie Ruth Judd in a Danville California home, identifying a woman named Marian Lane through fingerprints scars and photos. The 64 year old killer of Phoenix two friends in 1931 was living under an assumed name and working as a cook and housekeeper. Authorities linked the arrest to a homicide case in Albany nearby and a pensioner estate.
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Winnie Ruth Judd
California
James D. White
Martinez
Calif
Arizona
San Francisco
Robert Lang
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Lang
Sgt
Joe Walsh
Danville
John Bremer
Europe
Marian Lane
The
Tiger Woman
Tion
David Gardella
Piedmont
Oakland
Gardella
Italy
Lane
Aarons
Judd
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Senate
Medicare
American Medical Associa
Tee Egeberg
Winnie
Ruth Judd
Arizona State Hospital
Alamo
Z. Alexander Aarons
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