Moon Rocket Pioneer Falls Short In Space Flight
The U S moon rocket Pioneer reached about 79 120 miles into space then re entered over the south Pacific and likely burned up. Air Force officials hailed the mission as a data rich advance despite not reaching lunar orbit.
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Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
Schriever
Inglewood
Calif
Pioneer Moon Rocket Flight Hourly Log
Defense Department records trace the Pioneer lunar probe from Cape Canaveral through a day of skyward progress. Track shows altitudes from 12 267 miles to 79 120 miles with speeds fluctuating and eventual reentry as contact is lost near Hawaii. Final velocity matches initial launch.
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Defense Defense Department
Cape Canaveral
Fla
City Still In Picture As State Building Site
La Crosse remains in contention for a state office building as Gov. Vernon W. Thomson assured a six member local delegation in Madison. The groups stated cooperation with the State Building Commission on any site and noted no decision yet on the site and ongoing local investigations. Leaders from La Crosse Businessmen's Club South Side Businessmen's Association and La Crosse County Chamber of Commerce attended along with local presidents Bart Roddle Wiemann Bantle Dechnerne Aldrich.
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la Crosse
Vernon W. Thomson
State Building Commission
Madison
Joseph J. Bart
Charles Roddle
Kennedy to Speak at City Airport Rally
Massachusett's Sen. John Kennedy will address a Democratic rally at the La Crosse airport at 8 p.m. Thursday during a Midwest campaign stop in support of local candidates. He backs Norman Clapp in the race against Rep. Gardner Withrow for the 3rd District seat.
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John Kennedy
la Crosse
Kennedy
Midwest
la Crosse County
Albert di Piazza
Norman Clapp
Clapp
U.S
Gardner Withrow
Presiding Bishop Elected to Lead 3 Million Member Church
The Rt. Rev. Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of St. Louis Missouri was elected presiding bishop of the 3 million member church. He is 58 and eligible to serve until retirement age of 68. AP Wirephoto.
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Arthur Carl Lichtenberger
St. Louis
Berger
Atlanta Temple Blast Shocks City and Launches Wide Probe
A massive pre-dawn explosion at The Temple on Peachtree Road in Atlanta damages the building and interior, with an estimated 40 to 50 sticks of dynamite. No injuries reported. Federal and local agents rush a statewide investigation involving federal officials and local police. Police target two main leads while guarding Jewish and Negro institutions amid heightened racial tension across the South.
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Miami
Fla
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Ala
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New York
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Insurance Company
FBI
Washington
Rothschild
William B. Schwartz Jr
WSB Radio and TV
Confederate Underground
Atlanta Journal
WSB
Atlanta Newspapers, Inc
The
Journal
Atlanta Constitution
Joseph R. Narot
William B. Hartsfield
Thomson to Campaign in La Crosse During Dedication Week
Governor Vernon W. Thomson visits La Crosse for the Reuter Hall dedication at La Crosse State College. He is slated to appear on WKBT-TV at 10:20 p.m. Monday with county candidates and make a tour at the Trane Co. plant Tuesday morning before the 10 a.m. ceremony. He attends a Kiwanis luncheon at noon at the Hotel Stoddard.
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la Crosse
Reuter
la Crosse State College
Jerome Klos
Wkbt-Tv
Trane Co
16Th
Bennett Streets
Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests Sought at United Nations
India with Asian African sponsors seeks immediate discontinuance of nuclear weapon tests at the United Nations General Assembly. The plan revises Oct. 4 resolution toward broader cosponsorship and possible Soviet bloc acceptance while debates continue in the Political Committee.
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Hashim Jawad
Iraq
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Soviet Union
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Britain
Geneva
Lall
Middle
Far East
Jawad
Assembly
France
Reds Extend Cease-Fire To 3 Weeks
The Chinese Nationalists extend the Quemoy cease-fire from one week to three as Peiping restocks the island. Two LSTs unload ammunition and cargo on Quemoy's beach amid a widening war of nerves between Red China and the United States.
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Formosa
Quemoys
Red China
Quemoy
Peiping
Warsaw
U S Expected To Reduce Its Navy In Formosa Strait
Washington says the extended Quemoy cease-fire allows a drawdown of the reinforced 7th Fleet in the Formosa area. Dulles and Eisenhower welcomed the move as good news and pursue negotiated settlement as U S forces may be reduced but not withdrawn yet. Chiang Kai-shek rejects cutting offshore garrison while allies may push for change as tensions ease. Hagerty notes the cease-fire extension offers chances to negotiate a settlement.
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U.S
Formosa
Quemoy
Peiping
Washington
United States
Formosa Strait
Red China
Eisenhower
Dulles
White House
7Th Fleet
Neil H. McElroy
U. S
Theodore F. Green
Rhode Island
Foreign Relations Committee
Green
U. S. Formosa
China
Matsu Islands
Chiang Kai-shek
James C. Hagerty
New York
Hagerty
British airman held in rocket secret leak case
Senior Aircraftman M. J. Brown, formerly at Edinburgh Field near Woomera, Australia, is held by the Air Ministry over alleged rocket secret leaks. A London Daily Mail report says investigators arrested Brown after tracing secrets from Woomera possibly reaching the Soviet Union.
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Air Ministry
M. J. Brown
Edinburgh Field
Britain
Woomera
Australia
The
Daily Mail
Brown
British Troops Sweep EOKA Villages in Cyprus Operation
About 2000 British soldiers conducted dawn searches in three EOKA strongholds near Nicosia Cyprus. Males aged 12 to 60 were herded into pens for screening while Maj. Gen. K T Darling observed the operation from a guarded stance with an armored car presence.
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Cyprus
EOKA
K. T. Darling
anti-Eoka
Last Rites For Pope Pius XII In St Peter's Basilica
Ambassadors and prelates attend as Pope Pius XII is laid out in a grand funeral at St. Peter's Basilica. The rite unfolds with a ceremonial procession, cardinal prayers, and the body placed in a cypress coffin wrapped in a red shroud. Cardinal Spellman and other church leaders participate as the pope is honored in solemn rites.
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St. Peter’s Square
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Msgr
Enrico Dante
Vatican
Acanisius van Lierde
Pope XII
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
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