Astronauts Pick Nine as Old Guard Faces Moon
Dr. Robert Gilruth unveils nine new astronauts from 253 volunteers for Project Apollo. Names include Armstrong and Borman, ages 31 to 35, with Glenn the oldest at 41. All are test pilots. selection kept secret until the announcement.
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Houston
John H. Glenn Jr
U.S
Robert R. Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Glenn
Gilruth
Navy
Neil A. Armstrong
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Manitowoc Rejects Milwaukee Claim About Sputnik Fragment
Manitowoc Mayor Rand calls Milwaukee mayor Maier’s claim that the Sputnik IV fragment belongs in Milwaukee foolish. Maier argues Milwaukee’s museum should host a Man in Space exhibit. Manitowoc City Council approves returning the 14 pound fragment to its civic center.
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Manitowoc
Robert Rand
Henry Maier
Milwaukee
Maier
State Department
Russia
Rand
Baraboo
Green Bay
NASA Names Slayton Astronaut Coordinator
Donald K. Slayton of Wisconsin was named coordinator of astronaut activities at NASA Houston. He will assign training and engineering duties for all astronauts, advise on flight crews, and help select Gemini and Apollo crews. The announcement came with nine new astronauts who report Oct. 1 for training.
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Houston
Donald K. Slayton
Sparta
Wis
NASA
Slayton
Robert Gilruth
Manned Space Center
Walter C. Williams
Gilruth
Space Lab
Williams
Air Force
Drought Threatens Hawaii Sugar Crops on Oahu
A drought endangers the 1962 and 1963 Hawaii sugar harvests on Maui and Oahu. The Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association estimates 1962 losses will rise as cane is harvested before it is ruined. Since an April 2, 1961 rainstorm, the island has had virtually no rain in the north.
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Honolulu
Hawaii Island
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association
Wisconsin Toll Drops Below Last Year After Fatalities
Wisconsin highway deaths rise to 623 in 1962 with two youth fatalities in Oconto and Kenosha. Roy Barribeau, 19, killed biking near Oconto. his 13-year-old brother escaped harm. Charles Egi Jr., 19, of Kenosha, died in a collision with a train near Kenosha. In Janesville,Kenneth L Sholes, 36, died when a car hit a paving machine on Interstate 90. driver Gilbert Ellis, 30, injured.
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Wisconsin
Roy Barribeau
Oconto
John
Charles Egi Jr
Kenosha
Colli
Janesville
Kenneth L. Sholes
Gilbert R. Ellis
Here
Lovell Lived In Milwaukee At One Time
The mother in law of newly named astronaut James A Lovell Jr a one time Milwaukee resident said it is shocking but beautiful if Jim is going to do all that Mrs Carl F Gerlach 72 said she did not know Lovell's selection as one of the nations nine new astronauts until newsmen told her Her 75 year old husband said that he had a hunch Lovell
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Milwaukee
James A. Lovell Jr
Jim
Carl F. Gerlach
Lovell
Arbitrators To Decide On Rail Strike Issues
CHICAGO AP The decline of hog and cattle receipts at 12 Midwest markets Monday raises debate over the NFO led effort to keep livestock off the market. NFO boss Oren Lee Staley urged members three weeks ago to act.
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Chicago
Midwest
National Farmers Organization
Oren Lee Staley
NFO
Staley
NFC
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
St. Louis
Freeman
House Committee Slashes Foreign Aid by 19 Percent
The House Appropriations Committee recommends cutting foreign aid by about 19 percent, reducing current year funding to 5.96 billion dollars from 7.34 billion requested by President Kennedy. The report cites leftover funds and criticizes parts of the program while keeping a ban on aid to communist governments, with a major cut in military assistance and a large reduction in loans for economic development.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Kennedy
Congress
Otto E., Passman
D-La
Passman
Zker
United States
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Lovell
Condition Of Fire Victim Satisfactory
Richard Eagon age 36 of 3120 South 29th Street was hospitalized in serious condition after a Sunday fire at his home. His wife Gloria, 36, perished in the blaze. Eagon remained in St. Francis Hospital reported as holding his own.
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Richard Eagon
S. 29Th St
Eagon
Gloria
St. Francis Hospital
Moose Hunt Ends Amid Narrow Duluth Rescue
William Johnson of Duluth won his dangerous encounter with a half ton moose in the Superior National Forest. The angling man climbed a cedar then a black spruce to escape the charging animal and waited for it to leave.
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Duluth, Minn
William Johnson
Duluth
Johnson
Superior National Forest
Kennedy Kennedy CNW And Union Agree End Rail Strike
President Kennedy announced both sides accepted arbitration to end the Chicago and North Western rail strike. Acting Labor Secretary Wirtz will meet with railroad union leaders to work out service resumption details aboard the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. in Newport Rhode Island.
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Newport
R. I
Dent Kennedy
Union
Chicago & North Western Rail
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Willard W. Wirtz
Washington
George Leighty
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Afl-Cio
Ben Heineman
Kennedy
North Western
Midwest
Leighty
Newport-Massachusetts
Soviet Union Demands Red China Seat at U N
The Soviet Union submitted a new motion to the General Assembly demanding seating for Red China and called for a world trade conference. The move comes as the 17th session opens amid East West tensions and expected battles over China representation and U.S. policy on Cuba.
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Soviet Union
U.N
China
United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Cuba
Kremlin
United States
U.S
Assembly
Congo
World Court
Berlin
U Thant
Khrushchev
Kennedy
New Tiros Sends Back Good Weather Photos
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP NASA said Tiros 6 provided excellent cloud pictures from a 400 mile orbit after a Thor Delta launch. The satellite began returning data two hours after liftoff and should aid weather forecasting for Walter Schirra Jr. mission.
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New Tiros
Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Thesatellite
Change message on Baltimore car sign urges opposition vote
In downtown Baltimore a vehicle sports a sign reading It s time for a change Vote for the opposition ticket expressing a call for political change ahead of an election.
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Baltimore
Hidden camera photos spark FAA, C A B hearings
The House Government Operations subcommittee examined photos allegedly showing pilots asleep or reading magazines while flying. Two pictures from an Eastern Airlines flight enginee r with a hidden camera were displayed, illustrating concerns as hearings opened into the FAA and CAB.
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House Government Operations Subcommittee
Federal Aviation Agency
Civil Aeronautics Board
Eastern Airlines
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Charles Comrad Jr
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John W. Young
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Gary
Ind
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Edwards
Charles Conrad Jr
Philadelphia
Miramar Air Station
Cleveland
Oceana Naval Air Station
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Jackson
Mich
Elliott M. Lee Jr
Dallas
Tex
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Weatherford
Okla
Edward H. White II
San Antonio
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
San Francisco
Miramar
Sputnik
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Associated Press
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Milwaukee Road
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Annapolis
Albert Chop
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Max Harrelson
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
J. P. Malalasekera
Ceylon
Malalasekera
Ad‘lai E. Stevenson
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
Gromyko
Presidential Emergency Board
Ren. W. Heinerman
Emergency Board
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
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Pacific
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Mediterranean Sea
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