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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1966
Page
1
Cape Kennedy reports a go for the Gemini 9 mission with Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan, as Titan 2 fueling completes after a five hour process. The plan calls for two 96 minute apart attempts to reach a rendezvous, following Surveyor 1’s moon landing success.
Mission director William C. Schneider reports over 100 tests successful as Gemini 9 readies two space windows today and tomorrow. If liftoff proceeds, splashdown in the Atlantic is set for 9 50 a m EDT Monday amid weather and crew readiness notes.
The Las Vegas rescue effort for missing Henderson kindergartner Larry continues with teams from San Diego. Sam the bloodhound dies from overwork, leaving Bert Webb and Joe grief stricken as the animals and volunteers press on.
A Yankee Doodle Dandy space scout focused its TV camera on the lunar landscape for a second time in 24 hours to find a site for the Apollo craft. At 8 52 p m radio commanded from Goldstone California the pictures were described as beautifully clear with wide moon panoramas and closeups showing the spacecraft and even its nuts and bolts.
U S Air Force planes blasted a 27 truck convoy heading for the Ho Chi Minh Trail during a third straight day of large scale strikes on North Vietnamese transport lines, military spokesmen reported in Saigon.
Reports describe a major air raid with heavy anti-aircraft fire during 68 missions over North Vietnam as U S forces lose three planes and fear two aircrew deaths. Separately JPL photographers pursue a full moon surface panorama while search teams widen for 6 year old Larry Jeffrey missing since Saturday near Mt Charleston Nevada.
In Saigon UPI reports moderate Buddhist leader Thich Tam Chau resigns as rector of the Great Vien Hoa Cao Pagoda amid monk and nun opposition to the Ky Thieu settlement. Chau claimed Ky and Thieu agreed to resign when the political deal takes effect, but aides say he quit after rebellious monks and nuns vowed to continue the fight, even to self immolation.
Buddhist demonstrators defy talks to bring civilians into the junta as government troops move into Hue. Militant leader Thich Tri Quang accuses President Johnson of ignoring Buddhist crises while troops secure the northern rebel stronghold.
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