Space Heroes Grissom and Young Hailed After Flight
Thousands greet NASA heroes Virgil Grissom and John Young in Cocoa Beach. The duo, fresh from a three orbit mission, ride a 10 mile motorcade with cheering crowds, bands, and signs praising the Molly Brown capsule. They travel to Washington and then a New York ticker tape parade.
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Earth
Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
John W. Young
Cocoa Beach
Port Canaveral
Beach
Air Force
Molly Brown
Liberty Bell
Grissom
Atlantic
Young
Gus
Washington
New York
John Young
Sin Link To Smoking Gets Rap
New York pathologist Dr. William B. Ober told the Senate Commerce Committee that many believe smoking is a sin and warned that current evidence does not prove smoking causes lung cancer. He argued for clearer definitions of sin and for more research before any broad warnings.
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Washington
UPI
New York
William B. Ober
Knickerbocker Hospital
Ober
Senate Commerce Committee
Surgeon General
Legislature Seeks Budget Deal and County Billing Debates
A series of Nevada legislative briefs report hospital opposition to AB-597 selling Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, budget actions advancing adjournment, a cabaret tax hearing rescheduled, a reapportionment counsel funding request, and bills on sewer water controls, obscenity redefinition, a Reno City Council attorney hire, and a seven member state Indian Commission.
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Carson City
UPI
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Clark County
William Pursel
Las Vegas
Senate Taxation Committee
B. Mahlon Brown
Clark
Assembly
Paul Laxalt
Assembly Ways and Means
Laxalt
Senate
Nevada
State Health Division
U.S. Supreme Court
Reno
Rick Breitweiser
James Bailey
Breitwieser
Len Harris
Indian Commission
Snowstorm Closes Colorado Schools Threatens Passes
A late March snowstorm sweeps the southern Rockies forcing school closures in Canon City Florence and Penrose Colorado. Red Mountain Pass traffic halts and driving warnings rise across the Rockies as three inches of snow fall in two hours at Flagstaff and Grand Canyon records three inches in six hours.
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Ozarks
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Midwest
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Colorado
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Florence
Penrose
Colo
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Oklahoma
Kansas
Casper
Wyo
Sheridan
Bozeman
Mont
Bemidji
Hibbing
Minn
Grand Island
Neb
Goodland
Kan
Beat Bid to Alter School Aid Measure
The House voted 202 to 136 to preserve President Johnson's $1.3 billion school aid plan. The measure funds aid for 5.3 million poor children, books, shared time teaching centers, and increased education research. Edith Green led the bid to allocate $200 per poor child, opposed by Gibbons and GOP lawmakers.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
House
Edith Green
Oregon
Mississippi
New York
Gren
Sam Gibbons
D-Fla
Suspect Indicted in McNamee Assault Case in Nevada
Grand jury in Minden indicts Phillippe Denning on assault with intent to kill grand larceny and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. McNamee, 59, injured in Feb beating at Zephyr Cove. arranged arraignment postponed. bond set at 7500 dollars. Denning held for trial as McNamee recovers at Washoe Medical Center.
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Nev
UPI
Phillippe Denning
Frank McNamee
Nevada Supreme Court
Dist
John Chrislaw
Denning
Frank Gregory
Carson City
Carl Martellaro
McNamee
Zephyr Cove
Reno
Stateline
St. Louis
Oregon
Nevada
Bruce Thompson
Weather table: U S Weather Bureau report San Francisco
United Press International publishes a 24 hour temperature and precipitation table from the U S Weather Bureau San Francisco ending at 4 a m. The data shows latest daily readings and regional conditions for the period.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
San Francisco
Shirley Temple Visits Khrushchev in Moscow
Former child star Shirley Temple called on Nikita Khrushchev in his Moscow apartment but was told he was not at home. Temple had previously met Khrushchev in 1959 at Fox Film Studio and he extended a blanket Hollywood invitation to visit Moscow. No attendees followed up until now.
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Moscow
UPI
Shirley Temple
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Miss Temple
Khrushchev
Fox Film Studio
Hollywood
United States
Unique altar to feature three Baptist sacraments
Gloucester Massachusetts reports the new First Baptist Church will be dedicated soon featuring a unique altar arrangement. The design emphasizes Baptists three sacraments baptism, the baptismal pool, communion table and pulpit.
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Gloucester
Mass
Harassment of Yanks Ends as Bunker Eyes Arrival
UPI reports American harassment in Jakarta paused as Ellsworth Bunker, named presidential troubleshooter, set to arrive to ease U.S. Indonesian tensions. Howard P. Jones met President Sukarno to discuss the envoy’s mission amid hopes tensions would improve.
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Jakarta
UPI
Johnson
Ellsworth Bunker
U.S
Howard P. Jones
Sukarno
Bunker
Indonesian Herald
Shell
Caltex
iStanvac
Pope Receives Indian Envoy at Vatican
Pope Paul VI accepted the credentials of India’s first ambassador to the Holy See Vishnuprasad Trevedi and offered blessings to India referencing the Bombay Eucharistic Congress. In France, a U S Air Force C130 crash near Alencon killed all five crew on a night training flight after striking a power line.
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Upi
Paul VI
Holy See
India
Vishnuprasad Chunilal Trevedi
Bombay
Alencon
France
Evreux Air Force Base
Rail sale of Rock Island lines to Southern Pacific agreed
National briefs report Union Pacific to sell southern Rock Island lines to Southern Pacific for 120 million subject to ICC approval. Includes merger approval and debt-adjustment provisions.
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New York
UPI
Union Pacific Railroad
Southern
Rock Island
Southern Pacific Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
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