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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1964
Page
10
Echo 2 the 135 foot balloon satellite slated for Thursday launch could mark the first joint U S Soviet experiments in satellite communications. The program envisions bouncing signals off Echo 2 to relay voices tones and data with ground stations across vast regions.
Rep. Robert Ellsworth says the Army cancelled plans to establish a fixed wing aviation training center at Olathe Naval Air Station as an economy move. He notes future funding could revive consideration for an additional center at Olathe.
Gov. John Anderson announced the appointment of Dr. Christopher K. Barthel Jr. as executive director of the Research Foundation of Kansas. Barthel, chief scientist at the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey, will start in March with a $29 000 salary and base in Topeka to catalog state research resources and attract new facilities and staff.
The text notes a scientist who led the 1946 Trols division, became chairman of physics research at the Armour Research Foundation in 1948, rose to assistant director, then moved to Washington in 1960 as NSF program director for international science before assuming his present post in 1961.
New Delhi. A government spokesman says Prime Minister Nehru cannot accept Soviet Premier Khrushchev's invitation to recuperate in the Soviet Union. Indira Gandhi informed Khrushchev that doctors advise against leaving India. Nehru is progressing in his illness recovery.
Television star Dwayne Hickman and wife Carol welcomed their first child a boy in Santa Monica California. The actor best known for Dobie Gillis confirmed the birth on Monday and announced details of their new family member.
Senator Barry Goldwater rejects altering his blunt conservative approach as too obvious or phony. He plans a 24 day campaign swing in New Hampshire ahead of the March 10 GOP primary, insisting he remains ahead in the race and will gain delegates through wins. He dismisses Nixon as lacking party base while noting street popularity, but disputes broader party support.
In Jackson Wyoming a snowslide buried 27 year old ski patrolman Dennis Staley under four feet of snow for 600 feet. Four companions spotted his skis and pulled him free. he suffered cuts and bruises. The others were unharmed. Staley works as a ski patrolman at a local resort.
A 1962 hour of factory labor buys 3.8 dozen oranges, up from 1942 when 2.4 dozen could be purchased and 1932 when 1.5 dozen were affordable. The figures show rising purchasing power of workers across the period.
George R. York and James D. Latham were ordered returned to the Kansas Penitentiary to await execution after Federal Judge Arthur J. Stanley denied their latest bid for freedom. They argued a due process violation from a TV film showing their confession to the Otto Ziegler slaying near Oakley in June 1961. The ruling followed a third habeas corpus hearing held by Judge Stanley in Russell, Kansas.
A report states six people were killed across six states by suspects AWOL from the Army, including two victims in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis. The details imply a coordinated, cross state pattern.
Fire swept the 13 room Manhattan apartment of film producer Dove Schary and his wife Miriam early today. Schary received oxygen and treated for a sprained left arm. They returned home from a play and found smoke from Miriam’s bedroom. He attempted to smother the flames with a pillow before alerting firefighters. origin of the fire undetermined and it was confined to the Schary residence.
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