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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1964
Page
4
Rescue teams pierced an underground tunnel at a limestone mine in the Jura Mountains near France’s eastern border. Nine miners found alive 200 feet below surfaced after contact via air tube and microphone while five others remained missing.
A 16-year-old Negro youth hospitalized after a white couple’s cut-in triggered a large brawl at a Medford teen dance. Police from five communities used buses and reinforcements to separate hundreds of youths, with rocks, smashed windows, and property damage but no serious injuries reported.
Gov. John McKeithen said Southern governors should meet to decide a course of action before the Democratic National Convention. He spoke in New Orleans during a meeting with city officials and noted efforts to arrange such a conference are under way.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr is named the new countdown control man for manned and unmanned space flights He will be flight operations director for the second Gem in Titan launch Kraft replaces Walter C Williams who left NASA to join private business kraft 40 has been with NASA since 1958 native of Phoebus Virginia Tech graduate 1944 The report also notes sabotage claims about the Egypt ship explosion and Algeria toll of 108 dead.
Cairo AP reports sabotage suspected after an explosion damaged the Egyptian ammunitions ship Star of Alexandria in Bone Harbor. Authorities investigate the blast and its origins amid mounting security concerns.
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