Pentagon says Capt Edward Dwight not unfairly treated
The Pentagon stated Capt Edward Dwight Jr the first black graduate of the Air Force school was recommended for astronaut training but not chosen by NASA. It noted the Air Force recommended 26 for training and seven entered the program while 14 of 136 qualified aspirants were selected overall. Dwight continues in a bomber testing role at Wright Patterson AFB and NASA cited more qualified candidates.
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Air Force School
Space Agency
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
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Dayton
Ohio
Air Space Research Pilot School
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Kansan to Stand Trial For Highway Fatality
Theron R. Lees a 34 year old Dodge City truck driver was ordered to stand trial in Johnson County District Court on a fourth degree manslaughter and related highway fatality charge. A preliminary hearing testified Lees did not stop after his tractor trailer rear ended a car at the Gardner Antioch exit on I 35 south of Gardner. Gordon James 45 Ottawa was killed in the March 4 wreck. Investigators said the collision ruptured the fuel tank and Lees was arrested after a fuel oil trail for 20 miles.
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Theron R. Lees
Dodge City
Johnson County
Lees
Gardner-Antioch
Interstate 35
Gardner
Gordon James
Ottawa
Leer
Homesick boys quit Okla job corps camp
Twenty homesick boys left Oklahoma's first federal Job Corps camp to return East. Camp Director Stan Adams said two weeks had passed with 60 other boys, all East-reared dropouts, who preferred home to the camp near Hodgens, Oklahoma.
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Okie Job Corps
Poteau
Okla
Oklahoma
East
Stan Adams
Stapp Work Center
Hodgens, Okla
Arkansas River dispute ends without arbitration
A one day Arkansas River Compact Administration meeting failed to reach arbitration on dam plans at Caly Creek near Lamar Colorado. Kansas warns the 42 foot dam could threaten western Kansas irrigation while Colorado argues it will not affect flows at the state line. Colorado blocks arbitration unless Kansas drops a Supreme Court suit. Kansas refuses.
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Arkansas River Compact Administration
Kansas
Colorado
Arkansas River
Caly Creek
Arkansas
Lamar
Colo
R. B. Smrha
Francis M. Bell
Bell
United States Geological Survey
U.S. Supreme Court
Smrha
Milking Shorthorn cows sold to Iowa and Illinois buyers
John B. Gage and Sons of Eudora sold five registered Milking Shorthorn cows. McKee Farms of Carlisle, Iowa purchased three animals, while John E. Hoffman and Sons of Earlville, Illinois bought the remaining two.
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John B. Gage and Sons
Eudora
McKee Farms
Carlisle
Iowa
John E. Hoffman
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