Apollo 11 lifts off on historic moon voyage from Cape Kennedy
Apollo 11 blasts toward the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin aboard the Saturn V rocket. A crowd of over a million packed Cape Kennedy roads and beaches while TV audiences watched the liftoff. If plans hold, Armstrong and Aldrin will descend to the Sea of Tranquility Monday dawn becoming the first men on the moon.
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Upi
Mission Control
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin
Earth
Moon
Armstrong
Aldrin
Rocco Petrone
Columbia
Civil Defense
Houston
Collins
Spiro T. Agnew
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cape
Nixon
White House
Mars
Agnew
Johnson
Air Force
El Salvador Captures Honduran Provincial Capital In Heavy Battle
El Salvador reports capturing Nueva Ocotepeque near the border and says its forces pushed 45 miles into Honduras amid multi front fighting. Honduras counters with air strikes on San Salvador and fuel refineries while reports of casualties and civilian deaths emerge from Amatitlán and nearby towns.
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el Salvador
United Press International
Honduras
Washington, D.C
Amatillo
Nueva Ocotepeque
Neuva Ocotepeque
el Pey
Copango
Toncantin International
Tegucigalpa
City Public Works Chief Barrett Resigns for Victorville Post
William H. Barrett director of public works in Lompoc submits resignation to assume role as city public works director in Victorville. Effective August 1, recruitment will begin to fill the expansive post overseeing engineering sanitation streets building regulations and maintenance. Barrett a Harvard trained civil engineer has led the department since 1962 and is active in the Kiwanis Club and Presbyterian Church.
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William H. Barrett
High City
Gene Wahlers
Barrett
Directo of Public Works
Victorville
Wahlers
Harvard
Lompoc
Huntington Place
Presbyterian Church
Kiwanis Club
Tax revolt grows among Lompoc ranchers over reassessments
Fourth District Supervisor Francis H. Beattie said the tax revolt was picking up steam as ranchers in the Lompoc area protested property reassessments that have raised taxes up to four times. County officials said it was too early to gauge the scope or sources of the protests and no details were available on new agriculture preserve applications.
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Lompoc
Fourth District
Francis H. Beattie
Appli
Council blocks attempt to delay Mobile service station
The tabled urgency measure to delay a Mobile Oil Co. station at Ocean Avenue and H Street failed with only one supporter. Council members said the development was a matter of right, while Mobil officials described a $350,000 project to begin immediately, with completion about 65 days after start.
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Mobile Oil Co
Ocean Avenue
H Street
Richard K. Jacoby
Jacoby
Charlotte Benton
Brooks Speight
Robert D. MacClure
Arthur Scott
Mobil Oil Co
Mobile
Brown
Clint Sherrod
City Planning Commission
Architectural Review Board
Sherrod
Karl Braun
Retail Merchants Division
MacClure
Speight
Santa Maria
Luna 15 mission still shrouded in mystery
Moscow reports Luna 15 sails toward the moon with a delayed landing. Sir Bernard Lovell notes a slower trajectory to conserve fuel for a soft touchdown and rock sampling. He suggests the craft may be seeking lunar rocks as Apollo 11 pursues. Soviet progress details remain unavailable.
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UPI
Bernard Lovell
Britain
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Lovell
Moon
Central Asia Space Center
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