Storm forces one orbit earlier landing for Cooper and Conrad
Space lesson ended with Cooper and Conrad splashing down after an eight day, 113 orbit voyage. Bad weather from tropical storm Betsy and a north cold front forced officials to shift the sea landing zone eastward between Florida and Bermuda. Recovery ship Lake Champlain moved toward the new splash point as the mission closed within safe margins.
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Cooper
Conrad
AL Rossiter JR
United Press International Space Center
Houston
UPI
Betsy
America
Atlantic
Florida
Bermuda
Pete Conrad
Lake Champlain
Space
UFO Sightings Reported Across Eastern New Mexico
Numerous residents and authorities in Fort Sumner Albuquerque Clovis Floyd Melrose Portales Tucumcari and nearby areas reported fiery flying objects early Saturday. observations included bluish green moving objects star like flashes and fireballs with radar stations noting no radar returns and officials receiving many calls from concerned residents.
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New Mexico
Ft. Sumner
Albuquerque
Clovis
Floyd
Melrose
Portales
Tucumcari
U.S. 66
Conchas Lake
Floyd Fire Department
Las Cruces
Weather outlook for Lovington with Sunday heat high 92
Lovington forecasts show high Sunday near 92 and low Sunday night around 66. Partly cloudy with afternoon and evening thundershowers in the vicinity and little temperature change expected.
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Ereres
Lovington
Sunday Paper Delivery Notice
If you have not received your Sunday paper contact the circulation desk at 3.2844 before 9:00 AM. Do not call after 9 AM.
Bomb injures NAACP leader in Ku Klux stronghold town
George Metcalfe NAACP head in Natchez Miss suffers a broken arm and ankle plus cuts when a bomb wired to his car explodes outside the Armstrong Tire plant. FBI bomb experts inspect the wrecked vehicle as a biracial committee meets with city officials over 12 grievances amid tense race tensions.
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John Corlew
United Press International
Natchez, Miss
UPI
Waerfront
FBI
George Metcalfe
NAACP
Metcalfe
Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co
Washington
Mississippi River
John Nosser
South Troops Kill 30 Viet Cong In Battle
South Vietnamese and government forces clash in the Mekong Delta about 100 miles southwest of Saigon. A U S spokesman says 50 guerrillas are killed as U S Marines press operations around Da Nang with artillery and ground actions.
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South
Ray F. Herndon
United Press International Saigon
UPI
Mekong Delta
Saigon
U. S
U.S
da Nang
U.S. Marine
Leathernecks
Eleven Die When Truck Smashes Bus
A truck loaded with heavy timbers collided head on with a Greyhound bus on U S Highway 90 near Vinton Louisiana injuring 28 and killing eleven. Bus driver Jeg Blankenship of Houston survived in critical condition after surgery. Truck driver Henry C Gregory of Houston died. State police say the timbers fell from the truck after the crash and the wreckage caught fire.
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Vinton
UPI
Greyhound
Jeg Blankenship
Houston
New Orleans
Henry C. Gregory
Blankenship
Lea Junior Livestock Sale Sets New Record
Lea Junior Livestock Sale tops all past records by surpassing the ten thousand dollar mark. Fourth place light Hereford sold at sixty cents per pound to 204 pounds.
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Lea
Lea County Fair 1965 Livestock Auction Tops $10,262.95
Friday's sale at Lea County Fair featured Grand Champion calf Lat ina Welch shown, sold for 1.25 per pound at 818 pounds to Turner's Dept Store City Drug First Federal Savings & Loan and KLEA Radio for 1022.50. Multiple champions and reserves changed hands to local banks stores and firms with prices ranging from 0.40 to 2.00 per pound.
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Peck Morgan
City Drug
Bill Hawkins
Turner’s Dept
Hoyt Caldwell
KLEA
Kenneth Schrader
First Federal Savings & Loan
Lea County
Kenneth Boseman
Latina Welch
Klea Radio
Mike McLean
First National Bank of Hobbs
Campbell’s Grain & Milling Co
Gary Wiggins
Mikey Gilmore
Lea County Electric
Terry Tankersly
Leroy
Susan Jett
Angus
Furr
Chameion Southdown
Graig McLean
Art
Jack Duffey
Gregg Holt
Lovington National Bank
Dean Davis
Custom Gin Co
Carl Weaver
John Easley
Charles Moates
Pat Selman
Easley
Moates
Clifford Tankersly
Champ Hampshire
James Duffey
Lee
Monty Taylor
Lovington
Johnson dispatches negotiators to steel talks
President Johnson sends two veteran labor negotiators to Pittsburgh to push stalled steel industry contract talks. The emissaries, familiar with bargaining, arrive amid renewed efforts to resolve the deadlock and avert a widespread strike.
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Johnson
Racing Car Rampage Kills Four at Missouri State Fair
A stock racing car roared from the track, smashed a fence and killed four spectators at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. Thirteen were hurt, including children. driver Bill Crane of Kansas City was among the injured. Vics watched from an outer, restricted area near the track. A mechanical failure is suspected.
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Sedalia
UPI
Bill Crane
Kansas City
Fair
Johnson imposes mediators to avert steel strike
President Johnson dispatches Sen Wayne Morse and Commerce Undersecretary Leroy Collins to Pittsburgh to push a settlement as 450000 steelworkers threaten a midnight Tuesday walkout. Morse and Collins meet with USW president I W Abel and steel firm spokesman R Conrad Cooper while William Simkin steers federal mediation efforts amid stalled talks.
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UPI
Johnson
Pittsburgh
Texas White House
Washington
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Commerce
Leroy Collins
Sen
D.ore
Morse
Collins
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers Union
USW
White House
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