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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1963

Page

8

Plans For One Man Space Lifeboat Unveiled

Dr Robert Brodsky of AECEN Corp describes a one man space lifeboat a paraglider style craft to depart from an orbiting station with inflatable wings and keel. The capsule would re enter automatically guided by rockets then glide two hours to a gentle landing. A smaller unmanned test version is planned for this year to study micrometeorite density.

York Earth Institute of Aerospace Science Robert Brodsky Aecen Corporation

Macmillan Faces Slippage as De Gaulle Row Deepens

Prime Minister Macmillan battles dissent in Parliament as Anthony Wilson accuses the government of surrendering Commonwealth interests and risking a national humiliation over the Brussels talks. Conservative MPs hold a solid majority, limiting danger of resignation. The row spills into a Paris visit plan for Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, debated as political embarrassment or petty reaction. In Sicily, Antonio Giardina, 24, dies from a World War II rifle bullet found in kindling used to start a fire.

de Gaulle Wilson Brussels Macmillan Margaret Earl of Snowdon Paris Syracuse Sicily UPI Antonio Giardina

Physician Named In Drug Case

A 63 year old Lubbock physician Stuart G McKenzie was named in a misdemeanor complaint alleging unlawful delivery of a dangerous drug. He post bond of 500 dollars after pleading innocent before Judge Pat Moore at County Court at Law No 2.

Lubbock Stuart G. McKenzie Dr. McKenzie Pat Moore Broadus Spivey Spivey McKenzie Department of Public Safety Douglas Walter Hayes 52Nd St Jim Robinson Jr Acuff

Three Die As Workers Fire On Striking Lumberjacks

In Kapuskasing Ontario on a rail siding at Opasatika independent lumberjacks opened fire on marching Local 3005 strikers during a 500-strong procession. Three strikers were killed including Leo Fortier 32 and Irene Fortier 25. nine others wounded. police under orders not to fire. Nineteen independent loggers were arrested.

Kapuskasing Ont UPI Opasatika Lumber and Sawmill Workers’Union Independent Ontario Ralph Taylor Leo Fortier Irene A. Drouin

County awards contracts for electrical gear and road work

The court awarded Southwestern Electric Co. a $1,895.59 bid for a year’s electrical equipment supply and rejected others. It approved utility line adjustments by South Plains Electric Cooperative and a gas line relocation by Pioneer Natural Gas Co. Also authorized negotiations for El Dorado Motel right of way and remodeling the Idalou precinct clubhouse along with numerous pipeline and soil conservation applications.

F. M South Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc Pioneer Natural [Natural Gas Co Davis Arch Lamb George Green Derrick Alton Brazell W. M. Smart R. C. Bufe Ed Castner Gifford-Hill-Western S. E. Cone Jr Brown Supply Co P. E. Crosnoe Sr C. L. Rieger W. A. Sides Lucian Moore Buddy H. Guiney Alvie J. Ater J. B. Meador Virgil Johnson Wienke Brothers Terrace Walter Butler D. A. Atkins Pervin Bean L. R. Ralston Hall A. Looney Jerry J. Lobley Pioneer Natural Gas Co Southwestern Bell Telephone Co Clowe and Cowan, Inc Fred Childress Hardware Co Hunter Hayes Elevator Co City of Lubbock Camera Center Frank McGlain Rodgers Litho Sides Printing Co Thomas Brothers Co Continental Oil Co West Texas Equipment Co C. J. Rhoads Slaton Motor Co H. F. Pricer Higginbotham Bartlett Co Pioneer Pavers, Inc Cold mix Gordin Machinery Co Harmon Tank Co South Plains Telephone Cooperative, Inc F.F.A. Farm Keeton and Reed Meat Packers Ben E. Keith Co Kimbell Lubbock Co Leftwich Food Market Shop Rite Foods, Inc Methodist Hospital of Floe Swenson Vernon Law Book Co

Soviet and Chinese Trade Shifts in Cold War Era

A fragment notes Soviet economic trends dropping from 2 billion dollars in 199 to 900 million in 1961 and mentions China required to ship 200 million dollars of scarce goods to allies including the military bloc guaranteeing Soviet backing for Communist China in conflict.

Linge Sen China

Chinese Demand Tito Repudiation

Communist China told the Soviet Union there can be no end to their ideological dispute until Moscow repudiates Yugoslav President Tito. The Peking party newspaper quoted the Sun day Pravda editorial and said the modern revisionists of Yugoslavia must not be reversed. The article asserted world revolutionary forces will not permit counter-revolution by the Tito group and urged adherence to Moscow's 1957 declaration and 1960 statement.

Tokyo UPI China Soviet Union Moscow Tito Pravda Red Unity Yugoslavia Communist New China Peking People’s Daily Tito Group Communist Movement

Spacecraft scale and Mars landing timing debated

A plan cites a craft eight times Apollo size and a four person space station needing quadrennial resupply. NASA weighs landing men on Mars in 1975 or delaying until after 1981, with Shea noting uncertainty about manned planetary landings before the 1980s while orbital flights around Mars and Venus could occur.

Apollo NASA Mars Shea Venus

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