Gemini IV Flight Planned for June by U S Space Agency
UPI reports NASA plans a four day Gemini IV mission in June with astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White. Official statements earlier set the launch for after July 1, with Titan II booster mounted at Cape Kennedy's Gemini pad.
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Alvin B. Webb JR
Yuston
UPI
Federal Space Agency
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Edward White
U.S
Cape Kennedy
St. Louis
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
America
Valery Bykovsky
Gemini
Astronauts Feted Again on Broadway Parade in Rain
New York welcomed Virgil Grissom and John Young with a ticker tape parade despite miserable weather. Fans packed lower Broadway as Vice President Humphrey praised the warm reception, while plans shift to the next Gemini flight and potential spacewalks.
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EW York
New Space Twins
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Younr
Richard C. Patterson
Lower Manhattan
John H. Glenn Jr
Grissom
Atlantic
Humphrey
Beneah
Broadway
City Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey
Cty Hall
Astronaut Team
Astronauuts
Agency
Virgil J. ‘Grissom
John W. Young
Young
New York
Cap
McDonnell Aircraft Co
St. Louis
McDivitt
White
Earth
U.S
L. Gorton Cooper
Particularivan
Federal Space Agency
Area Option Horse Race Bill Pushed in Texas
The Texas House State Affairs Committee heard pro and con on HB49 to legalize pari mutuel betting on horses. Sponsor Rep. Maurice Pipkin said betting would create a race racing commission and allow county option votes, arguing racing boosts revenue while opponents warn of state costs.
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Avalanche Journal News Services
Ustin
House State Affairs Committee
America
Maurice Pipkin
Brownsville
Texas Racing Assn
Racing Commission
Ttn
House
Pipkin
Texas
New York
Lubbock area tech professor to speak in London
GRAIL O MN tee Lubbock area tech professor is named as one of two U S speakers at an International Thermal Symposium in London. Also notes about South Plains group leaving on market building trip to four of Europe and assorted items across sections.
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Lubbock
Area Tech
U.S
London
South Plains Group
Europe
Massive Aleutian quake alarms Hawaii warning issued
A strong quake with magnitude estimated 7.5 to 8.0 was recorded near the Aleutians. U S Coast and Geodetic Survey at Barbers Point issued a tidal wave advisory for Hawaii while Adak reported no wave activity. Experts from Caltech and local seismographs noted the event's potential destructiveness and location about 3,200 miles northwest of Berkeley.
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Berkeley
Calif
Aleutian Islands
University of California Seismographic
Hawaii
Cinna Lonmitz
Aleutian
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Magnetic Observatory
Barbers Point
Oahu
Observatory
Adak
Aleutians
Tokyo
Pasadena
Charles Riehter
California Institute of Technology
Victim Reacts Bandits Foiled At Service Station
Joe Garcia 17, manager of Ince's Fine Service Station at 2316 4th St, fends off two would-be holdup men before 1 30 pm Monday. A blue white 1955 Ford with two men and two women stopped for gas as Garcia changes cash while Damacio Minjarez attends the car. One robber brandished a tire tool and may have threatened a knife attack. Garcia quickly moved behind the counter to defend the station. Tommy Bristow 2410 Zils St enters the office as the drama unfolds. Page 6.
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Joe Garcia
Ince
Fina
4Th St
Tommy Bristow
Hristow
Jerry McCarty
Garcia
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Missing $11,721 In Cash Checks From Oakwood Village Sack
Detectives investigated a theft of a brown canvas bag containing 11,721.75 in cash and checks at Village Fond Store in Oakwood Village. Two employees of Lubbock Amarillo Armored Service reportedly took the bag around 8 45 pm Saturday. $1,100 in currency and most of the rest in checks were recovered a short time later. The loss was reported Monday.
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Bob Tedder
Lubbock-Amarillo Armored Service, Inc
Village Fond
Oakwood Village
Tedder
Texas Tech to Get New School of Medicine
Austin Bureau reports the legislature approved a bill creating a Texas Tech medical school, with the governor to act within ten days. No funds are appropriated yet, and a teaching charity hospital must come first, with estimates placing first enrollment up to ten years away. The House backed two Senate amendments 82 to 57, amid ongoing debate on campus location.
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Tech
House
Senate
Amarillo
Preston Smith Memorial Hospital
Walter Knapp
Proposal bill moves through Senate amid Amarillo criticism
The lieutenant governor faces flak from Amarillo over his role in advancing a bill through the Senate last week. Rep. Bill J. Parsley of Lubbock told The Avalanche-Journal he hopes to meet the governor about the bill, which should reach his desk and likely be signed soon. The Monday debate lasted about 10 minutes.
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Amarillo
Senate
Bill J. Parsley
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Parsley
Knapp
Bomb blast hits U S embassy in Saigon casualties rise
A massive blast outside the U S Embassy in Saigon kills at least one American and injures many. Deputy Ambassador A Alexis Johnson is lightly to moderately injured by flying glass. The attack also damages Ambassador Maxwell Taylor s office and wounds about 10 Americans, with 10 in grave condition. About 150 people were inside the building at the time.
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Malcolm W. Browne
AIGON
United States
Saigon
State Department
Washington
U.S
A. Alexis Johnson
Johnson
U.S. Navy
Maxwell D. Taylor
Viet Nam
SAS
Upper Volta
Taylor
Sai
Gon
Nying Glass
Texas Gets Big Rains
A severe storm system dumped heavy rain from Texas to Virginia and sparked at least one tornado north of Tuscaloosa Alabama. Snow fell in New York and New England, with winter warnings across Massachusetts Vermont New Hampshire and Maine. No injuries were reported. The Texas Panhandle and South Plains faced violent thunderstorms and hail, while the Dallas area saw hail up to an inch and lightning.
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Avalanches Journal News Services
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
New York
New England
Mississippi
U.S. Weather Bureau
Meridian
Tuscaloosa
U.S. 92
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Hall
Tex Vas Panhandle
South Plains
North Central
Rio Grande Valley
Lubbock
Leity
Dallas-Fort Worth
High Court Rules on Lockouts and Unions Decisive
The Supreme Court on a 7-1 vote held that an employer may shut down an entire business for any reason but cannot close part to avoid union dealings. The ruling addresses Darlington Manufacturing and whether anti-union motives influenced plant closings. It also covers temp lockouts in impasses and multicenter group actions, plus unrelated rulings on jury instructions and sterilization cases.
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Ashington
Supreme Court
Darlington Manufacturing Co
Darlington
S.C
Afle
Icio ‘Textile Workers Union of America
Deering-Millikson Inc
National Labor Relations Board
United States 4Th Circuit
John M
Weather Map Page 3 A for Lubbock and Vicinity
Mostly cloudy this morning in Lubbock area gradually clearing to partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon. Tonight and Wednesday will be clear to partly cloudy with a high in the mid 60s and a low near 40.
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Lubbock
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