Gemini 5 power problem risks shortening eight day mission
Gemini 5 astronauts L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr faced a fluctuating oxygen pressure in the fuel cell system threatening the eight day flight. Mission control weighed ending the mission after six orbits with recovery planned north of Hawaii.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
APV
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Pacific
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Flight
Mission Control Centre
Cooper
Conrad
Mission Control
Houston
Board approves cross town high school courses policy
The School Division Four Board allows senior high students to take courses at Medicine Hat High Schools or other larger centres if not offered locally. The division will cover tuition transportation and boarding. Affected schools include Irvine Bindloss Hilda and Schuler. Board also funds up to 100 for correspondence courses over attending classes.
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Medicine Hat
Irvine
Bindloss
Hilda
Schuler
Canada urges UN pledging conferences to fund peacekeeping
Canada presses the United Nations to convene one or two pledging conferences in September or October to reduce the peacekeeping deficit. Ambassador Tremblay cited UN estimates of a deficit over 100 million dollars and noted Canada has pledged 4 million, with Britain, Scandinavia, and Jamaica contributing to reach about 18 million. The U S stance on charter penalties was noted, and proposals stressed Security Council primacy for peacekeeping decisions. The committee adjourned indefinitely awaiting private consultations.
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United Nations
Canada
World Organization
Paul Tremblay
Special Committee On
Assembly
Tremblay
Britain
Jamaica
U Thant
Soviet Union
France
General Assembly
Security Council
Thant
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Part-time deputy held in slaying of student
A part-time deputy sheriff described as an easy going man is held on murder charges for the slaying of Jonathan Daniels, a 27 year old theology student, and injuring Father Richard Morrisroe after a civil rights protest in Hayneville Alabama. The suspect Tom Coleman, 55, turned himself in and was jailed without bond. a grand jury is likely to consider the charge in September.
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Hayneville
Ala
Tom Coleman
Towndes County
Fort Deposit
Jonathan Daniels
Episcopal
Anglican) Theological School
Cambridge
Mass
Richard Morrisree
St. Columbanus Church
Chicago
Montgomery
Frank Ryals
Coleman
Ryals
Ruby Sales
Columbia
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Here
Collie Wilkins
Wilkins
Matt H. Murphy, Jr
Political heads spar over riots in Watts turmoil
LOS ANGELES AP reports leaders clash over reconstruction and how to proceed after six days of rioting that killed 36. Gov Brown's special commission probes causes as 3000 national guardsmen remain on duty. Mayor Yorty assails the commission while religious leaders demand action. President Johnson calls rioters and Klansmen lawbreakers in an equal rights talk. Damages revised to about 45 million.
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Los Angeles
Watts
Edmund Brown
Samuel Yorty
Yorty
James Edward Jones
Los Angeles Board of Education
Sacramento
Johnson
Washington
Conference On Equal Employment Opportu
Conrad Becomes 22nd Person In Space In Gemini 5
CAPE KENNEDY AP report states Charles Conrad joined Leroy Gordon Cooper as crew of Gemini 5. The mission, launched from Cape Kennedy, marked Conrad as the 22nd person to reach space while Cooper completed his second orbital flight.
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Conrad
Cape Kennedy
Fila
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Virgil J. Grissom
Gemini 5 Mission Sets Eight Day Orbit Record
Houston AP reports Gemini 5, crewed by L Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad, will circle Earth for eight days in a 191 hour mission to test lunar flight techniques. The flight will reach 100 to 216 mile elliptical orbit with 121 orbits, aiming to simulate time to Moon and back while noting limited space suit protection and basic Gemini garments.
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Houston, Tex
L. Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Earth
Edward H. White
Cooper
Conrad
Gemini
Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Rioting in Athens as police quell Greek violence
In Athens night-long clashes between 15,000 protesters and 5,000 police left city blocks burned and 157 injured in a dawn crackdown. Authorities detained 340, with many released after questioning, as demonstrators opposed the new premier Elias Tsirimakos after the Papandreou feud.
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Athens
Greece
Revolutionary Action
George Papandreou
Constantine
Elias Tsirimakos
Papandre
Tsirimokos
Papandreou
Centre Union Party
Tisirimokos
Tsirimakos
Iraklion
Piraeus
Linder Crushed in Ranch Accident Leaves Rodeo figure Hurt
Herman Linder, a renowned rodeo figure and longtime director for Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede, is hospitalized in Cardston after a Friday accident where he was crushed between a truck and a tractor. He suffers serious internal injuries and a broken pelvis is suspected.
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Herman Linder
Cardston
Linder
Revenover a Kill Joy in Sonora Celebrates Saloon Reopen
In Sonora Texas the town marks its 75th anniversary as the long closed saloon reopens with a new sign and beer license. A Texas liquor control board agent arrives, noting state law bans beer sales in a place with the word saloon in its name and revokes the license.
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Sonora
Tex
Texas Liquor Control Board
Protection racket blamed for riots at Camp Breckinridge
Morganfield Ky. A U S Job Corps spokesman says trouble at the Camp Breckinridge center sparked a 45 minute riot by 80 trainees and blames a protection racket in operation for about two weeks. At least 11 injured and FBI agents dispatched over burglaries tied to the racket. D L Coleman 18 of Oakland Calif president of the student government said many corpsmen discussed the racket before the riot.
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FBI
D. L. Coleman
Oakland
Calif
Kentucky
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