Astronauts Sleep Late After Space Scare
Apollo 15 crew after a tense period jettisoned the lunar module Falcon, slept late and reported all systems normal. Scott Irwin Worden operated a $17 million instrument array mapping about 20 percent of the moon’s surface while awaiting a Pacific splashdown.
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Falcon
U.S. Space Agency
Pacific Ocean
Donald K. Slayton
Scott
Irwin
Moon
NASA
Endeavour
Mission Control
Hadley
Narrow Win For Nixon Narrow Win For Nixon
Washington AP. Congress approves a 250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed, Senate 49 to 48, House 192 to 189, Nixon says the measure will save tens of thousands of jobs and aid the economy. Senator Marlow Cook casts the decisive 49th vote amid dramatic floor moments.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Senate
House
Cook
John Tower
R-Tex
Two Swing Votes Provide Drama
In a razor close Senate session a 49 to 48 vote backed a $250 million Lockheed loan guarantee. Sen. Marlow W. Cook switched to aye saving the measure, while Sen. Lee Metcalf began leaning against it but chose to cast the pivotal vote to avoid job losses and a possible bankruptcy for the defense contractor.
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Washington
White House
Montana
Senate
Lee Metcalf
Dmont
Cook
Metcalf
Nixon
Lockheed
Airbus
Aerospace Company
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Clark MacGregor
Peter M. Flanigan
Louisville
Congress
Prison camp memories and postwar Poland tour
Tony Lumpkin, once a POW from Missouri Military Academy, revisits the German prison camp near Schubin now a Polish boys reform school. He recalls escaping in 1945, meeting Dr. Wright Bryan, and notes Russians in civilian clothes in Warsaw as he describes the postwar landscape and Polish pride amid rebuilding.
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Officierlager
Schubin
Poland
Tony Lumpkin
Mexico
Tony B. Lumpkin
Tunisia
Missouri Military Academy
Lumpkin
Corn Field Fungicide Run At 90 MPH By John Bright
John Bright flies a Grumman Ag Cat over area cornfields at speeds up to 90 mph to spray fungicide against southern corn leaf blight as a Ledger photo by Richard Vance captures the scene.
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John Bright
Grumman Ag- Cat
Richard Vance
Dozier Ardell
Chem-Gro, Inc
John Hudnut
Chem- Gro
Missouri faces improving teacher shortage in fall
Missouri education officials report most districts will have enough teachers and administrators for fall. About 90 percent of districts attended a meeting where Dr. Arthur Mallory noted ongoing needs in remedial reading, special education, speech, math, science, library services and music. Vacancies exist in some districts, but most are expected to be filled. enrollment is steady near 1,078,000.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Arthur L. Mallory
Mallory
State Board of Education
Warren Black
Special Services
Black
Vietnam
Planes Wage Blight Fight and Obituary Details
Planes from Mexico Municipal Airport spray 12 000 acres of corn across three counties at 90 mph using dithane M 45 fungicide priced 3 50 per acre per application. Bright flying service operates five planes, spraying 2000 acres daily in eight to ten hours. Mrs M R Stubblefield 82 of 1002 W Latney St Mexico Mo died 7 15 pm Monday at Audrain Medical Center after residence at Sherwood Arms Nursing Home since 1970. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm Pickering chapel with burial Eastlawn Memorial Park.
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Mexico
John Bright
The
Bright Flying Service
Bright
Mexico Municipal
M. R. (Fay) Stubblefield
W. Latney St
Audrain Medical Center
Stubblefield
Sherwood Arms Nursing Home
Centralia
Eolla
Dolly Payne
Henry Forgey
Eolia
Fay Fawn Forgey
Mont R. Stubblefield
Jefferson City
Sherwood Arms
Kansas City
Mont R. Jr
Laurie, Mo
William Martin
Bill
R. R
Alberta) Hampton
Pam
Eastlawn Memorial Park
Pan
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Marlin Fisher
Arthur Hills
By Gary Duffy
Mr. Lumpkin
Wright Bryan
Atlanta Journal
Clemson
Rembertoff
Warsaw
Bryan
Wright
Burgermeister
Siberia
Rembertolf
Associated Press
West Berlin
Europe
M. R. Stubblefield
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