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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1962
Page
11
AP reports NASA will launch the Saturn on a second test flight next Wednesday. After liftoff, a 65 mile high detonation will spray 95 tons of water to study ionospheric effects. The primary goal remains propulsion testing of the eight engine first stage.
London AP Russell 89 urges leaders of eight nonaligned nations to send naval and merchant fleets to the Christmas Island area of the Pacific to defy U S nuclear tests. He cables India Ghana Mexico Sweden Yugoslavia UAR Brazil and Indonesia, calling for action to avert mankind’s peril.
In Marion Ohio flood waters thwarted an attempted jailbreak at Marion County Jail. Two inmates ripped a heavy ventilating pipe from a cell wall and battered a hole through the floor. Water flooded the jail as others called for help and a plumber found the floor hole.
The US medical ship Haiti, fitted by the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association for vaccination and X ray work in southern Haiti, sank after heavy weather near Jeremie. Navy refloating efforts from Port au Prince and Guantanamo Bay, aided by helicopter-delivered pumping gear and the destroyer escort Brough, stabilized the vessel with the engine room and aft laboratory drained. Damage extent was not yet announced.
State police report an 18 year old Maryland hitchhiker Spooner stole a car at knife point from a Wilmington Ohio motorist near Uniontown Pennsylvania. The driver jumped free with minor injuries. Spooner was later arrested in Maryland and held for return to Pennsylvania to face prosecution.
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