Gemini 5 mission faces delay as power problem looms
Space Center reports Gemini 5 crew L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr push to extend the flight beyond six orbits despite a power issue. Flight director Kraft says conditions look favorable to continue for another day aiming for an eight day record.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Outer Space
Christopher C. Kraft
Space Center
Houston
Tex
Jane Conrad
Conrad
Charles
Pete) Conrad Jr
Mission Control Center
Kraft
Hawaii
Cooper
Military Pay Hike Is Signed
President Johnson signed a 1 billion dollar military pay raise into law, despite vetoing a 1.78 billion dollar military construction bill. The pay scale ranges from 6 percent for longer serving officers to 33.7 percent for newer petty officers, while the construction veto cites overbroad protection of installations and mandatory 120 day reporting to Congress.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Armed Services Committees
House
Senate
The Perfect No 2 Man Dean Rusk Named by Johnson
A look inside the era features Dean Rusk praised by President Johnson as ranking first with him. Also notes Middletown’s cycling and motorcycle history and Brian Sternberg’s paralyzing accident and faith in God.
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Secretary of
Dean Rusk
Johnson
Rusk
Man Accused Of Slaying Clergyman Free On Bond
In Hayneville Alabama 55 year old part time deputy sheriff Thomas L Coleman was released on 12500 bond after being charged with murder and assault with intent to murder in the slaying of theology student Jonathan Daniels 27 and wounding Rev Richard Morrisree 26 a Chicago priest. Daniels and Morrisree were civil rights volunteers from Keene New Hampshire and Chicago respectively. Coleman turned himself in after an incident at a grocery store near the county courthouse. The Rev Morrisree remains hospitalized with abdominal wounds as doctors operate. Coleman comes from a prominent local family with former and current school officials among his relatives.
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Hayneville
Ala
Thomas L. Coleman
Alabama
Justice of the Peace
Richard Morrisree
Chicago
Montgomery
John Morrisree
Coleman
Frank Ryals
Vaughan Hill Robison
Weather Scene: Scattered Showers Today Then Clearing
Scattered showers or thundershowers are predicted for today with a chance of rain ending tonight. Expect cloudy skies all day and a high between 76 and 83. Monday will be cloudy and mild.
Rhodes avoids stance on Ohio sales tax proposal
Gov. James A. Rhodes says he will neither support nor oppose the Ohio Education Association's plan to raise the sales tax from 3 to 4 percent. The measure will appear on November's ballot as a constitutional amendment. Rhodes, on his Wonderful World of Ohio tour, states the proposal comes from a private group and he is staying out of the fight.
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Cedar Point
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Ohio Education Association
OFA
Rhodes
Radio tests cut to save power amid outer space comms pause
Power conservation limited radio communications and skipped the usual testing from outer space, reducing routine operations during the period.
First Titan 2 Stage Recovered After Gemini 5 Orbit
The first stage of the Titan 2 booster that launched Gemini 5 is found floating intact in the Atlantic about 450 miles northeast of Cape Kennedy. An Air Rescue plane reports the 71 foot stage with 25 percent submerged, and the Navy ship Dupont is sent to recover it, marking the first intact recovery of a manned space flight booster.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Here
Kinley Air Force Base
Bermuda
Dupont
Retired WLW Chairman James D. Shouse Dies
James D. Shouse 62 former Crosley Broadcasting board chair died in his sleep at his St. Croix Virgin Islands home. A longtime broadcasting figure he helped WLW Radio gain its cradle of the stars reputation and led wartime efforts to build a powerful short wave transmitter array at Bethany Ohio to reach occupied nations.
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Cincinnati
James D. Shouse
Crosley Broadcasting Corp
St. Croix
Virgin Islands
Shouse
WLW Radio
Bethany
Ohio
Quiet Watts Returns To Rough Normal After Riots
Watts remains quieter than usual as police and 1,200 National Guardsmen continued 12 hour shifts in the Negro area after six days of violence that left 36 dead. Loot recovered totals about 3000000 dollars in property damage and 45000000 dollars in private property losses, with public damage at 2400000 dollars.
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Watts
National Guard
Hill
Police Property Division
Cmdr
Larry Walton
Phil Watson
Gene Davis
No Medals for Radiation Toll Sapping Navy Officer
A retired U S Navy commander William W Mitchell USN Ret lies dying in Norfolk after exposure to atomic radiation from Bikini Atoll tests. He suffered from hemorrhaging, failed blood counts, and a stroke since 1946, living in debt and unrecognized by medals.
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Norfolk
William W. Mitchell
USN
United States
Bikini Atoll
Pacific
Mitchell
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Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Mrs. Conrad
Jim McDivitt
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Orena Herd
Haverford
Philadelphia
J. Weir Sargent
Charles Sr
Sarasota, Fla
Earth
Atlantic
Middletown
Brian Sternberg
Valley News
Women's News
Eens Family Weekly
Jonathan Daniels
Keene, N.H
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Atlas
John H. Glenn Jr
South Africa
WLW
Los Angeles
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
McCone
Edmund G. Brown
Roderick L. Hill
California National Guard
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Wharton
Ground Zero
Bremerton
Wash
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Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Navy
Medical Research Center
Bethesda
William Mitchell
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