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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1959
Page
20
William Rieper entered a St. Louis fire station on a Thursday demanding coffee. When the firefighters lacked fresh brew he began to make his own, prompting a police call and his transfer to city court.
In Freedom Oklahoma burglars have broken into the Freedom State Bank four times in recent years and incurred no fines for trespassing. The article notes an unrelated incident where someone invaded a fire house without explanation.
Dr J M Levitt outlines the path to manned spaceflight from Able and Baker to Mercury and beyond. Short suborbital flights test weightlessness 8.6 to 9 g reentry stresses, then Jupiter and Atlas stages lead to a 1961 orbital capsule.
The article describes a space capsule slowing through friction heat absorption, a drogue parachute for stability, and two main parachutes to achieve a 30 feet per second landing. It recalls the astronauts' forebears, the small monkeys who drew attention at a Washington press conference.
Fire Chief William Fishbaugh, who was hospitalized after two abdominal operations, will resume fulltime administrative duties tomorrow. He had been on part time duty since late April and Assistant Chief James Mattson served as acting chief during his absence.
A note confirms there are 172 clocks in the British House of Commons. The tally includes wall and mantel pieces across chambers and corridors, underscoring the building’s timekeeping abundance.
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