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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1971
Page
1
Moon mission astronauts express wonder as Endeavour orbits and Apollo 15 nears the moon. David Scott calls the scene unreal while Alfred Worden notes color variations in Sea of Serenity and unnamed mountains appear cratered and smooth to observers.
Apollo 15 pilots David Scott and James Irwin prepare a risky pinpoint landing over Hadley Rille in a 6:15 p.m. EDT target. Worden operates a $17 million instrument array in lunar orbit as the crew planned 67 hours of geology and photography to map about 20 percent of the moon.
A Japanese Boeing 727 operated by All Nippon Airways with 162 aboard collided with an F86F fighter over northern Japan and crashed. By nightfall 56 bodies were recovered. survivors were unlikely. One foreign crew member, Detroit native Donn M. Carpenter, was aboard. National police warned no hopeful survivors remained.
United Transportation Union members began shutting down six more railroads before a White House meeting on the labor dispute. Lines include Santa Fe Alton and Southern and several iron ore carriers. Nationwide effects hit Packing coal plywood and auto plants.
A partial settlement between Aruco Steel Corp and the Armco Employes Independent Federation splits approval among the union leadership. Thirteen of seventeen executive board members signed a non economic agreement leaving wage issues for later negotiations. Mathis, president, calls the move illegal and vows to challenge it with the Department of Labor. Six signees and four dissidents are named, with wages still unresolved and retroactive effects possible.
Budding gospel singers attend a four week intensive program at Polk Burnett’s School on the Mississippi Gulf coast where strict rules govern conduct dress and smoking. Students receive private lessons daily and group classes plus extended practice hours aimed at rapid voice development and church choir placement.
Showers and thundershowers are predicted for tonight with a chance of more showers tomorrow. Temperatures reach the upper 70s, with overnight lows in the upper 50s. Yesterday’s high was 80 and this morning’s low 63.
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