Gemini 9 Launch Ends 17 Day Jinx For NASA Team
Cape Kennedy AP The Gemini 9 mission began with Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard a Titan 2 rocket entering orbit after two prior scrubs. The crew planned a three day rendezvous with a target satellite simulating docking and space walking maneuvers to pave the way for future Apollo missions.
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Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
U.S
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Surveyor
Titan
Atlantic Ocean
Eugene Kranz
Earth
Apollo Space
Moon
Edward H. White II
Cernan
Adventists Train Early For Army Service In Camp Desmond
In Grand Ledge Michigan 228 Adventist men aged 30 to 9:30 p.m. trained at Camp Desmond Tross to ease Army service as noncombatants. They paid 85 dollars for a two week camp begun in 1934 and studied sanitation and saluting while facing drill sergeants. The Army now provides for Adventists in medical divisions, with about 300 serving in Vietnam and at least three killed.
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Mich
Desmond Tross
Viet Nam
Clark Smith
Smith
United States
Canada
Vacation Pac Service Arrangements Advised
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Peking Mayor Purged Amid Chinese Party Crackdown
Peng Chen long a top Peking official and potential Mao successor appears ousted from his CCP post as Beijing radios name Li Hsueh feng as first secretary. The purge widens amid antiparty activity charges against associates, with official editorials acknowledging a powerful yet unsettled opposition.
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Peng Chen
Peking
Chinese Communist Party
Peking Radio
Li Hsueh-feng
Peking People’s Daily
Red China
Mao Tze-tung
English rowers advance 98 miles toward England in Atlantic crossing
Doughty English journalists David Johnstone and John Hoare, aboard Puffin, were spotted by the submarine Cutlass radar about nine miles away side to side. They left Virginia Beach May 21 aiming for St Ives, England in 50 days at 60 miles daily but rough weather kept them to an eight mile daily pace early on. In 42 days they averaged over 14 miles per day and were 98 miles east southeast of Cape Henry.
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Western Pacific
Norfolk
Atlantic
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John Hoare
England
Virginia Beach
Cutlass
Puffin
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Ance
Hoare
Johnstone
Sykes
Cape Henry
St. Ives
Negro job gains erased by 1975 projection
The Labor Department reports non white employment rose from 6.4 million to 7.7 million since 1955, yet non whites risk losing ground by 1975 without greater access to white collar and skilled jobs. The study notes continued concentration in blue collar and service roles and calls for training and anti discrimination laws to raise employment and lower unemployment.
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Washington
Labor Department
Monthly Labor Review
Russell
Weekend Forecast Calls for Mild, Partly Cloudy Skies
The forecast shows partly cloudy and mild tonight with a low in the lower 50s. Saturday should be mostly sun and mild with a high in the low 70s. Temperatures run 3 to 6 degrees above normal for five days, turning cooler by Tuesday. Showers are likely Sunday Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday’s high was 76 and overnight low 47. Today’s 11am temperature is 68.
Hope for Rain Faces Drought and Freezes in Wheat
Drought and late freezes devastated vast wheat regions across the Great Plains including central and western Kansas, southeastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, Nebraska and eastern Washington. Early bumper crop forecasts fell sharply. some recovery could come if rain arrives, with late heads appearing in western Kansas fields.
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Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Nebraska
Washington
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandles
Amron B. Erhart
Garden City
Kan
Kansas State University
Agricultural Experiment Station
Erhart
Powder Blast Kills 5 Near McArthur
An explosion at the Austin Powder Co. plant near McArthur Ohio 677 killed at least five workers. The plant employs about 200 people. Details were scarce as a blast occurred in an isolated building amid hills. The plant, founded in 1931, makes dynamite and powder and has had several prior explosions.Authorities restricted access to the grounds due to danger of more blasts.
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Ohio
Austin Powder Co
Vinton County
Ohio Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
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