Dangers Mount If Apollo 12 Engines Fail On Moon Run
Apollo 12 faces critical rocket firings during descent that could abort lunar touchdown or send the craft into deep space. Backups exist, including using the descent engine to stabilize the lunar module. failure could leave astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean with limited oxygen and no reprieve.
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Alan L. Bean
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Gordon Family Feels the Moon Mission Strain
Barbara Gordon and relatives at the Gordon home in Houston faced long waiting as Apollo 12 astronauts Richard Gordon Jr and Alan Bean approached lunar orbit. The family joined a guitar mass service with prayers for safety and requested more communication from the astronauts.
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Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
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Carleen
Thomas
Gordon
James
Richard
Larry
Richard Beene
Barbara Gordon
Associated Press
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F. Gordon Jr
Impati
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Charles Conrad Jr
Moon
Moon glossary helps readers grasp Apollo 12 terms
Houston AP lists Apollo 12 terms such as LOI Lunar Orbit Insertion and LOI II high and low points perilune dips landing thrust SPS service propulsion and other systems. It defines undock EVA S band AGS PGS SRC ALSEP TEI and related phrases for moon mission operations.
Post Office Asked To Honor Pigeon
Pittsburgh resident Otto Meyser credits wartime homing pigeons with saving thousands of lives. He urged the Post Office Department to issue a commemorative stamp, praising pigeons as reliable secure messengers with a 99 percent delivery success rate during combat.
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Post Office Department
Otto Meyser
Meyer
International Federation of American
Army
Runway Dedication Ceremony Opens in Tewksbury
Today a new airport runway in Tewksbury Mass. hosts dedication ceremonies marking its opening. An Armstrong associated flight will depart the airport en route to Ohio to join the Neil Armstrong museum in Wapakoneta.
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Mass
Neil Armstrong
Ohio
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Wapakoneta
Green Pennant Flies At 22 Safe Schools
The Green Pennant of Safety has been distributed to 22 public and parochial elementary schools in the Middletown and Trenton area after a 30 day waiting period at the start of the school year. Perfect safety awards were given to 18 schools for their no accident records in the last school year ending last June.
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Trenton
James Schaffner
Middletown Area Safety Council
Schaffner
General Motors Corp
Guyler Buick
The
Safety Council
Firemen Plan Election For South Middletown Association
The South Middletown Fire Department Association Inc election set for Tuesday at the fire house. Candidates include Arnold Hiatt and Jim Colvin for president, Seldon Mullins and Loman McCullough for vice president, Charles Beel and John Clark for treasurer, Larry Clark and Earl Chandler for sergeant at arms, with Harold Dunn William Schrul Michael Hiatt and Clifford Schearer as two trustees.
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South Middletown Fire Department Association Inc
Arnold Hiatt
Jim Colvin
Seldon Mullins
Loman McCullough
Charles Beel
John Clark
Larry Clark
Earl Chandler
Sergeant At Arms
Harold Dunn
William Schrul
Michael Hiatt
Clifford Schearer
Two Bodies Recovered From Mosquio Reservoir Mishap
In Warren Ohio AP two of four boaters missing since a hunting trip when their boat capsized on Mosquio Reservoir have been recovered Gloria Gary 23 of Garfield Heights and Martin Kaminsky 32 of Northfield were found Sunday Dragging operations continued for Frank Pierson Jr 31 Broadview Heights and Bernard Podgorski 28 Maple Heights with crews expected today Sheriff's deputies said two other men are still missing amid the search and rescue effort
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Warren
Columbus Racket Trial Continues
In Columbus Ohio the federal court trial of eight policemen and a reputed gambler continues as defense lawyers prepare opening statements before the government calls witnesses. The case centers on a conspiracy to permit a numbers racket to flourish in the city.
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Columbus, Ohio
Okinawa Gas Removal Slowed Ahead of Talks
AP dispatch reports the United States has chemical warfare agents on Okinawa four months after plans to speed removal were announced. Defense officials cite storage site selection and bureaucratic delays, with talks between President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Sato shaping Okinawa’s future and possible continued U.S. bases.
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United States
Okinawa
Nixon
Eisaku Sato
Pentagon
Japan
Defense Department
U.S
Sato
South Korea
Police shoot and kill suspect in Columbus standoff
Columbus police say they shot and killed Riley Towns 20 after he approached with a knife as officers entered his apartment on a report he abducted a 14 year old girl following an attempted rape of another woman. The girl was treated for shock at a hospital.
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Columbus, Ohio
Riley Towns
Towns
Rough Day for Girl Driver 17
Deborah K. George 17 of Miamisburg had a light crash on Ohio 73 when Ernest Dakin 20 of Waynesville struck her from behind after a left turn. Glenn Stearns 43 of Miamisburg then hit both cars at a hill crest, injuring George slightly and prompting citations for excessive speed for Dakin and Stearns.
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Miamisburg
Miss George
Ohio 73
Springboro
Ernest Dakin
Waynesville Rt. 1
Glenn M. Stearns
Hillcrest
Dakin
Kettering Memorial Hospital
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