Moon Satellite Ready for Tues Launch to Map Moon Surface
CAPE KENNEDY AFP A picture-taking lunar orbiter is set for a Tuesday launch aboard an Atlas Agena rocket. The 850 pound lab will swoop within 26 miles of the moon every 32 hours to photograph potential Apollo landing sites and to study Surveyor I’s moon photos for site selection. The mission aims to begin a 240,000 mile voyage at 12 07 p m EDT with five camera satellites to image nine lunar areas.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
John Young
Michael Collins
America
Moon
Lunar
Surveyor
Letter to governor seeks padlocks on raid venues
Concordia Parish Ministerial Alliance asks Gov. McKeithen to apply padlock law to raid sites. Eight suspects arrested on vice counts were released with little or no bond after raids on three night spots. Assistant District Attorney Halcomb seeks rearrests and bonds of 750 dollars or 200 dollars while establishments remain open.
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Ferriday
John J. McKeithen
Concordia Parish Ministerial Alliance
Asssistant District
Roy Halcomb
Concordia Parish
Noah Cross
Cross
Halcomb
Nixon Predicts GOP Gains Ahead of November
Manila AP report says former Vice President Nixon on a world trip predicted large Republican gains in the November congressional elections. He warned against reading the win as protest against Vietnam policy, urged that GOP victory would mean continued support for current U S policy. Nixon met with President Marcos before continuing to Hong Kong.
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Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Viet Nam
U.S
Nixon
Saigon
Ferdinand Marcos
Hong Kong
Saigon Students Protest Marriages With U S GIs
Saigon university students demanded an end to marriages between American service men and Vietnamese girls at a meeting. They linked the issue to the broader call to end the war and to address economic political and social problems caused by it.
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Saigon
UPI
Saigon University
Community Coffee With Tax Assessor at Admiral Benbow Inn
Citizens are invited to a coffee event at the Admiral Benbow Inn on Tuesday August 9 from 4 to 6 PM to meet Tax Assessor Mrs. Bert Coverdale. The program is paid for by Mrs. Bert Coverdale.
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Admiral Benbow Inn
Bert Coverdale
Polk Soldiers Among 42 Killed in Braniff Jet Crash
Falls City Nebraska AP reports the Braniff jet crash near Falls City killed 42. Among the dead are Army Pvt. Russell E. Hudson 19 of Fort Worth Texas who had just finished basic training at Fort Polk Louisiana and was en route to Albuquerque New Mexico to visit a girlfriend. Also buried are Navy enlisted man Charles E. Howard 21 of Chatham Illinois returning from Fort Polk on leave before officers training at Fort Knox Kentucky Army Pvt. Larry J. Bosted Fort Polk Ronald L. Denies of Fort Polk and a man listed only as Johnson of Fort Polk.
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Braniff
Army
Russell E. Hudson
Fort Worth
Tex
Ft. Polk
Albuquerque
N.M
Hudson
Charles E. Howard
Chatham, Ill
Ft. Knox
Larry J. Bosted
Ronald L. Denies
Johnson
Develop A Powerful Memory Ad Advises Readers
A Chicago publisher promotes a self-training memory method with promises of better business and social success. The ad claims memory skills raise poise confidence and popularity and offers a free mailed book Adventures in Memory in exchange for a dime for postage. Memory Studios 835 Diversey Parkway Dept 527C Chicago lil 60614 invites requests by postcard.
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Chicago
Memory Studios
Diversey Parkway
Dept
Senator Ellender Drives Louisiana Prosperity and Jobs
Louisianas economy thrives on the work of Senator Ellender as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee on Public Works. He secured millions for river, port, and flood control, attracting new industries and petrochemical growth along the Mississippi River and across Red River, Atchafalaya Basin, Ouachita, and beyond.
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Senate Appropriations
Louisiana
Mississippi
Ellender
Red River
Atchafalaya
Ouachita River
Mississippi River
Gulf
New Orleans
Ellender’s record for Louisiana farming and aid programs
As chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, Allen J. Ellender sponsored soil conservation and reforestation measures that spurred a pine plywood boom in Louisiana. He backed the first minimum wage law and supported Food Stamp, School Lunch, and School Milk programs, hospital construction nationwide, and opposed excessive foreign aid and deficits.
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Louisiana
Ellender
Senator Ellender
United States Senate
Allen J. Ellender
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