Gemini 10 Astronaut Gets Go For Photo Session In Space
Gemini 10 astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins win approval for a standup photo session as fuel limits trim their three day mission. Dockings with Agena 10 are reduced and several ultraviolet star photography experiments are canceled to conserve fuel.
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Michael Collins
Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
John W. Young
Collins
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Young
Glynn Lunney
E T Powell Expires Rites Set Wednesday
Ellis Thompson Powell retired banker and farmer of Richland Parish died at 85 in St. Joseph Home for the Aged. Funeral services are at Peters Funeral Home chapel at 2 p.m. with Rev. James R. Edwards officiating. He lived at 1300 Emerson in Monroe and was a former Marion pharmacist and bank president. He was active in soil conservation, a Mason and Shriner, and survived by a sister, grandson, two great grandchildren, and other relatives. Memorials to Parkview Baptist and Marion Baptist Churches.
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Ellis Thompson Powell
Marton
Richland Parish
St. Joseph
Peters
James R. Edwards
Parkview Baptist Church
Roark
Marion
Powell's
Marion State Bank
Powell
Louisiana
D'Arbonne
Emerson
Marion Baptist Church
Rea
Monroe
Rs. Mollie Ratliff
Spartanburg
S.C
John Powell Jordan
Ivy C
Katheryn) Jordan
Edgar Powell
Jerry Hodge
W. R. Crow
Ardis Lee Phillips
Ralph Powell
L. A. Henderson
Parkview Baptist
Marion Baptist
Chuckle Money Sells Hopes in Odd Places
A lighthearted note treats money as a guide to happiness, suggesting people search for cheer in unusual spots and everyday quirks. The piece reads like a wry, humanist aside on value and mood.
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT and Army MP trainee
Pvt John B Garrett son of Mr and Mrs John R Garrett 709 Joseph St Monroe completed military police training at Fort Gordon Ga The course covered traffic control POW handling and self defense Miss Lou isiana Joy Woods of New Orleans visited Monroe over the weekend and goes to Mississippi for Miss Mississippi Pageant before returning to Monroe to shop for Miss America Pageant wardrobe
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John B. Garrett
John R. Garrett
Joseph St
Monroe
Army Training Center
Fort Gordon
Joy Woods
New Orleans
Mississippi
Accidents Kill Two Teens in Northeast Louisiana
Two 17 year olds died in separate morning crashes in Northeast Louisiana. Michael John Palmer of Roanoke died after falling from a lift truck while working on the Louisiana Training Institute campus. Fern LaForge of Kilbourne died when a car hit a train at a crossing on La Highway 17 near Pioneer. Virginia LaForge 19, Fern’s sister, was critically injured in the crash and later treated at Oak Grove Clinic.
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Louisiana
Michael John Palmer
Roanoke
Louisiana Training Institute
Conway Memorial Hospital
LTT
A. L. Swanson
Fern LaForge
Kilbourne
Pioneer
Hwy
Virginia LaForge
Louis LaForge
Oak Grove
Kidder-Cox Funeral Home
Delhi
Solons Told By Klein Of Aid By Javits
Julius Klein testified that Sen. Thomas J. Dodd received help from Sen. Jacob Javits with West German clients as Klein and Javits supported him. Klein said he gave Dodd a memo on German leaders and industry, while Javits denied needing a memo. He asserted Javits backed Klein during a Germany trip amid earlier press distortions.
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Solons
Klein
Javits
Washington
Julius Klein
Thomas J. Dodd
West Germany
Jacob K. Javits
Senate
Dodd
Sen. Javits
Sen. Dodd
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connecticut Democrat
Germany
New York
Wife Of Comedian Red Skelton Shot In Gun Accident
In Las Vegas Nevada Georgia Skelton wife of comedian Red Skelton was shot in the chest in her hotel room. She is in satisfactory condition at Sunrise Hospital. The gun on the nightstand discharged. she was found by a man named Art Coleman and was sedated. The couple had prepared for a robbery with a pistol in the room.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Red Skelton
Sheriff's Office
Georgia Skelton
Sunrise Hospital
Glenn Simmons
Simmons
Skelton
Art Coleman
Sands Hotel
Skeltons
Red
Warm Weather Lingers With Scattered Thunderstorms
Forecast for Monroe calls for warm conditions and partly cloudy skies with isolated mainly afternoon thundershowers. Winds light to moderate, rain chances 10 to 20 percent. Daytime high 92 to 98, overnight 72 to 76. Twin Cities posted 98 high and 76 low yesterday.
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Monroe
Twin Cities
Marines Hold Off North Vietnamese Attack Near Saigon
U S Marines in two platoons fought four hours south of the 17th Parallel to cover a battalion withdrawal. About 500 North Vietnamese were killed or wounded, with Marines suffering heavy casualties. Air and artillery aided by napalm helped stop the assault as Hastings operations continued in the central highlands and oil storage sites were struck further north.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Leatherneck
Hastings
Demilitarized Zone
Viet Nams
U.S
Central Highlands
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Pleiku
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Baden Depot
17Th
Haiphong
Air Force
James R. Mitchell
Ogden
Utah
France detonates second aerial nuke over Mururoa atoll
France conducted its second atmospheric nuclear test in 17 days, detonating an atomic bomb from a aircraft at low altitude over Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia. It was the first nuclear device France dropped from an airplane.
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Paris
France
South Pacific
Defense Ministry
Mururoa
French Polynesia
Slaying and Rioting Hit Cleveland Jacksonville and NYC
Rioting erupts across Cleveland, Jacksonville, and parts of New York City. In Cleveland Joyce Arnett, 26, mother of three, is shot in the head as fires and looting surge. police move to seal eight blocks. Jacksonville sees 200 demonstrators clash with police after marching on City Hall. In New York City minor clashes occur in East Harlem and East New York with riot police restoring order.
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ASSO
Fla
New York City
Cleveland
Joyce Arnett
Bill Alexander
Jacksonville
City Hall
East Harlem
East New York
Brooklyn
Harlem
Johnson Urges Congress To Hold Line On Spending
President Johnson urged Congress to curb nondefense spending in line with his recommendations, warning a tax increase could be used if deficits rise. He noted current additions could reach 5 to 6 billion dollars, narrowing the 120 billion budget relative to 113 billion requested, and tied actions to Viet Nam funding.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
House
Senate
Appropriations
Capitol Hill
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Viet Nam
Fate Deals Young Girl Harsh Blow
Detroit AP report tells of 16 year old Mary Kincer who just began walking after cerebral palsy. Her father Vernici and two others died in a July car crash. Mary remains hospitalized with serious injuries and may never walk again.
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Detroit
Mary Kineer
Vernici
Mary
Dennis Denham
Webb
Kincer
Burlay Kiser
Hell
Mich
Kiser
Ann Arbor
Mrs. Kincer
North Vietnams envoy says captured pilots to be tried
Paris AP report says Ambassador Tran Du Binh announced at a Peking news conference that American pilots deemed not prisoners of war will be tried as war criminals. He said trials would be judged by the Vietnamese people under Vietnamese law with timing unspecified.
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Paris
Peking
Net
Tran du Binh
North Viet Nam
United States
International Red Cross
Geneva
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Nations
North
Viet Nam
France
Red China
Washington
Hanoi
ADN
Nguyen Dinh Trinh
Four Armed Men Abduct Three On Airline Highway
Four armed men abducted two teenage boys and a girl from a Airline Highway motel and forced them to Baton Rouge. The youths described a robbery of 50 dollars and a planned trip toward Texas. State police issued a radio alert for the suspects and vehicle.
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New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Oak Park
Texas
Jefferson Parish
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Associated Press
Ted Mathewson
E. T. Powell
Robert Hill
Hill
Jated Press
North Viet
China
General Electric
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