Grissom Survives Capsule Sinking After Escape Hatch Blow
Astronaut Virgil I Grissom faced a capsule sinking in the Atlantic after splashdown aboard USS Randolph He blew the escape hatch swam about 70 feet to safety then was plucked from the water by a Marine helicopter The capsule sank in 280 fathoms about seven minutes after Grissom reached safety He later said his head felt full of sea water and asked for a nose blown.
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Virgil I. Grissom
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Grissom
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atlantic
Cape Canaveral
Gilruth
Shepard
America
French Troops Launch All-Out Attack on Bizerte
French paratroopers backed by artillery and air strikes attacked the Tunisian port city of Bizerte. Shelling and front-line clashes followed as Tunisian troops defended strategic points. Reports say more than 200 killed and hundreds wounded in the fighting that began midweek near the naval base.
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Bizerte
Tunis
Tunisia
API
Algeria
Canal
Tear Gas Used To Break Up Savannah Crowd
In Savannah Georgia police used tear gas to disperse a mob of about 500 Black individuals after midnight. A Black officer Frank Chappel was hospitalized with head injuries and several white officers were injured lightly. The disturbance began at a Negro nightclub when scheduled rock n roll performers failed to appear. The crowd damaged the club interior and fought police as chairs were swung. Three fire trucks and many officers responded. at least 13 tear gas rounds were fired. Windows in 13 cars including three police units were shattered and radio units damaged.
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Savannah
Frank Chappel
John Ivey
Ivey
Fireman Dies In Flaming Rail Collapse in San Rafael
A burning 2000 foot Northwestern Pacific freight tunnel near Puerto Suello Hill in San Rafael collapsed trapping and killing Fireman Fred Kinsler as a nearby apartment building toppled into the crater. Juvenile arson suspects Frederick Wilson and James Rogers, ages 13 and 12, admitted torching timber shorings to inflame the tunnel.
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San Rafael
Calif
Northwestern Pacific
Puerto Suello Hill
San Francisco
Nick Giampoli
Frederick Alfred Wilson
James Rogers
Santa Venetia
Fred Kinsler
Lincoln Avenue
Kinsler
King Midas opens in Strauss Playhouse tonight
Twin City Chit Chat reports the joint production King Midas of the Golden Touch by Monroe Little Theatre and Northeast Louisiana State College opens tonight at Strauss Playhouse Lamy Lane Curtain time is 7 30 p m directed by George Brian of the college speech department
Nine clergymen arrested at Jackson airport breach of peace
Nine arrested at Jackson Municipal Airport, eight ministers among them, as they tried to board a Washington bound group for a 2 p.m. Kennedy meeting. Capt J L Ray ordered them to move on after approaching a white dining area amid a larger protest. Two Negroes included.
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J. L. Ray
Ray
Freedom Riders
Jackson
Selective Service Expands Draft Pool Amid Berlin Crisis
Washington AP reports Selective Service ordered the pool of eligible draftees raised to about 70,000 to 100,000 while the Army’s draft quota remains 8,000. State directors enlarge pools to match prior years, with no direct link to the Berlin crisis. The move aims to restore pool levels seen before 1959, despite fluctuating monthly quotas.
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Washington
Selective Service
Army
Berlin
Two Day Bull Run Reenactment Returns to Manassas Battlefield
Veteran hobbyists and Civil War buffs prepare a two day reenactment of the First Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Battlefield Va with 2000 North-South Skirmish Association participants and an anticipated 75000 spectators on Saturday and possibly more on Sunday. Officials warn of heavy traffic as visitors bring picnics and costumes to witness authentic uniforms and mock combat on China Ridge near the battle arena.
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Manassas
First Manassas
Bull Run
Richmond
Washington
Lincoln
China Ridge
Georgia Officials Hear Southwide Grass Roots Meeting Plan
Georgia municipal leaders met with a Louisiana Mississippi delegation headed by Monroe Mayor W L Howard at Atlanta Airport to discuss a Memphis conference forming a south wide association of grassroots leaders. Georgia mayors praised the idea and urged broad representation for an August 11 12 gathering in Memphis with officials traveling on to Tallahassee and Montgomery.
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Georgia
Memphis
W. L. Howard
Monroe
Odis H. Stephens
East Point
Frank E. Coggin
Hopeville
Withers
Howard
Sidney Gray
Louisiana Municipal Association
W. J. Caraway
Poitier Moves Into White Area In Pleasantville NY
Sydney Poitier, famed stage and screen star, has bought a 12 room Tudor on seven acres near Pleasantville and moved in with his family. The move, once opposed in fiction, met mixed reaction from neighbors who largely welcomed the family. Poitier, 34, stars in both Broadway and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun and moved from Mount Vernon, NY, the nearby Westchester suburb. The estate was formerly owned by the late A. A. Smith, president of the New York Central Railroad.
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Pleasantville
N.Y
Sydney Poitier
Poitier
Mount Vernon
New York City
Westchester County
A. A. Smith
New York Central Railroad
Man Drowns In Fall From Boat During Bayou Outing
In Opelousas a 31 year old Port Barre oil field worker Clarence Blumrich drowned in Bayou Courtableau after falling from a pleasure boat. The St. Landry parish coroner ruled the death an accidental drowning. The body was recovered 20 minutes after the fall.
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Opelousas
UPL
Port Barre
Bayou Courtableau
Clarence Blumrich
St. Landry Parish
Wife Prayed for Success as Grissom Flight Ends
Newport News AP Betty Moore Grissé, wife of Virgil I Grissom, expressed happiness at the space flight success while lamenting the loss of the capsule. She recounted talking with Gus before launch, and noted her son Scott’s excitement as the rocket rose. The Grissoms welcomed Virgil back aboard the Randolph with pride and relief.
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Betty Moore Grissé
Virgil I. Grissom
Gus
Mrs. Grissom
Randolph
Scott
Mark
House Group Cuts Military Request
The House Appropriations Committee cut 148 million dollars from Kennedy’s military construction request and urged rapid action to curb waste. It approved 586.8 million for bases, citing poor planning and costly, delayed facilities. Air Force lost 80.8 million, Navy 23.8 million, Army 44.1 million in proposed cuts.
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Washington
UPI
House Appropriations Committee
Kennedy
Pentagon
Air Force
Army
Navy
Warm Weekend In Area Seen
Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers are in the Monroe area today and Saturday. Highest temperatures are expected to 88 to 92 degrees with tonight’s lows between 70 and 75. Yesterday’s high was 42 and the low 74.
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Monroe
Penicillin Pill Developed By British Doctors
London AP reports British doctors have created a pill form of penicillin named Pendritin, effective against food poisoning, influenza complications, pneumonia aftereffects, wound infections, and blood poisoning. Beecham researchers Frank Doyle, George Rolinson, and Shirley Stevens at Brockham Park, Surrey, mapped penicillin’s core and tailored it to fight many germs, yielding Broxil and Calbemin.
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London
British Medical Journal
Beecham Research Laboratories
Brockham Park
Surrey
Frank Doyle
George Rolinson
Shirley Stevens
Americans Arrested in Rebel Province
The United Nations said 30 American missionaries were arrested in Oriental Province on charges of distributing anti-Communist pamphlets. Hurricane Anna held a narrow westward path across the Caribbean with winds near 80 mph.
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Oriental Province
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Caribbean
Alaska Airlines plane crashes on Shemya Island
An Alaska Airlines cargo flight carrying military cargo crashed and burned on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, killing all six crew members aboard.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska Airlines
Shemya Island
Aleutians
Kennedy signs space bill aimed at moon flight push
President Kennedy signed a broad space program bill hours after the second manned spaceflight, authorizing expanded projects and a goal toward sending a man to the moon amid the nation’s space race.
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Washington
Kennedy
Hearings Opened On Gas Rates In Louisiana
BATON ROUGE AP The Louisiana Public Service Commission opened hearings on natural gas rates in New Orleans border towns and Florida parishes. The commission heard United Gas Pipe Line Co case on Monroe area rates, United to file earnings statement by Aug 20. Commissioner McKeithen said UGPL had the cheapest wellhead rates, paying 4 to 6 cents, selling to United Gas for 26 cents, which sells to the public for 60 cents.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Comscntatian
New Orleans
Florida
United Gas Pipe Line Co
Monroe
United
John McKeithen
UGPL
Crime In Capital Draws Attention In Washington Window
Senator Mundt urged congress to study national crime with focus on Washington. The piece notes an 8.8 percent rise in serious crime in DC over the year to June 30 and outlines FBI comparisons for 1950 to 1960, despite a 4.8 percent population drop.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
Karl FE
Mundt
R S.D
Congress
United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
District of Columbia
FBI
Astronaut Gus Grissom Survives Capsule Plunge Into Ocean
Cape Canaveral reports Virgil I. Gus Grissom survived a 5280 mile per hour space journey as his capsule sank after water entry in the Atlantic. Recovery efforts failed, but telemetry supported Mercury program progress. Grissom escaped through the hatch and was rescued by helicopter two minutes later.
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Fla
Virgil I
Gus” Grissom
Atlantic Ocean
Grissom
Robert C. Gilruth
Project Mercury
Space Agency
Registrar Asks Trial By Jury In Rights Case
A motion for a trial by jury has been filed for Mrs. Mae Lucky Ouachita parish registrar of voters by District Attorney Albin Lassiter and Attorney General Jack Gremillion. The government seeks a copy of the report on the registrar files completed in 1956. The case may not go to trial until late this year or early 1962 and involves federal access to the registrar’s files.
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Mae Lucky
Ouachita Parish
Washington
Justice Department
Lucky
Ben C. Dawkins, Jr
Want Ads Offer Quick Cash and Clean Motors for Sale
A brief classified notice promotes News-Star-World Want Ads as a fast way to earn cash. It lists a clean five-horsepower Seaking motor for 60 dollars and a Johnson outboard motor with under 15 hours, plus contact numbers and rates for seven day cancellations.
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