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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1962
Page
3
Pierce Lehmbek recounts the Staten Island Ferry as a tiny escape in the city’s bustle. It ferries up to 3,000 passengers per trip between Manhattan and St. George, carrying millions yearly, linking Staten Island residents to jobs and serving as a major tourist draw with a 25 minute crossing today.
Dr Wernher von Braun outlines timetable to place a three man Apollo into orbit in late 1964 after the second successful Saturn test firing. The 162 foot booster delivered 1.3 million pounds thrust then exploded payloads and water ballast cloud experiments provided data on upper atmosphere behavior and electrical discharge phenomena.
In Elmwood Park Illinois a dawn shooting on a quiet residential street killed two men and a woman and left a car crashing into a house. Police tentatively identified the victims as Phillip Scavo 36 of Elmwood Park Ronald Scavo of Chicago and Marianne Martarono 30 of Chicago. Cash found on Scavo included 1118 and 207 on Ronald Scavo. The three suffered fatal gunshot wounds with neck and head injuries.
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