NASA selects 11 new civilian astronauts for future missions
SPACE CENTER Houston AP reports NASA added 11 civilian scientists to its astronaut corps, boosting total to 56. All hold doctorates, include the youngest 25 and oldest 40, and feature the first foreign-born members Australian and Welshman. They will train at Air Force jet school next March and are not expected to fly for at least two years.
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Space Center
Houston
Tex
Space Agency
Moon
Earth
Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronaut Corps
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Air Force
Need Blood Donors To Achieve Quota
Franklin County residents are urged to volunteer for an emergency Red Cross blood drive this month. W Mason Bridges and local leaders discussed regional needs, with Ransom Memorial a program participant. Blood is supplied to hospitals in the region, costs explained, and a Bloodmobile visit to Ottawa University is planned for Aug 16–17 to collect about 140 pints daily. Eligible volunteers must be 18 to 60, weigh enough, and parental consent required for 18–21 year olds. prior meals advised, with a brief physician check before donation.
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Bridges
Ransom Memorial
Franklin County
Ottawa University
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Sleepy Cop Arrested for Court Contempt in Philadelphia
Patrolman Cosmo Arcaro, after 14 straight days and a 14 hour tour, waited in court for hours and was accused of contempt after two badge-less men teased him. He testified in a narcotics case and claimed boredom led to the incident. Police Commissioner Rizzo ordered an investigation.
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Philadelphia
Cosmo Arcaro
Arcaro
Michael J. O. Donnell
Cone
Police
Frank L. Rizzo
A Good Life Taxes in Two Anders son County Towns
Citizens of Harris and Lone Elm plan taxes for 1968 despite profits of 500 to 700 dollars in 1967 with expenses about half of receipts. City costs cover highway salaries street lighting and office work plus election expenses. Receipts include state allocations from cigarette gasoline and other taxes. Harris with 36 residents and Lone Elm with 69 population levy no taxes for 1968. Budget hearings planned later this month with few objections expected.
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Andersson County
Harris
Lone Elm
Highway Department
Williamsburg
Franklin County
Black Power Advocate Learns Federal Funds
Nashville SNCC official defends a local Liberation School project amid federal funds scrutiny. He rejects charges of teaching hatred, calls for action against officials, while the Metropolitan Action Commission and OEO verify payrolls and control funding.
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Black Power
Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
Liberation School
Fred H. Brooks
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
St. Anselm’s Episcopal Chapel
Metropolitan Action Commission
Office of Economic Opportunity
Brooks
Poverty program under fire over race links and riots
Senate debate centers on charges that the war on poverty fuels racial hatred and Negro rioting. Sen. Eastland defends substantiation of claims while Sen. Hart criticizes unverified charges. Nashville official J Paschall Davis defends agency integrity amid probe into a school accused of teaching race hatred. Sparks of controversy surround federal funds and a SNCC figure linked to a leased station wagon.
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Washington
Senate
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eastland
Johnson
Congress
Hart
J. Paschall Davis
Nashville, Tenn
Ans Ai
Office of
Ecnomic Opportunity
Judiciary
Nashville
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Davis
Wall Street
Nashville Metropolitan Action Commission
Judiciary Committee
Liberation School
Fred H. Brooks
SNCC
John A. Sprace
Office of Economic Opportunity
Sprace
Franklin County towns cut taxes despite higher budgets
In six Franklin County communities 1968 budgets rise while tax levies fall. Princeton hikes taxes tied to sewer and water upgrades and bond interest. Richmond Lane Pomona Rantoul Williamsburg Wellsville show smaller mill rates with varied valuations. Ottawa is the exception, facing tax increases.
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By Monte
Franklin County
Ottawa
Wellsville
Richmond
Lane
Pomona
Rantoul
Williamsburg
Princeton
Weather Snapshot and Record Highs for Date
High Friday not provided. Record highs and lows for the date show 110 in 1935 and 52 in 1915. Hourly temperatures end at 8 a.m. with readings from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and late night values around 1 a.m., 2 a.m., and 3 p.m. ranges between 64 and 83 degrees.
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S& A.m
Soviet Skipper Still In Jail
Anchorage AP reports Soviet trawler skipper Daniel Baronik remained in an Alaska state jail on $10,000 bail after Friday charges of violating the exclusive 12 mile U S fisheries zone. He appeared before U S Commissioner James Hanson who set bail and ordered detention. arraignment postponed until Monday for Soviet embassy officials arrival.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Daniel Baronik
U.S
Baronik
James Hanson
Lack Of A Penny Saved His Life
Gloria Frye 18 of Marshalltown says a missing penny postage on a letter to her sailor boyfriend Mike Gradisar aboard the carrier Forrestal saved his life when explosions and fire rocked the ship last Saturday. Mike, 19, of Pueblo Colorado, escaped with a shoulder bruise as he returned for the letter before the blast. The couple plans engagement next summer as Gloria recalls mailing daily letters and 14 pages of concerns. Gloria, a Miss Marshall County runner up, met Mike in Grand Junction in 1964 and hopes for another leave when the ship is repaired.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Gloria Frye
Gloria
Mike
Clifford E. Frye
Grand Junction
Colo
United States
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Maurice Ponton
County Red Cross
Wayne Gilliland
W. Mason Bridges
The
American Red Cross
Mrs. Ponton
John A. Sorace
Antipoverty
Detroit
Sorace
Conement
Commission
OEO
Bill Davis
Metropolitan
James Woodruff
St., Anselm’s
Harry Carpenter
OEQ
Charnel Auditorium
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Fulletin
H. Rap Brown
Brothers and Sisters
America
William Bronson
Couney
Jim Homolka
Ellsworth
Pueblo, Colo
Bud Collette
Pueblo
Marshall County
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