Apollo 15 Moon Mission Details and Objectives
The Apollo 15 crew Sc ott Irwin and Worden will drive the Rover 1 Jeep like vehicle at up to 10 mph over Hadley Rille terrain while photographing mapping instruments. They plan 22 miles of surface exploration, six days in lunar orbit to operate experiments, and a postflight film handover walk 15 feet back to the equipment bay. The mission will eject a 78.5 pound satellite to study gravity and fields.
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Scott
Irwin
Worden
Earth
Endeavour
James Cook
South Pacific
Air Force
Air Force Academy
Neil A. Armstrong
Falcon
Hadley Rille
Grand Canyon
Moon
Solar System
Apollo
Robertson Dies at 74 Won Reichold Award for Music
Salt Lake City AP reports Leroy J. Robertson age 74 died Sunday from heart failure. He won the Reichold Award for his musical composition Trilogy.
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Salt Lake City
Leroy J. Robertson
Reichold
Barnes to wed Nancy Sayers in Austin church ceremony
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes and Nancy Sayers, widow of a close friend, plan a 3:30 p.m. Monday wedding at Tarrytown Methodist Church Austin. The event is closed to the public with only parents present. Sayers’ late husband Scott died in September 1968. Barnes divorced in 1970.
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Barnes
Nancy Sayers
Tarrytown Methodist Church
Austin
Sayers
Noble Good
Waco
B.F. Barnes
Dublin
Tex
Scott
John Connally
Fort Worth
Vision psychology pioneer Clarence H. Graham dies at 65
Professor Clarence H. Graham, 65, a Columbia University vision research leader since 1945, died Sunday. His work on vision psychology appeared in more than 100 scientific journals and was compiled in the book Vision and Visual Perception.
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New York
Clarence H. Graham
Columbia University
Krazee Day Declared a Total Success by Pecos Chamber
Bill Davis chair of the Pecos chamber Merchants' Committee calls Friday's Krazee Day a total success. The event featured numerous stores including Pecos Furniture, Williams, Woolworth's, Montgomery Ward and others with many locations listed. Details of participants include Pecos Motors, Goodyear, and Reecia's Fashions among names like Pete Villalobos and Milissa Vasquez.
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Pecos
R&n
Boby Arguey
Plum
Williams
Reyes Pritete
Mesquite
United
Manuel Hernandez
Barstow
Lewis Shoe
Pete Villalobos
Eddie Vasquez
Cactus
Stewart’s
Harold Harris
Ss. Cedar
Reecia
Vivian White
Wyoming
Terrazas
Alice Branham
Johnson
Pecos Furniture
Jerry Cross
S. Hackberry
Goodyear
Milissa Vasquez
Woolworth’s
Tom Meath
Gibson’s
Jerry N. Cross
Hackberry
Anthony’s
Pearl Sparks
Wacker’s
Jack McCall
Montgomery-Ward
Fannie Camp
Earnestine’s
Pecos Motors
Antonio Ramones
P. O. Box
Bill Davis
Chamber of Commerce Merchants’ Committee
Cool front brings gusty winds and heavy rains across Texas
The Associated Press reports a new cool front moved into the Panhandle with gusty winds and scattered thunderstorms. Brady and Camp San Saba reported heavy rainfall with flash flood warnings in effect, while predawn temps ranged in the 70s and 80s across Texas.
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Associated Press
Panhandle
San Antonio
Brady
Waco
Longview
Camp San Saba
McCulloch
Texas
Minister's wife dies in Texas
Mrs Erma Geeo of Clute Texas died at 8 10 p m Saturday in Memorial Hospital after a sudden illness Her husband filled Calvary Baptist Church duties in Pecos during Rev Homer Nowell's absence Her body went to Freeport Funeral Home for burial at Restwood Funeral Home in Lake Jackson She was mother of Mrs Rusty Greer of Pecos.
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Erma Geeo
Clute
Tex
Memorial Hospital
Geeo
Pecos
Calvary Baptist Church
Homer Nowell
Freeport Funeral Home
Freeport
Restwood Funeral Home
Lake Jackson
Rusty Greer
Vacation Bible School at North Temple Baptist
Vacation Bible School runs July 26 to 31 at North Temple Baptist Church directed by Rev. Butler Smith. Sessions run 7 to 9 30 P M with ages four to seventeen invited, includes Bible study missions and story hour with recreation and refreshments. Edith Porter Amegin is pianist and music helper with department superintendents listed.
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Bregins
North Temple Baptist Church
Butler Smith
North Temple School
Edith Porter Amegin
G.A. Porter
Walter Paschal
Margie Paschal
F.M. Keeler
Attorney Granted Immunity to Aid Testimony in Sharpstown Probe
The government seeks civil and criminal immunity for Sharp to avoid subpoenas statewide and allow testimony. Austin grand jury, led by Travis County DA Robert Smith, investigates bribery tied to two banking bills during a Texas Legislature special session. The measures favored by Sharp would have given state insurance backing to deposits at Sharpstown State Bank and less FDIC oversight.
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Grant
Sharp
Martin
Travis County
Robert 0. Smith
Austin
Texas
Sharpstown
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Mrs Golden’s Mother Dies in Midland Area
Mrs. Joe C. Davis 67 of Midland died Friday night after a heart seizure returning from an outing on the Pecos River. Funeral services were set for 10 a.m. at Golf Course Church of Christ with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park under Ellis Funeral Home. Born Mary Fleming McNeil July 2, 1904 in Palo Pinto County she married Joe C. Davis in 1925 in Clyde and lived in Abilene Seagraves Iraan before moving to Midland in 1949. Survivors include her husband, three sons, a daughter, two brothers and 10 grandchildren.
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Joe C. Davis
Midland
Rankin Hospital
Pecos
Golf Course
Church of Christ
Resthaven Memorial Park
Ellis Funeral Home
Mary Fleming McNeil
Palo Pinto County
Clyde
Abilene
Seagraves
Iraan
Joe C, Davis Jr
Colleyville
D.T, Davis
Lawrence P, Davis
Phoenix
Ariz
Ray Golden
W.L, McNeil
L.B, McNeil
Stamford
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Commander Board
Commander Board International, Inc
Ben Barnes
Mrs. Sayers
Walthall Street
Airlawn
Home Owned and Operated
SE Discount Center
Ant and Roach
AJAX
Uel
Panty
Chase
Bankamericard
John Oos
Gibson
Havoline
Uwe
Oss Walloper
Film & White
Polaroid
Cress
FILM
Cal
Gibson Price
Ine
Kodak
Panehandle
National Weather Service
THE
At&t
Ad Rich
Beth
duPont
Eastman el Paso NG
Ford
Elec
Tire
Great
A&p
Gulf Oil
IBM
Int
Paper Marathon
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penn Cent
Penney
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Ind
Texaco
UN Carbide
US Steel
Woolwtc
Ves
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