COSMIC TWINS READY FOR 8-DAY GEMINI-5 FLIGHT
UPI reports NASA gave go ahead for Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad to launch Gemini-5 on Thursday despite a rare potential fuel cell issue. Officials stressed no pad problems, with extensive tests planned to ensure propulsion and power systems last the planned eight days. The mission aims for 121 orbits and about 3.14 million miles, challenging the Soviet record.
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Alvin B. Webb Jr
Cape Kennedy
UPI
Federal Space Agency
Gordon Cooper
Charles
Pete) Conrad
Paul Haney
Houston Manned Spacecraft Center
St. Louis
Cooper
Conrad
Oklahoma
Violence Flare In Black Mosque as Rioting Declared Ended
Los Angeles police and National Guardsmen fired on a Black Muslim mosque in a Negro neighborhood ending a week of rioting. Officers with pistols rifles and shotguns responded after reports of heavily armed Black residents entering the temple and firing on police. Eight Black men suffered head injuries in clashes as officers charged the temple. The episode marks another violent flare in the embattled Negro district amid ongoing killings and unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dart
Los Angeles
UPI
Play Me A Tune Man in Riot Damaged LA
Police describe a confrontation in riot damaged Los Angeles with a man carrying a shiny new saxophone phone. He declares ownership and is asked to perform but cannot play a note and is taken into custody.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Watts Unrest Escalates as Curfew Lifts
Gov Brown ends dusk to dawn curfew as 15 000 National Guardsmen patrol Watts amid new violent incidents. A Black Muslim mosque attack, a wounded man fleeing a roadblock, sniping at officers, and gunfire near a newsman's car mark a wave of public safety incidents. Thirty five people are detained for questioning and a public safety item seized after windows smashed. Marquette Frye's drunken driving arrest, cited as sparking the riot, fuels warnings of further trouble.
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Edmund G. Brown
Marquette Frye
Radio Announcer Bob Bower Dies at 42 in Charleston
Veteran radioman Bob Bower died of a heart attack at 42. For about 15 years he served as sports director, salesman and announcer for station WTIP and was regarded as the dean of radiomen in Charleston. He complained of chest pains and collapsed in his doctor's office.
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Charleston
UPL
Bob Bower
Bower
WTIP
Be akeley and Vicinity Weather Outlook Through Thursday
Weather forecast for Beckley and vicinity. Partly cloudy today with a 25 percent shower chance and 40 to 50 percent thunderstorm chance Thursday. High today near 86, low tonight 64. Thursday high in the mid 80s. River Greenbrier low and clear. Lake normal and clear. new gauge at Hinton 2.0 ft. West Virginia five day forecast: temperatures near normal 84-63 in the south and 80-56 in the north, with rainfall half to three quarters of an inch in thundershowers Thursday and again Sunday and Monday.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Needles
Imperial
Calif
Hibbing
Minn
West Virginia
Tornado Rips Grand Strand in South Carolina
A sea-spawned tornado tore through the Grand Strand resort area near Myrtle Beach causing about 1 million dollars in damage. No serious injuries were reported as ferris wheel and two motels were hit. power and communications were cut off and heavy rains flooded streets.
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Cresent Beach
S. C
UPI
South Carolina
Myrtle Beach Hospital
Myrtle Beach
Cherry Grove Beach
Horry County
Marines Claim Huge Victory Near Chu Lai In Viet Nam
U S Marines reported a major operation named Starlight near the Chu Lai airstrip, attacking the Von Tuong village complex with land sea and air power. Hundreds of Viet Cong casualties were claimed as Marines seized weapons and supplies while facing rugged terrain and entrenched defenses.
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Chu Lai
Michael T. Maloy
Saigon
UPS
Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
von Tuong
I Corps
NASA chief Webb sees launch up close in Florida visit
NASA director James E Webb, head of a 35 billion dollar, 10 year program, visited Cape Kennedy area and Florida as part of a tour with management specialists. Webb, who has led NASA since 1961, had previously only watched launches on television due to his busy schedule.
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James E. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Earth
Mars
America
Webb
James Webb
Florida
Redstone
Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
Jim Webb
Tally Ho
N.C
Cape Kennedy
Manry rests after Atlantic crossing in tiny sailboat
Robert Manry, at 48, relaxed with his wife Virginia and children in a Falmouth hotel after sailing solo across the Atlantic in the 13 and a half foot Tinkerbelle. Police shielded him from eager crowds as officials planned a welcome in Cleveland and shipment of the craft home.
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Carl Dver
Falmouth
England
UPI
Robert Manry
Tinkerbelle
Manny
Virginia
Atlantic
Cleveland Plain Dealer
United States
Cleveland
Robin
Douglas
Manry
Mass
2500 Gls En Route From Savannah For Viet Nam
Two troop transports with about 2500 soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were to sail today bound for Viet Nam. They are the first 1st Cavalry ships to depart from Savannah after earlier contingents left Charleston. The division, ordered into the war by President Johnson, is the first full U.S. division to enter combat since Korea and is based at Ft. Benning Ga, known for air mobility using helicopters and infantry for rapid strikes.
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Savannah
UPS
1St Cavalry Division
Viet Nam
1St Cavalry
Charleston
S. C
Johnson
U.S
Korea
Ft. Benning
Marines Repel Viet Cong Attacks Near Da Nang Airbase
Militia forces tenaciously defend Da Nang airstrip with air strikes and naval support. Marines claim surprise and good intelligence led to a major victory with many battalions involved. Four Viet Cong efforts to breach the base perimeter were repulsed with no Marine casualties and two guerrillas killed. US and allied aircrews report air losses totaling 15,123 communists killed.
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da Nang
Saigon
County overdraft cut by more than a hundred thousand
Raleigh County officials announced the overdraft has been reduced from 169387.16 to 55442.90 as of July 1965. The 1964-65 financial statement, due later this month, will show an overdraft of about 47820.29 across funds including the general, dog, and park accounts with adjustments totaling 7000 in unpaid bills.
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Joseph L. Myler
Washington
UPI
Big Jim Webb
Raleigh County
Raleigh
Fitzpatrick Park
Litle Beaver Park
Charles Burdiss
Litle Beaver
Burdiss
Lost Cause Address Barred From Misdelivery
Accountant John Forster writes to the General Post Office demanding correct sorting of his mail. He notes his letter is addressed to the ancient SPA at Scarborough in the north riding of Yorkshire, not Knaresborough Guisborough Bradford Catterick army camp or Cleckheaton, and the missive was delivered to Great Yarmouth.
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Cambridge
UPI
John Forster
GPO
North Riding of Yorkshire
Knaresborough
Guisborough
Bradford
Catterick
Cleckheaton
Great Yarmouth
West Virginia tourism set to top state economy, predicts official
State Commerce Commissioner Koder Collison, preparing to leave office on Sept 1, predicts tourism will become West Virginia’s No 1 industry. He cites 6 to 70 percent attendance increases at pulse centers, Sutton Reservoir drawing over 850000 visitors, and 15 new motels plus expansions adding 1482 units. He notes nine hotels expanded and 12 pools added in fiscal 1964-65, attributing growth to private industry support and state tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Stobbe
Charleston
UPI
Koder Collison
Collison
Sutton Reservoir
Shipping Strike Settlement Is Likely Today
Washington observers expect a settlement today as Labor Secretary Wirtz pushes to end a 64 day shipping strike before the 5 p.m. deadline. Mediation was arranged between shipowners and two unions after a MEBA breakthrough, with Johnson urging a quick agreement and proposing industry wide machinery to resolve manning disputes on automated vessels.
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Washington
UPS
W. Willard Wirtz
Johnson
Wirtz
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
MEBA
Atlantic
Gulf
American Merchant Marine Institute
AMMI
Masters, Mates and Pilots
American Radio Association
Javits Seeks to Remove Shriver From One Job
Sen. Jacob R. Javits pressed an amendment to the poverty authorization bill to bar R. Sargent Shriver from holding any other federal office while he directs the Office of Economic Opportunity. The measure, part of the Senate debate on the poverty program, mirrors a prior attempt linked to the Peace Corps bill.
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Washington
UPI
Jacob R. Javits
R-N.y
R. Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Johnson
Javits
Senate
Shriver
John F. Kennedy
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Peace Corp
House
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
South Viet Nam
Wartorn
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Senate International Finance Subcommittee
U.S. Bar
Woman Killed In 164 Wreck on I-64 Near Winfield
Mrs. Jessie Hern 66 of Sum ersville South Carolina died when the car she rode in overturned after a momentary glance at a lane closed sign on Interstate 64. Her niece Evelyn Morris 34 of Montgomery escaped serious injury as she was en route to Indianola Iowa to become dean of women at a college. The crash raised the state road death toll for the year to 271, compared with 277 last year.
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Winfield
UPI
Jessie Hern
Summersville
S. C
Evelyn Morris
Montgomery
Miss Morris
Indianola
Iowa
Tell-Tale Legs Revealed By Indian Leg Watcher
K P Saxena of Bombay argues in a studied theory that female leg posture reflects personality traits. The image shows his claimed "character-revealing aspects" of the leg on display, illustrating his research conclusions.
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K. P. Saxena
Bombay
India
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