Man's Space Role Depends On Glenn In Orbit
Washington report outlines the Mercury program and NASA debate over manned versus automated spaceflight. It notes Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. as key to testing human capability against Enos the chimp, with plans for two-man Mercury flights and rendezvous trials paving the path to Apollo and a Moon landing by 1967 if technology holds.
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Ray Cromley Washington
NEA
John H. Glenn Jr
Enos
Glenn
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pentagon
NASA
Moon
Twoman
Mercury
Apollo
Earth
U. S
Air Force
Soviet Union
Sea of Tranquility
Double Will Portray Ike In The Longest Day
Henry Grace, an MGM set decorator, will portray General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Darry Zanuck’s The Longest Day. Grace bears a strong resemblance in appearance and voice to Ike and will appear in a D-Day Normandy invasion sequence. He has no prior acting experience, but has long worked in films and TV and even holds an Oscar for set decoration. Grace comments on his political views, fears about impersonation, and plans to take a vacation from MGM for the European shoot.
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Vernon Scott
UPI
Hollywood
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Fisenhower
Henry Grace
Darry Zanuck
Grace
20Th Century-Fox
Movies
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
MGM
Motion Picture Academy
Gigi
Kennedy
California
Dove Schary
Adlai Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
Zanuck
Europe
State Study Finds Unemployment Favors Ex-Miners
Charleston report from UPI notes a study by the West Virginia Employment Security Department shows unemployment hits unskilled and older workers hardest, with former coal miners disproportionately affected. Of 12,000 beneficiaries under the 1961 act, about 38 percent came from mining, 71 percent were primary earners, and many supported large families. The research is the second of four, with follow ups planned for January and April.
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Charleston
UPI
State Employment Security Department
West Virginia
Department
Clement R. Bassett
Bassett
Wheeling Man Killed In Ohio Road Mishap
John S. Tomassene, 33, son of a Wheeling physician, was killed when his small foreign car was struck by a tractor trailer five miles west of Bridgeport Ohio. The truck driver, William Gottschall, 40, of Reading Pennsylvania, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and released on $2,500 bond after arraignment. Monzi, 24, escaped injury.
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Bridgeport
Ohio
UPI
John S. Tomassene
Wheeling
W. Va
Here
Ohio Highway Patrol
Tomassene
William Gottschall
Reading
Belmont County
Paul Oschsenbein
Gottschall
Carl C. Monzi
New Kennington
Monzi
Raymond Tomassene
80 Cabell Blue Law Indictments Return
Huntington era Cabell County grand jury returns 80 indictments naming 43 individuals for operating non essential businesses on Sunday in blue law raids. Officials say the jurors recess until February 16 and expect violators to adjust hours to comply with the Sunday closing law.
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Huntington
UPI
Cabell County
Huntington Department
NOW YOU KNOW By United Press International Ninety percent Canada border
United Press International notes that ninety per cent of Canada's population resides along the United States border, highlighting population distribution near the border region.
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United Press International
Canada
United States
Doctors Discuss MAA Cutbacks in Charleston
UPI reports state welfare officials met with the Medical Association pharmacists osteopaths hospitals and other groups to discuss the cut-down Medical Assistance for the Aged program. Commissioner W Bernard Smith and aides heard spokesmen explain the impact of the six week old payment reductions and the pledge forms for accepting lower rates.
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Charleston
UPI
MAA
W. Bernard Smith
State Medical Association
Smith
Iowa Governor Seeks Priority for Iowa Spurs Over PA WV Route
Des Moines political dispute centers on highway planning. Governor Norman Erbe argues proposed Iowa interstate spurs to Waterloo and Cedar Rapids would carry more traffic than the Pittsburgh to Charleston segment in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. He plans to confer with Iowa's congressional delegation.
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Desmoines
UPI
Norman A. Erbe
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Erbe
Rex Whitton
Washington
Whitton
Pittsburgh
Charleston
W. Va
Great
Nine false arrest suits filed after Sunday raids in Weirton
Nine employees of Jim's Bargain Store filed false arrest suits totaling 225000 against owner Robert Marantz for Dec 3 arrests during Sunday closing law raids. Each suit seeks 25000 alleging void warrants and false arrest with misrepresentation on a blanket arrest. Similar actions in Huntington target three department stores with claims totaling 400000.
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Weirton
UPI
Jim
Robert Marantz
Marrantz
Huntington
Gate crasher dines with Kennedy at Columbus rally
Charles Meeks, 47, union official, slipped into a Kennedy dinner in Columbus after snagging Kennedy buttons. He sat near the speaker, shook hands with the President twice, received an autograph, and had his photo taken, while Secret Service officials later questioned how he entered without a ticket.
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Columbus
UPI
Kennedy
Secret Service
Charles Meeks
Washington
Meeks
The
Columbus Dispatch
Bill Foley
John W. Bush
Fairground
Michael V. di Salle
Greater Columbus United Auto Workers Citizenship Council
Palo Alto Woman Aggregates Junk Mail for Day Visit
Mrs. Robert L. Richard led a Republican club driven effort to bundle thousands of unsolicited advertising circulars and donation requests. The mail, weighing seven pounds in about 102 pieces, will be delivered to Postmaster General J Edward Day to protest junk mail handled by the Post Office at bulk rates.
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Palo Alto
Calif
UPN
Robert L. Richard
J. Edward Day
Richard
Day
Washington, D.C
Republican Club
Convicted Woman Seeks Review in Abortion Death Case
Ethel Davis of Charleston asked the State Supreme Court to review her second degree murder conviction tied to the death of Florence Harris during an attempted abortion last January. Davis, among four sentenced in Kanawha County, contends she did not know of the plan and acted only when an emergency arose, arguing involuntary manslaughter would have been the proper charge.
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Charleston
API
Ethel Davis
State Supreme Court
Huntington
Florence Harris
Davis
Kanawha County
Harris
First U S presidential candidate nominated at national convention
The record notes William Wirt as the first U S presidential candidate nominated by a national convention, chosen by the anti Masonic Party in September 1831.
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U. S
William Wirt
anti-Masonic Party
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