Workhorse Gets New Space Age Role This Week
A Holloman Air Force Base rocket sled will be fired on Gemini 5 missions to measure ground spectral radiance for potential satellite fire detection and weather sensing. Astronauts Cooper and Conrad may view the test from 100 miles up as the sled climbs seven miles along a dual rail, reaching up to 105000 pounds of thrust with all three chambers on Thursday.
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Holloman Air Force Base
L. Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Holloman Project
B. E. Engle
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
John Paul Stapp
Earth
Engle
Holloman
Cooper
Conrad
U S Planes Hit Cong Dam and Power Plant
U S planes bombed a Ban Thach hydroelectric plant and its dam in North Viet Nam twice last weekend, with 11 Thunderchiefs each raid and no flooding reported. Additional strikes included a bridge near Dien Bien Phu and near border incursions, as U S ground forces reported 25 Viet Cong killed in operations northwest of Nha Trang. Marine units reported tunnel clears and 599 enemy bodies in the Van Tuong area after recent fighting.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Ban Thach
Hanoi
China
Dien Bien Phu
Big Red One
Nha Trang
da Nang Air Base
South
Viet Nam
van Tuong
Gemini 5 tails phantom satellite in space chase
Gemini 5 astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. chased a simulated Agena satellite across 40 000 miles in an eight day mission rehearsal. The maneuver targeted rendezvous with Gemini 6 and a future Moon flight.
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Howard Benedict
Space Agency
First Silverless Quarters Minted in Philadelphia
America's first silverless quarters were produced at the Philadelphia mint. The initial four coins will be kept at the Smithsonian. billions more will enter circulation after supply builds, by year end. The new nineties use a copper-nickel alloy sandwich with a copper core.
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Philadelphia
America
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Flooding Drenches Las Cruces After Tempest Hits
Las Cruces suffers flash floods as arroyo levee breach releases water through southeast districts near Dona Ana. National Guard and Army Reservists assist cleanup while Red Cross assesses damage and houses nearly 20 families in motels. No injuries reported. mayor calls it the worst in 15 years.
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Las Cruces
N.M
Dona Ana
Red Cross
John Kolpacoff
T. J. Graham
New Mexico National Guard
Army
Charles Smith
Roswell School Bus Routes for 1965 66 Released
Roswell city school bus routes for the 1965 66 year were announced by the school office. Times and stops for each of the many city buses are listed on Page 6 of today's Roswell Daily Record.
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Roswell City
Roswell
Missing Job Corpsmen at Camp Breckinridge riot aftermath
In Morganfield Kentucky authorities report only a few Job Corpsmen missing as 490 of 546 trainees return to campus after a riot at Camp Breckinridge. 13 discharged for rioting, six transferred, FBI probes a protection racket, and $13.50 monthly extortion allegations surface.
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Morganfield
Camp Breckinridge
Charles Preston
Preston
Jobs Corps
FBI
Cody Arrives Chicago as New Archbishop
Most Rev. John Patrick Cody arrived from New Orleans to become Chicago archbishop. A Hello Dolly band and a large crowd greeted him as Mayor Daley Governor Kerner and Bishop O Donnell led the welcome at the suburban station. He will be installed Tuesday at Holy Name Cathedral.
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Chicago
John Patrick Cody
New Orleans
Richard Daley
Otto Kerner
Cletus O'Donnell
Albert Cardinal Meyer
Holy Name Cathedral
Son of Senators Becomes Judge
Vincent Lee Vesely of Silver City was sworn in as assistant district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District, succeeding Leland Stone who resigned to return to private practice. Vesely is the son of the late Senator Vincent Vesely of Grants and Edith Vesely, who was appointed to serve the remainder of her husband’s term.
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Silver City
New Mexico
Sixth Judicial District
Vincent Lee Vesely
Leland Stone
Stone
Vesely
Vincent Vesely
D-Grants
Edith
Big WAFB Air Show Delights 27000 Crowded Spectators
About 27 000 area residents and Gov. Jack Campbell attended Walker Air Force Base open house for an afternoon air show featuring the US Air Force Thunderbirds. The event included parachute jumps, a Thunderbird pilot who switched to a spare after a minor plane issue, and the crowd enjoyed the bomb burst routine.
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Walker Air Force Base
Paul A. Kauttu
Thunderbirds
Maj. Kauttu
USAF
New Mexico
Jack Campbell
Usaf Thunderbirds
Thunderbird
Walker
Albuquerque
Gov. Campbell
L. F. Miller
Hearing on water storage bills for lower Colorado River Basin
Arizona and California congress members testified before the House Interior Committee as more than 100 people crowded the hearing. The session was led by Chairman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado.
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Associated Press
Washington
Colorado River
Arizona
California
Congress
House Interior Committee
Wayne Aspinall
D-Colo
Kidnaping Attempt Reported By Roswell Girl
A 15 year old Roswell girl told officers she was kidnapped from a Roswell theater Sunday night by two youths who forced her into a car near Lydia Liges east of Atkinson. She escaped as the car slowed near J. P. White Mills and hid in an alfalfa field before seeking help at a farmhouse. The abductors and car could not be described.
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Roswell
Cactus Drive
Lydia Liges
S. Atkinson
J. P. White Mills
Miss Liges
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Jake Booher JR
Alamogordo
Cong Dam
3Rd Marine Regiment
3Rd Battalion
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Houston Control Center
James A. McDivitt
McDivitt
Jane
Navy
Air Force
Mission Control Center
J. P. Cody
Chamber of Commerce
Little Rock
Ark
Air Force Base
Fort Morgan
Colo
John
James
Ed Nelson
Briggsdale
Jennifer
Janet
State Patrol
Colorado
Clayton
Amarillo, Tex
Virgil Lawrence McLaughlin
Amarillo
Marilyn Beachley
S. Union
Electronics Industries, Inc
Charlie Evans
Mary Henderson
W. Juniper
North Garden Ave
U.S. Navy
Steve Holland
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