Astronaut White to Exit Craft in Gemini Flight
Houston reports astronaut Edward H. White II will leave his spacecraft during the upcoming four day Gemini mission. If conditions permit he will open the hatch and float 25 feet into space on a tether for about 22 minutes with nearly 10 minutes outside the craft.
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Houston, Tex
Manned Spacecraft Center
Edward H. White II
Robert R. Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Director
White
Gilruth
Air Force
Hawaii
Lone bandit robs Furr's Supermarket on Second Street
A gunman entered Furr's Supermarket at 601 W Second St Monday night and forced assistant manager Raymond Gormley to hand over 2867 dollars from the safe before escaping. He was described as about 6'2" and 190 pounds in his mid thirties.
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Furr’s
Second St
Raymond Gormley
Farr’s
West Second
Wyatt
Senate votes to curb debate on voting rights bill
The Senate approved a one hour per senator time limit on further voting rights debate with a 70 to 30 cloture vote. Leaders expected final passage by tonight or Wednesday amid emphasis on swift action and several anticipated amendments. Police and robbery incident details appear unrelated to the vote.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Ervin
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Communications Satellite Corp
Jet Planes Hit Outpost Near 17th Parallel
Jet planes strafed a South Vietnamese outpost five miles from the 17th Parallel. Military spokesmen disagreed on whether the raiders were Communist MIGs or another group.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
17Th Parallel
Congressman Secures $796000 for WAFB Roswell Buildings
Congressman Johnny Walker announced in Washington that the House Armed Services Committee allocated $796000 for Walker Air Force Base Roswell. The funds will build a new gymnasium and a new base theater at the facility.
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Johnny Walker
Washington Today
House
Armed Services Committee
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell
Walker
D-N.m
Four Miners Trapped as Gas Mine Explosion Hits Robbins
Rescue efforts resumed in a mountain mine at Robbins Tennessee for four men trapped by a violent explosion. The body of a fifth miner had been found earlier and air clearance halted work for hours. Two large fans were to vent methane gas and coal dust.Officials said the trapped men were almost certainly dead.
Roswell High Valedictorian Dendy Tops Scholastic Honors
Roswell High School honored 62 students as honor graduates among about 700 seniors. Dendy and Best received $25 scholarships and bronze keys, with trophies for top all around student Susan Richards. Numerous other scholarships ranged from 50 to 2,000 annually, awarded by universities and foundations to named students including Hammonds, Shaw, Rose, Hart, and Mitchell.
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Dendy
Will C. Lawrence
Best
Jimmie Johns
Peggy Jean Arrington
Glenda Popejoy Bartlett
Sandra Blanton
Bryan Jay Best
William Roger Campbell
Richard Lee Chambers
Gennean Chesser
Patti Jane Collins
Carolyg Sue Curtis
Richard Jasper Dendy
Betty Ruth Ely
Mary Daisy Evans
Kenneth Roy Farrow
Robert Martinez Garcia
Sally Louise Gardner
Jane Garrison
Hal Keigh Gillespie
Bernard P. Ginsberg
Patricia S. Ham
Judy Harris
Thomas S. Harrison
Joy Hart
Marabeth Haut
Anna Lee Hayes
Jon Dan Heine
Ronnie Fowler Hix
Barbara Jean Hoover
Emily Johnson
Susan Keith
Ronnie Edwin Kettler
Clark Wishard Lemons
Mary Lee Long
Herbert Freemont Lowery
John MacCallum
Jay Edward Macauly
Jeanne Lee Mercer
Lawanda Miller
Eddie Lee Newby
Cheryl Ann Parker
Jo Anne Pelletier
Ray Phillips III
Dixie Lee Ramm
Susan Elizabeth Richards
Margaret Ann Richardson
Karen Sue Rogers
Thomas Andrew Rogers
Julie Lynn Rose
William David Schnaderer
Judy Segal
Ann Charlotte Sherman
Mary Catherine Smith
Sara Ann Snider
Kent Eugene Stauffer
Leonard Arthur Tarkington
Janice Jean Taylor
Patricia Traylor
Martha Gayle Vandeveer
Carolyn Kay Wells
Ronnie Willard
Janet G. Wooldridge
Patricia Ann Worstell
University of New Mexico
Glenn Williams
Stewart W. Stearns
Sara A. Snider
Jean E. O.son
Margaret A. Richardson
Ilona Shaw
Gary Mincher
Thomas Sr
Louise Freeman Bell
Daniel F. Jackling
Betty Stevens
John C. MacCallum
New Mexico State University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Richard Dendy
David Schwaderer
Physical Science Laboratory
Patricia van Worste
Henry Garrett
New Mexico Military Institute Foundation
Mark Kastner
Southern Methodist University
McMurry College
Abilene
Tex
Dale E. Hicks
Wayland Baptist College
Warren Schumpert
Hardin Simmons University
John Buffington
Texas Christian University
Buffington
West Texas State University
Canyon
Mike Mitchell
Mike Bar
Bryan Bost
Roswell High School
Wyatt
Warren Heiress Ethel DuPont Warren Found Dead
AP reports Mrs. Ethel DuPont Warren heiress and ex-wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was found dead at her home in Grosset Pointe Michigan and police call it an apparent self inflicted death.
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Associated Press
Grosse Pointe, Mich
Ethel DuPont Warren
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Parents sue Roswell school officials over student expulsion
The Allen family files in District Court against Roswell High School principal E A Williamson superintendent H F Allred and the Roswell Board of Education over an 8th grade boy expelled for truancy. They allege the action ruins credits and summer employment and seek damages and a restraining order to allow the year to end.
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School Board
Roswell High School
Roswell Schools
Roswell Board of Education
John M. Allen
Irene Allen
John Carlton Allen
J. C. Allen
Board of Education
Allens
City tests show new well at Jaffa Sunset pumps 2200 GPM
Tests Monday on the citys new water well at Jaffa and Sunset show a pump rate of 2200 gallons per minute and good water quality. City Manager Hoyt McMinn noted pumping began around 1 30 pm and by 1030 pm the mud was cleared and water was clear. Bids for a second well at Hobbs and Sunset are set to be opened in City Council Chambers Wednesday at 2 pm.
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Jaffa
Hoyt McMinn
McMinn
Hobbs
Ruby Keller Wins Case Against Roswell Lodge Firing
The New Mexico State Personnel Board ruled the Commission on Alcoholism unjustified in firing Ruby Keller, a Pecos Valley Lodge cook in Roswell. It recommended reinstatement after Keller was dismissed March 22 for alleged insubordination, noting her years of service. The commission may choose whether to follow the board’s recommendation.
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Santa FE
State Personnel Board
Commission On Alcoholism
Ruby Keller
Pecos Valley
Roswell
Keller
Saturn 1 Rockets to Orbit on Ninth Straight Test Flight
Cape Kennedy Fla. The Saturn 1 super-rocket achieved its ninth consecutive successful test flight and placed a mammoth satellite known as the space bird into orbit in a dramatic early morning launch.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Subdued by tear gas teacher goes berserk in Claremore
Betty Potts a 37 year old senior high school English teacher trapped in her home opened fire on neighbors children and a motorist in Claremore Oklahoma. Police used tear gas to end three hours of terror. Potts was removed to a hospital psychiatric ward with no injuries reported from gunfire.
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Claremore
Okla
Betty Potts
Betty Jo Potts
UPI
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Furr
Lone Bandit
Gormley
T. J. Hennings
Central City Corp
Craig Stemseng
Lakewood
Stemseng
Jerry Glidden
WAFB
Junior
Michael T. Hammonds
Patrick Horman
Taft School
Watertown
Conn
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Antonio Guzman Fernandez
Juan Bosch
Clinton Anderson
Anderson
Senate Irrigation and Reclamation
Stewart Udall
Amos Ward
Miss Potts
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