Explorer XII Satellite Launched For Radiation Study
A new Explorer XII satellite launched from Cape Canaveral on a Thor Delta rocket is in an elliptical orbit to study solar radiation. NASA reports strong signals from tracking stations in Johannesburg, Santiago, Lima, and Ascension Island, with data reaching Earth and a possible path confirmed within days.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPD
Explorer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Johannesburg
South Africa
Santiago
Chile
Lima
Peru
Ascension Island
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Trinidad
Gray
Pvt. Smaw Trains At Marine Base Camp Pendleton
Pvt. Rockne B. Smaw, son of Mr and Mrs Vance A Smaw of Scottsdale, will complete four weeks of individual combat training on Aug 4 with the Second Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton. The program covers infantry tactics scouting patrolling first aid explosives defensive positions and crew served weapons.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
Second Infantry Training Regiment
Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton
Marine
Pvt
Rockne B. Smaw
Vance A. Smaw
W. Second St
Scottsdale
Grand Opening of Wild Bill's Saloon in Scottsdale
Host Bill Bird opens Wild Bill's on North Scottsdale Road at Shea Boulevard with an all day schedule from 11 30 a m to 1 a m. The frontier setting features desert mesquite pit barbecue chicken steak and ribs sawdust floors heavy beams and a plank bar. Modern comfort air conditioning is tucked behind the facade. Authentic western music nightly and Bird brings experience from Red Dog and the Bird Cage.
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Scottsdale
Wild Bill
Scottsdale Road
Shea Boulevard
Bill Bird
Bird
July figures show economy at new high despite unemployment
The Commerce Department reported July personal income at a record annual rate of 419.2 billion dollars and industrial production at a record with a 12 percent rise from 1957. Unemployment remained near seven percent, with hopes to drop to six by year end as defense spending supports progress.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Department
Federal Reserve Board
Labor Department
West German Cabinet Holds Crisis Berlin Session
Chancellor Adenauer convened the West German cabinet for a crisis session in Bonn ahead of talks with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov. Smirnov flew back from Moscow with Moscow likely issuing fresh instructions. The cabinet denounced a East Berlin blockade as a crime against humanity and weighed countermeasures while pledging restraint to avoid unforeseen consequences.
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Bonn
UPS
Konrad Adenauer
Berlin
Andrei Smirnov
Smirnov
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Germany
West Germany
East Berlin
Workers Strike At Rubber Plant Passaic New Jersey
Workers walk off at one minute past midnight closing the U S Rubber Co plant Passaic largest employer. The plant payroll 13 million and taxes 500100 yearly. Strike could force relocation to lower cost area. Local 21 United Rubber Workers says incentive pay would cut take home pay up to 15 weekly. Company negotiators refuse.
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Passaic
N.J
UPI
U.S. Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers Union
Nixon and Goldwater to Speak at Western Conference
Former Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. Barry Goldwater will deliver major policy addresses at the Republican Western Conference in Idaho. The four day event begins September 28 in Sun Valley with attendence anticipated from Hawaii and 13 western states leaders. William Miller of the RNC is set to speak on the conference's second day.
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Honolulu
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Idaho
Arthur D. Woolaway
Hawaii
GOP
Sun Valley
William E. Miller
Republican National Committee
Woolaway
Mesa Cannot Build Fallout Shelters Under Improvement Districts
Mesa City Attorney LaMar Shelley ruled that formation of improvement districts to fund fallout shelters is not legal. He stated the city lacks authority under the special improvement district program to construct bomb shelters and recommended new legislation to authorize such projects. He questioned Mesa’s power to acquire shelter sites and charge the costs to the district without legislative action.
Polio Cases Down Says Foundation President
Basil O Connor, president of the National Foundation, said on Tuesday that paralytic polio cases for 1961 will be 95 percent below the 1954 pre Salk vaccine figure, in New York.
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New York
UPI
Basil O’connor
The
National Foundation
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