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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1965
Page
6
President Johnson designates Vice President Hubert Humphrey to head a national program to bring back school drop-outs as many as 750000 youths expected to leave classrooms next year. The move was announced during a Youth Opportunities Council meeting led by Humphrey.
Air Force reports Gemini 6 with Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford is scheduled for October from Cape Kennedy. Launch apparatus including Titan 2 booster and Atlas Agena target vehicle are ready. Gemini 6 sits at Merritt Island for tests as officials plan the first orbital docking with the Agena.
Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad blasted from Cape Kennedy in Gemini 5. An oxygen fuel cell heater problem caused concern for an eight day flight, prompting precautionary emergency splashdown plans from Hawaii. Flight proceeded with steady oxygen pressure, while ground control monitored the issue.
Seabrook Texas residents including astronaut Charles Pete Conrad and his wife Jane filled a home to watch the Gemini 5 launch. They described the liftoff as beautiful with no hitches and shared prayers with Rev. Ronald Raish present for the scene. Pete Conrad Jr. and siblings joined relatives in the celebratory moment after his father’s achievement.
Tom Coleman 52 a highway department engineer and special deputy was arraigned on murder and wounding charges after fatally shooting Jonathan Daniels 26 an Episcopal seminary student and wounding Rev Richard Morrisree 26 a Chicago priest outside a Hale County area grocery A part time deputy Coleman posted 12500 bond and pleaded innocent The six civil rights workers freed from jail after a week had been pickedeting and singing at the store Survivors said they were not demonstrating and Negro workers said the store was a frequent stop
A Scottsdale Police officer fired a warning shot into the Arizona canal early today during a 2:30 a.m. chase of two 14 year old car thieves. One youth fled three blocks before being arrested. the other was caught at his home. The officer said the youth moved with an object in hand and he believed it could be a weapon. The object turned out to be a sandal. Both youths were released to their parents.
U S Air Force and Marine planes pursued retreating Viet Cong from Chu Lai on Friday, killing at least 55 in air strikes as ground forces pressed the attack. Marine Lt General Krulak said 50 dead and 150 wounded among Marines in the battle, while air power targeted Thanh Hoa barracks and Viet Cong concentrations across South Vietnam.
Lt Col L Gordon Cooper Jr and Lt Cmdr Charles Pete Conrad Jr commanded a Gemini 7 mission launching from Cape Kennedy at 10 a m EDT aboard a Titan 2 based vehicle. The flight planned eight days and 121 earth orbits with radar tests and an initial docking rendezvous evaluation to advance toward lunar missions.
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