Grissom Study Sets Path for Next U S Flight Decision
CAPE CANAVERAL UPD Scientists evaluate Gus Grissom to decide if another suborbital flight will occur and who would fly. If canceled, Project Mercury shifts to an orbital mission next year with Grissom, Shepard, and others eligible. Webb notes no decision yet.
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Atlantic Ocean
Union Resumes Talks With Ford and GM
The United Auto Workers resumed contract negotiations with General Motors and Ford. Local talks at about 60 bargaining units run concurrently with national talks, covering topics like vacation pay outside contracting and production standards. Chrysler talks resume Tuesday with requested contract changes. AMC-UAW talks also resume, with 1958 contracts expiring Aug 31 and AMC agreement ending Sept 6.
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Wade In Demonstration At Rainbow Beach In Chicago
Six Negro and five white freedom waders staged a calm wade in at Rainbow Beach in Chicago. The event drew about 200 white bathers and 135 police at start, with 40 officers remaining by midafternoon as chilly 58 degree water cooled the crowd.
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UPI
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Refugee Flow To U S From Cuba Halted
Miami reports the Cuban government closed Havana airport to international flights to greet Yuri Gagarin at Castro's July 26 anniversary. Pan American's bid for 10 daily mercy flights was rejected though two daily flights approved. the plan aimed to lift 20,000 Cuban visa holders to Miami using foreign aid funds.
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Rioters Clash At Diamond Cup Hydroplane Races
In Coeur d Alene Idaho about 700 fans sparked a weekend riot that crowded city and county jails. Police using tear gas broke up the melee after bottles were thrown. 12 riot suspects and 20 others were jailed, with several juveniles sent home.
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Soviet Trawlers Shadow U S Space Flight Recoveries
Russian trawlers kept radar gear in position near the Florida recovery zones during two US space flights. Navy officials reported a stationary Soviet vessel with electronic gear near the recovery areas east northeast of Grand Bahama Island, about 300 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral. Observers said the ships did not disrupt operations and any gained information would be public.
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Gus) Grissom
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Washington
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ASU Official to Attend Berkeley Institute for Administrators
Dr. H D Richardson vice president of Arizona State University will attend a four day institute at the University of California Berkeley from July 31 to August 4. The program targets college and university administrators and will cover faculty motivation recruitment morale and teaching load evaluation and administration participation.
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UPI
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Arizona State University
University of California, Berkeley
ASU Publishes Long-Span Arizona Election Results Book
ASU bureau of government research has printed a compilation of Arizona general election results from 1911 to 1960. It includes presidential results from 1912 to 1960, U.S. Senate results from 1911 to 1958, state mine inspector results from 1914 to 1960, and other state elections.
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UPI
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U.S
JFK Policies Stir Up Ire Of Goldwater
Sen. Barry Goldwater accuses the Kennedy administration of "almost calculated confusion" on a radio program. He blasts government by crisis and demands for unemployment benefits minimum wage aid to struggling areas and federal education funds as not creating new jobs while criticizing the space program.
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Britain Faces Tax Push Sparking Shopping Spree
In London Britons rushed to buy televisions washing machines and refrigerators amid fear of higher taxes. Critics including Labour MP Norman Dodds attacked Queen Elizabeth II s yachting trips as unnecessary while Selwyn Lloyd prepares austerity measures and a possible wage freeze looms for government and nationalized industries.
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UPI
Britain
Norman Dodds
Ipswich
Space Experts Plan Talks On Material
A material symposium will be held in Phoenix from September 13 to 15. About 1,800 space age experts from industry science and government will attend. Gen. B A Schriever commander of the Air Force Systems Command will deliver the keynote. Over 50 military personnel and scientific and industrial experts will present papers or join panels.
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House Debates Kennedy Health Plan For Seniors
The House Ways & Means Committee opened two weeks of hearings on Kennedy’s proposal to provide hospitalization and nursing benefits for about 14 million Americans aged 65 or older. Abraham Ribicoff testified as the administration pushes toward a congressional showdown next year.
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East Swelters Plains Chilled By New Laws
Thundershowers edge toward the East as a heat wave bakes from Texas to New England. New York beaches close crowds and temps reach the upper 90s to 93 in the city, while the Great Plains report record chill with 49 degrees at Valentine and Kansas City hitting 73 on Saturday.
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Luke Plane Loses Tank and Starts Brush Fire
A T 33 from Luke Air Force Base lost its tip tank on a flight from Hamilton AFB California. The tank struck a utility pole five miles south of Oakland knocking down a power line and starting a small brush fire. No injuries reported. The aircraft continued to Luke and landed safely.
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Party Pools as Cure for Drunk Driving Suggestion
Berkeley California UPI reports social psychologist Dr Raymond Fink of the California State Department of Public Health proposes party pools to prevent drunk driving by designating a non drinking driver for the group. He also favors suspending licenses during weekends and 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. to curb risky hours while noting juries and social attitudes affect convictions.
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Missing 3-Year-Old Girl Found by Sheriff's Posse
A 3-year-old girl named Pauline Benally, daughter of Charley and Mrs. Benally of Leupp, was found safe three miles from the Mount Elden Indian Bible Conference grounds after wandering from a church outing. Nearly 100 Navajos along with deputies and Forest Service personnel searched overnight after she disappeared around 5 p.m.
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UPI
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Charley Benally
Leupp
Mount Elden
Policeman’s Best Friend Wed Fugitive After 26 Years
London police officer Charles Pearce recalls the 1935 Brixton Hill case where a beautiful blonde bride was a decoy for an automobile gang. He kept the secret 26 years, even after his best friend died in World War II and the bride perished in the London blitz.
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UPI
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Pearce
Brixton Hill
Scotland Yard
Wales
Force
Tn Decent
Royal Air Force
Officials Seek New Leads in Franz Harrer Killing
In Florence, Pinal County Deputy Bill Purden urged fresh clues in the 10 month old murder of Franz Harrer. Harrer's body with two bullet wounds was found Oct 23 on Superstition Mountain north slope. FBI lab confirmed his identity. luggage and motorcycle were found near Tucson. $1000 missing.
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Pinal County
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United States
Mexico City
Tucson
Priest Directs Sunday Traffic at St Francis Xavier
In Hyannis Massachusetts the Very Rev Leonard J Daley pastor of St Francis Xavier Church directed traffic after the 10 am mass. He wore a long black robe instead of a police uniform to cope with a growing presidential traffic jam tied to the Kennedys attendance. He quipped that there aren’t enough policemen to handle Catholics and Protestants alike.
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UPI
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Murder Trial Begins for Charley Washa in Phoenix
In Phoenix the murder trial of Charley Bud Washa opens with the state seeking the death penalty. Washa is charged with the strangulation beating death of 71 year old Jose E. Riley last February. Riley’s body was found in a shallow grave near Casa Grande before Judge Laurens L. Henderson.
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Bud) Washa
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