Plans For Orbiting Man Pushed By U S
The United States advances toward orbiting a man this year with John H Glenn Jr slated as pilot. He moves into a Cape Canaveral ready room near launch facilities to begin intensive preparations for a three-orbit mission at 17 500 mph amid ongoing NASA assessments and potential delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
John H. Glenn Jr
Eady Room
Glenn
Atlas
Mercury Control Center
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil J
Grissom
Cape
Anna
Arlington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Union
NASA
Project Mercury
Robert Gilruth
Gilruth
Enos
Earth
Donations Totals and Prior Receipts Cited
A list of donors with individual amounts including W R Burns 2.00 and Emmett Trevey 10.00 plus anonymous gifts. Prior receipts show 343.50 and total to date 428.30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Burns
W. EF. Mathis
Sterling Taylor
Carl Gray
George Maule
Roy Elkins
Carl Voss Jr
W. R. Taylor
Charlott Eigen
John R. Wilson
James Hill
E. L. Cogdell
A. Blanchard Sr
A. C. Alexander
Ray Staton
E. W. Lloyd
Emmett Trevey
Gene L. Dulaney
UF Campaign Progress Report in Scurry County
Scurry County United Fund workers report 14 750 in gifts and pledges, reaching 38 8 percent of the 38 000 goal per KK H Williamson campaign chair. Advances show 10 603 59 9 percent for the advance gifts division and other divisions with varying quotas as plaques are earned by several units. A special gifts unit kickoff breakfast under Bob Crowell marked another campaign phase with a noon next Thursday meeting planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scurry County United Fund Campaign
KK. H. Williamson
Sacroc Unit 1
Texas Electric Service Co
Lincoln
Stanfield
Northeast
Bob Crowell
U N Forces In Battle With Katanga Troops
Fighting erupts in Elisabethville as U.N. forces clash with Katanga troops. panic drives residents from the city while Dag Hammarskjold's truce efforts face renewed strain amid roadblocks and renewed hostilities. Indian troops guard the airport and Katanga ministers contest the U.N. actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. N
Katanga
Elisabethville
Katangan the Congo
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Evariste Kimba
Tshombe
United Nations
Kimba
Brian Urquhart
Urquhart
Leopoldville
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N. Security Council
Paris
Weather snapshot for Texas regions with cooler highs
Cloudy and cooler conditions span North Central, Northeast, Northwest, South Central, Southeast and Southwest Texas. Areas expect scattered light rain today, with gradual warming by Wednesday. Tonight's lows range from 38 to 60 in various zones, highs from the upper 40s to mid 70s across the state.
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Texas
Baird
Lufkin
Austin
del Rio
Texas Panhandle
South Plains
Dalhart
Panhandle
South Texas
Laredo
Amarillo
Snyder
Texas Guardsman To Receive Army Commendation Medal
Pfc. Wendell Morrow of Wilson Texas will receive the Army Commendation Medal for saving a drowning man at Lake Elmer Thomas Oklahoma in August while on active duty at Fort Sill. He is a student at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Kennedy and Macmillan to Meet in Bermuda for Berlin Talks
President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will gather in Bermuda on December 21 and 22 to outline strategy for possible Berlin negotiations with the Soviet Union. They will discuss disarmament talks and an international inspection system to end nuclear testing, plus Britain’s entry to the European Common Market and Western defenses. The talks come as the West seeks progress on Berlin and responds to Moscow’s recent de Stalinization wave and Communist rejection of international control of access to West Berlin.
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Washington
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Bermuda
Berlin
Soviet Union
White House
Macmillan
Unin
London
Britain
Communist Party
Moscow
West Berlin
East Germany
City Seeks Bids for Pump and Elevated Water Tank
Snyder city council approved the annual audit and authorized bids for a 1,000 gpm high service pump at the water treatment plant and a 500,000 gallon elevated storage tank near the west end of Forty second Street. Funds come from recently issued bonds. The audit praised the city’s accounting system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Forty - Second Street
Roy Dunlap
Buster Anderson
Banisky, Ocker and Anderson Certified Public Accountants
Renewal Aid Granted for San Antonio Urban Renewal
The Urban Renewal Administration announced an advance of 68992 dollars to aid San Antonio in planning renewal of a 424 acre area near the central business district.
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Washington
San Antonio
Urban Renewal Administration
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Post Office
E. H. Muhlibach
Lion Oil Camp
Tommy Muhlbach
Sharon Rogers
Susan Muhlbach
Snyder Post Office
U.S
The
Associated Press
Valley View
Gainesville
By John Latz
Congo
Texas Guardsman
Christopher Vito Cristiano
East Providence
R. I
Mansfield
Ohio
New Jersey
Providence Sunday Journal
Marie Beatrice August
Anderson
U. S
Friedrichstrasse
East
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