Space Ranks Shrink as Spacemen Seek Other Jobs
AP report notes 43 of 73 astronauts remain capable of flight with 12 set for Apollo 17 or Skylab. Eleven haven’t flown, others wait on fate of Soviet mission, while veterans study Russian and some plan to depart amid overstaffing in NASA crews.
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Paul Recer
Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Astronaut Corps
America
Donald K. Slayton
Edgar D. Mitchell
James B. Irwin
Irwin
Mitchell
Slayton
Today in History May 29 1972 Memorial Day events
On May 29 events include the 1453 fall of Constantinople marking end of the Middle Ages, Patrick Henry born in 1736, Rhode Island ratifying the Constitution in 1790, Wisconsin joining in 1848, John F. Kennedy born in 1917, Attu battle in 1943, Hillary and Norgay summit Everest in 1953, and age-appropriate notes from 1962 to 1967 about JFK and the Pentagon.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Patrick Henry
Virginia
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
John F. Kennedy
Brookline
Mass
Attu
Aleutians
Edmond Hillary
New Zealand
Tensing Norkay
Nepal
Mt. Everest
Middleburg
Pentagon
Weather snapshot for Texas with highs and showers
The report lists temperatures across Texas with highs around 89 to 91 and lows in the 60s. North and Panhandle areas show variable cloudiness, widespread showers and thunderstorms, and cooler trends by Tuesday, with coastal winds 8 to 18 knots turning southerly.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
North Central
South Central
Nation Marks Memorial Day With Ceremonies Across U S
Memorial Day tributes span the country as officials honor war dead from Bull Run to Khe Sanh. wreaths are laid at Arlington, Rep. William Scott represents Nixon in Moscow rites, the Resolute casts a wreath off San Francisco, and Coweta Oklahoma dedicates a new memorial for Vietnam dead. In Frankfort Marine Leagues honors Lt Presley N O Bannon, while Dallas decorates cemeteries with family donated flags.
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Associated Press
Bull Run
Khe Sanh
Arlington National Cemetery
William Scott
R-Va
Nixon
Moscow
San Francisco
Coast Guard
Resolute
Golden Gate
Coweta
Okla
Oklahoma
Frankfort
Marine Corp League
Presley N. O'Bannon
Nixon Brezhnev sign long range peace pledge at Moscow summit
Nixon and Brezhnev signed a joint statement of principles pledging peaceful coexistence and eventual general disarmament. They agreed to early talks on a European security conference and East-West force cutbacks in Central Europe. Kissinger cautioned the accord is aspirational.
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Moscow
Nixon
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
East
West Germany
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Vietnam
Kissinger
Middle East
Soviet Union
U.S.A
U.S.S.R
United Nations
Memorial Day traffic toll rises in Arizona crash
Three killed and 11 injured in a Memorial Day weekend crash near Flagstaff Arizona. Victims include Maxine Daymond Soto 35 and Mary Soto 17 Santana Young 6 all from Sacaton Arizona. Their car veered off U S 89 and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
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Associated Press
Flagstaff
Ariz
Maxine Daymond Soto
Mary Soto
Santana Young
Sacaton
U.S. 89
Dick Nelson
Cudahay
Calif
Labor Leader Seeks End Of Jurisdictional Fighting
Labor leader Jerry Wurf urged AFL CIO to end jurisdictional wars and focus on organizing non union workers. He cited chaos in public sector fights and called for a federal law to cover public employees while criticizing current arbitration as inadequate. He highlighted a Pennsylvania organizing victory amid bitter interunion competition.
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Neil Gilbride
Houston
Jerry Wurf
Aflcio
Wurf
American Federation of State
Afl-Cio
Pennsylvania
Congress
Teamsters
N Viet Nam Forces Ambush South Vietnamese Relief Column
North Vietnamese forces lying in ambush south of An Loc today attacked a South Vietnamese relief column, disrupting relief efforts and signaling ongoing combat in the region. The clash underscores regional tensions and the fluid battle dynamics near An Loc.
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Saigon
An Loc
Funeral set for M L Andress Snyder date
M L Andress 73 died Saturday in Root Memorial Hospital Colorado City after brief illness. Funeral 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Snyder with Rev. Riley and Rev. Roenfeldt officiating. Burial Snyder Cemetery Bell Seale Funeral Home. Survived by wife Clemey. daughter Mrs. Chambers. son Leon. two sisters and two brothers. Many Mason and Shrine roles noted.
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M.L. Andress
Root Memorial Hospital
Colorado City
First Baptist Church
Snyder
Jack Riley
Glenn Roenfeldt
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Mr. Andress
Comanche
Scurry County
Clemey Smith
Roby
Suez Shrine Temple
Order of Eastern Star
Andress
Democratic Party
Baptist Church
Robert Chambers
Leon
Waco
Ollie McCombs
Rotan
O.P. Richard
Dalhart
Jessie
San Antonio
Sam
Yuma
Ariz
Marvin
High School Student To Attend Texas Nuclear Symposium
Gary Wittie of Snyder high school will join about 500 outstanding science students and teachers at the 12th Texas Nuclear Science Symposium to be held June 5 to 8 at the University of Texas in Austin. Roy Burk guides Wittie with Texas Electric Service Company sponsoring the event, featuring speakers from government and academia and tours of fusion research labs.
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Gary Wittie
Galveston
Snyder High School
University of Texas At Austin
Roy N. Burk
Texas Electric Service Company
Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation
Henry Clark
John J. McKetta
E.P. Schoch
University
National Energy Policy Committee
Nixon
Stephen J. Gage
White House
Office of Science and Technology
Washington, D.C
Leonard A. Sagan
Nuclear Science
University of Florida
R. E. Wainerdi
Texas A&m
Frank B. Salisbury
Utah State
Department of Plant Science
Samuel P. Ellison Jr
College of Natural Science
University In
Austin
Clark
Foundation
Coast Guard intensifies search for missing Navy P3A Orion
In Sunnyvale California an intensive search continues for a missing Navy P3A Orion with oil aboard. Coast Guard crews on four vessels and five aircraft hunt from Monterey to Morro Bay amid low clouds and fog. The aircraft is presumed down on a training flight from Moffett Field to Big Sur 120 miles south of San Francisco. Search today focuses on the already covered 16 000 square miles of rugged terrain.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Monterey
Morro Bay
Coast Guard
Moffett Field
Here
Big Sur
San Francisco
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American Legion
Towle Memorial Park
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South Vietnam
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