Music Filled Seven Tweaks Power for Gemini Flight
Houston AP reports Gemini 7 with Frank Borman and James Lovell Jr. nudged higher by a short rocket pulse in preparation for rendezvous with Gemini 6a. Lovell’s voice and the crew’s Mars music mood spread through the capsule as simulated and real maneuvers set up a crucial test for the two craft in their space mission.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Gemini 7
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Lovell
Earth
Navy
Air Force
Col
Borman
Dean Martin
Christopher B. Kraft Jr
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Western Pennsylvania Weather Report Brief
Western Pennsylvania sees increasing clouds on Wednesday and a bit warmer with a high of 38 to 46. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies with little change in temperature.
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Pennsylvania
Bills Would Provide Study Appropriations for River Clean Up
Harrisburg lawmakers sponsor House Bills 2218 and 2219 to fund feasibility studies for the Casselman and Youghiogheny Rivers. The Department of Forests and Waters would report findings and estimated improvements to recreation, with appropriations of 19000 and 36900 respectively, and the acts would take effect on passage.
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Casselmen
Somerset County
Casselman
Youghiogaeny
Harrisburg
Peter T. Dumbauld
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Youghingheny
Department of Forests and Waters
Msselman
Youghiogheny
State House
Durnbauld
Corporations push spending to fuel growth in 1966
U S government survey shows corporate outlays set to rise with new plant and equipment spending up by 900 million this year to 51.8 billion. Investment pace projected to reach 58.9 billion for transportation and business gear, signaling higher demand and confidence. FDIC boosts time deposits to 5.2 percent, urging small banks caution.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Senate House Economic Committee
Reserve Board
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
K. A. Randall
FDIC
Brief clash as U.S. Viet troops clash near Michelin plantation
American and Communist forces fought briefly Tuesday on the Michelin rubber plantation outskirts 40 miles northwest of Saigon. A U.S. 1st Infantry Division battalion found three enemy dead and captured a North Vietnamese regular. U.S. air and artillery drives drove off the Red detachment. one enemy prisoner reported a heavy weapons company in a Viet Cong regiment.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Michelin
U.S
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Pleiku
Tay Ninh
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Officials Say Olmstead To Be Model
Harrisburg AP Gov Scranton told about 80 people at Olmsted Air Force Base that defense officials want to make it a model for the nation. The base will be phased out by 1969 with proposals for educational industrial and aeronautical uses. Maj Gen Thomas White Jr estimated a 51050 annual deficit for a commercial jet airport, with 558000 operating costs and 506950 potential revenue. He urged granting 637 acres of the south complex and 112 acres of the east area to the commonwealth for airport use and keeping Harrisburg York Airport for general aviation, and retaining the PA National Guard unit at Olmsted or a similar mission.
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Harrisburg
Scranton
Olmsted Air Force Base
Middletown
Defense Department
Thomas R. White Jr
State Adjutant General
Olmsted
White
Commonwealth
Harrisburg-York State
Harrisburg York
Pennsylvana Air National Guard
Pope Declares Final Four Vatican II Decrees
Pope Paul VI announced the last four Vatican II decrees in St. Peter's Basilica, ending three years of work. The declarations cover religious liberty, global church issues, and roles for priests and missionaries, with a landmark move toward Christian unity. A parallel exchange with the Orthodox Church lifted the 1054 excommunications in Istanbul.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican Ecumenical Council
St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican
Paul
St. Peter’s
Athenagoras
St. George’s Cathedral
Istanbul
Golden Horn
Leo IX
Michael Caerularius
Bank Con Man Foiled by Alert Somerset Teller
An attempted check forgery in Somerset was foiled by an alert bank teller who recognized a forged signature on a 1150 check made out to Frank Shank. A blue Corvair and the caller posing as Robert Shank from Shank's Sunoco aided the plot, but police traced the suspect after he interacted with officers at the station.
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Somerset
Robert Shank
Shank
Sunoco
Earl Thomas
Breezewood
Thomas
Dinner Cancelled for Forbes Road PSEA Meeting
The Forbes Road PSEA dinner scheduled for December 8 at the Waite Star Hotel is cancelled due to conflicting meetings.
Soviet Reverses 2-Year Defense Cut With 5 Percent 1966 Increase
Moscow reports a new 1966 defense budget of 13.4 billion rubles, about 12.8 percent of the total, citing growing war menace. Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov blamed imperialist states for increased tensions and warned of a stronger heavy industry focus alongside consumer goods. Experts doubt the official percentage and note past cuts under Khrushchev and last year.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Vasily Garbuzov
Washington
Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
West
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Meany Says Papers Are Closed Shop
AFL-CIO President George Meany warned that most U.S. newspapers operate under labor contracts that effectively create a closed shop through a clause making foremen union members with hiring control. He criticized editorial opposition to repealing the Taft-Hartley Act ban on union shop conditions and contrasted it with current law.
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San Francisco
Afl-Cio
George Meany
U.S
Meany
Organized Labor
International Labor Press Association
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
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Ray Sembower
Ruth Ann Thomas
Probation Department
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