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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1969
Page
20
Fine silver memorial medals minted by the Bavarian State Mint Munich honor Apollo missions 8 9 and 10 as crewmembers are pictured on the obverse and the corresponding space flight on the reverse. The notes say the flights were elaborate preparation for a moon landing tomorrow morning.
The piece recounts Zager and Evans starting as a duo in Lincoln Nebraska, playing six nights a week for 104 dollars per night each, without heavy travel. They formed Truth Records in Omaha and pressed 100 copies after arranging studio time, with Lincoln friends and a local DJ promoting the debut.
Dohanos on stamp committee as part of nine member panel guiding U S postage stamp design and subject matter. committee includes Brown Conlon Dehahas MacPeek Mellon Morris Speers Thompson Truett Wyeth and others. Moon landing stamp planned for August issue with First Man on the Moon inscription and a jumbo 10 cent air mail issue. Major General Brock cent stamp planned for September 12 release with Brock memorial column shown.
In New York on June 27 the Hamburg lit up Battery Park with 1145 flashbulbs for the official Sylvania Big Shot photo. Al Gordon oversaw 525 FF33-B lamps and 620 2-B bulbs wired in series as onlookers timed their shots to a radio countdown.
A New York management deal led Zager and Evans to RCA Victor for their hit One. RCA promoted the duo, sending them to Chicago to record In the Year 2526 Exordium and Terminus, released July 7 with 100000 advance orders. Evans notes a Roger Miller like voice while Zager likens his to Bobby Goldsboro. their early singing softened melodies in rock groups.
In Santana de Ipanema Alagoas mayor Adeildo Nepomuceno plans a water born donkey monument as donkeys lose work due to a new water line. Residents joked while Recife paper cites a huge donkey population. Farmers plan a donkey parade and cocktail party to honor beasts aiding development.
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