Countdown Begins For Apollo 12 Moon Launch
Cape Kennedy Fla AP Electrical power surged into a Saturn 3 rocket as the countdown for Apollo 12 started. Launch director Walter Kaprvan reported smooth preparations. Astronauts Conrad Gordon and Bean trained in simulators and rehearsed steps for the 10 day flight aiming to land on the moon November 19 in the Ocean of Storms with two extra lunar excursions totaling seven hours.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Walter Kaprvan
Charles Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Alan L. Bean
Conrad
Gordon
Bean
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Globe
Moon
Lunar
Twin sons born to Cleveland couple after wife’s delivery
Jerry Dunlap returns home to find wife Patricia has already delivered a boy and awaits a twin. He recounts delivering first aid to the newborns, with one weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces and the other 4 pounds 11 ounces. Both mother and babies at a local hospital in good condition.
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Cleveland
Jerry Dunlap
Dunlap
Patricia Dunlap
Best Hope for Survival Lies in Reducing Population
A National Research Council committee states humane long term survival hinges on limiting world population. It warns 33 billion already strains Earth’s carrying capacity and by 2670 could reach 30 billion without effective controls. Resources like mercury tin tungsten and helium are near exhaustion, threatening industrial society.
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Washington
UPI
National Research Council
Research Council
Preston E Cloud Jr
University of Calfornia
Guerrillas attack Saigon outposts amid winter campaign
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked two Saigon fringe outposts and a North Vietnamese assault on a militia post northwest of the city left one dead and nine wounded. Across the country 68 rocket and mortar strikes were reported as U S and Saigon forces reinforced positions. Thirty miles northwest of Saigon, 150 North Vietnamese soldiers clashed with South Vietnamese forces, with heavy casualties on both sides. The war's momentum and potential peace talks remained unsettled as U S officials anticipate a buildup before next year.
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Aps
Mekong
Central Highlands
Ho Chi Minh
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trau
South Vietnam
U.S
Washington
North Vietnam
South
Vietnam
Nixon
ES 3Rd Marine Division
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietam
4Td
Tran van Lam
Housing authority faced federal critique over extra fees
The Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority was cited by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for inadequate administration as Firelands Retirement Centers Inc charged extra rents and a 130 dollar lounge fee at Kennedy Plaza. The HUD findings note three residents billed for air conditioning as well. Firelands led by Rev John Clausing operates centers in Oberlin and Lorain with a board meeting set to address the overcharges.
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Lorain Metropolitan Housing
Kennedy Plaza
Lorain
Federal
Housing Authority
Five bus routes and 40 cent fare proposed for Elyria service
Richard Egg of Convenient Bus and Limo Service outlined a plan to restart public transport with five tentative routes from downtown to Midway Mall and surrounding areas, charging 40 cents for adults and 20 cents for children. Transfers would cost 10 cents and police in uniform ride free. A 10-ticket student book would cost 3.60 and be valid for the purchase week. The utilities committee unanimously supported moving the franchise proposal to full council.
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Elyria
Richard Egg
Egg
Midway Mall
University Heights
West-Middle-East Avenues
Bell-Lake Avenue
Gulf- Abbe Road
University
Heights
Egy
New York
Middle Avenue Marathon
Middle Ave
Cleveland
Lorain
Kennedy inquest date awaits ruling in Kopechne case
Edgartown Mass AP the inquest date for Mary Jo Kopechne will be set after a Pennsylvania court decides on exhumation for autopsy Judge James A Boyle will preside at the Edgartown District Court proceedings He will not set a date until the Pennsylvania decision is issued A petition for exhumation was filed in Wilkes Barre Pa by Dist Atty Edmund Dinis with Judge Bernard C Brominski considering the motion
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Edgartown. Mass
Mary Jo Kopechne
Pennsylvania
James A. Boyle
Edgartown
Edward M Kennedy
Boyle
Wilkes Barre
Dist Atty
Edmund Dinis
Bernard C Bromuinski
Weather highs and lows forecast with sun
Weather summary forecasts warmer conditions then clearing and cooler tonight with lows in the mid to upper 30s. Sunny and warm tomorrow with highs in the low to mid 60s. Sunday expected fair and a little warmer. Probability of precipitation near zero tonight and Saturday. Sunset 3 17 p m Sunrise 7 83 a m. High 31 yesterday afternoon Low 42 this morning.
County can buy two office buildings for $945,000
Lorain County commissioners may acquire the County Administration Building and the former J.C. Penney Co. building on Broad Street totaling 120000 square feet for 945000 dollars. The proposal from Lehman Johnson Young Co outlines five and ten year financing options and notes current rental credits and existing tenants as the county considers sites for a new courthouse and jail.
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Lorain County
J.C. Penney Co
Broad Street
A.N. Smith
Lehman-Johnson-Young Co
Smith
Sears
Elyria
Penney
Charles Evers Evers Fayette Miss feature in Sunday Chronicle
The Sunday Chronicle presents an intriguing feature on Charles Evers the first Negro mayor of a southern city since Reconstruction and Fayette Miss discussing changes in Mississippi. The section also previews television stars pursuing film stardom and the challenges on the road to the promised land of moviedom.
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Mississippi
Charles Evers
Evers
Fayette
Miss
Sunday Chronicle
Promised Land
Movidedorn
Burma Red China clashes intensify on border
Burmese Premier Ne Win says fighting with communist forces on the China border has left 133 Burmese dead, 250 wounded and 42 missing. He does not name China but refers to Chinese Communist troops amid escalating border skirmishes since 1967, with at least eight heavy clashes and ten lighter actions.
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Rangoon
UPI
U Nu
China
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Gate of Heavenly Peace
Ne Win
Burmese Socialist Party
Win
Burma
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Lake Avenue United Church of Christ
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