Saturn Booster Transport Problem Forces Route Rethink
A TVA dam lock break blocks the Tennessee River route for NASA's Saturn booster. Officials consider moving the 22 foot diameter, 78 foot long craft by land to a loading point below Wheeler Dam, with bridges and overheads posing barriers. The launch remains planned for Florida later this year.
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Huntsville
Ala
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
Wheeler Dam
TWA
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
NASA
Florida
Civil Defense Leaders Analyze Alert Exercise
About 30 OCDM and Canadian Civil Defense personnel began a four day conference at Region III headquarters to review Operation Alert 1961 and plan the federal testing exercise program for the coming year. Attendees include OCDM test directors, regional leaders, and officials from the United States Civil Defense Council and Ottawa Privy Council.
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Canada
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Region III
Jack Scott
Jack Weatherford
Jacksonville
United States Civil Defense Council
Geh
Edward F. Griffin
Raleigh
N. C
State
Territorial Civil Defense
Jew Describes Nazi Death Mill at Sobibor
Dov Freiberg, 34, testifies at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem about the Sobibor camp in Poland where he says about a million Jews were killed in 17 months. He survived by work and escape in 1943 and recalls a climate of torture and mass killing as the prosecution closes its case.
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Jerusalem
Eichmann
Sobibor
Dov Freiberg
Israel
Poland
Freiberg
Adolf Eichmann
Pelham High Launches Free Business Training Pilot
Pelham High School offers a free business course for selected graduates starting June 12. The program covers typing shorthand transcription and office practice with five class periods daily. Pelham is one of nine schools statewide chosen for the test. Miss Julia McCrimmon will teach with 25 students per class.
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Pelham High School
Pelham
Julia McCrimmon
Second
D. D. Morrison
Pelham Public Schools
State Department of Edication
House Eyes Omnibus Housing Bill Amid Appropriations
The House focuses on annual and catch-all appropriations totaling over 20 billion as it moves toward Wednesday action. Sen. Sparkman leads the large housing bill on the Senate floor and expects rejection of many Republican amendments.
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House
Senate
Washington
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Congress
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