Discoverer Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit At Vandenberg
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California the Air Force announced the Discoverer rocket failed to achieve orbit. The 78 foot Thor IRBM and Bell Hustler stages lifted off at 3 49 p m but tracking could not confirm an orbit. No life aboard the mission and the capsule weighed over 300 pounds fueling speculation about secret reconnaissance equipment.
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Calif
Air Force
Bell-Hustler
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Alaska
North Pole
Space
He's Well Armed for Baby Sitting
Venice California police high risk discovery of a professional babysitter Jos eph F Calloway 22 with a cache of firearms including a .45 automatic a assembled machine gun seven rifles two other automatics two .45 revolvers and dynamite. Two children were in his home at the time and officers arrested him for questioning after serving two traffic tickets.
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Venice
Calif
UPI
Joseph F. Calloway
Calloway
Union Group Meets On State Strike
Phoenix builders face a statewide strike as 17 craft unions including Operating Engineers Local 428 and Sheet Metal Local 359 press for subsistence pay. About a third of Arizona's 29,100 construction workers are out of work or seeking jobs elsewhere, impacting retail and services with payroll losses around 3.54 million dollars. Glen Canyon Dam work continues but a renewed walkout may occur. Merritt Chapman & Scott refuses to sign a master agreement over subsistence pay demands.
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Phoenix
Phoenix Building and Construction Trades Council
Afl-Cio
Sheet Metal
Page
Glen Canyon
Merritt Chapman & Scott
Policeman Lose Arm In Salt River Boating Accident
Tucson patrolman Jack W. Nielsen, 35, was injured when his self propelled craft passed over him after he fell from a boat on the Salt River near Canyon Lake. Doctors at Southside Hospital in Mesa amputated his left arm above the elbow amid a gangrene infection. Nielsen, reported in good condition, swam 150 feet to shore and underwent five hours of surgery. Police urge blood donations to aid local Red Cross stocks.
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Tucson
Jack W. Nielsen
Nielsen
10Th St
Southside
Salt River
Canyon Lake
Bernard L. Garmire
Red Cross
Thieves Loot Tonawanda School Safe For One Dime
Buffalo New York thieves smashed two doors of an elementary school in Tonawanda broke into a safe and a cafeteria cash register and escaped with only one dime.
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N. Y
UPI
Tonawanda
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