Gemini 8 Flight Ends In Emergency Descent
Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott faced an emergency end to their 10 hour 42 minute flight after loss of control and a jammed main steering rocket. Officials planned to release tape recordings during a briefing at 1:30 p.m. EST at the Space Center outside Houston. The crew was aboard the destroyer USS Leonard F. Mason en route to Okinawa with medical teams and were to fly to Cape Kennedy for a debriefing. The Agena target rocket remained in a parking orbit for future missions.
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Leonard F. Mason
Naha
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Manned Spacecraft Center
Walter Schirra
Dwayne Patterson
Hawaii
Mason
Space Agency
Schirra
Patterson
Houston Manned Spacecraft Center
Western Pacific
Atlantic
John Hodge
Space Center
Robert Gilruth
Hodge
Houston
Globe
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Police Warn of Spring Cycle Hazards in Washington
Washington police urge bicycle caution as warm weather brings more riders onto streets. Tips emphasize riding on the right, signaling, stopping at signs, proper braking, not carrying others, using lights at night, and yielding to pedestrians. Police offer safety leaflets and remind drivers autos are larger and faster.
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Washington
Journal
Tom Kuncl
Washington Police Department
Riots erupt as Sukarno faces anti communist protests
Indonesian anti Communist students in Jakarta seize ministerial residences and key ministries demanding dissolution of the 100 man cabinet and lower food prices. They accuse Foreign Minister Subandrio of links with China while Sukarno claims he remains supreme leader and can name his cabinet.
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UPI
Indonesia
Sukarno
Jakarta
Subandrio
China
Labor, Mines and
Subandrie
Welk to headline Iowa State Fair in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa August 19 through 28 will host the 1966 Iowa State Fair with Lawrence Welk and his orchestra as the feature attraction. The televised show cast will perform as part of the fair’s central events.
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Des Moines
UPI
Lawrence Welk
Police Brace Against New Outbreaks In Watts Riots
In Watts Los Angeles police kept a tight hold on the riot scarred district after Tuesday’s violent outbreak. Two killed 25 injured 53 arrested 12 buildings burned during a four hour roam by about 600 people. Authorities deployed Code 77 patrols with backup from sheriffs deputies highway patrol and National Guard if needed. An investigation to determine causes and outside influences was begun.
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Los Angeles
Watts
California National Guard
Ainsworth hog men earn Hamp honors
Hampshire Swine Registry officials announce Stephens Greene and A Ruben Edwards of Ainsworth Iowa and Middletown Missouri have qualified Hampshire boar Golden Chip 834117 as a Certified Meat Sire. The program, national and all breed, measures sow productivity rate of gain and carcass merit with minimums and maximums to ensure balanced herd improvement. Breeders have qualified more Certified Meat Sires five hundred forty to date.
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Peoria
Ill
Stephens & Greene & A. Ruben Edwards
Ainsworth
Iowa
Middletown
Hampshire
Shadow U S Planes Shadow MIGs Over North Viet Nam
U S spokesmen reported two unidentified jets believed to be Chinese supplied MIG 21 fighters shadowing American bombing runs west of Hanoi. A U S Air Force F105 was shot down near Dien Bien Phu. the pilot listed missing. In Zone D near Saigon Viet Cong attacked Allied forces as 10 000 troops advance in Operation Silver City with heavy fighting lasting four hours.
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UPS
Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Dien Bien Phu
Air Force
U.S. 178Rd Airborne Brigade
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Royal Australian Army Regiment
Zone D
Weather by United Press International Iowa Wind Warning
Iowa forecast shows shifting winds and colder air tonight with scattered thunderstorms possible. Friday turns partly cloudy and colder with west to northwest winds 20 to 35 mph. lows 30s to 40s, highs 55 to 65. Saturday outlook: fair and cooler.
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Iowa
Erin's Sons in Noisy Tributes on Saint Patrick Day
Massed bands marched through Irish cities as Irishmen abroad joined celebrations for Saint Patrick. Parades and pageants filled the day with mass in churches and shrines to the saint. In Dublin a 70 float industrial pageant highlighted economic progress, reviewed by ministers at the GPO. President Eamon de Valera and others attended Solemn High Mass as 1916 rebel leaders were honored.
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Dublin
UPI
Sons of Erin
St. Patrick
Ireland
General Post Office
Eamon de Valera
Sean F. Lemass
Diplomatic Corps
Public Notices Today Washington School District Coal Bids
Public notices announce bids related to the Washington School District coal supply and list probate matters including appointment of administrators in the estates of Catherine A Knebel Robert Schlangoski Keith A Bauer and Manton M Hebner with page reference to page 6 for full details.
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Washington
Catherine A. Knebel
Robert Schlangoski
Gemini 8 Flight Marries Triumph And Disaster In Orbit
Gemini 8 launched to mark a space milestone with a near flawless seven hours of maneuvers and a historic first docking with Agena. An in-flight emergency caused the capsule to lose control at 17 200 mph forcing an emergency splashdown in the western Pacific. Astronauts Armstrong and Scott survived, and engineers vow to probe the cause for Gemini 9 and future flights while noting lessons learned from the episode.
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Gemini
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
America
Gilruth
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Keith A. Bauer
Manton
M. Hebner
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Moon
Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
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