Glenn to travel in five million dollar space capsule
CAPSULE CLASS Glenn will voyage around the world in a $5 million McDonnell capsule built for John Glenn Jr. The craft seats him in a compact cabin with 164 instruments and life support for about 28 hours. A 165th switch, the chicken switch, must be activated to start the Atlas booster. The craft will perform three orbits in roughly 90 minutes each, with emergency devices and a periscope and window for observation.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John Herschel Glenn Jr
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
St. Louis
Glenn
New Concord
Ohio
Col
Marine Corps
Atlas
Earth
Practical Needlecraft Catalog Offer Promotes 1962 Patterns
Ace Brooks invites readers to order ski helmet masks mitten sets and other handmade gifts from the Winchester Evening Star Needlecraft Dept. Send 35 cents per pattern plus 10 cents extra for first class mail and 25 cents for the 1962 Needlecraft Catalog. Include name address zone pattern numbers.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
P. O
Old
Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft
Clarke County to Name Distinguished Service Award Winner
The Jaycees appoint a committee led by Francis Wilson to pick Clarke County’s Distinguished Service Award recipient aged 21 to 35 for church community and civic service. Nomination blanks are at First National Bank and due February 10 to Leon Steinberg. The February 15 dinner will also name top athlete and farmer of the year.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Francis Wilson
The
Jaycees
Hobson McGehee
R. D. Goshorn
Julian Glascock
McGehee
County Board of Supervisors
Goshorn
DSA
Leon Steinberg
Jaycee
First National Bank
Steinberg
Virginia Ave
Winchester
Lee-Jackson
Jo Gerken
C. E. Miley
Don Maphis
Judge Marshall Addresses Clarke Lions
Clarke County Lions Club heard Judge Elliott Marshall discuss highway safety. David Childs oversees the beauty contest set for March 30 and Cephas Hook directs the Bland Memorial Music Contest on February 8. The club will host a zone social in April.
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Berryville
Elliott Marshall
Clarke County
Lions Club
David Childs
Cephas Hook
Not Deaf Advertisement for Ultrapure Ear III Hearing Aid
An ad promotes the ultraminiature Ear III hearing aid designed for quiet natural sound. It claims no visible devices and no tubes or wires, targeting people who hear but do not always understand. Information available by writing to Hearing Information Service Room 424 Wyatt Building 777 14th Street N W Washington DC.
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Hearing Information Service Room
Wyatt Bldg
14Th Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Votes Scheduled On Postal Rate and Du Pont Tax Bill
The House expects a final vote Tuesday on a postal rate bill adding a penny to first class mail and air mail. Senate action begins Tuesday on the Du Pont tax bill allowing certain stock taxes on General Motors stock held by Du Pont.
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du Pont
Washington
Senate
House
Delaware Corporation
General Motors
House Ways and Means
Education and Labor Committee
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Kennedy
House Rules Committee
Department of Urban Affairs and Housing
Armed Services
John Stennis
D-Miss
Pentagon
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Congo
County Tract Brings 2450 At Public Auction
A 3.54 acre tract with improvements nine miles southwest of town in Back Creek District sold for 2450 at a Saturday auction. N B Fout had the high bid with the sale steered by attorneys Joseph A Massie Jr and Milton Harris and cited by Charles R Duvall.
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Back Creek
N. B. Fout
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Milton Harris
Charles R. Duvall
Bob Hope Says Airliner Hit By Lightning
Los Angeles AP report describes comedian Bob Hope and Jane Wyman among about 40 aboard a Pacific Air Lines twin engine plane struck by lightning over Northern California. The bolt disabled instruments. the aircraft diverted to San Francisco from Monterey. Hope and Wyman later flew home on separate planes.
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Bob Hope
Los Angeles
Jane Wyman
California
Hope
San Francisco
Monterey
Associated Press
Pacific Air Lines
Pebble Beach
Seventh District GOP to Meet at Harrisonburg
The Republicans of the Seventh District will hold a regular meeting Saturday at the Belle Meade Hotel in Harrisonburg. Morning program begins at 11 with discussion on activating local organizations qualifying voters and census work. Lunch at 12 30 followed by talks on the District Party year of opportunity fundraising and business matters.
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Belle Meade Hotel
Harrisonburg
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