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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1971
Page
14
Apollo 15 commander David Scott salutes left handed while carrying a portable air conditioner in his right hand as James Irwin and Alfred Worden follow in spacesuits. The launch proceeded on schedule.
SPACE CENTER Houston AP The Apollo 15 crew shows stark contrasts among three men. David Randolph Scott 39 is the reserved commander from West Point with two MIT masters and a famed Gemini 8 rescue. James B Irwin Jr 41 a survivor of a 1961 crash and Salt Lake City native is the lunar module pilot with a quiet demeanor. Alfred Worden 39 the talkative command module pilot from a Jackson Michigan farm discusses racing music and a grand piano in his bachelor apartment.
Kimball edges in a clutch final putt for 3000 dollars and the win in Winchester. Kathy Ahern places third with 213 for 1775 dollars as Betsy Rawls and Donna Caponi tie for fourth amid a field including Kathy Whitworth Gail Denenberg and Marlene Hagge. Mickey Wright and JoAnne Carner finish with 219 and 222 respectively.
Historic space history traces Soviet Alexei Leonov’s 1964 spacewalk and Edwin White’s 1965 outing, then notes NASA progress toward useful space work culminating in Apollo 15 with Alfred Worden’s planned film retrieval during a space walk. Early Gemini 9 challenges reveal tethering and gravity issues. In a separate note, Natal Province Parks Board lists 750 surplus guns for landowners, minimum 10 at $42 each, for pickup at Hluhluwe or Mkuzi reserves due to drought.
Crossword puzzle snippet lists across and down clues with entry numbers and partial solutions. It includes 1958 Academy Award winner two word entries and various dogged phrases, with multiple partial terms and misread OCR fragments interspersed.
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