States Boost Police Forces In Battle Against Traffic Deaths
Chicago reports a nationwide push to expand highway patrols amid rising motor vehicle deaths. California doubles patrols to 5200. Michigan, Washington, Iowa, Tennessee, and Connecticut add troopers. New laws target drinking driving, drag racing, scooter and motorcycle licensing, and age limits. Maryland and Ohio move to stricter vehicle inspections and license actions. Virginia enforces confiscation for suspended licenses in this broad safety drive.
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Virginia
Beauty Queen Falls to Death at Sugarloaf Trail
Karol Rae Hammon, 21, former Miss Alaska and a contestant in the 1965 Miss America pageant, slipped from Mt Sugarloaf, grabbed a sapling with one hand, but fell 200 feet to a rock ledge above the Connecticut River. Rescuers retrieved her and she died at Farren Memorial Hospital in South Deerfield Massachusetts.
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Ginny Scheer
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Connecticut River
Farren Memorial Hospital
Anchorage
Heat Wave Is Broken By Cool Front
A two day heat wave across Kane sas to northern Texas ended as cool air moved in. Monday highs fell about 20 degrees from Sunday with Wichita Kansas reporting 66 after a record 94 the day before. Frost and freezing temps spread across the Dakotas Nebraska Iowa northern Kansas and northwest Missouri with light showers from western New York to Oklahoma and in the Great Lakes and New England.
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Oklahoma
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New England
Satellite Launch Set for Thursday at Vandenberg
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California an insect shaped 1150 pound satellite named Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGOC is scheduled for launch Thursday. It will ride a thrust augmented Thor Agena D rocket as the first West Coast NASA launch in this program and the second in a seven mission series. The first OGO launched from Cape Kennedy Florida over a year ago and while some experiments worked scientists called it a failure.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
First conceived highway by Charles V envisioned across Americas
The article notes Charles V, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Spain, first conceived an inter American highway. It states in the 116th century he ordered a road built along the Central American isthmus from Mexico to South America.
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