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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscientious Ejector. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Draft Violator Joseph Graigmyle explained why he had run away from his cow-milking job at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution: "I found out the milk was going to Fort Bliss, and I don't believe in helping the Army...
...White Sands, N. Mex. last month, a test Viking climbed only 51^ miles and landed ten miles away. But this first trial flight was intended to test the controls and propulsion unit, not to try for an altitude record. The Viking's designers claim that the new rocket, as produced at present, will reach something like 190 miles. An improved model, now in preparation, may reach 225 miles...
Last week, U.S. Army Ordnance did. A two-stage rocket, fired from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., shot up 250 miles, more than twice the best height (114 miles) reached by the V2, and well outside the earth's gaseous atmosphere...
Santa Rosa, N. Mex...
Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city of Calakmul, one of the big finds of Maya archeology...