Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, April 18, 1966

Area Hospital Turns ‘Deaf Ear’

Robert Bell and his wife Vicky, who had just arrived here in Richland after he took on a job on a gas pipeline presently being installed here, faced delivery of their baby early Sunday morning. For lack of $50 cash, Bell was forced to turn to the police department for assistance and under the tight surroundings of a jail house, Vicky Bell gave birth to a 7 1/2-pound baby girl. “I offered them (the hospital) the title to my car to get my wife admitted,” said Bell today. “But they had a deaf ear.”

Gemini 9

Gemini 9 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan will be launched on a unique chase through space with another satellite on May 17, the Federal Space Agency announced today. The flight will include a spacewalk.

GPN Gain

The nation’s output of goods and services scored its biggest gain in nearly 16 years during the first three months of 1966, the Commerce Department reported today. The gross national product rose $16.9 billion to an annual rate of $714.1 billion.

This story was originally published April 15, 2016 at 6:44 PM with the headline "Looking Back."