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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated June 16, 1965 reads "Ed McPhee, chairman of Olive Vista Junior High School's vocational education department, in striped shirt, checks balloon apparatus prior to a noon launch by the school's science students. Elwood Hale, leader of the project, with dark sunglasses, checks the release mechanism while students make last-minute adjustments. Yesterday's launch, alas, was not successful." The school is in Sylmar.
Olive Vista Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.) Middle school teachers Middle school students Men Teenage boys Middle schools Schools Weather--Experiments Scientific apparatus and instruments Balloons Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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