Ward Guilty Near Death After Surgery
London AP report says Dr. Stephen Ward, guilty on two counts tied to Britain's sex and security scandal, remained in a coma after throat surgery. Surgeons performed a tracheotomy while police watched as Ward hovered between life and death. His lawyers plan an appeal as sentencing is postponed until he can appear in court.
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Mandy) Rice-Davies
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Peabody Rules Out Hancock Track Tax Relief
Gov Peabody said at a press conference he is not considering a tax relief plan for Berkshire Downs track in Hancock. The discussion followed a Boston Herald report that Salva A Rizzo and Senate President Powers urged tax relief to avert bankruptcy, with proposed taxes and state shares. He also voiced regret over the House refusal to advance racing reform measures and outlined bills for stricter fair definitions interlocking directorates and expanded Racing Commission.
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Bad Paint on Auto Plates Triggers State Suit
Boston reports a civil suit will be filed against Franklin Paint Co. after a four month probe into 1943 Massachusetts license plates. Twelve plates tested failed water immersion and elasticity. eleven of twelve plates did not meet salt spray standards. Gov. Peabody briefed on an eight page report, with no proof of willful breach or criminal conduct.
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Edeward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Brooke
Franklin Paint Co
Franklin
Commonwealth
Atomic Test For Peace Postponed
Washington reports that technical difficulties force postponement of plans to detonate a nuclear device underground at Carlsbad New Mexico as part of peaceful nuclear explosives research. The test, aimed at producing new chemical elements, was to occur in 1963 and would have created an 80 foot radius cavity.
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3900 Chickens Not Stolen Reclaimed at Night
A truckload of 3500 chickens reported stolen from Jarry Katz Farm on Town Tall Road was found 14 miles west of Newburgh, New York. Hecht's Hatchery of Walden, NY said they repossessed the birds due to overdue payment on a chattel mortgage and notified Katz. Chickens were taken after midnight Wednesday and recovered by state police this morning.
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New York
Turncoat GI Returns to States from China
HONG KONG AP The American ex-POW who chose to stay behind the Bamboo Curtain returned to the West today. Lowell D. Skinner 32 Akron Ohio former corporal last saw the United States in 1950 crossed into Hong Kong after noon saying it is about time to go back. He said his parents are getting old and he kept in touch with 21 others who remained in Communist China after the Korean fighting. He noted another POW Scott L. Rust of Marietta Ohio may leave China soon and that Rust worked as a lathe operator in Wuhan. Besides Rust seven others of the original two American POWs are believed still living in Red China.
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Boston Space Lab Advances
Washington reports the Senate Space Committee reversed its stance to approve a proposed 5 million dollar electronics research center for Boston. The panel approved planning funds with a requirement for further approval by the House and Senate Space Committees after NASA study, despite earlier rejection and White House pressure speculation.
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Massachusetts
Chipper Sen Green Leaves Rest Home
Former Senator Theodore Francis Green, 93, left a convalescent home after seven months of cerebral shock treatment. He returned to Providence with his secretary, assistant, and a nurse, saying he was pleased to be home though the stay was longer than expected. He had been hospitalized December 19 and moved to the home in April.
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Curtiss urges immediate reshuffle of Massachusetts Public Works
Rep Sidney Curtiss of Sheffield calls for a five member Public Works Commission to appoint a commissioner and staff, arguing the plan would fix responsibility and imitate the successful Department of Natural Resources reorganization. He criticizes slow state changes and urges immediate adoption of his scheme.
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Congress Charges Stir Old Wounds in Massachusetts Reform Push
Massachusetts officials faced a sweeping Blatnik Committee report accusing widespread incompetence and collusion in federal highway land takings. Gov. Peabody and Public Works Commissioner Ricciardi defended reforms, while the panel warned the DPW remains a political risk. broker William Jacobs was singled out for extensive fraud ties and lavish fees.
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North Korea accuses U S of war provocation plots
North Korea accused the United States of war provocation plots amid rising tensions on the peninsula after a Red squad killed three US soldiers in South Korea. The Foreign Ministry charged the U S State Department with masking imperial aggression and justifying long term occupation.
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ALA Cues Report As a Deterrent To Gasoline Tax
Boston based Automobile Legal Association says the Blatnik Committee’s Massachusetts highways scandal proves no gasoline tax increase should be pursued this year or for years. executive Philip C. Wallwork says governors and legislatures lack nerve to ask the public for more money. The fund should be replenished by those who swindled highway money, not motorists. The group will file an appeal referendum if any gasoline tax increase is passed.
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API
Automobile Legal Association
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Blatnik Committee
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AEA
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Subcommittee Report Accuses Jacob of Conformity and Deceit
The panel concluded that deceit and conformance defined Jacob's life, and that the Massachusetts Real Estate Review Board, made up of prominent realtors who approve property taken for highway use, was deceived and misled.
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Massachusetts Real Estate Review Board
Rosie O'Donnell Retires From Air Force After War Service
Gen Rosie O'Donnell, veteran of two wars and West Point trained Army combat officer, retires from active duty. The long serving officer, connected with Honolulu assignment, ends a notable career marked by leadership and multiple deployments.
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Emmett
Rosie) O'Donnell
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