Youth Conference Ends Hailed For Potential Change
Washington AP reports the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth concluded with confident delegates who expect action from President Eisenhower on integrated public schools. They stressed human rights and urged desegregation, while noting vast social issues such as 7 million substandard homes and 500000 children in juvenile courts annually.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Legion
United States
Louis Alexis
Alexis
Catholic Position Defined
Malden Mass Catholic clergyman says a Catholic President would have no right to impose beliefs. Msgr Francis J Lally editor of The Pilot told Malden Ministers Assn that Catholics stand with Protestants in separation of church and state. He said a Catholic candidate would bring his own convictions but could not impose them.
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Malden
Mass
Francis J. Lally
Pilot
Archdiocesan
White House
Flood Danger Rises Across the Nation
A spring storm rakes the Midwest and Gulf Coast bringing heavy rain, snow, and flooding. Thousands homeless, 103 dead in Nebraska, 3 in Missouri, 2 in Illinois, 1 in New York, while Saco faces an $91,870 loss from veterans tax exemptions under a new state law.
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Florida
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Nebraska
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Pate Ee
Red Cross
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
West Virginia
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New York
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Gulf States
Pensacola
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Dothan
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
New England
New Orleans
Des Moines
Bartlett
Towa
Board of Assessors
Saco Board of Assessors
Biddeford
Satellite first weather-eye prints earth from space
Washington AP reports the first weather-eye satellite Tiros I entered a near perfect 450 mile orbit from Cape Canaveral. Scientists hailed the clear cloud photographs centered on the Gulf of St Lawrence showing broad U.S. Canada coverage and promising a global weather watch network. President Eisenhower called the results marvelous as Thor Able stages fired with precision.
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Washington
U.S
F Eisenhower
Mous
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Tiros
Beach Woman Cultivates Year Round Botanical Hobby
Mrs. Ethel Kimball of 25 Evergreen Avenue Old Orchard Beach tends a year round plant collection. Her parlor maple may reach seven feet, Honey Hoya blooms clusters of white petals with orange centers, and a Christmas cactus has 12 blossoms and about 40 buds. She boards a friend’s plant in Florida and grows Crown of Thorns lobster cactus strawberry begonia spider plants African violets and geraniums. The 83 year old runs Idaho Cottage a summer guest house with help from her daughter Madalyn Strong.
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Ethel Kimball
Evergreen Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Kimball
Wallace
Florida
Idaho
Madalyn Strong
Design For Living Among The Swans
Glendale AP reports a bizarre tale as Schultz, a bachelor, is chased from a Forest Lawn duck pond by Gus and Mrs. Gus swans. Two years later Maggie, a widow swan from Lake Malibu, is sought as a mate. Eight men trap Schultz and relocate him to Malibu to test compatibility.
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Glendale
Calif
Schultz
Gus
Forest Lawn Memorial
Park
Lake Malibu
Maggie
Police Seek Salesman In Shooting At Fairfield
State Police search for a man who posed as a gun salesman entered the Colby Colles trailer home of Barbara Myron and shot her in the stomach after she resisted advances. Myron, 26, underwent surgery and was reported in good condition at the hospital. A .22 caliber revolver slug passed through her abdomen and exited the left side. The assailant, about 30 to 35, took a shell from a revolver and fired after showing a weapon to her husband George, who was at work. Myron was found by a relative two hours later with non life threatening injuries.
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Fairfield
Colby Colles
Barbara Myron
George
Why taxes rise as world grows smaller
A concise tongue in cheek item noting that despite globalization the cost of running society continues to climb. It questions the paradox of shrinking global boundaries and expanding tax burdens, reflecting satire on fiscal policy and governance.
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Fea. Corp
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Livermore Falls
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Limerick
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Wells First Congregational Church
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Wayne Chase
John Rasza
Michael Thyng
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Maurice Staton
Weather Eye
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Staton
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