Local Veterans Unit Celebrates Eighth Anniversary
A joint birthday party marking the eighth anniversary of York County barracks and its World War I Veterans and Auxiliary was held at St John's Hall Biddeford. Cmdr Tarbox led the meeting with plans for the 11th State Convention in Houston June 7 to 9 and chartered delegate selection at the May 4 meeting. Walter Reardon reported on March illness, John Birmingham praised local service hours, and eight-year-old Auxiliary founder Mrs Delcia Frechette was honored. An auction, buffet, and Easter-themed centerpieces followed, with two new Auxiliary members added, and a bus arranged for District 1 meeting in Portland April 14.
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Angie Cote
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Marie Dorais
Alice Simard
Diana Moulin
Clara Blouin
Delvina Mathurin
York County Barracks
Fire forces dormitory evacuation at UCLA
About 1,000 students, mostly girls, fled in night clothes Monday night as a small fire erupted in a UCLA dormitory. The blaze was confined to a trash chute and quickly extinguished as five fire units arrived, with firefighters reluctant to leave.
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London Piccadilly Circus Name Origin Tangle
London Piccadilly Circus is said to derive its name from the pickadils or ruffs fashionable at one time, reflecting a fashion era linked to nearby activity and street names.
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London
Piccadilly Circus
Shadow Continues as Wisconsin GOP Nomination Looms
O Nixon appears set to win all 30 Wisconsin Republican nominating votes while McCarthy targets 57 Democratic votes plus 20 from New Hampshire and 72 from Massachusetts, with Minnesota and district allocations adding further totals. Four Democratic votes come from each of 10 congressional districts and 17 from the statewide prize.
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Massachusetts
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Camels Brought to Australia a Century Ago Roam Free
One hump camels were imported to Australia about a century ago and now wander in wild herds across vast stretches of the outback. Strong feral populations persist in arid regions, shaping local ecosystems.
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Australia
Maine Briefs: Escapees to face juvenile assault charges
Three youths who escaped from the Stevens entrance facility will appear in Augusta District Court this week on juvenile assault charges. Ward Murphy, the school administrator, said the three along with two others who fled the Hallowell institution were captured a few hours after the escape.
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Augusta District Court
Ward Murphy
Monda
Hallowell Institution
Health officer opposes state rabies bait plan for foxes
Harrison health officer Dr. Rex Martin criticizes Maine's plan to spread poisoned bait in fox dens to curb rabies. He proposes January and February as optimal timing since many animals hibernate, arguing for alternate methods in the rabies control program.
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Rex Martin
Maine
Fire damages Merrill Co plant and 65-foot ketch
A two alarm blaze Monday damaged the Fred I. Merrill Co plant and a 65 foot ketch under construction in South Portland. Fire officials said the fire likely started from a sanding machine or a cigarette. A company spokesman estimated the loss at $100,000.
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Fred I. Merrill Co
Atty Gen Ramsey Clark seeks open housing ruling
Washington AP Ramsey Clark says racial segregation is the decade’s most harmful discrimination and asks the Supreme Court to require open housing in large subdivisions. He cites equal schooling and employment rights and notes the government supports Joseph Lee Jones and Barbara Jones, barred from a suburban St. Louis home because Jones is Black.
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Hut
Joseph Lee Jones
Barbara
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Jones
Johnson address tests world TV relay capacity
Washington AP reports requests for satellite relays of President Johnson’s surprise announcements overwhelmed the international Comsat system. The speech announcing Vietnam war de escalation steps and his decision not to seek re election used four hours forty five minutes of planned TV time. Four programs to Japan and other Asian points and the first commercial US to Australia Satellite telecast used two hours of time.
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Australia
Court martial for Mary Burns set for Wednesday
The 20 year old corporal Mary Elizabeth Burns who refused as a stand against President Johnson's war in Vietnam to attend leadership school at Quantico Marine Base Virginia faces a court martial on a set date this Wednesday. Angier Biddle Duke is sworn in as State Department chief of protocol. The Commerce Department reduces refined copper reserve requirements for defense use to 40 percent for May after a 50 percent reserve in April amid the copper strike settlement.
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Comet Impact Possibility Described in Brief Text
If a comet ever touches the earth there might be no more than a great shower of small pieces of stone and metal, called meteors. An explosion is considered unlikely.
Special Rolloff Series For Men At Pastime Lanes Biddeford
A 10 string roll off for men under 105 average is set for Friday at Pastime Lanes Biddeford. Open to bowlers with provable MBSA or league averages. Cash prizes and a trophy awarded. Entry closes 15 minutes before 7 PM start.
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Biddeford
Local League Prepares To Wind up Season
Pepperell Maintenance league bowlers at Pastime lanes completed their annual handicap roll-off with 19 participants. Don Hebert won with 325 pins, Horace Beaulieu 318, Jim Virgie 317, and Roland St Michel 309. Hebert also won the Pastime Lanes trophy. St Michel got a West Point Pepperell blanket. The league will finish with a banquet soon.
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Horace Beaulieu
Jim Virgie
Roland St. Michel
Bill Dumont
Hebert
St. Michel
West Point-Pepperell
Polish Culture Ministry purge widens amid student protests
Warsaw sources say two senior Culture Ministry officials were dismissed as student demonstrations spread. The tally of fired or expelled Communist Party members climbs to 15 since protests began March 8. Stanislaw Neumark, cabinet director, was dismissed after his son faced charges of organizing a rally. Wanda Zaluska, head of artistic schools, was expelled and to be fired for not stopping student protest actions.
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Poland
Ministry of Culture
Communist Party
Stanislaw Neumark
Culture Ministry
Wanda Zaluska
Five nude-depicting models appear clothed in Rome protest
In Rome five models who threatened to demonstrate in the nude outside the Chamber of Deputies and the Academy of Fine Arts arrived fully clothed on a cold day. They sought unemployment benefits for February and March, during which a student sit-in at the academy prevented posing.
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Malaysia to hold talks with Philippines on Sabah claim
Kuala Lumpur announced official talks with Manila in Bangkok next month over the Philippine claim to Sabah, the Malaysian state in northeast Borneo. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said Malaysia has always been ready for talks and welcomes a proposed date.
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Canada proposes $100 million satellite system by 1971 for coast to coast TV and data
Ottawa proposes Monday a national space satellite project costing 100 million dollars to link television, telephone and data across Canada. Industry Minister Charles Drury urges mixed public and private funding to deploy at least four channels by 1971 or 1972, with capability for one TV transmission or 600 two way calls per channel. The Soviet Union is the only country using satellites domestically. In Seoul, seven South Korean soldiers died in a minefield accident on the eastern front as another was injured while returning from an ambush position.
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Charles Drury
Soviet Union
Seoul
Tag holders vote on fire dept rule in High Ridge
High Ridge Missouri residents consider a resolution allowing the fire department to extinguish fires in untagged houses at least once. A fee of 150 to 200 dollars would be charged when service is rendered, and 60 percent tagging of homes or rentals is required to continue operations. In March a mob forced responders to work after bylaws kept them idle for untagged houses. The vote is set for June 3.
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St. Louis
Three Sign Contracts With Area Schools
Gorham State College announces three seniors signed teaching contracts for Maine schools next fall. Rita Drew of Arundel will teach at Cousens School in Kennebunk starting in April after training at Millette School. Louis Ladakakos of Old Orchard Beach returns to teach social studies at Old Orchard Beach Junior High. Ruth Wolenski of Kennebunkport will teach English at Kennebunk High School after student teaching in Gorham. she participated in Chorus Newman Club and Interdormitory Council.
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Kennebunkport
Kennebunk High School
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Power Company Employee Reaches 40 Years of Service
AUGUSTA Fred E. Clark Sr., Biddeford fieldman for Central Maine Power Company, marks 40 years with CMP since joining on April 2, 1928. A Saco native and Thornton Academy alumnus, he previously worked as an electrician with West Point Pepperell before becoming a meterman and later Biddeford field man. Clark has served on the Saco School Board, is a longtime deacon, and active in Masonic and Eastern Star circles with family of four children.
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Doris E. Tapley
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Maine
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Annette
Order of the Eastern Star
All-Star Hockey School Announces July and August Sessions
SPORTS BRIGHT: In Braintree Massachusetts the All-Star Hockey School led by NHL stars Doug Mohns and Don McKenney will hold July 8 in Falmouth and August 12 in Weymouth with goalies Ed Johnston and Ross Brooks as instructors. Other staff include Johnny Peirson Zellio Toppazzini Eddie Barry and coaches Larry Kish and Brendan Walsh.
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Don McKenney
Falmouth
Weymouth
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Boston Bruins
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Eddie Barry
Larry Kish
Mt. St. Charles Academy
Rhode Island
Brendan Walsh
Salem High School
Kerr urges urban universities to revitalize cities
Clark Kerr former UC president told a Tufts New England Medical Center audience that land grant style universities could transform troubled cities into cultural centers. He urged making higher education accessible to all, noting only half as many Negroes attend college as in the general population and proposing inner city university locations with shared community access.
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Clark Kerr
University of California
Kerr
Tufts-New England
Carnegie Commission On the Future of Higher Education
Land Grant University
Death ruled in HolyoKe man found strangled and stabbed
Rene Lariviere, 63, was found in his Holyoke home with hands tied behind his back after a break in. Dr. Edmund J. Zielinski, the medical examiner, ruled death by strangulation and stabbing on Monday night.
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Bold daylight robbery targets Sunbeam Bakers in Dorchester
In Boston six gunmen seized $33,000 in cash and checks from Sunbeam Bakers Co at its Dorchester Avenue plant. An armored car guard’s gun was stolen and later found in a parking lot and sent to the bal listics lab for analysis. Eight people, including bakery officials and guards, were handcuffed and held prior to the escape. Authorities believe an additional $150,000 could have been taken if the armored car drivers hadn’t missed a turn and diverted to the bakery first.
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Sunbeam Bakers Co
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Columbia Point
Former Standard Packaging workers bid to buy Maine mills
Winterport Maine AP Former employee John Whitehouse leads a bid to purchase Standard Packaging Co mills for 11.5 million plus 193000 acres of timber land a wood chip mill and a sales firm to reopen the Maine operation which closed last month with about 1200 jobs lost. He expects a company reply today and notes the offer is well below book value but usable for bargaining and requires 10 percent local investment to qualify for a federal loan.
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Yale President's son pleads innocent in drug raid case
Edgartown Massachusetts AP Brewster III 20 son of Yale University president pleaded innocent in District Court to being present where narcotics were kept. Arrested Saturday on Martha's Vineyard he appeared before Judge James A Boyle and the case was continued to April 10 with release on his personal recognizance. He was among 21 persons arrested after Friday night drug raids by state county and town police.
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Ingman Brewster III
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James A. Boyle
Pasteur Delivers First Rabies Inoculation in Paris
On July 6 1885 in Paris Louis Pasteur successfully inoculated a boy bitten by a dog marking the first rabies vaccination. The milestone demonstrates Pasteurs method and the birth of modern immunology with a public health impact felt worldwide.
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Louis Pasteur
All Sam Earns First Victory in 1968 Rockingham Pace
Sam All Sam claimed his first win in seven 1968 starts by taking the $2,000 Lancaster Pace at Rockingham Park Monday night. Sweet Knight finished second in the mile event, clocked in 2 minutes 07.15 seconds.
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Salem
N.H
All Sam
Rockingham Park
Sweet Knight
Boston University Football Faces Spring Practice Start
Boston University coach Warren Schmakel expects a fair record this year after losing several standout players, including six signed by pro teams. He welcomed 80 candidates, with 24 lettermen, as spring practice began Monday, planning two-hour sessions daily except weekends.
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Boston University
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Zabilski Honored for 20 Years at Northeastern Dinner
Boston AP says Joe Zabilski the dean of New England college football coaches was honored for 20 years of service at Northeastern University. More than 400 friends attended the Northeastern Varsity Club dinner as his teams posted 85 wins, 58 losses and six ties over two decades.
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Joe Zabilski
New England
Northeastern University
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Northeastern
Whitfield to boxing comeback in 10 round clash
Walpole Massachusetts Ted Whitfield former New England welterweight champion from Amherst returns to the ring in a scheduled 10 round bout against Dave Dittmar of White Plains New York at Four Seasons Arena The bout will be televised in parts of New England on Channel 38 Boston and Channel 9 Manchester New Hampshire.
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Ted Whitfield
Amherst
Dave Dittmar
White Plains
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Manchester
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Nike Point Wins April Fool's Day Purse at Naragansett Park
In Pawtucket Rhode Island Nike Point ridden as the even money favorite beat Rex De Plumbum and others to win the $4000 April Fool's Day Purse at Naragansett Park before 8365 fans.
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Hay fever cause in North America per Britannica
In North America hay fever is caused chiefly by the pollen of a plant species noted in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The entry emphasizes pollen as the primary irritant behind hay fever symptoms, guiding readers toward understanding environmental contributors and allergic reactions.
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