Mailbag Potpourri From Boyle Note on Aging and Odds
HAL BOYLE collects reader bits on aging working women now averaging 40 with husbands, a glance at water in the Atlantic 82 quintillion etc, auto ownership rising past 79 percent families and 1500 million vehicles, quirky stats from 1895 Kansas City two cars with a crash, MLK quotation, IRS computer errors, safest living Alaska, accident death patterns by region and age, a doghouse pamphlet offer, Weight Watchers quip, fat belt danger, life insurance links to deaths, opossum birth tiny litters, and Don Marquis on making people think.
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Hal Boyle
New York
U.S
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Kansas City
Martin Luther King Jr
Internal Revenue Service
Alaska
Middle Atlantic
American Humane? Association
Denver
Col
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Institute of Life Insurance
Harold Kurtz Earns Promotion to Indians Pitching Staff
San Diego AP reports 24-year-old right hander Harold Kurtz, who pitched for Pawtucket in the Eastern League the past two seasons, was promoted Sunday to the Cleveland Indians pitching staff.
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San Diego
Calif
Harold Kurtz
Pawtucket
Cleveland Indians
Nations Athletes Join In Tribute To Slain Leader
Nations athletes join in mourning as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is slain. Funeral set in Atlanta Tuesday. few sports events until services. Greensboro Open golf rounds, hockey and baseball postponements noted. broader sports schedule curtailed nationwide. Luna 14 is announced as the first Soviet moon shot in 15 months with a soft lunar landing and television pictures.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Muskegon
Mich
Providence
R.1
Greensboro
Dr. King
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia
Phillies
Washington
San Diego
Calif
Chicago
New York
Montreal
Boston
Los Angeles
Minnesota
St. Louis
American Basketball Association
New Orleans
Dallas
Pittsburgh
National Basketball Association
San Francisco
Luna 14 speeds toward moon in first return mission attempt
The Soviet Union launched Luna 14, an unmanned automatic space station, with officials saying it would study near lunar space and could be the first craft to travel to the moon and return to Earth. Communications reportedly functioning normally. further updates pending.
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Associated Press Moscow
Soviet Union
Moon
Hamburg court sentences Nazi battalion members for murders in Poland
A Hamburg court handed prison terms up to eight years to five members of a former Nazi police battalion for aiding the murder of Jews in the Lublin district of Poland in 1942. Six other defendants were guilty but received no sentences as subordinates under orders. Eight-year terms went to Wolfgang Hoffmann and Julius Wohlauf, plus Kurt Dreyer. Anton Becker received six years and Heinrich Becker five.
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Hamburg
Germany
Wolfgang Hoffmann
Julius Wohlauf
Kurt Dreyer
Anton Becker
Heinrich Becker
Lublin
Poland
Hoffmann
Wohlauf
Drever
Mass Exodus Reported From Red China Frontiers
AP dispatch from Hong Kong cites Canton sources noting over 10,000 people fled Hai Fung and Luvege counties in Kwangtung over six months. refugees allege daily clashes between rival Red Guard gangs in the two areas.
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Hong Kong
Hai Fung
Luvege
Red China
Kwangtung
Canton
Red Guard
Milan Divorce Movement misses ballot by 59 seconds
In Milan the Pro Divorce and Solidarity Movement failed to file timely candidate papers for seven Milan seats in the May 19 general election. The local election board ruled the filings were turned in 59 seconds after the 8 p.m. deadline last Thursday.
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Milan
Italy
Pro Divorce and Solidarity Movement
Chamber of Deputies
Eee
Funeral services for former pro boxer Ruby Bradley
Springfield Mass AP reports funeral services will be held Wednesday for Ruby Bradley 63 a former professional boxer who lost a 15 round decision to world flyweight champion Midget Wolgast in 1931 Bradley died in a nearby hospital Saturday and claimed 270 victories in 325 pro fights
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Springfield
Mass
Ruby Bradley
Wolgast
Bradley
Paul Reny Heads Local Elks Lodge
At the Biddeford-Saco Lodge of Elks in Saco over 200 attended a Saturday night installation of officers on Portland Road. Paul E. Reny was installed exalted ruler along with other officers. grand officers led the ceremony. A beef pie dinner preceded the event with dancing by Muriel's Orchestra and solo performances by Mary Cedar Norman Morrison Paul Deschambeault and Arthur Lesieur.
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Biddeford-Saco
Richard Dutcher
Timothy J. Crowley Lli
Francis Cote
Norman Sevigny
Esquire
Amost McCallum
Leon F. Jones
Gene Palmer
Ralph Pitt
Arthur Lambert
C. Robert Brousseau
Leonard Drapeau
Fernand Cote
C. Jackson Curit
Tyler
Charlies M. Gallagher
Patricia Reny
Muriel
Mary Cedar
Norman Morrison
Paul Deschambeault
Arthur Lesieur
Easter Sunrise Services Set at Kennebunk Beach
Traditional Easter morning sunrise services will be held at 5 near the Narragansett Hotel at Kennebunk Beach with a following breakfast at Christ Church on Dane Street. Protestant and Catholic churches plan special Easter rites and the week will end with a showing of Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings at the Kennebunk Baptist Church on Sunday night.
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Kennebunk
Narragansett Hotel
Kennebunk Beach
Christ Church
Dane Street
Cecil B. DeMille
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Special Services Set In Kennebunk
Special weekday services scheduled at Kennebunk Baptist Church run daily from 12 05 to 12 25 p m this week Ruth Chappell to play the organ and the tower chimes will be sounded at noon Speakers vary daily Rev Robert Wangel of Kennebunkport Baptist Church opened today Rev John Miller of Biddeford Congregational Church will speak tomorrow Rev Robert Cecke of Biddeford Baptist Church on Wednesday Rev Henry O Megert retired Christ Church Kennebunk on Thursday and Rev Edward Ward of Kennebunk Baptist Church will speak Friday
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Kennebunk
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Ruth Chappell
Robert Wangel
Kennebunkport Baptist Church
John Miller
Biddeford Congregational Church
Robert Cecke
Biddeford Baptist Church
Henry O. Megert
Christ Church, Kennebunk
Edward Ward
Old and New Drugs Stock Ancient Chinese Medicines in Singapore
Drugstores in Singapore stock both ancient Chinese remedies and modern medicines. A noted old remedy is stag horn shavings valued highly, believed to enhance manliness and priced above gold by weight.
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Singapore
English as World Language Status Estimated
English is spoken by about 250 million people and is rated as the world s second most important language in this regard.
Kennedy Leads Humphrey in Newsweek Presidential Survey
Newsweek poll shows Senator Robert F. Kennedy leading Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination with 858 prospective delegate votes to 541 for Humphrey and 272 for Eugene J. McCarthy. The survey also lists 473 uncommitted and 478 committed to favorite sons, totaling 1,312 votes needed for domination.
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New York
Newsweek Magazine
Robert F. Kennedy
D. N.Y
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Kennedy
Humphrey
McCarthy
Investor's Forum The Best Antidote For Inflation
Harry C. France argues that America holds about 600 billion dollars in ready money and near-term debt. If 10 percent shifts into stocks, the NYSE could see 15 million share days, while concern grows over the dollar, gold, and a rising federal debt without a balanced budget. Sound investment plans and growth are urged as inflation antidotes.
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America
U.S
Europe
New York Stock Exchange
England
Washington
Hibernians Bid To Smorgasbord Irish Night Notes
Reports on Irish Night and the St Marys basketball quin tet and cheerleaders were presented by Treasurer Joseph Kerry at the Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 1 meeting in St Johns Hall Biddeford. President Edward Lane announced an May 11 smorgasbord and named a 1968 committee. The charter was draped for Edward Darcy and John P Meehan. next meeting set for May 5.
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St. Mary's
Joseph Kerry
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
St. John's Hall
Main Street
Elm Street
Biddeford
Edward Lane
AOH
St. John’s Hall
Lane
James Murphy
James Hector
William Doran S
Edward Darcy
John P. Meehan
Bruins bar players from dangerous off season sports
Boston general manager Milt Schmidt says Bruins players may not take part in dangerous sports during the off season. He specifically barred goalie Gerry Cheevers from lacrosse and winger Johnny McKenzie from rodeo bronc riding after lessons learned from the Red Sox Lonborg ski accident last winter.
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Boston
Boston Bruins
National Hockey League
Red Sox
Jim Lonborg
Milt Schmidt
Bruins
Gerry Cheevers
Ginger John McKenzie
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Ernest Chardonnet
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Edward Esty
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Fred Morton
Ethel Morri'l
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Lou Durer
Theresa Gillespie
Patricia Moran
Kay Dunn
Charles Palmer
Robert Charles
Catherine McKeen Beata Boles
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Frank Gilman
Hazen Stuart
Edwin Washburn
Archie F. Grenier
J. Bove, Jr
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Emile Doucette
Ethel Corey
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Flora Stifmast
Mildred Ritchie
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John N. Peavey
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