Maine Air Service Clouded by NEA Posts and NA y Application
Maine air transportation status remains unsettled as Northeast Airlines hints at delaying its planned April 29 flight cuts to Lewiston Auburn Rockland and Houston and National Airlines seeks CAB authority to serve several New England cities now served by Northeast. Governor Reed reports CAB chair Alan Boyd indicated the airline may defer action to allow review.
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Associated Press
Maine
New England
Reed
Augusta
Northeast Airlines
Lewiston- Auburn
Rockland
Houston
CAB
Alan Boyd
Northeast
Washington
National Airlines
Red Cross Leader To Quit Post In York County
Mrs. Charles Cher resigns as executive secretary of the York County chapter American Red Cross after eight years citing poor health. Board accepts resignation with regret. effective June 1. Mrs. Rufus Jasper invites qualified applicants to write by May 1 at Eliot for interviews.
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Charles Cher
York County
American Red Cross
Canal National Bank
Tucker
Home Service
Blood Program
Rufus Jasper
Eliot
Smith Critiques Kennedy on Steel Policy and Action
Senator Margaret Chase Smith criticized President Kennedy at a Republican women’s conference for blocking steel price increases while misusing executive action. She warned against criminal threats to steel leaders and urged restraint on news media pressure. She praised Kennedy’s rhetoric but faulted inconsistent follow through and coined a “Kennedy twist” on policy.
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Washington
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
Kennedy
FBI
Republica
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Senate
House Economic Committee
Congress
Sem Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
John J. Williams
Rdel
Everett M. Dirksen
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
New York
Goldwater
Humphrey
Minnesotan
Antique shop sign invites prices for junk items
A window sign at an antique shop reads You think it's junk Come in and price it. The quip suggests bargains and appraisal humor, attributed to Gen. Fea. Corp. and credited as Copr. Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Gen. Fea. Corp
Biddeford Police Hold Four In Loot Theft Case
Four Biddeford men were held on charges of breaking into freight cars and stealing merchandise from a local shoe firm and railroad shipments. Recovered goods included Pepperell blankets, Hunt's tomato products, beer, lettuce and loafers.
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Norman Boucher
Claude A. Boucher
Water Street
Richard A. Tarr
Main Street
Melvin W. Cook
Pool Road
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Tarr
Cook
Claude Boucher
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
Hunt
Boston and Maine Railroad
Allied Hampshire Company
Saco
Deford
Chicago
Ives
Refugees Gain Asylum In Havana Embassy Riot
Sixteen refugees from Fidel Castro’s regime win asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana after a bus rammed fences surrounding the building. Cuban guards failed to fire as chaos ensued and the group moved into a lodging area with over 200 other refugees. Winter garb remains popular in half the country amid unseasonably cool spring weather impacting baseball attendance across eastern regions.
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Fidel Castro
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Atlanta
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Alaska
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Maine
Mississippi River
Wiscon
Heart attack prevention begins in infancy say doctors
Two physicians urge starting a heart healthy diet in babies by altering fats in milk and later foods to reduce blood cholesterol and artery clogging fats. They note cholesterol rises with age from typical American saturated fats and align with adult guidance from the American Heart Association.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Laurence W. Kinsell
Oakland
Calif
Herbert Pollack
New York City
American Heart Association
Kinsell and Pollack
Vatican backs archbishop after New Orleans excommunications
In an indication of strong Vatican support Archbishop Joseph F Rummel of New Orleans excommunicated three segregationists for opposing desegregation of parochial schools. Rummel, who has long fought racism, reserved his own appeal and cited Canon Law authority over diocesan governance.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Joseph Francis ‘Rummel
New Orleans
L’osservatore Romano
Joseph Francis Rummel
Leander H. Perez Sr
Jackson G. Ricau
Presegregation Citizens Council
B. J. Gaillot Jr
Msgr
Egidio Vagnozzi
United States
Windfall copper profits eyed in government stockpile scheme
Congressional investigators testified that copper mining firms under contract diverted shipments to industry, earning nearly 3 million dollars in windfall profits during a 1954-55 shortage. The Subcommittee led by Sen. Symington heard that 6.378 million pounds were sold privately, yielding tens of thousands in excess profits, while some contracts were partially canceled. Bath Iron Works reports a 137.9 million dollar backlog and aims to bid on destroyers in the Navy program after securing two guided missile frigates.
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Washington
Senate
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
U.S
Subcommittee
R. C. Coburn
Coburn
Government Accounting Office
BATH
Bath Iron Works
John R. Newell
BIW
Vatican Radio To Broadcast Easter Message
Vatican radio plans to transmit the Easter message from Pope John XXIII to the world on Saturday. The broadcast will use short wave frequencies 41.38, 31.10, and 25.55 meters and a middle wave length of 196 meters.
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Vatican City
Vatican Radio
John XXIII
Early hearing aid use helps infants begin speech
In Louisville a 52 month old boy and his 2 year old sister receiving hearing aids show early speech gains. Dr Clifford Whipple of the Hearing and Speech Center notes newborn testing and early treatment are recent advances, likened to practices in Los Angeles. Delayed care risks speech and emotional issues and nerve deterioration.
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Louisville
Ricky
Kathy
Clifford I. Whipple
Hearing and Speech Center
Los Angeles
Whipple
Trinity College faculty fault report card from student body
In Hartford Connecticut the Trinity College faculty reacts angrily to a 78 page student body produced report card. Professors criticize the administration and curriculum while acknowledging the college remains among the nation’s finest private men’s schools with enrollment around 950. President Dr Albert C Jacobs notes administrators face funding issues and forwards the report with faculty footnotes to trustees.
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Hartford
Trinity
Albert C. Jacobs
Jacobs
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