Solons Seek More Travel Allowance
AUGUSTA The House voted 56 to 44 for a bill to raise travel reimbursements for the next legislature. Rep. Orville Haughn of Bridgton would lift the weekly home to Augusta trip from five to seven cents a mile, though he says seven cents still won t cover costs and trails state employees for the first 3 000 miles yearly. Rep. William Dennett, R Kit tery, argued mileage rates are out of whack and vary across seven to nine cents.
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Augusta
Orville B. Haughn
Home
Haughn
William E. Dennett
Kittery
Protection Bill Labeled Red Herring For Plants
The Maine Senate endorsed a plant protection bill aimed at restraining picketing interfering with maintenance at a struck plant, with an amendment covering storage and perishable foods. Violators face up to 250 dollars fine, 30 days in jail, or both. Rep. William E. Dennett called an anti pornography bill a red herring and said extradition provisions would not ensure enforcement.
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Augusta
Maine
Senate
House
Legislative Labor Committee
American Astronaut To Risk His Neck In 15 Minute Space Hop
An American astronaut will attempt a 15 minute suborbital hop likely to reach about 115 miles up and 300 miles out over the Atlantic. The piece compares the mission to Yuri Gagarin’s 108 minute orbital flight and discusses Atlas versus Soviet rockets, launch reliability, and recovery safety.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Space
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
Atlantic
Columbus
America
Spain
Gagarin
Soviet Union
U.S
United States
Wallops Island
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Vast purge in Algiers targets police army and officials
AP reports a sweeping purge ordered by President De Gaulle in Algiers. Gendarmes, officers, and Radio Algiers staff were arrested or suspended while hundreds of civilians were questioned. The Foreign Legion 1st Parachute Regiment faces disbandment as loyal troops guard key installations. An early trial looms for ex General Maurice Challe, with a nine man tribunal set within 48 hours of his surrender.
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Algiers
Ress
Algeria
Charles de Gaulle
Radio
Foreign Legion 1St Parachute Regiment
Maurice Challe
Challe
de Gaulle
France
Paris
Algeria Francaise
The
Foreign Legion
1St Parachute Regiment
Wages and Prices in 1961 to 1910 Tax Types
The article compares wage levels in 1961 with prices from 1932 and dividends from 1926, alongside tax figures from 1910, attributed to the Coined General Feature Corp. It analyzes historical economic figures and their relative changes across eras. The piece references a corporate title and historic financial data for context.
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Chuckle Heaven
Fea. Corp
Maine Senate Rejects School Bus Measure Amendment
The Maine Senate rejected by a wide margin a two thirds vote amendment that would require communities to provide bus service to all public school pupils before extending it to private and parochial students. The vote was 23 to 7. Senator Sylvia Gilbert denounced the amendment as vicious and unfair. No supporters spoke in favor.
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Augusta
Maine
Senate
House
Ralph Farris
R Gardiner
Sylvia Gilbert
Power Plan At Quoddy Seen Balked
The International Joint Commission reportedly rejected the Passamaquoddy tidal power project as economically unfeasible under current criteria. The finding was sent to the U.S. and Canadian governments after the April 4 7 meeting, with officials not confirming the recommendation in advance of its official report.
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Washington
International Joint Commission
Passamaquoddy
U. S
Commission
State Department
Civil Defense Drill Alerts End Saturday
Public participation in today’s Civil Defense drill becomes mandatory with a 10 minute period of street closure from 4 to 4 10 pm. Operation Alert 1961 began at 3 pm and runs until noon tomorrow for CD personnel. In Saco schools evacuate at alarm, pupils go home and stay indoors until the 4 10 pm all clear. Local officials coordinate at the County Control Center Alfred Court House as welfare radiology and other units report. TV and radio halt from 4 to 4 30 pm in the nationwide Conelrad drill broadcast locally over radio station.
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Saco
Clarence Holt
Saco CD
Raymond F. Reando
York County
Alfred Court House
Woman testifies of Nazi massacre in Polish village during Eichmann trial
Eda Lichtmann, testifying in the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, described a 1939 village massacre in Poland. She recounted German troops bayoneting Jewish men and her father being among those killed, and she said she found the bodies in a forest after the mob moved to camps. Eichmann sat unmoved as she spoke, and she described subsequent events in Krakow where Jews were gathered.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Eda Lichtmann
Gestapo
Israél
PTA Ready For Action This Evening
Biddeford PTA plans a meeting at Biddeford High School auditorium at 8 PM amid a lull in the Biddeford teacher pay dispute. James Wilkinson, president of the Biddeford Teachers Association, said no statement was issued and members would watch tonight's session for developments. The PTA had announced a meeting in response to teachers seeking public opinion on the matter. Teachers said about half of contracts were not returned before the 5 p.m. deadline Monday. The piece notes a TV program reference and a family summer home in Westhampton, Long Island, tied to a president recuperating from a virus, with continued detail on page two.
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Biddeford
Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
Biddeford High School
James Wilkinson
NBC- m
Westhampton
Long Island
Wife Of TV Star Dead Autopsy Due
Pamela Garroway, wife of television star Dave Garroway, was found dead in their town house at 48 East 63rd Street. Police listed the death as unknown pending an autopsy, with no clear indication of natural causes. A housekeeper found the body at 2 30 a.m. and a private doctor notified police.
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New York
Pamela Garroway
Dave Garroway
E. 63Rd St
Henry Horn
Garroway
Laos Cease-Fire Deadline Passes Silent Rebels
VIENTIANE Laos The noon cease-fire deadline passed with no response from Pathet Lao rebels who called for talks while the Lao government under Premier Boun Oum urged negotiations to begin this weekend in Luang Prabang. Souvanna Phouma returned from nine months exile as Western powers blamed for the conflict and China North Vietnam backed him.
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Laos
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Xieng Khouang
Luang Prabang
Sisavang Vong
Boun Oum
Luang Praban
Mos
Little Kingdom
Souvanna Phouma
Communist Bloc
Souphanouvong
Souvanna
Plaine Des Jarres
China
Viet Nam
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Haley) Cote
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Ray Starks
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