Biddeford Police Vacancy Spurs Politics and Urgency
In Our Opinion the Biddeford Police Department faces an August vacancy amid alleged political meddling. Commissioner Albert Lessard backs a preferred relative, while an immediate qualified candidate awaits appointment. Board Chair Norman Poirier warns lives are at stake, urging merit over nepotism to avoid disruptive impact on public safety.
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Biddeford
Albert Lessard
Lessard
Norman Poirier
Improbable Dog Cat Debate Hits Human Brains
A humorous critique argues McMullan and Dobbins overstate animal IQ. It ridicules dogs cats and horses as dimwits while praising cat lovers and Mehitabel, a nine lives symbolic genius, contrasting modern pet pampering with animal intelligence.
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Lassie
New York
Lonely Hearts Club
Dobbins
McMullan
Mehitabel
Washington Merry-Go-Round on Mississippi seating controversy
The piece notes how four white Mississippi Congressmen were seated at the start of the 89th Congress while Negro challengers to their seats faced procedural hurdles. It argues the House Administration Committee and the Johnson administration, under Speaker McCormack, protected Mississippi lawmakers and delayed action on the Powell case, affecting party and leadership dynamics. It lists several lawmakers who supported Negro voting rights in principle but voted for the Mississippi delegation.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Harlem
Connecticut
House of Representatives
House Administration
Adam Clayton Powell
Congress
Mississippi
William Fitts Ryan
D-N.y
John McCormack
D-Mass
Johnson Administration
House Administration Committee
Powell
Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party
Jim Coleman
Coleman
Johnson
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
House
Ralph Roberts
Roberts
Wiliams
Williams
United States
LBJ
House Rules Committee
Capitol Hill
William Colmer
Colmer
Rep
Ray Madden
Indiana
Jim Delaney
Cardinal Spellman
Wayne Aspinall
C-Colo
Edward Derwinski
Chicago
Spark Mat‘sunaga
Hawaii
Ben Reifel
South Dakota
Indians Need More Than Food For Sioux Youth
Father Edwards urges aid for Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux children, arguing that love and education are essential alongside food. He condemns neglect on the reservation and warns of broader social consequences from western conquest and poverty.
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Bob Considine
New York
Edwards
Pine Ridge
S. D
Father Edwards
Hottentots
West
ABC
You
Red Cloud
S.D
Edward Bennett Williams
Louis iNizer
Lee Bailey
Supreme Court
Llife
King’s Vietnam stance risks alienating his Negro support
Washington News outlines how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr cites war costs as harming domestic anti poverty and civil rights efforts. It notes skepticism of Randolph’s large budget plans, limited Negro turnout at antiwar events, and King’s reduced support among responsible Black leaders.
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Bruce Biossat
Washington
Enterprise Assn
U.S
Martin Luther King Jr
King
A. Philip Randolph
America
Randolph
Philadelphia
New York
San Francisco
Vietnam
Lous
Punish the guilty not the innocent on abortion debate
Russell Kirk argues against broad abortion legalization citing religious traditions and medical advances. He questions liberal push for abortion rights, warns of societal slippery slope, and urges punishment of the guilty while protecting the innocent. He cites medical research and a Swedish physician anecdote to press his stance.
Three Minutes A Day A Rice Research Vision From A Retired Professor
A Cornel emeritus professor at 70, with a retired nutritionist wife, proposes doubling or quadrupling rice yields via improved varieties and practices learned during five years with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. He grew rice, sweet potatoes, and sweet corn on one plot in under a year and urges regular eye testing and broader hunger relief efforts. He suggests space age cooperation between the US and USSR and frames hunger as a moral imperative grounded in Matthew 25:35.
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Cornel College of Agriculture
Philippines
International Rice Research Institute
Expo 67 shows nations at Montreal fair including De Gaulle
The United Nations and seventy nations attend Canada's Expo 67 in Montreal. The United States and Russia display prominently while France plans to exhibit Charles de Gaulle. The piece notes a potential summit if Lyndon Johnson attends. LBJ rarely sends Hubert to Canada, reflecting friendly relations.
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Canada
United Nations
U.N
U.S
Russia
Montreal
France
Charles de Gaulle
Lyndon
LBJ
Hubert
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Police Department
Inez
Science
I.Q
William C. McMullan
University of Georgia
Charles N. Dobbins Jr
Riley
Saco Journal
Adams Street
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Telephone
Associated Press
John Bell Williams
Goldwater
Tue
American Medical Association
Washington News
Dr. King
Russell Kirk
Freud
House of Commons
London
St. John Stevas
M.P
Sweden
House of Lords
Commons
James Keller
Frank Borman
Gordon Cooper
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