Kennedy urges drug controls and thalidomide return
President Kennedy pledges stronger drug safeguards and urges women to surrender thalidomide found in homes. He lauds FDA official Frances Kelsey for halting distributions and calls for tougher regulatory action without new laws. He also comments on Albany race tensions and Geneva talks.
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Kennedy
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Congress
Albany, Ga
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Peru
United States
US Offers Kennedy Test Ban Concessions
President Kennedy sends negotiator to Geneva with new concessions for a nuclear test ban. A White House conference on strategy centered on international inspection and Soviet consent. The plan envisions reduced onsite checks and possible permanent control posts inside the Soviet Union with safeguards.
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Kennedy
Geneva
Soviet Union
U.S
White House
United States
Khrushchev
Arthur Dean
Dean
Eisenhower Arrives in Cologne for German Tourist Visit
In Cologne thousands of cheering Germans welcomed former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on his arrival for a tourist visit to Germany.
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Cologne
Germany
Eisenhower
Kennedy Plans Maine Visit and abortion debate coverage
The report surveys Swedish and Norwegian stances on abortion for foreign women amid the Sherri Finkbine case. Sweden has granted several legal abortions under specific indications, while Norway restricts abortion to medical necessity. Japan and Denmark are noted as likely restrictions. Swedish and Oslo officials outline boards and medical criteria guiding decisions.
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Associated Press
Sweden
Norway
Sherri Finkbine
Stockholm
Oslo
Japan
Welfare Ministry
Tokyo
Fumihiko Manakata
Denmark
Axel Peterson
Maternal Aid Institution
Copenhagen
Finkbine
Arizona
National Health Board
Karl Inge Oester
Medical Board
Roosevelt Memorial Bridge Dedication Postponed
The Roosevelt Memorial Bridge linking Lubec Maine and Campobello Island New Brunswick faced a delay as White House scheduling prevented President Kennedy from attending the dedication. Salinger indicated the President would attend at a later date when possible.
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D. Roosevelt Memorial
Lubec
Maine
Campobello Island
President Salinger to visit Maine for charity festival
The President will land at Brunswick Navy Air Station about 6 15 p m Friday Aug 10 speak briefly at a charity festival then go to a friend's home in Maine for two days. He declined to name the friend but said the home is in Maine and reporters will be housed at Boothbay Harbor near the residence. He plans to return to Washington Sunday night or Monday morning.
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Brunswick Naval Air Station
Salinger
Maine
Boothbay Harbor
Washington
Summer Slump Revealed in Commerce and Construction
Commerce Department reports show a summer downturn with a $1 billion drop in May-June sales across manufacturers wholesalers and retailers and a July construction rate falling to $61.7 billion. Private building rose $64 million while public construction fell $88.5 million, offsetting gains.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Cap Sets Off Fire Alarm At Old Orchard Beach Firehouse
Harry Hutchinson known as Cap volunteers greeting cards from Old Orchard Beach. He entered the battery room to help Fireman Thomas Smith and accidentally triggered the fire alarm with his elbow, causing a false alarm at the station. Cap, a blind former sea captain, moves around the area and was in the station to pick up cards.
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Old Orchard Beach
Harry Hutchinson
Harry
Cap
Thomas Smith
Battery Room
Smith
Portland Girl Dies Of Injuries
Portland three year old Lori Peterson died in a hospital from injuries after being hit by a car while leaving a grocery store with her father Kenneth Peterson. Police said the child darted into the street toward her mother in a nearby parked car.
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Portland
Lori Peterson
Kenneth Peterson
Lori
Bowdoin Museum Receives Two Baxter Family Paintings
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art receives two family paintings donated by former Governor Percival P. Baxter. One portrait from 1881 depicts Baxter's mother, and another shows Baxter as a six year old with his sister Mrs. Fenton Tomlinson of Portland when she was four. Baxter graduated Bowdoin in 1898.
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Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Percival P. Baxter
Baxter
Fenton Tomlinson
Portland
Crump spared as clemency halts electric chair
Paul Crump a 32 year old condemned slayer whose execution was halted by Gov Otto Kerner received clemency in Springfield Kerner ruled Crump rehabilitated and should be spared though experts say parole authority rests with the Parole and Pardon Board Crump had fought 9 years for a stay and at the hearing admitted involvement in a 1953 robbery that left Theodore Zukowski dead
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Chicago
Paul Crump
Otto Kerner
Crump
Springfield
U.S. Supreme Court
Kerner
Statehouse
Illinois Parole and Pardon Board
Jack Johnson
Parole and Pardon Board
Theodore Zukowski
Libby, McNeil & Libby Co
Aluminum Workers Halt Short Strike
The AFL-CIO Aluminum Workers International Union reached two year contracts with Reynolds Aluminum Co. and Aluminum Company of America after a one day strike by 16,000 workers at 22 plants. Agreements provide larger vacations and enhanced pensions with no wage increase. production restoration expected within six weeks. Spokesmen say plans to resume full output vary by plant.
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ST. Louis
Reynolds
Alcoa
Eddie R. Stahl
Collision At York Kills Three
A two car crash on Route One in York this morning killed George Stoddard 54 of Great Kills Staten Island Elizabeth Stoddard and Cpl Ronald A Bernier 20 of South Portland. Their daughter Janice 15 was hospitalized with facial injuries and possible concussion. A friend Janice Jacobs 15 also injured. The crash occurred about 8 am as workers headed for the Kittery Navy Yard. Continued on Page Nine.
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Kittery Navy Yard
Bernier
Catholics Oppose Abortion Despite Likely Deformity
In Boston the Pilot, Catholic archdiocese paper, quotes Bishop Riley condemning abortion for potential deformity. He argues denying unborn life based on deformity could justify killing any person judged lacking normal physical integrity. The case involves Sherri Finkbine and thalidomide fears.
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Boston
Pilot
Thomas J. Riley
Sherri Finkbine
Phoenix
Ariz
Izona
Finkbines
Riley
Potters Furniture Store Expands Facilities in Biddeford
Potters, Inc. announces a expansion plan to double street floor space by leasing adjacent sites at Main and Jefferson. Arnold Potter says a rug and floor covering department will occupy the former Able Shoe store and a juvenile department the Kent Cleaners site. The project, with Paul Nolette handling contracts, aims for completion this month.
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Potters, Inc
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Main
Jefferson Streets
Biddeford
Arnold Potter
Able Shoe Store
Kent Cleaners
Potter
Kent
Paul Nolette
Main Street
Jefferson Street
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Arthur H. Dean
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Frances Kelsey
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Lucille Delagrange
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York
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