Conservatives Back Common Market
London AP report says Conservative MPs overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's bid to negotiate Britain's entry to the European Common Market. The 313-5 government motion passed as Labor abstained. Lords approved the measure without a formal count. Britain will apply next week, seeking terms favorable to Commonwealth trade, subsidized farmers, and sovereignty, with talks unlikely before October.
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London
Harold Macmillan
House of Lords
Macmillan
Britain
France
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Europe
European Free Trade Association
Brit
Commonwealth
Chuckle Women Are Unpredictable Or So They Say
A humorous note claims women can be unpredictable and find their own way to get what they want, attributed to Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Gen
Fea. Corp
Fur harvest value climbs to 181000 in 1960 in Alberta report
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Game reports fur take for 1960 reached 181000 dollars, up 19000 from 1959, reflecting stronger activity in the sector. The agency released the figures on Thursday.
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Augustap
Department of Inland Fisheries and Gamae
Steel Production Normal But Many Out Of Work
Pittsburgh AP reports mills run at a solid pace in the second quarter with about 70 percent capacity. Yet roughly 100,000 millworkers are idle as steel output climbs while employment falls, a trend driven by automation and efficiency gains. Union and industry leaders discuss long-term effects and the balance between progress and jobs.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
American Iron and Steel Institute
Department of Labor
Nies
U.S. ‘Steel Corp
R. Conrad
U.S. Steel
USW
Mare Two
Portland Ferry Lines Return To Schedule After Walkout
Casco Bay Lines crews were back at work after two captains were fired over a missing mail sack. Seventeen boatmen quit in protest demanding higher wages and shorter work weeks, then returned as captains were rehired and pay scales adjusted. The PUC warned unsafe island wharves could trigger state takeover if repairs are not made by August 14.
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Portland P
Portland
Casco Bay Lines
CBL
Long Island
William Taylor
Robert Ricker
Peter T. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Public Utilities Commission
PUC
US backs Latin anti Castro actions amid hijack crisis
Washington reports show the United States backing Latin American moves against Fidel Castro while urging hemispheric crackdown via the Organization of American States. Gunmen in a Texas hijack said they wanted the plane flown to Cuba. Two other U.S. airliners have been hijacked to Cuba since May.
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Washington
U.S
Fidel Castro
Texas
Cuba
U. S
United States
Castro
Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala
Organization of American States
Guatemala
OAS
Berlin Crisis Talks Pressured by Soviet Note
Moscow warned the West against military threats while signaling willingness to negotiate a German settlement. Khrushchev urged an agreed peace treaty with East Germany and a conference before September elections, with Western powers insisting on free all-German elections before any treaty. The note, delivered to U.S., Britain, France, and West Germany, stressed a separate Soviet-East German treaty only if the West stops blocking talks. In separate local copy, Biddeford residents preserve a giant geranium plant for two decades.
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Moscow
United States
Berlin
Britain
France
Westermany
Khrushcheviat
East Germany
Russia
West Germany
Germany
West Berlin
Kremlin
Moscow Radio
Khrushchev
Bus Holds Bodies In Deep Mud
A lake Lucerne divers finds 15 American tourists trapped in a sunken bus after a highway crash. The bus rests upside down 180 feet deep. 16th body recovered earlier. Police fear more may be washed away as bars and cranes prepare to raise the craft. Fewer than half the passengers survived. Miss Julia R. Schulz of Altoona, Pa was identified by bracelet.
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Hergiswil
Switzerland
Lake Lucerne
Siegfried Naumann
Naumann
Julia R. Schulz
Altoona
Lucerne
Interlaken
Hero Of Hijacked Plane Incident Broke Hand
Leonard W. Gilman 43 aided in subduing two gunmen who hijacked a Continental Airlines Boeing 707 in El Paso. He struck the elder hijacker behind the ear, held him with a full nelson to block access to guns, while FBI Agent Francis Crosby and others stopped the danger. Gilman led passengers to safety and volunteered as a hostage to spare others, as shots were fired at the aircraft tires during takeoff.
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Mark Deering
Don Land
Paso Times
Associated Press
EL Paso
Tex
Leonard W. Gilman
Continental Airlines
Gilman
Francis Crosby
FBI
Fl Paso
U.S. Border Patrol
San Pedro
Calif
Bearden
Arizona
California
Kennedy
Border Patrol
Havana
Leonard Gilman
Immigration Service
Airliner hijack prompts calls for piracy penalties
An itinerant car salesman Leon Bearden and his son Cody hijacked a Boeing 707 with 10 hostages for nearly nine hours, drawing White House and Congressional fury. Bearden, 38, and Cody, 16, were bound over to a federal grand jury under bonds of 200000 dollars after Border Patrol and FBI agents subdued them. Leonard Gilman, an Immigrant Service agent and former boxer, knocked Bearden down and, with an FBI man, subdued Cody. Gilman later left the plane with a cast on his broken hand.
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EL Paso
Tex
White House
Congress
Leon Bearden
Cody
Bearden
FBI
Gilman
Rites Sunday At Old Biddeford Church
Sunday service at historic First Congregational church Pool road South Biddeford at 2 30 p m with Rev Harry A Rufiero and Rev H Lewis Cutler participating The church is a preserved historic shrine and music directed by Mrs Carl Deis Jr Organist Miss Mary Robbins The program lists hymns prayers anthems and sermons with combined choir performances and sponsors from church trustees and the Biddeford Saco Council of Churches
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First Congregational Church
Pool Road
Biddeford
Harry A. Rufiero
First Parish Congregational Church
Saco
H. Lewis Cutler
Second Congregational Church
Carl Deis, Jr
Saco Congregational Church
Foss Street Methodist Church
Mary Robebins
South Biddeford Methodist
Robertson
Biddeford-Saco
South Biddeford
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