Connecticut to add organ donor option on driver licenses
Connecticut will ask drivers renewing licenses if they will donate organs after death. About 100000 motorists yearly are expected to join, with a stamped organ donor card mailed with the renewal form. The program aims to boost kidney and eye donations nationwide, reducing red tape and speeding posthumous organ removal.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Wendell Stevenson
The
Kidney Foundation of
Stevenson
Marviland
Lois Stevens
Connecticut Eye Bank and
Visual Research Foundation
New Britain
American Party Revives NH Senate Bid In Sept 16 Race
The American Party of New Hampshire votes 16-1 to reenter Carmen C. Chimento in the September 16 special Senate election. Chimento, 45, argues voters should back the Jeffersonian cause over lesser evils and notes he previously ran for governor and the Senate as a Democrat. Durkin and Wyman race unsettled after recount disputes.
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Conservative Party
Carmen C. Chimento
New Hampshire
Senate
John A. Durkin
Louis C. Wyman
Wyman
Durkin
State
Chimento
Jefferson
Democratic U.S. Senate
David Heinlein
Merrimack
Heinlein
Berlin
Ford
Hugh Gallen
Shape Symmetry and Sun Expansion Announced
Shape and Symmetry plus Sun plan to move into the vacant 20 000 cc plant in Biddeford Industrial Park vacated by C M Thornton. Paul Gelardi says the move adds two divisions including high speed automated equipment and flotation products boosting employment 10 to 15 percent initially and up to 40 percent over two years. The new buoyancy division targets oceanographic research, offshore drilling, and fishing industry gear. Financing comes from Casco Bank and SBA. Canal Bank held the plant after Thornton bankruptcy.
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Biddeford
C.M Thornton
Paul Gelardi
Shape
Thornton
Gerardi
Gelardi
Casco Bank
Federal Small Business Administration
Canal Bank
C.M. Thornton
Sha
Patrolman Pleads Innocent In Death
Rutland Vermont AP. Sherwood A LeClair 39 a city patrolman pled innocent at arraignment on manslaughter charges after his off duty car crashed into the Goodrich residence on Vermont 4 killing Susan Goodrich 5. Lynn 18 critically injured. Bail set at 5000 dollars. He was suspended without pay pending investigation.
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Rutland, Vt
Edward J. McClallen
Sherwood A. LeClair
Rutland Hospital
LeClair
Vermont 4
Goodrich
Susan
Lynn
Kennedys Host Irish Youths at Cape Cod Compound
About 50 Northern Ireland youngsters toured the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport Massachusetts as part of a six week Cape Cod stay. Rose Kennedy led tours and shared family mementos while Sen Edward Kennedy and others spoke of shared concerns across Protestant and Catholic communities.
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Hyannisport
Mass
Northern Ireland
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Rose Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
Joe
Jack
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Democrat
John I Kennedy
Robert F) Kennedy
Phillip Gallagher
Cape
Newport Festival ends with new Ragtime boost
Newport Rhode Island final concert drew 1200 fans as New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble performed Scott Joplin works. Ticket sales at four dollars helped a festival dipping into a forty thousand dollar reserve. next year plans aim to broaden American music with more obscure works and a broader audience, while seeking five thousand dollar patron gifts to cover roughly one third of about one hundred fifty thousand dollar costs.
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Newport
R.I
Newporters
Malcovich
New York
Bellevue Avenue
Governor Blood Mourned in New Hampshire
Governor Meldrim Thomson declared a week of mourning for former Governor Robert O. Blood who died at 87. Flags on state buildings will fly at half staff through Sunday. Blood, a Republican, led New Hampshire during World War II from 1941 to 1945 and oversaw civil service, biennial budgets, and a full time attorney general. A memorial service is set for Thursday in Concord.
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Concord
N.H
Meldrim Thomson
Robert O. Blood
Thomson
Blood
New Hampshire
Police weigh discretion over gun law in Bay State
Massachusetts police say strict enforcement of the gun identification law faces hesitation due to a mandatory one year prison sentence for violators. Officials differ on whether to arrest for mere possession with many citing discretion and common sense.
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Brockton
Mass
Massachusetts
J. John Fox
John Bukunt
New Bedford
Joseph Pelletier
Pittsfield
Dauro Boccolo
Massachusetts gun law raises stakes for visitors and residents
Massachusetts enforces a new law with a mandatory one year prison term for violators amid border signs warning visitors about carrying firearms. Since April 1 license and identification card requirements have surged, with about 14 600 cards issued this year versus 4 000 in 1974, and nonresident temporary permits totaling 1 299 since January. Local police report increased registrations and gun turnins across the state.
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Massachusetts
Associated Press
Boston
Worcester
Springfield
New Bedford
Ernest Berube
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Kidney Foundation
State Motor Vehicle Department
Stevens
General Dynamics Shipyard
Quincy
UPI
Concord. N.H
American Party of
Thomas Jefferson
Kennedys
Belfast
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Newport Festival
Bay State Police
Groton
Elmer Whitehead
Ayer
House
David Bartley
Bartley
Amherst
Donald Main
Fox
Savage Arms
Westfield
Smith & Wesson
William J. Costello
John Chi
Sholm
Boston Police Department
Raoper Paul Beloff
Boston Globe
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