Old Orchard Beach School Plan Seeks Double Sessions
The school committee votes to close the old high school building now used as a primary for four second grades and to organize double sessions at the present elementary school. They cite unmet funding votes for 5000 dollars for fire protection and hold plans for two additions until financing is secured.
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Old Orchard Beach
Cecil Cutts
Louis Wharff
Supt. Cutts
Jameson
Henry Rudy
Mystery geyser in Swan pond shocks Saco area
Mrs. Clifford Swan watched Swan pond near Lyman turn chaotic with a geyserlike water eruption about four to five feet high yesterday just after 11 a.m. Her dog Baron nearly fell in. a towel and soap dish were carried away as a frog leapt into a boat. Her husband later found a hard object in the mud as authorities closed the scene.
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Clifford Swan
Old Orchard Road
Saco
Swan Pond
Lyman
Baron
Harness
Fliers poised in try to recover satellite capsule
A Discoverer VI capsule, detached from the satellite, was expected to drop into the Pacific as Air Force crews in Hawaii prepared to attempt a rapid catch with recovery nets. The mission aims to solve re entry and retrieval challenges for manned spaceflight amid uncertain signals from the capsule.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Pacific
Hawaii
Air Force
Humorous Wordplay on Modern Courtship
A humorous line notes that men marry not for romance but because they cannot afford to take a partner out, reflecting a jokey social observation. The quip is attributed to Gen. Pea. Corp.
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Gen
Pea. Corp
Beast Kills 20 At Ceylon Buddhist Pageant
In Kandy, a temple elephant charged a crowd of about 200000 at the Perahera festival injuring and killing numerous spectators. The beast, enraged after treading burning coals from a torch, caused a panic as dancers and drummers fled toward Kandy Lake. Numerous missing persons were feared.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Kandy Lake
Meat Help Threaten Walkout of 200000 Workers
Forest Park, Pa. AP reports a threatened walkout of nearly 200,000 workers in the meat processing industry next month. Union officials say Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Packinghouse Workers have similar wage freeze and proposals as in the steel dispute. AFL-CIO leaders warn the steel strike may signal growing management resistance to concessions.
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Forest Park
Gieri
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Packingtouse
Afl-Cio
Searchers Renew Risky Probe For Quake Victims
In southwestern Montana search crews renewed a perilous hunt for quake victims around Hebgen Dam as landslides rained rock and dirt on slopes. Civil Defense sheriff’s office U S Forest Service and volunteers formed the teams and paused digging into a 50 million ton landslide until tremors ease. Eight bodies recovered with survivors signaling the toll could climb to twelve. a woman missing and presumed drowned was later found.
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Yellowstone
Mont
Montana
Hebgen Dam
Civil Defense Organization
Sheriff's Office
U.S. Forest Service
Donald Skerritt
British Crew Reports Soviet Submarine Encounter
London AP reports a British crew of three and eight others completed a 10,000 mile undersea survey with a Soviet submarine sighting. A twin-engine plane carrying students and passengers crashed into Man 25 miles northeast of nere, killing 2,400-foot peak victims in the Barents Sea area.
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London
Moscow
North Atlantic
Nere
Cuban Electric Co. Rates Cut Ordered in Havana
Havana AP reports the Cuban government ordered the American owned Cuban Electric Co to reduce its rates by 30.4 percent for the Havana metro area. The move comes as part of price controls affecting utilities and consumer costs amid economic measures.
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Havana
Cuban Electric Co
Prince Abdul Rahman to lead Malaya’s pro Western policy
Prince Abdul Rahman, father of Malaya’s independence, won a five year mandate to pursue a pro Western policy. The anti-Communist alliance party dominated the election, defeating Nationalists and Socialists. Meanwhile Moscow said Soviets can hear foreign broadcasts, noting widespread short wave radios despite jamming.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Abdul Rahman
Britain
Rahman
London
Radio
Moscow
Soviet Union
Natal African women jailed after beer hall clash
In Escourt, about 40 to 50 African women were jailed after attacking a municipal beer hall manager while protesting laws that ban them from making and selling their own potent home brew. The protests persist across southern Natal provinces amid government restrictions on their race.
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Durban
South Africa
Natal
Escourt
Pietermaritzburg
Ponti Freed as Bigamy Case Sparks London Speculation
In Rome Carlo Ponti left as a free man amid speculation his 11 day Spain holiday with Sophia Loren could trigger bigamy charges. Deputy prosecutors noted about 100 complaints but Italian law bars action since Ponti's divorce from his first wife isn’t recognized. In Spain a separate line reports a chartered airliner crash in fog killed 21 British students.
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Rome
Carlo Ponti
Widens
Sophia Loren
Italy
Ponti
Barcelona
Spain
Drowning in Tan sui River After Flood Loss
Chen Kuan-jou moved to Taipei with relatives after floods wrecked his Formosa home. He went swimming in the Tan sui river on Wednesday and drowned.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chen Kuan-jou
Tansui
Civil Defense Leaders Promote Backyard A bomb Shelters
In Los Angeles sixty Civil Defense leaders aimed to persuade the public to build backyard A bomb shelters. A question on government approved shelters drew a show of hands, and no hands were raised.
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Los Angeles
Biddeford Youth Sent To Prison for Escape Plot
Carroll L. Cyr, 20, of Biddeford, was sentenced to two to four years in State prison for escape from the Men's Reformatory at Windham. He and three others fled May 12 while inmates watched TV in a recreation room and was arrested four days later after pleading guilty before Superior Court Justice Charles A. Pomeroy.
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Poptland
Carroll L. Cyr
Biddeford
Windham
Cyr
Superior Court
Charles A. Pomeroy
Both Sides See Basis For Claims In Steel Matter
Washington AP both striking steelworkers and steel industry claim a new government report supports their view. Mitchell released a 4000 word background report noting rising profits prices and wages and urged both sides to push negotiations. He refused to name concessions and warned a national emergency could loom if not settled by late September.
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Washington (Ap
James P Mitchell
Mitchell
R. Conrad Cooper
Cooper
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
Steelworkers
New York
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Beach Board
Saco Tanning Corporation
Bates Manufacturing Company
Clement Deschambault
Peter Garland
Andrew Fournier
Daniel Turkanis
Tannery
Turkanis
Sen. Fournier
Soco Tanning Corporation
Shaned
Kesslen Shoe Co
Kennebunk, Maine
RCA
Bologns
Frankforts
Cello
Alfred Street
Meat Help
Slide Area
Madison River Slide
West Yellowstone, Mont
Bozeman
Kennebunk Rotary
Wonderbrook Farm
Kennebunk
Jerry’s Meat Mart
U. S
Broilers
Campbell’s Tomato Soup
Capons
Hamburg
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