Women's Equal Rights Day Celebrated in Portland Maine
The first Equal Rights Day in Maine features a crafts fair by Maine women in Deering Oaks 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A City Hall motorcade arrives at 11 a.m. with speeches by Rozanna Patane and others. Gladys Chapman to cut a birthday cake for the suffrage milestone and NOW chapter birth.
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Maine
Portland
Portland Women’s Rights Union
Deering Oaks
City Hall
Park
Rozanna Patane
Biddeford
Anna Brady
Camden
Marilyn Anderson-Richard
Windham
Mary Najarian
Gladys
Shriver Ends Southern Campaign Tour Amid Mixed Reactions
Sargent Shriver facing weak support from Deep South governors as he ends the southern leg of his campaign. In Atlanta he criticized Nixon's Vietnam policy and urged McGovern’s ticket, while Louisiana Governor Edwards and Georgia Governor Carter offered cautious stances, with Carter declining a formal endorsement.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
George McGovern
Sargent Shriver
Atlanta
Shriver
Nixon
Fountain Square
Baton Rouge
McGovern
Louisiana
Edwin Edwards
U.S. Senate
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Construction of Chapel to Begin at Veterans Cemetery
Maj. Gen. Edwin W. Heywood announced construction of a chapel at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Augusta will start within two weeks. Gov. Curtis and the Executive Council allocated 125000 for the chapel, with a private fund drive already at 85000 and aiming for 15000 more.
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Augusta
Edwin W. Heywood
Veterans Memorial
Heywood
Kenneth M. Curtis
Executive Council
Old Thomas College
Waterville
Maine Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Academy
Atomic Energy Commission
Maine Yankee
Maine Municipal Bond Bank
Rainbow to close out the Olympics in Munich rain plan
In Cambridge Massachusetts the final Olympic spectacle hinges on a rainbow over Munich Germany. If the weather cooperates the rainbow will appear. if it rains plans by two MIT designers may be thwarted making the closing ceremony uncertain.
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Cambridge
Mass
Munich
Germany
Te Institute of Technology
Otto Piene
MIT
Walter Lewin
Center For Space Research
Olympic Lake
Maine Yankee denied full bay use for wastes by board ruling
The Board of Environmental Protection rejected Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. request to use all 2600 acres of Montsweag Bay as a thermal mixing zone. The plant must discharge into a phased zone down to 25 acres by November 1, 1974, with earlier limits to 90 acres at Bailey Cove and 200 adjacent acres. The decision cites damage to marine life and insufficient evidence of feasible alternatives. The company plans to review the ruling and comment later. hearings had spanned several months.
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Augusta
Board of Environmental Protection
Maine
Yankee Atomic Power Co
Montsweag Bay
Wiscasset
Bailey Cove
Kenneth M. Curtis
Ofice
Maine Yankee
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Prospect St
David Ronald Carroll
St. Joseph Church
Carroll
Lucille Hopkins
South Portland
Joseph Carroll
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Diana Rousselle
Leo Lemire
Patricia Paquette
Lu-Ann Carroll
Rene Jariz
Goose Rocks Beach
Michael Whelan
Carlene Brocks
Schiffon
Kath Aes
Schenectady
Jeffrey Carroll
Sout Portland
Robert Fuller
Rudolph Ross Jr
Raymond Bouthillette
Gary Chisholm
Rochambeau Club
South Street
St. Louis Regional
University of Maine Portland — Gorham
South Portland High School
Vietnam
U.S. Marines
Mrs
David R. Carroll
Anastasoff
Rainbow
Brunswick
Old Orchard Beach
Art Nadeau
Ieee
Youland
Ocean Pines
New England Baptist Council
Ocean Park
Youland’s
Berkshire
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Kennebunk
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Eanue
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