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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1967
Page
1
Journal photographer Dick Danforth captures two seasons at Noah’s Ark area Old Orchard Beach. One image shows last winter’s Maine Nor’easter and the other stunning summer weather during peak tourist season.
Arlington police hold John Patler, former top Nazi aide, on murder charges after he allegedly killed George Lincoln Rockwell as he left a shopping center in Arlington. Rockwell’s heir Matthias Koehl vows the movement will carry on despite the assassination.
Moscow AP reports Krasnaya Zvezda notes cosmonauts are training for parachute landings in water as well as land. Previous manned flights ended on land, one fatal. The article discusses potential water landings without detailing spacecraft recovery.
The Associated Press reports police hold a former American Nazi accused in the slaying of George Lincoln Rockwell under heavy guard. Rockwell’s designated successor vows the movement will carry on despite the crime.
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After long talks a draft nonproliferation treaty text was submitted by the United States and Russia in Geneva. The deal would bar the five major powers from supplying or aiding nations without nuclear arms. McNamara criticized bombing plans in Vietnam as insufficient to end the war. Rockwell, tied to the American Nazi movement, was killed by a sniper amid an arrest in Rockwell’s circle.
At the Maine Teachers Association session in Machias speakers urged teachers to organize Citizens' Scholarship Foundation chapters and encourage students to attend colleges or technical schools. CSF regional director Joseph F. Phelan cited Maine chapters raising over $70,000 for about 300 students, while Bert L. Pratt Jr. noted funding challenges and the need to update educators on the Economic Opportunity Act and Higher Education Act of 1965 and federal student loans.
A bus carrying civilians was destroyed by a mine near My Tho 56 miles from a rally where South Vietnam candidates spoke. Twenty two passengers died and six were injured in the blast believed linked to Viet Cong activities during the election campaign.
The State Board of Penates approved $500 000 for a York County Vocational Center to be built beside Biddeford High School serving Biddeford Old Orchard Beach Saco Kennebunk and Kennebunkport with Biddeford receiving 300 000 and Sanford 200 000. The project will be funded mainly by state money with a city bond and the center expected to open in September 1968.
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