Connecticut Considers Importing Apple Pickers
Connecticut faces a looming harvest with 1.12 million bushels of apples. About 400 pickers needed, with up to 95 Jamaicans eyed if local labor fails to meet demand. Wage per bushel is 28 cents and hourly base is $2.39. Vermont and Massachusetts also weigh imported labor as harvest nears in September.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Jamaica
Dick Ficks
Connecticut Labor Department
Ficks
New England
Vermont
1S. Labor Department
Employment Security Department
Massachusetts
David Hilburn
Division of Employment Security
Commonwealth
Human remains found near Conway New Hampshire
Bodies were found Aug. 15 in a wooded area near Conway. Preliminary identification marks the person as a male 40 to 60, likely dead ten years or more. No injuries were noted. A plastic wristband was found but provided no ID. Authorities urge anyone with info on a missing man from a decade ago to contact Conway Police.
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Conway
N.H
Carroll County
Frederic L. Cox
Cox
Collector seeks old cameras and photos near Kennebunkport
A collector plans a regional survey from August 25 to September 1 in the Kennebunkport area. He seeks old or unusual cameras, family portraits, or other photography related items. Write to Mel c/o Beechwood Motel Route 9 Kennebunkport ME 04046 with a brief description, age if possible, telephone number, and best calling time.
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Mel
c/o
Beechwood Motel
Route 9
Kennebunkport
Auto Insurance Freeze Sought for First Half of 1976
Gov Dukakis pushes six month freeze on most auto insurance rates, aiming to curb a 244 million proposed rate hike. Legislature, insurers and consumer group support freezing property damage rates while bodily injury rates stay unfrozen. Insurance Commissioner Stone backs the plan, hoping to reform the system. industry critics call it illegal.
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Boston
Michael S. Dukakis
Dukakis
Massachusetts Fair Share
Daniel J. Foley
D-Worcester
Raymond LaFontaine
Dgardner
Magnetic Bullets Repair Esophagus
Boston report details a new method using magnetized "bullets" placed in the ends of a blocked esophagus to draw them together over weeks. In 13 month old Chad Steph en, the technique allows normal eating, avoiding a major reconstruction. Doctors Hendren and Hale note no adverse side effects and describe the procedure's potential to spare artificial esophagi in difficult cases.
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Boston
Chad Stephen
South Attleboro
New England Journal of Medicine
W. Hardy Hendren
J. Richard Hale
Hendren
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bitter National Magnet Laboratory
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Nature Shoes
Ooofa
Exersole
Thom McAn
Jox
NEW England News
First Baptist Church
Beverly
Mass
George Tooze
Maine
Richard J. Underwood
American Insurance Association
Supreme Court
Underwood
Joseph P. Hegarty
American Mutual Insurance Alliance
Howe’s Floor Store
U.S. Route 1
Wells, Maine
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