British Museum Showcases Vast Coin Collection
In London the British Museum houses a vast numismatic vault with nearly a million coins dating to about 600 B C. Dr. John Walker explains rarity as having only two or three specimens known, noting a restored example of Carausius, a Roman usurper in Britain, as a highlight in the long history of coinage.
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London
British Museum
John Walker
Asia Minor
China
Walker
Carausius
Britain
Shah Sulaiman
St. Mary's Church
Leeds
Church of St. Cross
Middleton
Royal Mint Museum
Constantine the Great
Ross-on-Wye
England
Prison Forest Camp in Berkshire Hills Turns Inmates Into Parks Crews
Monroe Massachusetts hosts a unique correctional forestry camp where 44 inmates from Norfolk Walpole and Concord work on Clarksbury State Park projects. Guards are called officers and inmates, my boys, with parole success rates higher than state averages. The program aims at a smoother transition to freedom, proposing a halfway house near a city to help parolees find daytime work and supervision. The article notes the Potomac name derives from an Algonquian term meaning trading place.
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Monroe
Mass
Massachusetts
Berkshire Hills
Norfolk
Walpole
Concord
Massachusetts Correctional Institution
Melvin Dinsmore
Dinsmore
Clarksburg
State Department of Correction
State Department of Natural Resources
Liberty
Bank of England cuts rate to 5 percent in easing move
London reports a cut in the Bank of England lending rate from 5 1/2 percent to 5 percent. The change aims to slow hot money outflows from the United States and ease the Conservative government credit squeeze blamed for auto layoffs and weaker exports. The 5 1/2 percent rate had been in place since October 27.
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London
British Treasury
Bank of England
United States
America
Caribbean patrol shifts as ships move in Western Caribbean
The article notes Cuban backed revolutions linked to Nicaragua and Mala as tensions rise. The carrier Shangri La and four destroyers began a mid November patrol, replaced by the Wasp before month end with five destroyers, plus two long range patrol planes. The Wasp is due at Mayport Florida to unload planes before heading to Boston.
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Mala
Nicaragua
Shangri-La
Wasp
Caribbean
Navy
Mayport
Fla
Boston
Foss Street WSCS Plans Yuletide Fete
Foss Street Woman's Society of Christian Service plans its annual Christmas party at the Foss Street Methodist Church vestry with committee appointments led by Mrs. June Poirier. The group will exchange gifts, complete a stocking project, and hold a Harvest Festival on November 16, 1961.
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Woman's Society of Christian Service
Foss Street Methodist Church
June Poirier
Bernice Wiggin
Theresa Chasse
Ann Spencer
Gladys Schwartz
Marilyn Riddle
Gladys Goodwin
Riddle
Spencer
Ida_ Michie
Beatrice’ Halee
Poirier
Deschambault Rally Highlights Education and Record
The Deschambault administration record is cited as the central issue at a Biddeford rally for Mayor Clement Deschambault and the Democratic ticket. Speakers stress education, school construction as key policy, with supporters citing finances, taxes, and local progress during three years in office.
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Deschambault
St. John Hall
Biddeford
Democratic Club
Clement H. Deschambault
Roger C. Nadeau
Board of Education
Trecuing
Albert Cookson
Clement Deschambault
Ralph Binette
Bidgeford
Explorer Post Plans December Activities in Biddeford
Biddeford Explorer Post 505 held a meeting at City Hall to outline December plans. A visit to WIDE radio on December 21 and a WCSH TV visit on December 28 were scheduled. Robert DeSilva named radio visit chairman and whist series organizer. Frank DeSilva and George Georgakarakos named Christmas party co chairs. Bruce Nunan led TV studio visit ceremonies.
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Biddeford Explorer Post
Wcsh-Tv
Portland
Robert DeSilva
Frank DeSilva
George Georgacarakos
Bruce Nunan
John Colomb
Joseph Hill
Robert Petit
Joseph McCarthy
Community praises school project as Biddeford unites
Joseph Plamondon a Hills Beach high school teacher and PFTA president spoke in support of the Deschambault administration declaring that for the money invested citizens will get one of the finest schools in the country. A moment of silence honored Edward H. Reay a former city official who died earlier in the week. The evening ended with a social, refreshments, and dancing.
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Joseph Plamondon
Hills Beach
PFTA
St. Andre Parish
Deschambault
Biddeford
Edward H. Reay
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Xead Journal
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