Three Rhode Island Girls Die in Rail Crossing Crash
In Exeter Rhode Island three Rhode Island girls 21 19 and 19 die when their car is hit by a New Haven Railroad mail train at a rural crossing. The weekend toll includes over twenty fatalities across New England with numerous highway accidents.
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Boston
Rhode Island
New England
Exeter
Fighteen
Donna M. Anderson
East Providence
R. I
Elizabeth A. Bates
Esmond
Dianne Octeau
Greenville
New Haven Railroad
David Myrick
James O'Neal
Eugene Porter
Dorchester
Mass
Mystic River Bridge
Larry Abbruzzese
Hope Valley
Barbara Mendenhall
Richmond
Ross Hill Road
Charlestown
Julianne Ducsay
Hamden
Conn
Linda Reed
West Haven
Wilbur Cross Parkway
New Haven
Fashion Show Planned by Kennebunk FHA Chapter
Kennebunk High School will host a fashion show and bazaar titled Fashion on the Go on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Kennebunk High School Auditorium. Barbara Ladd and Marie Wildes are general chairmen with multiple department heads for bazaar booths and the fashion show.
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Kennebunk
Kennebunk High School
Future Homemakers of America
Barbara Ladd
Marie Wildes
Butler
Nancy Turgeon
Donna Giles
Debbie Durgin
Ruth Dalton
Kathy Aloise
Susan Leach
Judy Merjrill
Shirley Shuffleburg
Emma Hutchkins
Margaret Parsons
Grace Cluff
Brenda Moore
Carol Jordan
Sherry Goulet
Pam _ Hans.com
Laura Schoff
Snowball Planned At Kennebunk High
Kennebunk High Band Boosters plan a Snowball with dancing from 8 to 12 at the Kennebunk High School Gym on Wednesday December 29. Tickets will be mailed to each band member’s parent. Co chairs are Mrs Verne Bodwell and Mrs Elizabeth Smith with committees for tickets decorations publicity and posters.
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Kennebunk
Kennebunk High School
Elizabeth Smith
Summer Street
Johnny Trull
Verne Bodwell
Norman Stikr
Gordon Hutchins
John Dresser
Clayton Cox
Edward Nixon
Arnold Truscott
Robert Hutchins
Robert Johnson
Dale Bodwell
William Vaughn
Steven Johnson
County Planning Group Asks To Act As Agency
Alfred York County Regional Planning Commission asks 22 municipalities and six non ARA towns to name the Commission as their agency under EDA. The Commission office in the Courthouse Annex is open weekdays 1 to 5 p.m. Arthur T. Lougee is acting executive director until a permanent director is chosen. applications go to Chairman Arthur C. Moulton.
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Alfred
York County
Commission
Rthur T. Lougee
Arthur C. Moulton
Myrtle Lodge Knights of Pythias Sea Food Dinner
Kennebunk Myrtle Lodge Knights of Pythias held a business meeting on Main Street with Chancellor Commander John Lindsey presiding. A sea food plate was served under the direction of Jack Ephross George Clark and Richard Leech. The next meeting on Friday Dec 17 will be the Christmas meeting with beef stew served after.
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Kennebunk
John Lindsey
Myrtle Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Main Street
Jack Ephross
George Clark
Richard Leech
Retired policeman Grady Mars found dead in Granite Quarry
Rowan County coroner links suicide possibility to Mars age 41 earlier active with United Klans of America. He died from a self inflicted head wound in his bedroom after a dispute during an investigation by the House Un American Activities Committee. His wife and police reported his long standing despondency.
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N.C
Rowan County
Grady B. Mars
Mars
Rufus Honeycutt
Jean
House Committee On Un-American Activities
State Bureau of Investigation Lab
Raileigh
Honeycutt
Donald T. Appell
United Klans of America
J. Robert Jones
North Carolina
Klan
Jones
Granite Quarry
U.S. Air Force
Klan Official Burros Suicide and Blackout Across States
Daniel Burros of New York City shot himself in Reading Pennsylvania after a Times story disclosed his Jewish background amid committee hearings. The Fargo district saw disorder, and North Dakota towns reported widespread service outages with 80 towns affected. Air traffic halted at Baltimore Friendship Airport for 12 hours, port shipping paused, and nine ships had sailed none. Thick fog and wintry weather snarled roads with 22 inches of snow in Albany New York.
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Sandy
Daniel Burros
New York City
Reading
Fargo
N.C
North Dakota
Friendship International Airport
Baltimore
New York State
Albany
White Plains
N.Y
Minnesota
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
South Dakota
Winter Weather Grips Large Swath of U S
A blanket of snow rain sleet and fog stretched across the United States causing travel disruption and power outages. In the Dakotas and western Minnesota a sleet storm knocked out communications and left communities isolated while a Greyhound bus crash near Pensacola killed four and injured nineteen.
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Associated Press
Dakotas
Minnesota
Greyhound
New Orleans
Pensacola
Fla
Air Canada
O’hare International
Chicago
Toronto
Hunger strike by pacifists ends in Manchester New Hampshire
Two Catholic pacifists halted a hunger strike at St Joseph's Cathedral in Manchester. James Wilson, 21, of New York, left the chapel after a talk with Father James F. Donohue. Kathy Sullivan, 23, from New York, began the protest and left Saturday after her mother arrived. Sullivan cited discipline of priests over Vietnam policy and referenced Anthony Mullaney, Daniel Berrigan, and Bonaventure O'Brien. Wilson ended the demonstration following a meeting and joined by Daniel Miller.
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Manchester
N. H.ap
James Wilson
New York
St.Joseph’s Cathedral
Kathy A. Sullivan
Wilson
Sullivan
Mather
Frank Sullivan
Daniel Berrigan
Viet Nam
Bonaventure O’brien
Siena College
Albany
N. Y
Allbany
Daniel Miller
Miss Sullivan
St. Anselm’s
Catholic Workers Organization
New York City
New Roschelle
Young Chris«itians
Near-Tropics Boundary Reaches Florida Coast
A geographic note states no part of the United States lies in the tropics though Florida comes within about one degree of that zone. The observation highlights Florida’s position relative to tropical latitude.
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United States
Tropics
Florida
Weather Report Highlights Light Rain and Mild South Temperatures
Rain was recorded in much of the South and Southeast with about a quarter inch in Tennessee and highs in the 60s. Heavy snow fell in eastern Nevada and western Utah with Ely reporting six inches in 12 hours. The West Coast saw intermittent rain in Los Angeles as temps varied from 48 to 60.
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Southland
Tennessee
Nevada
Utah
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