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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1967
Page
3
Saco prepares to unveil its new police station dedicated by Mayor Donald C. Doyle and the city council. Construction began in September, covering 95 by 28 feet with seven rooms and a one car garage including an identification room and a four-cell block. The old 125 year old station was torn down last August after serving as jail and quarters in earlier days.
Airman Gerald R. Lamirande son of Eloi and Mrs Lamirande of Biddeford Maine completes basic training at Lackland AFB Texas He is assigned as a statistical data specialist with a Strategic Air Command unit at Fairchild AFB Washington Lamirande is a St Louis High School graduate and earned a BA from the University of Maine in 1967.
Dr Paul H Goodley, 25, a Wilmington physician and reserve deputy, confronted an armed man in a drug store. He fired five times wounding the assailant, an accomplice was also hit then arrested. Goodley commented he would seek a larger caliber after the incident.
Beverly Hills sponsors the Navy League to outfit the carrier Yorktown with broadcasting gear to relay TV programs to about 4 500 sailors aboard and on nearby destroyers. It becomes the first Navy ship to broadcast news and entertainment at sea using cameras transmitters and a videotape system.
President Rene Barrientos of Bolivia flies to Berne for medical treatment with the illness undisclosed. He will be absent about ten days, and Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas assumed the presidency in a palace ceremony. Barrientos will stop briefly in Lima and New York with his wife and aides.
Pearl Harbor Hawaii AP says the US nuclear submarine Guardfish ran aground off the Pearl Harbor entrance during high tide Sunday night. Minor repairs are planned after attempts to dislodge it at high tide Monday failed. No crew injuries or radiation hazard. Navy investigators appointed to determine why it ran aground during a propulsion systems test run.
New York AP Woody Allen says he prefers occasional TV appearances and will guest on NBC Music Hall to review 1967 with Liza Minnelli Buckley Jr. and others. NBC plans an extra Monday movie night next season as networks expand two hour feature film blocks. Jonathan Winters Show premieres on CBS with Red Skelton and Barbara Eden.
Pittsburgh AP reports the Dave Brubeck Quartet ended its run after a 11 year collaboration marked by unorthodox rhythms. Brubeck announced the split to pursue composing, with plans to debut his oratorio The Light in the Wilderness at UNC and in Cincinnati.
New filers should receive their forms by Jan. 5, IRS says. The tax return filing deadline is April 15.
A Raleigh city dump search recovered a bag with 3200 from a newsstand at the bus terminal. The three days of receipts had been discarded by mistake, ending the disposal mystery.
Cairo reports Al Ahram says Nasser's government would clear the southern half of the Suez Canal and free 15 foreign ships. Fourteen blocked at Great Bitter Lake and one at Lake Tim sah include the American freighter African Glen and vessels from Britain France West Germany Poland Bulgaria Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Skeleton crews remain aboard while others return home.
Thieves hit Sampson's Super Market, a Shell service station and a state liquor store on Main Street within one block Tuesday night. The liquor store safe was stolen while losses remain undetermined as state and local officials investigate.
In Britain the London cost of living and housing allowances for U S troops are cut to predevaluation levels, affecting about 27 800 personnel and shifting about eight dollars extra per week per serviceman. The change follows devaluation and prompts concern over rising living costs.
Edward J. Jacobson 34 was fined $50 and costs after his auto narrowly collided with a C119 flying boxcar on a Gen Mitchell Field runway on Christmas Eve. The plane’s pilot spotted the car, swerved to avoid a crash, and both avoided impact.
Babson Park opinion piece argues Britain's 14.3 percent pound devaluation signals longer testing times ahead. It warns the dollar faces pressure, fiscal restraint is needed, and U S over spending, including the Vietnam War, threatens dollar stability and global prosperity.
GOP governors claim 302 electoral votes 760 convention delegates and 58 percent of U S population but struggle to unite behind a single presidential candidate. They seek platform leverage and local authority over fundraising while facing opposition from party leaders and Washington centrists.
Jacobson told the judge he intended to merge onto a freeway but said he took a wrong turn.
After four years the Peace Corps will pull its volunteers from Gabon following a request by the Gabonese government. A corps spokesman said no reason was given for the request but that the government expressed sincere thanks for the corps work. The withdrawal follows the host government invitation principle.
In Socorro New Mexico two small oils by Gladys Newsome vanished from the Socorro Public Library display prompting Art League members to seek the missing works and jokes about theft no longer fitting the scene.
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