Managua Receives Wide Aid as Quake Death Toll Rises
Foreign doctors say Managua has enough medical staff and supplies to avert an epidemic after the earthquake. U S relief officials praise grain flour and powdered milk deliveries while stressing the need for more trucks to reach 19 distribution points. About 3 000 to 6 000 are dead with as many as 20 000 seriously injured as authorities urge evacuations in the disaster zone.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Ni Caaguan
Juan Jose Chiari
Panama
U.S
Cials
Anastasio Somoza
Dennis Bulger
U.S. 518Th Combat Engineer Co
Somoza
Nationwide Crime Rate Edges Up in 1972 Nine Months
The Justice Department released FBI Uniform Crime Reports showing a 1 percent rise in serious crime nationwide for January through September 1972, the smallest increase since 1960. Violent crime rose 3 percent while property crime held steady. large cities saw declines, and suburban areas rose 4 percent.
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Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Department
Atty
Richard G. Kleindienst
Hub Firemen Save Girl From Peril
An unidentified girl climbed six stories on a grillwork outside a parking garage in Boston and planned to jump. Security guard John Devereux and Metropolitan District Patrolman Richard Duchaney found her frozen 60 feet up. Firefighters used an aerial tower to rescue her.
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Boston
John Devereux
Metropolitan District
Richard Duchaney
Riverway
Brookline Avenue
Duchaney
Area Girl To Head Young Democrats Area Girl To Head Young Democrats
Helen Cote of Biddeford and Ben McAllister of Canton were elected as Young Democrat National Committee Man and Woman at the December state convention in Augusta. The UMF pair will attend the national conventions in Washington in January and July, and both were chosen for the executive council, making the university chapter the only one in Maine with two council members.
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Farmington
Helen Cote
Biddeford
University of Maine
Young Democrats
Augusta
Washington, D.C
Miss Cote
Ben McAllister
Canton
UMF
British Troops Kill One More Gunman in Northern Ireland
Belfast AP reports British troops killed another gunman in Northern Ireland late Wednesday night, raising the confirmed death toll to 679 in more than three years of sectarian violence. It is the first death reported in six days since a Christmas truce proclaimed by the IRA Provisional wing.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Albert Seeks White House Report on Vietnam Negotiations
Speaker Carl Albert calls for a full White House report on peace negotiations before Congress acts on Vietnam policy. He questions Kissinger’s claim the war is nearly over and urges briefings from Kissinger Melvin Laird and William Rogers. He notes cutting funding would be the effect if Congress blocks bombings, and that Feb end deadline funds foreign aid after a deadlock.
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Washington
Congress
White House
House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Nixon
Albert
Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Melvin Laird
William P. Rogers
North Vietnam
92Nd Congress
House Democrats
Indochina
Police Review of Hub Area Slayings Expands to Two More Deaths
Boston area police and regional officials meet at the Massachusetts attorney general’s office to broaden the probe into the killings of four young women and the disappearance of a fifth. They will also examine the deaths of Ruth A. Hamilton in Cambridge and Priscilla Linfield in Chelsea for possible links to the slaying of Joan Cramer of South Orange, N J.
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Boston
Quinn
Essex County
Union City
N.J
Massachusetts
Joan Cramer
South Orange
Panel Advances No-Fault Auto Insurance Bill in Maine
A Maine special committee on no fault auto insurance has amended its draft to require proof of insurance for vehicle registration only after lawmakers argued it would reduce costs and paperwork. The panel, led by Sen. Wakine G. Tanous, plans a final draft before presenting to the 106th Legislature.
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Augusta
Maine
Wakine G. Tanous
R Millinocket
Maine Insurance Study Commission
Charles E. Qyman
Tanous
Maine opens second Nova Scotia travel info office
Maine announces a second Nova Scotia travel information office will operate next summer at the Bluenose ferry terminal in Bar Harbor. International Ltd. of Portland says the new office will supplement the existing Portland International Ferry terminal desk serving ferries to Yarmouth and Bar Harbor and Portland.
Tragic Winter Harbor Youth Dies From Gouldsboro Crash
A 19 year old Winter Harbor youth died from injuries suffered in a December 17 single car crash on U S 1 in Gouldsboro. Garry Bickford died December 22 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, state police reported Wednesday.
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Bangor
Winter Harbor
40 Moslems Killed In Filipino Attack
Government troops hit a Muslim training camp in Zamboanga del Norte killing 40 insurgents with no listed government casualties. Since the firearms drive began in September, the conflict has left 83 troops and over 100 Muslims dead. President Marcos reportedly traveled south, though sources placed him in Ilocos Norte.
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Manila
Zamboanga del Norte
Department of Information
Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Ilocos Norte
Stolen Auto Recovered Near Wildes Drive District
Kennebunkport police recovered a stolen car on Ocean Avenue about two miles from its Wildes District Road origin. Officer Nelson Hanson found the undamaged vehicle as investigators probe a series of recent thefts in York County.
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Kennebunkport
Nelson Hanson
George Wildes
Wildes District
Ocean Avenue
York County
Port Police Nab Bay State Fugitive in Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport police report the arrest of Yarmouth Massachusetts fugitive Mark Eldridge age 20 and a female juvenile companion on Wednesday afternoon. They are held in Alfred at the York County Jail awaiting extradition to Massachusetts.
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Kennebunkport
Yarmouth
Massachusetts
Sherman Bonney
Mark Eldridge
Alfred
York County
Pearl Buck Admitted for Postoperative Checkup
Ruthland Vermont AP reports Pearl Buck, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, was admitted to Rutland Hospital for a routine post surgery checkup after gall bladder removal on Sept 29. The hospital described her condition as stable. Buck, 80, previously had gallbladder surgery at Vermont Medical Center in Burlington and was released on Dec 15.
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Rutland, Vt
Pearl Buck
Rutland Hospital
Miss Buck
Vermont Medical Center
Burlington
EPA sets deadline for lead free gasoline rollout
The Environmental Protection Agency directs major stations to offer at least one grade of 91 octane or higher virtually lead free by July 1 1974 with lead content capped at 0.05 grams per gallon and phosphorus under 0.005 grams per gallon. A phased lead reduction for other grades is postponed to January 1 1975 pending health studies.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
William D. Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus
Ead
Kennebunk Closes Municipal Offices In Honor Of Truman
Kennebunk Town Manager Eugene Berky announced all town departments would close today in honor of President Harry S. Truman who died Tuesday and was buried in Independence Missouri. Kennebunkport Selectman Chairman David Walley said offices were open till noon and closed the afternoon. Federal offices in both towns were closed all day following a directive from President Nixon.
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Kennebunk
Eugene Berky
Harry S. Truman
Independence Mo
Kennebunkport Selectman
David Walley
Nixon
Officials Probe Single Engine Plane Crash in Turner
Federal aviation officials investigate a Cessna 170 crash that killed Ronald B. Twitchell and Mrs. Lillian H. Meisner, both of Turner, and left Clyde H. Meisner with serious injuries. The aircraft failed to gain altitude after takeoff from a private airport, clipping trees and diving nose first into a bog near the Turner Auburn line.
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Turner
Federal
Ronald B. Twitchell
Lillian H. Meisner
Meisner
Clyde H
Lewiston
Central Maine General Hospital
Twitchell
Turner-Auburn
Androscoggin County
Knights of Pythias to Honor Kennebunk Firemen Dinner
Myrtle Lodge 19 Knights of Pythias will host an appreciation dinner for Kennebunk Volunteer Fire Department on January 31 1973 at 6 30 p m The vote honors the firemen for skill in handling a recent blaze that saved the Pythian Block building housing the lodge
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Kennebunk
Myrtle Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Kennebunk Volunteer Fire Department
Pythian Block
Average American family of four consumes nearly three tons of food yearly
The article notes that a typical family of four in the United States eats about six thousand pounds of food per year, nearly three tons, underscoring high dietary consumption trends and potential waste issues.
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MR. Gilman
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Famous Brand Footwear
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