Natural Enemies Share Food With House Parakeet Friends
Four month old parakeet Blue Boy lives with the McDonalds in Sa co and feeds with Heavy one of their cats. The bird also shares meals with Peanut and Puffy while their dog Queenie objects and tries to disrupt the seating. Cats were grown when the parakeet arrived, and all accept the shared dining as normal.
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Blue Boy
Alan MacDonald
Tasker Street
Saco
Heavy
MacDonalds
Alan McDonald
Mac- Donald
Detroit
Mac- Donalds
Peanut
Puffy
Queenie
Printers Strike Likely To Spread
Colorado Springs report on a 69 day New York newspaper strike hints it could extend to other plants including Los Angeles and Paris. ITU leader Elmer F Brown says a conference will decide, while Times editor Turner Catledge denies any such plans. In Cleveland, the Guild accepts a retroactive two year contract contingent on jobs not being cut amid the same brewing tensions.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
New York
New York Times
Los Angeles
Paris
France
Elmer F. Brown
International Typographical Union
Afl-Cio
Bertram A. Powers
ITU
Thomas M. Laura
Mailers Union Local 6
Brown
New York City
Turner Catledge
The
Times
Publishers Association of
Cleveland
Ohio
American Newspaper Guild
Cleveland Press & News
Louis B. Seltzer
Afternoon Press & News
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Saturay
Canada
Miami Herald
Campus Life Quiet For Pair
ATLANTA AP report notes campus life is quiet for two Black students who challenged segregation in Mississippi and South Carolina. At Ole Miss and Clemson College no open demonstrations occurred. Meredith’s arrival prompted riots and federal troops earlier. Dewey Greene Jr. from Greenwood, awaiting court action, hopes to join Meredith in Mississippi.
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Atlanta
Gantt
University of Mississippi
Meredith
Dewey Greene Jr
Greenwood
Miss
Mississippi
Potato sponge hybrid tastes terrible yet holds gravy
A joke item notes a scientist crossed a potato with a sponge. The result tastes awful but reportedly can absorb or hold a large amount of gravy, a pun on culinary experimentation and kitchen practicality.
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Gen
Fea, Corp
Legislature Accepts Bills After Deadline Amid Bond Proposals
AUGUSTA AP Nearly a score of bills were presented for acceptance after the cloture deadline as lawmakers met under joint rules. Bond issues were proposed including 1.9 million for the Boys Training Center at South Portland and 1.25 million to move the boys’ correctional school to Quoddy Village near Eastport. Gov Reed proposed 5 million to relocate the school. The Quoddy Village site has 45 acres with housing and facilities. the bill calls for 390,000 to buy Grossman interests and 250,000 to buy out other residential and business interests willing to sell.
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Augusta
Boys Training Center
South Port
Walter N. MacGregor
Eastport
House
Senate
Grossman
Quoddy Village
Valentine baby born in Biddeford area
A baby girl named Ann Marie, six pounds nine ounces, was born at 2:58 AM at Webber Hospital to Mrs. Robert R. Courtois of 31 Graham Street Biddeford. At press time she is the only Valentine baby in the area with nurses hopeful for more births before midnight.
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Valentine
Biddeford-Saco
Robert R. Courtois
Graham Street
Biddeford
Bob
Ann Marie
Webber Hospital
The
Webber
Florida Plane Crash Blamed On Cold Blustery Weather
A Northwest Orient jetliner crashed in the Everglades killing 43 as forecasters tied the disaster to Florida’s blustery cold weather. Investigators noted bodies scattered beyond the fuselage with a black box revealing the plane’s final moments. Temperatures dipped across the South and Midwest with widespread arctic air and scattered snow flurries.
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Florida
Miami
Fla
Northwest Orient Airlines
Everglades
Civil Aeronautics Board
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Chicago
Gulf States
Midwest
Tallahassee
Rio Grande Valley
Brownsville
Laredo
Tennessee
Alabama
South Carolina
North Carolina
Grand Forks
N. C
International Falls
Minn
Maine
Mississippi Valley
Appalachians
Missouri
California
Washington
Pacific Coast
Well Digger Rescued From Sand Cave In Wisconsin
Rescue crews freed 31 year old Raymond Fink after he was buried to his shoulders in sand for about 14 hours near Lake Tomahawk Wisconsin. He walked away without a stretcher saying he felt fine and was taken for X rays and observation.
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Lake Tomahawk
Wis
Raymond
Fuzzy) Fink
Wisconsin
Fink
Bernice
Lawrence
Athens
Syncom satellite lifts off toward near stationary orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Syncom, a new space communications station, launched by a Douglas Delta rocket, reached 22,800 mph and 22,300 miles altitude in a bid to hover over one globe spot. Two key phases completed. full success awaits two weeks of planned maneuvers and ground tests. NASA notes ignition timing checks remain to evaluate performance. The 86 pound Hughes aircraft payload targets telephone teletype and radio links, not TV, with three synchronized satellites planned for worldwide coverage. The quest aims to enable a low cost global network, aiding weather forecasting and other duties.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Madagascar
South America
Africa
U.S
South Atlantic Ocean
Lakehurst
N.J
Lagos Harbor
Nigeria
Syncom
Telstar
Hughes Aircraft Co
Earth
Elliott Named To Bangor And Aroostook Board
Dr. Lloyd S. Elliott, president of the University of Maine, was named to the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Co. board of directors on Wednesday. The board also authorized purchasing 125 fifty foot boxcars totaling 1,715,000 dollars.
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Bangor
Lloyd S. Elliott
The
University of Maine
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Co
Kennedy Outlines Youth Plan in Bid for National Service Corps
President Kennedy proposed a broad package to aid youth including a Youth Conservation Corps and a Home Town Youth Corps, plus a National Service Corps to expand the Peace Corps. The plan, funded in part by a $100 million budget item, targets ages 16 to 21 with jobs in parks, schools, hospitals, and communities to curb unemployment and juvenile delinquency while boosting national talent.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Peace Corps
National Service Corps
Youth Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Conservation and
Saco Youths Arrested in Shell Station Break In
Saco police arrested Victor A. Mitchell of Portland and William L. McPhail of Saco on charges of breaking entering and larceny at Lou's Shell station on North Street at 1 a.m. Five cartons of cigarettes five tonic bottles and $2 in change from a vending machine were stolen. Entry was gained through a rear window. Investigating officers were Lt. Robert Foran and Patrolmen Alberick Martin and Everett Bowden.
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Saco
Lou's Shell Station
North Street
Victor A. Mitchell
Portland
William L. McPhail
Holmes Road
Robert Foran
Alberick Martin
Everett Bowden
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MacDonald
York County
American Red Cross
Canal Bank
Thomas P. Jones, Jr
Kennebunkport
Anthony F. Famiano
Pease Air Force Base
William H. Doherty
Cape Elizabeth
ARC
J. Ansel Hanson
Buxton-Hollis
John R. Stoddard
York
Lowell Innes
Associated Press
Jerome Trantow
Father Trantow
Paul Fink
Art Frank
State Conservation Department
Maine Carpet Co
Alfred Street
Bruce Shoe Co., Inc
State Street
St. Francis College Associates
St. Francis Dining Hall
Willie Pomerleau
Associates
Frederick Belanger Ofm
Fernand Cote
George Pelletier
Linn Wells
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