Block Island seeks a physician amid physician turnover
Block Island Rhode Island sources report the island’s town committee seeks a new full time doctor after Dr Darren Paskowitz plans to leave around January 1 1973. The island with winter population 489 and summer draw 4000 relies on subsidies and incentives to attract medical staff amid calls for better facilities and a coordinating council.
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R.I
Rhode Island
Darren Paskowitz
Helans
Ethiopia
William R. Transue
Paskawitz
Providence Journal
American Cancer Society
Paskowitz
Miami
Florida
Transus
Transute
Coast Guard
Transue
Boyle's Notebook In 1973 Im Not Going To
HAL BOYLE lists a humorous 1973 vow not to do anything foolish or illegal. He parries a string of farcical temptations and plans to avoid trouble while jesting about famous figures and common social missteps. Each item satirizes self restraint and the pull of impulses in the new year.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Lassie
Mae West
Ft. Knox
Taj Majal
Indochina
Nixon censorship threat sparks freedom of information complaint
The Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors denounces White House plans to require local TV stations to monitor network news. The group calls government control of TV news a form of censorship and cites a pattern of executive interference with unfriendly press segments.
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Albany
N.Y
Nixon
Freedom of Information Committee
The
American Society of Newspaper Editors
White House
Robert Fichenberg
Knickerbocker News
Union Star of Albany
Schenectady
Clay T. Whitehead
Executive Branch
Balm herb and its culinary medicinal uses
Balm is a fragrant mint family herb. Its leaves are used to make balm tea to reduce fever and to flavor balm wine and foods.
Maine Briefs: No traffic fatalities New Year weekend
Maine Public Safety Commissioner Col. Parker Hennessey says there were no traffic fatalities over the New Year weekend, contrasting with five deaths last year. Reports show seven personal injury accidents and 75 property damage accidents during the 78 hour holiday period. Northeast Petroleum buys Cities Service terminal in South Portland, expanding Old Colony gas station network. G H Bass Co purchases Holmes-Stickney Portland. price not disclosed. Holmes Stickney to continue making women’s shoes.
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Augusta
Parker Hennessey
Maine
Commissioner of Public Safety
Hennessey
South Portland
Northeast Petroleum Industries, Inc
Boston
Cities Service Oil &Co
Northeast
John Kaneb
Old Colony
New England
Portland
G.H. Bass Co
Wilton
Holmes-Stickney, Inc
Holmes-Stickney
Defense job cuts eyed at 100000 as budget trims roll in
Defense officials expect about 100000 civilian job cuts due to base closings and cost saving retrenchment. Final White House decisions await Nixon’s office and the 10 percent civilian workforce reduction looms. Pentagon and services already plan to absorb 1.5 billion in cuts this year.
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Washington
Defense
Nixon
Office of Management and Budget
Defense Department
Pentagon
Armed Services
Congress
Australian unions plan actions over Vietnam bombing
Australian union leaders consider widening protests by blocking deliveries to the U S Embassy in Canberra and boycotting American airlines and firms. Sydney and Canberra unions urge action as police monitor the embassy amid threats while maritime unions extend a ban on American ships until a ceasefire is assured.
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Sydney
U.S
North Vietnam
Canberra
United States
Thomas W. Gleason
International Longshoremen's Association
Afl-Cio Maritime Committee
New York
Lowell Street operation under Bass with Portland plant
The Lowell Street operation functions as a division of Bass. The Portland plant employs about 200 workers.
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Lowell Street
Bass
Portland
Marine unions threaten boycott over discrimination acts
A note cites that acts of discrimination against American seamen prompted a cable to the International Transport Workers Federation in London warning of a U S maritime union boycott of vessels and ships from offending nations if boycotts do not end.
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International Transport Workers Federation
London
U.S
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