Walker charges dropped amid Ole Miss desegregation riot
In Oxford Mississippi federal authorities dropped charges against former Army Maj. Gen Edwin A Walker and six others tied to the University of Mississippi desegregation riots. James Meredith finishes his final semester tests amid ongoing campus tensions and harassment.
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Oxford
Miss
Army
Edwin A. Walker
University of Mississippi
U.S. Atty
H. H. Ray
Walker
James H. Meredith
Air Force
U.S. Dist
Claude F. Clayton
Melvin Bruce
Decatur
Philip Lloyd Miles
Kline Lamar May
Prichard
Ala
Richard Hays Hin‘ton
Lucedale
Meredith
Frank Lamar Ott
Joseph Cutter
Kentwood
Edward Louis Shade
Atlayum
Robert Blackard
Memphis, Tenn
William Gilbert Marr
Olive Branch
Charles Clark
Prentiss Liss. Walker
Little Rock
Ark
Dallas
Tex
U.S
Biddeford Council Okays Record Budget and Wage Revisions
Biddeford City Council approved a record budget of 1 944 509.40 dollars, raising last year by 165 524.40, and overhauled police and fire department pay and schedules. The police chief and captain gain weekly raises, patrol officers receive hourly increases with a shorter 48 hour week, and three eight hour shifts start. Fire chief gets a weekly raise, permanents receive five percent, and two more firefighters are added. The council also reassigns tax collection duties, allows Boissonneault two percent on 1962 collections, bonds Marcotte as parking meter collector, and forms a city ordinance and charter revision committee. Continued.
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Biddeford
Police Department
Fire Department
Jean G. Boissonneault
Daniel P. Cantara
Boissonneault
Joseph Pelletier
Fernand Marcotte
Pelletier
Willie Pomerleau
Roland L’heureux
John Cleary
Robert York
Paul Deshaies
Henry Camire
Lawmaker Seeks Crystal Lake Rename in Maine
Representative Samuel Pitts proposes a bill to rename Anonymous Pond in Harrison to Crystal Lake. The measure aims to standardize a name already widely used, noting Maine has several Crystal named water bodies including lakes, ponds, and a stream, which may still cause confusion.
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Augusta
Harrison
Lewiston
Samuel Pitts
D. Harrison
Crystal Lake
Maine
Proper income tax forms explained for 1962 filers
Editor notes explain the 1962 income tax forms 1040 and 1040A. Anyone with under $10,000 income may use 1040A with rules. those with $10,000 or more must use 1040. The article covers deductions, itemizing, standard deduction limits, and when to file with the IRS.
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James Marlow Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Test Ban Talks Begin Amid Key US Soviet Briton Stakes
The United States Great Britain and the Soviet Union launch a new effort in Washington to secure a nuclear test ban agreement. Officials warn many issues including inspections must be solved. The Moscow view favors limited on site inspections and demands France join the pact.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
U.S
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
France
State Department
William C. Foster
Charles Sc. Stelle
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
United Nations
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Britain
Sir David Ormsby Gore
England
Maine Senate moves to study restoring passenger rail service
The Maine State Senate voted to form a special committee to explore restoring passenger trains north and east of Portland. The panel would negotiate with Boston and Maine Maine Central and Bangor and Aroostook Railroads and report findings to the 1963 legislature.
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Augusta
State Senate
Maine
Frederick W. Whittaker
Rangor
Boston and Maine
Maine Central
Bangor
Aroostook
Portland
Whittaker
Senate
Public Utilities Commission
PUC
Legislature Receives Wide Range of Bill Proposals
In Augusta a flood of bills is filed including 10 percent grants boosts for Old Age Assistance Aid to the Blind and Aid to the Totally Disabled with a 612 500 biennial appropriation. Other measures seek to curb bond issue by petition via a Wyman constitutional amendment and funding HYPO staff to promote high school completion and postsecondary training. There are wage law revisions extending coverage to nursing homes and stricter record keeping and enforcement provisions.
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Augusta
Sen
Paull
Couture
Clyde A. Hichborn
Medford
Hichborn
Ride-A-Wee Home pets aging dogs in Westhampton
In Westhampton New York Mike McGarvey runs the Ride-A-Wee Home a nonprofit kennel caring for elderly dogs under an old-age pension plan. The facility plus others in Manhattan and Wantagh provide full care food and medical needs funded by fees donations and a pet cemetery. Dogs enter the program when owners seek a new home for aging pets.
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Westhampton
N.Y
Mike McGarvey
McGarvey
Wantagh
Manhattan
West‘hampton
Biddeford Saco DAV Members Elect Leadership
Nolette leads Biddeford Saco chapter of Disabled American Veterans with Conrad Nolette as commander and Robert W. Libby as senior vice commander. Noel R. LeMay becomes junior vice commander, Henry Gobeil treasurer, Gerard Boucher chaplain. Installations set for February 23. Libby nominated for Maine commander at state convention May 31 and June 1 in Bangor.
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Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford
Conrad Nolette
Robert W. Libby
Noel R. LeMay
Henry Gobeil
Gerard Boucher
Robert Libby
Department of Maine
Bangor
Katanga Mercenary Faces Aftermath of Seccesion War
Elisabethville Congo AP reports eight Katanga mercenaries awaiting repatriation in a makeshift room at Elisabethville Airport. The article profiles Skimmer, a 6'2" South African veteran with a ruined right arm, paid about $1000 monthly, with half in foreign currency and three months upfront. He hopes to collect his final pay and plans to join a relative in a South African garage venture.
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Elisabethville
the Congo
United Nations
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Congo
Skimmer
South Africa
Seen For Space Station By John Barbour
By 1970 the United States will need a miniature Cape Canaveral in space a space station to launch and repair rockets. The 300 foot long 33 foot diameter station could serve as a laboratory and hangar and would be placed in two sections by a Saturn C5 rocket to form the scientific facility.
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John Barbour
Associated Press
NEW York
United States
Cape Canaveral
Space Agency
Sci
Entific
George von Tiesenhausen
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Weather turns bitter across the nation with ongoing cold
A new cold front and arctic air swept the U S from the Rockies to the East with subzero readings in northern Maine and western New York State. Blizzard warnings and cold wave advisories covered the Dakotas Montana and the Northeast while flurries and lows in the single digits persisted from Maine to Florida.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Midwest
Southland
Maine
New York State
Florida
Miami
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Bill To Insure Pay To Regina For Life
Augusta AP report proposes full pay and medical benefits for life for Detective Stephen A. Regina 46 of Saco who was wounded in a Limerick gun battle on May 4 1959. Regina is fully incapacitated with pay of 104 dollars weekly while three officers faced Gordon Hamlin who killed his wife and died after shooting Harnois and Parker was wounded.
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Augusta
Limerick
L. Robert Porteous
R-Falmouth
Stephen A. Regina
Saco
Regina
Gordon Hamlin
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Fea, Corp
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Edward L. Caron
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Caron
Maine Senate
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Sace
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DAV
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