School Menus and Community Coffee Plan Mentioned
A long menu listing weekly meals from area schools including St. Andre’s Biddeford and Thornton Academy shows varied lunches. The piece shifts to Cuba where Martinez, aged over 50, gives land for coffee farming and expects a two year wait for harvest as Cuba undertakes a Green Belt plan to plant over 100 million coffee plants and boost dairy, fruit, and coffee production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caribbean
Havana
Martinez
Castro
Caturra
School Lunch Menus for Kennebunk and Biddeford
Kennebunk and Biddeford public schools publish weekly lunch menus listing each weekday meals. Items include juice soups, sandwiches, salads, vegetables, starches, desserts, and milk, with variations across districts and days.
Traffic Safety Fight Effective In Two States
Michigan and Tennessee tested different approaches to cut highway deaths and both reported fewer fatalities in 1967 than 1966. In Tennessee the decline looked strongest, though through July the death count still ran 96 higher than the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
Michigan
Tennessee
Volume Surge Forces S P to End Free Municipal Bond Ratings
The AP reports a surge in securities trading volume drove Standard & Poor's to drop its free municipal bond rating service. Loss of qualified analysts to Wall Street and high training costs left S P unable to sustain the program as markets faced early closes and scrambled phone lines amid the upheaval. Brenton Harries notes a nationwide shortage of municipal bond analysts, with salaries rising and training delays eroding profitability. S&P had offered ratings as a client service but could not cover costs, ending the no-charge ratings despite the reliance of municipalities on the ratings for perceived safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cunniff
New York
Standard & Poor
S&p
Wall Street
Brenton Harries
Harries
In Brief on Traffic Declines Across States and Odd Local Items
A mixed dispatch notes declines in highway deaths in Michigan and Tennessee amid stricter drunk driving laws, enforcement and road checks. Tennessee reports 1 245 highway deaths for 1967, down 27 from 1966, while Michigan cuts deaths to 2101 with implied consent law boosting compliance. Additional items cover prison escapeers in a Boston club, Prineville owning its railroad, a shoe dispute at Fullerton Junior College, and Willie the lion at Swope Park Zoo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Tennessee
State Highway Patrol
Greg O’rear
O’rear
Castro Planting Coffee In The Green Belt
Havana AP report on Fidel Castro’s Green Belt plan includes Isidro Martinez a 67 acre farmer who after over 40 years in a thatch hut will move to a furnished house with regular income as his farm joins hundreds of plots in Havana’s 66 000 acre belt encircling the city and set for dairy cattle pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Isidro Martinez
Martinez
Fidel Castro
Plants from mountains vs Cuban flatland skeptics in Brazil
The report notes mountain flora succeeding in Brazil while Cubans cultivate on flat terrain provoking skeptical forecasts. It also recalls Queen Victoria’s 63-year British reign and tall tower feats. A 1,572-foot television antenna near Oklahoma City, built in 1954, surpasses the Empire State Building by 100 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Empire State Building
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St. Louis High
St. Andre’s School
Biddeford
Thornton Academy
Saco Public Schools
Old Orchard Beach
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Ladies Auxiliary
Biddeford-Saco Joint Board
Textile Workers Union of America
T.W.U.A
A.F.L.C
Trusl Nursing Home
May Street
Travel Towle’s Agency
Main St
Journal
Richard Danforth
Anastasoff
Main Street
Kennebunk
New England
Work Savings & Loan Association
Masonic
Lumburr
Phil Spang
Boston
Plymouth County
Prineville
Ore
Oregon
United States
Fullerton, Calif
Robert Nightwanger
Fullerton Junior College
Nightwanger
Kansas City
Swope Park Zoo
Willie
Gage Park Zoo
Topeka
Saco
Fairfield School
Mind Garden
Patricia Poisson
Linda Warner
Mary Winston
Jill Chadbourne
Essie Pendleton
Brazil
Queen Victoria
Britain
America
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