City Council Votes To Buy Site For New School
Biddeford voters approve purchasing a tract for a new school for about 29000 with six of nine aldermen in favor. West Street land dropped from consideration after lacking needed information while some officials urged growth in all city directions and raised concerns about location near the city dump.
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Biddeford
Commie
Iine Te
West Street
Aurelien V. Fleurant
Clement Deschambault
Armand Fecteau
Raoul Sevigny
Deschambault i
So viet rocket Noahs Arknik named by Daily Mail
London AP reports the Daily Mail coins the name Noahs Arknik for the Soviet rocket carrying two dogs and a rabbit into space. Also notes UK air bases prepared for US missiles in wartime, Bangkok executes alleged Communist agent, Nehru questions UN role over Tibet, and Tokyo tests perfumed public transport bouquets to ease summer commutes.
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London
The
Daily Mail Today
Britain
England
Edmund C. Huddleston
Tokyo
Man Seeks Help Claiming He Thinks He Is a Dog
A man visits a psychiatrist saying he believes he is a dog. When asked how long, he answers that it has been since he was a puppy, delivering a lighthearted medical joke with a punchline.
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Copr. Gen
Fea. Corp
Yale and Columbia may build joint observatory in Otago
Yale University and Columbia University plan a joint astronomical observatory in Otago, New Zealand. W H Ward director of the New Zealand Physical Laboratory says a yearlong survey will assess the region famed for one of the clearest atmospheres in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Yale
Columbia
Otago
W. H. Ward
New Zealand Physical Laboratory
Excavation Finds Foundations of Nonsuch Palace
In Ewell England amateur archaeologists uncovered the foundations of the Nonsuch Palace begun in 1538 and famed as the last and greatest of Henry VIII’s palaces. The site, dug by volunteers including housewives and students, revealed remains of four English queens and was later torn down in 1675.
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Ewell
England
Henry
Nonsuch Palace
Nonsuch
Elizabeth I
FBI Seizes Top Fugitive in Des Moines Station
Des Moines police describe a quiet service station operator, George E. Cole aka James Walker, as one of the nation s 10 most wanted fugitives. He was arrested by FBI agents Monday night at the Des Moines station he leased after two years on the run for fatally shooting a San Francisco police sergeant during a Dec 30 1956 liquor lounge holdup. Cole, unarmed, previously worked at an auto agency and ran his own station six months ago. Neighbors and coworkers voiced shock at the arrest.
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Des Moines
FBI
George E. Cole
James Walker
Cole
San Francisco
Missouri
California
Woman Shot In Norwalk As Family History Revealed
NORWALK Conn AP a 32 year old South Norwalk housewife Pauline Hoctor was found shot to death in the kitchen. Her husband Robert 34 was hospitalized under heavy sedation after police said the gun was found at the scene. The Hoctors formerly lived in Biddeford Maine and had a four month old daughter Catherine Nancy who is ill and in a hospital. The couple has a 12 year old son staying with relatives in Maine. Hoctor an Army veteran obtained the pistol overseas.
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Norwalk, Conn
South Norwalk
Joseph Beres
Pauline Hoctor
Beres
Robert
Norwalk Hospital
Hoctor
Hoctors
Biddeford
Maine
Catherine Nancy
Cutts Street
St. Mary Grammar School
Biddeford High School
Connecticut
Elizabeth Leaves US After Chicago Tour
Queen Elizabeth concluded a 13 hour Chicago tour with a warm reception before resuming a Canada voyage aboard the royal yacht Britannia. She and Prince Philip will sail to Saulte Ste. Marie, Ontario, with applause remembered as a highlight of the trip.
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Marine Corps Band
Chicago
Elizabeth
Aeee
Canada
Prince Philip
Saulte Ste. Marie
Ontario
Philip
River raft party survives Cataract Canyon ordeal
A Bakersfield group of 16 began in Green River Utah on June 28 maneuvering three rafts down the Green and Colorado rivers toward Hite. After rafting into Cataract Canyon, the Seeleys were rescued by helicopter while 14 others were declared missing and later located in Hite. The search involved private planes and the Air Force, with reunions in Hanksville.
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Hanksville
Utah
Phillip J. Seeley
Cataract Canyon
Seeleys
Colorado
Bakersfield
Calif
Green River
Holmes O. Miller
Green
Hite
Jim Hurst
Hurst
The
Bak
Don Landells
Intex Oil Co
Seeley
Miller
Air Force
Federal Aviation Agency
Luna Park Wins License for Old Orchard Beach Rides
Old Orchard Beach officials grant Luna Park Inc a license to operate mechanical rides on East Grand avenue this summer after a rehearing. Amid anger from local property owners the decision came after about an hour of debate led by Lenald Shorey Harry Prince and lawyers argued the project would bring jobs and activity while opponents warned of nuisance and value loss.
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East Grand Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Luna Park, Inc
Hasl
Herman Gerrish
Lenald Shorey
Harry Prince
Gerrish
Luna Park
Prince
The
Richard Spitz
Harold Carroll
Lincoln Spaecer
Spitz
Atty. Simon Spill
Maine Insurance Commission
Carroll
Old Orchard
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Anthony Camerano
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Yonkers
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Camerano
Kozlov
Detroit
Soviet Union
Louis C. Miriani
Frol Romanovich Kozlov
Nikita Khrushchev
G. Menken Williams
Michigan
Dearborn
Ford Motor Co
Oakland
Pagan
Bangkok
Thailand
Sarit Thanarat
New Delhi
India
Nehru
United Nations
Red China
Monroe. Wash
State Reformatory
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Hugh DeWalt
Lawrence Delmore
William McKelvie
McKelvi
McKelvie
John Martin
Robert E
David K. Owens
Marlene Oxford
Kelso
Wash
Oxford
Colorado Rapids
Burton Murray Gladstone
Ethel Lee Bostick
Jacksonville
Fla
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Sandra Marsh
Valley
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Charleston
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Cockin
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