Life guard program upholds safety at Old Orchard Beach
Captain Dick Marshall praises Old Orchard Beach lifeguard system noting 18 guards with at least one year experience pass a tough test and morning workouts. He cites zero drownings in nine years during guard duty and discusses beach expansion from Hill’s Beach breakwater and new hazards from sand bars.
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John Surran
Old Orchard Beach
Dick Marshall
Old Orchard
Royal Ambassador Pool
Ocean Park
Marshall
Hill’s Beach
Capt
Brunswick Hotel
Normand Sylvester
Nassau College
Passamaquoddy blockade on U S 1 disrupts traffic
Indian demonstrators blocked a two lane highway on their reservation and levied tolls on passing motorists. About 25 drivers paid before 14 state troopers cleared the road and arrested one man for disorderly conduct. Tribal leaders agreed to 24 hour wait before further action.
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Passamaquoddy
State Indian Affairs Department
Rodney L. Scribner
Joseph R. Sockabasin
Peter Dana Point
Woodland
Moon rocks and astronauts placed in strict quarantine
AP reports NASA plans a 21 day Earth return quarantine for Apollo 11 astronauts. Moon rocks and crew will be treated in special isolation facilities at Pearl Harbor and the Lunar Receiving Laboratory to prevent any possible lunar contagion.
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Alton Blakeslee
NEW York (Ap
Earth
Leroy Augenstein
Michigan State University
Moon
Hornet
Pearl Harbor
Houston
Father Enright to Leave Biddeford Parish
Rev. Cornelius J. Enright, pastor at St. Mary's Biddeford, plans retirement to St. Joseph's Home Waterville. He announced his resignation at Sunday Masses amid no comment on a successor. The 77 year old cleric, from Ballyneen Ireland, has led St. Mary’s since 1953 after arriving as a 1922 curate.
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Cornelius J. Enright
St. Mary's Church
Biddeford
St. Joseph's
Waterville
Father Enright
Chancery Office
Diocese of
Portland
Ballyneen
County Cork
Ireland
Canoeists Spend Night In Prison
Dan Ahern and two companions following Benedict Arnold's trail after a near capsize on the Chaudiere River spent a night in a St Joseph prison in Quebec. The group planned to push 40 miles to Levis then paddle across the St Lawrence to Quebec aiming for July 9 arrival from Cambridge, Mass.
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ST Joseph's
Que
St. Francis Col
St. Marie
Arnold Beloge
St. Law
Benedict Arnold
Quebec City
Chaudiere
Dan Ahern
Biddeford Pool
Journal
St. Joseph
Rick Lucor
St. Francis
County
Levis
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Cambridge
Mass
Dan
Canada
Maine Woods
Eee
Dave Shoby
Watertown
Conn
Jim Zoll
York
Bingham, Maine
Arnold
Alberon
Monsoon Drowns Test Battle in Dak To Ben Het Run
Monsoon rains thwart a two month clash between South and North Vietnamese forces around Dak To and Ben Het. South Vietnamese troops fought with U S air and artillery support as Americans watched the South test its solo capability. An estimated 60 Americans died and about 300 wounded as U S forces kept roads open and airlifted supplies while B 52 bombers delivered massive secondary firepower.
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Peter Arnett
Associated Press
Dak TO
Vietnam
Ben Het
U.S
Laos
Kontum
Dak
Saigon
Oy Ie Air Force
Hoover Warns Red China Top Enemy and Security Threat
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover testifies that Communist China remains the United States No 1 enemy and seeks sensitive scientific information here. He cites Chinese intelligence activity, 1967 shipyard desertions, and 300000 Chinese in America as potential recruitment targets. He warns of illegal agents and Hong Kong Seamen's Union ties.
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Washington
China
United States
FBI
J.ar Hoover
Red China
Hoover
House
Soviet Union
Hong Kong
Waynada
CIA
State and
Defense Departments
Western
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Maine
E. Stanley Brown
Maine Street
Kennebunkport
Masonic Hall
Brown
U. S. Post Office Department
Virginia Littlefield
Chadbourne E
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Space Agency
Inter-Agency
National Acade of Science
U.S. Public Health Service
Agents of Agriculture and
Terror
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Whirlpool Appliances
Don Dubois
Saco Tourist Guide
Cornelius J. Earight
Ahern
Chevrolet
Claude Dubois
Gregor
Knapp Bostonian
American Discount
West Point-Pepperell, Inc. Employment
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