CB radio craze sweeping the country
A nationwide CB radio boom has grown to at least six million sets in use in homes and on vehicles. The Journal begins an eight part series to help new buffs learn about CB. The piece notes CBs as a symbol of the American trucker and rural independence, tracing FCC licensing since 1958 and the rapid rise to a national mania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jethro K. Lieberman
Neil S. Rhodes
Federal Communications Commission
Citizens Radio Service
FCC
Viva Las Vega at OOB casino run by music boosters
In Old Orchard Beach a volunteer run casino by the Biddeford Saco Beach Music Boosters funds school ensembles. A quarter limit applies to poker and slotlike games, with 87 percent payout and a top $104 jackpot. Trooper McLaughlin notes 12 similar operations statewide under a 1973 non profit games-of-chance law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
First Street
Old Orchard Act
OOBHS
Robert McLaughlin
Beano and
State Police Criminal Division
Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars
McLaughlin
OOB Music Boosters
Caesar’s Palace
Las Vegas
Weather forecast for Friday July 9 1976
Fair conditions expected across the region with light winds. The forecast notes a 20 cent rate change and lists July 9 as the valid date for the edition.
Pat Nixon Stroke Leaves Former First Lady Gravely Ill
Pat Nixon, 64, remains in serious but stable condition after a right cerebral infarct caused partial paralysis on her left side. Doctors say she is not out of danger, with Secret Service transporting her to Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach. Her husband Richard Nixon and daughters Julie and Tricia visited as officials noted she may not walk normally again.
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Long Beach
Calif
Pat Nixon
Nixon
John Mosier
Richard . Nixon
Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Mrs. Nixon
Mosier
San Clemente
Tricia Cox
New York
Mrs. Eisenhower
United States
Casa Pacifica
White House
New Jersey Gov Byrne signs law to reopen schools
In Trenton Gov Brendan Byrne, flanked by state senators and assemblymen, signed a new state income tax and school funding bill. After ten years of attempts, the legislature enacted the measure to resume public school operations closed June 30 by a state Supreme Court order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N.J
New Jersey
Brendan Byrne
Supreme Court
Dumpty Queen Reigns at Shawmut Inn Pageant
Deborah Hardy of Livermore Falls crowned Miss Dum py 1976 amid boos and jeers from hundreds at the Shawmut Inn in Kennebunkport. She wears a toilet seat headgear and a three cup bra in a provocative display drawing strong controversy from women's rights activists and onlookers. Page 8 also features the Journal’s Off the Record column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunkport
Dumpy
Shawmut Inn
Deborah Hardy
Livermore Falls
Today’s chuckle on home repaint estimates
A light note from Biddeford Saco Journal about how an estimate to repaint a home can make a homeowner feel their house is a castle and the humor in the process.
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Avon Books
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Rhodes
King Features
America
Biddeford
Saco
Oob’s
By John Young
John Ewing
Capeenet
Caracas
Venezuela
Thelma Catherine Ryan
Pat
Artesia
University of Southern California
Associated Press
Paracy
George Washington
Britain
Elizabeth
Philip Mountbatten
Biddeford- Saco
Journal
Maine
New England
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