Plans for 97th annual Acton Fair announced
Committees map plans for the 97th annual Acton Fair August 23 to 26 with Roger S. Bragdon listing committee members. York County Agricultural Association officers and division superintendents are named including Verne Hobbs, Bert Stanley, Arvid Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, and others from Acton to Wells and Sanford.
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Lanning
Acton Air
Roger S. Bragdon
North Berwick
York County Agricultural Association
York County Extenmona Grante
Agricultural Association
Car
Shapleigh
Lester E. Grant
Lester N. Hobbs
Acton
Charles E. Noyes
Ber
Crediford
Verne Hobbs
Stanley
Noyes
Grant
Roland Dutch
Kennebunk
Bragdon
Staples
Russell
Avis P. Fox
Ladies
Margaret Thompson
Lester R. Bridges
Wells
Ferguson
Mrs. Syvinski
Ralph M. Marshall
Sanford
George S. Thayer
Springvale
Roland Langlais
Carl E. Russell
West Kennebunk
Association Presi
American student on trial in East Berlin secrecy
Robert Mann, 19, an American university student, faces a closed door trial in Communist East Berlin on charges of luring people to the West under a law punishable by up to 15 years of labor. The session was held behind state secrecy with only Mann and East Berliner Uwe Sturberg identified. Mann was arrested January 22 near Berlin after studying in Beutelsbach through Stanford in Germany program. His father Charles Mann and U.S. officials left the courtroom as the public was excluded.
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Berlin
Robert Mann
East Berlin
Mann
Uwe Sturry
Sturberg
Charles Mann
Sepulveda
Calif
Frank Meehan
U. S
West Berlin
Beutelsbach
Stuttgart
Stanford University of Palo Alto
Stanford
Germany
West
Vogel
U.S. State Department
Los Angeles Valley College
India protests Chinese assault on Ladakh region
New Delhi accuses China of a renewed aggressive push into Ladakh with nearly 400 Chinese soldiers penetrating the Galwan Valley and surrounding an Indian post. Nehru, at a Kashmir vacation site, dictated the protest note to the Chinese embassy warning of full responsibility for any shooting war.
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New Delhi
India
Red China
Ladakh
Peiping
Nehru
Pahlgam
Kashmir
Galwan
China-Ladakh
Shyok
Tax Cut for Businesses With Depreciation Reform
Washington reports the Treasury will implement liberalized guidelines for depreciating plant and equipment. The new system sets an industry wide average useful life, cutting deduction timelines, reducing bookkeeping, and easing IRS administration.
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Washington
Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Textiles In Line To Get Defense Tag
Washington AP reports the domestic textile industry could be deemed essential to national defense. Secretary Hodges says the move would let the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization set import quotas to protect the industry if the 18 nation cotton textile agreement falters or non cotton fiber imports rise. Continued on Page Two.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Office
Civil and Defense
Hodges
House
United States
Rusk Sets Up New Talks For Berlin
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arranged a new U S Soviet exploratory talk on Berlin. He scheduled a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin for Thursday evening and signaled continuing regular contact amid Khrushchev’s withdrawal proposal. The talks aim to prepare a possible Rusk Gromyko meeting as Geneva negotiations on Laos neutralization approach.
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Rusk
Berlin
Washington
Dean Rusk
Anatoly Dobryn
Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
U.S
Geneva
Laos
Algiers
Oran
Algeria
Ben Bella
Marina
Tlemcen
Rabat
Ben
It's too bad future generations cannot see our spending
A schoolboy orator laments that future generations cannot witness the marvelous things done with their money, a wry note on civic spending and public funds.
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Copr
Gen
Fea, Corp
Telstar beams world news via space relay alerting nations
Telstar, the American space relay, broadcast the first live television and news transmissions across the Atlantic to France and Britain, relaying a Maine to Washington telephone call and two way talks from space. The system promises future satellite chains with intermittent line of sight between Europe and Maine for TV and telephone exchanges. The launch cost, support, and intended expansion underline a new era in international communications.
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New York
Telstar
America
Newsatellite
Atlantic
France
England
U.S
Maine
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
United States
Paris
Yves Montand
Jacques Marette
Britain
Testar
Andover
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Europe
US reports firing of another air dropped nuclear device
Washington announced the firing of an airplane dropped nuclear test device over the Pacific. The Tuesday blast was the 26th in the series since last April 25 and described as intermediate range with a yield of 20 000 to 1 million tons of TNT. Detonation occurred near Christmas Island.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Christmas Island
Highway and Bridge Projects Awarded In State
Augusta report shows $30,648,143 in highway and bridge projects awarded for the fiscal year ending June 30, a rise of over $3 million from the prior year. About $15 million funds Interstate highway work.
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Augusta
State Highway Commission
Saskatchewan Protest Draws Massive Turnout at Regina
Thousands of protesters from across Saskatchewan converged on Regina to oppose the governments medicare plan. Police anticipated calm despite fears of disruption as barricades lined streets near the legislative building. Leaders of the Keep Our Doctors Committee touted no violence, while Premier Lloyd declined to meet demonstrators. British doctors arrived to fill strike vacancies, with additional specialists expected later in the week.
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Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
Keep Our Doctors Committee
Woodrow Lloyd
Lloyd
Henry Baker
Legislative Building
London
Britain
United States
Top Negro Leaders Begin Fast in Albany Ga
Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Rev Ralph Abernathy began a 24 hour fast while imprisoned for violating a parade permit ordinance. Both leaders face fines or 45 days jail after December protests. King and Abernathy, leaders of the SCLC, planned a mass meeting and potential march in protest. Police said prisoners would be set to street work or jail cleanup while authorities mobilized to jail demonstrators.
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Albany, Ga
Martin Luther King Jr
Ralph Abernathy
Shiloh Baptist Church
King
Abernathy
City Hall
Wyatt T. Walker
Ter
Laurie Pritchett
Franco Names Ranking Soldier as Heir and Reorganizes Cabinet
Madrid AP says Gen. Francisco Franco designated Capt. Gen. Augustin Munoz Grandes, 66, as official successor by naming him vice president while continuing as commander of the high staff. The decree assigns him to coordinate defense and act in Franco's stead if needed. Seven new ministers join the cabinet in Franco's latest reshuffle, seen as moving toward monarchy restoration.
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Madrid
Francisco
Franco
Spain
Augustin
Munoz Grandes
Falange
US doubts Soviets have missile defense ready
US officials say the Russians may have an antimissile rocket but lack a complete system with radar and defending gear. They note a key challenge is radar that can distinguish warheads from decoys, and say no operational defense has been proven.
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Washington
U.S
Khrushchev
United States
State Group Tours Park In Saco
Members of the Maine Industrial Building Authority toured Saco’s 170 acre Industrial Park visiting the Lyn-Flex and Northeast Gases plants and a $90,000 sewerage treatment plant under construction by Seaward Construction of New Hampshire. The $600 and $70,000 guaranteed loans supported 140 workers at Lyn-Flex and the Northeast Gases facility. Accompanying the tour were Lyn-Flex vice president Harry Lehner and MIBA development agent Hugh Marshall.
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Maine
Lyn- Flex
Northeast Gases
Saco
MIBA
Lyn-Flex
Seaward Construction Company
New Hampshire
Department of Economic Development
Carleton G. Lane
Portland
Arnold T. Gellerson
Dover Foxcroft
Harry Fitzhenry
Lubec
James M. Pierce
Houston
William D. Deans
Allen
Augusta
Roderic C. O'Conner
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Tick
Malcolm W. Roberts
Mfred
Fred Merrill
Kennebunkport
Richard Burke
Lebanon
Edward Ross
Waterboro
Pomona Grange
Sarah Ricker
Alfred
Ruth Johnson
Buxton
Jane Scamman
Charlotte Anderson
Hollis
Hartley L. Emery, Jr
Berwick
Glenn K. Wildes
Anthony Ferrise
Freman Grant
Elizabeth Syvinski
York County Extension Association
Hits Aggresson
Textiles
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations
State Department
Kennedy
AT & T
Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints, Saco
Roger Marden
Institution
Harry C. Ridley
Church Committee
Norman Means
Cub Scouts
Charles H. Chase
Cub Scout Committee
Story
Negro Strategy Committee
Southern Christaan Leadership Conference
Robert F. Kennedy
Georgia State
Defense Department
State Group Tours Park
Atki
Ison
Eliing
Main Street
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