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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1965
Page
3
Washington discussion over a possible national assessment of educational progress. Proponents argue it reveals how funds are used and spur improvement. opponents warn of federal control and loss of local autonomy and creativity.
Charles Kemp, a Georgia prison escapee who fled 26 years ago, is back in Fort Myers raising grandchildren and pursuing a Christian life after governors of Georgia and Florida reached an agreement to suspend extradition while he remains a good citizen. Kemp, 62, formerly Hubert Benkey, was sentenced to life in 1939 for a fatal shooting he claimed was self defense. He was traced to Fort Myers after a car accident. he had been a store operator and church pillar in the community.
In Crawfordville Georgia Jesse Meadows a 66 year old retired sawmill worker and new chief of police resigned after pressure from white and black residents. Mayor W G Taylor said the resignation followed seven weeks of civil rights demonstrations and tensions sparked by the SCLC campaign.
The annual Past Presidents Parley banquet of the Owen-Davis Auxiliary took place at Cascade Lodge on Portland Road in Saco. A business session decided not to meet in August and to resume in September with the venue to be announced. Attendees included Miss Alice Milliken and Mrs. Helen Blanchette among others.
National Guard officials propose using volunteers to fly soldiers and cargo to the Far East to support a Vietnam buildup while avoiding active federal service. Air Guard transport crews regularly fly overseas, with missions rising from 90 to 130 monthly.
Kempton Bunton, 61, unemployed, surrendered at a London police station and admitted taking the Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery on August 22, 1961. He was released on 350 pound bail and ordered to reappear August 22, with a lawyer to be appointed.
The Austrian Trapp Family Singers return to Vermont for a music festival from July 31 to August 7 at Stow e program includes singing and dancing on August 4 at their lodge with a Viennese Night ball closing the event. The festival honors Mrs. Maria Trapp and family.
Sheriffs officers evicted 78-year-old Maude Willcox from a two story home near an expressway interchange. Officers broke two doors and loaded her belongings into a van as a physician persuaded her to leave after a five year dispute. The state had placed 19500 dollars in a bank in her name.
The Ku Klux Klan plans a second rally within five days near Bogalusa in a Mississippi cow pasture across the Pearl River. Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of United Klans of America will speak. Bogalusa police adopt a tough stance as a Justice Department suit seeks to halt harassment of civil rights workers. A biracial committee may be named by Gov. McKeithen to address Louisiana's racial issues.
A fish odor remained along I-95 near the Royal River after nine tons of whiting spilled when a trailer overturned Tuesday after a tire blowout. The fish were hauled to a pig farm in Falmouth. Driver Donald R. McDougall and passenger Francis Burnham, both from Gloucester, Mass., were uninjured.
The New York stock market resumed its decline as Vietnam War developments deepened. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 3.29 points to 865.50 after a half hour of trading as defense secretary McNamara warned the situation in South Vietnam had deteriorated and key stocks shed $2 to $3 a share.
The first of two Sentry satellites detecting nuclear blasts entered a 69,000 mile near circular orbit at 11 35 p m Tuesday. The twin expected to be in position Thursday. A tiny hitchhiker satellite and a 12 pound Pygmy also on board measure space radiation. The 524 pound Sentries can detect explosions from Earth to 200 million miles.
A New York secretary Frances Levin age 45 remained in critical condition after a metal tipped window pole dropped nine floors from an employment agency office. It struck her during a lunch hour on 42nd Street near Broadway as police arrested a suspect. Surgeons at St. Clare's Hospital removed the pole after a six hour operation.
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