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Biddeford Saco Journal in Biddeford, Maine

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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jul 23, 1959

Page

8

Largest Ocean Seismic Shoot Aids Mohole Quest

Aboard the U S research vessel Vema and three companions, Atlantic seismic shots totaling over 100000 dollars of TNT were fired for 18 days north of Puerto Rico. The effort, part of Mohole project planning, mapped sea bottom rocks to guide a miles deep crust drill beneath the ocean. Twelve crew and observers worked in shifts along with hydrophones, fuses, and depth calculations to record sound waves and locate a potential drilling site on the Outer Ridge.

Atlantic Puerto Rico U.S Ocean Vemma Outer Ridge U.S. Naval Base Roosevelt Roads P.R Ree Verna Coring Gang Office of Naval Research and I

Area Students Earn Dean's List Honors at Maine

At the University of Maine in Orono, thirty students earned all A grades and seven hundred were named to the Dean's List for spring semester marks. The York County roster includes Ogunquit to York Beach with names like June L Adams, Robert C Cartier, Barbara Jean Dunn, Glynn W Meggison, Norma L Harmon, and many others reflecting a wide geographic spread. First Stowe essay written at age twelve in Litchfield, Connecticut titled Can the Immortality of the Soul be Proved by the Light of Reason.

Norman M. Descoteaux Arthur W. Harris Ronald A. Howard Roger E. Leimay Philip J. Villandry Joan Woodman Norman Woodman Cornish David W. Wadsworth East Waterboro Clayton’ E.goodhue Emery Mills Michael K. Mann Hills Beach Richard R. Garnache Hollis Center Paul H. Hanson Bar Mills Roger L Carll Kennebunk Enid M. Marshall Richard C. Russell Kennebunkport Barbara Jean Dunn James W. Smith Kittery Patrick H. Clarke Thomas L. Gaffney Kittery Point Glynn W. Meggison Nancy N. Woods Limerick Norma L. Harmon Gordon S. Maxim Old Orchard Beach George H. Wells Saco Donald W. Burnham Lionel L. Cote Lois A. Nichols Ralph W. Russell Merrill C. Swan Terrance B. Tripp Wells Gerald L. Fenderson Franklin A. Hamlyn York John A. Hackett York Beach Ann L. Adjutant Jean B. Bertolini Harriet Beecher Stowe Litchfield, Conn

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