Experimental Drug Thalidomide Distributed in New England
Boston FDA chief says Thalidomide reached 30 to 40 New England doctors including in Boston Worcester and Springfield and parts of Vermont and Maine. Makers recalled all supplies in March and a regional check of doctors will verify compliance. No New Hampshire or Rhode Island distribution reported.
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Boston
Food and Drug Administration
New England
Nevis Cook
Cook
FDA
Worcester
Springfield
Ver
Mont
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Charles J. Dunn
Massachusetts Medical Society
Abortion Bound Parents Seek Exit From Arizona
Mrs. Finkbine, 30, who took tranquilizers with thalidomide early in pregnancy, says she and her husband will leave Arizona to seek an abortion. A Phoenix judge rejected a plea to sanction an abortion, and hospital officials say the couple are preparing to depart for a more favorable legal climate as they contest the case amid strict state abortion bans.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Robert L. Finkbine
Arizona
Finkbine
Europe
Australia
Canada
Yale
Fate of State Superior Court
The
Finkbines and Good Samaritan Hospital
Stephen Morris
Morris
Finkbines
Good Samaritan Hospital
West’s Air Pollution Fights Reach Arizona and Colorado
The West, once sought for clean air, now battles rising pollution in Denver and Phoenix. Officials warn auto exhaust and industrial smoke will worsen. Arizona counties push county measures while statewide action stalls. Trash burning curtailed. dust control improves as pollution devices for cars loom.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Colorado
Mecca
Midwest
Denver
Rockies
William F. Spence
University of Colorado Medical School
Cyrus W. Anderson
Colorado Medical Society
Camelback Mountain
Maricopa
Pima
Tucson
U.S. Public Health Service
State Health Department
Morse Leads Stormy Senate Session On Satellite Bill
Senate session erupts as Senator Morse challenges Major Leader Mansfield and Democratic whip Humphrey over the Kennedy administration satellite bill. Debate touches veracity, rules, and warnings of political fallout. In a separate dispatch, Agriculture Dept finds about 1 million bushels of government grain missing from Midwest warehouses valued at roughly $1.1 million amid 11 cases heading to receiverships.
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Morse
Senate
Washington
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Mansfield
Sen
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Humphrey
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Maine teachers to meet new degree standards in 1963
Beginning in September 1963 Maine will require teachers seeking their first positions to hold at least a bachelor's degree and to undergo advanced training for certificate renewal. Provisional certificates require liberal arts course emphasis and 30 academic hours beyond the degree for the first professional certificate. Certification will also apply to principals and superintendents.
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Augusta
Maine
State Board of Education
Hayden L. V. Anderson
Department
Division of Professional Services
Iod
Maine Advisory Committee On
Sampsons Hit Again By Thieves
A break in at Sampson's Market on upper Elm street Biddeford is under police investigation. Vandals cut a rear screen near a refrigeration unit, stole a small amount of cash, left coins behind, and sliced vegetables while eating peaches. Investigators Captain Philip Poirier and Technician George Friary note the store's history of prior breaks.
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Sampson's
Upper Elm Street
Biddeford
Philip Poirier
George Friary
US Moves to Pressure Katanga over Congo Crisis
Washington reports that the Kennedy administration plans strong political and economic measures to unify the Congo under a modified federal system. Key goals are to extract Katanga’s mineral revenues for Leopoldville and to solidify central authority, with Adoula proposing a high self rule for Katanga under joint federal control.
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Washington
United States
Katanga
Congo
Kennedy
U.N
U.S
Edmund A. Gullion
Leopoldville
Gullion
Moise Tshombe
Tration
Tainly
Cyrille Adoula
Adoula
Tshombe
State Department
Ex-Union Leader Denies Charge in Strike Settlement
Washington AP reports ex-Boilermakers Local Groton president Arthur Vars denied demanding $5,000 to influence the end of a strike that stalled 11 nuclear submarines at General Dynamics Electric Boat. Vars testified before the Senate Investigations subcommittee amid conflicting testimony on whether a payoff or settlement offer occurred.
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Washington
Arthur Vars
Groton
Ward
Vard
Electric Boat Division
General Dynamics Corp Ward
Vars
McClellan
Senate
Sayin
Girl Scout Deed Marks Final Roundup Climax
BITTON BAY Vt AP before the last of 8500 homeward bound girls pulled out of the senior roundup here today they paused for a good deed. Pris cilla Lovell of South Glastonbury Conn who recently had open heart surgery requested a swap or two. Scouts from far and near shared swaps including miniature Iowa corn Long Island ducks Boston lobster pot Indiana rose and more. Mrs Fanchon Title of Hartford Conn delivered the swaps at Glastonbury. The homeward run included 1700 staff people many volunteers who paid their own expenses and returned to work as sheridan R Frye Girl Scout director lauded the volunteers. Lt Col Warren Buchanan and his wife ran the first aid tent as he heads to France for three years. One bride Mrs Edward Stevenson Worcester Vt left roundup without groom due to Western Union service gap but said she was glad to go home.
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Bitton Bay
Priscilla Lovell
South Glastonbury
Iowa
Long Island
Boston
Neers
Sheridan R. Frye
Warren Buchanan
Ford Hood
Tex
France
Edward Stevenson
Worcester
Western Union Telegraph Service
Drownings Claim Lives Of Two In Maine Waters
Two drowning victims, a 2 year old from Massachusetts and a New Jersey man, were reported in Maine. Kathy Dean, 14, attempted a rescue on Messalonskee Lake but both she and the man went under. The other victim, Albert Senecal Jr., drowned at Hancock Pond in Embden while his family prepared to leave Marlboro, Massachusetts.
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Associated Press
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Maine
Oakland
Carlton W. Linford Jr
Spottswood
N.J
Messalonskee Lake
Kathy Dean
Kathy
Linford
Little Albert Senecal Jr
Hancock Pond
Embden
Marlboro
Mass
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