Saco Sewage Funds Delayed Await Federal Review
A request for more information on Saco’s 90000 sewage plant for Bear Brook delays federal funding approval. Maine Water Improvement Commission explains Goose Fare brook area drains separately to Saco river. two-system plan chosen as most feasible. State and local funds cover city share. bond issue raised. bids to follow plans already drafted.
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Saco
Bearbrook
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Saco River
Saco and
Goose Fare Brook
Maine
Japanese Trolley Enroute to Seashore Museum Exhibit
A 49 year old retired Japanese street car will arrive in Boston on the freighter Pioneer Minx and travel to Kennebunkport for June 25 ceremony led by the Japanese Consul General. The Seashore Trolley Museum hosts the largest collection, including 78 cars from multiple nations, with a centennial of Japan US trade ties.
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Kennebunkport
Maine
United States
Seashore Trolley Museum
New York
England
New Zealand
Italy
Canada
Osaka
Fukuoka
Nagasaki
Japan
Boston
Japanese Ministry of Transportation
General Electric
Biddeford Opens New Driving Test Center Licenses First
The Biddeford state driving test center issued six learner permits and tested twelve applicants in its first half day at the City building. Betty Joyce of Kennebunk was the first to pass all tests and receive a license. Senior examiner Robert C. Emmons of Westbrook led the staff with aides Kenneth Bradstreet and Harry W. Clements.
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Biddeford
Betty Joyce
Kennebunk
Robert C. Emmons
Westbrook
Kenneth Bradstreet
West Gardiner
Harry W. Clements
Portland
Emmons State
Gary Cooper Undergoes Major Surgery in Hollywood
Actor Gary Cooper was hospitalized after major surgery removing part of his colon and will stay in hospital for about two weeks. Coopers’s health update came from the Hollywood AP report noting the procedure and expected recovery period.
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Cooper
Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Ape in Library Weighs Identity in Darwin Book Swap
A chimpanzee escaped a zoo and was found in a public library with the Bible in one hand and Darwin’s Origin of Species in the other. The ape quipped that he is examining whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
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Fea. Corp
Demurrer Filed In Pay Test In Maine Case
Westbrook Maine city solicitor James A Gagan filed a demurrer in Superior Court in Portland arguing the complaint against Westbrook is legally insufficient The brief contends that even if firemen are paid 68 dollars for a 72 hour week the minimum wage of 1 dollar per hour is not violated The filing claims Westbrook and other towns are exempt under common law If Justice Williams upholds the demurrer the case ends. if not it could proceed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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Westbrook
James A. Gagan
Maine
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Leonard F. Williams
Portland
Gagan
Williams
Maine Tax Payment From New England Telephone Tops Two Million
A Maine excise tax check of 2 520 626 70 from the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co was presented to Gov. Reed. Rodney M. Torres said the 1959 gross receipts tax rose 200 000 over 1958 and noted the company employs about 3 000 in Maine with total taxes to all levels near 8 100 000 in 1959.
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Augusta
Maine
New England Telephone& Telegraph Co
Reed
Ernest H. Johnson
Rodney M. Torres
Johnson
Net&t
Burnham W. Ragon
Selena Williams
Alfred Krumen
Torres
Local Group To Be Given Show Plans In Biddeford Meeting
John E. Byrne a former secretary to Governor Clauson now with Maine Department of Economic Development will visit Biddeford Monday afternoon to outline plans for the Northeastern States Exposition of Industrial Progress. The event in Portland August 23 24 and 25 will feature booths from 11 Northeastern states and focus on defense related products. Byrne will describe aims at Pepperell Hall at 3 PM with local business leaders invited.
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John E. Byrne
Clinton E. Clauson
Department of Economic Development
Augusta
Biddeford
Byrne
Hannaford Brothers
Ng Portland
Virginia
Peppere! Hall
Lewiston Woman Finds 1849 State Bank Note at Beach
Mrs Constance Bickford of Lewiston discovered a genuine looking three dollar bill from 1849 while cleaning an old desk at her summer home on Popham Beach. The note was issued by the State Bank at Morris New Jersey.
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Lewiston
Constance Bickford
Popham Beach
State Bank
Morris, N. J
Maine projects approved in Senate highways and harbors bill
The Senate Public Works Committee added numerous navigation and flood control items to a rivers and harbors authorization bill totaling about 1.547 billion dollars. Maine locations listed include Southwest Harbor Stonington Harbor South Bristol Harbor Wells Harbor Pepperell Cove Eastport Harbor York Harbor with multiple harbor and coastal survey sites and related navigation projects in Ogunquit Calf Island Rogue Island bluffs Pros pect Harbor Seawall Point.
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Washington
Senate Public Works Committee
House
Senate
New England
Maine
Southwest Harbor
Stonington Harbor
South Bristol Harbor
Wells Harbor
Pepperell Cove
Eastport Harbor
York Harbor
Ogunquit
Calf Island
Rogue Island
Wholesale Food Prices Decline Reported by Dun & Bradstreet
New York AP reports wholesale food prices edged downward this week. Dun and Bradstreet's food index stood at 5.93 versus 5.94 last week, 2.3 percent below the 6.07 level in the comparable 1959 week. The index covers the wholesale cost of one pound each of 31 commonly used foods.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Detro it School Break-In Stolen Milk Fund Note Left
Police report a break-in at a Detroit school where the milk fund was stolen. A note left behind mocks investigators over misspelled words and fuels a search led by Detective Garfield Campbell for the culprit who cannot spell waste.
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Detroit
Garfield Campbell
Jumbo the Elephant Still Draws Crowds at Tufts Museum
Medford Massachusetts reports Jumbo the elephant, 100 years born, preserved by taxidermists, draws hundreds of children daily at the Barnum Museum on Tufts University campus. Jumbo, 14,000 pounds, 11 feet high, was once Barnum’s star and skeleton mounted after his death.
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Medford
Mass
P.T. Barnum
Jumbo the Elephant
Barnum Museum
Tufts University
Jumbo
Barnum
Royal Zoological Gardens
England
Tom ‘Thumb
Museum of Natural History
New York
Tufts
Louis Paul Jonas
Jonas
Textile Workers Union endorses Kennedy for president
The Textile Workers Union of America urged Democratic National Convention delegates to nominate Sen. John F. Kennedy marking an unprecedented labor move. The 22,000-member union, active mainly in New England and nearby regions, backed Kennedy as a practical liberal leader.
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Chicago
Textile Workers Union of America
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Afl-Cio
New England
mid-Atlantic States
South
Philadelphia seeks sewer crawlers for city leaks
AP reports the city began accepting applications Tuesday for sewer crawlers to plug leaks and rat holes in the Philadelphia sewer system. Applicants must be able to fit in an 18 inch pipe.
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Philadelphia
Road Toll Falls Short Of Memorial Day Record
Chicago reports 367 traffic fatalities over the three day Memorial Day weekend. The three day toll trails the 371 record set in 1958 and misses a NSC estimate of 375. Overall deaths reach 579 across traffic, boating, drowning and other accidents, surpassing the 1947 three day Memorial weekend high of 1504.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
NASA Acknowledges Weather Flights Linked to U2 Program
NASA official Hugh Dryden testified before the Senate that high altitude U2 planes conducted over 200 weather flights covering about 264 000 miles since 1956. He said instruments were placed on planes from Pan American and TWA with cooperation from airlines and military, and that flight plans are unknown until after the flights.
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Washington
Space Agency
United States
Turkey
Japan
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronauoes
Space Administration
Dryden
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NASA
Senate
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
Sisters Earn European Trip
SEATTLE AP The Brodine sisters Vonnie 17 and Vickie 16 earned about 900 by saving 50 cents at a time through baby sitting clerking and library work. They plan a European trip on their own and expect to return to Seattle around August 23 after their first trip four years earlier.
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Seattle
Vonnie Brodine
Vickie
Europe
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