Major State Budget Enacted By House
The Maine House passed the 104 million dollar current services budget by a 75-54 vote with 18 absentees, while blocking a 11 million dollar capital construction bill. The capital budget, backed by Gov. Clausen and party leaders, awaits Senate action. A separate supplementary budget advances toward printing, proposing four million more for capital bond service and funding for the University of Maine and state promotion programs. A tax bill offering railroads about 1.125 million in relief was temporarily tabled and then restored on a 64-57 vote, with debate over funding tied to future revenue availability.
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Augusta
Maine
Clausen
Alth
Pethe
Senate
House
University of Maine
Robert Wade
Auburn
Jerome Plante
Old Orchard Beach
Explosion Kills Nine Onlookers in Pa. Crash
A gasoline tanker exploded on Route 122 in Schuylkill Haven Pennsylvania killing nine people and injuring many more. Eyewitnesses, including a school bus driver, described bodies and flames scattering across the road. The death toll was feared to rise with more than twenty injured taken to hospitals. Authorities noted no collision but witnesses claimed a propane tank collision.
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Schuylkill Haven
Pennsylvania
Melvin Clouser
Frank Toohey
anes —_lican
Philadelphia
Reading-Homburg
Ron Kramer
Vincent Ney
Pottsville Republican
Testimony Complete In Gorham Assault Trial
Hubert Baden a 26 year old Gorham man faces a jury in York County Superior Court at Alfred for assault with intent to kill after lengthy testimony. Dr A Warren Stearns testified on alcohol effects and possible fabrication of Baden’s statements to Augusta hospital staff. The defense closed with a 50 minute summation followed by a 10 minute rebuttal from the attorney general.
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Hubert Baden
Gorham
York County
Mass
Bridgewater
Massachusetts State Prison
Barden
Smith
Hubert _Barden
Atty
General Hancock
Barlen
Augusta State Hospital
Panelists Split On Publicity Of Juvenile Court Names
Five panelists at a National Institute on Crime and Delinquency discussed whether juvenile court proceedings and offenders’ names should be public. Supporters argued that secrecy fuels crime. opponents urged continued press coverage to inform the public. A separate note recalls a 1909 Japanese streetcar considered for a New England museum but facing transport costs.
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Boston
National Institute On Crime and Delinquency
Miss Higgins
Gardner
Tokyop
New England Historical Museum
New England Electric Railway Historical Society
Kennebunkport
Maine
Nagasaki
Transport Ministry
Foreign Ministry
Japan
Principal Estelle Platt Dies in Waterbury Connecticut
Mrs Estelle F B Platt longtime Hopeville Grammar School principal Waterbury Connecticut died Monday in a local hospital She led Hopeville from 1911 to 1936 and earlier headed Patten Grammar School for five years The obituary notes her long service in education
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Augusta
Estelle F. B. Platt
Hopeville Grammar School
Waterbury
Conn
Hopeville
Patten Grammar School
Meany Calls Labor War Over Discriminatory Legislation
AFL-CIO President George Meany urged a declaration of war against discriminatory anti labor legislation. He told 2,000 delegates at the United Hatters Cap and Millinery Workers convention that organized labor will not back the bill in Congress or any year. He faulted the Eisenhower administration and Congress for pressuring wage increases and blamed stock options on Wall Street for profits.
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New York
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Organized Labor
Labor Movement
Congress
Meany
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
Jow
Wall Street
Monkey In Space Flight Loses Life
Washington AP reports a seven pound Rhesus monkey named Able died Monday night at Ft. Knox after an operation to remove a recording electrode. The Army said the death was not due to the flight itself and occurred during removal of the instrument implanted under the skin.
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Washington
Army
Army Medical Research Laboratory
Ft. Knox
German Berlin Tensions Rise Over West Berlin Flare
East German spokesman warns West Berlin is a powderkeg that could ignite a world nuclear war. Lothar Bolz accuses Western powers of subversion while Gen. Khrushchev seeks a summit isolation proposal. West German diplomats defend allied positions amid Geneva talks and Western fears of Soviet dominance.
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Ueneva
West Berlin
Lothar Bolz
Wilhelm Grewe
West Germany
Geneva
Oer
Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
East Germany
Berlin
Bolz
Soviet Union
Manhunt Ends as Brillhart Captured in Oklahoma
Clark Brillhart, 24, a mentally troubled man, is captured by an Oklahoma highway patrolman near El Reno after a two state manhunt. He faces murder charges in the fatal beating of his mother and possibly his father. Brillhart was previously confined at Western State Hospital and released on convalescent leave two days before the killings.
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Hobart
Okla
Clark Brillhart
el Reno
R. E. Frusher
Ellhart
Oklahoma
Texas
Brillhart
Elmer
Florence
Brillharts
The
Oklahoma Assn
Cot Lees
Fort
E Wre
Western State Hospital
Fort Supply
Fire Chief cites arson in $100000 State Furniture blaze
Waterville Fire Chief Ralph Gilman says a deliberate act caused the State Furniture Co warehouse fire that destroyed the four story building Sunday. He reports two ignition points one from rubbish on an outside platform and another where oil was poured on a stairway.
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Waterville
Ralph Gilman
State Furniture Co
Gilman
Arousing Public Opinion Main Function of Women's Clubs
Anna Kelton Wiley 82 of Washington, D C, lauds the General Federation of Women s Clubs as a force in public opinion saying it helped create the Women s Army Corps and backed the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. She attends her 23rd convention with plans for events from Hollywood to a Lawrence Welk concert while recalling her late husband Dr Harvey W Wiley s four year Harvard degree in six months and his fight to pass the Pure Food Law. Members and delegates are pictured in a group, with kneeling and standing rows identified.
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Los Angeles
General Federation of Women’ S Clubs
Anna Kelton Wiley
Washington, D.C
Women's Army Corps
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Congress
Wiley
Federaion
Hollywood
General Federation
Clergyman Denies Charge In Statutory Rape Case
In Skowhegan AP report Rev Arthur R MacDougall 62 pastor of Bingham Congregational Church since 1923 denied in Superior Court that he fathered the infant daughter of a 14 year old Embden girl. The clergyman testified he did not have relations with the girl and did not see her on July 26 the date she said they were first intimate.
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Skowhegan
Bingha
Embden
Arthur R. MacDou Ill
Bingham Congregational Church
DAV Elects Commanders In Biddeford Chapter Meeting
The Biddeford Saco Disabled American Veterans chapter elected Armand Mercier as senior vice commander and Raymond Ouellette as junior vice commander. Conrad Nolette installed them as plans emerged for For-Get-Me-Not Days distributing flowers citywide.
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Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford City
Armand Mercier
Raymond Ouellette
Conrad Nolette
Segregationist Seeks Ban on The Three Little Pigs in Florida
In Tallahassee Miami segregationist David Hawthorn pushes a bill to ban The Three Little Pigs from schools and libraries, alleging the tale promotes black pig supremacy. He cites a copy showing a white pig and a black pig and a mulatto pig and argues the story brainwashes children. A lawmaker dismisses the push, noting the book’s portrayal is not aligned with policy. Hawthorn, head of the Dade County Property Owners Assn., has long opposed integration efforts in Miami area neighborhoods.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Miami
David Hawthorn
Hawthorn
Dade County Property Owners Assn
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Hubert N. Barden
Wen
Charles A. Pomeroy
K'Port
Biddeford
Emp
Maine Employment Security Commission
Gen
Fea. Corp
Catholic Women's Club
Most Holy Trinity Church
Saco
Valle’s
Scarborough
Gerard Cameron
Peter Hellige
Edmund Choroszy
John J. Chase
Thomas Winston
Leonard Burke
Janet McKeon
VFW Hall
Beach
Nancy Smith
Valle’s Steak House
DAV
Kesslen Shoe Co
Kennebunk
Carey Bros
Jewelers
Main St
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