Beach Citizens Vote To Build School Additions
Old Orchard Beach residents approve two school additions at a special meeting. A two story vocational arts wing at the high school costs up to 90000 dollars, and a four room addition at Jameson school costs up to 68000 dollars. Votes were by written ballot, with total costs 158000 dollars and a building committee authorized. Adelbert M. Jakeman, Sr. served as town moderator.
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Old Orchard Beach
the Beach
Beach
Board of Selectmen
Adelbert M. Jakeman, Sr
Ocean Park
B And M Strike Is Postponed Amid Mediation
Boston dispatch says the National Mediation Board stepped in to avert a possible strike by Boston and Maine Railroad firemen and trainmen. The union agreed there will be no strike while negotiations continue over seniority and working assignments after the mediation intervention.
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Boston
National Mediation Board
Boston & Maine
Fremen
Educational TV Hit By College Students
COMPTON Calif AP TV as an instructor is a one eyed monster among the crew cut set at Compton The collegian They are guinea pigs in a pioneer TV education project Video instruction draws poor campus ratings vs traditional teachers More than 200 cut classes and picketed the campus protesting automated education and a headless figure called piercing spirit Student leader Ted Hallisey says students want interaction with a real instructor College president Paul Martin defends TV saying only a minority oppose it and it saves money and helps with teacher shortages The college runs four television classrooms of 40 students each in freshman English psychology and algebra under one instructor Continued on page two.
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Compton
Calif
Compton the Collegian
Bac
Homore
Ted Hallisey
For Better Education
Anti TV
Southern California
Paul Martin
Testimony Expected In Black Coed Case At Florida Trial
Defense lawyers for four youths charged in a reported incident said additional testimony would show a Black female coed volunteered and that no proof of injury existed. Testimony described alleged intercourse in a lonely wooded area on May 2 as jurors heard mental disability and marital status claims from defendants and witnesses in a packed, segregated courtroom.
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Tallahassee
Fla
W. May Walker
Maudine Reeves
Walker
Florida
Rapir
David Ervin Beagles
Beagies
Ollie Stoutamire
Patrick Gene Scarborough
Houston
Tex
Air Force
Six Honored At Bowdoin Graduation
Bowdoin College conferred six honorary degrees at its 14th commencement today. Recipients include Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, U S Air Force Cape Canaveral, Fred C. Scribner Jr., Ellis O Briggs, John F. Thompson, and Laurence Irving. Phyllis C Weston received a Master of Science. Four senior speakers addressed the ceremony.
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Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Donald N. Yates
Air Force Missile Center
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Yates
the Treasury
Fred C. Scribner, Jr
Ellis O Briggs
U. S
Greece
John F. Thompson
The
International Nickel Co
Scribner
F. Whitney Mitchell
Stoneham, Mass
G. Raymond Babineau
Hempstead, N. Y
Peter N Anastas, Jr
Gloucester
Mass
David A. Kranes
Belimont
Sporty Dresser Robs AI Bank
Providence bank robbery ends as a well dressed man in a red golf cap and tan jacket uses a gun to force two tellers to open cages and later waves the weapon at ten customers before placing them against a wall. The incident unfolded at Plantations Bank yesterday with no immediate report of injuries.
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Providence, R. I
Plantations Bank
Prospects For A Summer Business Boom
New York reports buoyant outlook for a summer economy with booming retail sales and auto production. Yet steel wage talks risk a strike as United Steelworkers authorize action and Republic Steel cuts capacity. Higher interest rates tight money affect bank lending, mortgages, and bond and stock markets while consumer spending and plant investment show strength.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
David J.mcdonald
Republic Steel Corp
Youngstown
Ohio
Detroit
County Legion Council Installs New Officers
New York County Council and its Maine American Legion auxiliary installed in South Berwick with Alton Coro and Alber G. LaPierre leading. The slate names Robert Bickford as commander and 11 others in officer roles. Thomas Anderton named Americanism officer. 13 posts represented. Eliot Memorial post won attendance award. $20.60 raised for scholarship fund. calendar committee formed.
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York County Council
Department of Maine American Legion
Sullivan-Nowell
South Berwick
Legion
Alton Corp
Topsham
Alber G. LaPierre
Wells
Robert Bickford
Kittery
Donald Leighton
Alfred
Charles DeCoff
Earle Chapman
Eliot
Mertor Spurr
George Shal
Chicago Meat Packing Industry Exits Major Players Shut Down
CHICAGO AP An era ends as Swift & Co and Armour & Co halt slaughtering in Chicago within weeks. Wilson & Co ceased four years ago. Obsolete facilities drove closures as the firms moved operations closer to live stock sources and markets. Yet 25 packers and about 500 buyers remain to sustain Chicago’s large livestock market. Swift and Armour will continue buying locally, accounting for about 16 percent of cattle and hog offerings. The stockyards have long handled over five million cattle hogs and sheep annually.
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Chicago
Wilson & Co
Swift & Co
Weks Armour & Co
Swift and
Armour
Saco Tax Rate Jumps Four Mills Amid City Budget Rise
The Saco Board of Assessors announced a four mill tax rate increase to $50 per thousand. Higher city appropriations for schools Thornton Academy and the Welfare department, plus a drop in Bates Manufacturing company valuation, drove the rise. 1959 total valuation fell to $16,345,360 from $17,063,240, with an appropriation of $810,140 up $33,407 from last year.
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Saco
Board of Assessors
Thornton Academy
Welfare Department
Bates Manufacturing Company
Maine
Queen honors spread to artists and workers in June list
Queen Elizabeth II conferred royal honors on 2400 people including Michael Redgrave, Shakespearean actor, and Stanley Spencer, a controversial painter, as part of her official birthday celebrations. The awards included OBEs for composer Michael Tippett and opera singer Geraint Evans, with barons and baronets named as well. In Boston, an escaped mental patient from Wingdale, John G Feller, 26, was sought after a rapid transit explosion injured 38. police identified him and described a homemade 11 inch bomb. Evidence suggested 25 pounds of black powder exploded near North Station, leaving several in serious condition and prompting a national law-enforcement conference.
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London
Elizabeth
Michael Redgrave
Shaker Spearean
Stanley Spencer
Michael Tippett
Geraint Evans
British Empire
John Morrison
Nage Scottish Academy of Music
Leslie Woodgate
British Broadcasting Company
Boston
John G. Feller
Roslindale
Wingdale
N. Y
Feller
New York
New York City
Central Park
North Station
Identical Dresses Clash At Mrs America Meet
Mrs Pauline Carrier of Westbrook Maine and Mrs Betty Roush of Grand Island Nebraska wore identical dresses at the Mrs America candidates meeting. Both accepted the situation with good humor after discovering the same price had been paid.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Maine
Nebraska
Pauline Carrier
Westbrook
Betty Roush
Grand Island
Neb
Hearings End on Central Maine Power Rate Increase
A long series of hearings on a proposed rate hike by Central Maine Power Co ended yesterday. Parties were ordered to file any additional exhibits with the Public Utilities Commission by next Thursday. The company seeks a general 7 percent rate increase to improve investor returns.
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Augusta
Central Maine Power Co
Public Utilities Commission
Central Maine Power
Chances Of Agreement At Geneva Dim
American officials said prospects for a Berlin and Germany deal at the Big Four foreign ministers conference look dim. Advisers expect a Soviet propaganda offensive blaming the West, with a possible recess to regroup. If Gromyko stands firm, the conference may break up midweek. a definite recess could be set if talks proceed.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Berlin
Germany
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Seliwyn Lloyd
London
Harold Macmillan
West
Lloyd
Andrei A. Gromyko
Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
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Albert Dubois
Beach Street
Dubois
Roland Paquette
Doris Dubois
Nancy Paquette
Susan Dupuis
Claudette Nadeau
Paul
Pase
Willian T. Collinsworth
Collinsworth
Fea. Corp
Bowdoin
AI Bank
County Legion Council
Mer Sanford
Harry Alpren
Fells
Department
Alton Coro
Nelson Foss
Bath
Sumner B. Marshall
Maurice Parisien
Woodfords
Ralph D. Caldwell
Berg Hill
Hill
Olive K. ‘Leavitt
Florence Lewis
Alberta Redmond
Kennebunkport
Beatrice Wakefield
Gertrude Wood
Mary Wood
Biddeford
Louise Jenkins
Marie Jeanne
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Christian Herter
Switzerland
France
Mau
Rice Couve de Murville
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Carmelo Adamo
Philadelphia
Giulio Cesare
Adamo
Carmelo
Adamos
Sicily
House of Lords
Hugo Charles Stockwell
Order of the Bath
Stockwell
Secretary of State For War
United States
Alexander Brackenridge
South Orange
N.J
Brackenridge
British Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce
J. A. J. Gough
J. Seeps
Histon
E. Pritchard
Women’s Voluntary Services
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