Biddeford City Clerk Case Dismissed On Lack Of Evidence
In York County Superior Court Judge William Sillsby dismissed the fraudulent conversion case against Biddeford City Clerk Raoul J. Binette for lack of evidence. The same session continued two indictments against Mayor Clement Deschambault for fraudulent conversion and taking a bribe. The Binette trial heard contractor Lucien Bourque describe a 1960 contract and payments connected to Biddeford High School drainage work, with banked cash and a $720 check alleged in evidence.
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Biddeford
Ounty
John Harvey
William Sillsby
Clement H. Deschambault
York County
Binette
Lucien Bourque
Bourque
Clement Deschambault
Upper Main Street
Rudy Ross
Prospects Improve For JFK Aims
AP, six months into Kennedy's term, surveys action prospects on major bills. Dirksen backs revised sugar quota while House must approve before midnight Saturday. Debt limit rising to 308 billion inches toward quick Senate passage. House trade expansion, farm program salvage, and higher education aid face hurdles. Senate wields preference for loans only in education funding and social security funded elder care proposal eyed for July showdown.
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Congress
Kennedy
Jack Bell
Senate
Washington
Senate House
House
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
White House
Dirksen
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Union To Appeal Strike Ban Extension
A federal judge extended a temporary ban for Pan American World Airways 500 flight engineers by 10 days. The case, over cockpit crew staffing and union merger concerns, draws an immediate appeals review while Eastern Air Lines awaits further court action and weighs resuming operations.
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NEW York
Pan American World Airways
Daniel Kurnblum
Engineers’ Union
U.S. Dist
George Rosling
U.S. Court of Appeals
Rosling
Pan Am
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern
Assur
Afl-Cio Flight Engineers International Association
Afl-Cio Air Line Pilots Association
Pan American
Five Structures Destroyed In Morning Blaze At Beach Caenee
The morning fire destroyed five structures at Beach Caenee. Authorities reported extensive damage but no fatalities. Investigations continue to determine cause and extent of insurance losses. Local officials urged residents to avoid the area as crews cleared debris.
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Beach Caenee
Fires Ravage Old Orchard Beach Cabins and Hotel
Two fires at Old Orchard Beach early today destroyed three cabins a cottage and a hotel. The hotel owner puts losses at 50000 while a passerby Bernard A House of Dracut Mass sailors at Newport RI naval station was treated for smoke inhalation at Webber hospital Biddeford. Fire departments from four communities fought the blazes and a false alarm for a Milliken Street fire was reported. The cause remains under investigation as of this afternoon.
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Midway
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
L. Gordon Cooper
Schirra
Navy
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
New Jersey
San Diego Union
Washington
Old Orchard Beach
Milliken Street
Bernard A. House
Dracut
Mass
Newport,r. I
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
A_ hospital
Reeves
Surfside
Party Switchers To Clash In Fall Voting
Democrats in South Carolina 2nd District nominate Albert Watson to run against Republican John Owens in a fall contest. In North Dakota Milton Young leads for a third term, Idaho’s Orval Hansen wins the GOP nod, Rhode Island’s Chafee seeks governor, and Corinne Riley will not seek re election. Watson leads Owens in unofficial returns 17 615 to 16 393 with Floyd Spence set to oppose him in November. Corinne Riley finishes term. not seeking re election.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
Albert Watson
Columbia
Congress
Frank Owens
North Dakota
Milton R. Young
Idaho
Orval Hansen
John Sanborn
Rhode Island
John H. Chafee
Warwick
Republican State Central Committee
Louis V. Jacksony Jr
Watson
Owens
Floyd Spence
GOP
Corinne Riley
Inmates Scale Water Tower Protest at Western State Penitentiary
Thirteen prisoners perch 100 feet above ground on a water tower to protest solitary confinement and alleged brutality. Warden Maroney reports shotgun warnings but no riot, while inmate Robert Payne leads the dispute with a demand to speak with officials. Payne faces multiple sentences for armed robbery and jail breaking.
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Pittsburgh
Western State Penitentiary
Conditio
Robert Payne
Washington, D.C
Payne
James Maroney
Maroney
Women plan emergency protest over prayer ruling at GFWC
Washington AP reports three delegates prepared an emergency resolution to protest the June 25 1962 Supreme Court decision denying school prayer. The resolution, proposed by Brizius Humphreys and Wiley, urged the federation to oppose the ruling. Federation president Ozbirn announced a cancer screening drive showing 39 uterine cancers detected among nearly 300000 women.
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Washington
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Supreme Court
Gerald Northrup
Castleton
Oscar C. Brizius
Newburgh
Ind
D. W. Humphreys
Cushing
Okla
Harvey W. Wiley
Washington, D.C
U.S. Supreme Court
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Mt. Vernon
E. Lee Ozbirn
Federation
American Cancer Society
Ozbirn
Estes Case Figures Had Warning
Senate investigators heard that the Agriculture Department flagged Estes cotton acreage deals as improper on December 20, 1960, yet farm aid officials in Texas approved the transactions later. Assistant counsel Paul Kamerick said the department’s actions showed a bureaucratic jungle in need of overhaul and that the issue involved the Estes collapse and related political fallout.
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Washington
Senate
Billie Sol Estes
Paul E. Kamerick
Senate Actions Subcommittee
Estes
Texas
H. L. Manwaring
Agriculture Department
Kamerick
FBI
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Compulsive Drinking By Women Rises
A five part series examines the view of alcoholism as a disease and how it affects women. Joy Miller surveys rich patrons, suburban mothers, and career women as examples of rising female alcohol abuse, addressing double standards, public perception, and shifts from saloons to home drinking.
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Joy Miller
Associated Press
Clarissa
Mary
Karri
Marvin Block
American Medical Association
Alcoholics Anonymous
H. L. Mencken
Giorgio Lolli
Yale Plan Clinic For
Alcoholics
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