Snow Damages Garage As Northeast Storm Hits Old Orchard Beach
Wet heavy snow collapsed the roof of the La fayette garage on East Grand Avenue in Old Orchard Beach injuring two cars and a truck stored inside. About 25 cars and several boats were in the structure. No injuries reported. area closed by Beach Police Chief John Clark. Schools in Biddeford Saco Thornton Academy St Louis and Old Orchard Beach canceled classes. Power and telephone outages and slow traffic followed as plows cleared streets.
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Goodkowsky
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Biddeford
St. Louis
Thornton Academy
Saco
Leopold V
Paul” Sicard
White House Mobilizes Push for Kennedy Medical Care Plan
The White House coordinates a broad grass roots push to pass Kennedy's medical care program for the aged through Congress. A Madison Square Garden rally in New York on May 20 is highlighted as a key mobilization event, with White House and Democratic committees coordinating media outreach and outside support against opposition from the AMA and insurers.
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White House
Kennedy
Congress
New York
Madison Square Garden
National Council of Senior
Golden Ring Clubs
Pierre Salinger
Richard Maguire
American Medical Association
Democratic National Committee
National Council of Senior Citizens
Today's Chuckle Egotist line humor item
A compact humor item notes an egotist is usually me when in conversation. It adds a line about a pessimist measuring an inch if given one, credited to Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Fea. Corp
Ex Priest to Appear in Court in California Case
Walter Ryan former priest 57 must appear in Domestic Relations Court March 19 in San Francisco to answer charges of failing to support his four children. His wife Alice 41 of Glen Head N Y filed a suit against the Catholic church in Mineola for 2 375 000 claiming he was spirited to California and kept prisoner in monasteries since 1955. Ryan says he came to California of his own accord and has excommunicated himself. he contends he sent more than 10 000 to his family since leaving.
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Walter Ryan
Mineola
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Glen Head
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Glen Cove
Castro Decrees Stiffer Cuban Economic Control
In a radio television address Fidel Castro announced drastic rationing across Cuba. He blamed counter-revolutionaries and the U S embargo for shortages and said all Cubans will receive six pounds of rice and 12 pounds of each bean type monthly. Lard oils soap and detergents will be rationed.
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Fidel Castro
Castro
U.S
Kennedy
Cuba
Winter Storm Grips Northern Plains and New England
A nor de storm from the upper Great Lakes and a system over Long Island spread snow from the central Plains to the lower Great Lakes and New England. Snow totals reached two feet in parts of the Midwest with widespread drifting, road closures, and school cancellations as winds 30 to 60 mph roared across Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and nearby regions. Cold Canadian air pushed temperatures below zero in Montana and Wyoming as new snow and high winds worsened conditions in eastern and central Nebraska.
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Great Lakes
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Ohio Valley
Lower
Long Island
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Midwest
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Canada
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Wyoming
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Lewiston Father Murders Three Children Slays Self
Willis Olson, 41, an unemployed woodsman separated from his wife, killed his three children Annie 12 Archie 9 and Andy 5 then shot himself with the same rifle in Lewiston. Clara Olson 34 was hospitalized in shock as authorities noted a divorce and separate quarters. The triple murder suicide occurred as the children watched television before classes were called off.
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Willis Olson
Annie
Archie
Andy
Androscoggin County
Merrill S. F. Greene
Olson
Clara
iClara
Sunday Blue Law Test Hits Maine Opening
Maine court test pits Fantastic Fair Inc as a target of the new Sunday closing law named by County Attorney Arthur Chapman Jr. Vice President Richard Franzbaum pleads innocent and waives hearing in Municipal Court, appealing the conviction. An auxiliary to the WFEFW Post in Biddeford elected officers led by Jeannette Curro as president and Mamie Gagne as senior vice president, with plans to seek the April Superior Court term and possibly Maine Supreme Court review on constitutional grounds.
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Fantastic Fair, Inc
Arthur Chapman Jr
Maine
Richard Franzbaum
Auena
Nithin
Auxiliary Deford Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Biddeford City
Jeannette Curro
Mamie Gagne
Lucianna Roy
Almeria Proulx
Delcia Frechette
Alma Beaudoin
Laura Dodge
Belle Poirier
Rit
Superior Court
Maine Supreme Court
Franzbaum
US Britain Keep Arms Proposals At Minimum
In Geneva, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met over lunch for three hours, discussing disarmament and Berlin but yielding no firm conclusions. A Western source said the United States and Britain would not present detailed proposals at the 17 nation conference to curb secret nuclear test preparations. Gromyko reaffirmed East Germany as part of Soviet terms, calling for a peace treaty as the best solution, while signaling no set date for further talks.
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U.S
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
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Gromyko
Rusk
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East Germany
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