Scarborough Downs Opens with Five-Week Harness Meet
Scarborough Maine Raceway Inc prepares Scarborough Downs for its historic first harness meet starting Monday and running for five weeks to June 18. Executive Hugh Connor touts a $1.5 million upgrade including glassed grandstands heated for winter and air cooled in summer. The facility features a new restaurant bar luxury lavatories and clublike atmosphere as Maine Raceway eyes future expansion with a hotel and golf course on surrounding land.
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Peg Hendrick
Scarborough
Scarborough Downs
Hugh Connor
Young
Maine Raceway Inc
Pari - Mutual ‘Bank
Connor
Board East
James Edwards
Iity
Connor l
Common Spray Cans Can Be Deadly
A federal health warning details that inhaling propellant aerosols such as Freon from spray cans can cause dizziness, loss of coordination, and fatal lung and esophageal damage. Most victims were teens, with one 11-year-old dead, prompting FTC and FDA actions and a $75,000 educational campaign to curb deliberate misuse.
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Washington
FDA
Sai
Joshua Zatman
Federal Trade Commission
Zatman
FTC
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association
Toilet Goods Association
Paul A. Pumpian
Fred B. Rooney
D-Pa
Congress
Kim's Biddeford Gift Shop Ad
A local Biddeford gift shop promotes last minute Mother's Day gifts. The advertisement lists store hours and location at 11 Bacon Street, with open times Monday through Sunday and a focus on last minute shopping.
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Biddeford
Bacon St
Saco Church Announces Saturday Mass Schedule
Notre Dame de Lourdes Church Saco states Catholics may fulfill Sunday obligation by attending Saturday masses. A Saturday mass at 7 p m will commence this week. St Margaret's Old Orchard Beach and St Martha's Kennebunkport will announce Saturday mass decisions later.
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Portland
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Saco
St. Margaret's Church
Old Orchard Beach
St. Martha's Church
Kennebunkport
Dictionary Defines Hippie as Jobless Yet Loyal to Breaks
A humorous definition in a new dictionary labels a hippie as someone who dropped the job but kept the coffee break, playing on work culture and casual rebellion.
Senate Reverses Itself On Murphy Extension Vote
AUGUSTA AP The Senate voted 15 to 12 to extend for five years the term of Timothy J. Murphy head of the enforcement division of the State Liquor Commission. Three Republicans shifted their positions from Wednesday. The bill returns to the House for final enactment and then to Governor Curtis, whose stance is unclear as Liquor Commission head Keith Ingraham opposed the bill.
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Lee Pimma
R-Brewert
S. Stuart
R-Bruns'wiek
Richard W. Logan
Ryork
House
Senate
Gov.Curtis
Keith H. Ingraham
The
Liquor Commission
Saints Dropped From Vatican Calendar Revision
Vatican City AP reports nearly 30 saints were removed from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar under Pope Paul VI in Paschalia Mysterii. Names include St Christopher, St Barbara, and St Susanna. A Vatican expert warned the deletions pose an extremely delicate problem for Catholics.
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Vatican City
St. Christopher
St. Barbara
Rome
Paul VI
Vatican
Pierre Jounel
Paris
Nixon to assess Viet Cong peace plan as talks probe begins
President Nixon to have Paris envoys review the Viet Cong ten point peace plan to determine if it is propaganda or a serious bid to start meaningful talks. Welfare Secretary Finch denies rift with officials while calling federal cuts to disorderly campuses a harsh minimal approach harming innocent students.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Paris
Washington (Ap
Robert H. Finch
Viet Cong Peace Plan Rejected By Saigon
Saigon rejected the Viet Cong 10 point peace plan calling for a provisional coalition government while signaling willingness to discuss select issues such as POW exchanges and the demilitarized zone. U.S. officials led by Nixon and Kissinger weighed whether the plan was a gimmick or serious bargaining, as Paris talks continued. The Viet Cong had framed the plan as an integrated whole, seeking a full pullout of U.S. forces without binding North Vietnamese withdrawal.
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Saigon
Paris
Communds
Laos
Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
Tran Buu Kiem
U.S
Kiem
le Duc Tho
Hanoi
Henry A. Kissinger
Key Biscayne, Fla
Henry Cabot Lodge
Florida White House
State Department
Thieu
South Vietnam
Vietnam Peace Plan Seeks Vietnam Split and International Oversight
The Viet Nam settlement talks propose resolving by Vietnamese parties, with international supervision and troop withdrawal. Washington backs international inspection to ensure Hanoi's forces depart too, while Saigon leaders face a shift toward a national regime via free elections. The Viet Cong wording raises doubt about broadening inclusion acceptable to Thieu.
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South Vietnam
United States
U.S
Thieu
Governor Petersons stance on New Hampshire income tax
Concord New Hampshire Gov Walter Peterson denied any shift in his position on the 5 percent income tax plan amid reports he would sign it if the legislature passes the bill. He reaffirmed his opposition to taxation reform favored by lawmakers and reiterated he would veto such a measure.
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Concord
N.H
Walter Peterson
New Hampshire
Three Lions Must Be Driven Away by Adamson
George Adamson, famed from Born Free, is ordered to drive away three habituated lions Boy Girl and Ugus near Meru National Park Kenya to prevent them approaching humans. He plans to teach the lions to distrust people despite his heartbreak and relies on his camp near Mugwongo. If unsuccessful he may seek government permission to relocate them to an outside country such as Ethiopia.
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Nairobi
Kenya
George Adamson
Adamson
Boy
Girl
Ugus
Mugwongo
Meru National Park
Bov
Peter Jenkins
Meru
National Parks
United States
Engand
Elsa
Ethiopia
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