Muskie Visit Aims to Boost Dim Rhode Island Campaign
Sen Edmund Muskie tours Providence with 3 1 2 hours at La Salle Academy and lunch with Mayor Doorley as volunteers press to reassure voters he remains in the race. Rhode Island Democrats weigh delegate roles while McGovern and Humphrey surge as top contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Edmund Muskie
Rhode Islanders
Maine
LaSalle Academy
Joseph Doorley Jr
Waterville
Muskie
Francis Brown
Brown
Rhode Island
Frank Licht
Doorley
John
Pastore
Humphrey
McGovern
Wallace
Yorty
Chisholm
Richard Stewart
Stewart
Providence Democratic Organization
George McGovern
Hubert H. ‘Humphrey
House Committee Probes Into Staged TV News
A House Commerce Committee subcommittee heard sworn witnesses describe staged and deceptive practices in CBS KNXT coverage and other networks. Testimony cited dynamite buys, so called pop wine stories, late arrivals, and re-shot speeches to fit broadcast needs, with CBS suspensions noted.
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Washington
Harley P. Staggers
Dw.va
House Commerce Committee
Columbia Broadcasting System
Los Angeles
KNXT
Loren Colwell
American Broadcasting Co
KABC
CBS
Terry Drinkwater
California
CBS News
Stanley Haberlach
Portland
Ore
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Gardner
Donald Keener
Groups Seek End to Federal Pot Penalties
Two national health groups asked the administration to remove federal criminal penalties for marijuana use and sale. Citing findings that occasional smoking may be harmless, they called for reclassification or removal from the drug scheduling system with longer penalties unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Public Health Association
Institute For the Study of Health and Society
National Organization For Reform of Marijuana
Plus-Gray's School Accepts Student Deborah Plaisted
Deborah Plaisted of Saco has been accepted by Plus-Gray's School of Business to major in Executive Secretariat. She will graduate from Thornton Academy in June and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Plaisted of Locke Street, Saco.
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Portland
Deborah Plaisted
Saco
Plus-Gray’s School of Business
Here
Miss Plaisted
Thornton Academy
Walter Plaisted
Locke Street
Unwanted Items May Be Wanted By Someone Else
A brief item notes that items discarded or unused may attract attention from others who seek second chances with belongings. Local residents are encouraged to consider donating or selling usable goods to help community members in need.
Luncheon Marks Seacoasters Final Season Meeting
Ocean Park Seacoasters conclude season at Wonder Bar Steak House Biddeford with a luncheon and business session led by President Herbert Danes. Reports prepared by Secretary Edna Hutchinson and Treasurer Paul Cornwall. Final meeting of the season, summer sale set for July 8, next gathering in October.
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Ocean Park
Wonder Bar
Biddeford
Herbert Danes
Edna Hutchinson
Paul Cornwall
Ruth C. Smith
Dot Danes
Harold Billingham
Ethel M. Cobb
Myrtle B. Peplaw
George Baggs
Mildred Soule
Ethel Rowlands
Lillian S. Jakeman
Adelbert M. Jakeman
Ruby Brown
Ruth White
Gordon Strong
Homer C. Bryant
Ernest Breffle
Harold Loomer
Ruth Conley
Mary M. Coburn
Elizabeth Wilson
Pearl H. Shaw
Marion H. Irving
Martha Eliot
Carrie Groves
Lillian Peverill
Ruth Glines
Ruth Gilbert
Marie McKenney
Loella Ballard
Maxwell House shelves Max Pack coffee in U S market
Maxwell House Co. halted production of its Max-Pack throwaway coffee package after consumer complaints that pots boiled over when reheating with the pack inside. About 50 Jacksonville workers and an unspecified number in San Francisco were laid off as production stopped, with plans to fix the issue and relaunch in June.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Maxwell House Coffee Co
Edward G. Balance
Maxwell House
San Francisco
Balance
Women May Make It To Space Yet
Space doctors say there is no medical reason women cannot explore space. Dr Charles Berry head of life sciences for NASA and Professor D G Gazenko of the Soviet Academy of Sciences answered at a Houston news conference noting that Russia had carried one woman into space while the United States had not yet flown a female astronaut.
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Space Center
Houston
Russia
America
Charles Berry
Life Sciences
Space Agency
D.G. Gazenko
Soviet Academy of Sciences
IRA Guerrillas Barricade Street in Londonderry Siege
British troops foiled an IRA move to enlarge a Bogside stronghold in Londonderry as barriers and steel beams were erected by guerrillas. A 15 year old Protestant boy was shot and killed in Belfast and Dublin prison rioting left five injured. Authorities declared a state of emergency and sent reinforcements.
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Belfast
Londonderry
IRA
Dublin
Williams Street
Free Derry
Northern Ireland
Springfield Road
Mountjoy
Jack Lynch
Provisional
Sean Macstiofain
Justice
Desmond O'Malley
Space biology meeting cites women in space history
Gazenko jokes that life without women is impossible in space flight and Berry laughs. The sole woman in space remains Valentina Tereshkova aboard a 1963 Soviet craft. The six day US Soviet joint working group on space biology and medicine concludes with data exchange by space doctors.
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Gazenko
Berry
Valentina V. Tereshkova
Ramparts recalls June issue over illegal long distance device
Ramparts magazine withdraws 90 000 newsstand copies of its June issue after AT T requests removal of an article about a device that allows free long distance calls. Noah's Ark president Robert Kaldenbach notes 50 000 to 60 000 copies had been sent to subscribers for the 10th anniversary issue.
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San Francisco
Ramparts
Robert Kaldenbach
Noah’s Ark
Remparts
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
George Sears
Pacific Telephone Co
At&t
Bell System
Kaldenbach
Old Orchard Patient Remillard Hospitalized
Old Orchard Reny L. Remillard of 73 Seaview Ave Old Orchard Beach is a surgical patient at Webber Hospital.
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Reny L. Remillard
Seaview Ave
Old Orchard Beach
Webber Hospital
Retirement party honors Old Orchard Beach nurse Helen Curry
A surprise retirement party for Mrs. Helen Curry R N was hosted by Rosalie Rix Helen Corbeil and Arlene Hanson on May 26 at the firemen s hall. Curry served 13 years as Old Orchard Beach Public Health Nurse with many town officials and colleagues in attendance and contributions sent by others.
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Old Orchard Beach
Helen Curry
R.N
Rosalie Rix
Helen Corbeil
Arlene Hanson
Emerson Cummings
John McNeil
Robert McNally
Barbara E. Lord
Norman Lessard
Carter Radley
Jeanette Cullinan
Dorothy Linkowski
Edward Townsend
Jean Paul Lacroix
Lorraine Dowd
Helen Morris
Patricia Hjort
Ann Cote
Robert Boynton
Thomas Sullivan
George Granger
Philip Marston
Charles Beaudoin
Sandra Manduca
Catherine Poulin
Ruth Travers
Patricia Prue
Lucille Guertin
Ellen O’leary
Rita Belair
Stephanie Hughes
Dorothy Carter
Donald Roy
Elizabeth Curry
Richard Curry
George Baggs
Avis Dumaine
Public Works Department
Leslie Wyman
Marjorie Fontaine
Joan Heminway
Alex Cote
Police Department
Fire Department
Carol Benvie
Donald Skilling
Margaret Dolan
Wilda Thurlow
Joseph Mokarzel
Margaret Grant
Doris Clark
Esther Linscott
Frances Orr
Louise Smith
Elaine Graham
Right
Old Orchard Beach Nursing Association
Claire Souliere
Souliere
Biddeford Nursing Association
Biddeford and
Saco Public Health
Curry
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George’s & LeMire’s Tel
NEW Furniture Manufacturer
Portland Employment Office
Cumberland Ave
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Proira
Biddeford-Saco Journal
York County
Old Orchard
Toro Lawnmowers
McCulloch Chain Saws
Briggs & Stratton Sales — Service
Fuzzy’s Service Center
Pepperell Square
Valliere
Joseph L. Labrecque
Jefferson Street
Biddeford Savings Bank
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