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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1976
Page
9
A visitor’s guide notes 17 million tourists in the year, a 30 percent rise from 1975, outnumbering residents four to one. Traffic, crowds, heat, and a maze of named avenues and grid streets await, with police promising safety and travel challenges during peak Easter travel.
In Washington DC at 8:45 am visitors tour the White House, some with advance congressmen tickets, others queue for timed entries as doors close midafternoon. Michael J. Farrell says the rooms are not museum spaces used by the president and his wife when tours end. A lone picket outside on Pennsylvania Avenue protests Nixon, while a sign prompts a police remark about political sentiment.
Air Force Sgt. Lonnie Thompson stationed at Camp New Amsterdam, The Netherlands, paints custom designs on wooden farewell shoes for departing servicemen, drawing from travel photos and creating items like a plaster plaque of the 32d Tactical Fighter Squadron emblem. The Idaho Falls native plans seminary study after service, aiming to resume college. Separately, Sen. candidate Plato Truman urged Panama Canal Treaty renegotiation details be shared with voters before the election and ratification votes.
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