Two Mooring Basins Planned for Saco River
At a Joint Saco River Navigation Committee meeting in Saco City Hall, plans were outlined for two mooring basins totaling about 10 acres at the river mouth and a 10 acre basin at the head of tidewater. The project includes sealing and raising breakwaters at Camp Ellis Saco and Hills Beach, with dredging by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to follow in spring.
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Saco River
Joint
Saco River Navigation Committee
Biddeford
Saco
Saco City Hall
Henry P. Ross
Camp Ellis
Hills Beach
William Briggs
Struction Co
Fall River
Mass
Briggs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Camp Ellis Avenue
Donald C. Doyle
Nixon Ignores Humphrey Debate Bid Faces Press Club Offer
AP report notes Nixon has not engaged Humphrey's debate demand while the National Press Club proposes a Nixon Humphrey televised debate that could avoid third party equal time. Wallace would pay his share if the debate occurs, and Nixon cites national interest concerns over equal time. Humphrey calls for “smoking Nixon out” and Muskie warns Democrats not to sit out.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
National Press Club
Allan Cromley
Press Club
Nixon
George C. Wallace
Humphrey
Wallace
Cromley
Nixon-Humphrey
Donna Humphrey
Charleston
Madison Avenue
Democrat
Pblic
Kansas City
Main Street
USA
Alliance For Progress In
Latin America
South America
Edmund S. Muskie
New York
Muskie
Curtis E. LeMay
Vietnam
Jo T. W
Woodbridge
N.J
Birds would snag most money even if trees yielded cash
In a humorous note, the piece imagines a world where money grows on trees yet observes that a few clever birds would still dominate the spoils. The joke playfully critiques allocation of wealth among the wily and the wise.
Washington Bound Cyclist In Connecticut
Saco's vagabond bicyclist who set out for Washington D C ten days ago has reached Meriden Connecticut In a letter to a friend Patrick Conroy a former Bowdoin College student and former Latin teacher at Biddeford Junior High School said he was sleeping out as he continued his bicycle trek to the nations capi tal The bicycle The
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Saco
Washington D.C
Meriden, Conn
Patrick Conroy
Bowdoin College
Biddeford
Journal
New Jersey Battleship Bombs Island Off North Vietnam
The battleship New Jersey shelled Hon Mat Island, a three square mile target off the North Vietnamese coast, for 30 minutes using 2,700 pound shells. Antiaircraft batteries on the island engaged U S bombers and helicopters as B 52s bombed four provincial capitals nearby. The operation formed part of a broad air and naval campaign with heavy bomber missions from Guam Okinawa and Thailand and continued destruction of enemy troop concentrations supply vehicles and railway cars.
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New Jersey
U.S. Command
Hon Mat
U.S
South Vietnam
America
Nguyen van Minh
Minh
Igon
North Vietnam
Eee
Apollo 7 astronauts tour their space capsule on TV show
The Apollo 7 crew led by Walter Schirra gave an 11 minute live tour from the capsule aboard their high flying spacecraft. Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham joined in presenting the Apollo Room and exercising gear while fielding off humorous taunts from ground control. The crew, battling colds, reported strong TV ratings from their first broadcast as mission planners noted progress on top goals despite the 11 day flight’s early stage.
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Donn F. Eisele
Walter Cunningham
Apollo
Cunningham
Donald K. Slayton
Astronaut Office
Paul Haney
Manned Spacecraft Center
Haney
Slayton
Outer Space
United States
Corpus Christi
Tex
Merritt Island
Fla
Cape Kennedy
Harriet Eisele
Mission Control
Harry D. Hamilton
Gnadenhutten
Ohio
Donn
Philippines urges World Court on Sabah dispute
The Philippines called on Malaysia to join in taking the Sabah dispute before the World Court. Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos told the U.N. General Assembly that Manila would pursue its 90 year claim peacefully and would accept the tribunal’s judgment. Malaysia maintains Sabah as its territory and resists challenges.
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NY AP
Philippines
Malaysia
Borneo
Sabah
World Court
Narciso Ramos
U.N. General Assembly
Abdul Rahman
Kuala Lumpur
Ramos
Sulu
Sultanate of
Philippine
Tun Abdul Razak
Tokyo
Razak
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Rahman
Mahmoud Riad
Middle East
California Senate Campaign A Bruising One
In a bruising California U.S. Senate battle, Republican Max Rafferty and Democrat Alan Cranston clash over Vietnam, law and order, and political extremism. Rafferty, 51, ousted Kuchel in June. Cranston won a decisive primary. Debates spotlight hopes for a peaceful but honorable settlement in Vietnam and strict punishment for crime, with both men portraying the other as an extreme.
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U. S. Senate
Sacramento
Calif
California
Max Rafferty
Alan Cranston
U.S. Senate
Cranston
Rafferty
Congress
Thomas H. Kuchel
Senate
Pierre Sal
Inger
White House
Star
Vietnam
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Cranston Eeecasion
Liremen
Stanford
Federal Agents Chase Johnny Pot Across States
Cleveland report says Johnny Pot, a marijuana seed planter nicknamed by an agent, is sought by the Federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Control. He scatters seeds in abandoned farms and pastures in several states, travels on foot, accepts only long distance rides, and appears at dawn or dusk. He wears a black derby hat, madras coat, burgundy pants, and gold sandals, with a brown Van Dyke beard.
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Johnny Pot
Federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Control
Ohio
van Dyke
Johnny Pat
Washington
Ore
Kansas
Idaho
Johnny
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