Amish Family Travels Home as Heat Wagon Draws Attention
An Amish family of Eli Garber and wife with four children traveled from Maine to Sneider City Pennsylvania in a covered wagon with a bottled gas stove for cooking and interior heating. They paused in Saco and Biddeford while avoiding photographs. In separate note, the September cost of living rose 0.4 percent led by clothing with inflation at 3.5 percent since Nixon price controls.
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Saco
Biddeford
Maine
Dick Danforth
Eli Garber
Sneider City
Pennsylvania
Garber
Athens
Skowhegan
Portsmouth
N.H
Main Street
Washington
Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Muskie Defends Water Bill Veto Fallout in Maine
Sen. Muskie returned to Maine amid praise for his two and a half year push to pass the $24 billion water pollution measure over President Nixon's veto. He cited bipartisan support, warned of inflation and war costs, and urged party unity to back a new leadership within 60 to 90 days. He stressed the bill as a budget aid and a step to a cleaner environment.
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Cecil B. Munson
Kennebunkport
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Shawmut Inn
Senate
Nixon
House
League of Nations
Vietnam
Kissinger
George. Moeflauarn
McGovern
Party Unity
White House
McGovern Agnew Share Platform at Smith Dinner in New York
At the Alfred E Smith dinner in New York McGovern and Agnew spoke but offered little political speechmaking. Nixon skipped the event and planned a Midwest motorcade and two paid radio broadcasts while Mrs. Nixon campaigned in Detroit. Campaign tensions included accusations of espionage and internal smears between parties.
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George McGovern
Spiro T. Agnew
Alfred E Smith
New York
White House
Nixon
McGovern
Waldorf Astoria
Ohio
Ronald L. Ziegler
Philadelphia
Ziegler
Independence Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nix Ion
Kirby Jones
MacGovern
MacGregor
U S Admits Bombing French Mission In Hanoi
The United States says it bombed the French mission in Hanoi by accident during a strike on military targets. Five Indochinese staff were killed and Delegate General Pierre Susini died of burns in Paris. A 500 pound bomb likely fell from a Navy plane from the carrier Midway. No reprimand or punishment will result.
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Washington
United States
Hanoi
U.S
Pentagon
Pierre Susini
Paris
Jerry W. Friedheim
Legation
Friedheim
Senator Smith Defends Nixon War Policies at Kennebunk High
Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith spoke at Kennebunk High School on national policy and her Senate experience. She backed President Nixon on Vietnam policies and Vietnamization, urged young women to engage in government, and supported abortion and marijuana debates as doctor patient matters with state oversight.
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Cecil B. Munson
Kennebunk
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Kennebunk High School
Gayle Smith
Heber Smith
Senate
Nixon
William Hathaway
U.S
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Nobel Prize for superconductivity awarded to three Americans
Three Americans John Bardeen Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory of superconductivity. Bardeen of Illinois is a two time laureate, Cooper of Brown University and Schrieffer of the University of Pennsylvania. The prize was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Stockholm
John Bardeen
Leon Cooper
John Robert Schrieffer
Bel
Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Bardeen
University of Illinois
Cooper
Brown University
Providence
R.I
Schrieffer
University of Pennsylvania
York County Clam Flats Reopened East Coast coast partial return
Maine officials reopened fifteen miles of shoreline from Cape Elizabeth to Pine Point to clamming for clams quahogs and mussels. The area south of Pine Point to the New Hampshire border remains closed due to ongoing high and erratic algae counts.
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Augusta
Maine
Cape Elizabeth
Scarborough
Pine Point
Spencer Apollonio
Sea & Shore Fisheries
New Hampshire
Newee
Apollonio
Skirmishes Around Saigon Continue As U S Bombers Hit North
Reports from Saigon say South Vietnamese forces clash with infiltrating enemy units around the capital while rangers fall back in Quang Ngai. U S bombers drop hundreds of tons on staging areas within 22 miles of Saigon as fighting intensifies near Bung and Ba To amid air strikes and counterattacks.
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Saigon
Henry A. Kissinger
Neuyen van .Thieu
Quang Ngai
Bung
U.S
Bung Cau
Ba To
North
Vietnam
Hanoi
Lion Triangle
Ben Ca
Hgommunis
People’s anti-Communist Aggression Front
Congress funds to fight diseases and local notices in brief
The Journal reports on federal funding approved to combat diseases, an Old Orchard Beach manager receiving a raise, and a high profile spy plane pursuing Representative Boggs. A light humor note closes with a line about knowing when to stop.
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Congress
Old Orchard Beach
Rep. Boggs
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York County
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Anchorage
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Air Force
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