Rockingham Set to Attract Midwest Horse Stables
Rockingham Park's Fall Night Harness meeting opens Labor Day with an eleven race card and attracts Midwest stables for the first time. Glen Kidwell Earl Kievert Ken Maurer Everett Jefferson lead Chicago entrants along with rosters from Roosevelt Ohio Brandywine and others, plus Canadian and New Jersey teams.
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Salem
N.H
Rockingham Park
Chicago
Sportsman's Park
Glen Kidwell
Earl Kievert
Ken Maurer
Everett Jefferson
New England
Roosevelt
Glenn Gibbons
Portsmouth
Carl Schultz
Joe Lighthill
Len O'Meara
Massachusetts
Man
Roy Copeland
Harry Short
Ohio
Pete Smith
Brandywine
Billy Faucher
Carl Beede
Col
William J. Rowe
Robert Vallery
Eugene P. Cray
William Collins
George Brenneman
Jack Brown
S.H Edwards
Sumter Prince
al Hazen
Wilbur Long
Wilber Rathbone
Dale Brook
Canada
Lester Pullen
New Jersey
Carolus Wace
Pennsylvania
Dan Corneau
Cliff Hinds
Billy Current
Saratoga
Charlie King
Garland Garnsey
Lynn Wilson
Batavia
Claude Wright
T.B. Glover
Charlie Marsh
Clelan Jones
Jack Mathew
Monticello
Vernon Downs
A.K .Zellner
Townsend Ackerman
Three Games Set For Legion Series Today
New Orleans and Pittsfield both stand 2-0 in the American Legion Baseball Little World Series after defeating Hastings and Billings respectively. Three games are scheduled today as two more teams may drop out, narrowing the eight team field in the double elimination tourney. New Orleans won 4 1 over Hastings aided by four unearned runs in the eighth inning while Pittsfield’s 9-5 win over Billings came with six fourth-inning runs aided by errors and walks.
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Hastings
Neb
New Orleans
Pittsfield
Mass
American Legion
Billings
Sent
Mark Bellanger
John MacCartney
Diocesan convention to draw 900 Catholic teachers to Portland
The 8th annual diocesan convention will bring nearly 900 teachers from Roman Catholic elementary and high schools to Portland on September 8 and 9. Rev Charles F. Donovan S.J., dean of Boston College's school of education, will give the keynote on the evolution of modern trends in education.
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Portland
Charles F. Donovan
S.J
Father Donovan
Boston College
School of Education
Former Champ Olson Loses Chance To Regain Title
Chicago report says former middleweight champ Carl Olson was KOed by 23 year old Doug Jones in the sixth round at Chicago Stadium. Jones improved to 16-0 with a left hook and right uppercut ending the scheduled 10 round feature. Olson 179. Jones 176. Sid Flaherty, Olson's manager, said they would lick their wounds though Bobo was not scratched.
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Chicago
Carl
Bobo) Olson
Doug Jones
Jones
Olson
Chicago Stadium
Sid Flaherty
Orson
Bobo
Starved Dog Sentenced Owner Faces Jail Time
SAN FRANCISCO Louis A Banks 39 was sentenced to three months in jail for starving his dog Jay a 3 year old boxer. Jay dwindled from 80 pounds to 30 pounds in six weeks while chained to a post in Banks wrecking yard. He is in the custody of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and is regaining weight.
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San Francisco
Louis A. Banks
Banks
Jay
Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Second Net Tie In Ladies Day Golf
Ladies day play at the Biddeford Saco Country Club yesterday produced a tie for second net.
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Biddeford-Saco Country Club
Civil Defense Offers Help In Holiday Traffic
Maine Civil Defense director says auxiliary police and radio trucks can be deployed on short notice to aid regular police during Labor Day traffic. Operation Standby runs Friday noon to Monday midnight with enforcement statewide and rescue trucks stationed statewide. Liquor inspectors will also be on call to assist in liquor-related enforcement.
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Augustap
Maine Civil Defense
Reed
Walter H. Kennett
Liquor Commission
Timothy J. Murphy
Disabled Yacht Wild Goose II Heads for Honolulu
The 136-foot Seattle motor yacht Wild Goose II with nine feet of water in its hull survived and is bound for Honolulu as Coast Guard cutter Masorda reached the vessel 250 miles southeast of Honolulu on Wednesday night.
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Honolulu
Seattle
Coast Guard
Matasorda
Two-Player Card Draw Sees Eve Prender Cast Winner
In a compact match between Pearla Tapley and Charlotte Bagley Eve Prender cast won with a low gross of 41. First net was claimed by Gladys Sante with 47-36.
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Pearla Tapley
Charlotte Bagley
Eve Prendercast
Gladys Sante
State Forest Fires Held In Control At Augusta
Maine forest fires were held in check as fire danger rose with heat and wind. Deputy Forest Commissioner Fred Holt said hoses and equipment were sent to Township 4 in Hancock County, where a blaze kept a crew busy for three days. A Fish & Game plane ferried pumps to Stockholm for a week‑long fire and picked up used pumps for repair. No new fires appeared Wednesday. the largest was a 10 acre blaze in Lubec, with others in Buxton Liberty and Township 19 Middle Division Washington County.
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Augusta
Maine
Eputy Forest
Fred Holt
Northern Division
Hancock County
Fish & Game Department
Stockholm
Holt
Lubec
Buxton
Liberty
Township
Middle Division
Washington County
Yacht With 18 Passengers Adrift After Hull Breach
A yacht carrying 18 people including a four year old Maori girl bound for medical care reported a hull breach and began taking on water. A repair party was dispatched after the distress call to the Coast Guard early Wednesday.
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CoastGuard
One-Time U S Official Becomes Soviet Advisor On Latin America
The State Department says Maurice H. Halperin has been in the Soviet Union since December 1958 and now works for the USSR Academy of Sciences on Latin American research. Halperin once led the Office of Strategic Services Latin American Division and later taught at Boston University and the University of Oklahoma amid past inquiries into communist ties.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Moscow
Kremlin
Department
Maurice H. Halperin
Soviet Union
Halperin
Ussr
Academy of Sciences
Halperin Durin
Office of Strategic Services
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Council of Ministers
Boston University
University of Oklahoma
Thar
Senate
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Cardigans
Shaw
Civil Defense
U. S
Mobil
Elm Street
Biddeford
Mobil Oil Co., Inc
Main Street
Spruce
America
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