School enrollment climbs across towns as new year opens
Across Thornton Academy Saco Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford districts enrollment rose with Thornton up 38 to 910 and Saco totaling 909. Freshmen 259 sophomores 230 juniors 227 and seniors 194 led a broad rise while Biddeford reports 2,667 students up 603 from 1967 noting teacher and supply shortages.
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Thornton Academy
Robert Bowie
Saco
Burns
Locke School
Young School
Young (B
Sweetser School
Fairfield School
Jordan School
Old Orchard Beach
Jameson
Loranger
the Beach
Biddeford Public
Bruce Smith
Army Performance On M16 Rifle Contract Termed Inept
Senate Armed Services Committee reports an inept Army performance in awarding M16 rifle production contracts without competitive bidding. GM and Harrington & Richardson were chosen despite higher prices. Marement and Cadillac Gage offered lower prices. The panel faulted removing price as a factor and urged tighter defense procurement in future.
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Army
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Vietnam
General Motors Corp
Harrington & Richardson
Maremont Corp
Saco, Maine
Cadillac Gage
General Motors
Marement
House
German Girl Starts Classes By PEG HENDRICK
German teen Mickey Mertens arrives from Germany to live with the Grondin family in Biddeford. She will attend St Louis High School tuition free and joins the basketball team while adapting to American school life and language.
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Mechthild Mertens
St. Louis High School
Pat Grondin
Billy Gron
Din and
Kathy Grondin
Mechthild
Mickey
Wuppertal
West Germany
Mickey) Mertens
Joseph Grondin
Billy Grondin
Billy
Grondins
Forest St
Biddeford
Germany
International High School
Christopher Columbus Association
St. Louis
Kathy
Pat
Columbus Association
England
St. Francis College
Vitale Escapes Again From York County Jail
A 20 year old escapee, Joseph Vitale, was arrested by Wethersfield police after breaking free from the York County Jail for the third time. He and Claude Biennette, 20, from Hartford, were nabbed in a narcotics raid on a Wethersfield hotel where they stayed. York County Sheriff Dutremble had federal warrants for both men for prior jail escapes and charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny dated August 5.
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York County
Joseph Vitale
Wetherfield
Minijupe Arrives In Saigon Amid War and Tradition
In Saigon the miniskirt arrives stirring conservatives while the ao dai endures in rural areas. Teenagers flaunt short skirts and tight sweaters on Tu Do Street as elders decry exhibitionism, and barring foreigners defy military police.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
Saco Tables Fluoridation Referendum Request
Saco City Council tabled a Jaycees effort to place a fluoridation question on the November ballot. City Attorney questioned charter limits on local referenda, while the state may override with enabling legislation. Mayor criticized health department ad spending and noted only children may benefit. residents urged to attend a Sept. 23 meeting.
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Bill Houston
Saco
Saco Jaycees
William F. Wilson Jr
Ance
Donald C. Doyle
State Department of Health and Welfare
Maine
Doyle
Frustration Over Firing Manager Tangles Family Ties
A person vents about trouble dismissing an incompetent sales manager who is their brother in law and failing to connect with the chairman who is their father in law. The piece notes workplace hurdles and family entanglements in a business setting.
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Ard
Occupation Boosts Gomulka in Polish Power Struggle
In Warsaw observers say Czechoslovakia’s occupation strengthens Wladyslaw Gomulka against rival Miecyslaw Moczar. Gomulka’s hard line with the Soviet Union and support of the Prague crackdown solidify Moscow’s backing and a 45000 troop commitment to joint Czechoslovak occupation.
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Warsaw
Czechoslovakia
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Prague
Gomulka
Mieczyslaw Moczar
Moczar
Poland
Soviet Union
Moscow
Israel
McCarthy rules out fourth party bid in 1968 race
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy says he will not run as a fourth party candidate and will not join a drive for one. Montana's New Reform Party backed McCarthy’s Democratic bid foe, while backers predict others will file his name elsewhere. Mitchell shifts to Humphrey camp. Wallace seeks funds and votes.
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Associated Press
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Washington
New Reform Party of
Montana
Marcus G. Raskin
Lver
MccCarthy
Steven Mitchell
Hubert H. Humphrey
Mitchell
Taos
N.M
Louisiana
John McKeithen
Humphrey
Supreme Court
George C. Wallace
Lester Maddox
Georgia
Albert Brewer
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Jane
Joan Sands
Saco’s
Ralph Sands
Joyce
Thomas Winston
By Peg Hendrick
Vitale
John H. Reed
James E. Cartier
Jaycees
A&p
Biddeford & Saco
Bill Kelly
Philip Thibeault
Felix Berube
Child’s Coaster Wagons
E. Leach
Henry Tartre
Martin Zucker
Maine Linoleum Co
Alfred Street
Mary’s
Mary P. Spirounias
Iowa
Harold ‘Hughes
Abama
John Bell Williams
Mississippi
Wallace
America
National Broadcasting Co
Alabama
Miami
We Will
Biddeford High School
B. H. S. Student Council
Claude Dubois
Shoe Corp
Biddeford, Maine
Smith Street
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