Change Ordered Rates Adjustment for Maine NET&T
AUGUSTA AP The New England NEGT Co asked for PUC approval of an automatic local rate adjustment tied to exchange growth. No changes before July 1964, and at most 16 towns may shift. Perkins of Portland called it orderly reclassification of exchanges into rate groups. The plan would auto move exchanges outside proper groups after two consecutive years, with residential rates changing by 25 cents monthly and business ≈1–2 dollars, without altering current group limits except noted.
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Ancestry claims clash with missing kids last night
A wry Gen Fea Corp quip notes families may trace 300 years of lineage yet fail to know where their children were the previous evening, highlighting comic contrast between heritage and everyday parental oversight.
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Public service cooperation with Advertising Council note
A public service notice states the material is published in cooperation with the Advertising Council. It underscores a community outreach effort and the collaborative nature of the information dissemination without detailing specific campaigns or dates.
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Survey Reveals Treaty Approval
Washington AP tally shows 73 of 100 senators favor ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, 27 opposition or doubt, with 12 opposing or voting against in committee and 15 doubtful. If all voted, 67 needed for approval. Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia and others list opposition, while eight Southern Democrats, three Western and a Texas Republican oppose outright.
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Governor Reed to attend Republican governors conference
Augusta(AP) Gov Reed will be represented at the Republican governors conference in Denver Colorado on Saturday by Republican State Chairman David A Nichols.
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Kennedy federalizes Alabama Guard as integration begins
President Kennedy takes control of 17 000 Alabama National Guardsmen away from Gov. George Wallace and orders desegregation of public schools in Birmingham Mobile and Tuskegee. Twenty Negro children enter white schools while opposition and police presence fade. Huntsville sees peaceful desegregation in lower grades.
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Biddeford Voters Set To Decide Four Referendum Questions
Biddeford voters go to polls Monday October 7 to decide four referendum questions. They cover mayor and councilor salary increases and changes to city election laws including biennial elections. The mayor’s salary would rise to 3000 dollars annually. councilors would receive 240 dollars yearly, paid monthly.
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Saco Voters Defeat Sewage Bond Issue By 89 Ballots
Saco voters rejected a $300,000 sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer lines bond by 89 votes amid 2,397 ballots cast. Ward 4 approved 326 to 155, Ward 6 139 to 112, Ward 7 182 to 126, but four wards voted against the project, halting plans to curb river pollution and expand capacity.
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Bates College Vaults Deemed Early Nuclear Fallout Shelters
Lewiston reports say Bates College Buried storage vaults under campus are among the first college built fallout shelters in the country. Officials have not confirmed details but describe two 33 by 120 foot concrete vaults linked by a tunnel, with 931-person capacity and 24 000 gallons daily artesian water supply.
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China calls Soviet US India Yugoslavia holy alliance
Red China charged that the Soviet Union joined the United States India and Yugoslavia in a holy alliance to strangle revolutions and restore capitalism. The Red Flag article cited Khrushchev as pulling strings for the alliance and predicted its destruction, labeling the US imperialist and Nehru’s India and Tito’s Yugoslavia as revisionist.
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Kennedy Pledges Patience In Vietnam Aid Policy
President Kennedy urges patience in South Vietnam and rejects a sharp aid cut, warning it could topple Ngo Dinh Diem and invite a Communist take-over. He says the U S must influence Hanoi through steady pressure and avoid withdrawal. He also warns against overreacting to the nuclear test ban treaty.
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