Ethel Aims At Bermuda Hurricane Threat Looms
Hurricane Ethel with 95 mph winds bears down on Bermuda threatening a direct hit as Florida and Georgia recover from Dora. President Johnson pledges federal aid while Florida faces $200 million in damages. Meanwhile three Massachusetts banks are robbed of 15,767 total.
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Florida
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Boston
Massachusetts
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News At A Glance Storms Shift Focus To Bermuda And Dora
Hurricane Ethel with 95 mph winds bears down on Bermuda while Hurricane Dora caused 200 million in Florida and Georgia damage. suspense builds as 50 young ladies await Miss America decision. Augustus F Jones a sociology professor summers as garbage collector praising physical labor. Cookies replace cocktails at a publisher party for Dorothy Straight whose first book is released. Saigon endures armored car patrols amid coup rumors while Heinz Barwich defect scandal unsettles Soviet and Western observers.
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Bermuda
Florida
Georgia
Dora
Augustus F. Jones
Dorothy Straight
World’s Week Candidates Display Oratory By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Labor Day weekend winded down as candidates campaigned coast to coast. Goldwater, Miller, Kennedy, Keating, and Humphrey led the rush, while Johnson mostly stayed quiet at home. Dora the hurricane damaged north Florida cities with $14.5 million in property losses. Kennedy led in crowds against Keating for the New York Senate race as Bellotti upset Peabody in Massachusetts.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Saigon
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Georgia
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New York
Kennedy
Keating
Massachusetts
Endicott Peabody
Bay State
Francis X. Bellotti
Today’s Chuckle Buttoned Back Shirt
A light cartoon joke notes that women are portrayed as smarter than men yet jokes that a man wearing a shirt that buttons in the back would defy practicality. The caption plays on gendered competence with a humorous image.
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Fea
Corp
Khanh Government Threatened By Coup Rumors in Saigon
In Saigon, government troops and armored cars fill streets amid rumors the U S backed Khanh government may face a coup. Ambassador Taylor returns from Washington as Buddhist and anti Buddhist tensions rise with the regime under a military triarchy led by Khanh. Cambodia accuses South Vietnam of border raids and rejects UN envoy plans.
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Maxwell D. Taylor
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Do Cao Tri
Cambodia
Brown Bomber Reveals career and views in interview series
Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, speaks in a seven part daily series starting Monday. At age 50 he discusses his career, judgments on rival fighters, and controversial matters including the Black Muslims. He predicts Liston will find Clay’s range and names Jack Dempsey as the all time great.
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Defection of Heinz Barwich Shocks Soviets in Geneva
Heinz Barwich, a 53 year old East German nuclear scientist and deputy director at the Soviet Nuclear Research Institute in Dubna, defected to the United States while in Geneva for the peaceful uses conference. He left a Geneva hotel last Wednesday with Prof Max Steenbeck, while Barwich’s future in the United States remains undisclosed.
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Germany
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Moscow
Central Institute of Nuclear Research
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Barwick
Fuchs
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Pontecorvo
Russia
U.S
He's Most Learned Garbage Collector
Roy A. Whitcomb Jr reports on August F. Jones a 64 year old Harvard graduate seen as a sociology professor by students at Dean Junior College while also handling garbage collection on Littlejohn's and Cousins Islands. He treats sanitation as a mission, noting changes from island quaintness to mainland extension after a bridge connected Cousins to the mainland.
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Dean Junior College
Franklin
Mass
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Cousins Island
Yarmouth
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AP Newsphoto
Roy A. Whitcomb JR
Portland Evening Express
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Harvard College
Patience in Indochina May Shape Southeast Asia Fate
A. P. Special Correspondent William L. Ryan argues that patience from both sides could steer policy toward talks, while North Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh seeks total South Viet Nam dominance via NLFSV terms. He notes U S and Hanoi both test the other, with Taylor urging stability and removal of guerrillas around Saigon as the war drags on.
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Hanoi
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National Liberation Front For
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Maxwell D. Taylor
Saigon
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Will Return Woman Ends 50 Years as Cashier at Shore Resort
Miss Mabel Worcester, a longtime cashier at Old Orchard Beach Pier and Seaside Park merry go round, celebrates 50 years of service. Born 1888 in Grafton, Mass, she moved to Maine at age 10 and began work in 1914. She recalled long hours before hour laws and said she met famous entertainers like Paul Whiteman and Louis Armstrong.
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Peggy Welch
Old Orchard Beach
Mabel Worcester
Saco
Old Orchard Beach High School
Seaside Park
John W. Duffy
Old Orchard Beach Ocean Pier Co
Worcester
Paul Whiteman
Rudy Vallee
Louis Armstrong
Benny Goodman
Old Orchard Ocean Pier Co
Lela Scully
Bradbury St
Biddeford
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