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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1961
Page
8
Departure time guidance shows adding minutes to the listed time to estimate when a charter bus passes key points. The chart instructs travelers to compute approximate passing times by appending the indicated minutes to the given departure, reflecting scheduling nuances for Maine routes.
The Maine Heart Association cautions parents as school opens to guard against strep throat and scarlet fever, noting rheumatic fever causes more long term illness in children. A new booklet outlines seven questions to guide when to see a doctor and how to prevent rheumatic fever, with free copies from the association in Augusta.
About 350,000 Associated Hospital Service of Maine members gain liberalized outpatient coverage starting October 1 at no extra cost. Benefits include X rays, EKGs, EEGs, metabolic tests and tissue exams, with a 31 day, $100 annual cap and deductible rules. The program is experimental and may end or change without subscriber cost. Federal employees are excluded, but may receive future extensions.
A Dayton resident planned a backyard nuclear shelter with a Nevada test design claiming resistance to five times an atomic blast and gamma rays. He hired a contractor, an engineer approved the plans, and a 17 foot pit was dug. County officials denied the building permit citing questions about six feet of earth over the shelter.
Navy warships head for the Texas coast to aid victims of Hurricane Carla with doctors nurses and helicopters aboard two aircraft carriers and a transport. Task Force 135 commanded by Rear Adm. F Brush sails to Pensacola with 50 doctors four nurses and 40 helicopters to provide relief supplies and medical care. The ships can convert to hospitals and the transport can host evacuees in a floating hotel with over 2300 beds available.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California the Air Force plans to recover the orbiting Discoverer XXX capsule by Saturday. The 300 pound gold plated capsule blasted into orbit Tuesday at 12 28 pm and completes an orbit every 92.4 minutes at altitudes from 154 to 345 miles. It is the 20th Discoverer to orbit and the recovery is targeted for one to four days after launch. Four previous Discoverers were recovered with three pulled from the Pacific Ocean in the Hawaiian area. The capsule's payload is classified.
The article traces how the word ain't appears in dictionaries from 1890 through 1934, noting entries that show contraction forms and misuses. It highlights the continued debate, with many disapproving, yet its oral use remains common in the United States, especially in the phrase I ain't.
In New Haven Connecticut police arrested a 28 year old man described as too fat for his age and carrying four dresses around his waist. The dresses had been stolen from a backyard clothesline.
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