Special Olympics Embraces New Initiatives and Growth
Maine hosts the sixth annual State Special Olympics Directors Conference at Lookout Hotel as Eunice Kennedy Shriver announces three new programs for 1976. Ice skating becomes an official sport alongside track and field, swimming, basketball and more, with family participation efforts to encourage involvement. Volunteers drive the program, with four paid directors noted.
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Puerto Rico
Lookout Hotel
Canada
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Shriver
Maine
Prices Jump Again in August Consumer Prices Rise Sharpest in 26 Years
Washington AP reports August consumer prices rose 1.8 percent unadjusted and 1.9 percent seasonally adjusted, the sharpest gain since September 1947. Food costs led the surge with a 6 percent jump, driven largely by meats and poultry, following the June price freeze end and subsequent relief.
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Washington
Ewer
NASA Tests Feasibility of Female Space Flight
NASA has begun five week studies at Ames California with 12 Air Force flight nurses to assess women's suitability for space. The research compares female physiological responses to men under weightlessness and reentry stresses, with eight kept bedridden two weeks and four allowed to walk.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
California
U.S
Soviet Union
Valentina Tereshkova
NASA
Air Force
Ames Research Center
Mountain View
Calif
Oklahoma
Jerrie Cobb
Webber Hospital administrator to retire within six months
Lloyd M. Anderson, president of the board, announced that Carleton F. Davis will retire as administrator of The Webber Hospital Association within the next six months after 14 years in the post. A search committee will be named soon to find his replacement.
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Carleton F. Davis
Webber Hospital Association
Lloyd M. Anderson
Davis
Anderson
Webber Hospital
Webber
Notre Dame
Sterile Ban Extended to Protect Minors and Mentally Incompetent
The government extends a moratorium on federally funded sterilizations for young girls and mentally incompetent women by 30 days. HEW proposes new rules requiring voluntary consent and local review committees for sterilizations of minors or those deemed unable to consent, marking a shift from state to federal oversight.
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Washington
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Montgomery County
Ala
Federal Register
Carl Shultz
HEW
Office of Population Affairs
Beach Association to contest Biddeford eminent domain plan
The Beach Association and Portland attorney Vincent McKusick prepared to challenge Biddeford’s $250000 eminent domain taking of seven acres of beachfront property. McKusick calls the price inadequate and says disputes will proceed on any procedural errors after the city filed the action and offered payment.
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Pool Beach Association
Biddeford
Portland
Vincent Mechusick
the Journal
MccKusick
McKusick
Biddeford Pool
Alfred
Barnett Shur
Albert Carrier
Oray
White House Nears Mandatory Fuel Allocation Plans
The White House appears set to impose mandatory wholesale controls on home heating oil propane and possibly diesel fuel with presidential proclamations expected soon. A plan would allocate fuels by past distribution at the wholesale level while avoiding direct consumer rationing. Gasoline price ceilings may be raised by one or two cents per gallon by Oct 2 after dealer protests and shutdowns.
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Washington
White House
John A. Love
Love
Cost of Living Council
John Dunlap
Maine expands Special Olympics program and regional events
The program grew from 908 children in 1968 to over 2700 by 1973 with targets of 3500 in 1974 and 4500 in 1975 to meet national goals. Maine sustains 133 of 287 school systems in Special Olympics while planning a January regional event at Saddleback Mountain.
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Maine
Gorham
Saddleback Mountain
Rangeley
Flexible policy allows early graduation for BHS seniors
Biddeford School Board approved looser graduation requirements enabling early graduation and college admission after three high school years. Students may earn credits outside the classroom under counselor supervision and maintain eligibility rules for athletes. The board also backed continuing the overseas degree granting program run with NEETS to issue Biddeford High diplomas to service members abroad, pending a tripartite agreement with Biddeford, NEETS, and state education officials.
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Biddeford
Paul Seavey
Andrew Frechette
Supt
Frechette
New England Ucational Training Service
Vermont
Biddeford Adult Education
England
Spain
Germany
Greece
Turkey
John Moran
State Department of Educational and Cultural Services
Supt. Frechette
Biddeford and
NEETS
Outstanding Comet Heads Toward Earth
Atlanta scientists at Fernbank Science Center and researchers worldwide study Kohoutek as it brightens, may outshine Halley in 1910, and become visible to the naked eye from late November through mid February. The comet will pass within 75 million miles of Earth and 13.2 million miles of the Sun on December 28, with a tail spanning up to 60 degrees at peak. If it remains in the Sun’s gravity it may not return for 50 000 years.
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Atlanta
Bob Hayward
Earth
Hayward
Pluto
Solar
Richard Williamon
Coleleague
Solar System
Williamon
Inside The Journal Today Chuckle
A humorous look at how students reach college with lines about flying students a train ride and a football coach transporting them in a lighthearted column.
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