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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1975
Page
6
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton arrive from Switzerland to join a celebrity tennis tournament in Johannesburg. Police shield Taylor through a 500-strong crowd to a waiting Rolls Royce as Burton follows in casual attire.
The Rev. Adrian Hebert, 59, episcopal vicar of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and pastor at St. Jean-Baptist Church in New York City, died after a long illness in Lewiston Maine. Funeral will be at St Marys Church in Lewiston. He was born in Fort Kent and ordained in 1942. He taught theology at Catholic University from 1942 to 1944.
Los Angeles area beaches were closed to swimmers Thursday due to high waves from a storm near New Zealand. Lifeguards along a nine mile stretch reported more than a dozen broken backs from the strong surf this week. President Ford will nominate Ambassador John Gunther Dean to Denmark, a diplomat previously in Cambodia.
Strikes expand nationwide as more than 200000 public school pupils miss classes. In Boston a judge boosted the union fine to 25000 daily for defying a back to work order, contempt findings issued for union leaders. About 500 teachers crossed lines at 162 schools amid desegregation busing. Negotiations broke off over job security class size and pay with salaries ranging from nine to nineteen thousand seven hundred fifty six dollars.
State Welfare Director Thomas L. Hooker announced his resignation with 14 months left in his term to become Pennsylvania Deputy Welfare Secretary for Family Assistance. Hooker, the first Black state department head in New Hampshire, had public clashes with Gov. Meldrim Thomson over food stamp policy and welfare management. The resignation follows a tumultuous tenure that included a federal probe into welfare program delays and mismanagement, and a conclusion that welfare eligibility changes could save money.
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