Maine City Fights Its Recession
Biddeford and Saco reel from factory closures and rising unemployment as Bates Manufacturing shutters cotton operations leaving 1500 workers idle. Local leaders push industrial expansion and new parks while banks report rising deposits and retailers face sharp sales declines amid widespread fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Glover
Maine
Biddeford
Saco
Saco River
Pepperell Manual Co
Saco Lowell
Bates Manufacturing Co
Bates
Saco-Biddeford
Maine National Guard
Portland
Girl
Boston
Sacoan
Biddeford-Saco
Charles Cote
Bottlin Company
Saco Industrial Corp
Cote
Bates Mills
Saco’s
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Mills
David C. Shaw
Pepperell Trust Co
River Dragging for Fargo Boy Turbulent Search
Fargo firefighters began dragging the Red River for 22 month old Karl Nelson missing since yesterday. More than 100 searchers aided by a tracking dog were involved after a hole in the ice was found near the Nelson home.
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Fargo
N.D. W
Red River
Oliver Nelson
Karl
Nearest Woman Keeps Watch Over North Woods Trapper
Churchill Manitoba profile of Joe Chambers, 77, oldest white trapper in the region. He lives with his son Jim near a 10 mile distant town, miles from women, surviving on a frugal cabin life, shifting fur prices, and memories of a once booming mink trade. He travels by dog team, traps from November to April, and recalls a dangerous blizzard era and a hospital stay for pneumonia this winter.
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Saul Pettap
Churchill
Manitoba
Joe Chambers
Joe
Winston Churchill
Hudson Bay Co
Jim
Smink
Fox
Beaver
Lampwick
Indians Fight Alcoholism By Robert A. Barnes
A 1950s Albuquerque report outlines widespread alcoholism among American Indians as a result of cultural and economic stresses. It cites a commission led by Rev. David Works and notes variables such as poverty and dislocation, urging education and treatment programs while acknowledging mixed views on whether Indians alone are affected.
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Robert A. Barnes
Albuquerque
N.M
America
Congress
U. S
Emmons
Works
Karl
Menninger
Menninger Foundation
Topeka
Kan
Yale School of Alcohol Studies
United States
Maurice McCabe
U.S
Carl A. Hatch
Gallup
Wade
The
Indian Service
New Mexico Assn. On
Indian Affairs
Alcoholics Anonymous
Boy Learns Growing Up From a Night of Temptation
In Sacramento a boy around age learned to grow up after a night of missteps. He found a half filled wine bottle and cigars, took a small can from a store, and began to run. He became very ill after the incident and was turned over to his mother. Snakes do not have eyelids.
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Sacramento
Calif
Phillip York
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