Maine Price Hike Cuts Maine Monor Sales Rise in State Stores
Prices on Maine's state run package stores rose ten percent last summer. Sales dropped by nearly 250000 bottles in four months, though state revenue still exceeds last year by more than 830000 dollars. Drinkers shift to beer and wine and border cross to New Hampshire, where top brand scotch costs 2.35 dollars per fifth less, boosting New Hampshire liquor sales by about 300000 dollars since Maine's price increase.
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Augusta
Maine
Mqnor
New Hampshire
Kid drives car in Rupert causing store damage
Four year old Mark Curtis took his family car in Rupert Idaho while his mother Pares Curtis briefly left him in a store. The sedan rolled backward into a storefront causing about $800 in damage before police stopped the vehicle.
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Rupert
Idaho
Mark Curtis
Pares Curtis
Mark
False Coup Shocks Columbia High School
Columbia High School faced a staged Mock coup led by history teacher Mary Arnold Garvin who declared herself the people s choice. Principal Roger Kirk was deposed and martial law declared while students faced rigid discipline and an assembly on differences between democratic and Communist governments.
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Columbia
S.C
APF
Columbia High School
Roger Kirk
Mary Arnold Garvin
People’s Choice
Webb
Good Worker Clancy Williams Remains Active at 87
Colorado Springs credit service head E Bland Cresap praises his clerk typist Clancy Williams who turned 87 last Monday. Born Clarence Williams in Cincinnati in 1880, he plans to work a few more years and has moved about on artificial limbs for 58 years since a 1909 railroad accident.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
E. Bland Cresap
Clancy Williams
Clancy
Clarence
Cincinnati
Connally Says He Is Not Running For Defense Post
Gov. John Connally of Texas said in Washington he discussed the defense secretary job with President Johnson but is not a candidate. He noted the conversation was incidental to his 24 hour trip while stopping for breakfast at Friendship International Airport on the way to Paris from Washington.
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Baltimore
John Cannady
Texas
Secretary of Defense
Johnson
Washington
Robert McNamara
Connally
Friendship International Airport
Paris
Difense Department
Medal for Gustav VI Adolf shoulder ceremony noted
A brief AP report describes Consul General TO pinning a medal to retired Metro Opera singer Madame Branzell for Gustav VI Adolf. The ceremony references Birgit Nilsson and a Royal Court presentation expected but not fully detailed.
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New York
Gustav VI Adolf
Metro Opera
Karin
Branzel
Madame Branzell
Birgit. Nilsson
McNamara May Lead World Bank After Vietnam War
McNamara could leave the defense post but stay influential in Vietnam by heading the World Bank. The bank coordinates three institutions IBRD IDA and IFC, financing development for nations worldwide. It has lent 10 billion dollars, with 3 billion repaid, funded largely through capital markets.
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New York
Robert McNamara
Defense
Vietnam
World Bank
McNamara
17Th
L Streets
Washington
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
International Development Association
IDA
IBRD
Asia
International Finance Corporation
IFC
Latin America
Computer system marks progress in South Vietnam pacification
The U.S. Embassy unveiled the Hamlet Evaluation System showing two thirds of South Vietnam’s 17 million people live in secure areas controlled by Saigon. HES rates hamlets on A to E, noting schools, health, and development as well as whether leaders sleep in hamlets. 66.6 percent of people live in A to C hamlets, 16.2 percent in D and E contested areas, and 17.2 percent under Viet Cong control.
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South Vietnam
U.S
Mer
Hes
Comery
Komer
Saigon
Stock Gifts Promote Christmas Cheer for Minors
New York Stock Exchange urges member firms to market investments to minors as gifts and donations to employees and relatives. The campaign shows a trend among affluent Americans to give stock and bonds as Christmas presents, combining sentiment with financial sense.
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NEW York (Ap
New York Stock Exchange
The
Exchange
Coffeyville Slayer Preliminary Set for December 6
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 6 at 9 a.m. in Coffeyville City Court for 21-year-old Harry Leslie Neal charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of Albert Brown, 42, of Ottawa. Neal is jailed in Independence without bail. Sworn statements allege Brown forced himself into a crime involving Neal’s mother Verna Mae Hill. Brown, a former Coffeyville resident, was shot four times with a .22 caliber revolver after returning for Thanksgiving.
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Coffeyville
Harry Leslie Neal
Albert Brown
Ottawa
Raymond Belt
Neal
Counery
Independence
Brown
Verna Mae Hill
Hill
Neal, Brown
Oklahoma
Sunday School Lesson The New Morality
Clarence W Cranford argues that true morality asks what the Lord requires not what a situation demands. He cites Micah 6 8 on doing justly loving kindness and walking humbly with God, and warns against a pure situational ethics that ignores timeless principles guiding market and life.
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Micah
National Ethics
Woolworth Building Referred as Cathedral of Commerce
The 60 story Gothic Woolworth Building on lower Broadway in New York, completed in 1913, was hailed as a cathedral of commerce. Woolworth saw it as a sky sign to advertise his five and ten cent stores.
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F.W. Woolworth
Broadway
New York
Woolworth
Union Sets Plan To Strike GM If Necessary
In Detroit AP report the UAW General Motors Council called a meeting to set a strike date if needed as negotiations resume for a new contract. GM signals willingness to match record economic gains won by Ford and Chrysler unions, with 160,000 and 103,000 members respectively, shaping possible union demands and strike risk.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers General Motors Council
UAW
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Eisenhower Nixon ticket set for 1970 wedding
Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower, both 19, plan to marry after their 1970 graduation. David, grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, gave Julie his great-grandmother's diamond ring. The couple’s engagement followed a long-standing family friendship and was met with enthusiastic reactions in New York.
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Northampton
Mass
Julie Nixon
David Eisenhower
David
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Julie
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Pentagon uses commercial planes to move ammunition to Vietnam
The Pentagon and Military Airlift Command say civilian airliners have on occasion carried rockets, hand grenades and ammunition to Southeast Asia since January. About 600 tons of ordnance have been shipped by commercial planes this year, with strict packing and labeling. Airlines named include Pan American, Trans World, American, United, Braniff and Seaboard World.
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Washington
Pentagon
Vietnam
Military Airlift Command
Southeast Asia
Air Force
Pan American
Trans World
Defense Department
Military Airlift Command Authority
Craft
Jonat Tapitars
Matt Cimber Applies for Marriage License in Santa Monica
Matt Cimber, former husband of Jayne Mansfield, filed Thursday for a license to wed Christy Hilliard Hanak, 23, in Santa Monica. It would be Hanak�s first marriage and Cimber�s second.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Matt Cimber
Jayne Mansfield
Christy Hilliard Hanak
Miss Hanak
Cimber
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