Boy Electrocuted On Interstate Bridge
Police report a 15 year old boy Michael John Crowe of 392 Pleasant Street died yesterday at the Interstate Bridge after climbing girders near high tension transformers. Fire Department medics attempted resuscitation but the boy, born August 20 1956 in Jacksonville North Carolina, was pronounced dead on the platform. A companion Robert J. Ma was present as rescuers worked under 4160 volts from a pigeon perched on a girder. Authorities were alerted at 5 58 p m to the State Pier Noble's Island and the incident is under investigation.
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Interstate Bridge
Fire Dept
Michael John Crowe
Pleasant St
Robert J. Ma
Edie
Mérvice Co
New Hampshire
Michael
Young Crowe
Jacksonville
N.C
Peter T
Anita
State Pier
Noble’s Island
World Chess Championship Ends In Draw
The 12th game between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky ended in a draw in Reykjavik as the world chess championship approaches game 13 with Fischer leading 7 to 5. In Paris, Viet Cong insist there is no other path to end the war than U.S. withdrawal and ending support for the Saigon government.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Paris
United States
Saigon
Nation Committee Approves Metric Conversion Board
The Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to create a National Metric Conversion Board to plan the United States switch to the metric system. The House passed a 30.5 billion Labor HEW appropriations bill, though a Nixon veto was anticipated.
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Committee
Okays
Metric Conversion Board
Washington
Senate
Commerce Committee
United States
House
Departments of Labor and Health
Education and Welfare
Nixon
11 Year Old Shot In Showtout Robbery In Roxbury
In Roxbury a robbery staged at a variety store left an 11 year old boy in poor condition and a 15 year old companion critical. Police said the pair planned the robbery to obtain money to buy heroin.
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Boston
Roxbury
Granite State Durkin Salary Request Delayed
Concord New Hampshire The Executive Council postponed decision on a 3500 per year raise sought by State Insurance Commissioner John A Durkin. He urged the increase citing that aide Phil Presley earns more than him with a 22570 annual salary while Durkin earns 9
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Durkin
Concord, N.H
Executive Council
John A. Durkin
Phil Presley
Fires Under Investigation At Three Maine Hotels
In Old Orchard Beach Maine state and local fire officials probe three blazes that broke out within two hours Wednesday night. The Lafayette Hotel was first spared after 8 pm then fires followed at the York Star and the White Beachwood Hotel.
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Old Orchard Beach
Maine
Lafayette Totel
York Sow
Wie Beachwood Hotel
Pilots Blast Tanks near Quang Tri Holdouts in Hue
South Vietnamese forces gain in Quang Tri clearing the southern sector and destroying 14 tanks southwest of the city, while suffering heavy casualties from a major NVA attack in the central highlands. militia troops retreat after heavy shelling with 15 killed, 10 missing, 20 wounded. Marines advance toward the river Thach Han near the Citadel as mortars pummel fronts. five Marines killed, 39 wounded.
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Saigon
Quang Tri
Central Highlands
Pleikuy
Hue
Associated Press
Koichiro Morita
Morita
Thach Han River
Area Men Confirmed by Council for State Posts
Two area men were named to state positions by the Governor and Council. Hampton attorney H Alfred Casassa was confirmed as District Court judge in Hampton. Paul J Holloway Jr of Exeter was named to the University of New Hampshire Board of Trustees. Holloway runs Dreher Holloway Buick Pontiac in Exeter and serves on several local committees.
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Hampton
H. Alfred Casassa
University of New Hampshire
Paul J. Holloway Jr
Exeter
Attorney. Casassa
Hampton Academy
Boston College
Boston University School of Law
Herbert A. Casassa
Thomson Road
Clarice Murphy
Winchester
Mass
York okays mobile home park site at watershed area
At a special town meeting York approved an amendment to zoning allowing mobile home parks in Zone D 2 west of Route 1 north of Route 91. The plan limits development in the watershed, with a $823,000 addition to Village Elementary School and potential land acquisition by eminent domain if needed.
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York
Robert Ellis
Selectmen
Ellis
Statewide GOP Senate race stirs welfare and gun debate
Marshall Cobleigh pressed McGovern McIntyre welfare contrast at McElwain Shoe Co in Manchester urging workers to weigh the two plans. He backs Nixon price controls and challenged McIntyre to state stance. Other GOP hopefuls Booras Brock campaigned on jail terms for firearm felonies, federal gun control opposition, and welfare reform.
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Marshall Cobleigh
GOP
U.S. Senate
George McGovern
New Hampshire
Thomas J. McIntyre
Cobleigh
McElwain Shoe Co
Manchester
McGovern
Senate
Tom McIntyre
Ers
Nixon
McIntyre
Peter Booras
Hampton
Booras
Jin
David Brock
Raymond
Bombs and gunfire hit Belfast during Catholic commemoration
Bombs and gunfire ripped through Belfast and Armagh as Catholics marked the internment anniversary. Two blasts caused center city damage while troops repelled a 2000-strong Ardoyne mob with rubber bullets. IRA figure Martin Meehan was captured, heightening tensions.
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Belfast
TRA
Martin Meehan
Ardoyne
Meehan
IRA
O ! Ira
Navy unsure about women aboard combat ships directive
In Norfolk the Navy chief’s officers and many wives voiced doubts about a new order by Admiral Zumwalt allowing women to serve on combat vessels. Chiefs warned of potential trouble on six month ocean cruises as women join ship crews feared to disrupt life at sea and home life.
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Stan Plank
Naval Station
Plank
Navy
Naval Operations
Adm
Elmo Zumwalt
Frances Dovale
Independence
Navy Exchange
Mary Mountford
PHA Sets August 23 Bid Date for Vaughan Street Mall
Portsmouth Housing Authority approves the Vaughan Street pedestrian mall plan for the urban renewal shopping center with bids opened August 23. Construction should start by late September and finish by Thanksgiving with a serpentine path from Congress to Hanover Streets, costing about 65 thousand dollars more than a routine treatment. Public seating, trees, shrubs, lights, and an open exhibit area are planned behind the Worth Corporation stores under construction.
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Portsmouth Housing Authority
Mast Way
Congress
Hanover Streets
Vaughan Street
Worth Corporation
Now i
Walter J. Murphy
Demolition Urged for Sea Crest Village
The Portsmouth Building Commission urged tearing down Sea Crest Village, formerly Wentworth Acres, as the only feasible plan after unsafe housing conditions were deemed beyond rehabilitation. City officials cited federal aid as essential for replacement housing and ordered a citywide inspection program to support redevelopment efforts.
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Sea Crest Village
Wentworth Acres
Portsmouth Building Commission
Calvin Canney
Building Commission
Sea Crest
TornadoKills Weston Girl At Brookline Club
A local tornado killed 14 year old Cynthia Cox of Weston at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline Massachusetts. The wind lifted a hut near the swimming pool about 12 to 15 feet, wrecking awnings and throwing debris across the grounds while eight people were treated for injuries at area hospitals. The narrow storm path felled trees and power lines, leaving roads impassable and about 400 telephone customers without service. The Weather Service tied the tornado to a squall line that caused high winds across the state.
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Brookline, Mass
U.S. Weather Service
Brookline
Cynthia Cox
Weston
Longwood
Thomas Aselton
Rob Collins
Wellesley
John Moran
Belmont
St. Elizabeth's
New England Telephone
Pair Held In Murder Case In Sanford
Two Sanford men were ordered held without bail after arraignment in Sanford District Court on charges they murdered University of New Hampshire employee Raymond Archambault. Archambault, 45, of Springvale, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in Sanford. Brunella, 19, and Melvin, 22, neighbors in Sanford, were arrested Tuesday evening and had their charges continued Wednesday.
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Sanford, Maine
Sanford
University of New Hampshire
Wayne E. Brunella
Donald J. Melvin
Sanford District Court
Raymond R. Archambault
Springvall
Archambault
Cimpug
Dureham
N.Y
Brunalle
Melvin
York County
Alfred
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