Portsmouth Community Events Calendar Highlights
A dense schedule listing Lions Club and Masonic activities at Portsmouth Junior High and Town venues. Events include fish derby exhibits, a rugby match, a rock dance by Sweet Leafs, a historical pageant, open houses at Pease AFB and shipyard, various public suppers, a class reunion, and a Strawbery Banke music festival.
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Lions
Portsmouth
South Playground
Masonic Temple
HMS Minerva
Concord
PHS
FHS
St. John's Masonic Home
Rye Lions Club
Great Island Common
New Castle
Pease Afb
USAF
Conant House
Jeremiah Mason
State Street
St. James Ave Maria
Strawbery Banke
South Meeting House
Sheate
Border Residents Buy Foreign Beef
Border residents seek cheaper meat across borders as prices surge. Americans shop in Mexico and Canada for lean hamburger and porterhouse, with stories of long lines in Tijuana and Nueva Laredo. Officials warn about quality as some shoppers buy large quantities.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Canada
Mexico
Texas
California
Kansas
el Paso
Brownsville
Tex
Tijuana
San Diego
Calif
New York
Pat Householder
Nueva Laredo
Laredo
Maldonado
Iays
Houston
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Estanislaa Esparza
Don Weedmark
United States
Durham Town Votes to Buy Jackson Property for Recreation Uses
About 300 townspeople attended a special meeting and approved three articles authorizing the selectmen to spend 80 000 to acquire three parcels of Mrs Erma Jackson’s land between Oyster River and Old Piscataqua Road and near the bypass The vote restricted use to recreation and conservation purposes Article 2 allows funding from current appropriations reserve funds and short term notes repayable within three years Article 3 enables negotiations of price and terms and subdivision of buildings and up to two acres with riverfront easements
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Durham
Selectmen
Erma Jackson
Jackson
Transport Strike Standoff Rocks Chile Economy
Striking truckers and families guard key vehicles across fields as Chile’s 22 day old transport strike hinders the economy. Pilots, doctors, and dentists warn of solidarity walks if violence erupts.
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Chile
Santiago
Nixon signs bill to allow NOW accounts in two states
The White House announced President Nixon signed a bill allowing Massachusetts and New Hampshire to continue offering NOW accounts. The measure permits savings institutions to provide interest-bearing accounts with checking privileges in those states. GM recalls 3,915 buses over possible power steering bracket crack risk. no injuries reported.
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New Legal Washington
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Nixon
White House
Pontiac
Mich
General Motors
Granite State Women Rights Drive Begins in Concord
Carol Pierce chairs the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women and announces a new rights drive by the state group in tandem with the Universal Liberties Union plans. A chlorine leak at a Merrimack chemical firm prompted an hourlong evacuation around 8:30 am today with no injuries. Stanley Krystyniak of New England Chemical Supply Co. attributed a gas escape to loading errors. In Winchester, repair work progressed on a damaged building that slid about 15 feet toward the Ashudot River, affecting a barber shop, a grocery, and two tenements.
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Concord
N.H
Carol Pierce
State Commission On the Status of Women
New Hampshire ‘Ural Liberties Union
Commission
Merrimack
Stanley Krystyniak
New England Chemical Supply Co
Nyanza, Inc
River Winchester
Picasso Stolen in Bar Harbor Recovered in Maine
A Picasso stolen last week from a Bar Harbor mansion was recovered in a Gouldsboro picnic area and three men were arrested in connection with the theft. The painting is now secured in a bank vault.
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Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor
Gouldsboro
Libyan hijacker of airliner lands in Israel
Libyan merchant Mahmoud Toumi hijacked a Lebanese airliner bound for Beirut, forcing a landing in Tel Aviv. He claims anti Zionist motives, but Israeli authorities will jail him for hijacking and endangering 124 aboard. Pilot Adel Kawas reports armed intrusion mid flight near Cyprus.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Eliezer Goldberg
Hves
Mahmoud Toumi
Golda Meir
Toumi
Lebanon
Middle East
David Elazar
Benghazi
Libya
Beirut
Cyprus
Adel Kawas
Ben
Portable toilet theft at Greenland skating rink area sparks debate
In Rockingham County a portable toilet weighing over 488 pounds was removed from a designated camper parking site near the Greenland skating rink. City officials questioned the need for the facility, noting the camper plan may be academic amid residents' opposition and a court ruling.
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Sisten
Greenland Skating Rink
Greenland Road
Rockingham County
Calvin A. Canuney
Charming Visitor Prince Charles Wins Friends
Prince Charles, 24, in white naval uniform, greeted 300 guests at a reception in Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth. He charmed locals, joined a crowd at a pageant, surfed at Hampton Beach, and planned to leave for ports in Portsmouth England via his ship Minerva.
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Prince Charles
John Whiteman
England
HMS Minerva
Arthur F. Brady
Prince of Wales
Hampton Beach
Brady
Hancock Street
Prince
Minerva
Caribbean
Phase 4 rules extend gasoline and diesel freeze to August 31
The Cost of Living Council extended the Phase 4 petroleum regulations keeping gasoline and diesel fuel prices frozen through Aug 31. New price ceilings will take effect Sept 1 with reeling prices posted on about a million pumps. Retailers must base ceilings on Aug 1 inventory costs and historical markups, with a minimum seven cent per gallon markup at program start.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council Today
Aic
Council
Reds Up Attacks in Cambodia
Saigon reports Communist forces expanded probing attacks on Hue’s outer western and southern defense lines. More than 300 mortar rounds struck infantry and airborne units near the former imperial capital, with ground assaults on several government positions. One South Vietnamese soldier was killed and four wounded. enemy casualties were not known. Harassing attacks resumed about two weeks ago after a month-long lull.
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Saigon
Hue
Cambodia
Third Portsmouth Pageant Draws Standing Room Crowd
A night show at the High School field drew standing room only as the third performance of "They Came to Fish" drew about 3,500 viewers. Lord Mayor John Brogden and Lady Mayoress attended with Prince Charles in civilian clothes among the crowd. Two more shows are scheduled tonight and tomorrow at 8:30.
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John Brodgen
Prince Charles
Brogdens
Portsmouth
England
Washington
Prince
Chatham
Kent
Hampshire
Scotland
Brady
Glamis
Charles
Minerva
David Checketts
Matthew Marsh
State Street
Ogunquit
Richard
Checketts
Atlantic
Air Force
Deng
Joe Vinciguerra
John Brogden
Eileen
Tomor
Piscataqua Bells
Bucks
Lyn Gray
Belles
Nancy Cusick
Douglas Martin
Earl Harding
Ocean
Terri Amazeen
Queen
South Mill Pond
Thunderbirds
Navy Yard
Coast
Search Under Way For More Bodies
AP reports a large beach search by Galveston County authorities for more bodies linked to a mass murder case. Sheriff J B Kime pledges effort without specific burial sites, amid 27 slain youths linked to an alleged homosexual torture ring. Authorities plan to search a one mile beach stretch weather permitting.
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Houston
Lake Sam Rayburn
Silvie
State District Court
William Hatten
Elmer Wayne Henley
Harris County Dist
Carol Vance
Henley
Dean A. Corll
Bomb blast at Belfast police station kills two IRA men
In Northern Ireland an explosion at a police station wounded and killed two Irish Republican Army guerrillas. The incident occurred about 10 miles from Belfast as a mortar attack unfolded, with authorities confirming casualties among the attackers.
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Belfast
Northern Inland
Irish Republican Army
Mide Ulter
TRA
S Rechet
Nixon Lawyers Fight Subpoena In Watergate Tapes Case
Washington AP Nixon lawyers urge courts not to compel disclosure of grand jury tapes arguing that forcing such disclosure intrudes on executive branch powers and that prosecution decisions rest with the executive. Cox contends the tapes are legally enforceable evidence in the Watergate investigation.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Wednnesday
White House
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Grand Jury
Cox
Executive Branch
Medicial
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