Housing Site Protests Hit Portsmouth Plan
The Portsmouth Housing Authority faces strong objections to a proposed 125 unit low rent project on a 12 acre site between Spinney and Thaxter roads. Authority members have not yet acted to drop the Spinney Thaxter plan, but chairman Lawrence E Mulroney said a majority oppose the site.
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Portsmouth Housing Authority
Spinney and
Thaxter Roads
Authority
Spinney-Thaxter
Lawrence E. Mulroney
U.S
Sivles
Spinney
Thaxter
Sunset
Middle
Kensington
Lafayette School
Mineral Park
Dover
Chamber to Stage Lobster Bake During Jubilee Week
The Portsmouth Chamber and the Portsmouth Lodge of Elks plan a lobster bake at South Playgrounds on July 2 as part of Jubilee Week running June 30 to July 7. More than 1,000 expected. menu includes lobster hot drawn butter and rolls. Tickets $1.50, reservations at the Elks home or the Chamber office.
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Chamber of Commere
Chamber
Portsmouth Lodge of Elks
South Playgrounds
Parrot Avenue
Down East Square Dance Assn
Kittery
Jubilee
Seacourt
Don Valle
The
Elks
Elks Home
Pleasant St
Portsmouth
Mber of Commerce
Vket Square
Wells Voters Called To Special Meeting On School Addition
Wells holds a special town meeting tentatively set for June 18 at 8 p.m in the high school auditorium to consider borrowing an additional 8500 for a six room elementary school addition. Marelown meeting authorized 75000 for the wing with North Berwick based Littlefield Bros as low bidder, unable to finish within prior funds.
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Wells
Wes
Litlefield Bros
North Berwick
Officials Search For Section of Red Chief's Talk
Washington reports officials seek a missing 10 000 to 11 000 word portion of Nikits Karush chev's attack on Joseph Stalin. The absent section reportedly denounced Stalin and could reveal Khrushchev's own thinking on foreign policy. The State Department released a shortened Khrushchev speech for Communist party leaders abroad.
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Red Chief
Washington
RCS
Nikits Karushchev
Joseph Stalin
State Department
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Communist, Party Congress
Stalin
Russia
Yugoslavia
Europe
First Town Manager Appointed in Exeter in Maine
Exeter selects Alley M Marks as town manager designating him to begin duties by July 15 at 6000 dollars salary plus 500 dollar expense allowance. Born 1907 in Indiana, Marks has history in Lubec Pittsfield and construction plus wartime shipyard work. He and his wife plan relocation to Exeter with two daughters as voters approved town manager form 1006 to 804.
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Exeter
Board of Selectmen
Alley M. Marks
Pittsfield
Maine
Marks
Associated Fish Products Co
Eastport
Lubec
Plymouth
Ind
Fort Wayne
Congregational Church
Masonic Fraternity
Shriners
Louise
Taty
Linda
Sharon
Marchtown
George R. Scammon
Joseph G. Morrison
John Cahill
Walter S. Carlisle Jr
William G. Saltonstall
Charles ©. Knibbs
Leaders in House Fight to Restore Foreign Aid Money
House leaders push to restore more than half of the foreign aid cut as President Eisenhower seeks to bolster anti communist alliances. Speaker Rayburn and Rep Martin back a joint move to fund a 4.9 billion program while resisting demands to curb aid to Yugoslavia and other neutralist states.
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House
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Texas
Joseph W Martin Jr
Massachusetts
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Richards
Congress
U.S
Yugoslavia
Rayburn and
Tito
Soviet Premier Bulganin Delivers Letter to Eisenhower
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin has written a letter to President Eisenhower. Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin arranged delivery via the State Department. A Soviet Embassy source cited plans for Zarubin to hand the letter to Secretary Dulles for the President.
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Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Georgi N. Zarubin
State Department
Zarubin
Dulles
Bulganin
French 7th Mechanized Division drives into Kabylie
French spokesmen called the initial results good as the highly mobile 7th Mechanized Division moved through Grand Kabylie in Algiers to root out nests of nationalist rebels. The operation marks a broad push by A France against insurgents in the region, with forces advancing through rugged terrain and clustering around rebel strongholds.
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Algiers
Algeria
France
7Th Mechanized
Grand Kabylie
Trailer Park Foes Expected at Hearing
A large delegation is expected at Kittery Town Hall for a public hearing on Gray Lodge Trailer Park expansion. The Board of Selectmen will meet at 7 30 PM as residents protest adding space for 20 more trailers to owner Niles R Pinkham’s 44 trailer park with room for 50. The opposition says they do not seek to close Pinkham but oppose expansion harming property values.
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City Hall
Roinford Realty Co
Greenland Road
Kittery
Town Hall
Gray Lodge
Board of Selectmen
Niles R. Pinkham
Pinkham
Selectmen
Council May Act On Traffic at Meeting Tonight
City Council meets at 7 pm to decide on a controversial traffic pattern that downtown merchants oppose and seek testing of alternatives. The agenda includes a new Public Works working agreement after a four day yardmen strike, plus appointments to Board of Adjustment and Personnel Advisory Board. Portsmouth Housing Authority seeks funds for urban renewal in the South End, with a $32,996 request for final planning, totaling 362,996.
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City Hall
Public Works Department
Robert C. Violette
Board of Adjustment
Portsmouth Houseg Authority
South End
Auibo
Delegates urged to demand state pay for ConCon
President J Walker Wiggin urged Constitutional Convention delegates to press Gov Dwinell to cover a possible $16,000 deficit from the 75,000 state appropriation. He proposed a resolution to direct the governor to draw warrants for all expenses properly chargeable as convention costs beyond the appropriation. The Executive Council rejected a 20,000 emergency grant. Dwinell may seek another emergency appropriation June 15.
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Concord
J. Walker Wiggin
Dwinell
Wiggin
Executive Council
Council
Canon
Wiggs
ConCon
Unce
Name of Carlson surfaces in Brink’s case probe
The missing John H. Carlson, linked to Joseph J. O’Keefe, is named in the expanding Brink’s investigation. Federal action follows the arrest of Tom Perry in Baltimore and a South End raid yielding thousands in moldy bills. Two men, Edward Bennet and John Buccetli, remain in custody on accessories charges.
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Hoston W
John H. Carlson
Brink
Carlson
South End
Joseph J
Specks
Jordan Perry Jr
Baltimore
Perry
Tom Perry
FBI
Boston
Edward
Wimpy) Bennet
John F. Buccetli
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