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Pineland Hospital and Training Center in Pownal faces personnel crisis; Johnson signs anti-poverty legislation just before surgery to remove his gall bladder
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50 years ago today: October 9, 1965
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33-year-old Falmouth mother of four charged with murder in stabbing of husband; “Rather difficult assignment'” reports Hubert Humphrey on his role as stand-in president while LBJ has operation
50 years ago today: October 8, 1965
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Luna-7, slowed by retrorockets, believed destroyed by crashing into the moon; LBJ in hands of surgeon today.
50 years ago today: October 7, 1965
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Talk over how to reapportionment the Maine State Senate shows the urban – rural split in the state
50 years ago today: October 6, 1965
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Johnson to undergo gall bladder surgery; Rusk puts finger on Red China as main threat to world peace; Portland Water District to spend $120,000 on new office building on Douglass Street
50 years ago today: October 5, 1965
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Millions cheer Pope Paul VI’s historic visit to United Nations
50 years ago today: October 4, 1965
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In response to Castro’s offer to permit free exit, Johnson opens the nation’s doors to Cubans “who seek freedom”
50 years ago today: October 3, 1965
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LBJ signs Muskie bill on pollution, declaring “water pollution is doomed in this century”; Man finishes Appalachian Trail in Maine, believes he is the first to finish this year; Where is Che? Castro will tell today
50 years ago today: October 2, 1965
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Big office building may be built in Monument Square, property between Congress and Federal streets sold by Hub Furniture; Frank M. Coffin, former congressman from Maine, confirmed as judge on 1st Circuit Court of Appeals
50 years ago today: October 1, 1965
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LBJ will sign immigration bill at Statue of Liberty; McNamara orders reserve units disbanded and men to be combat-ready within 8 weeks of mobilization