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New Maine laws go into effect including making it illegal to buy a car without seatbelts, compulsory education to age 17, establishment of the Maine State Archives, legal possession of firearms by certain felons
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50 years ago today: August 30, 1965
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Early winter snowstorm hits Rangeley; Joyous astronauts tip-top; Portland Press Herald raises single copy price to ten cents
50 years ago today: August 28, 1965
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Girl rescued after saving two at Higgins Beach; Storm could provide problem for splashdown of Gemini astronauts
50 years ago today: August 27, 1965
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Men, 19 to 26, who take brides are still draftable; Maine Christian League files petitions to suspend new Sunday liquor sales law; President urges solons speed Muskie water bill
50 years ago today: August 26, 1965
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Cramped. itchy astronauts to top Reds’ mark today; Maine Gov. Reed urges president to life ban on Canadian labor; U.S. casualties hit new high in Viet war
50 years ago today: August 25, 1965
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Passenger trains in Portland’s West End there to take hundreds of campers back to Philadelphia and New York; Shortage of domestic pickers perils Maine’s bumper apple crop
50 years ago today: August 24, 1965
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Plans revealed to make Portland Jet Age airport; LBJ spurs public school total desegregation drive
50 years ago today: August 23, 1965
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Springfield holds a peaceful rally to protest alleged police brutality in arrests of Negroes; Old Orchard Beach season is called a record breaker
50 years ago today: August 22, 1965
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Newly discovered bones could put Pemaquid on history map; Three-year-old Timmy Leo gets head stuck in Lincoln Park fence, rescued by fire, police
50 years ago today: August 21, 1965
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Lawman kills civil rights worker, wounds another; Rockport woman, 90,, dies following apartment blast