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The Portsmouth Herald from Portsmouth, New Hampshire • Page 7

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PAGEANT CONTESTANTS Girls representing five New England slates posed yesterday in Boston, before flying: to Miami Beach for the Miss U.S.A. contest, preliminary to the Miss Unl- verse contest. In the group are, top left and right. Miss Jonnye McLeod of Hampton, representing New Hampshire, and Miss SnSu Smith of Massachusetts: center, Miss Ellen Ccnterbar, Vermont; and bottom, Miss Laurel Barker, Maine, and Miss Gail Dinan, Connecticut. Brown Company Names Controller BERLIN A I A a B.

Walker, assistant treasurer, also takes over duties of controller of the paper-making Brown Co. The announcement yesterday, said Walker will assume the duties Aug. 1 of William J. Oleson who is retiring after having served 33 years in fho post. Walker, with the firm since 1920 served as controller in 1950.

He was appointed assistant treasurer in 1959. Call GE 6-1800-Ask for Classified Negro Pioneer's Daughter Dies OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)-Lydia Flood Jackson, 101-year-old daughter of a pioneer California Negro leader and the first Negro to attend Oakland public schools, is dead. Mrs. Jackson was the oldest native of Oakland at the time of her death Monday.

Her father, Isaac Flood, bora in South Carolina, was freed in 1838 and came to California during the gold rush with his wife, Elizabeth. Mrs. Jackson's mother founded California's first school for Negroes in 1954. In 1871 her father led a successful fight to have Ne- gro children admitted to Alameda County public schools. His daughter led the way, attending the old John Swell School and later night classes at Oakland High School.

Mrs. Jackson also was a long-time leader in the California Association of Colored Women. Was Finished' Maine Youth Plucked From Atlantic ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. thought I wai finished," said Siena Harvey, a 19-year-old from i Maine, who was plucked the Atlantic after wo days adrift in a 15-foot sailboat.

Glenn, an engineering student at the University of Maine, left Bailey's Island near Brunswick, Maine, June 30 to sail his flat- bottomed boat down the coast to Florida. It was a summer vaca- junket and he planned to put into port each night on the way. Four days later he was off Biddeford Pool, Maine, when the wind rose. As it picked up to storm force, he couldn't control the boat and took in his two sails. "During the storm, the main halyard came off, so I couldn't put up the mainsail again," he said.

"I was sick--partly seasick and partly salt water sick. About inches water was always slosh- ing around in the bottom. always soaked--very uncomfort. able. "I sighted the last land, a lighthouse, the first night after the storm.

I tried to row to it, about half a mile, but it was too rough a sea." Then one of bis two oars broke. Saturday morning, July 6, ho got the jib sail back in operation. Shortly after, the Horn, a 768-ton West German refrigerator ship, hove into sight. She picked up Glenn, badly lun- burned and still S''ck from the water, about 45 miles off Gloucester, Mass. The Thercse Horn runs between His father said last night that Glenn had left with the blessings of parents and there was "nothing wild" about the venture.

Exeter Concert Slated Saturday St. John's and Gloucester, brins- EXETER Saturd ing general cargo north and tak-1 ing back fish picked up along the Newfoundland coast. With Glenn still aboard, sho sailed last night for Ttvillingate, on Newfoundland's northeast coast, and then will go on lo Gloucester. At Gloucester, Glenn plans to resume his sail to Florida. He said he had food and water aboard, but his only navigation aid was a cheap compass didn't work well.

"But I always knew in what direction I was going," he said, "usually the wrong way." p.m. the second concert of The Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School will be presented in the Lament Art Gallery. Music by Mozart, Coupcrin and Frank Levy will be played by Florence Pearson, violin; Margaret Blickel, violin; Cecilia Saltonstall, viola; Mary Rasmussen, cello; A. Irv- I TALLAHASSEE, 1 a. (AP A woman caller re- ptrird euiledta, a uake It our baby crib!" Policeman Alex Header- MD nude a fiuit Irip lo pit boast to Investigate.

He reported the crib "wasn't in the home like I thought. It was in the carport. And there wasn't a baby in it like I thought. There a cat In it. The cat had killed a snake somewhere and carried it to the crib where it the cat sleeps." rkt fftteU.

PortKnouKi. N.H. fvMMf, Jily II, IN) Mobile Appeals Integration Order MOBILE, (AP)-The Mobile City-County School Beard will request rehearing of aa 1(m court order lo desegregate first grade this fall. The board directed its attorneys Wednesday to apply to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing by the entire court of nine judges.

A three-judge panel of tile sitting New Orleau, toned Uw order Tuesday to begin ing Forbes, bassoon; and Felix Viscuglia, clarinet. The public is invited to attend this concert. POISON IVY Nftw scientific I dries up blijitrs i cr SUMAC. treatment ttopi Helv quickly, gently, safely. yC'Hm or Lrttcn We I IVY SUMT 1.39 MUWIST "Are you sure) you must buy new rug? YORK Rug Cleaning Co.

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Years Available:
1898-1977