White Fleet proposal backed by Congress and embassies
A U S mercy ships plan, backed by a Capitol Hill poll showing 58 Senators and 226 Representatives in favor, draws praise from Philippine and Vietnamese embassies. Proponents praise the idea as a humanitarian aid effort with private funding and naval vessels, while some lawmakers note its peaceful mission during the Cold War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
U.S
Capitol Hill
Life
House
Frank Manson
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Henry Reuss
Wis
Isaiah
Thomas Pelly
Wash
Florence Neightingsale
Joseph WA Rrtin
America
Warren Magnuson
U.S. Defense
Daniel Flood
Carl Vinson
George Huddleston, Jr
Ala
Jacob Javits
N. Y
Richard Neuberger
Ore
Carl Perkins
Manson
Clinton Anderson
N. Mex
Richard B. Russell
Senate
Washington
D. C
D.C
Chain Saws Rise From Chore to Craft
The article notes the chain saw’s rapid rise in popularity from a dreaded farm chore to a precision tool. It highlights innovations like a roller bearing nose, authority from a historic gunmaker, and a surprising year long guarantee. Mark Twain quote on words closes the reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trearsbord
Georgetown Church Sermons and Social News From Georgetown
Rev Franklin Koehlwetter preached on Realizing God at First Baptist with Miss Anne Peters singing. Mrs Carroll Powers spoke on The Wrappings of Christianity at Robinhood Church. A Georgetown Fire Department benefit at the Georgetown Central school raised about 210 dollars. A stork shower for Mrs Donald Gerheauser occurred at the First Baptist vestry. Numerous residents and visitors from Ipswich, Bath, Marblehead and beyond attended church, social events, and family visits amid summer gatherings on MacMahan Island and surrounding communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Koehlwetter
Scarboro
First Baptist Church
John
Anne Peters
Ipswich
Mass
God
Jesus Christ
Robinhood Church
Carroll Powers
Oliver W Bell
Donna Carlstrom
Waltham
Sigfrid Carlstrom
Georgetown
Five Islands
Arrowsie
Marblehead
Georgetown Central School
Stanley Kosalka
Raphael Higgins
Georgetown Fire Department. the Auctioners Were Rapheel Higgins
Peter Hooper
Tripoli
Donald Gerheauser
Clarence B. Hill
Alton Reed
Harry Heald
Eugene Reynolds
Debbie
Clayton Heald
Haralt Brown
Hazel Rideout
Ralph, Davis
Don Stuart
Earle Hagan
Nilie Gray
Victor Hagan
John Williams Jr
Harry Horse
Lyman Owen
Gregory Barrett
Ruth Patterson
John Plummer
Georgia Watson
Mary Thurston
Bath
Gerheauser
Mark Allan
Bath Memorial Hospital
Maud P. Thayer
Harriet Libby
Carroll Hoodlette
Whitefield
Walter Richie
Amherst
Bedford House
West Georgetown
Raymond Marr
Everett Mass
Charles H. MacMahan
Susany Waller
David Waller
Philip W. Dalrymple
Kennebec Point
Parky Reed
Lee Longnecker
Stephen
Pegey Arbuthnot
Gretchen
Katrinka Leefmans
Holly
Cathy
Buddy Brown
Nicholas
Pammy Reed
Cara Wells
Scotty
Peter
Ricky Weedruff
Susan
D. J. Waller
Martin J. Freeman
Chappeua
N. Y
Gilbert Gunnell
Berkley Colif
Job Gunnell
Jack Israelson
Harold Peters
George P. Fiendel, Jr
Nancy
Richard
Rock Hill
S. C
Peters
Boston
Henry Longnecker
Bascom
Ernest Blaikley
London
England
Allan Hall
Five Islands News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Five Islands church hosts Rev Franklin Keelwetter from Gorham with wife Alice Cromwell and son Stanley. The community reports a white Australian shark sighting off Harmon's Harbor and a harpooning effort near Georgetown. Local auctions fund the Googetown Fire Department and Bath facet scenes note a William Zorach fountain project by the Bath Garden Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Baptist Church of
Five Islands
Franklin Keelwetter
Gorham
Keelwetter
Alice Cromwell
Stanley
Keeswetter
Harmon's Harbor
Alonzo Thibodeau
Ouxukley Thibodeau
Thibodeau
James MacMahan
Chester
Bay Point social notes and visits near Navajo
Bay Point residents and visitors share weekend gatherings at cottages, a Five Islands luncheon, and a J C street dance in Bath. Notable mentions include Mr. and Mrs. O P Swift at the Navajo, Mrs. George Bennett from Exeter, and Captain Richard Robinson with guests at a local camp.
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O. P. Swift
Sweeney
Auburn
George Bennett
Exeter
N. H
Madison Moore
Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson, Jr
Harry Stone
Lewiston
Walter Hill
Kennebec Point
Woodside
Calif
William Adams
Louisa Howard
Five Islands
Seven Gables
Raphael Higgins
Stanley
Kosalka
Five Island Fire Co
Georgetown
Harry
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bay Point
Dwight Furbish
Eric Shutt
Bath
J. C
Yvonne Furbish
Margaret Swift
James Zurn
Obituary of Walter A. Pinkham 84 of Brunswick
Walter A Pinkham 84 native of Boothbay died Monday at a Brunswick nursing home. Survived by son Arthur H Pinkham of Portland daughters Eunice Pinkham of Brunswick and Mrs William A Thompson of Bath brother Clyde Stilphen of Bath sisters Mrs Walter McCrater of Arrowsic and Mrs Joseph Hines of Massachusetts two grandchildren Funeral services at 2 pm Thursday Brackett Funeral Home Brunswick visitation Wednesday 3-5 and 7-9 pm Interment Oak Grove Cemetery Bath.
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Walter A. Pinkham
Boothbay
Brunswick
Rufus
Mary Quimby Pinkham
Arthur H. Pinkham
Portland
Eunice Pinkham
William A. Thompson
Bath
Clyde Stilphen
Walter McCrater
Arrowsie
Joseph Hines
Massachusetts
Brackett Funeral Home
Oak Grove Cemetery
Toledo Plans Pedestrian Arcade In Downtown Redevelopment
The Bath Planning Board with consultant John Blackwell proposes converting Center Street into a pedestrian arcade with benches awnings and landscaping at a $6000 cost. The plan would ban motor traffic between Water and Front streets forcing cars to circle the business district.
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Bath
Toledo
Ohio
Bath Planning Board
John T. Blackwell
Boston
Planning Board
Center Street
Elm
Front Street
Long Island Resident Featured in Kennebec River Series
Local Summer resident of Long Island at the mouth of the Kennebec river joins a series alongside Mrs. Dorothy Clarke Wilson author of religious plays Rev. Margaret Henrichsen author of Seven Steeples and Edmund Ware Smith Ford Times editor. Mr and Mrs Roland Eaton of Wilmington Del visiting Sebasco Estates August with Mr Eaton’s sister and husband Mr and Mrs Harry Watson Front street.
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Long Island
Kennebec River
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Margaret Henrichsen
Edmund Ware Smith
Ford Times
Roland Eaton
Wilmington
Del
Sebasco Estates
Mr. Eaton
Harry Watson
Front Street
Ernest L. Hodge Dies While Walking Near Bristol
Ernest L. Hodge, 40, of 89 Oliver Street and a Bath Iron Works shipfitter, died suddenly Saturday evening while walking on Old County Road at Bristol. Born October 20, 1918 in Portsmouth Virginia, he had served in the European Theater and with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He leaves a father and stepmother in Zebulon, two brothers, a sister in Bath, and a half sister in Zebulon. Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery, Zebulon.
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Ernest L. Hodge
Oliver Street
Bath Iron Works Corp
Bristol
Portsmouth
Charles B
Elizabeth Burgess Hodge
Hodge
Bath
Zebulon
N. C
Torrey Roller Bushing Works
Germany
Army of Occupation
B.I. W
Bath Area
Lucie Hodge
Grant
Harold Hodge
Jonnie M. Wall
Inez Brown
A. F. Mayo & Son
Munday
Union Chapel Cemetery
Mrs Lucy Quintero Rites Set in Kittery
Mrs Lucy Quintero 47 a Bath native dies Saturday at a Portsmouth hospital. Funeral from Franklin G Wilson Funeral Home Kittery Tuesday at 715 am with a 8 am Mass at St Raphael Church burial in Mount Pleasant Eliot. Survived by her Bath mother son Paul stationed in Japan three brothers Edward Andrew Charles Peters sisters Viola Putnam Katherne Sinmones.
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Lucy Quintero
Kittery
Bath
Portsmouth
Franklin G. Wilson
Rogers Raid
St. Raphael's Church
Mount Pleasant
Eliot
John and
Annie Gallant Peters
Paul A. Quintero
Japan
U.S. Air Force
Edward
Andrew
Charles Peters
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Viola Putnam
Katherne Sinmones
Waterville
Funeral Arrangements for Mrs Mary A Bellefleur
Mrs. Mary Anne Bellefleur 58 died Friday in a Norwich hospital after a long illness. Funeral service held Monday at 9 am with a Requiem high mass at St Patrick's Cathedral Norwich Conn. Born Brunswick May 5 1901 she lived there until moving to Norwich three years ago. Survived by husband Renaldo a daughter Theresa Oudette Waterbury sister Mrs Leo Lacourse New London four brothers Joseph Fourier Bath Emile Fournier Brunswick Omer and Leo Fournier Plainfield and two grandchildren.
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Mary A. Bellefleur
Mary Anne Bellefleur
Brunswick
Norwich
Theresa Oudette
Waterbury
Conn
Leo Lacourse
New London
Joseph Fourier
Bath
Emile Fournier
Omer
Leo Fournier
Plainfield
CROSSWORD Clue Solution Set A to E
A compact list of crossword style clues with numbered across and down entries including meanings like Made as tea, shore bird, century plant, motto overturn, forgetfulness river, and various definitions such as dirtier chimney and submarine with allied clues in down section.
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India
Cryptoquote puzzle and quotation reference from 1969 syndicate
The reader encounters a cryptoquote puzzle with hints for mapping letters to form LONGFELLOW and a quote attributed to AURELIUS. The text also lists numbered phrases and a sample cryptogram PKI-FWVWFX with a closing attribution.
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Aurelius
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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John Stone, Jr
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Wayne
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William A. Todd
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Allen Cottages
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New York City
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E. L. Stone
Miami
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Indian Point
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Indian Point Road
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California
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John Clarke
John Kosalka
Mansfield
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Robinhood
Charles O’brien
Hallowell
John Clarence Carey
Elizabeth Houghton
Ralph E. Becker
Karen Sylvia
Brian Davis
Ralph Davis
Glenn Brian
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Jungle
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Brighton
Calabrese
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Malden, Mass
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City of
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Five Islands Library Association
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Charles Rugg
Parson’s Paradise
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Virginia Hitchcock
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Roy Akeley
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Monhegan
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Edward McLain
William Blinn
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Braintree Mass
Herman Barter
Beth and
William Grady
Jamaica Plain
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Emblem Club
Peggy LaRose
Kenneth
Freeport
William Randall
Cary Dubar
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Wellesley Hills
Butts Cottage
Ernest Nickerson
Theodore
Durwood
Francis
Pat Moore
Moore
Shirley Howard
Anson Strong
Lynnfield Center
Myrtle Smith
Danvers
Milton Pinkham
Bath Iron Works
Pinkham
Harry Royle
Melrose
Ida Harford
Braintree
Branwell Harford
Richmond
Charles Brewster
Yorkton
Charles MacMahan
Everett
Phyllis Campbell
Marcia
Brenton Perow
Stephen Lydon
Brucie Kingsbury
Rockland
Tommy Watson
Toledo, Ohio
Mrs
Cross
Jdiant
France
Odin
Siberian
Paradise Seaport
Longfellow
Ijpxaz
KPMLP
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