Negro Director Optimistic About His Breakthrough
Gordon Parks, the first Black director signed for a major studio, will direct the film version of his autobiography The Learning Me for Warner Bros Arts. He will also compose the musical theme and background, drawing on a life story from Fort Scott Kansas to Beverly Hills. Parks, a Life photographer and author, recalls childhood hardship and a journey from rural poverty to a groundbreaking Hollywood directing role.
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Gene Handsaker
Associated Press
Hollywood
Gordon Parks
Fort Scott
Kan
Warner Bros.7 Arts
Parks
Life Magazine
Harlem
David
Minneapolis
Venice
Beverly Hills
Sarah
Office of War Information
Life
Boys Group Entertains At Saco Center
The Westminster chimes and a mixed program of folk songs hymns and melodies were performed by the Ell Ringers of the Boys Training Center South Portland at the Saco Adult Center AMVETS Hall. About 50 attended for games and social time with coffee served by the day’s committee.
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Westminster
Boys’ Training Center
South Portland
Saco
Amvets Hall
Spring Street
Alec Jacques
State Center
Lester Black
Florence Lewis
Martha
Local college becomes postal contract station on campus
St Francis College in Biddeford will host a United States Post Office contract station on the ground floor of Decary Hall open Wednesdays 10 am to 4 pm. The campus site will offer post office services including money orders registry certified mail and parcel post with additional daily deliveries and services for community residents. The park notes Yellowstone National Park bears a winter elk population around 6000 and 10000 in summer.
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United States Post Office Aartment
St. Francis College
Biddeford
Willie H. Laverriere
Matthew Audibert
O.F.M
Franciscan College
Decary Hall
Laverriere
Father Audibert
Yellowstone National Park
St Francis Students to Receive State ID Cards
William A. Sutton of St Francis College announces Maine State Liquor Commission will issue adult identification cards on Monday April 8 to Biddeford college students aged 21 to 25, residents or not. Cards include photograph name address date of birth and vital info. Cards may be demanded by licensees to refuse alcohol sales.
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William A. Sutton
St. Francis College
Maine State Liquor Commission
Biddeford College
Maine
State Liquor Commission
Utah man 82 gives up driving for burro cart travel
In Hyrum Utah Dalt Reid aged 82 says a car crash two years ago led him to stop renewing his license. He now travels eight blocks to the town square in a burro drawn cart taking about 30 minutes due to limited width vision.
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Hyrum
Utah
Dalt Reid
Reid
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture hailed after Napoleon defeat
The 1812 Overture by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is praised in Russia for commemorating the defeat of Napoleon. The piece is celebrated as a symbol of national triumph with its iconic finale and historic context highlighted.
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Tchaikovsky
Russia
Proven Planting Methods Help Protect Investments
Home and Garden guidance by Conrad W Griffin outlines proven tree planting steps for balled and burlapped and bare root trees. It covers hole sizing, drainage, planting depth, soil backfill, watering, and the use of a water-holding saucer, plus root handling for bare-root trees and notes on soil issues and trimming.
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Saco Center
Arteline Daly
Laurette L’heureux
le Pace
York Agency Council On Aging
St. Francis
Home & Garden
Conrad W
Griffin Extension Agent
Tripp
Ocean Park Road
Saco, Maine
Remar’s
Main St
Pittsburgh
Antic
Cuumen
Main Street
Teatt
Toro Esau
Lee
Black Patent
Lions
Damita
Warwick
Red Cross
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