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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1963
Page
2
Group A led by Mrs Fillmore Harris will oversee the Notre Dame auxiliary thrift shop next week. A Wardwell home board meeting is set for 2 p.m. April 11 at the Wardwell home on Middle Street in Saco.
Augusta AP report notes Welfare Committee favored licensing day care homes by a 6-4 vote and split on licensing homes for unmarried mothers. Fisher of the welfare commission cites state standards and potential federal eligibility, while concerns include the so called grey marketadoptions. Retirement and Pensions panel also divided on federal Social Security for teachers.
Bowdoin College psychology professors L Dodge Fernald Jr and Alfred H Fuchs received National Science Foundation grants for summer and July August research. Fernald will join Beloit College's six week Summer Institute on Contemporary Scientific Psychology in Wisconsin while Fuchs participates in a Verbal Learning and Retention program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Both aim to advance teaching and publish findings.
State Police credit seat belts with saving the lives of Mrs. Gladys Rader and her husband Col Lyell Rader after a 1962 Salvation Army station wagon veered from the northbound lane on the Maine Turnpike near Kennebunk. Mrs. Rader sustained minor cuts. Col Rader was uninjured. Extensive damage estimated at over 1000 dollars.
We thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness, floral tributes and Mass cards deeply appreciated. Mrs. Paul Berube and family.
Joseph C. Robichaud, 91, longtime Pine Point resident and Canadian-born carpenter, died last night at a Pine Point Convalescent Home. No known survivors. Funeral services Monday at 9 a.m. from St. Margaret Church Old Orchard Beach. visitation tonight 7-9 and Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 at Sansoucy Funeral Home Biddeford.
Veteran actor Jason Robards Sr., father-in-law of Lauren Bacall, died Thursday at age 70, apparently of a heart attack while tending his yard. He had just regained sight after cataract surgery ending seven years of blindness and last appeared on Broadway in 1958 in The Disenchanted. He acted in numerous films dating back to the silent era.
Funeral services for Mrs Esther Mabel Oldread 74 of Elim Street Saco were held at 3 p m Friday at Dennett and Craig Funeral Home 365 Main Street Saco with Rev Stanley A Bennett of the Saco United Baptist Church officiating Interment followed at Laurel Hill Cemetery Bearers were Saco fire department members led by Fire Chief Arthur Emmons Roscoe Perkins Ovide Poitras and Leo Rondeau
Funeral services for Harry Linwood Smith Sr a former plant superintendent of Pepperell Manufacturing were held at 2 p.m. Friday from his home. Rev Edmund Beal of the First Universal Church Biddeford officiated. Interment followed at Laurel Hill Cemetery Saco Bearers were Lawrence Dolby William Bonney Charles Bonney and Bruce Taylor.
A trailer truck carrying potatoes crashed into a bridge abutment on the Maine Turnpike near Lewiston and overturned, scattering produce across the roadway. The driver Manuel Medeiros, 40, of Warren Rhode Island was unhurt after telling police he fell asleep. The southbound truck crossed the median and ripped out the trailer bottom, blocking the northbound lane briefly.
Washington state Senator Reuben Knoblaugh Democrat received a constituent letter praising his work as the Legislature ended its third week of a special session. The note said this session seemed particularly confusing but urged him to keep up the good work.
At Webber Hospital several newborns are reported to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Turnage, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Paquin, Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Lachance, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mokarzel, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Botting, Mr. and Mrs. Laur ie Angers, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Taylor. Newborns include Charles Lawrence, Daniel Roland, Steven Louis, a daughter of Mokarzel, a son of Botting, a daughter Tamara Lee, and a daughter Amy Evelyn with birth weights listed. Grandparents named as Dolby and Taylor.
The Wells Band Boosters will hold a meeting Monday at 7 30 p m at Wells High School replacing the usual third Monday session that falls in vacation week.
Saco crews faced yesterday’s high winds with only one call to fire headquarters for a grass fire at Boothby Park. The blaze was extinguished on arrival. no ambulance calls, and police reported no accidents.
The forecast shows increasing cloudiness with not as cold temperatures tonight. Lows near the upper 20s in the far north and in the 30s elsewhere. Sunday brings varied cloudiness with a chance of brief showers and little temperature change.
Readable OCR shows repeated tide times with morning and evening values scattered in lines. The fragment lists rises and falls at several hours 6:32 and 16:00 among others, suggesting a daily tidal timetable snippet.
Numerous churches in Old Orchard Beach Saco Biddeford Kennebunk and Wells plan Sunday services including evangelistic, youth, and evening worship at Faith Tabernacle First Assembly of God Advent Christian Ly man First Baptist and other congregations. A 4 pm nonsectarian gospel service opens events open to the public.
Adah chapter, Order of the Eastern Star marks its 75th founding anniversary with a Biddeford reception. The event honored founder Annette Hooper and featured past leaders, a birthday cake, and plans for a Jubilee observance at Biddeford High School.
The Day's Place site at Al fred road and Route 35 corner sold to Henry and Muriel M s of Andover Mass. It includes a five acre snack bar filling station summer camp garage and nine acres. The Moulton property, about 175 acres in Alfred and Lyman, owned by F Carroll Kendrick Biddeford, sold to Ralph and Laura Wood of Alfred for investment. Both sales negotiated through Frank D. Chappell, local broker.
Secretary Rusk urged opposition to cuts in Kennedy’s foreign aid plan as he testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He warned that large reductions could invite Communist victories worldwide and noted the need to prevent new Cuba like crises in Latin America and Africa. The panel plans weeks of hearings on the $4.5 billion request.
The E and L club of the School Street Methodist church in Saco will gather Monday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs Nora York on Beacon Street Ferry Beach for its session.
Miami man says Evelio Duque commands the Violynn III as crew members refuse boarding near Bahamian waters. Two U.S. citizens were questioned and released by immigration officials. Buchanan says the group will continue fighting communism and Cuba’s regime.
A Thursday windstorm across New York and Boston damaged plate glass windows and knocked down television antennas and power lines. The Weather Bureau linked the gusts to a clash between a Ohio Valley high and a Nova Scotia low pressure system. Winds created a chill factor of 15 below zero and damaged 49 trailers in Williamstown Massachusetts while a light plane overturned at Logan International Airport in Boston after landing.
Firefighters battled a Grafton Lumber Company blaze for about an hour starting at 5 10 p m and then tackled a grass fire on Hills Beach road at 8 30 p m lasting 25 minutes to quell the cigarette sparked conflagration.
Mrs Norman Hubbard outlines club women’s roles in civic projects at the Maine State Federation of Women’s clubs meeting in Saco. She notes beautification efforts, Arbor Day plans, and the Saco Improvement and Beautification committee. Memorial services were held for member Mrs George Allen.
The Senate passed a 375 million federal transit grant plan by 52 to 41, trimming the requested 500 million and attaching new restrictions. The measure advances to the House where debate and further cuts are expected, with supporters noting it funds facilities and equipment but not operating subsidies.
The WIC warns Mayor J Edward Whelan that within years the commission will be forced to enforce abatement of raw sewage flowing into the Saco River, signaling imminent action by state authorities to address pollution.
Friday's results show no games scheduled. Upcoming games include Cincinnati at Boston in the Eastern Division final tied 2-2 and Los Angeles at St. Louis with the Western final 2-1 lead for Los Angeles. Sunday's schedule lists Boston at Cincinnati and St. Louis at Los Angeles. Monday's games follow.
A five year old German shepherd awakened a sleeping family in Fairfield Maine as smoke filled their home. The dog Prince reportedly jumped on Mrs. Frances Paradis’s bed at 2:30 a.m. saving her and her year old son Thomas. Firefighters blamed a waste basket fire under the cellar stairs for the blaze, which damaged a two story wooden home with no immediate loss estimate.
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Cardinal Richard Cushing archbishop of Boston spoke before a Protestant group at Islington Community Church in Dedham noting an unprecedented appearance in the archdiocese He urged Christian unity for a just lasting peace and thanked Dr Edwin Booth for the invitation as the wall between faiths appeared breached by this event
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