Deaths Leonard K. Gray of Old Orchard Beach
Leonard K. Gray 79 of 32 Third St. Old Orchard Beach died in a Biddeford hospital after a long illness. Born May 5, 1892 in Brighton England he moved here in 1912 and ran a Worcester Massachusetts furniture store before retirement. Survived by widow Florence Jane Hillery son Vernon L. Gray two brothers Harold and the Rev Walter G. Gray five grandchildren. Private funeral tomorrow at Shumway-Gross Funeral Home Saco with interment Blossom Hill Cemetery Concord New Hampshire.
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Old Orchard Beach
Leonard K. Gray
Third St
Biddeford
Brighton
England
Samuel
Margaret (Piggot) Gray
Worcester
Mass
First Parish Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
Saco
Thomas Talbot Lodge of Masons
Bellerica
Miniwanca
Order of the Eastern Star
Florence M. (Proud) Gray
Arthur
Jane) Hillery
Warwick
Circus Clown Otto Griebling Dies At 75
Otto Griebling a famed Ringling clown who billed laughter as a gift from God died at 75 after a massive stroke. A German immigrant who spent a decade as an equestrian before clowning he performed daily until hospital admission ten days earlier. Survived by widow Anna a son and two daughters funeral planned in Sarasota Monday.
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New York
Otto Griebling
Griebling
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
St. Clare’s Hospital
United States
Germany
Anna
Sarasota
Portland Tonight and Friday Weather Outlook
Weather summary for Portland says tonight will be variable cloudiness with mostly cloudy areas and lows in the 20s to 30s. Friday brings partly cloudy conditions in the north and becoming mostly sunny elsewhere with highs in the 40s to 50s.
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Portland
Longest Play Ever Performed Oberammergau Passion Play
The Oberammergau Passion Play is staged every ten years since 1633. Each performance lasts 12 hours including intervals.
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Oberammergau
Card of Thanks Expressing sincere gratitude to medical staff and friends
Sincere thanks to the doctors nurses and aides of Webber Hospital and to friends relatives for cards gifts received during illness. Thanks to Father St Cyr and Rev Father Lucien McKeene and Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary at Bay View. Edmond Larouche.
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Webber Hospital
Father St. Cyr. Elphege Paradis
Charest and Fortier
Father Lucien McKeene
Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Bay View
Edmond Larouche
Friday Youth and Evangelistic Services Listed
A Royal Rangers and Missionettes service for ages 12 to 17 is at Faith Pentecostal Tabernacle Old Orchard Beach. Full Gospel Assembly hosts an evangelistic service at 7 30 p m in American Legion Hall Biddeford. Pioneer Girls meet 6 30 p m at Lyman Baptist Goodwins Mills. Ladies Prayer at 10 a m at Lyman Baptist Parsonage Goodwins Mills. Kingdom Hall Jehovahs Witnesses Saco hosts Ministry School at 7 30 p m with Ministry Development Class at 8 35 p m.
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Royal Rangers and Missionettes
Faith Pentecostal Tabernacle
Assembly God
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
Old Orchard Beach
Full Gospel Assembly
American Legion Hall
Elm St
Biddeford
Pioneer Girls
Lyman Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Main St
Saco
Ministry
Old Orchard GOP Committee Meets Under Fire of April Convention
The Old Orchard Beach Republican Town Committee met at Loranger School with Chairman George Baggs presiding. Members discussed the April state convention in Augusta, plans for transportation, and attendance by ten delegates and ten alternates.
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Old Orchard Beach
Republican Town Committee
Loranger School
George Baggs
Jean Mooers
Baggs
Augusta
Charles Day
Day
Patrick Caperino
Caperino
York County
Cynthia Michaud
Mildred B. Leonard
Marion Fuller Brown
TAR Club
Washington
Delegate Petitions Open for Maine Democratic Nominations
Maine Democrats can request nomination petitions for national convention delegates presidential electors and party officers from the State Headquarters in Augusta. Qualifications require 21 or 106 signatures from state convention delegates depending on the position with a May 12 1972 deadline.
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Augusta
Severin
Beliveau
State St
Maine
Androscoggin County
Aroostook County
Cumberland County
Disttict
Kennebec County
Penobscot County
York County
Hancock
Knox
Lincoln
Sagadahoc
Waldo
Washington
Franklin
Oxford
Piscataquis
Somerset
Harvard Lampoon names worst films and performers of the year
The Harvard Lampoon mocks the year’s cinema naming A Clockwork Orange as the worst film and Jack Nicholson Candice Bergen as worst actor actress for Carnal Knowledge and T R Baskin. Eddie Egan Lana Wood and Twiggy receive satirical awards as the list includes other poor films such as Summer of 42 Fiddler on the Roof The Last Movie and Willard.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard Lampoon
the Lampoon
Jack Nicholson
Candice Bergen
T.R Baskin
Eddie Egan
Lana Wood
Bosley
Society of
New York
T.R. Baskin
Koteh
Funeral Service for Shumway and Gross at Saco
Funeral notice lists Shumway and Gross services at 35 Spring St Saco with contact 284 5611. ceremony details are limited in the readable text.
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Shumway and Gross Funeral Service
Spring St. Saco
Shumway - Gross
Spring St
Saco
Biddeford
Curtis Defends Search In Files On Mitchell
Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis says there is a big difference between military surveillance and his staff checking Maine fishing license files for former Attorney General John Mitchell. He says files are public records and requests from media and individuals prompted the inquiry.
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Augusta
Kenneth M. Curtis
John Mitchell
Maine
ITT
Curtis
Portland Press Herald
Mitchell
Nixon
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
Reducing Pills Missing After Biddeford Break-In
For the second night in a row Clark's Lunch at Green and Birch streets in Biddeford was broken into. Police say the front door lock was broken and only a bottle of diet pills was reported missing. Authorities continue to investigate the incident.
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Clark
Green
Birch Streets
Biddeford
Administrators Moved From Teachers to Management in Maine
A policy statement by the Maine School Superintendent's Association places most school superintendents and principals in the management category. MSSA president Charles P. Tinkham of Bath says teachers cannot judge administrators on ethical questions, which will now be handled by MSSA. The shift reflects years of gradual reclassification from teacher to management groups.
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Maine
MSSA
Tinkham
Maine Teachers Association
Saco Sets Kindergarten Registration May 9 to 11
Saco Public Schools announce kindergarten registration at Fairfield School on May 9 10 and 11 from 1 to 3 PM. Children must be five by Oct 15 and bring birth certificate and health records. Transfers from other cities will be accommodated at this time. prior registrants need not reapply.
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Saco
Howard Cushman
Fairfield
Republicans consider moving 1972 convention from San Diego to Miami Beach
Top Republicans led by Sen. Robert Dole face higher costs and construction delays at the San Diego arena. Officials weigh switching the Aug 21 convention to Miami Beach as hotel shortages and ITT Teletron funding debates spark political pressure. Miami Beach eyes the bid as officials in Chicago discuss the San Diego issues.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Miami Beach
Robert Dole
Kansas
Republican National Committee
New Orleans
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
The
Miami Herald
R.L. Herman
Committee On Arrange
Ments
Peter Graham
San Diego Union
Graham
California
Haiphong
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
North Vietnam
Chuck Hall
Chicago
Lively Council Meeting Ahead in Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach town council meets at Loranger School at 7 with two main items on the agenda. Officials will decide who pays legal fees from January seating disputes and revisit the pier condemnation dispute. The session also covers an $800,000 convention and sports center, taxi and towing ordinances, clean-up week, the town manager’s pay, ambulance supplies, a park commission vacancy, planning board zoning amendment, and a progress report from Chairman Joseph Mokarzel.
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Old Orchard Beach
Loranger School
Park Commission
Planning Board
Joseph Mokarzel
Population of Colleges Still Growing
Washington AP reports a National Association survey shows applications at 119 large state universities up 1.37 percent as of March 1, the smallest rise in a decade. One third of institutions will turn away 43,971 qualified applicants due to no available space. Total applications reach 559,456. first time freshmen projected at 301,790.
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Washington
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
Association
Roosevelt's Panama Canal Passage Aboard USS Houston
On July 11 1934 President Franklin D Roosevelt became the first sitting U S president to transit the Panama Canal aboard the cruiser USS Houston en route to Hawaii The historic voyage underscored naval and presidential travel routines of the era.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
Panama Canal
Houston
Hawai
Windows broken in Biddeford school bus incident
Ray Bell of the Biddeford and Saco Bus Co reports to Saco police that windows on a Biddeford School System bus parked at Beach Street garage were broken. Police will patrol the area day and night to deter further damage.
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Ray Bell
Biddeford and
Saco Bus Co
Saco
Biddeford School System
Bus Company
Beach Street
Orion Moon Orbit Milestone Reaches Double Moon Orbit
Commander Young completes second lunar orbit aboard Orion as engines fired at 3 23 p m Wednesday to place the craft in an initial orbit 67 to 196 miles above the moon. He greets Houston declaring Sweet 16 has arrived marking a historic solo feat.
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Moon
Earth
Young
Houston
Young cites Muskie meeting with Kennedy
Republican candidate Clifford Young claims U S involvement in Indochina could have been avoided if Senator Muskie had leveraged ties to the Kennedy administration. He cites a 1962 Johns Island Maine conference with Tunney and Kennedy aides, urging Nixon to probe the meeting and Muskie’s role. The piece notes Kennedy attended the event.
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Pemaquid Beach
Clifford Young
United States
Indochina
Edmund S. Muskie
Kennedy
Young
Nixon
Johns Island
Maine
Muskie
John Tunney
California
John F. Kennedy
Fire Hits Essex Hotel In Boston
Nineteen people were injured and eight rescued by aerial ladders as a three alarm blaze damaged the Essex Hotel near South Station in Boston. Most injuries were smoke inhalation with reports of improving condition as firefighters battled the blaze through the fourth and fifth floors.
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Boston City Hospital
James Kelly
George Paul
Leslie Magoon
Arthur Nickerson
Somerville
Lars Braje
Boston Bruins
Louis Pica
Boston
Essex Hotel
South Station
VFW Auxiliary Hosts Girl Scouts Council Event
The Old Orchard Memorial VFW Auxiliary hosted the Old Orchard Beach Chapter of the Kennebec Council of Girl Scouts at a luncheon. Afterward, bridging and flying up ceremonies took place with several scouts advancing from Brownies to Juniors and Juniors to Cadettes.
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Old Orchard Beach Memorial
V. F. W. Post
Alma LaChance
VFW
Council of Girl Scouts
Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Memorial
Kennebec
Firefighters Respond To Grass Fires On Two Roads
Saco firemen battled two grass fires yesterday with Engine 5 and two men on each incident. The first alarm came at 11 22 a m on Boom Road at a property owned by Agene Breton. The second came at 12 20 p m on New County Road at a property owned by Ulrie iGuay.
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Saco
Boom Road
Agene Breton
New County Road
Ulrie iGuay
Meany Urges Nixon to Tackle Economy With Tax Reform
AFL CIO President George Meany criticized President Nixon for failing to control the economy and urged Congress to revamp wage and price policies and pass an excess profits tax on business.
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Washington
Aflcio
George Meany
Nixon
Congress
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