Tips For Teens by Elinor Williams guidance column
A reader asks how to handle a younger pesty friend without hurting her feelings. Elinor suggests becoming scarce and avoiding revealing plans, meeting away from the child, and letting her spend time with peers her own age to reduce time together. A boy asks for low cost tap and jazz dance schools. advice directs him to check classifieds, ask teachers, rely on PE staff, YMCA, hobby centers, and yellow pages for options.
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Elinor Williams
Elinor
Ans
YMCA
Beach Card Party Winners Announced
OLD ORCHARD BEACH Abbott-Verville AMVETS Auxiliary held a card party at the Post Home on Walnut Street Sunday evening. Prize winners were for women and other participants, with several prizes awarded to top players.
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Old Orchard Beach
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Post Home
Walnut Street
Wom
Local Couple Observes 60th Anniversary
Local couple Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Nickerson of Biddeford celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family dinner at Wonder Bar Steak House. Guests included children, grandchildren, and numerous relatives from Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine. An open house and card party were announced for next Sunday at 8 p.m.
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Ralph A. Nickerson
Grayson St
Biddeford
Wonder Bar
Austin Nickerson
Chicester
N.H
Maurice Collins
Medford
Mass
William Leggat
Lowell
George Dunn
Spencer
Paul Nickerson
Myler Collins
Wobun, Mass
Dean Collins
Bellerica Mass
Lisa
Jeffery
Sharon
Daniel Collins
Massachusetts
Patricia Nickerson
Myles Collins
William Legg
Jeffery Collins
Mary Bradlin
Ray Watson
Forenes Joan
Lorena Sanborn
Adelbert Sax
Richard Doe
Kenneth Randall
Harold Smith
Romeo Sylvester
Stan’ey Bennett
Georgia_ Severance
Auxiliary Of Fremont Club Holds Party
The Fremont Club Auxiliary hosted a Sunday night whist party at Biddeford Hall on Alfred Street. Women’s high scores were won by Rose Trottier Aurie Porter Lelia Anger Gertrude Beaulieu Josephine Valliere John Berthiaume wacianne Berube Yvonne Marcotte Reinette Turgeon Rose Gilbert. Men’s high scores went to Edmond Neault Paul Moulen Royal Chretien Ernest Martel Armand Turgeon Josephat Grenier Raymond Gendron Andre Bald Armand Gilleret Ralph Morin Robert Nadeau. Special prizes were given to Jeannette Vaillaincourt Armand Gilleret Anna Renouf Thersa Bald. Other specials included Josephine Valliere David St Armand Lelia Anger Lionel Garon Cora LeProhon Marion Dorais Raymond Gendron Melvina Bineault Antonio Daigneault Arthur Pepin.
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Fremont Club
Biddeford Hall
Alfred Street
Rose _ Trottier
Aurie Porter
Lelia Anger
Gertrude Beaulieu
Josephine Valliere
John Berthiaume
Wacianne Berube
Yvonne Marcotte
Reinette Turgeon
Rose Gilbert
Edmond Neault
Paul Moulen
Royal Chretien
Ernest Martel
Armand Turgeon
Josephat Grenier
Raymond Gendron
Andre Bald
Armand Gilleret
Ralph Morin
Robert Nadeau
Jeannette Vaillaincourt
Anna Renouf
Thersa Bald
David St. Armand
Good Bell Ringers Must Know Ropes
London firm Whitechapel Bell Foundry, maker of Liberty Bell, sends 10 British ringers to Washington in May for National Cathedral tower dedication. Foundry notes US lacks campanologists. Americans will learn bell ringing, a craft requiring months of practice.
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London
NER
Whitechapel
Washington, D. C
Washington National Cathedral
America
United States
Britain
Texas
Douglas Hughes
Hughes
Cone
Marshall
Eastern Star officers installed by Minivanca Chapter
Old Orchard Beach members of Minivanca Chapter Order of the Eastern Star attended the Madonna Chapter installation of officers in Kennebunk Saturday evening. Worthy Matron Helen Smith and Worthy Patron Harold Smith led a list of attendees. Abbott-Verville AMVETS Auxiliary elects officers tonight at 7:30 at the Post Home on Walnut Street. C. Fayette Staples Post American Legion meets Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall, with a supper at 6:30.
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Minivanca
Order of the Eastern Star
Madonna
Kennebunk
Helen Smith
Harold Smith
Pauline Peacock
Constance Roach
Jean Mooers
Jennie Rallis
May Slaney
Howard Slaney
Hubert Standeven
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Post
Walnut Street
C. Fayette ‘Staples Post, American Legion
Legion Hall
Hope Circle Meeting at Beach Home
Hope Circle met last night at the Methodist Parsonage with hostess Mrs. Sally Sirotti assisted by Miss Gertrude Thompson Miss Lillian Cleaves and Mrs. Eleanor Bradeen. President Mrs Frances Dickson conducted routine business while refreshments were served by the hostesses.
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Old Orchard Beach Hope Circle
Methodist Parsonage
Sally Sirotti
Gertrude Thompson
Lillian Cleaves
Eleanor Bradeen
Frances Dickson
Retta Sait
May Slaney
Violet Mewer
Martha Trafton
Hazel Ilsley
Harriet Andrews
Jeannette Dickson
Shirley Souza
Helen Buzzell
Pauline ,Peacock
Emily Felker
Miss Cleaves
Dear Abby guidance on aging parents and relocation
Dear Abby advises against moving an aging mother from Illinois to California. Readers share experiences: uprooting ages strained families, insistence on staying in familiar surroundings, and the toll on mental health. A veteran and others urge preserving independence and comfort, even when winters are harsh, with 78 years lived in Iowa.
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Abby
Illinois
California
Minnesota
Coun
Iowa
Schools Must Adjust Primary Grades For Better Learners
Wason argues schools should tailor early education to nurture effort and self analysis. He urges special classes for growing learners and trained counselors to help students diagnose study methods. He notes many teens abandon effort after early failures and cites 12,000 farm accident deaths annually.
Youth Center At Kennebunk Elects Officers
The Youth Center in Kennebunk elected Lawrence Brackley of Ocean National Bank as president and Orie Wellman as vice president. Leonard Angell became treasurer, Ruth Nickerson secretary, and Charles E. Cole clerk. Directors include Brackley, Cole, Wellman, Angel, Colin Campbell, Frank Stevens, and others. The center reported six months of solvent operation with dances and sales, plans weekly summer dances with an orchestra, and will continue a policy separating high school and junior high events after summer. Committees on operation finance and promotion were to be formed. Music for Saturday dances is provided by the Telstars of Biddeford.
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Kennebunk
Lawrence Brackley
Ocean National Bank
Orie Wellman
Sea Road
Livermore Falls
Leonard Angell
Ruth Nickerson
Charles E. Cole
Brackley
Cole
Wellman
Angel
Colin Champbell
Rotary Club
Telstars
Biddeford
Birth Control Myth From Primitive Women Revealed
In Lydenburg district of South Africa tribespeople are said to have knowledge of a mountain plant that may hold the keys to contraception. Dr. Vladimir Petrov, a British chemist, spoke of a synthetic hormone derived from a South African plant that mimics pregnancy effects and underpins a new oral contraceptive pill.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Lydenburg
Transvaal
Valdimir Petrov
Petrow
Pill breakthrough cited by Dr Petrov as major milestone
Two pregnancies noted as background to decades of work. Ten years and 1.4 million dollars went into developing the pill. Dr Petrov hailed it as a major milestone in human progress. Russian chemists seek a monthly pill. a men pill is discussed but could shift worry to women.
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Alice Kessler
East Germany
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U.S
Avone
Pettengill
Mary Emery
Ralph Lariviere
John Travers
Paul Cote
Anata Ecard
Fremont
New England
Clement P. Wight
Hope Circle
Sidney Smith
Biddeford-Saco
Abigal
van Buren
Wason
Leslie J. Wason
University of Southern California
Johnny
U. S
Youth Center
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