Ault resigns as Saco-Lowell president after turning around company
Thomas J. Ault announced his resignation as president and director of Saco-Lowell Shops effective July 1. He cited completing a two year program to reorganize and relocate the firm from losses to profits with new plants in North and South Carolina, a Clemson R D center, and a Greenville depot. He expressed pride in leaving Saco-Lowell in improved condition and planned a Biddeford-Saco area visit on May 10, with no immediate word on leadership change.
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Thomas J. Ault
Saco- Lowell
Boston
Ault
Saco-Lowell
Song
Biddeford
North
South Carolina
Saco
Clemson
S. C
Greenville
Crash Kills Pupil on South Street Biddeford
A youth, James N. Clark of Clark's Mills Dayton, was killed in an early afternoon crash on South street Biddeford. Three other occupants were injured and transported to Webber hospital. Clark, a Thornton Academy junior, died from a skull fracture and broken neck. The 1949 car owned by Ruth Clark Hollis Center was speeding and struck a tree after leaving the roadway.
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South Street
Biddeford
James N. Clark
Clark’s Mills
Dayton
Ruth Clark
Hollis Center
Leopold A .Viger
Clark
Webber Hospital
George Levesque
Thornton Academy
Special Beach Meeting Called
Old Orchard Beach Board of Selectmen schedules a special town meeting for next Thursday at 7 30 p m in Old Orchard Beach High School to vote on 18 articles including 120000 for a sewer project 23000 for a new fire truck and 90000 for a vocational arts wing addition all financed from bonds notes or surplus funds with no tax rate increase anticipated per Selectman Arthur Loranger the sewer project aims to install an interceptor gravity and force main sewer line to serve Old Orchard Beach removing raw sewage from Saco Bay from Mullen Avenue to Atlantic Avenue
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Old Orchard Beach
Esther Crowley
Arthur Loranger
Saco Bay
Mullen Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Explorer Finds Long Lost Biblical Cities in Dead Sea
Baptist missionary explorer Dr Ralph E Baney says he and three American divers located extensive underwater remains of a 4000 year old civilization at the Dead Sea. He reports a 15 by 8 foot levee under the inland sea that he claims directed salty waters away from fertile plains, suggesting an earthquake caused its collapse and the region was engulfed.
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Sodom
Gomorrah
Dead Sea
Ralph E. Baney
Kansas City
Jordan
Israel
Lisan Peninsula
Biddeford To Greet Cardinal Cushing Arrival
St Mary St Joseph and St Andre parishes will ring bells at 3 p m Sunday to mark the arrival of His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing Archbishop of Boston in Biddeford and the start of the motorcade to St Francis College on Pool Road. The plan was announced after a meeting of college officials and church pastors.
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St. Mary
St. Joseph
St. Andre
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Biddeford
St. Francis College
Pool Road
Msgr
Elie Hevey
Aime Giguere
St. Andre Parish
Cornelius Enright
P. R
St. Mary Parish
Maine Turnpike
Five Points
Elmstreet
Main
Alfred
First Negro treasurer for Princeton class named
Edward White, 18, of New Haven, Connecticut, becomes the first African American to hold class office in Princeton University's 214 year history as class treasurer.
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Princeton
Princeton, N. J
Princeton University
Edward White
New Haven
Conn
Methodists Air Segregation
Methodists at Denver General Conference wrestled with the racially divided church structure. A plan to abolish the all Negro Central Jurisdiction by 1968 failed 200 to 600, as Southern voices warned it would provoke opposition and hinder gradual reform.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
Harold C. Case
Boston University
Lawrence R. Dill
Anniston
Ala
Jesus
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Biddeford High School
Dirigo
Tighe-Beaudoinarley Unit
American Legion
Ake
Ceety
Saco Girl Scouts
Wonderbar
Carol Lane
Patricia Murphy
Jean Winston
Susan Huston
Lorraine Paradis
Pamela Dyer
Lird
Trecartin
Suzanne Roberge
Linda Soucy
Nancy Lennox
St. Joseph High School
Maxine Paul
Carel Newman
Miss Newman
Biddefred-Saco Lodge of Elks
Carol
John B. Newman
West Myrtle Street
Miss Paul
Alfred J. Paul
West Grand Avenue
Dirigo Girls State
Colby College
Amman, Jordan
Fea, Corp
Daughters of Ruth
The
St. Andre’s Parish Hall
Cardinal
Methodists
New York
American Newspaper Publishers Assn
ANPA
D. Tennant Bryan
Bryan
Richmond, Va
Times-Dispatch
News Leader
George W. Cornell
Kennebunk Memorial Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Fletcher Street
Elmore Wakefield
Clarence Davis
Albert P. Tremblay
Richard Smith
John Crowley
Warren P. Albee
York
District 11
Carl Chick
Donald Hanson
Alva E. Flemming
Edward Benoit
William Wormwood
Ernest Powers
Edward Winston
Joseph Francesco
Charles Williamson
Kennebunk V. F. W
Edith Horne
York and Sanford
Maine
Linoleum Co
Alfred St
City
Raisin Reilly’s Bakery
Main Street
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