Biddeford Concert Ends With Grand Finale featuring All Bands
More than 400 attendees filled Biddeford elementary and high school gyms for the annual instrumental concert directed by Horace Killam. The program showcased elementary pieces, junior and senior bands, with a grand finale featuring the Biddeford High School band conducted by Timothy Wells and student director Robert Clarke.
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Beford
Breeford High
Biddeford
Horace Killam
Ribble
Piannist
Priincipal
Elizabeth Seidel
Deborah Petit
Mower
Timothy Wells
Bruce Nelson
Glory of Texas
Chenette
Tonette
Rousseau
Battle Hymn of Republic
Irons
Spring Garden
Home
Sweet Home
Airport
Fisenberg
Biddeford High
Robert Clarke
King Court Memorial Event Planned At Saco Odd Fellows Hall
King Court, Order of the Amaranth, schedules a memorial service on Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Saco Odd Fellows hall. After the meeting a sale of articles will be held under the ways and means committee. A school of instruction is announced for tomorrow evening at Gorham Odd Fellows hall.
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King Court
Order of the Amaranth
Saco Odd Fellows Hall
Ways and Means
Pineland Court
Gorham Odd Fellows Hall
Blue Feather Council Hears District Report
Mrs Alice Genthner presented a district meet report during Blue Feather Council Degree of Pocahontas meeting held at Elm Street Biddeford hall last night. Mrs Cecile Jacques Winonah presided in Pocahontas absence. Mrs Mary Wood received the mystery and surprise packages. Refreshments were hosted by Mrs Pauline Simms and Mrs Cecile Jacques. Next meeting set for May 26.
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Kittery
Alice Genthner
Blue Feather Council
Pocahontas
Elm Street
Biddeford
Cecile Jacques
Winonah
Mary Wood
Pauline Simms
Saco Man Charged With Assaulting Girls
Clyde W. Gerry Jr. of 59 Temple Street Saco faces two counts of simple assault in Biddeford Municipal Court. Bail was defaulted at 100 dollars per charge but may be stricken if Gerry appears Monday at 9 am. Warrants were issued by two teenage accusers Donna Winchester 18 Kathie Hutchinson 13 who say he struck them in a late night incident involving Gerry’s motorcycle.
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Clyde W. Gerry, Jr
Temple Street
Saco
Simon Spill
Biddeford
Spill
Gerry
Atty
Edward L. Caron
Donna Winchester
Kathie Hutchinson
Elks Postpone Banquet For Sons and Daughters
Biddeford-Saco Elks postpone the Father-Son-Daughter observance set for Sunday due to Cardinal Cushing's visit. The event moves to Monday May 9 with dinner at 6 pm at the Portland room lodge in Saco. Tickets are limited to 250 and available from lodge stewards.
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Cardinal Cushing
Biddeford- Saco
Biddeford KC Council Awards 25-Year Pin and Honors
The Biddeford Knights of Columbus council awarded a 25-year membership pin to John Conroy and honorary certificates to Arthur Lambert Placide Beaudoin and Omer Nollette for long-standing service. Officers and delegates were named for the National convention in Poland Spring with a nominating committee chosen for upcoming officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Knights of Columbus
John Conroy
Arthur Lambert
Placide Beaudoin
Omer Nollette
Adrien LeBlond
Raymond Loranger
Roland Millette
Albert Carrier
Norman Beaupre
Fern Picard
Philip Masse
Poland
John Farley
Marcel Viger
Picard
Paul LeBlond
Raymond Cantara
Louis Gendron
Pat Bouffard
Joseph Carrier
College Guild Shower For Hostess In Biddeford
Members of St Francis College Guild held a meeting on Lindale Avenue Biddeford combining a business session with a stork shower for hostess Mrs Alfred Vanasse. Officers were named for purchases and future events including an April 22 food sale and a May 19 meeting hosted by Mrs Fred Warner. several guests attended with others contributing.
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St. Francis College Guild
Alfred Vanasse
Lindale Avenue
Biddeford
Clayton Eaton
William Sutton
Fred Minkevitch
Fortunes Rocks
Argentina
Minkevitch
Carol
Mary Ellen
Lorna
Fred Warner
Stork
Vanasse
Jeannette Lachance
Sutton
Methodists debate end of segregated unit at crucial session
Delegates of the 10 million member Methodist Church held a pivotal session debating the fate of the Negro jurisdiction. Amid heated rhetoric C M Stanley of Muscatine Iowa urged wiping out the segregated unit as a fundamental church objective. The vote stood against a plan for no basic change in the special Negro unit. The church is divided into five white regional jurisdictions and a sixth national Negro jurisdiction.
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C. M. Stanley
Muscatine
Iowa
Methodist Church
Parade to Alfred Pool Road Ending at College
Biddeford to the junction of Alfred and the Pool road. The parade moves along the Pool road route at about 3 30 p m. The motorcade ends at the college where the academic convocation and award ceremonies take place. Invitations only due to seating limits and many official delegations, announced by Very Rev Norman Thibodeau the college president.
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Alfred
Pool Road
Norman Thibodeau
Fremont Club and Auxiliary Discuss Award
The Fremont club and auxiliary met at the Alfred street hall in Biddeford to review continuing awards for high school graduates ranking highest in French. Special awards went to Donat Dubois and Ernest Valliere. reports included a bean supper, secretary notes by Joseph Peloquin, and refreshments afterward.
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Board of Education
Fremont Club
Alfred Street
Biddeford
Joseph Peloquin
Donat Dubois
Ernest Valliere
Urbain Langevin
Rose Lamothe
Wilfred Simoneau
Leslie Duprey
Ernest Marte
Adrien Lamothe
Jean Paul Rheaulme
Ronald Melancon
Urbain Langevil
Liene Geron
Gerard Morin
Alfred Lantagne
Wilfrid Simoneau
Gedeon Bergeron
Maurice Neault
Eo Duprey
Alcide Dubois
Wilfrid
Local Catholic Colleges Stage Joint Concert in Portland
St Francis and St Joseph's, Maine's only Catholic men's and women's colleges, present their first joint concert at Cheverus auditorium Portland Sunday May 8 at 3 pm Tickets available at Liggett's Biddeford Percy’s Saco Murphy's Music Biddeford and the St Francis switchboard. Glee Club under Clayton Atan and Sister Mary Constance will lead a formal program.
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Maine
St. Francis
St. Joseph's
Cheverus Auditorium
Portland
Liggett’s
Biddeford
Percy’s
Saco
Murphy’s
Glee Club
Clayton
Aton
Mary Constance
St Francis
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Newspapers Reject Billions In Ad Revenue In 1958 59
An ANPA survey cited that newspapers rejected 15 million dollars in advertising revenue during 1958 and 1959 because the copy failed to meet the standards of truth or decency they had established individually.
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Page One
ANPA
Channel Islands: Only British soil occupied by Germans
The Channel Islands in the English Channel were the sole British territory occupied by German forces during World War II, marking a rare Nazi foothold on British soil.
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Channel Islands
English Channel
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