Deaths Israel Gustave Shevenell 69 Biddeford resident
Israel Gustave Shevenell 69 of 9 Smail's Court Biddeford died suddenly yesterday at home. Born March 1, 1900 in Pawtucket RI he was a son of John and Delia Goudreau Shevenell. He held leadership posts in the Textile Workers Union and was active in the Eagles and St Joseph's Church. Surviving are his widow Marion two sons Leonard and Israel J. a daughter Dorothy Cummings two sisters and 12 grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 8 am from St Joseph's Church Biddeford with interment in St Joseph's Cemetery. Friends may call at Sansoucy Funeral Home today until 9 pm.
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Israel Gustave Shevenell
Smail’s Court
Biddeford
Pawtucket
R. 1
John and
Delia (Goudreau) Shevenell
Biddeford-Saco Aerie
Order of Eagles
Textile Workers Union of America
A.F.L
C.I.0
C.L.C
St. Joseph's Church
Marion
Roy) Shevenell
Bid
Leonard G. Shevenell
Old Orchard Beach
Israel J. Shevenell
Annapolis, Md
Dorothy Cummings
Marblehead Mass
William Biddeford
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Sansoucy
Stone St
Death notice for Mrs Elida Davis of Biddeford
Mrs Elida Davis aged 85 of Oak Ridge Biddeford died yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. She was widow of J. son Davis born October 8 1885 in Biddeford Pool. Survived by daughter Sadie Davis Stockbridge MA and son Chester L Davis Biddeford. Services tomorrow at 2 p m at Coacey Funeral 35 Spring Saco with interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery in the family lot.
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Elida Davis
Oak Ridge
Biddeford
Davis
Oon
Biddeford Pool
Daniel
Emietta
Bryant) Davis
Foss Street United Methodist Church
Sadie Davis
Stockbridge
Mass
Chester L. Davis
Coacey
Spring Saco
Laurel Hill Cemetery
St Francis Student Wins Chemistry Teaching Fellowship
James J. Farrington from Mineola New York a senior mathematics major at St Francis College has earned a teaching fellowship in chemistry at Boston College. He currently serves as a lab instructor at St Francis and aims to teach college level chemistry.
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James J. Farrington
Mineola
N.Y
St. Francis College
Boston College
St. Francis
Farrington
York County center for the performing arts urged
John Ray champions City Theater as a prime venue with top acoustics and multiple dressing rooms urging local support for York County Center for the Performing Arts. The piece notes praise from educators and booster calls for public signs backing the project. Nearby political briefs include Goldwater's California gain and Nixon resuming study of air program proposals.
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John Ray
City Theater
New York City
Maine
Ray
Biddeford
Old Orchard Beach
York County
Funeral Directors and cremation services listing
Funeral service listings for Saco Maine include Shumway Frank X Emond and Dennett and Craig with addresses at Spring Street Main Street and a local phone contacts 284 5611 244 5511. Directors named Philip H Gross Sr and Frank X Emond J P appear in the directory.
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Shumway Funeral Service
Spring Street
Saco
Philip H. Gross Sr
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Saco, Maine
Emond
Frank X
Funeral services for Mrs Helen Dubowick held in South Portland
Funeral services for Mrs Helen Dubowick of 54 Cash St South Portland were conducted yesterday at St Louis Church with Rev Sylvian Mucha celebrating a requiem high mass Interment followed in the family plot at St Marys Cemetery Biddeford Bearers included Michael Dubowck Peter Dubowick David Tarazewich Joseph Andrus James Lisica and Allen Lisica
Duplicate Bridge At Beach Draws Local Players
Duplicate bridge played Monday evening at the Speak Easy on Lawn Avenue in Old Orchard Beach. Winners were North and South: Mr and Mrs Mullen first, Mr and Mrs Weld second, Mrs Bates and Mrs Aranovitch third, Wilbur and Mrs Hoyt fourth. East and West winners included Mrs Fecteau and Mrs Dubois first, Whelan and Mrs Briggs second, Mrs Adams and Mrs Main third, Warren and Mrs Sawyer fourth. Next game Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawn Avenue playhouse directed by Mrs Mary Wilbur of Cape Elizabeth.
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Old Orchard Beach
Lawn Avenue
James Mullen
Donald Weld
Edrice Bates
Estella Ar‘anovitch
Oscar Wilbur
Gail Hoyt
David Marshall
Rosalie Ross
Mary Wilbur
Lorimer Brackett
Gwen Flannery
Eleanor Marshall
Alice Fecteau
Charlotte Dubois
Robert Whelan
Avis Briggs
Patricia Adams
Ruth Main
James Warren
Dorothy Sawyer
Angie Hickey
Carleton Brock
Esther Green
Ruth Anderson
Jean Shaw
Herbert Bean
James Moutsatsos
Pauline Larochelle
North
Mullen
Weld
Bates
Aranovitch
Maine Briefs Chronicle Local Appointments and Events
Maine Briefs reports Joseph H. Cobb of Gorham moving from Maine Central Railroad to Maine Medical Center with duties starting July 1. Other items include North Korea warning, a Bath kidnapping case dropped, Bates Manufacturing first quarter profit, welfare criteria urged by National Jewish Welfare Board, a missing Bowdoin student in East Machias River search, and Nixon urging backbone against campus violence amid Middle East tensions after a Suez Canal raid.
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Associated Press Portland
Joseph H.cobb
Gorham
The
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Medical Center
Cobb
Lewiston
Bates Manufacturing Co
Ginsburg
Bates
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Co
Jacksonville
Bowdeinham College
East Machias
Robert Kennett
Kennett
Biddeford Residents Listed as Hospital Patients
Mrs Delia Saucier of 8 Pool Street Biddeford is a medical patient at Notre Dame Hospital. Robert Neault of 22 Summer Street Biddeford is a surgical patient. Mrs Obeline Cordeau of 567 Pool Road Biddeford has returned home after surgery at Webber Hospital.
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Delia Saucier
Pool St
Biddeford
Notre Dame Hospital
Robert Neault
Summer St
Obeline Cordeau
Pool Road
Webber Hospital
Boucouvalas-Dupuis AMVETS and Fremont Club Meetings
Members of Boucouvalas Dupuis AMVETS Post in Saco will gather at the Spring Street hall at 8 tonight. The Fremont Club and Auxiliary plan a meeting tomorrow night at 8 at the Al fred Street Hall in Biddeford.
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Boucouvalas- Dupuis Amvets Post
Saco
Spring Street
Fremont Club and Auxiliary
Alfred Street
Biddeford
Midweek Prayer Meetings and Choir Rehearsals Listed
Mid week prayer meeting at Bible Baptist Church 144 Ferry Road Saco Thursday 7 PM. Prayer meeting at Salvation Army hall 91 Union Ave Old Orchard Beach Thursday 7 PM followed by Mid Week service at 730 PM. Choir rehearsals at Biddeford Foss Street Methodist and South Biddeford Methodist Thursday 630 PM Crusader choir 730 PM Adult Sanctuary choir. School Street Methodist Church Saco junior choir 315 PM senior choir 700 PM.
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Bible Baptist Church
Ferry Road
Saco
Salvation Army Hall
Union Ave
Old Orchard Beach
Biddeford Foss Street Methodist Church
South Biddeford Methodist Church
Foss Street
Crusader
Street Methodist Church
Fire damages Wentworth by the Sea staff housing in New Hampshire
A fire destroyed two staff dormitories at Wentworth by the Sea Hotel near New Castle NH. Owner James B. Smith estimated damage between 250000 and 300000 dollars. Francis Cull, about sixty, was missing and believed not connected to the blaze. The main hotel was not endangered.
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Associated Press
New Castle
N.H
Miss T
Wentworth-by-the-Sea
James B. Smith
Francis Cull
Portland Weather: Fair and Cool With Warming Thursday
The forecast calls for fair, cool conditions tonight with lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. It stays fair and becomes a little warmer on Thursday across the area.
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Portland
Duke Ellingtons 70th Birthday Party at White House
President Nixon hosted Duke Ellington at the White House to celebrate his 70th birthday. Nixon played piano as Ellington attended a formal reception with invited guests and champagne.
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Washington
Duke Ellington
White House
Nixon
Stock market opens higher on Tuesday gains lead
The New York market opened with advances after Tuesday's sharp rise. Notable early gains include Natomas up 2 at 82 percent, Reynolds Metals up 4 at 40 percent, Cove Me at 48 percent, American Mac Foundry up 26, and Gulf Oil up 45 percent.
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New York
Natomas
Reynolds Metals
Coves. Me
American Mac Foundry
Gulf Oil
Kennebung High School Drama Club to stage two plays
Kennebunk High School drama club will present two plays in the school auditorium on Tuesday May 6 at 8 p.m. The program features Early Frost a suspense piece by Douglas Parkhirst with a cast including Barbara Kotlewski Marcia Williams Ember Jandebeur and Rebecca Dow The presentation continues with a Chekhov farce about a young couple visiting a rich aunt followed by humorous moments for the audience The two one act plays offer a balanced evening of theatre co directed by the club with emphasis on chills and comedy.
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Hanover
N.H
Dartmouth
Ivy League College
John Sloan Dickey
Kennebunk
Kennebunk High School
Douglas Parkhirst
Barbara Kotlewski
Marcia Williams
Ember Jandebeur
Re LaBlanc
Rebecca Dow
Scott King
A Pitts
Lindsey Ee
Youngirl
KHS Drama Club
St Francis College Students Praised for Sandbagging
State and local civil defense directors commend St Francis College students for sandbagging to save three Hills Beach homes. Maine Civil Defense head L H Stanley calls the effort outstanding and York County director Raymond F Reando credits students and college provisions for keeping cottages from washing away.
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St. Francis College
Hills Beach
L. H. Stanley
Maine Civil Defense and Public Safety Office
St. Francis
College Food Service
York County Civil Defense and Public Safety Office
Raymond F. Reando
Reando
Kennebunk AL Unit selects officer slate
The Webber Lefebvre Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary met at the W. F. W. hall on Fletcher Street with two guests from the Kennebunk Red Cross and a field representative from Augusta. New officers were elected and will be installed May 12 at the V. F. W. Post Home.
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Kennebunk
Webber-Lefebvre
American Legion Auxiliary
W.F.W. Hall
Fletcher Street
Nebo
Lester Hathaway
American Red Cross
Jacqueline Vaughan
Augusta
Red Cross
Maine
Catherine Ambrose
Lillian Hicks
Vaughan
Red Cross Organization
Vietnam
Edith Clark
Alfie Leech
Rose Arcand
Flen Trent
Geraldine Nadeau
Louise Marsh
Joan Libby
Flinor Bergeron
Irma Bowdoin
Phyllis Truscott
Joan Lemay
Carl Freeman
Harry Ambrose
Legionairies
Arnold Truscott
Doris Papcan
Frances Burke
Sunshine Committee
Elinor Bergeron
Mildred Hamilton
Donna Noble
Doris Papean
Hazel Jones
V.F.W. Post
Joan
Loyalty Day Observance Planned at Beach in Old Orchard
Old Orchard Memorial VFW Post and Auxiliary announce a Loyalty Day celebration with flag ceremonies gath erings parades and a district parade in Sanford on Sunday. Supper tickets for Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Post home Atlantic Avenue available from Francis Pettengill Dorothy Lenkowski or Post members by Friday.
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Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Memorial
V.F.W. Post and Auxiliary
V.F.W
Moscow
United States
Sanford
Francis Pettengill
Dorothy Lenkowski
Post and Auxiliary
Post
Atlantic Avenue
Kiwanis Club Hears Salvation Army Captain
Captain Donald Klemanski of the Salvation Army spoke to the Kiwanis Club at the Wonder Bar Biddeford about the Youth Program and future plans. President James F. Murphy presided with nineteen members present and Brigadier Ted Russell gave the invocation. The group plans a trip to Windham on May 9 for a Caucus Night.
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Orhard Beach
Donald Klemanski
Salvation Army
Kiwanis Club
Wonder Bar
Biddeford
James F. Murphy
Ted Russell
Windham
Women's meeting set in Old Orchard Beach vestry
The Women's meeting in Old Orchard Beach will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the church vestry. members should bring their own lunch. Rehearsal for Miniwanca Chapter Order of the Eastern Star officers moved to Sunday night May 4 at 7 30 at Robinson Memorial Hall West Grand Avenue. St Mararet's Sodality dinner at the Cascade will be after the 5 o'clock Mass with reservations due tonight. The Tuesday Dessert Bridge Club met yesterday at Mrs Arthur Dickson's Cascade Road home. high score by Mrs Dickson.
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Miniwanca
Order of the Eastern Star
Robinson Memorial Hall
West Grand Avenue
St. Mararet’s Sodality
Cascadege
Arthur Dickson
Cascade Road
Dickson
Nixon's EOEC Nominee Faces GOP Opposition
The nominee for head of the Equal Opportunities Em a Commission meets resistance from Senator Everett M. Dirksen who demanded and obtained the ouster of the prior EOEC chairman.
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Washington
Nixon
Equal Opportunities Ema Commission
Everett M. Dirksen
EOEC
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Kennebunk AL Unit
Louise Joan
Francesce
Mildred Ham
Roxanne Noble
Dorothy Brisard
Nancy Leech
Headquarters Co
U. S. Military Academy
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Robert Poisson
Germaine Cote
Graham St
Poisson
U.S. Army
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Phu Bai
Biddeford High School
Clement P. Wight Dial
Matson
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