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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1962
Page
3
Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce executive secretary Earl Davis announced that as of August 1 visitors to the Information Center in Kennebunk were up 23 percent over the same date last year. Inquiries for accommodations were also rising.
Henry W Brock offers a used sale of bath tub kitchen sink copper screens storm windows doors box spring and mattress in Alfred Maine. Items available to view or purchase by appointment with contact details not provided.
Davis reported a four cent rise at the center indicating growing value of the Chamber effort begun last year. He thanked Center chairman Leonard Angell and his staff for their work in promoting the project.
Kennebunk volunteer firemen at Central Fire Station voted to buy a 60 watt two radio system for their new ambulance. The 1958 Cadillac ambulance, costing 4950, already has the radio and was bought from a 5000 sinking fund. They also approved two stretchers, one adjustable to six levels and a small flat stretcher for tight spaces, at an estimated 600, to be paid from the volunteers treasury.
Kennebunkport Historical Society to hold a benefit auction August 18 at Arundel Grange hall Kennebunkport to fund a building project. Items include a restored Buick opera coupe with upholstery missing an antique pump organ mid Victorian furniture and china. Auctioneer Neil Allen of F O Baileys Portland directs with Donald Miller as chairman. Auction runs 10 am until sold with storage by society members and catering by a special committee.
The eighth annual Acton Fair highlights an expanded four day program August 23 to 26 in Acton. The 97th fair includes a Class B horse show starting at 11 am Sunday and a 4-H horse show starting Saturday with 20 prize classes. Includes 36 horse classes with $1,000 in senior prize money plus trophies and ribbons and first time quarter horse classes. Officials include show secretary Marion Swasey and judge Joseph Arigo with rules from regional associations. A separate Kennebunk Rotary meeting August 9 features Foster Spofford discussing Kennedy transportation policy and railway operations.
Mrs. Edmund cashen and Delmonte Gross receive hospital notes while families visit kin. Town officials and neighbors attend church suppers and socials at West Kennebunk Methodist church and Arundel grange. Nursing home transfers, IBM shifts return to work, and a McIver family reunion at Pleasant Point are noted along with several weekend visits and cottages on Kennebunk Beach.
The Franciscan Fathers annual festival at Kennebunk Lower Village will begin Sunday at 11 a.m. with a solemn high mass by Rev. Joseph Vicebicius OFM recently ordained in Wappingers Falls New York. Dinner will follow at noon with American and Lithuanian styles. At 3:30 p.m. a cultural program featuring the St. Peter parish choir from South Boston, conducted by Prof J. Kacinskas, and Lithuanian folk dances by Anna Ivaska will be presented.
A Wednesday meeting at the Parish hall Old Orchard Beach organized plans for a public lobster salad strawberry short cake supper set for August 10 from 5 30 to 7 30 p m. Committees were formed for dining room kitchen and ticket sales with several members named.
Kennebunk selectmen voted to accept a gift of ambulance equipment from Company A for the town fire department. The donation includes a two way radio two stretchers and other gear amid dwindling funds in the ambulance sinking account. Firefighters plan to cover needed items from their own treasury and bids will be sought for gasoline and oil for town equipment. The board tabled the planning board resignation of Hugh Marshall to next week. Attending were Norman Stevens Plummer Adams Wesley Leech and other officials.
Goose Rocks Beach hosts a combined art and flower show on August 6 at the Community House. Loaned paintings include Eliot O'Hara works from Washington DC and scenes by Lewis Hodgkins of Exeter NH, with entries from local residents and visitors led by Mrs. Dorothea Smith.
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