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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1959
Page
6
Felix T Sheltra and Sons Realtors advertise a 2 story house on Guinea Road with eight rooms two baths modern kitchen two car garage large barn and hen house in A1 condition. Asking price is 14500 dollars with a low down payment.
Classified rental notices list 4 Rooms and shed at 1 Elm St Saco 4 Rooms bath furnished heated hot water year round at 340 Main St Saco and 3 Rooms bath centrally located Berry Court Kennebunk rental 6 room and more with phone contacts. Also 39 Dyer St Saco downstairs rent unfurnished heated and rest home patient ad and furniture cash paid offer at 45 Main St contact numbers listed.
Tax bills were mailed to Old Orchard Beach residents as selectmen set a 1959 tax commitment of 354000 dollars at last night meeting. They also authorized the Police Department to hold its annual ball in the town hall and appointed Henry Rudy to the Planning Board to replace the late Russell E. Ross.
ABC TV plans film heavy prime time with few specials unlike rivals. Walt Disney aims three space themed programs and three others with Crosby Boone and Sinatra. Sundays spotlight Maverick Lawman The Rebel and The Alaskans with Western adventures. Comedies include Gale Storm Donna Reed Ozzie and Harriet The Real McCoys and Leave It to Beaver.
World briefs report Adenauer could host Eisenhower in Bonn or travel to London as speculation swirls over a possible Eisenhower Adenauer summit. Dutch ministry says 45 Papuans died in West New Guinea clashes. Nixon visited Warsaw as Izvestia questions US military bases abroad. Khrushchev invited to San Antonio Gridiron Dinner on Oct 10.
Theatre patrons learn that Kate Douglas Wiggin’s play The Old Peabody Pew will be staged at Buxton Lower Corner's Tory Hill church with an 8 PM Friday performance and a 2:30 PM Saturday matinee. The Buxton church traces its roots to 1750 and has hosted 26 ministers. the Dorcas Society and Women’s Auxiliary support the event and redecorations.
The article lists rosters for Middle and West Biddeford Little League and summer basketball teams at Memorial Field. It mentions coaches, sponsors and players from Pepsi Cola Bay and Perreault, Lions Club, McKenney & Heard, Roy and Perreault, and Lions. The program aims to develop players for Biddeford and St Louis High schools and notes field limitations and planned improvements.
The Biddeford City Council renewed the City theater lease for three years at 4200 dollars per year, excluding the lot, in a brief meeting last night. Additional actions included lights on Willett and Main streets, higher lumen for a Pool Road street light, transferring 2877.70 from snow removal to election, hydrant rental, sidewalks and parks. Fernand Goulet’s resignation as a callman for the Biddeford Fire Department was accepted.
Inspector Frank Baumgartner said traffic around the new mall area remained heavy but orderly as Adams Street and Madison Avenue were shut for two blocks between Huron and St Clair to create the mall rims. Thirteen bus lines were rerouted. Over the weekend 150 workers laid 2,400 feet of asphalt curb to shape walkways, 80 tons of topsoil was added, and 350 square yards of sod installed. Twenty thousand plants and trees were placed at cost by local nurserymen.
Portland business leaders floated a long range plan to ban vehicles in a downtown area to create a pedestrian shopping haven with nearby parking. Inspired by Toledo Ohio’s pilot, the effort aims to save taxable downtown property from the auto age trend toward suburbs.
Biddeford High alumni announce a country style auction at Waterhouse Field to raise funds for the BHS scholarship. The all day sale features antiques, oil paintings, flintlock guns and china with 10 a.m. start and Yankee auctioneer George Martin. Proceeds support the annual high school scholarship, with committee members coordinating food, publicity, and logistics.
A Dayton man was injured in a Saco Route 1 night mishap near Ocean Park road when driver Robert L. Thibodeau 20 Biddeford allegedly fled after Abbott 59 Dayton halted to speak. Thibodeau was fined 35 for not reporting the accident. another Biddeford man Ralph Boisvert 52 was fined 15 for driving at night with lights off. A Soviet Premier Khrushchev visit to the United States is analyzed as a calculated risk with a potential cooling effect on Cold War tensions while keeping allies wary of deals behind closed doors.
Denver dental student Cleveland McCarty, 26, pursuing the Colorado 14,000-foot peak challenge, is four days ahead of schedule after climbing 31 of the 54 peaks in 27 days. He trains at Washington University in St. Louis.
A wooden playhouse in a Nampa yard burned Monday killing three Bryant children Mary age 4 Mark age 5 and Kathy age 6 who were the offspring of Mr and Mrs Jesse Bryant A neighbor fireman Willard Bradbury found the blaze and tried to rescue them but the door was already in flames Parents were at work and a babysitter cared for four other Bryant children at the home The cause of the fire was not immediately known
A jackhammer operator digging for the Hall of Records building in Los Angeles struck a seam of heavy viscous asphaltic oil four feet down in shale. The pocket was too small for commercial production and workers sealed the discovery with the concrete footing of a steel column.
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