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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1960
Page
7
A fragment notes a scene with picnickers and a melon reference as part of a continued page one item. It mentions baggagemen assisting hotel visitors with trunks on a train, implying a light or social incident in progress.
Residents recall the Camp Ellis to Gravemere rail line and the Dummy train era. John E. Lewis Sr and Jr recount station life, early station staff, and local homes once along the route. The Campbell Ellis depot, once sold, now razed by Franciscan Fathers with no plans disclosed.
Two persons were injured early today in a two car collision on the Mein Turnpike southbound. Hospitalized were Matthew C. Beaulieu 15 of Old Town with a fractured skull internal injuries and cuts and Joyce I Wheatley 24 of Hampton New Hampshire with facial cuts. The B Beaulieu car rolled over as both vehicles traveled south.
The piece notes Abigail Adams shaping John Adams rise to the presidency while not a public speaker. It describes Lucretia Garfield aiding her husband in Mentor Ohio with a busy staff of reporters and visitors. Florence Harding is credited with shaping Warren G. Harding’s ascent through her influence and financial work.
Honolulu AP reports Hawaii ILWU regional director Jack Hall suggested the union could deliver Hawaii's three electoral votes to Richard Nixon. Hall claimed about 30,000 votes via 25,000 members plus 5,000 influenced by them. Hall, opposed to Kennedy, said members generally follow union recommendations and a formal recommendation would be made next month in San Francisco.
Mrs. Laurence Barnes of Alfred Road Biddeford announces chicken barbecue reservations for August 9 to support the Insurance Women of Southern Maine scholarship fund. Waldo Chick will be barbecue master. social hour precedes dinner. invitations extended to Southern Maine residents and Portland guests listed, with many names of attendees from Biddeford and beyond.
Beverly Massachusetts United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge outlines a national campaign plan covering the East and West coasts as well as the South and midwest states Ohio Indiana and Illinois. Meeting with Vice President Nixon and President Eisenhower at Newport Rhode Island he says timing depends on United Nations work before he talks politics. Lodge will be joined by Representative William H Bates on tours and continues to study issues during a Beverly vacation with family while preparing speeches and enjoying sailing and boating.
A U S District Court judge in Houston ruled against the Houston School Board plan to integrate only three of 173 schools. Judge Ben C Connally ordered the district to start first grade integration next month, placing board members between federal and state rulings after their 5 1 vote for a three school plan.
Vice President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon plan an early morning departure for Seattle after wrapping up a Hawaii tour. On his final day in the islands he outlined a foreign policy role for a possible president, praised UN strengthening, and named potential advisers while weathering a soggy, windy island itinerary.
Kennedy mixed at a New York airport scene answering questions on his campaign. He plans a 12 state farm leaders conference on Aug 21 with Lyndon B. Johnson and creates a Farm Progress policy committee led by Iowa Governor Loveless. He will visit editor groups and meet West German official Von Eckhart. He defends immigrant reform and attacks Eisenhower foreign policy while courting 25 nationality groups. He also plans to see Abe Feinberg in New York. A looming school integration fight in Houston prompts a Connally order mandating early-grade integration starting Sept 8.
Concord AP reports Marine Corps Gen. Thomas G. Ennis rebutted claims by Gerald Snell that first days at Parris Island involved brutality. Snell, 19, from Ashua, Md., is jailed in Maryland for motor vehicle violations after a theft arrest. Snell said he fled training due to abuse. Ennis cited sworn recruit statements and medical records negating mistreatment. Snell’s parents cited his account of recruits injured and chased away by sharks and teeth knocked out, but the general disputed the allegations. Snell said he enlisted in Boston on July 19 to escape, and described his first day in camp as intolerable.
Raul Chibas, once Fidel Castro's treasurer in the Cuban revolution and now a political exile in the United States, says a growing but weak resistance movement exists in Cuba. He told the Miami Herald that Castro will not last six months, citing his split with Castro over moving toward communism and past surveillance by Castro's secret police. Chibas and his young wife fled Cuba Tuesday by 17 foot motorboat, reaching Key West after 11 hours at sea.
A veteran recounts being kicked on the shins and yelled at during drill as he describes stealing a car and fleeing north. He says he outran another car and passed a toll gate on the Havre de Grace bridge before a police roadblock halted him.
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