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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1965
Page
9
In Stowe Vermont the Trapp Family Singers performed their first reunion concert in ten years before about 2200 fans. Directed by Right Rev Franz Wesner now a Fiji missionary the Austrian priest led a 25 year concert career as the group sang Austrian and English folk songs.
A Senate House conference committee dropped an amendment from the Peace Corps authorization bill that would force R Sargent Shriver to resign one top federal post. Shriver leads both the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity, sparking Javits support for full time single office.
A new study raises the estimated cost of the 200 billion electron volt atom smasher to 348 million up from 280 to 288 million. Rep. Chet Holifield says the figure, and the 30 front runners in the project, will be discussed by Congress as the AEC prepares the nationwide list. The delay and the constitutional dispute over the confer ences are noted as part of the broader atomic energy debate.
Timothy Lee Guild was guest of honor at his first birthday party at his mother Mrs. Arthur M. Guild Day Street Kennebunk. He received gifts and refreshments were served by hostess Mrs. Guild. Attending were Beth and Ron.
Nie Graffam and Laurie Romprey hosted a gathering with Kathy Phillips and Timothy. Attendees included Laurie and Scott, Timothy’s sister and brother, and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee Kierstead. Also present were Mrs. Ronald Graffam, Mrs. Betty Tomas, and hostess Mrs. Guild.
Paul R. Dargis of Kennebunk announces the purchase of the accounting practice of the late Maurice J. Arsenault. The office will be in the Colliff Building at 13 Crescent Street Biddeford. Dargis lives at 24 Intervale Road Kennebunk with his wife and two children.
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and daughter Lynda Bird, both in New York, attend the Broadway premiere of Fiddler on the Roof. They are jostled by crowds as newsmen clash with police and Secret Service in front of the Imperial Theater. They plan to see The Subject Was Roses that night.
Miss Jacqueline Paul of Philadelphia visits Wells with her brother-in-law and sister the Angells. Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Hobbs of Mattawamkeag stay with Leonard Angell at Dane Street. A Baptist Church food sale Friday at 10 a.m. on the church lawn, led by the B.O.V. class and Louise Marsh. A second food and apron sale Friday at Washington Park hosted by the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Universalist Church.
The engagement of Miss Joanne Berthiaume to Alan C. Nason is announced by her parents of Biddeford. She is a Biddeford High School graduate employed by Allied Footwear Corp in Saco. He is the son of the late Helen L. Nason of Portland, a Portland High School graduate, ex serviceman, and sales staff at Hansen Plymouth Co in Portland. The wedding date is November 25.
The Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Jaycees sponsor a measles vaccine clinic on Sunday August 15 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Kennebunk High School. A proper form is in today's Biddeford-Saco Journal front page for those lacking one, to be returned to Box 374, Kennebunk.
Wednesday morning James V. Neithercut of Saco collided with Jonathan W. Taylor of Storrs Conn at Route 9 Sea Road intersection. Passenger Gladstone McCarthy of New York. Neithercut vehicle minor damage. Taylor vehicle major damage. Officer Edmund Cashen of Kennebunk Police investigated.
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