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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1959
Page
3
Kennebunk residents host family clambakes and reunions at homes on Western avenue and Summer street. Visitors include James Gavin of Brooklyn and Norman Wentworths from several towns. Local residents travel to Newfoundland, Cincinnati, and engage in outdoor activities at Deer Pond in Hollis.
Samuel L Browne of Ocean Avenue has returned home convalescing after surgery at Trull Hospital. Mr and Mrs Lyman Abbott Jr returned to Framingham Massachusetts after a week at the Abbotts parents home. Annie I Lord, long a resident of Old Orchard Beach, now living in Greenville South Carolina, visits two weeks with her son Edward Lord and family on Saco Avenue.
MIT professor Edward R Schwarz of Melrose and Ocean Park spoke to the Old Orchard Beach Kiwanis at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall on Fire in Fact and Fiction. He cited 10 to 15 thousand homes lost to fire yearly with 50 percent preventable and 45 seconds per building fire, noting matches and defective heating as top causes. An auction report credited co chairmen Corliss and Briggs, about 750 raised with 700 net after expenses. Many guests attended, introduced by secretary John Wortman, with Invoca tion by Rev Hartley Grandin and president J Clyde Armstrong presiding.
John Lane presents Bells Are Ringing at Ogunquit Playhouse on Summer Street in the county for one week starting Monday. Broadway musical by Comden Green and Styne, starring June Erickson with an all Broadway cast including Tom Avera and Sylvia Shay. Stanley Prager directs, Eric Kristen choreographs, with design by Bohnert, Ryan and Hoffman. Performances run Monday to Saturday at 8:30 p.m. with 2:45 p.m. matinees on Wednesday and Friday.
In the second annual Old Orchard Beach Art Association exhibit at Jordan hall Ocean Park over Thursday and Friday more than 100 entries were judged by Kennebunk artist Roger Deering. William F. Krondorf of Yarmouth won first prize for Moorland a water color. E H Bowman of Portland took second for Waterfront in Winter and Mrs Edna Stuhlmueller of Hamilton Ohio took third for Surf both prizes in oil. Prize amounts were 25 15 and 10 dollars with an extra popular vote prize on Friday.
A final band concert by Painchand's band from Biddeford will be at 7 30 PM in the courtyard of Saco and Biddeford Savings Bank Old Orchard Beach hosts a light summer program of marches waltzes and popular tunes. Roland Gauthier is the vocalist for the evening.
A one day strike in Buenos Aires led by Juan D. Peron followers ended at midnight. Sixty two unions participated while thirty two Democratic unions stayed out. The walkout hit textile factories meat packing plants food processing and metal industries though life otherwise continued normally.
Justice Cecil J. Siddall of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ordered a temporary injunction against Warren N. P. Wurm, Marjorie F. Wurm, Warren's Realty Inc., the Community Trust Co., and Frank Palumbo, with bonds of 15600 and 5000 required for the restraining orders. The A E Borden Co. has filed for a temporary injunction to reach a debt claimed from Warren N. P. Wurm, seeking to prevent sale or transfer of interests in specified properties and Warren's Realty stock assigned to Marjorie F. Wurm after October 3 1957. Attorneys Waterhouse Spencer and Carroll for defendants and Burns and Knudson for plaintiff.
Montgomery Alabama Gov Jonn Patterson signed a new law designed to block court ordered integration. The measure seeks to limit desegregation directives and expand local control over school assignments and policies amid ongoing civil rights challenges.
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