Public Schools Of Biddeford Set To Open September 9
The Biddeford school calendar for 1959–1960 was released by Superintendent Paul Larrabee. Classes start September 9 with holidays including October 29–30 teachers convention, Veterans Day November 11, Thanksgiving recess November 26–27, winter vacation December 18–January 4, Feb 19–29, and Apr 15–25, plus May 2 convention and Memorial Day May 30. School year ends June 17. A complete teaching roster by school was released, listing principals, vice principals, and dozens of teachers by subject and grade across Senior High, Junior High, Emery, Wentworth, Washington Street, Bradbury Street, and related programs.
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Biddeford
Paul Larrabee
York County
Raymond A. Kenneally
Germaine Bergeron
Artorie S$. Coady
Thomas P. Fahey
Leslie W. Brown
A A. Mantis
Charles A. M¢cenna
Irene M. Mitch 1
Arthur G. Scoteaux
Neil A. Serpico
Olive M. Skillings
Roderick J. Cyr
James J. Wil
Faubus threatens militia as integration advances
Gov. Orval Faubus said he would call the state police and Arkansas National Guard if needed as three Negro girls entered Hall High School for the third day of token integration. He spoke at a brief news conference without detailing triggering conditions. Five Jones Estella Thompson and E sie Robinson were hardly noticed by about 10 policemen with no spectators. Mrs. L. C. Bates of the NAACP sent a telegram to Eisenhower pleading for federal aid, noting local authorities had failed to help. No White House comment available from the temporary office.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
State Police
Arkansas National Guard
Faubus
Hall High School
Aubus
Fifie Jones
Estella Thompson
Esie Robinson
Hall
L. C. Bates
Arkansas
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Eisenhower
White House
Attysburg
Beauty Denies Bust Treatment in Tokyo Return
Akiko Kojima refutes a Tokyo surgeon’s claim he injected her with a cupful of plastic to alter her bust and reach a 37 23 38 figure. The Miss Universe winner, aged 22, demanded to confront the doctor in front of all, as her homeward flight was delayed twelve hours with a Wake Island stopover due to Typhoon Georgia.
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Tokyo
Japan
Akiko Kojima
School Board President Denied Hall High Entry
Little Rock. Everett Tucker Jr., president of the school board, failed to enter Hall High on Thursday after leaving his identification at home. Officers cited a no admission rule with no exceptions.
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Little Rock
Ark
Everett Tucker, Jr
Hall High School
Tucker
Candy Bar Brings Memories From Saarbrucken to Fort Devens
Army's 402nd Civil Affairs Group recalls a moment from September 10, 1944 when Pfc. William Sircovitch met 11 year old Gunter Kunkel in Saarbrucken Germany after an artillery assault. In 1959 at Ft Devens a sergeant distribution of candy bars triggers the remembered encounter.
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Fort Devens
Mass
Saarbrucken
Germany
William Sircovitch
West Seneca
N. Y
Gunter Kunkel
Sircovitch
Gunter
402Nd Civil Affairs Company
Buffalo
Ft. Devens
Kunkel
Sgt. Sircovitch
Ministers Seek Calm Amid Caribbean Tension Clash
Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Santiago pressed a compromise path toward calming tensions in the Caribbean. U S Secretary of State Christian Herter proposed a regular fire prevention watchdog committee to monitor disputes, while Cuba and Venezuela voiced opposition. The session followed a heated exchange as Cuban and Dominican ministers accused each other of intervention and subversive activity linked to the Castro regime.
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Santiago
Chile
Cuba
Dominican Republic
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Caribbean
Herter
Organization of American States
Venezuela
Hos
Raul Roa
Fidel Castro
Roa
Ciudad Trujillo
Porfirio Herrera Baes
Biddeford Fire Gang Has Long History
This article begins a series on Biddeford’s 1800s fire department noting a shift from horse-drawn gear to steamers and modern trucks while preserving the gong and system installed in 1889 by William Boston. It reveals Boston’s notebook listing fire boxes and alarm keys, showing who held keys at many blocks, boxes 25 through 47, and how volunteers protected neighbors.
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Biddeford
William Boston
Boston
Charles Lahey
Cottage Street
Arthur King
Elmreet
Nelson Cue
Harden Taylor
Fred Emions
George Andrews
George Serry
John Randall
Alfred Street
Nathaniel Kimball
David Pierce
James Fogg
George H. Demigrg
Moses H. Milliken
Kimball
Western Avenue
Poel Street
Methodist Church
Frank Wildes
Peel
Pike Streets
Disc jockey Pi Alan Freed to wed Inga Boling in New York
New York disc jockey Pi Alan Freed and his secretary Inga Lil Boling, 24, obtained a marriage license on Thursday. Freed, formerly married to Marjorie J. McCoy, was divorced last year in Mexico.
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New York
Alan Freed
Inga Lil Boling
Freed
Marjorie J. McCoy
Mexico
Laos Braces as Protests Grow Over Vietnam Infiltration
In Vientiane crowds march to protest North Vietnamese incursions into northern Laos. Prime Minister Phoui Sananikone warns against swaying toward Hanoi. The region reels from a flood disaster with seven dead and hundreds left homeless. city page continues.
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Vientiane
Laos
Viet Nam
Phoui Sananikone
Polio crippled lecturer hanged for student murder in England
Bernard Walden a 33 year old physics lecturer at Lefds University was hanged today for killing Joyce Moran 21 and Neil Sax ton 20 last April after Moran laughed at his marriage proposal. Walden told police Moran had spurned him weeks before the shooting.
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Lefds
England
Bernard Walden
Joyce Moran
Neil Saxton
Walden
Moran
Houston crew quells gas fire at Japanese drilling site
A Houston oil fire team pulled out a gas fire that had burned 11 days at a Japanese drilling site in the Persian Gulf, bringing the blaze under control on Thursday.
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Rome
Houston
Tex
Persian Gulf
Austrian mobilization aids Salzburg provinces victims
Soldiers and army engineers struggled today to reach isolated villages in the provinces of Salzburg and under Austria as the nation mobilized to aid the victims.
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Vienna
Salzburg
Austria
Polio Up For High Since 56
The Public Health Service reports paralytic polio cases rose 33 percent last week to 242, the highest weekly total since September 1956, with 15 cases in North Carolina that should have been reported earlier. Through last Saturday, 1,560 paralytic cases were listed this year, compared with 668 in 1958 and 3,045 in 1955. Surgeon General Bur ney says the rise reflects broader state increases, not epidemics, and two more weeks of rising reports are expected.
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Washington
The
Public Health Service
North Carolina
Leroy E. Burney
Labor Bill Passed by House in Major Eisenhower Victory
Washington AP The House approved a bill to curb racketeering and abuses in labor management relations. The passage marks a major win for President Eisenhower who urged strong labor controls. Northern and Eastern Democrats backed softer curbs, while the bill now goes to the Senate for compromise with its April version. A bid to send the measure back to the Labor Committee failed 279 to 19, clearing the way for final passage.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
House Labor Committee
Pollution threatens Kinney Shores and Goose Fare Brook area
Pollution troubles spread from Old Orchard Beach to Kinney Shores and Goose Fare Brook as Maine officials seek action. Mayor Peter A. Garland said a meeting was requested with Saco officials, while state rules enforcement could close beaches if inaction continues. The town plans a sewer district with a filtration plant costing over a million dollars, likely raising tax rates, and may hold a special town meeting to decide.
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Old Orchard Beach
Kinney Shores
Saco
Peter A. Garland
Raeburn MacDonald
Maine Water Improvement Commission
Goose Fare Brook
MacDonald
Jerome Daly
Old Orchard
Jameson
Three Slayings Tied to Remorseless Convict
A 27 year old Francis H. Bloeth confessed to killing three people in eight days in Long Island, claiming pleasure from killing and no remorse. His psychiatric history and statements reflect a violent pattern, while Suffolk County DA Joan Cohalan notes the admissions. In Washington, lawmakers consider tranquilizer gun rustling as possible cattle theft tools needing FBI and DOJ scrutiny.
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Islip
N. Y
Francis H. Bloeth
Bloeth
Suffolk County
Joan P. Cohalan
Long Island
Bloeths
Sidney R. Siben
Arms Laden Plane Held By Cubans
Cuban Army headquarters says an arms laden plane bound for anti Castro counter revolutionaries was ambushed as it landed in Trinidad on Cuba s south coast. Four people were killed, two occupants and two soldiers, with others captured. The report marks the first official note of an invasion landing since a week earlier anti Castro conspiracy was disclosed.
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Havana
Fulgencio Batista
Dominican Republic
Trinidad
Cubas
Fidel Castro
Cuba
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Frances M. Worcester
Nancy M. Fogg
C. Washington Street
Elizabeth B. Hoyt
Ellen T. Turner
June F. Boothby
Ethel M. Bailey
Pauline J. Meserve
Dorothy M. McGown
Jean B. Emerson
George H.wells
Goose Rocks Beach
Goose Rocks Beach Association
Stanley Aitken
Wayne Johnston
Bobby Aitken
Carol Bruce
Trip England
Larry Willey
Richard Gordon
Eddy McCabe
Don Brown
Steve Snyder
Jimmie Aitkin
Carl Cork
Charles Bishop
Donna Schaffer
John J. Purtill
Chuck Cooke
Biddeford Fire Gang
Chief Boston
Smith's Corner
Sma
Quinn Sawyer
King
City
Michael Magerty
Chase Tarbox
Rank Rumery
Charles Andrews
Highland Street
H. G. Homes
Dearbern and
Mack
Augustus Fogg
Fred Day
South Street
Union Street
W. A
Christian Herter
Jorge Alessandri
Jtoast
Alessandri
Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference
Lima
Jordan Hall
Fea. Corp
the Dancing Doll
Main Street
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Justice
Congress
James E. Murray
Dmont
Montana
Murray
G-men
Art Watson
Great Falls
Montana Cattlemen's Assn
Maine Linoleum CO
Alfred St
Doyon’s Mobil Station
Roger Doyon
Prop
Scammon Streets
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