Biddeford Notables and Local Happenings Brief
Personal notes from Biddeford and surrounding towns report Mrs. Roland Tardif hospitalized at Webber, visits to a Yankees Red Sox game in Boston, Biddeford residents hosting guests from Canada, and attendance at a York County American Legion meeting in Kittery. Other items include local families vacationing in Arlington and Dayton, Goose Rocks Beach program leadership changes, Biddeford High football program preparation, and Portland’s Pauline Smith Bogh visiting Clinton Millikin cottage Little Ossipee while serving as superintendent secretary’s assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Tardif
Wentworth Street
Biddeford
Webber
Edward Ready
Betty
James
Boston
Felix T. Sheltra
Jefferson Street
George Tourville
Three Rivers
Can
York County Council
American Legion
Kittery
Robert S. Michael
Robert
Boucher
Royal Sheltra
Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley Post
Norris A. Mann
Billy
Skippy
Arlington
Romeo Frappier
Dayton
Mann
Teresa Hooper
Frappiers
Neil Serpico
Harding Street
Goose Rocks Beach Association
Bidcleford High School
Peter C. Boghs
Portland
Clinton G. Millikin
Little Ossipee
Thornton Academy
Deering High School
Funeral Services for Fernande Belisle in Biddeford
Funeral services for Fernande Belisle, resident of Gertrude Avenue, who died suddenly yesterday, will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from St. Joseph Church in Biddeford. She was a communicant of St Joseph and member of Ste. Anne Sodality of St. Andre parish. Friends may call at Emond Funeral Home, Hill Street, Biddeford, today and tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernande Belisle
Gertrude Avenue
St. Joseph Church
Biddeford
St Joseph Church
Ste. Anne
Church groups in Old Orchard Beach schedule Sunday meetings
The Milo Advent Christian group on Saco Avenue Old Orchard Beach meets Sunday at 6 pm. A 7 pm evening service with special music follows at the Advent Christian church. West Kennebunk Methodist youth meet at 7:30 pm in the church vestry. Goodwins Mills Advent Christian youth gather at 7 pm. An 8 pm evening service with music by the Young People’s choir and church orchestra is at Goodwins Mills Advent Church. Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal holds a 7:30 pm evangelistic service at its corner on Atlantic Avenue and Third Street. Faith Tabernacle Youth Crusaders meet at 7:30 pm, with an open air service at 7 pm. Saco Salvation Army plans a 7:50 pm meeting Sunday and an open air service earlier at 3 pm by Old Orchard Beach. Senior Soldiers prep class for Old Orchard Beach Salvation Army Sunday at 5 pm. Old Orchard Beach Salvation Army Young People meet at 6 pm, with a street open air service tomorrow at 7 pm. The Salvation Army will hold a Salvation meeting Sunday at 7:30 pm.
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Milo
The
Advent Christian Church
Saco Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Methodist Youth Fellowship of the
West Kennebunk Methodist Church
Youth Fellowship of the
Goodwins Mills
Young People’s Choir
Faith Tabernacle
Pentecostal Church
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
Youth Crusaders of Faith Tabernacle
Wil
Saco Salvation Army
Salvation Army
World Briefs: Bonn visit, Korea anniversaries, storms
The Bundeswehr will present arms at Bonn as President plans one day talks with Chancellor Adenauer. In Seoul 50,000 mark a government rally for Korea’s republic founding and liberation anniversaries. Mexico City floods under heavy rain. Tokyo reports Typhoon Georgia killing 126 with many missing and homeless. National Lutheran Council cites 8,090,043 Lutherans in America, up 223,723.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Tony
Bundeswehr
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Seoul
South Korea
Republic
Seoul Stadium
Tokyo
Georgia
Japan
New York
National Lutheran Council
America
United States
St Andre Church Sodality Meets to Honor Belisle
The St Anne sodality of St Andre church meets tonight at seven at Emond funeral home 72 Hill Street Biddeford to pay respects to Mrs Fernande Belisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Anne Sodality of
St. Andre ‘Church
Emond Funeral Home
Hill ‘Street
Biddeford
Fernande Belisle
Jill St John Girl Next Door Type Inspires Hollywood Romance
Hollywood interview profiles Jill St John as a bright eight teen actress and UCLA find with hazel eyes brick hair and a shoe habit. She describes Lance Reventlow as smarter than her and notes their shared tastes from Dr Zhivago to the Hollywood Bowl. She values acting over wealth plans to continue her career as she joins him in high profile sports and social life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Lance Reventlow
Jill St. John
UCLA
Lance
Dr. Zhivago
Lance Spena
Luesder
Dancers Stranded Overnight On Island Near Portland
More than 100 dancers at a Ft. Gorges event in Casco Bay were marooned on Hog Island after tides left them a mile from Portland's Eastern Promenade. The last boat escaped at midnight and the final attendees were brought ashore around 5 20 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ft. Gorges
Casco Bay
Hog Island
Hitchhiker Is Killed At York Route 1 Crash
A young hitchhiker Wesey Peale, 19, of Darien Connecticut was fatally struck on Route 1 in York Maine. He was taken to York hospital where he died a few hours after the accident. Police say he stepped into the street and was carried about 50 feet on the car’s hood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Maine
Wesey Peale
Darien
Conn
York Hospital
Portland Weather Summary Nearby Regions
Partly cloudy and warmer in the north with scattered afternoon thundershowers. The south remains mostly fair and warmer with a chance of widely scattered storms. Tonight the north cools slightly while the south stays fair. Sunday brings mostly fair skies and lighter heat across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
250 Students Plan Programs With BHS Head
Biddeford High School students, about 250 of the 400 expected, spent the past week meeting with Principal Raymond A. Kenneally to discuss next year’s programs and class changes. Seniors must report to the principal by Wednesday, August 19, with office hours 9 to 11 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. If a student cannot attend in person, the office should be notified for alternative arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford High School
Raymond A. Kenneally
Kennneally
Saco Police Officer Injured In Accident
Special Police Officer George Nutter of Saco sustained leg injuries in a road accident while driving a Wholesale Food Industries truck. Rumford hospital authorities notified Saco police and requested telephone contact with Nutter’s wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumford Hospital
Saco
Special Police
George Nutter
Portland Road
Nutter
Fire Alarms of 1889 Biddeford and Their Social Era
The article recalls Biddeford’s 1889 fire alarm boxes of cast iron and newer aluminum models, the social vitality around firefighters, and the era’s testing notes. Chief Arthur King preserves box numbers 25 to 36 and 45 to 49, plus 54 to 58, with 29 boxes added last year. It cites a newspaper praise for the system’s telegraphing of blaze locations and a clocklike mechanism inside each box. A velvet album holds a printed booklet with usage directions and key tests, including a note about June 15 1889 to be detailed in a future installment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur King
King
Biddeford Fire Department
Boston
Welcome To The Fold Welcoming Newcomers
A birth notice from Augusta Memorial hospital announces Edmund Cooper Jr. born August 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Cooper Sr. in Augusta, weighing seven pounds. His paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper of Kennebunk and maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Whitaker of Pittsfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Joan Saucier
Gerald Saucier
London
Eng
Edward J. McEnery
James Street
Saco
Henry Saucier
Pool Street
Biddeford
Edmund Cooper
Augusta
Edmund Cooper, Jr
Augusta Memorial Hospital
George Cooper
Kennebunk
Clyde Whitaker
Pittsfield
History talk for Kennebunk Legion Auxiliary meeting
The York County American Legion Auxiliary heard a history of Kennebunk yesterday and today led by Georgia W. Evans at the Wallingford-Harris post in Kittery. Attendees included units from Kennebunkport, Biddeford, Wells, Saco, Sanford, South Berwick and Kittery. Florence Inniss won a mystery award and Gertrude Wood was installed as historian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
York County Council
American Legion Auxiliary
Georgia W. Evans
Webber-Lefebvre American Legion Auxiliary
Wallingford-Harris
Kittery
Alberta Redmond
Kennebunkport
Biddeford
Wells
Saco
Sanford
Tighe-Beaudoin- Farley Post
Steel Strike Enters Second Month Amid No Settlement
New York reports the nationwide steel strike enters its second month with no settlement in sight. The stoppage has halted about 9 percent of U S steel output and idle over 107000 workers in allied fields, causing wage and production losses near 1.5 billion dollars. Negotiations resume Monday as union seeks a 15 cent hourly raise per year of a new contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Beach water classification dispute stirs local towns
Businessmen report beach waters remain at a B-2 standard, the minimum for swimming, with the state notifying them of not meeting the required standard. Kennebunk already funds a sewer system and treatment plant, Old Orchard Beach plans a million-dollar project, Yarmouth surveys the issue, and H S Gerrish denounces temperate publicity after forty years of swimming at the beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
Old Orchard Beach
Yarmouth
H. S. Gerrish
Fatal fall kills Windsor Locks boy on farm beam
Leo Britton Jr. 10 of Windsor Locks Conn. died after falling 35 feet from a beam onto a concrete barn floor while visiting his grandmother Mrs. Alice Britton. The tragedy occurred during a family vacation at the rural property as authorities highlight the fatal five highway violations and urge motorists to Slow Down and Live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall Littleton
Leo Britton, Jr
Windsor Locks
Conn
Alice Britton
Fifth Annual Art Exhibit Slated At Beach
The fifth annual student art exhibit by Mrs. Adrienne Binette of Stone Village Old Orchard Beach runs tomorrow from 1 to 4 PM at 21 Murphy Avenue. Entries cover water color oil casein pen and ink watercolor pencilling and black and white. Judge Russell Rix, president of the Old Orchard Beach Art Association, will choose a prize winner by popular vote. Exhibits include adult teen and beginner groups with participants named, open to the public with guest-book by Miss Whittemore. Refreshments served by Miss Arcand with Miss Valliere assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrienne Binette
Stone Village
Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach Art Association
Irene Bordage
Irene Tarbox
Beatrice Illiskadutth
Laura Carelton
Dorothy Minuitti
Madeline Letourne
Legislative clash delays labor reform bills in Congress
Senator John F Kennedy says House approval of one strong labor reform bill complicates Senate passage while urging Congress to act this year. Senator Ervin notes similarities in public reporting election rules trusteeship controls and rights bans while highlighting key differences in Taft Hartley provisions and no man’s land penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Kennedy
Dmags
Senate
House
Kennedy
Congress
Ervin
Shark Bites Man Off Charleston Coast
A 514 foot shark boated by two fishermen Friday grabbed Arthur Wright’s hand as he tried to remove the hook. Wright suffered a 12 inch cut from palm to forearm and multiple broken fingers in the incident near Charleston, South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Arthur Wright
Teen-Ager Sylvia Kersenbaum Rising Piano Star
Sylvia Kersenbaum a 17 year old from Buenos Aires is hailed as one of South America s top piano prospects. She began musical studies at six gave public debut at nine graduated Argentine National Conservatorium with high honors at fourteen and has since won numerous competitions. She performed at Col n Theatre last year earning a Colon contract for the season. Critics praised her Beethoven First Piano Concerto with vigor and musicality. She maintains physical conditioning with swimming and dance and singing lessons. Her father is a photographer who plays violin and her sister is a budding concert pianist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Sylvia Kersenbaum
South America
Sylvia
The
Colon
Beethoven
Buenos ‘Aires City
Philarmonic Orchestra
Slyvia
Germany
SBA claims active role aiding Maine small firms since 1953
Journal Bureau reports from Washington detail SBA actions for Maine not big businessmen. Since 1953, 148 loans totaling 6.7 million have aided Maine ventures. Finance expands via new banking systems and small business investment firms. taxation gains relief and labor reforms are debated. SBA also promotes government contracts for small firms and funds college management studies to curb failures, which rose nationwide from 8,862 in 1953 to 14,964 in 1958, with Maine moving from 39 to 33 failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther van Wagoner Tufty
Washington
Small Business Administration
Maine
Wendell Barnes
SBA
Barnes
House
Ways and Means Committee
McClellan
Kennedy
Senate
Tooth Glue Inventor Promotes Bone Based Glue
An inventor described a bone based adhesive for teeth that is cheaper and more comfortable for some users. He explained the glue consists of materials found in human bone including calcium phosphorus and glyogen.
Contented cow leads Windsor prison dairy with 102 pounds fat
In Windsor Ontario a cow named 1571 at the Wind sor State Prison Farm yielded 102 pounds of butterfat in May. Agricultural agent Bill Stone notes Bossy the inmate cow tops local dairy field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Ont
Bossy
Windsor State
Windsor County
Bill Stone
Dogs Free At Columbia Shelter In Fury Trample Cats
A strange incident at the Columbia Animal Shelter released 16 dogs into an area with 12 cats. The cats were mangled in the attack and the dogs fled the pound. Twelve dogs were later captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Columbia Animal Shelter
Eisenhower Eyes Khrushchev Visit to Ease Berlin Crisis
Associated Press analysis outlines why President Eisenhower invited Premier Khrushchev to visit the United States. Four aims drive the plan to probe Berlin stalemate, improve international relations, show U S life to Khrushchev, and demonstrate peaceful aims to uncommitted nations, with a possible summit later if progress occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press News
Washington
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Berlin
Soviet Union
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Moscow
Khrushchev
Britain
France
Willow Run Auto Plant
Geneva
Mrs Rockefeller to Fly to London for Norway Wedding
Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller plans a Sunday night flight to London on the way to Sogne Norway for her son Steven Rockefeller's wedding to Anne Marie Rasmussen. The ceremony is scheduled a week from today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Steven
Anne -Marie Rasmussen
Sogne
Norrway
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Mexico City
Weather Bureau
Girl—Next
By Bob Thomas
Charles A. Coolidge
U.S
BHS
Legion Auxiary
Desjardins
iRoy
Perreault
Sevigny
Labbe
Dodge
la Couture
Seeenoun
Bsg
Peri
Roy
P -Labbe
Bissell
Soraya
Iran
Noorde wijk-Binnen
Netherlands
Wilmington
Del
Denver
Colo
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