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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1960
Page
6
Old Orchard Beach and York Maine listings offer a 14 story electric newer home and a 5 acre farm with a 2 story 8 room house. Prices 13125 and 21000. Brokers Sheltra and Sons and F D Chappell advertise. Also a mushroom cap broiling tip with butter for toast and bacon.
The Municipal Licensing Board will meet at Town Hall Arundel on Tuesday August 16 at 8 PM to consider Harry J Garon of Portland Maine for a Victualer's and Inn Keeper's license at Forefather's Spring House Arundel to sell Spirituous and Vinous Liquors. Objections may be shown. Dated August 4 1960. Attest Alice M Leach Town Clerk.
AP analysis traces the evolving meaning of general welfare from the Constitutional era to the 1935 Social Security Act. It cites Madison, Beard, Pierce, Cleveland, and Roosevelt, noting early resistance to federal aid, the shift during the New Deal, and the 1935 enactment that established federal responsibility for citizen security and welfare.
Lewiston AP reports the medical examiner ruled 18 year old Melvin Jodrey's death at Taylor Pond in Auburn was caused by a congenital brain condition a dilated sac on a blood vessel that ruptured while he was water skiing the sport did not cause the death. Jodrey a noted snow skier from Bethel who won the New England schoolboy slalom and the national junior nordic combined title in 1959 was born in Bethel and lived in Auburn.
Washington reports Margaret Price, newly named vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, rejects Michigan links to her appointment. The Michigan chair says she has long served the party in varied posts and stresses organizational work ahead of policy. Price, wife of Hickman Price Jr., has two sons and resides in Ann Arbor.
In Everglades Florida county records reveal the county already holds 230 acres it sought to buy from the federal government after a deed error. The misdescribed land had listed 1,103 acres while 1,333 acres existed, and a deal for the extra 230 acres for 28000 dollars with a 600 dollar down payment was begun before discovery.
In Nogales Arizona thieves stole 2090 pounds of watermelons from a local produce house during a coffee break. Police investigate and seek witnesses to identify suspects and recover the fruit theft.
A student from Maine Vocational Technical Institute in South Portland won the state Class M mile title. Last spring he played on the institute’s baseball team.
A 20 year old Hampton Falls man, Robert H Joyal, pleaded innocent in municipal court to first degree murder in the fatal shooting of AWOL Marine Frank Theothile Jr 19 of Dover in a trailer home. Joyal held without bail for Rockingham County Superior Court terms. Theothile died from a single bullet from a French army rifle. An eight month old and an unidentified juvenile were in the trailer. the juvenile fled. Theothile had been AWOL for three weeks and used the alias Arthur Staccato.
In Stockholm at the 11th international astronautical meeting, over 750 delegates from 32 countries gathered as Soviet Gaz and American space figures toasted Discoverer XIII capsule recovery and Echo satellite relay efforts. Leonid Sedov, head of the Soviet delegation, promised surprises amid questions.
An aging owl raiding a scissortail nest at El Reno Oklahoma flew into a live electric transformer and was electrocuted. The incident underscores dangers of power equipment to wildlife and prompts calls for safer nesting sites.
Hollywood reports one of the era’s durable literary properties is being adapted for TV. Ruth and Eileen move to present day New York with new writers using the core setup. Elaine Stritch plays Ruth while Shirley Bonne portrays Eileen, replacing past stage and film renditions.
Prof J R Stouffer of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University says he has developed a method to hear meat quality while cattle hogs and sheep are alive. He uses high frequency sound waves bounced off fat and muscle to aid breeders and livestock producers in selection decisions.
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