Kennebunkport Approves Tuition Plan and Special Meeting
Kennebunkport voters approved a tuition plan with Kennebunk and set a Friday special town meeting at 7 PM at Town Hall. The meeting will consider accepting land behind Kennebunk High School from the Leechs for education and recreation and authorize deeds, plus funding for a new boiler at the Kesslen Shoe factory building and related repairs.
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Kennebunk High School
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Pauline H. Leech
Storer Street
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Kennebunk Light and Power District
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Everybody Loves Opal opens at Ogunquit Playhouse
John Patrick writes a new comedy starring Nancy Walker and Frank Schofield opening Monday August 20 for a week at Ogunquit Playhouse. Walker, praised as a top female comic, recently starred in Do Re Mi on Broadway and toured with Phil Silvers. Schofield, noted for Craig's Wife summer tour and TV work, co stars.
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Silvers
Kay Cram
Schofield
Tallulah Bankhead
Craig
Robert Montgomery
County PNG Banquet Held in York Beach
York County Past Noble Grand association held the annual banquet at Spiller s Inn York Beach with 106 members attending. Harold Waight of Saco and Doris Holland of Springvale won smocked cushions. President Ethel Whitten presided and organized the entertainment. Next meeting slated for North Berwick on September 18.
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Spiller’s Inn
York Beach
Harold Waight
Saco
Doris Holland
Springvale
Ethel Whitten
North Berwick
Man Rescued After Lobster Boat Capsizes
Cape Porpoise lobsterman Murray Roberts was rescued after his 15 foot lobster boat capsized off Cape Island when the engine failed and waves drove it onto ledges. Fellow lobstermen Fremont Ridlon Gordon Hutchins Norman Stirk and 14 year old Dale Nunan aided in the rescue, securing a rope and bringing Roberts to safety for medical checkup.
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Langsford Road
Cape Porpoise
Cape Island
Fremont Ridlon
Roberts
Gordon Hutchins
Norman Stirk
Dale Nunan
Stirk
Beach Rebekah Lodge Plans Banquet in Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach meeting of Beach Rebekah lodge presided by Noble Grand Mrs. Betty Wing. Charter draped for Eva Merrill. Invitation from Forest Rebekah lodge West Buxton for September 13 with Mrs Gertrude Elwell speaker on UN trip. Banquet tentatively set for September 12. Committee formed. former member Rose Herling attended from Massachusetts. Members adjourned with refreshments at a restaurant.
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Odd Fellows Hall
Old Orchard Beach
Noble Grand
Betty Wing
Noble
Eva Merrill
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
Forest Rebekah Lodge
West Buxton
Gertrude Elwell
United Nations
Barbara Gilbert
Avonell Pettengill
Eunice Pettengill
Rose Herling
Massachusetts
Camp Naiad and Weheela campers visit Kennebunk farm
A group of 105 children and counselors from Camp Naiad and Camp Weheela spent a camping trip at Wonder Brook Farm in Kennebunk. The visit included beaches tours and an outdoor lobster and corn bake. The trip was coordinated with local residents and the Kennebunk Chamber of Commerce to secure a site for the large group.
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Kennebunk
Alvan Bluhm
Hanover
Mass
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Newton
George West
Slippery Rock
Frank Susman
St. Louis
Peter Brown
Brookline
Richard Sugarman
Medford
Fritz Springer
Switzerland
Hammie Schwab
Doris Sherman
Pennsylvania
Carol Brecher
Sandy Fishman
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Weheela
Turner
Bluhm
Leonard Goldman
Almena Greene
Jon Milligan
Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce
Atty
Daniel Crowley
Social Notes From Kennebunk and Vicinity
Mrs Edmund Cashen visits two weeks at the Murray home in Kennebunk Christine Rogers of Boston visits Boston with Cynthia Murray as relatives return to Boston Ronald Robertson and sons visit Haverhill Mrs ONeil family move to Verge house Ross Road transfer to Biddeford office Guests at the Billings home in Summer Street include Hoffman Houghton and others from Scituate and Hingham Verne Bodwell returns to Land's End after six weeks in Waterville for Colby courses
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Storer Street
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Christine Rogers
Boston
Roger
Cynthia Murray
Ronald Robertson
Ralph
David
Haverhill
Mass
Richard O'Neil
Farmington
Ross Road
O'Neil
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Cable
Biddeford
Summer Street
Martin Billings
William Hoffman
Billy
Jane
Fred Houghton
Tommy
Marion
Fred, Jr
Scituate
Billings
Arthur Drumm
New Jersey
John Zaro
Hingham
Verne Bodwell and Sons
Woody and
Dale
Land’s End
Cape Porpoise
Waterville
Bodwell
Colby College
Kennebunk School Building Committee Meets Tonight
A special meeting of the Kennebunk School Building Planning committee is set for 7 30 this evening in the Superintendent's Office. Architect Wilbur R Ingalls Jr will join to discuss preliminary plans. The Superintending School committee will meet after to announce results of the Kennebunkport tuition contract vote.
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Kennebunkport
Kennebunk High School
Kennebunk School
Maurice Clark
Kennebunk School Board
Kennebunk
John S. Seekins
Hale Whitehouse
Carleton Miller
Lincoln Spencer
Arthur Hendrick
Special Sewer Survey Committee
George Timson
State Water Improvement Commission
Dock Square
Ocean Avenue
Maine Street
Timson
Water Improvement Commission
Kennebu
Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr
Maine Collision and Plane Crash Report Fatalities
A Camden man, George W. Brown, 61, died in a Route 202 head on crash near the Augusta line. Three others in the second car sustained minor injuries. Also fatally injured was a Needham Mass man, Owen Dowd, 21, in a light plane crash at North Woolwich, with 15-year-old Clifford R. Steedes critically burned. the craft struck a tree during takeoff, then nose dived.
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Manchester
Augusta City
George W. Brown
Robert Kinsey
Augusta
Pamela Clark
Wayne
Seo Burnside
Troy
Needham
Mass
North Woolwich
Owen Dowd
Clifford R. Steedes
Steedes
Merrymeeting
Bath Hospital
Woolwich
Lodges Represented From Maine Towns Attend Assembly
Representatives from Kittery Biddeford North Berwick Berwick Springvale East Waterboro Saco Old Orchard Beach Cornish West Buxton and Kennebunk attended the gathering as delegates from local lodges in the region.
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Kittery
Biddeford
North Berwick
Berwick
Springvale
East Waterboro
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Cornish
West Buxton
Kennebunk
Bodwell Receives NSF Scholarship
Bodwell earned a scholarship from the National Science Foundation securing support for continued study. The award highlights Bodwell's research potential and commitment to advancing scientific work in their field.
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National Science Foundation
Local one owner car offers six cylinder power and details
Maling's V-100 four door sedan with six cylinder engine and standard shift, Savoy also with six cylinder engine and manual transmission. The listing notes a local one owner car with radio and heater.
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