Writer Conference Opens Tuesday at Ocean Park
The 36th State of Maine Writers Conference begins Tuesday in Ocean Park with 5 p.m. registration at Porter Memorial Hall under Miss Freda E. Stevens. Virginia Taylor presents an illustrated travel program at 8 p.m. and a full day Wednesday features Chapbook No. 18, essays, poetry, workshops on fiction non fiction playwriting and poetry, plus author talks by Doris Marston Olive Tardiff Hampton Dorothy Clarke Wilson J. Herbert Lowell and David McCord. The event, one of the oldest and largest literary gatherings in the country, runs through Friday with contests, prizes, and a final session.
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Ocean Park
State of
Miscellanea
Carolyn Barstow
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Orono
Adelbert Jakeman
David McCord
Bostow
Doris Marston
Cape Nedick
Olive Tardiff Hampton
N.H
Molly Stark
J.erbert Lowell
Andersini
Bertha Cornwall Pearson
Writers of
Maine
Hilda Fife
Eliot
Boston
Sandra Pomerlean
Portland
Jordan Hall
Dorothea Dix
Richard F. Burns
Adelbert M. Jakeman
Wells residents alerted to tornado tax benefits
IRS district director J. J. Jennings says Wells residents who suffered property losses from the recent tornado may qualify for special tax benefits. Taxpayers should prove casualty specifics, ownership or responsibility, cost basis, depreciation, pre and post casualty values, and insurance or compensation. A copy of Publication 547 is available at local IRS offices.
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Augusta — Distret
J. J. Jennings
Internal Revenue Service For
Maine
Wells
Jennings
IRS
Mainers plan to join nuclear protest in N H
A Maine delegation will travel to New Hampshire on Sunday to join New England groups in a 1 p.m. rally at Hampton Falls Common Route 1 and a nonviolent occupation of the Seabrook construction site. The Clamshell Alliance organizes the protest with Nuclear Reaction and other speakers and musicians on hand. A caravan will meet at 11 a.m. at the University of Maine Law School in Portland to show support.
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Maine
New Hampshire
New England
Seabrook
Hampton Falls Common
Nuclear Reaction
Clamshell
Card of Thanks for Joseph W. Vire family
The Family of the Late Joseph W. Vire thanks Fr. Carrier Fr. Jalbert Dr. Anton and Dr. Keegan relatives friends and neighbors for aid sympathy and for floral tributes mass cards and car assistance for the funeral.
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Carrier
Jalbert
Anton
Keegan
Joseph W. Vire
Funeral Homes Directory for Saco Biddeford Maine
Funeral directors listed with addresses and telephone numbers in Saco and Biddeford Maine. Dennett Craig at 365 Main St Saco. Emond Conroy Funeral Home 72 Hill St Biddeford. Sansoucy Blais Stone St Biddeford. Shumway and Gross 35 Spring St Saco.
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Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Saco
Maine
Tel
Emond & Conroy Funeral Home
John P. Conroy Jr
Hill St
Biddeford
Sansoucy — Blais
Stone St
R. Martel
Shumway and Gross Funeral Service
Spring St
Laughing gas death shocks Maine truck driver
An Old Orchard Beach man 24-year-old Wayne R. Stover died after inhaling nitrous oxide at home. Police found a cannister near his bed and say the death appears to be due to asphyxiation while investigators review the case. Stover worked as a truck driver for New England Oxygen of Saco.
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Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Old Orchard Beach
Wayne R. Stover
Stover
New England Oxygen
Saco
Linda Chenard Returns From Hoop Camp With Award
Linda Chenard 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs John Chenard of Bernard Ave Biddeford has returned from the Sam Jones Basketball Camp at Northeastern University Stoneham Mass She earned an award for one on one and has played basketball for St Marys grammar school the past few years She will enter the eighth grade this September.
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Linda Chenard
John Chenard
Bernard Ave
Biddeford
Sam Jones
Northeastern University
Stoneham
Mass
St. Mary’s Grammar School
Nomination papers due for town clerk post in Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport voters must file nomination papers by 4 p.m. Thursday Aug. 26 with at least 25 endorsing signatures. A special election to fill retiring town clerk Fred Severance is set for September 13. Severance served seven years. He and his wife Dorothy have wintered in Florida since 1939, when he became superintendent of the Rogers Fiber Co. in Kennebunk.
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Kennebunkport
Fred Severance
Dorothy
Ennebunkport
Florida
Severance
Ogers Fiber Co
Kennebunk
Nuke plant off limits opponents face arrest
Public Service Co of New Hampshire won a Rockingham County court injunction to bar entry to the 715 acre Seabrook nuclear plant site during planned demonstrations. The order, supported by unions, blocks entering and occupying the area or hindering access as protests eyed a Sunday occupation with up to 200 participants.
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Concord
N.H
Public Service Co
New Hampshire
Seabrook
Rockingham County
Frank Shants
Seabrook Station
Shants
George Sampson
Paul Doyon
Life on Mars question stays alive after Viking test
In Pasadena AP report on Vik ing 1 repeat experiment scientists say biology still possible as sterilized soil with nutrient yielded limited gas, a negative test but not proof. Viking 1 studies data from Earth while planning Viking 2 landing region in Utopia by Sept. 3.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Viking ] Lander
Viking
Viking 1
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Viking 2
Utopia
Subdivision law could prompt court challenge in Biddeford
Biddeford planning board weighs stricter ordinance than state law, fearing land conveyed to relatives could be used to sidestep rules. Board chair and counsel discuss enforcement, definitions, and potential records noting state subdivision definition as required. Also: Roy receives permit for house on River Road after illegitimate subdivision. Serpico seeks private parks in zoning. Lombard ordained minister at Kennebunkport church with future duties in Torrington.
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Biddeford
Planning Board
Lanning Board
John Radford
Bradford
and Planning Board Review Planning Board
Bernard Cohen
Richard Roy
River Road
Roy
David Redmond
Neil Serpico
Serpico
Raymond Gagne
Redmond
John Lombard
Kennebunkport
United Church of Christ
South Congregational Church
William Baron
Kittery
John Feaster
Portsmouth
N.H
Nathanel Guptill
Hartford
Colby College
Waterville
University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Madison
Yale Divinity School
Yale
First Congregational Church
East Hartford
Conn
Masonic Home
Wallingford
Connecticut Mental Health Center
New Haven
Janet MacDonald
Kennebunk
Torrington
United Congregational Church
Earthquake relief tied to politics and bases
Washington officials acknowledge a four page memo suggesting quake aid to the Philippines could be used to bolster U S military bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay. State Department denies political aims and says relief must not be tied to policy.
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U.S
Washington
State Department
State Deparment
Frederick Z. Brown
U.S. Agency For International Development
Earle E. Anderson
Office of Foreign Assistance
Friends of the
Ocean Pines Menu Highlights From Early Week Plan
Monday offers American Chop Suey with tossed garden salad and juice plus French bread Jello with topping coffee tea and milk. Tuesday swaps to Swedish Meat Balls with mushroom sauce broccoli tomato juice poppy seed roll and vanilla pudding. Wednesday features Baked White Fish with lemon au gratin potatoes spinach homemade bread and strawberry shortcake with beverages.
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Ocean Pines
Old Orchard Beach
Medicare hospital deductible rule for readmission
A reader asks about costs after a hospitalization in the same benefit period. The reply explains that since the second admission occurred within 60 days, no new deductible applies for the second stay under Medicare hospital insurance.
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John Hussey
Old Town
Penobscot County
Hussey
UPI
Public Service
Gilbert Levin
D.ds
Main ST
POINT
Elm Street
Cervics
Cathy Verrier
Steve Bedell
Georgetown Drive
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