Deaths Edmond Bedard 55 Saco native long time West Point-Pepell
Edmond Bedard 55 of 80 Middle St Saco died at home today born April 17 1912 in Canada son of Napoleon and Marie Mosse Bedard employed 40 years at West Point Pepperell Inc retired two years ago. Survived by widow Alice Gobeil Bedard one son Adrien Biddeford six daughters and many relatives. Funeral from Notre Dame de Lourdes Saco Friday 8 am with burial in St Joseph Cemetery Biddeford visitation at Cote Funeral Home Lace tonight and tomorrow evening.
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Edmond Bedard
Middle St
Saco
Canada
Napoleon and
Marie Mosse Bedard
West Point-Pepperell Inc
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Sapped Heart League
St. Andre’ S Parish
3Iddeford
Third Order of St
Simeon
Montreal
Telesphere
Tucson
Ann
Alcide
Biddeford
Josephat
Elgear Ruel
Hermina Henri
Notre Dame de Lourdes Church
Cutts Avenue
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Cote Funeral Home
James Street
Scheonjans To Be Honored Saturday
Final arrangements for the Michael Schoonjans testimonial set a banquet and dance at the Roc hambeau Club in Biddeford Saturday night. Schoonjans retires as manager of the Biddeford Saco Joint Board TWUA AFL CLC. William Pollack will speak. Leo Bedard acts as master of ceremonies. All union and governmental representatives expected. Allentown, Pa., cited as cement industry center in Britannica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Schoonjans
Rocchambeau
Biddeford
Schoonjans
Biddeford-Saco
TWUA
Afl-Cio
CLC
Schoon- Jans
Funeral rites for Napole on Normand 82 Biddeford
Funeral services were held at St Josephs Church for Napole on Normand 82 of 20 Herring Ave Biddeford. Rt Rev Msgr Elie Hevey presided with Rev Valmont Gilbert and Rev Sylvia Levesque assisting. Burial followed in St Joseph Cemetery with bearers from L Union St Jean Baptiste d Amerique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Normand
Herring Ave
Biddeford
St. Joseph's’ Church
Elie Hevey
Valmont Gilbert
Sylvia Levesque
Diana Rousselle
Painchand
Sisters of St. Andre
Biddeford Police Nab Several Alleged Violators
Intensive Biddeford police probe led by Chief Sevigny Lt Friary and Capt Poirier netted several suspects overnight. Andrew Toutant 18 of 11 White Wharf St Biddeford charged with receiving stolen goods Laurier Cote 17 of 20 Jeffersons Court Biddeford charged with using a car without owner consent Dominic Boudreau 21 of 108 Summer St Biddeford and Raymond Nadeau 17 of 44 Green St Biddeford charged with breaking entering and larceny night A Saco juvenile also charged with car use without consent.
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Biddeford
Edgar Sevigny
George Friary
Philip Poirier
Sevigny
Andrew Robert Toutant
White Wharf St
Laurier Junior Cote
Jefferson’s Court
Dominic John Boudraeu
Summer St
Raymond Edward Nadeau
Green St
Saco
Apple Harvest Seeks Workers Across Central Maine
The Maine Employment Security Commission launches a broader recruiting drive for the apple harvest, extending into central Maine along with York and Cumberland Counties. Expected payout nears half a million dollars, with wages around 1.45 per hour and past workers averaging 1.85. Seniors 16 and up should apply at local offices, or use postage paid cards available at post offices to be contacted for referral. The crop totals about two million bushels worth roughly five million dollars.
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Maine Employment Security Commission
Maine
York
Cumberland
O.L. Douglas
Commission
Manufacturers Press for Prices as Costs Rise
A private meeting with Secretary of Commerce Alexander Trowbridge reported by reporters shows manufacturers ready to hold prices but prepared to yield if material costs climb. The Commerce Secretary indicated price pressures may force adjustments while the Administration watches steel plate price moves by Bethlehem Steel and US Steel. A tangent note cites the term origin from Robert Boyle and identifies the beluga sturgeon as the largest freshwater fish, with a specimen weighing 3,210 pounds.
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Alexander BK
Trowbridge
Bethlehem Steel Corp
United States Steel Corp
Steel
Bethlehem
Personal notices from Webber Hospital list two patients
Mrs. Joseph Ledoux of 16 Irving Street Saco is a surgical patient at Webber Hospital. Mrs. Doris Thimble of 104 Summer Street Biddeford is also a patient at Webber Hospital.
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Joseph Ledoux
Irving St
Saco
Webber Hospital
Doris Thimble
Summer St
Biddeford
Local Post and Auxiliary Meet Tonight in Biddeford
Members of the Tighe-Beau doin Farley Post American Legion will meet at 8 tonight at the Post Home Elm Street Biddeford. The Luke E Hart Council Knights of Columbus holds a special meeting for officers and six point program chairmen at 8 tonight in Washington Street Biddeford hall. A meeting of Tighe-Beaudoin Farley Post Auxiliary is at 8 tonight at the post home Elm Street. A rummage sale is set for tomorrow 4 to 9 pm at Shaw's Market Saco Valley Shopping Center by the Catholic Women's Club of Most Holy Trinity Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tighe-Beaudoin Farley Post
American Legion
Post
Elm Street
Biddeford
Luke E. Hart
Tighe-Beaudoin- Farley Post, American Legion Auxiliary
Shaw's Market
Saco Valley Shopping Center
Catholic Women's Club of
Thursday prayer services and choir rehearsals listed in area churches
Mid week prayer meets are scheduled across several churches Thursday at 7 p m and 7 30 p m in Saco Old Orchard Beach Kennebunk Biddeford and Saco area. Choir rehearsals occur at Foss Street Methodist Church United Church of Christ Biddeford School Street Methodist and other churches with times ranging from 3 15 p m to 7 30 p m.
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Bible Baptist Church
Ferry Road
Saco
Salvation Army Hall
Union Ave
Old Orchard Beach
Biddeford Foss Street Methodist Church
South Biddeford Methodist Church
Foss Street
Crusader
United Church of Christ (Congregational
Biddeford
Advent Christian Church
Hill and
Chapel Streets
School Street Methodist Church
Warplanes and Fighting Intensify Across Vietnam Fronts
Reports say 90 Communist soldiers, mostly North Vietnamese regulars, were killed in coastal foothills of Quang Nam Quang Tin Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh as allied forces press guerrillas. Eight-engine B52s hit storage areas in the A Shau Valley while Mekong Delta attacks persist. Peking Radio claims one U.S. Navy A6 pilot survived after parachuting. another was killed when his plane crashed.
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Vinh
Quang Nam
Quang Tin
Quang Ngai
Binh Dinh
Mekong
South Vietnam
A Shau
Peking Radio Today
Red China
U.S
Registration Hours Listed In Biddeford
Biddeford's Board of Registration will be open from August 24 to 25 and August 28 to September 1, chaired by Anne D. Dutremble. Registration hours are 3 to 5 PM and 7 to 9 PM daily. Election Day is September 12 and residents may not register after September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Anne Skillings
Biddeford
Anne D. Dutremble
Officials Probe Longstanding James Street Home Conditions
The six member family has lived without water or toilets at the James Street residence since February. Mayor Doyle criticizes state inaction and notes corrective measures should have occurred sooner to spare the children from severe conditions.
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Partment
James Street
Doyle
Weather Forecast for Portland Pleasant and Cool
Tonight and Thursday expect fair skies with pleasant cool conditions. Highs reach upper 60s to lower 70s Thursday. Lows tonight in the 40s. Northwest winds at 5 to 15 mph.
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Portland
Weather outlook for northern New England and Massachusetts
The five day forecast predicts above normal temperatures with highs generally in the low 80s. Extreme north and eastern Maine may see mid 70s, with a cool Thursday followed by rising temperatures. Rain is expected as scattered showers or thunderstorms, totaling around one tenth to five tenths of an inch, mainly Saturday or Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Federal Forces Drive Troops Out of Ore in Nigeria War
Lagos reports federal forces drove Biafran troops from Ore about 20 miles inside West Nigeria. The battle left heavy casualties. Ore fell Sunday and federal reinforcements arrived Tuesday.
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Ore
Lagos
Nigeria
Radio Lagos
West
Midwest
Lagos State
Warri
Enugu
United States
Balkanor
Maine Considers Expanded Federal Student Loan Funds
Augusta AP reports a total of $850000 in federal loan money available to Maine students in higher education and vocational schools. Gov Curtis and the Executive Council approved $60000 in a special session as the state's stopgap share, freeing $625000 for four year college students and $225000 for vocational students. More than half the amount is already committed, with referendum planned in November to authorize a $12.5 million permanent loan program for colleges and other post high school enrollments. This year 461 applicants seek loans up to $1500 annually based on need, with low interest after graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Curtis
Bride Lucette Neault Weds Philip Pellerin At Biddeford Church
Miss Lucette S. Neault daughter of Mr and Mrs Edouard J Neault of Biddeford became the bride of Philip A Pellerin son of Osmine Pellerin of Westbrook in a morning ceremony at St Andre s Church Biddeford Rev Charles E Rivard officiated. The couple will reside in Southington Conn after Aug 26 with the bride a St Andre s High School graduate and the groom a Westbrook High School graduate and U S Army veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucette S. Neault
Edouard J. Neault
Judge St
Biddeford
Philip A. Pellerin
Onesime Pellerin
Myrtle St
Westbrook
St. Andre’s Church
Charles E. Rivard
Laura Proulx
Jacqueline Fontaine
Gerard Vereneau
Paulette Marcotte
Kennebunk Families Share Visits and Events Across Maine
Kennebunk residents hosted Kennebunk couple Mr and Mrs Kenneth Russell of St Stephen New Brunswick and their family. The Davis family of 34 Grove Street returned from a ten day trip including a barbershop jamboree in Alton Bay New Hampshire and a ride to Skowhegan Fredericton and St Stephen. The West Kennebunk Methodist Women held a picnic at Mrs Robert Knight’s home on Main Street with several attendees. Attendees also visited a Summer Youth Music Camp concert at the University of New Hampshire and Ted Steeles scholarship award. Marilyn Pitman attends Schubert Club scholarship events. closing concert set for Aug 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Russell
St. Stephen
N.B
Canada
Philip Davis
Janet
Joy
Joyce
Jill
Grove St. Atty
Raymond Brearey
Penwood Drive
Maine State Bar Association
Samoset Hotel
Rockland
Jil
Grove St
Alton Bay
N.H
Skowhegan
Fredericton
Knight
James Steele
Ralph Smith
Kennebunkport
Arthur L. Pitman
West Kennebunk
University of New Hampshire
Durham
Steeles
Ted
Yankee Belles
Marilyn Pitman
Schubert Club
Sealed bids for Biddeford street projects set for tonight
The Biddeford finance committee will open sealed bids this evening at 8 for reconstructing Birch Street and Lessard Avenue and adding sidewalks on Cross Street. The article notes the first transatlantic cable was completed on July 27, 1866.
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Biddeford
Cross Street
Birch Street
Lessard Avenue
Europe
America
Brother Roland Laliberte Makes First Profession
Brother Roland E. Laliberte of Biddeford made his first religious profession at Blessed Sacrament Novitiate in Barre Massachusetts. He was received into the Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament by Bishop Bernard J Flanagan. He will continue studies for the priesthood at Blessed Sacrament Major Seminary and John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio.
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Roland E. Laliberte
S.S.S
Roland Laliberte
Harding St
Biddeford
Barre
Mass
Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Bernard J. Flanagan
Worcester
Peter Julian Eymard
Roland
St. Joseph Parish
St. Andre
St. Joseph
St. Louis Jr
Eymard Preparatory Seminary
Hyde Park
N.Y
Eymard Junior College
Blessed Sacrament
Blessed Sacrament Major Seminary
John Carroll University
Cleveland
Ohio
George Laliberte
Valmont Gilbert
Mary Laliberte
Crash program on city slums urged by lawmakers and officials
Rep John Conyers Jr a Detroit Democrat calls a 30 billion dollar urban slum attack as Newark Mayor Adonizio urges a Marshall Plan style crash program for housing education crime control and related fields to prevent riots The Detroit riot troop commander faces criticism over gunfire orders and a survey says 90 percent of Guardsmen kept weapons unloaded
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Washington
Newark
John Conyers Jr
Detroit
Afl-Cio American Federation of Teachers
South Vietnam
America
Hugh J. Addonizio
Commission On Civil Disorders
Europe
House Armed Services
John L. Throckmorton
Subcommittee
Throckmorton
Charles P. Stone
No Opposition Files In Recall Election
Portland officials report no candidates had filed to oppose five recall targets by the Tuesday deadline. If the recall succeeds on September 12, the remaining two committee members would oversee public schools until the December 4 municipal election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
British diplomats beaten as Red Guards attack Beijing embassy
Hopson and nine staff members were beaten as Red Guards smashed the British Embassy in Beijing and set fires. diplomats fled to other missions while the Foreign Office confirmed staff and families were safe. Hong Kong communists press protests with strikes and threats over pro Communist papers and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopson
Foreign Office
Peking
Red Guards
Kyodo
London
Hong Kong
Red China
Biddeford Fire Responds to Three Calls
Biddeford firefighters were dispatched three times in 24 hours. A morning run to the city dump was deemed needless. They were called to 435 Elm Street where radiator water sprayed from Kenneth Pate’s car. A dryer fire at Alfred Street laundromat owned by Leandre Crepeau required a response.
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Biddeford
Elm St
Kenneth Pate
Alfred Street
Leandre Crepeau
SNCC Leader Freed On Bail At Wild Hearing
H. Rap Brown, 23, SNCC chair, freed after bail reduced from 25000 to 15000 in a noisy New York hearing before Judge Thomas F. Murphy. He left the detention house at 520 pm and told supporters justice is a joke in America. A New Orleans grand jury indicted him for carrying a carbine across state lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
H. Rap Brown
U.S
Thomas F. Murphy
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
House of Detention
Foley Square
America
Brown
Murphy
New Orleans
Maryland
Cambridge
Woman Seeks Bagpipes But Receives Chanter in Edinburgh
Roberta Golden, a Cleveland Orchestra violinist, visited Edinburgh bagpipe maker Andrew Ross on Tuesday seeking a full bagpipe set. Ross offered a chanter instead and promised to sell a complete set in a year if she progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Edinburgh
Scotland
Roberta Golden
Cleveland Orchestra
Andrew Ross
Ross
Puffing
Watts' Children Vacationing In Countryside
At CAMP ROBERTS California 2 400 Negro youths from Watts enjoy an early country holiday under crew chiefs led by Ted Watkins The first contingent faced delays but Ruth Marie Cross Shugie a 28 year old mother of four leads her girls with discipline care and affection
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Roberts
Calif
National
California
Watts
Nacimento
Ted Watkins
Los Angeles
Watts Community Conservation Corps
Ruth Marie Cross
Shugie
Watkins
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
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Allentown
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Frank X. Emond
J. P. Conroy
Shumway Funeral Service
Spring Street
Philip H. Gross Sr
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Thibault
Memoriam
Leandre Morin
St. Margaret’s Church
Norman Poltras
Vietnam
St. Joseph's
Robert Boyle
E. Terry Courtney
Knights of Pythias Hall
Kennebunk
Syeenn
Shee High Ou
S. St
Soviet Union
State Department
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Lucette Neault Is
Philip Pellerin
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John C. Pellerin
Wonderbar
Susan Vereneau
Judith Roy
E. M. Denger
Britain
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Katmai National Monument
SNCC
House of Lords
Columbia, S.C
Robert McNair
South Carolina
John F. Haley
Directory
College Park, Md
Edward Schwartz
Scarsdale
National Student Association
W. Eugene Groves
Schwartz
Oberlin College
NSA
Metropolitan
Paul D. Martel
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
St. Sorr SY
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