Community Notes From Kennebunk and Nearby
Local residents and visitors frequent Kennebunk and Arundel areas. Sam Spencer and family visited Belmont Michigan with cousin David Bennett while son Scott stayed with grandparents in Kennebunkport. Bessie Cater returned from ten weeks in Manchester New Hampshire after graduations of Russell Rogler. Several families hosted guests from Massachusetts Vermont and Illinois over weekends and summers.
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Sam Spencer
Mousam Road
Belmont
Mess
David Bennett
Scott
George Cook
Wildes District
Kennebunkport
Bessie Cater
Alice Vilandry
Fletcher Street
Manchester
N. H
Catherine Rogie
Mass
Old Orchard Beach MRS and Wight Studio Visit
Mrs Margaret J Hill aged 100 living at Randall hall fell last Friday breaking her hip and was taken to Saco hospital. Bruns wick visitors included Mrs George Jackson Priscilla Perkins and her son Thomas plus Mrs F Carroll Perkins from New Jersey. Washington Ave Methodist women plan dinner for Salvation Army Retired Officers Saturday at 5 pm with Florence Gray and Alice Browne in charge.
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Margaret J. Hill
Randall Hall
Saco Hospital
George Jackson
Priscilla Perkins
Thomas
Brunswick
F. Carroll Perkins
New Jersey
Ethel Wight
Wight Studio
Ocean Park
Women's Society of Christian Service
Washington Avenue Methodist Church
Salvation Army
Florence Gray
Alice Browne
Ogunquit church hosts lobster salad supper and free film show
Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road offers a Saturday public lobster salad supper with clam chowder from 5 30 to 7 30 p m and child tickets available. Tickets sold 9 a m to 7 p m at the church. Sunday night at 8 p m a showing of Lost Boundaries by Louis DeRochmont will be free with a voluntary offering. no admission charge. The film was shot in the Portsmouth N H Kittery York area and appeals to locals.
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Ogunquit Methodist Church
Shore Road
Louis DeRochmont
Shorewoed
Portsmouth
N. H.-Kittery-York
Reverend Carroll D. Tripp To Fill Kennebunkport Pulpit
Reverend Carroll D. Tripp of Burlington Vermont will fill his former pulpit at Village Baptist Church Kennebunkport Sunday at 11 am. He led the church from 1936 to 1942 and will speak on Conformed or Transformed. Tripp is director of Christian Education for the Vermont Baptist State convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll D. Tripp
Burlington
Village Baptist Church
Kennebunkport
Tripp
Vermont Baptist State Convention
Earl Davis Named To Chamber Post
Earle B. Davis of 15 Intervale Road Kennebunk has been named executive secretary of the Kennebunk Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce. He succeeds Dr. Leon Bradley who resigns and will assume the post September 1. Davis, a leather industry retiree, has lived in Reading and Kennebunk where he and wife Bernice reside in a new house. He is a Christchurch member and active in the Kennebunkport Men's Club and will attend his first director's meeting September 14.
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Earle B. Davis
Intervale Road
Kennebunk
Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce
Leon Bradley
Davis
Haverhill
Mass
Reading
Bernice
Christchurch
Kennebunkport
Chamber
Waterfowl Rules Seen Affecting Duck Hunting
The Interior Department outlines Atlantic flyway regulations aimed at a 20 percent harvest reduction, while Central and Mississippi flyways face a 50 percent target. North east Region chief Gottschalk cites poor black duck nesting, regional declines, and drought impacts, noting high hunter success in the northeast with Rhode Island leading at 5.75 birds per hunter.
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Atlantic
Secretary of the Interior
Northeast
John&. Gottschalk
Regoin
Bureau of Sport
Department of the Interior
Fish and Wildlife Service
Gottschalk
Central
Mississippi
New England States
Canadian
New England
New York
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Vermont Pupils See Dream Come True Planetarium arrives in St Johnsbury schools
St Johnsbury students funded a $16000 optical planetarium now to be housed at Fairbanks Museum. A town effort plus donations from individuals and groups raised half the cost, with Rotary contributions pushing total toward funding. The planetarium will educate public and school groups, with Mold teaching astronomy and demonstrating satellites, comets, and space flights.
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ST. Johnsbury
Fairbanks Museum
New England
Fred Mold
Richard F. Coyle
Attleboro
Mass
Pawtucket
R.I
Coyle
St. Johnsbury Rotary Club
National Defense Ed
Planetarium
Iecemeal
Useum
Mold
Lyndon Teachers College
Senator McNamara vents over stalled medical bill action
Washington Bureau reports Senator Pat McNamara, chair of the Special Committee on Aging, criticizes the Senate for not advancing the King Anderson administration medical care bill for the aged. He notes no hearings are planned, outlines bill provisions on inpatient, skilled nursing, and home health services with a $20 deductible, and argues extending health insurance for all aged could reduce overall costs by shifting care from costly hospital stays to home or nursing home care.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Local Real Estate Deals Tie Up Cottages and Lots
Harold Downs of East Hartford Conn buys two cottages and an extra lot at Barkers Pond Lyman from Mr and Mrs Herman Gowen via Irving Remar Biddeford Real estate. Richard J Stephens and Madeline M Stephens of Biddeford purchase Alice B Libby cottage at 20 Carll Avenue Old Orchard Beach through King Woodman Realty. The Stephens occupy the residence. Trees along the Brittany coast bend permanently east.
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Harold Downs
East Hartford
Garland Favors Compromise Aid To Schools Bill
Congressman Peter A. Garland of Maine supports a compromise federal aid to education plan. The proposal, outlined by Secretary Ribicoff, would extend defense education act provisions, fund urgent school construction, aid colleges and universities, and create college scholarship programs for federally impacted districts. Garland notes the education and labor committee awaits House leaders decision and says the compromise is better than nothing for his district.
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Washington
Peter ‘A. Garland
R.me
Abraham Ribicoff
Congress
Education and Labor Committee
House
Garland
Ribicoff
Directors Named By Insurance Firm
Robert Morrisson and Thomas Widgery of Portland were elected to the board of directors of Maine Fidelity Life Insurance Co. announced by president Robert R. Masterton. Morrisson, general manager and treasurer of Cook Everett and Pennell, has held many civic posts and began his career in 1929 with McKesson Fuller Morrison. Thomas, executive vice president of Canal National Bank, serves as director of Canal National Bank and holds multiple community and youth group roles. Both were elected at the August board meeting.
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Robert Morrisson
Widgery ‘Thomas, Jr
Portland
Maine Fidelity Life Insurance Company
Robert R. Masterton
Morrisson
Cook, Everett and Pennell
National Wholesale Druggers’ Association
Portland United Community Services
Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce
Association Better Business Bureaus
Cumberland Savings and Loan Association
McKesson, Fuller, Morrisson Company
Thomas
Canal National Bank
Portland United Fund Campaign
Maine Savings Bank
Maine Medical Center
Portland Yacht Club
Portland Y.M.C.A
Pine Tree Council
Boy Scouts of America
Maine Fidelity
Actress Audrey Meadows Weds Continental Air Lines Chief
Honolulu AP report says actress Audrey Meadows and Robert F. Six president of Continental Air Lines wed in an Episcopal ceremony on Thursday. They plan a Far East tour. This is Meadows second marriage and Six’s first.
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Honolulu
Audrey Meadows
Robert F. Six
Continental Air Lines
Far East
Miss Meadows
Garland Seeks Compromise to Improve Education in America
A reported push for amendments seeks agreement among reasonable men to advance education in America, with Garland preferring edits while seeking broader approbation.
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Garland
America
Notable facts mix survey page on people and world data
The excerpt mentions Six and his second wife singer Ethel Merman, notes Miss Meadows will continue TV and film work, cites a March 1960 Agadir Mexico earthquake with 12,000 deaths, claims quakes are rare there, states Hawaiian has 13 letters as the world’s shortest alphabet and Hindu alphabet reportedly over 7 letters long.
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Ethel Merman
Miss Meadows
Agadir
Mexico
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Edmund Cashen
Dial YU
Old Orchard Beach
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Ogunquit
Carroll Tripp
Earl Davis
Gove
Brittany
Air Lines
North Berwick
Chevy
Brookwood
Fisher
Chevrolet
ED & Frank Chevrolet
Alfred Street
Biddeford
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