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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1962
Page
2
Clearing Portland forecast shows this afternoon partly cloudy with periods of sun and mild northerly winds. Tonight expect low cloudiness and fog with light variable winds. Saturday morning fog clears before noon then becomes mostly sunny and warm with highs 70 to 75 and lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
Paul Edwards sixty Seaview Avenue Old Orchard Beach is a surgical patient at Webber Hospital. Roland E Laliberte thirty nine Harding Street Biddeford will leave Sunday to resume studies at Eymerd Seminary Hyde Park New York. Recent guests of Mr and Mrs A Pelletier Beach Street Saco were Mrs Jules Demers Mrs Lucien Nadeau and Mr and Mrs Jean Mona all of Granby Mrs A Labrecque Rochester Mrs Yvonne Desmarais St Hyacinthe Miss L Frechette and Imelda Cote both of South Durham Mrs G Simard Lawrence Mass and Donat Parenteau Cambridge Mass
The Junior Bandana group of the Saco Salvation Army meets Saturday at 11 a.m. Confessions will be heard at St Monica church Keasebunk from 4 to 5 p.m. at St Martha church Kermebunk port 4 to 9 and 7 to 8 p.m. at St Mary church Wells 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Survey shows April 1962 pay averages for shoe workers in Auburn and Lewiston. Men earned $1.83 hourly, women $1.55, with top earners reaching $2.43 for pullover operators and $1.21 for janitors. Among women top stitchers earned $1.77, vampers $1.68, inspectors $1.31. Benefits included seven holidays, one to two weeks vacation, life and health insurance.
Lewiston police chased two men in a 1961 Oldsmobile after a high speed run at 60 to 70 mph against traffic on a busy one way street. The car sideswiped another vehicle, nearly struck a patrolman, and the occupants fled on foot. Mrs. Leo Bilodeau injured and hospitalized. The abandoned car was reported stolen in Quincy Massachusetts. Internal trunk plates included a Massachusetts plate X87 544. Car had Maine registration 139015. Identifying owner unavailable. Witness Philip St Pierre pursued the suspects but lost sight of them behind buildings.
Approximately 8,000 Maine state employees will receive a new hospital, surgical, and major medical group insurance program. The plan, underwritten by Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Union Mutual Life Insurance Co, includes a $10,000 per disability major medical policy and introduces weekly payroll deductions for the first time in state government. A special enrollment period begins after Labor Day following negotiated terms announced by Maine State Employees Association president John G. Small.
Diomede Boissonneault thanks Dr Fortier and Notre Dame Hospital staff for wonderful care during recent confinement and thanks relatives and friends for many beautiful cards and gifts.
Mrs Laura Ste Marie 77 of 41 Crescent Street Biddeford died last night in a local hospital after a long illness Born in Biddeford she was the daughter of Ferdinand and Marie Veillette She was a communicant of St Joseph church She is survived by a brother Arthur Veillette Saco and several nieces and nephews Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 830 from St Joseph church Friends may call at the Cote Funeral Home Beach Street Saco tomorrow and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10 p m
Robert L Perrin 41 a construction worker and husband of Nancy Elaine Mathews of Biddeford died suddenly yesterday at his residence 1713 Calhoun Street New Orleans He formerly lived on Pool Road Biddeford born October 11 1920 in Iowa son of Almer and Gertrude Perrin Survivors include his widow a daughter Deidre Pila Perrin New Orleans his mother Mrs Jensen Iowa two sisters and a brother Funeral services Monday at 10 am from Dennett and Craig Funeral Home Saco burial in Greenwood Cemetery Biddeford.
Funeral services were held yesterday morning for Mrs. Cecile Lambert of St. Joseph parish. Rev. Joseph Caron of Montreal celebrated the solemn high mass with Rev. Sylvia Levesque and Rev. Norman Carrier assisting. Organist Mrs. Diana Rousselle led singing. Bearers included Richard Lajeunesse, Raymond Lajeunesse, Paul Gagnon, Maurice Gagnon, Raymond Beaujolie, and Adrien Le Brond, with a Boy Scout Troop 309 delegation present. Burial followed in the St. Joseph cemetery with prayers at the grave by Rev. Fr. Levesque. Out-of-town attendees were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Gagne of Plainfield, N. J., and Mrs. Pauline Berube of Gardinia, Calif.
Leo Provost Jr. funeral held at St. Joseph church with a solemn requiem high mass led by Msgr. Elie Hevey. Assistants Rev Norman Carrier and Rev Sylvia Levesque. Deacons Adelard Mercier and John Renouf plus bearers Hervey Dubreuil George Trottier George Georga karakos and Richard Babino. Committal prayers by Fr Carrier. Family listed as Anatole Provost and children Robert Donald Lawrence Mass.
A brief OCR fragment records daytime and evening hours with numeric codes 3.1249 and 6.34 6.48, indicating a time schedule or clocking notation. No identifiable persons, places, or organizations are present.
Washington AP four major steel firms Bethlehem Republic National and Armco refused subpoenas from Senate Antitrust subcommittee to disclose unit production costs, calling data confidential. Kefauver denounces as contempt and moves to cite the executives. Contempt carries fines or imprisonment.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Alden of New Castle New Hampshire celebrated their golden wedding at New Castle town hall. Attendees included family from California North Carolina New Jersey Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine. The couple wed August 28 1912 in Newton Upper Falls Massachusetts. Alden worked 40 years at Saco Lowell shops before retiring in 1954. They have three children Priscilla Thorp Rosemary Baumbach and John S. Alden.
City officials announced another $50,000 payment on the tax anticipation note reducing the outstanding balance to $175,000. For the year Saco borrowed $425,000, with $200,000 repaid to date.
The New York market firmed at noon with the Dow AP 60 up 0.6 to 223.6 as motors climbed on hopes for auto profits and factory orders. Trading was slow ahead of the long weekend with many traders departing for Labor Day, markets closed Monday.
A meeting was held yesterday at the Edwards plant in Saco between Saco-Lowell shops and Local 406 Textile Workers Union of America AFL-CIO. The company countered union requests from a prior session. The four and a half hour session ended with serious consideration of the proposals and a next meeting set for the afternoon of September 15 at the Edwards plant.
Bangor police report Paul D. Lamoreau 31 died in a Bangor hospital after sustaining head injuries from falling rafters when a partially built potato house collapsed Tuesday at Hamlin. Two other men remained hospitalized from the accident. Lamoreau was a consultant for the Maine Public Service Co.
The Dow climbs 1.84 to 604.16 as aerospace costs hold steady. Bonds in both corporate and U.S. government sectors show mixed performance amid slow trading.
Work began today on a two story fireproof addition to Biddeford's McArthur Library on Main Street. Portland architect John Calvin Stevens drew plans for joining the Elm Street side, nearly doubling storage and work space. The library serves 75,000+ users annually and holds 42,000 volumes. the expansion aims for 70,000 volumes and broader service by year end.
Miss Frances G. Gauthier a former St Joseph school student and St Bernard High School graduate enters the novitiate at Putnam Conn dressed in the pos tulant. She will wear the novice habit next June and begin an intensive canonical novitiate leading to temporary vows a year later. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Gauthier formerly of Granite street Biddeford.
PORTLAND AP report details Mary Ellen Young a summer pool resident from Biddeford Pool who flew to New York for her first plane trip. She believes she is 106 or perhaps 110, laughing at retirement after a long nursing career in New York.
Rail workers walkout cripples the North Western system with idle locomotives and darkened stations. Loss estimates reach 600000 dollars daily in revenue and 2375000 weekly in payroll. Goods movement shifts to truck as mills fear grain shipments from the Great Lakes to Minneapolis markets are disrupted. Union leader George E. Leighty declares little chance of quick settlement amid a dispute dating to 1957 over job elimination and modernization.
Mexican court voided the proxy marriage of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, saying the Juarez union never existed. The ruling could drop Italy bigamy charges from a Rome grand jury investigation. Ponti, 46, Loren, 27, were wed by proxy in September 1957 after Ponti’s Mexican divorce.
A stove simmered dish uses shredded green cabbage cooked in milk then thickened with butter blended with flour. Salt and a generous amount of pepper season the creamy mixture for a comforting proposal.
Biddeford Superintendent Raymond P. Kenneally released the coming year’s faculty assignments. High School lists principals, department heads, and teachers by subject including Stebbins and Blaisdell. Junior High notes grade leaders and subject teachers. Emery, Washington Street, Wentworth, and Bradbury Street Schools name principals, grade teachers, and special staff.
Rev Hillyer H Straton native of Texas and First Baptist Malden Mass will preach at The Temple Ocean Park for both Sunday services closing the 1962 season. Dr Norman Gottwald of Andover Newton will read, Rev Ralph W Rey will offer pastoral prayer, Temple choirs to sing, and a 2 30 pm sermon The Prodigal.
A banquet by the Past Presidents Parley of the Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley post American Legion auxiliary was held at Marshview Scarborough with 12 members and a guest. Miss Germaine Lariviere welcomed attendees and Mrs Nellie Petit spoke as new auxiliary president. The next meeting is Sept 17 with officers elected, hosted by Mrs Yvonne Bergeron Biddeford.
Police report says 73 year old Erwin B Gowen of 112 Elm Street Saco was northbound on Ocean Park road when an unidentified car crowded him off the highway, striking a utility pole. Gowen escaped injury and damage to his car was estimated at 150 dollars.
The Kennedy administration backs a private company to operate a global satellite system modeled after Telstar. Half the stock to existing communications firms and half to the public at $100 a share, with 15 directors and presidential appointees. Critics fear AT&T dominance, supporters cite safeguards and government controls.
Wirtz, vacationing with family near Winchester Virginia, learns by telephone in Chicago from Kennedy that he has been chosen for the Cabinet. He resumes his mountain stay to a welcome from homemade signs reading Congratch our new secretary of labor and No strikes with Wirtz, followed by a late supper a cold roast beef sandwich.
Larceny of 88038 dollars from a steel cabinet in the Wellwood's office on Main Street Saco was reported by store manager Mrs Albert Blake. Police say the money in a light blue cotton bag with a zipper was left in the cabinet with the door key in place and included a 5 54 dollar cashing check. The case remains under investigation.
Two Biddeford accidents left only minor damage and no injuries. Paul R. Adams, 29, reported his car was damaged near Alfred and Jefferson streets at 8 10 a m when Leah Gladys Robie, 67, failed to turn the corner and touched his vehicle while his car was parked. Later on Main Street Gerald Snow, 31, and Robert Nannis, 45, collided as Snow took his eyes off the road to watch two children cross. damage was not extensive and no injuries were reported. Police investigated both incidents.
In Biddeford Municipal Court Judge Simon Spill found Leo Turgeon 17 guilty of imprudent driving after an assault and battery complaint involving Linda Hubert 17. Turgeon’s license suspended 10 days, fine 25 dollars. judge suspended the fine. In a separate action Frederick A. Chase 21 pleaded guilty to driving without an adequate muffler and was fined 10 dollars with a 10 day license suspension.
A well baby and immunization clinic will be held at the Old Orchard Beach Town Hall on Tuesday at 9 30 a m. Immunization will be available for diphtheria and polio and vaccinations for smallpox.
Three traffic violation cases heard in Saco Municipal court this morning. Warren Dalzell 56 of Flag Pond road Saco pleaded guilty to speeding 60 mph in a 30 mph zone on North street and was fined 15. Donald Stevens 34 of Kome bunk pleaded guilty to driving without a license and was fined 10. John Dolan 42 of Greenbush Mass pleaded guilty to passing a red light on Main street and was fined 10. Saco police were the complainants in all three cases.
Algiers seeks reason and conciliation to avert civil war as foreign diplomats are told the crisis will blow over. French sources say major armed conflict is unlikely while the army stays on the sidelines. The capital garrison is about 4,000 guerrillas with 35,000 troops nationwide. Ben Bella and Boumedienne command 45,000 regulars and about 25,000 guerrillas across four wilayas pledged to their leadership.
The finish coat for James street in Saco was scheduled for today by the P R Boston company of North Berwick. Boston will also black-top the curbings as the street is rebuilt under Mayor Dinsmore Worthing’s street improvement program, with plans for a black-topped sidewalk toward Common street.
Stanley Tupper will campaign on every main street in York County. The York County Republican committee met at Dayton Town hall with administrative assistant Stanley Hanson and speakers including Paul Dillaway Theodore Curtis Jr. and Gov Reed plans. Ralph Lovell discussed space contracts for Maine industry. Raymond Bradeen noted youth interest in the party and Philip Hussey Jr. outlined campaign plans. Hussey called the meeting valuable and one of the best.
Biddeford firemen rushed to the Thacher hotel at 12 28 AM after a false alarm. A later call at 1 27 PM to 38 Rossouth street reported an overflowed oil burner in a tenement owned by Mrs. Bella Hotte and occupied by Lionel Up. Truck one arrived but no equipment was needed.
Members of the Francena club of North Saco met at the home of Mrs. Clara Oliver and Miss Katie May Oliver. Refreshments were served by Miss Oliver and her mother. Attending were Thelma Scamon, Meda Sawyer, Mary Fogg, Mona Foss, and the hostesses. Next meeting set for September 12 at Mary Fogg's Simpson road home.
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