Biddeford and Saco voters face mayoral race and bond issue
Voters in Biddeford and Saco head to polls Monday to elect a new mayor seven city council members and a school committee member, with a $45000 Bond issue to fund a sewage treatment plant on Bearbrook. Republicans and Democrats name slate candidates amid a tight campaign with emphasis on tax plans and progress.
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Biddeford
Saco
Saco Big Bone
Warren E. Peterson
Lawrence Rowe
Earle Emens
Herbert Kearns
Brendan Twomey
Byron F. Dolby
Republican City Committee
Reed W. Rumery
Marblehead
Atty. John Harvey
Joseph Grondin
Charles R. Cote
Adrien Petit
Philip Glaude
Louis Soucy
Joseph Kenneally
Alcide Deschambeault
Peter A. Garland
Garland
Bearbrook
Goose Fare Brook
Cote
Peterson
Water Improvement Commission
Clement H. Dechabault
Democratic Social Club
Albert C. Lambert
Herter Leaves For Paris Talks
Washington AP Secretary of State Christian A Herter leaves for Western strategy talks in Paris to press for stronger NATO defense and seek European help with burden sharing. He travels with Robert B Anderson and Thomas Gates and will attend a cabinet level NATO meeting in Paris starting next Tuesday.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Paris
North Atlantic Alliance
Herter
the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Thomas §. Gates, Jr
Andrews Air Force Base
Foy D. Kohler
Charles E. Bohlen
Anderson
Gates
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Council
West Germany
France
NATO
Europe
Toulon
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Cajun DJ Reports Payola Gifts From Listeners
Crowley Louisiana Alan Sonnier a Cajun French radio disc jockey testifies to the FCC recounting gifts from listeners over the years for playing recordings. He lists boudin smoked sausage ducks pork shoulder pumpkin watermelons cane syrup sweet potatoes hog cracklings kumquats and other items including coffee, a live guinea, shrimp and orange wine. He says he feels his conscience relieved now.
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Crowley
Alan Sonnier
Evangeline Land
Lagniappe
Payola
Sonnier
Federal Communications Commission
Washington
Alex Broussar
Dujon
KSIG
Have Gum Will Travel: Ninth Grader in Bubble Gum Snare
A humorous classroom moment as a teacher discovers a ninth grader stuck with bubble gum. The student is sent out to remedy the situation, and a voice from the rear quips Have gum, Will travel, attributed to Copr. Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Fea. Corp
Honest mistake lands two troopers in court
Portland gray county incident involves troopers Richard C. Jones and Harold J. Robinson who shot a deer from a cruiser in a state game preserve. They were fined $10 each in Gray. Warrants charge Jones with shooting two deer in one season and Robinson with hunting without a license. Both plan to appear in Portland Municipal Court next Wednesday. the prosecutor chose the Portland venue to avoid prior knowledge.
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Portland
Richard C. Jones
Harold J. Robinson
Kittery
Maine
Robert Marx
Maynard F. Marsh
Gorham
Jones
Robinson
Arthur Chapman, Jr
Chapman
Gray Court
Two Car Collision Near Happy Smile Arundel
Hospital physicians treated motorists from a two car head on crash on a slippery Arundel road near the Happy Smile service station. Reported injuries and other details were not available at press time.
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Webber Hospital
Arundel
Happy Smile
Saco Board Studies Zone Cases With No Decision
The Saco Zoning Ordinance Appeals board has not reached a vote on three hearings this week. Chairperson George Love said decisions may come next week. Appeals include revoking a building permit for Cumberland Foods Inc at the old Reserve Dair site on Ferry road, a Western Village replica on the Beaudoin farm, and a commercial ice skating rink at Dyer and Harrison avenues. Opposition centered on the Cumberland Foods issue.
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Zoning Ordinance Appeals Board
George Love
Love
Ferry Road
Charles Pendleton
Cumberland Foods, Inc
Cumberland Foods
Republican Party Finances Reviewed in Closed Sessions
The Republican National Committee chaired by Sen Thurston Morton of Kentucky met in closed door sessions in Chicago to review party finances and funding status.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Thurston Morton
Leaders To Seek OK For Quoddy Project
Maine and New Brunswick officials formed an executive committee to push U S Canadian government approval for the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project. The group will study project aspects, appoint subcommittees, and pursue a 550 million dollar engineering plan cited by the International Joint Commission.
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Maine
International Joint Commission
Passamaquoddy
Cobscook Bays
Fleming
R. H. Eagan
Milltown
N.B
Gov. Clauson
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Sumner T. Pike
Lubec
U.S
Pike
Visit May Change History in India Visit
President Eisenhower’s India visit drew vast crowds in New Delhi with estimates around 2.2 million, far surpassing 1955 Khrushchev reception. Indian Prime Minister Nehru and diplomat M. C. Chagla hailed the trip as opening a new chapter in world history. Eisenhower planned daylight rest between two functions while handling White House business from a distant capital.
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New Delhi
India
Eisenhower
M. C. Chagla
United States
Nehru
Nikita Khrushchev
Three Continents
Rajendra Prasad
White House
Washington
Hopkins Family Led Vermont Composer of We Three Kings
In Vermont author details Rev John Henry Hopkins Jr who wrote the Christmas carol We Three Kings in 1857 at his father's home, a hymn now famed. The Hopkins family produced several prominent figures from Caspar to Theodorus and Frederick, with multiple siblings earning distinction in church, law and education.
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Baxma Martin Morin
Pikesreet
Biddeford
St. Andre Church
Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley American Legion Auxiliary
Wilfred A. Cate
Harold J. Duranceau
Montpelier
Green Mountains
John Henry Hopkins Jr
Burlington
Vermont
John Henry Hopkins
United States
Hopkins
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