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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1959
Page
6
The Kennebunk school lunch menu for the week lists high and junior high meals from Monday through Friday. Each day features a main dish, sides, fruit or dessert, and milk, with items such as macaroni and cheese hamburger casserole baked beans turkey with gravy fish sticks and assorted vegetables.
Park Street School lists weekly meals from Monday to Friday with varied entrees. Monday features vegetable soup Italian sandwich fruit and milk. Tuesday offers pork patty mashed potato green beans bread and butter bread pudding and milk. Wednesday provides orange juice American chop suey rolls and butter cheese ice cream. Thursday serves meat pie vegetables mashed potato bread and butter jello and milk. Friday notes no menu due to vacation start.
Weekly school meals list for Cousens School outlines daily lunches. Monday features pork with mashed potatoes carrots bread and butter pudding and milk. Tuesday offers vegetable soup cold meat sandwich carrot sticks cookies and milk. Wednesday serves turkey and gravy mashed potatoes peas bread and butter cranberry sauce ice cream and milk. Thursday includes turkey soup celery sticks bread and butter raisins and milk.
Michigan State home economists estimate the average life of a refrigerator at 17 years. The finding reflects typical appliance wear and failure cycles observed in household usage.
The 95th birthday of Mrs. Emma Martin Morin will be celebrated Sunday at 54 Pike Street Biddeford with open house for relatives and friends from 2 to 5 p m The event includes a tiered cake cutting and a corsage pinning ceremony Morin widow of Philips Morin moved to Biddeford from Roxton Falls P Q in 1899 and is mother to 11 children 49 grandchildren and 102 great grandchildren plus many great greats She is active in St Andre church Gold Star Mothers of the American Legion and Ste Anne sociality The Priscilla chapter Eastern Star Christmas gathering followed with guest notices and officer rehearsals for January 7 and 8 events
C Arnold Brown of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce announced support for Quoddy as the key to alleviating substandard living and relief dependence. Fleming’s delegation favored development aligned with protecting any affected industry, notably fishing. Muskie urged the new committee to study the engineering report, gather more data, and ready testimony for U.S. Congressional committees.
Committees and final arrangements were announced for Thornton Academy senior class play Charley's Aunt to be staged Wednesday at Saco City Hall at 8 pm. Cast includes Suzanne Robinson, Mary Ladd, Nancy Mitchell, Joan Bouffard, Richard Parker, Alan Marston, David Perkins, William Pollocek, James Lawler and Richard Belanger. Dress rehearsal is Tuesday at Saco City Hall.
A combined supper Christmas party and business meeting was held at the Saco G A R hall by the Past Presidents association of the Fred S Gurney Women s Relief Corps. The committee included Mrs Beatrice Hover Mrs Alice Brock and Mrs Irene Ayer. Vice President Mrs Phyllis Wright presided. Condensed social hour games and prizes followed with gifts and cards given to each member. Attendees included Mrs Alice Brock Mrs Dorothy Boyd Mrs Irene Ayer Mrs Beatrice Hover Mrs Phyllis Wright Mrs Gertrude Dennett Mrs Hazel Emmons Mrs Doris Duross Mrs Marion Boucher Mrs Minnie Henderson and Mrs Florence Rankeillor.
In San Diego California the zoo reported sending two Central American spider monkeys to the Leopoldville Zoo as part of an exchange program, noting the move might seem illogical like sending snowballs to Alaska. The transfer aims to strengthen international zoo partnerships.
York county urges support for tuberculosis work as Dr. Carl E Richards designates Sunday as Do It Day. The Christmas Seal drive funds case funding health education school health rehabilitation patient services and medical research New cases in Maine reach 148 this year with nine in York county Mrs Rufus G Jasper of Eliot notes progress but warns eradication remains a distant goal
Big Vote Romeo Sevigny faces Armand Arel in Ward 2. John Cleary Jr. who beat Lionel Cote for Ward 7 last year will be opposed by Roland Bois. In Ward 4 Fontaine challenges Leo Marchand. Deschambault slate fielding Warden and ward clerks in seven wards. Lambert slate has no opposition. Polls open Monday 1 to 8 pm at Siloam Hall Ward 1 and other local polling places.
Hal Towne and his son Randy host a camp-out that spirals into Bedlam as fire fighters, partygoers in costumes, and a gun wielding burglar invade the midtown bivouac on The Dennis O'Keefe Show. The program airs Tuesday December 15 on Channel 13 at 8 pm.
The polls will be open in Saco from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ward 1 voters use the Sweetser school right hand classroom, Ward 2 vote at GAR hall City building, Ward 3 in Locke school front classroom, Ward 4 at Bonython school, Ward 5 in Sweetser school left hand classroom, Ward 6 in Locke school back classroom, Ward 7 vote in Frobel hall Saco City building.
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