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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1961
Page
2
The forecast covers Portland this afternoon with cloudy skies and snow sleet changing to rain. Southeasterly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight cloudy with rain and southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Wednesday mostly cloudy and colder with scattered snow flurries. Zone 1 highs around the mid to upper 30s, lows tonight near the mid 30s.
Biddeford city solicitor Albert W. Cookson is in Augusta today on business. Mrs. Winifred Worcester of 18 Fall Street Biddeford spent the weekend in Boston with her daughter Miss Margaret Worcester who is employed there.
A series of midweek church activities are listed. The Weekly Prayer meeting is at Biddeford United Baptist Church at 7 30 p m. Community Bible Study is at Ogunquit Baptist Church Shore Road also at 7 30 p m. The Christian Science Society Hamilton Memorial 42 Beach Street Saco holds a service at 7 45 p m. Lyman Baptist Church Goodwins Mills hosts choir rehearsal at 6 50 p m and a prayer meeting at 8 p m.
A prayer meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 30 pm at Advent Christian church located in Kennebunk Lower Village. The event invites community members to gather for shared prayers in the church.
A mid-week service will be held Wednesday at 7 30 p m at the Full Gospel church Route 9 A just off Route 109 Wells.
Prayer hour will be held Wednesday evening at 7 30 at the Kennebunkport Advent Christian church.
A prayer and Bible study hour will be held in the vestry of the Village Baptist Church in Kennebunkport on Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
A joint committee of the Universalist and Unitarian congregations will meet this evening at 7 in the minister's study of the Biddeford Universalist church.
The Biddeford First Universalist church board of management will meet tonight at 7 30 at the church. The Youth choir of the Saco School Street Methodist church will rehearse Wednesday at 3 15 PM at the church.
The Methodist Men of West Scarborough United Methodist Church will host a fried clam supper on Friday December 15 from 5 30 to 7 p m at the church on Route 1 in Dunstan Clyde Harmon oversees meal preparation.
New York early trading sees the Associated Press average up 0.50 to 267.1 as industrials and rails rise and United States markets hold gains. American Telephone, General Motors and Standard Oil New Jersey hit new highs amid strong investment demand and rosy retail sales. Unilever issues debut on the NYSE while Jeresy Standard and GM lead gains. Great Western and Amerada fall on profit taking. Dow Jones hits 735.51 at noon, eyeing the 834.34 record high set on Nov. 15.
Members of the Biddeford Lacc aerie will meet at the Eagles home tonight at 7 and proceed to the Sansoucy Funeral home on Stone Street in Biddeford to pay respects to Gerald Rene St. Ours.
Funeral services for George W Coburn of 78 Franklin Street Saco were conducted Monday afternoon at Shumway Funeral Home 35 Spring Street Saco Reverend Stanley A Bennett of the Saco United Baptist Church officiated and burial followed at Brooklawn Memorial Park Portland.
Funeral services for Mark Francis Gagnon were held this morning with Rev. Coleman O Toole of St. Mary parish, Biddeford, conducting at Sansoucy Funeral Home. Burial followed in St. Mary cemetery. Out of town attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lucier and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ouellette of Wallingford Conn. Mrs Jeannette Janson of Somersworth N H and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Pelletier of Dover NH.
Mrs Margaret Jane Hill, longtime Saco resident and widow of George F E Hill, was honored in a Dennett and Craig Funeral home service. Rev John Stahl of Old Orchard Washington Avenue Methodist church officiated, with burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco.
A requiem high mass for Zita M Seney was held at St Margare t church Old Orchard Beach at 9 am officiated by Rev Edward Walsh. The ladies choir sang and Mrs Antonio Bois vert was organist. Bearers were George Taillon Alcide Perreault Charles Bou cher and Francis Cote. Burial occurred in St Joseph cemetery Biddeford with Rev Feather Walsh saying prayers at the grave.
Bowdoinham AP Five girls wearing slacks were sent home again as Principal George McEvoy enforced a School Committee ban on such attire in classrooms. The issue stems from ongoing protests by the same families. A special meeting with 150 citizens failed to resolve the dispute. the rule will stay in force. Supporters filed a petition with 19% signatures backing the no-slacks policy.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Germany cleared Heusinger long ago and called the Soviet move propaganda aimed at blackening West Germany and alienating allies. Heusinger, once chief of staff of West Germany's armed forces, was interned after World War II but never tried for war crimes.
Ossie Davis recalls his birth name came from a clerical error in Waycross Georgia. A clerk asked for initials of his given name and the R C was recorded as Ossie. The intended name honored his grandfather Ray ford Chapman Davis.
At the University of Illinois campus in Champaign Urbana students knit snoot boots for frost bitten noses and elastic nose-warmers to aid leukemia victims. University President David D. Henry received a complete with tassel and a supersnooter model was sent to President Kennedy for free distribution to donors.
Ad promotes a light conditioned used car at White Buick, 467 Elm Street Biddeford. Contact CAIl at 2-1575 for more details.
Last night brought subfreezing and near freezing readings across Maine and Atlantic Canadian locales. Caribou dropped to 13 F while Mt Wash stood at 8 F and Eastport hit 27 F, with Old Town 25, Rumford 26, Portland 25, Concord 27, Halifax 27, Montreal 26, and Greenville 18.
Paris AP report says President de Gaulle remains unwilling to enter joint negotiations with the Soviet Union on Berlin. French officials anticipate possible U.S. led talks with Moscow continuing, but De Gaulle’s veto power as a Western occupier could block any bargain. The Big Four ministers meet to seek a unified policy, with any plan likely to wait for North Atlantic Council review.
The Past Noble Grands association of Evangeline Rebekah Lodge Biddeford will hold a combined meeting and Christmas party at 7 30 p m on Wednesday at the home of Noble Grand Mrs Vera Munford High street Saco Secret Pals will be revealed at this time
Court Depary Association Canada American will meet tonight at 7:30 in Fremont club hall Alfred street Biddeford. The Past Presidents association of Fred S Gurney corps Saco will hold the annual Christmas tree and supper tomorrow night in Portland at Rose and Virginias. Members will meet at 6 pm at the Saco GAR hall Cutts avenue for transportation.
The Unity club auxiliary will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs Ethel Whitten on Temple avenue in Ocean Park. A covered dish supper will precede the meeting at 6 30.
The Bishop Fenwick Council Knights of Columbus will hold a meeting tonight at 8 at GAR hall in Saco.
The Owen-Davis unit of the American Legion auxiliary will meet at the Pos home on Beach Street in Saco on Wednesday evening at 7 30 followed by a Christmas party for the post and auxiliary at 8.
The Past Matrons association of Annette chapter Order of the Eastern Star plans a Christmas party and buffet supper on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Florence Northrup's home 451 Ferry Road Saco with hosts Vennetta Dennett Grace Littlefield and Agnes O'Toole assisting.
Adah chapter of CBS will convene Friday night at 6 30 PM at the Masonic hall in Biddeford for an ESTARL supper served at that start time under co chairmanship of Mrs Agnes Johnson and Mrs Jean Arnold. After the business meeting a Christmas party follows with Santa Claus giving gifts and a Christmas program. Refreshments will be served under the direction of Mrs Lucille Appleby and committee, members will bring a 25 cent gift.
The Past Matrons association plans a Thursday gathering at Mrs. Helen Parks in Biddeford Pool. A 6 30 dinner precedes a business meeting and a Christmas tree. Members needing transportation may contact Mrs. Parks.
Washington The Air Force notified Senator Edmund S. Muskie that it has released eighty four thousand dollars for construction of the Topsham Chapel Annex. The move highlights federal support for local religious building work and follows prior funding gaps.
The 13 year old mute student from St Collettia's School for exceptional children disappeared Friday near Hanover Mass. His body was found in a swampy area near Norwell about two miles from the school. Autopsy planned. exposure suspected. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Morris Smith of Newton.
In Boston AP report, Abraham Swartz owner of a Cambridge locksmith shop faces gambling charges after a CBS News film showed police entering the shop. His attorney seeks dismissal or delay claiming publicity makes a fair trial impossible. The raid was filmed by TV cameras across the street, intensifying calls for police reform and scrutiny of federal officials.
The plan involved Taku Mikami, 56, a former imperial navy lieutenant now head of Kiko Industrial Co. Police traced the plot to September, mapped an earlier crackdown, and halted raids after plans leaked. Ikeda showed no concern, walking in his garden and attending a routine Cabinet meeting.
A brief note cites plans for an annex to the chapel at Topsham Air Station. Details on size funding or timeline are not provided in the readable text.
Democrats captured Westbrook mayoralty as Francis Rocheleau defeated former Republican Elmer Currier. The city council shifted to Democratic control for the first time in six years with three aldermen-at-large. Old Town approved fluoridation, Leila Boone won a Eastport school board seat, and Hallowell elected Raymond Rideout as mayor in a nonpartisan vote.
In Houston Mrs. Glenna Ireland’s four sons testified she faced repeated beatings and being locked out before her husband Simon Ireland was shot dead on Oct 14. James Churchill, 18, and Lawrence, 20, described the abuse and nights in the car. The medical examiner said the victim showed signs of alcohol influence at the time of the shooting.
From the Associated Press report Southern officials saw little significance in the Supreme Court overturning 16 sit-in convic tions while Negro leaders hailed the ruling as a new day. Chief Justice Warren noted no proven disturbance and left broad constitutional questions unresolved.
Unemployment pay claims at the Biddeford Maine Employment Security office rose slightly last week to 898, up 24 from 874. Of these, 226 are listed under the 13 week extended benefit program. total claims last year for the same week were 816.
Paris AP reports director Roger Vadim plans to protest American censors over erotic scenes in his modern take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring Brigitte Bardot’s successor Annette Stroyberg. Vadim travels to New York for next week's premiere and warns he will withdraw the film if cuts are required. He emphasizes no violence, defends exposing intimate content, and questions the prudish aftermath for audiences.
The Office of Sen. Edmund Muskie announced that Saco will have its Area Redevelopment Agency approved for the overall economic development program tomorrow. The provisional OEDP, prepared by the Saco Industrial Development Commission, outlines an economic review, problems and needs, potential with resources and markets, labor skills, development objectives, and recommended action.
Mrs. John F. Byrne, mother of four and restaurant chain developer’s wife, pleads guilty to a federal tax evasion charge for 1956-57, saying she will not let her husband go to jail alone. Byrne had pleaded guilty earlier. judge set sentencing for Jan. 5 with possible penalties up to 10 000 dollars and five years in prison for each.
Brussels reports that Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak sent a note to the Western powers meeting in Paris urging Thant to arrange an immediate cease fire in Katanga. Dr Conor Cruise OBrien, former U.N. operations chief, said on British TV that the U.N. should not seek a cease fire again and must press to establish clear superiority.
Pitts burg woman Octavia Jones aged 53 faced Judge William F. Cercone on charges of operating a sneakeasy. She said the church needed an organ and she aimed to raise funds to buy one. The judge fined her 300 dollars and ordered costs.
District Four, largest, elected 20 members led by Helene H Fouler 626 and James a Moutsatos 526. District Three Beachfront chose Edmund W Beaumont 145 Samuel Harrisburg 103 Henry Rudy 139 Harry S Walker 112 John White 103. District Five Down Town elected Robert W Bergeron 231 Alan C Radley 264 Clarence Jones 390, and others. Defeated totals listed for several candidates.
Portland city manager Julian H. Orr 45 resigns to join the Public Administration Service in Afghanistan as PAL chief of a project. Effective January 31, 1962, Orr has eight years at Portland and previously held posts in Hartford and Bangor after a Michigan public administration degree.
In Portland, forty people from fifteen foreign countries became United States citizens at the U S District Court on Monday. The new citizens, including five children, reside in communities across Maine.
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