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Newspaper

Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1959

Page

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Negotiators Clash as Impasse Persists in Steel Talks

Washington AP report says union and steel company negotiators meet for first time in 10 days as blame over stalled talks grows. United Steelworkers had secured three year aluminum contracts in Chicago, enabling top officers to resume steel negotiations. McDonald and company reps trade sharp statements amid a dispute over inflationary demands.

Washington Union and Steel Company David J. McDonald United Steelworkers Chicago McDonald

Saco Post Office Sets Holiday Hours and Extra Mailmen

Saco post office will be open 8 a m to 5 p m through Christmas day with the money order window opening at 9 a m. Christmas mail will be delivered twice daily and most mail will be delivered by the holiday. The last city wide collection is 5 p m the day before Christmas and the office closes at 5 p m December 24. Seven extra mailmen have been hired with civil service eligibles favored first and veterans second. workers include Pandelli Peterson and Clifford.

Saco Joseph H. Vachon Vachon Pandelli Peterson Clifford

Castro vows strict pledge to crack down on enemies

In Havana Fidel Castro promised a tougher action against counterrevolutionaries as antigovernment violence rose. He described a nationwide spy system, warned that cabinet laws will strip property from convicted enemies, and moved toward nationalizing agriculture by ordering seizures of sisal plantations and planning sugar field takeovers.

Havana Fidel Castro Castro Cuba

Iran's Shah Marries Farah Diba Queen of Iran

Farah Diba, 21, wed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi in Tehran in a Moslem ceremony. She becomes Queen Farah Pahlevi, the Shah's third wife, in a lavish Hall of Mirrors rite witnessed by officials and diplomats. The bride wore a pearl gray gown designed by Yves Saint Laurent.

Tehran Iran Farah Diba Mohammed Reza Pahlevi Marble Palace Farah Pahlevi Paris Hall of Mirrors Corps of Teheran Farah Yves Saint Laurent House of Dior Tne

Khrushchev Invited To Attend Summit Meeting

Paris April 27 is set for a first East West summit meeting Khrushchev being invited by President Eisenhower and other Western leaders to discuss peace and stability in the world The invitation follows a Western summit conference and notes the goal of periodic summits in each other’s countries The Big Four aid to exclude Germany Red China from participation while Berlin defenses are reaffirmed in line with December 1958 Western communiques and NATO aims

Khrushchev Ike Paris Eisenhower Nikita Khrushchev Sesson Germany Harold Alan Charles de Gaulle Konrad Adenauer Madrid White House James ©. Hagerty de Gaulle NATO Berlin North Atlantic Council Geneva

Government Opens False Selling War

Washington AP The government launches a drive to recruit millions of consumers in a war on false advertising and fraudulent selling. The FTC invites 47 civic, consumer and welfare groups to a two day conference on public deception to teach spotting phony merchandising and action steps.

Washington Federal Trade Commission Earl W. Kintner FTC Kintner

Last Civil War veteran Walter Williams dies at 117

Hundreds filed past the bier in Houston as Walter W. Williams, last Civil War survivor, died Saturday at 117. He lay in state in the County Civil Courts Building rotunda, with Army guards and a 132 man unit from Ft. Hood in attendance. Funeral services planned in Houston and Franklin, Texas. President Eisenhower and officials praised his life and the end of an era.

Houston Tex Walter W. Williams County Civil Courts Williams Franklin G. J. Bowyer Gerald Jacinto City Bowyer Army Ft. Hood Adam A. Borkowski Philadelphia Soldiers of the Eisenhower White House America

Beach vacationer to reach 100 on Tuesday in Fall River

Anna Anger of Fall River Massachusetts will celebrate her 10th birthday by hosting 52 family members across five generations tomorrow. She is mother to 13 children, six living, and notes dancing and long life run in the family. Her maternal grandmother lived to 103, and her oldest daughter Flora Manville will be 80 at year end. Descendants include 15 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren, with roots in Canada before moving to Lewiston Maine and finally to Fall River after marriage to Frank Anger. Her husband died 50 years ago and she enjoys travel and recent week at Old Orchard Beach.

Fall River Mass Anna Anger Anger Flora Manville Canada

White Vale Predicted For Maine

A subzero temperature and snow forecast dominated Maine weather as winter began. Readings fell to 1 below in Greenville, with Millinocket Augusta Old Town Eastport Rumford and Houston all below freezing. Snow was expected to hit southwestern Maine hardest with a white Christmas likely for southern areas. Portland logged 8 degrees, far from the record 14 below set on December 21, 1955.

Portland Maine Greenville Millinocket Augusta Old Town Eastport Rumford Houston U. S.S. Weather Bureau

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