Local Personal Notices from Saco and Biddeford
Clyde W. Cluff and Ovide Beaudoin are patients at Webber Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Murphy and children Debbie and Kim visit Otisco natives for Christmas with Mrs. Murphy's mother Mrs. Yvette Garon. Caroline Mboria returns from the University of Maine to join her parents in Saco. Butler's Department Store lists holiday staff including Mrs. Lombard, Mrs. Hall, Richard Boissonneault, and Barry Zimmerman. Marilyn Miller visits home from St Marys School of Nursing and will return to Boston City Hospital.
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Clyde W. Cluff
Ferry Road
Saco
Webber Hospital
Ovide Beaudoin
Elm St
Biddeford
Gene Murphy
Debbie
Kim
Otisco
Ind
Constantine D. Mboria
Middle St
Butler's Department Store
Lombard
Wells
Dorothy Hall
Tasker St
Richard Boissonneault
Tri State College
Barry Zimmerman
Forest Avenue
Portland
Marilyn Miller
Notre Dame Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop Leader Next Week
Group B led by Mrs. August Albert will run the Notre Dame Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop next week. C Fayette Staples Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary will hold a meeting Monday evening at the Legion Home on School Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Albert
Notre Dame Hospital
C. Fayette Staples
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Mapes Elected As President Of Chamber
Kennebunk and Kennebunkport residents learned Col Harry A Mapes was chosen as president of the Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Jonathan Milligan. The slate named Frank Small Charles E Cole and H David Walley as vice presidents with John Cummings re elected treasurer. Directors include Charles R Butts Charles Crosman Thomas Teagan Hiram Clifford Mrs Jessie Thayer Arthur Lombard George Noiles M A Packerd and Leonard Angell. Mapes vowed an active energetic chamber with programs such as an information center at Kennebunkport and housing development, and urged securing small selective industries for the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
Harry A. Mapes
Kennebunk - Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce
Jonathan Milligan
Frank Small
Charles E. Cole
H. David Walley
John Cummings
Henry Twambley
Charles R Butts
Charles Crosman
Thomas Teagan
Hiram Clifford
Jessie Thayer
Arthur Lombard
George Noiles
M. A. Packerd
Leonard Angell
State Civil Defense
Kennebunkport
Chairman of Philadelphia Democrats Dies
US Rep. William J. Green Jr., a 16 year veteran of Congress and over a decade as Philadelphia Democratic chairman, died at 53 after emergency surgery for peritonitis with gall bladder complications. He had been on critical list since Thursday night. Green helped Democrats carry Pennsylvania in the 1960 election per Kennedy.
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Philadelphia
William J. Green Jr
Congress
Green
Democratic Committee
Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Saco Offices Close At Noon For Christmas Holiday
Saco municipal offices will close at noon Tuesday December 24 for the Christmas holidays. They will return to regular hours Thursday per the city clerk's office.
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Saco
Christmas Gift Trends In Saco And Maine Shops
Market observers report slower Christmas buying at Levasseur's Jewelry Store in Saco while Gar land Manufacturing Co. in Saco sees sales surge in snowshoes toboggans and children ski sets. President Harry Garland notes a plastic candle pin for bowling gains traction across Maine and may expand distribution. Saco Hardware reorders snow blowers as practical gifts dominate holiday purchases.
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Louis Painchaud
Levasseur
Saco
Garland Manufacturing Co
Harry P. Garland
Maine
Saco Hardware Co
Deaths Mrs Angelina Brunet 64 Biddeford
Mrs Angelina R Brunet 64 of 14 Rathier St Biddeford died last night in a Saco Hospital after a short illness Born in South Woodstock Conn May 25 1899 she was the daughter of Joseph Trahan and Rose Innuck Trahan Worked at Bates Mill until its closure Member of the Rochambeau Club Survivors include her husband Charles H Brunet a daughter Georgette Sansoucy a son Conrad Brunet four brothers and four sisters Several grandchildren and nieces and nephews Friends may call at the Sansoucy Funeral Home Biddeford then the body will be taken to the Gagnon Funeral Home in Danielson Conn for interment in Holy Cross Cemetery Danielson Conn.
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Angelina R. Brunet
Rathier St
Biddeford
Saco
South Woodstock
Conn
Joseph and
Rosenbuck Trahan
Bates Mill
Rochambeau Club
Charles H. Brunet
Georgette Sansou
Sansoucy Funera One
Gagnon Funeral Home
Danielsa
T Oo Conn
Holy Cross Cemetery
Danielson
Portland Forecast Slightly Warmer Weekend Ahead
Fair and not quite so cold tonight and Sunday with low temperatures generally between zero and five degrees above in the north and five to ten degrees above in the south.
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Portland
Deciphering a Fragment: Timetable or Schedule Snippet
An OCR fragment lists a sequence of times and codes in a shuffled timetable. The characters include A.M. P.M. headings and numbers like 2:10 2:19 3:10 9:52 11:19, with scattered letters such as B08 and fal. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or identifiable events or entities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thesli
Christmas church schedules fill Biddeford and area
Numerous services and youth activities are listed for Biddeford and surrounding towns. Details include times for junior and senior church youth groups, evangelistic services, training unions, and evening worships at Advent Christian, Faith Tabernacle, First Assembly of God, Bible Baptist, and other churches. A final Nativity Pageant rehearsal is noted for the Biddeford United Church of Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Beacons For Christ
Lyman First Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
The
Saco United Baptist Church
Biddeford
Mary Hawkes 84 of Saco dies in Biddeford nursing home
Mrs Mary Hawkes of Ferry Road Saco widow of George Hawkes died last night in a Biddeford nursing home. Born in Sevenoaks England March 25 1879 she was active in American Red Cross work and a member of First Parish Congregational Church Saco. Survivors include sister Miss Fannie Davey Guildford England two brothers C Davey Bournemouth England and Davey Auckland New Zealand. Funeral services at 10 a.m. Tuesday Dennett and Craig Funeral Home 365 Main St Saco with interment Laurel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.
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Mary E. Hawkes
Dennett and Craig
Main St
Laco
Laurel Hill
Saco
Biddeford Man Is Hit By Car
Arthur Taschereau of St Marys Street Biddeford said he was struck and knocked down on Alfred Street by a tan car early today. Taken to Webber hospital by police cruiser he suffered shoulder and chest bruises and underwent X ray at press time. Later officers booked Paul Frechette of Belmont Avenue for charges stemming from the accident and he was slated to appear in court this morning.
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Arthur Taschereau
St. Mary's Street
Biddeford
Alfred Street
Webber Hospital
Taschereau
Normand Arbour
Theodore Drouin
Paul Frechette
Belmont Ave
Frechette
Aid Bill Conferees Forge Stopgap Foreign Aid Pact
The conference committee adds 259 million from last year’s unspent funds to reach 3.259 billion for foreign aid for the fiscal year ending June 30. The vote split crossed party lines with 26 Democrats and 115 Republicans in favor, while 133 Democrats and 3 Republicans opposed amid heavy absenteeism. President Kennedy’s plan was scaled from 4.9 to 3.1 billion, and a series of meetings and near-breaks in Congress led to a tentative agreement forged in Speaker McCormack’s office.
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House
Senate
Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
John W. McCormack
Chamers
Conference Committee
Observation posts eyed for East West guard system
Washington aims to draft an international observation post network to deter surprise attacks in both communist and Western states. After NATO talks, the plan should be ready for the January 21 Geneva disarmament meeting, with Rusk noting potential East West interest and the need to assess coverage and feasibility.
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Khrushchev
Europe
Rusk
Biddeford Firemen Answer Two Calls
Biddeford firefighters were called out twice for minor blazes. Engine 5 responded at 3 15 p m Friday to 55 Pike Street for an overflowed oil burner in an apartment occupied by Ernest Collard. A second call at 3 25 p m noted snow aiding crews at a Smith Street shop owned by Arthur Roberts where paper rags and paint cans were burning outside the building.
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Biddeford
Pike St
Ernest Collard
Snow
Engine 5
Tank 1
Arthur ‘Roberts
Smith Street
Christmas program and church events schedule
Congregational services Sunday afternoon at 2 and United Church of Christ Biddeford Adult Bible Class at 8 p m at the parsonage. A special Christmas program at 6 p m in Saco School Street Methodist Church sanctuary, with a Christmas party and tree to follow in the vestry and carol singing afterward. Co chairmen are Mrs Phyllis Lariviere and Mrs Margaret Moore.
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Diddeford-Saco Universalist-Unitarian Church
Saco Second Parish Unitarian Church
School Street
Blanche Beal
Edmund W. Beal
The
United Church of Christ
Biddeford
Saco School Street Methodist Church
Phyllis Lariviere
Margaret Moore
Adah Chapter Hosts Yule Party in Biddeford Hall
Adah Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held a Christmas party and casserole supper in Sonic Hall Biddeford. Proceeds benefited ESTARL with Mrs Eliza Tate presiding over the supper and decorations by chapter officers. Guest officer night set for Jan 15 at Clover Chapter Sanford with Mrs Eve S Rooman greeting.
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Adah
Order of the Eastern Star
Biddeford Masonic Hall
Eliza Tate
Estarl
Tate
Agnes Johnson
Johnson
Edward Wolfertz
Helen Parks
Clover Chapter
Sanford
Eve S. Rooman
Grand Esther
Grand Chapter
Maine
Kentucky
Gordon Smith
Santa Claus
Officers Entertained By County Salon Christmas Meeting
York County salon officers and guests gathered at Mrs. Betty McKeon’s Biddeford Pool home for the annual December meeting and Christmas party. Highlights included talks on year-end activities, finances, child welfare, and the American Legion Auxiliary gift shop, with plans for a TB bond and notes from a Denver hospital boy. A silent prayer honored President Kennedy. many members and guests from Saco, Biddeford, Cape Porpoise attended the event.
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York County
Betty McKeon
Biddeford Pool
Blanche Hodgkins
Lisbon Falls
Chapeau
Hazel Patridge
Cumberland Mills
Secretaire Caissiere
Alice Bartlett
Topsham
Departemental
la Concierge
Hodgkins
Portland
Beatrice Wakefield
Gilberte Lavoie
Florence Lewis
Gertrude Rankin
Redmond
Charlene Farnham
Rankin
McKeon
Marie Jeanne Pelletier
Patridge
Bartlett
Wakefield
Cape Porpoise
Doris Taylor
Juliette Rocray
Lewis
Angie Cote
Florence Gagne
Martha Beaudoin
Farnham
Hooper
Saco
Lavoie
Pelletier Biddeford
Ncheon
Waterville Fire Levels Two Homes
A general alarm fire in Waterville destroyed two wooden apartment houses in a crowded tenement district. Over 30 people, including children, fled into sub zero cold as seven families evacuated. Firefighters from Winslow aided the effort. one fireman was injured but not seriously.
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Waterville
Larry White
Flora Carpentier
Winslow
Alice Drouin
Salvation Army
Holiday Events Planned By Biddeford Saco Elks Lodge
The Biddeford Saco Lodge of Elks schedules a New Year’s Eve party at the Elks home on Portland Road Saco with limited reservations. The annual Children’s Christmas party is set for tomorrow at 2 PM in the lodge hall. The charity committee led by Leading Knight Ralph Pitt and Youth Activity chair Edmond Rube prepared Christmas baskets for delivery Monday. A tablet service was held in memory of Forest Rodgers and session led by Richard Murphy with an All National Night dinner served by Steward Harold Marr.
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Biddeford- Saco
Lodge of Elks
Elks Home
Portland Road
Saco
Paul Deschambault
Ralph Pitt
Edmond Rube
Forest Rodgers
Richard Murphy
Fire crews respond to flooded oil burner call
Saco firemen were dispatched to Arthur Tardiff at 38 School Street yesterday afternoon at 3 45 to check a flooded oil burner. Engine 3 and four men investigated, found no damage and returned to the station at 3 55.
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Saco
Arthur Tardiff
School St
Miniwanca Star Club Meets in Old Orchard Beach
OLD ORCHARD BEACH Reports from the Miniwanca Star Club meeting at Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall show vice president Mrs. Pauline Peacock presiding in the president’s absence. The group set the next meeting for the fourth Friday of January due to the Grand Esther reception at Adah Chapter.
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Old Orchard Beach
Miniwanca
Arthur Souias
Constance Roach
Violet Mewer
Dana Hall
Hubert Standeven
Donald Nowell
Edrice Bates
Ruth Durant
Gertrude Wight
Elks Host Annual Children's Party With Santa Claus
Santa Claus will visit the Biddeford Saco Elks Lodge on Portland Road Saco Sunday at 2 p.m. Betty Gribbin, Portland radio and TV personality, provides entertainment. Santa will give gifts and candy to each child. lodge asks members to bring as many youngsters as possible.
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Santa Claus
Biddeford-Saco
Senado House conferees hit snag on adjournment drive
Senate and House conferees agree on foreign aid funds but parliamentary tangle slows Congress' plan to adjourn. Johnson administration plans a plan for international observation posts to guard against surprise attacks in Communist and Western countries. West Berliners visiting the Communist sector expected to rise this weekend. Richard Honeck, freed after 64 years, heads to San Francisco to join his niece. Most of the eastern two thirds of the nation endures last autumn's cold and snow spell.
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Senate
House
Congress
Johnson
Illinois
Richard Honeck
San Francisco
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Mapes
Philadelphia Democrats
Memoriam
Walter
Jim) Wilcox
Dorothy B. Tarbox
Angelina Brunet
United Church
Advent Christian Church
Hill and
Chapel Streets
Faith Tabernacle
Pentecostal Church
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
First Assembly of God Church
Pleasant Street
Aco
Bible Baptist Church
Route 35
Kennebunk Lower Village
Saco Avenue
Christ Ambassadors Group
First Assembly God Church
Ahepa
Youth Fellowship of the
Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union Society
Kennebunk Landing
Methodist Youth Fellowship of the
West Kennebunk Methodist Church
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Ogunquit
Union Avenue
Salvation
Fruil Gospel Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship of
South Biddeford
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Fass Street Methodist Church
Junior High Baptist Youth Fellowship
Youth Fellowship of
United Church of Christ (Congregational
David E. Wigley
Mrs
Mary Hawkes
Biddeford Junior High School
Michael Surran
Roxanne Clifford
William Casey
Senting
John Throumoulos
Gail Quinney
Spiros Draggins
Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Geneva
Dean Rusk
Moscow
NATO
Paris
White House
State Department
John F. Kennedy
NATO Council
Soviet Union
Harold Marr
Miniwanca Star Club
Elks
Associated Press
Kennebunk Inn
Sneider’s
Saco-Lowell
Lucien Doyon
LKA
Portland Street
Warren’s
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