Miss Marshall Retires From Jameson School After 44 Years
Old Orchard Beach longtime educator Miss Helen Marshall principal of Jameson School retires after a 44 year career. An assembly at the High School honored her with a Little Drummer Boy performance by fifth graders as Jerome Plante chair of the school board and Bernard Forbush superintendent spoke.
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Helen Marshall
Jameson School
Old Orchard Beach
Beach
Marshall
Little Drummer Boy
Miss Marshall
Jerome Plante
Bernard Forbush
Town Honored Leader Miss Marshall Receives Proclamation
Town Manager Leon Jones presented a proclamation to Miss Marshall from the town council. A native of the town she taught in Kennebunk Schools for 10 years before taking her first position here. She served 13 years as principal of Jameson School and five years as principal of the Federal School before it burned, teaching grades four through seven during her long career.
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Leon Jones
Miss Marshall
Kennebunk
Jameson School
Comedienne Nanette Fabray Saves Trees From Development
Nanette Fabray won a stay of the ax as honorary mayor she led a drive to protect a stand of 1,000 year old oaks and a land developer agreed to an alternative plan to spare the trees near her Pacific Palisades home.
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Associated Press
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Comedienne
Nanette Fabray
U S Embassy Refugee Seeks Immigrant Visa From Soviet Defector
A 28 year old defector Aziz Oulong Zade from Tadzhik Central Asia fled a youth delegation in New Delhi and asked U S officials for an immigrant visa. He was interviewed by Soviet officials but insisted on staying at the embassy while U S authorities process his visa request.
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New Delhi
U.S
Soviet Asia
United States
Aziz Oulong-Zade
Tadzhik
Central Asia
India
Christmas Across America and Abroad
Highlights mix of holiday scenes from Oregon to England. A Portland postal note jokes about Santa’s chimney. Los Angeles thieves profit from shoppers. Des Moines displays a gift door on a label. Tulsa prosecutors receive a prisoner's card. England debates carol appropriateness with railway managers and a church cleric criticizing carols as twaddle.
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Portland
Ore
Santa Claus
Susan
Santa
Los Angeles
Des Moines
Iowa
Tulisa
Okla
Merrie England
Charles Craddock
London
Ipsley
England
Frederick Foreman
Scrooge
Saco Cub Scout Pack 310 Christmas Party Awards
Saco Cub Scout Pack 310 held a combined pack meeting and Christmas party at the Biddeford Saco Lodge of Elks in Saco. Cubmaster Ronald Husser announced awards for Daniel Turgeon, Robert Loring, Thomas Duross, Thomas Gallagher, Daniel Smith, Richard Lagueux, Michael Cote, Daniel Husser, Thomas Harmon, and David Lamb. Webelos dens received craftsman, artist, engineer, and athlete pins. One year pins were awarded to Louis Lesieur and Ronald Haskell. The next meeting is Jan 9 at 7 p.m. with skits on communications by each den.
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Biddeford - Saco
Michael Cote
Daniel Husser
Thomas Harmon
David Lamb
Denner
Webelos den
Daron Libby
Robert Harriman
Steven Brunelle
Frank Meserve
John Kozloff
Louis Lesieur
Ronald Haskell
Election Of Officers By Fred S. Gurney Relief Corps
Officers were elected at a Fred S. Gurney Women's Relief Corps meeting at Saco GAR Hall. New officers include Marion Boucher as president and Marjorin Fogg as senior vice president, with others for junior vice president treasurer chaplain conductor and guard. Delegates and alternates to the department convention were named, installation planned for January 20 or 30 if weather delays. An invitation from Wells Abraham Lincoln Corps for Jan 10 ceremonies was noted.
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Fred S. Gurney
Ida Nevers
Berwick
Relief Committee
Hazel Emmons
Abraham Lincoln Corps of Wells
GAR Hall
Cutts Avenue
Ruth Willey
Wells Corps
Gurney Corps
Tuna Can Watch Out Honolulu
Hawaii's clear blue water draws tourists but deters tuna fishing says Harold E. Crowther director of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries at Interior He notes the fish can see nets yet remains confident that with better technology Hawaii fishermen will eventually detect and catch the speedy tunas
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Harold E. Crowther
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Department of Interior
Crowther
Advances and ethics of organ transplantation then and now
The article discusses how preventing heart disease matters more than finding cures and notes historic organ transplants. It cites growing success in kidney and organ transfers and mentions experimental grafts including a brain transplant that survived three days, highlighting debates on practicality and identity.
Diary Of A Madman Was Very Effective Television
CBS presented Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman with Roger Coggio delivering a tour de force as a clerk driven toward insanity. The hour emphasized closeups and claustrophobic shifts from a modest room to a barred cell, ending with a frenzied burst of laughter.
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Cynthia Lowry
NEW York
CBS
Nikolai Gogol
Roger Coggio
Spain
Christmas Ban to Holiday Observance in Boston History
New England vignettes recall Boston restrictions on Christmas from Puritan bans to five shilling fines for days off. It notes Puritans and Cotton Mather feared a pagan feast and that Christmas became legal only in 1856 after gradual observance by Episcopalians and others. The piece also mentions a Maine teen plagued by a love sick woodpecker causing noise and home disruption.
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Boston
New England
Commonwealth
Cotton Mather
Charls II
Oliver Cromwell
Holly
Samantha
Office
Rainmaking as Accepted Industry Faces Questions
Rainmaking grows as an accepted industry with weather modification programs reported in Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Russia, Israel, Australia and the United States, though many questions about practice and impact remain.
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Japan
Mexico
Colombia
Russia
Israel
Australia
United States
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