Post Office Keeps Ahead Of Yale Rush In Biddeford
Post Office in Biddeford reports a brisk Christmas mail season with about 45,000 cancellations daily, 30,000 pieces incoming each morning, and extra staff including 19 ex servicemen and a Civil Service eligible hired on a temporary basis to handle sorting and delivery. Additional sorting boxes and an extra truck are in use to speed outgoing mail, with full clearance expected by Thursday afternoon before Christmas.
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Biddeford
Exservicemen
Civil Service
Willie Laverriere
Laverriere
Daniel Barbano
John M. Courtois
Conrad J. Nolette
A. J. Bolduc
Joseph Plamondon
Arthur G. Descoteaux
Coley Whitehurst
Adrien Bedard
Richard C. Stetson
Albert J. Beaudoin
Leroy B. Thompson
Ralph J. Lehoux
Harry J. Boyajian
Robert M. Coleman
Donald J. R. Huard
Joseph Boissonneault
Norman R. Nadeau
Arthur T. Gallant
Joseph W. Gagne
Gerard A. Asselin
Bolduc
Suit questions use of public funds for Catholic tuition
In Burlington a taxpayer suit challenges the South Burlington School District using public money to pay Catholic school tuition. C. Raymond Swart seeks to stop payments, arguing constitutional violations. Trial enters its second day with potential path to the U.S. Supreme Court. district has paid roughly 8,000 to 21,000 annually since 1952 for parish schools attended by local high school students Rice Memorial and Mount St. Mary Academy are noted Catholic options.
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Burlington, Vt
Chittenden
C. Raymond Swart
Burlington
South Burlington
U.S
Rice Memorial High School
Mount St. Mary Academy
John D. Donoghue
State Board of Education
Deschambault Wins Re election in Biddeford Vote
Nearly 2,000 Biddeford residents voted yesterday to back Mayor Clement H. Deschambault for a third term amid an uncontested slate of municipal officers. Deschambault led with 1,969 votes. Beaudette 1,923. Doyon 1,846. Council at large went to Henaire 1,826 Cloutier 1,815 Tardiff 1,798 Leteillier 1,712. Ward winners listed with tallies.
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Joseph Quinn
Foss Street
Clement H. Deschambault
Biddeford
Quinn
Ernest Fontaine
Deschambault
Mary M. Sawyer
Eva
Philippe L. Beaudette
Board of Police
Lucien Doyon
Board of Education
Roland J. Henaire
Alfred Cloutier
Josephat Tardiff
J. Alfred Leteillier
Roland L. l’ Heureux
Romeo Sevigny
Aurelien V
Fleurent
Ernest N Fontaine
Martin J. Rielly
Lionel R. Croteau
John Cleary
Dancing Ma Switches To Ice Skating
MALDEN Mass AP former dancing mother Dottie Gerragamo now takes up skating planning a backyard rink exhibition for New Year Eve guests She will skate in black leotards with a heavy sweater if cold enough for ice If not frozen she will perform anyway with a new dance called the astronaut roll She says neighborhood wives objected to her bikini dancing but she cares little and skates to relax and stay fit for her husband and three children
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Malden
Mass
Dottie
Dottie Gerragamo
Dotty
COL Rises Again
Washington AP reports that consumer prices rose in November at a slower pace, reaching 25.6 percent above the 1947-49 base. The monthly gain was under 0.1 percent, marking the sixth of seven months with new peaks. Factors include higher services and durable goods costs and easing factory hours amid steel shortages.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Commissioner of
Labor Statistics
Staples Named New Trustee At Thornton Academy
Laurence H Staples of 21 North Street Saco has been elected a trustee of Thornton Academy. A Thornton graduate and Bowdoin alumnus, he is Biddeford branch manager of W E Hutton Company of the New York Stock Exchange and served in the U S Army during World War II.
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William S. Linnell
Thornton Academy Board of Trustees
Laurence H. Staples
North Street
Saco
Staples
Thornton Academy
Bowdoin College
Biddeford
W. E. Hutton Company
New York Stock Exchange
U. S. Army
State Troopers Are Suspended For 30 Days
AUGUSTA AP Two state troopers Richard C. Jones and Harold J. Robinson of Kittery were suspended for 30 days without pay after a general court martial heard guilty pleas for conduct unbecoming officers. They had been fined in Gray and Portland for deer hunting violations on a state game preserve and without a license. State Police Chief Robert Marx cited social pressures and said the public may not soon forget the hunting incidents.
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Augusta
Maine
Richard C. Jones
Harold J. Robinson
Kittery
Gray
Portland
Jones
Robinson
Robert Marx
Marx
Shoe output forecast steadies near 1959 peak
In Boston, Maxwell Field of the New England Shoe and Leather Assn. predicted 1960 output will reach the 1959 record of 630 million pairs, with New England set to produce about 217 million pairs in 1959 and next year to match the record. U.S. shoe industry employment averaged 224,500 in 1959, about 83,600 in New England.
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Boston
Maxwell Field
New England
Eisenhower Heads Home After Global Friendship Tour
President Eisenhower begins his return from a 19 day trip to 11 nations in a display of diplomacy and American goodwill. He lands at Andrews AFB after a record breaking foreign tour marked by ecstatic crowds in Casablanca and Madrid.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Eisenhower
Thesident
Italy
Turkey
Pakistan
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Greece
Tunisia
Spain
Paris
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Gander, Nild
Madrid
County Football May Be Due For Changes
Coaches and athletic directors at Wells High School discussed a possible re alignment of York county high school football for 1961 The plan addresses SPA point system effects and a split in the Southern York conference with Class C and D divisions Potential new lineups include North Berwick South Berwick and Berwick High expanding to Class D and Scarborough Falmouth Gorham possibly joining as major opponents for nearby schools The group also suggested 12 minute periods and 1 30 p m game times with a round robin opener to boost interest and funds for smaller schools
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York County
Wells High School
Old Orchard Beach
Kennebunk
Traip
York
Wells
St. Ignatius
North Berwick
South Berwick
Berwick High
John McSweeney
Scarborough
Falmouth
Gorham
Traip Academy
Berwick Academy
Hebron Academy
Kents Hill
Bridgton
Beach Selectmen Weigh Administrative Change in Town
Old Orchard Beach board ponders abolishing the town manager and cutting the board from five to three. A full time chairman would serve as town manager. Voters must approve at a special meeting at least 60 days before the March elections. Five names are cited as proposing the measure: Gerrish, McNeil, Shorey, Belair, and Faulkner.
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Old Orchard Beach
Board of Selectmen
Hermann S. Gerrish
John T McNeil
Donald Shorey
Raoul Belair
Claude Faulkner
Eisenhower’s Peace Tour Boosts Prestige and Prospects
President Eisenhower’s peace and friendship tour drew praise from aides for creating a “peace atmosphere” that may ease conflicts abroad. The trip raised U S prestige in Asia, notably India, and enhanced his image as a world leader devoted to peace ahead of Soviet talks. Paris summit plans shifted to a site chosen by de Gaulle, with De Gaulle and Macmillan steering the East West dialogue.
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Eisenhower
Asia
India
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Harold Macmillan
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Mohammed V
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