Community Sing At Kennebunk Draws Large Crowd
The Kennebunk High School auditorium overflowed for the annual Community Sing sponsored by the Junior class. Decorations featured a Christmas motif. Danny Grant chaired the event with Miss Carol Taylor in charge of refreshments and Frank Severance handling decorations.
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Kennebunk High School
Danny Grant
The
Klass
Carol Taylor
Frank Severance
Gil Lembree
Dana James
Betty Lou Fairfield
Albert Diane Emery
Donna Foss
Linda Graves
Gary Seekins
William Legere
Robert Dargis
Robert
Christmas Visitors Reach to Kennebunk Families
Miss Enid Marshall, employed in Washington, D C, visits her parents Mr and Mrs Hugh Marshall at the Landing for Christmas. Also spending the holiday are their son Hugh Jr of Wrentham Massachusetts and Mrs Ethel Clark of Haverhill and Mrs Irene Pratt of Alston New Hampshire as guests of Mr and Mrs Ronald Robertson at the Landing.
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Enid Marshall
Washington, D.C
Hugh Marshall
the Landing
Marshall Home
Hugh, Jr
Wrentham
Mass
Massachusetts
Ethel Clark
Haverhill
Irene Pratt
Christmas Party at Webber-Lefebvre Post Ends With Gifts
The annual Webber-Lefebvre Post Americ an Legion Christmas party drew about 30 attendees. A lobster supper preceded under Al Croteau’s chair. Members donated and repaired toys for needy families. Mrs Mary Cole won the Christmas basket from the Kennebunk Post. The minstrel show cast will rehearse first after the holidays.
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Webber-Lefebvre Post
American Legion
Post E
al Croteau
Mary Cole
Mousam Road
Kennebunk Post
Mothers Club Christmas Party At Kennebunk Hall
The Mothers Club held a Christmas party at their Kennebunk Lower Village hall with a short business meeting led by Mrs. Isabel Gooch in the president's absence. Plans discussed for a forthcoming smorgasbord. Gifts exchanged from a decorated tree with Mrs. Jessie Gooch as Santa. Refreshments served by Mrs. Patricia Brennan, Mrs. Averill Goulden, and Mrs. Jean Smith. The next meeting is slated for January 3 and will be an all day session.
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Mothers Club
Kennebunk Lower Village
Isabel Gooch
Grace Gunn
Jessie Gooch
Patricia Brennan
Averill Goulden
Jean Smith
Junior AMVETS To Meet Monthly
The Junior AMVETS met at Abbott-Verville AMVETS Post in Old Orchard Beach with President Judy Remillard presiding. A report on the Christmas party was given and it was announced the annual Christmas dance will be held tonight from 7 to 10. After the meeting prayers were by chaplain Linda Travers and refreshments were served by Robert Jacques, Judy Remillard, and Beverly Southwick, with dancing afterward.
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Amvets
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Walnut Street
Old Orchard Beach
Judy Remillard
Linda Travers
Robert Jacques
Beverly Southwick
McLeod Seeks Democratic Nomination for County Commissioner
Dwight W. McLeod of Imperial Street Old Orchard Beach announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner in the 1962 primaries. He serves on the Old Orchard Beach Board of Selectmen and leads the Orchard Beach Democratic club.
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Dwight W. McLeod
Imperial Street
Old Orchard Beach
McLeod
Student Council Backing Beach Dance at Old Orchard
The Mistletoe Hop Christmas dance sponsored by the Student Council will be held this evening at 7 30 at Old Orchard Beach High School Denise Dube senior class chair for decorations. The dance raises funds for a new athletic field scoreboard Don Brown Portland is involved.
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Old Orchard Beach High School
Denise Dube
Don Brown
Portland
Wells Music Groups In Combined Yale Program
A capacity Wells High School auditorium hosted a combined Christmas concert by Wells School bands and choirs. The program featured the Wells School band under Everett E. Firth with selections and majorettes, then the Wells Senior High Glee Club directed by Agnes Tibbetts performing festive carols. Junior High Glee Club and combined groups sang Christmas pieces, followed by Grade 6 chorus and a Peter and the Wolf dance piece by Wells Modern Dance class directed by Elizabeth Snow. Special scenery, lighting, costumes, and piano accompaniment supported the performances concluding with carol singing.
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Wells High School
Constance Litchfield
Jean Jellison
Wells Senior High
Duane Douglass
Wells
Bonnie Larrow
Pamela Berry
Brenda Goodale
Peter and the Wolf
Everett E. Firth
Loyalty
Skernicka
Franck
Santa Claus
Gillespie and Coats
Connie Higgins
Bonita Metcalf
Charlene Cole
Bonnie Gough
Faye Hatch
Wells Senior High Glee Club
Gentle Jesus Meek
Wilhansly
Preus
Agnes
Tibbetts
Barbara Pisaruk
Constance Higgins
Micheline Stevens
Carol Hanson
Mary Dannert
Cheryl Miller
Wells Junior High School
Bennett
Olinadatis
Elizabeth Snow
Karen Ahern
Peter
Constance Hig
Irene Allen
Former Labor Leader Given Full Pardon
Warren K. Billings, age 68, who spent 23 years jailed after the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, received a Christmas pardon from Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Billings, once a co defendant of Thomas J. Mooney, called his imprisonment unjust and said he remains hopeful. Mooney was par doned in 1939 and died in 1942. Billings was released in 1939 after his sentence was commuted to time served. The case sparked decades of labor protests and claims it was used to weaken unions.
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San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
Mooney
Billlings
Edmund G. Brown
Wells area Christmas baskets prepared by health association
Packing volunteers from the Wells-Ogunquit Health association gathered at Wells Elementary school to assemble thirty-two decorated baskets for needy families. Town crews will deliver them this weekend using town trucks. Donations from Salvation Army funds and the Lions club supported clothing purchases, with toys donated by local clubs and churches.
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Wells
Well-Ogunquit Health Association
Salvation Army
Wells-Ogunquit
Kittery Man Credited As Sea Hero In Nantucket Rescue
The Barbara and Gail sank off Nantucket with five lives lost. Bosun's Mate 2c James C Jenkins of Kittery Maine saved five men, leaping into icy seas to haul them to safety as the Coast Guard towed the crippled dragger. Capt. Sheldon Kent praised Jenkins as heroic and essential to the rescue. The inquiry continued with survivors planning New Bedford services for the dead.
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Boston
New Bedford
Barbara
Gail
Nantucket
Maine
Coast
Kent
New England To See Snow Or Rain Over Christmas
Boston AP reports a storm moving from the Ohio Valley will bring rain or snow to Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island Sunday night and Monday. Temperatures near freezing will decide white or wet with little total accumulation. Northern New England faces snow flurries from Christmas Eve as Old Town Maine logs five below zero.
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Boston
New England
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Old Town
Maine
Beach Lions Plan New Year s Dance
The Old Orchard Beach Lions Club met Thursday evening with supper served by Lions Girard Ouellette and Sumner Johnson. Plans for the New Year s Eve party were discussed. The hall will be decorated for the party on Sunday evening with dancing to orchestra music and refreshments. Alec Duhamel heads arrangements. The Christmas baskets program was discussed with Benjamin Downs and Alan Radley on the committee.
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Old Orchard Beach
Lions ‘Club
Girard Ouellette
Sumner Johnson
Alec Duhamel
Pal Was In Close Contact With Driver, Court Fine
Halifax court heard P David S Macintosh was driving on a beginner's license under a licensed driver whose companion ran behind the car. The vehicle broke down and the friend pushed it. traffic slowed and could not return immediately. Macintosh was fined 13 dollars and 25 cents.
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Halifax
N. S.P
David S. Macintosh
MacIntosh
Patrolmen Malloy and Adams Charged With Burglary
Burlington officers John J. Malloy and John R. Adams pleaded innocent to burglary while on duty and in uniform after looting the Above Par Restaurant. Both posted $10,000 bail, resigned, and detectives pursued about nine other Burlington burglaries linked to police radios and on-duty access.
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Burlington, Vt
John J. Malloy
Burlington
Malloy
John R. Adams
Adams
George A. McKenzie
Malloy and
Round Top Slope Opens For Skiing This Weekend
Round Top ski slope at West Buxton will open Saturday with skiing also on Sunday and Christmas day. Woody Davis, proprietor, reports 14 inches of snow on the slopes and says that skiing conditions are good.
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Round Top
West Buxton
Woody Davis
Menshikov Hopes for East West Settlement in New Year
Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov, in a jovial mood after a routine call on Undersecretary George W. Ball, told reporters he hopes the new year will bring a settlement of most if not all East West problems and extended best wishes to the American people.
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Washington
Mikhail Menshikov
George W. Ball
Pirates Open New York Season At Polo Grounds
The 1962 baseball season begins in New York with the Pirates visiting the Mets at the Polo Grounds on Friday April 13. The Mets and Houston's Colts are new National League clubs for 1962.
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New York
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Mets
Polo Grounds
Mets
Houston
Colts
American Stock Exchange Begins Reformation Moves
The American Stock Exchange has begun reformation moves after a nine member broker committee urged a fundamental revision of rules and administration. The move follows an SEC investigation into a price manipulation scandal involving Jerry and Gerard Re, and the resignation of President Edward T. McCormick and general counsel Michael Mooney amid publicity concerns.
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New York
American Stock Exchange
Board of Governors
Securities and Exchange Commission
Jerry
Gerard Re
Res
SEC
Exchange Committee
Edward T. McCormick
McCormick
Michael E. Mooney
Exchange
Bell Is Graduate of Army School
Pfc. John M. Bell son of Mr and Mrs Frank F Bell Jr 60 Franklin street Saco recently graduated with honors from The Non Commissioned Officer Academy at Fort Dix New Jersey Bell received four weeks of training with emphasis on leadership and combat tactics He is assigned as a clerk in Headquarters company U S Army garrison Fort Jay New York A 1953 Thornton academy graduate the 26 year old soldier attended Boston University
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John M. Bell
Frank F. Bell, Jr
Franklin Street
Saco
Fort Dix
N. J
Bell
U. S. Army Garrison
Fort Jay
N. Y
Thornton Academy
Boston University
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Wells First and Second Congregational Churches
Ogunquit
Kittery Man
Beach Lions
Pal
Donald Pratt
Terry Lee
Harold Horn
Tommy Lee
Kathie Daly
Jessie Jalbert
Maureen LaFountain
Menshikov
Bell Is
Army School
Elsie W. Burgess
Arundel
Alfred Street
Biddeford
OLD Orchard
Old Orchard Street
St. Margaret's Old Orchard Beach
Salmon Falls
RTES
Hollis, Maine
Larry Fisher
Portland Country Club
S&h Green
Al’s Greenhouse
Alfred Road
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