Deaths Exilia Thibodeau 83 Biddeford resident
Exilia Thibodeau 83 of 47 Adams St Biddeford died at a local hospital after a brief illness Born in St Cuthbert Que March 2 1889 daughter of Louis and Marie Louise Brault educated in Canadian schools came to Biddeford as a youth worked at Pepperell Manufacturing Co and Kessien Shoe Co retired 18 years ago She was a St Joseph Church communicant member of Our Lady of Fatima Circle Daughters of Isabella Her husband Omer Thibodeau died in 1967 Surviving two sisters Mrs Vizenalda Doyon Santa Barbara Calif and Mrs Alberta Belanger Central Falls R I plus several nieces and nephews Funeral from St Joseph Church tomorrow at 10 a m interment St Joseph Cemetery Biddeford Friends may call Sansoucy Blais Funeral Home today 2 4 and 7 9 p m
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Exilia Thibodeau
Adams S&t
Biddeford
St. Cuthbert
Que
Louis
Marie Louise
Lambert Brault
Pepperell Manufacturing Co
Kessien Shoe Company
Kennebunk
St. Joseph Church
Our Lady of Fatima
Isabella
Omer Thibodeau
Vizenalda Doyon
Santa Barbara
Calif
Alberta Belanger
Central Falls
R.il
St. Joseph Cemetery
Sansoucy-Blais
Stone
Clara Blanchette 88 of Biddeford dies in nursing home
Mrs. Clara Blanchette 88 of 27 Lennox Street Biddeford died Thursday in a Biddeford nursing home after a long illness. Born in Dublin New Hampshire September 17 1884 she was the daughter of Frank and Delia Gervais. She is survived by two daughters and several grandchildren nieces and nephews. Funeral plans are incomplete arrangements with Emond Funeral Home Biddeford.
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Evelyn Lussier
Somersworth
N.H
Ernest
Tilton
Henry
Plainville
John Pasillo
Boston
Emond Funeral Home
Hill St
Biddeford
Two Homes In Saco Looted By Thieves
Two Saco homes were robbed last Tuesday with total losses of 963 dollars. Reginald Blanchard’s residence at 267 North Street was entered between 9 30 a m and 12 45 p m, with a 256 dollar stereo and a 177 dollar radio stolen. Mrs John C Blunt on Buxton Road reported 530 dollars worth of items missing including two guns a stereo a radio and a bag of coins. Entry at both houses was via prying a locked door with a heavy object. Detective Arthur Tardiff led the investigation.
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Saco
Reginald Blanchard
North St
John C. Blunt
Buxton Road
Arthur Tardiff
Prayer meeting for Mrs Exilia Thibodeau
Our Lady of Fatima Circle and Daughters of Isabella will hold a prayer gathering at 7 15 tonight at Sansoucy Riais Funeral Home 1 Stone Street Biddeford for Mrs Exilia Thibodeau.
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Our Lady of Fatima
Daughters of Isabella
Sansoucy Riais
Stone St
Biddeford
Exilia Thibodeau
Portland Weather: Tonight Cold Clouds and Snow Likely
The forecast shows increasing cloud cover tonight with lows from five below zero in the north to the mid teens in the south. Saturday remains cloudy with light snow likely, except rain or snow in the southwest, with highs from the teens in the north to the 30s in the south.
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Portland
Ski Conditions in New England and New Hampshire
Boston AP reports ski areas list fresh snowfall and surface types with base depths and condition ratings. It covers Maine New Hampshire and Vermont resorts including Sugarloaf Sunday River Attitash Black Mountain Mount Washington and Cannon Mountain among others with details on powder packed powder groomed and windblown surfaces.
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Boston
New England
Saco Extension Club Notes Meeting at GAR Hall
Members of the Saco Extension Association will meet Tuesday at 10 30 a m at the GAR hall Cutts Avenue Saco. Members are asked to bring a box lunch.
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Saco Extension Association
GAR
Cutts Avenue
Saco
Funeral Directors in Saco Maine Listings and Contacts
Funeral service firms listed include Shumway and Gross at 35 Spring St Saco Maine 284 5611. Dennett and Craig at 365 Main St Saco Maine 282. Emond's Funeral Home at 284 5511. Names Frank X Emond J P Conroy appear among contacts.
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Shumway and Gross Funeral Service
Spring St. Saco
Dennett & Craig
Mainzee
Saco
Maine
Emond
Frank X, Emond, J, P, Conroy
Tenneco Cuts Heating Oil Deliveries Amid Crude Shortage
Houston based Tenneco Inc announces a 30 percent cut in heating oil deliveries to jobbers in the northeast Atlantic Coast and southeast markets. Kerosene shipments to about 20 states will halt in Q1 1973 due to crude supply shortfalls at the Chalmette La refinery. The drop aims to preserve fuel for heating oil blends complying with low pollution standards.
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Houston
Atlantic Coast
Tenneco, Inc
Tenneco
Chalmette
Biddeford Council Cancels Two Truck Purchase Order
The Biddeford City Council rescinded the September 9 order for two International trucks from Saco Motors due to noncompliance with a day delivery guarantee. It approved buying two Mack trucks from Maine Mack, Inc. for 50,100 with 10 to 12 yard bodies, funded from capital improvements.
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John Surran
Biddeford
Saco Motor’s
Bruce Hermann
Gilbert Boucher
Hermann
Boucher
Maine Mack, Inc
Portland
George DesRoberts
Albert Deshaies
CBS Technicians Vote For Pact Ending Strike
CBS technicians vote 581 to 509 to accept a three year contract ending an eight week strike. The agreement, not fully disclosed, includes wage gains and concessions on automation and jurisdiction over new electronic devices.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
International Brotherhood
CBS
Arthur Korff
IBEW
Frank Stanton
Korff
Stanton
Police Identify Kidnapper Who Took Own Life
Police say Stephen James Joyce of Marlboro identified as the kidnapper who abducted a Massachusetts woman, Mrs. Richard H. Gravel. Joyce, armed, forced her and her three children into a car at Marlboro Post Road Shopping Center, drove them around, then released them unharmed before shooting himself when stopped in Peterboro for speeding.
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Peterboro
N.H
Massachusetts
Marlboro
Mass
Stephen James Joyce
Richard H. Gravel
Northboro
Joyce
Rich Recluse Hughes Irks Hotel Guest
Bernard Cowan, a Canadian businessman, and his wife left the Inn on the Park London suite next to Howard Hughes after a short stay paying 2,500 dollars a day. He complained of constant security measures, cameras, banging, and pheasants allegedly removed for safety concerns. He said they declined an alternative room and found the situation a bloody nuisance.
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London
Howard Hughes
Inn
Bernard Cowan
Hilda
Toronto
Hughes
Cowan
Braley Says Saco Is In Fiscal Order
Saco Mayor Porton Braley announced the city finished the year in good financial shape. He noted $64,000 in bills, $40,000 in the bank excluding revenue sharing funds, and $200,000 in 1972 taxes yet to be collected, crediting departmental cooperation for the favorable condition.
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Saco
Porton Braley
Biddeford Firefighters Contain Parlor Burner Fire
A parlor burner overflowed in the apartment of Mrs. Lorraine Proulx at 78 High Street Biddeford, causing a fire yesterday. Fire officials say firefighters used chemicals to quell the flames.
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Lorraine Proulx
High St
Biddeford
York Waste Facility Grant Boosted for York Sewer District
The EPA awards York Sewer District an additional $211,950 for a force main interceptor sewer and secondary treatment plant as part of a $3.054 million project. total EPA funding reaches $1.676 million of the total $3.054 million project cost.
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Boston
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
York
John A.S. McGlennon
EPA
Truman Burial Attended by 250 In calm weather
The burial ceremony for Truman continued from Page One with Daniel, associate editor of The New York Times, and the four Daniel children plus May Wallace in attendance. The two older Daniel boys sat quietly while Thomas and Harrison looked around in wonder. Skies were clear and temperatures comfortable as about 250 people attended the service. A light rain began to fall about an hour after the funeral ended.
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Daniel
The
New York Times
May Wallace
Thomas
Harrison
Air blitz against Hanoi Haiphong continues. four planes lost
In Saigon the AP reports the U S command tallies four more planes lost in the Hanoi Haiphong air blitz continuing today along with two more pilots killed or missing.
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Saigon
Hanoi-Haiphong
U.S
Officer Approaches Car After Stop
An officer who stopped the vehicle moved closer to the car and prepared to engage. The sequence followed standard police procedure as the situation developed at the scene.
Cartoon Characters Entertain PSA Passengers at SFO
San Francisco International Airport guests greet Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam aboard a PSA flight. Cartoon characters, hired by Cartoon Characters Inc., entertain travelers to lift moods as airline tries to restore fun to flying.
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San Francisco
Carrot
Doc
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck
Yosemite Sam
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Merry Bedlam
Bob Claus
Cartoon Characters, Inc
San Jose Calif
Warner Brothers
Airlines
Claus
San Jose Ace
Cathy McIntosh
PSA
J. Boyd Andrews
Dwane Wittmayer
Chou Says Bombing Hurts U S Sino Relations
Chinese Premier Chou En Lai told a Washington Post reporter that U S bombing of North Vietnam harms Sino American relations. He urged the United States to stop bombing to heal the detente and asked the American people be informed of the impact. The remark came during a banquet in Peking for Viet Cong negotiator Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh.
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Washington
Chou En-lai
U.S
North Vietnam
Washington Post
Marilyn Berger
Peking
Nguyen Thi Binh
Paris
Post
Chou
United States
China
Biddeford High Office Complex Bid Negotiated
A Biddeford High School Building Committee subcommittee met with CM Cimino Co officials to negotiate a bid of 77,900 for a new administration complex in the cellar of the addition. The plan includes a dozen offices and conference rooms for school officials and the public, with space for the superintendent, adult education, program director, and an eventual business manager. A revised price would prompt vacating the city hall office. no decision before January.
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Biddeford
CM Cimino Co
Falmouth
Biddeford High Schoo
C.M. Cimino
Robert Hodge
Biddeford City Hall
Hodge
Four more downed in comments on North Vietnam raids
The Command reported four planes lost on Wednesday, none of the 12 crewmen rescued, and maintained silence on backout details including a possible New Year halt. Hanoi claimed extensive residential devastation and civilian casualties from B52 bombing.
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Hanoi
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Authorities plan daylight lighting of derailed tanker car
Syracuse authorities waited for daylight to attempt lighting a derailed tanker car holding 10,000 gallons of poisonous chlorine.
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Syracuse
N.Y
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Vannere ML
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Wateryile Valley
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Whaleback
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Deshaies
Boilard
Ethan B. Cook
Biddeford Airport
Arnold Machine Co
Rich Recluse Hughes
Irks
Braley
York Waste Facility
Truman
U.s.sino
DesRoberts and Henry Inc
Main St
Raymond Kenneally
Andrew C. Frechette
Paul Truman
Raymond Mercer
Wadsworth
Dimick, Mercer and Weatherill
Thailand
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Cambodia
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Dawee
Cairo
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Bid Negotiated
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First National
Lord's Flower Shop
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York County Savings Bank
Oh Moc
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